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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2023-05-16 - 2023-05-22
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7533 (-221 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4478 (-107 from last week) (1970 new, 2508 continued)
- 0.69% of all 653514 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Yellowjackets moves up again, to a new best-ever rank of 9. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury also reaches a best-ever rank, of 15, in its second week on the chart.
- Batman, Doctor Who, and The 100 return to the charts. They replace Splatoon (after a run of 8 consecutive weeks), Boku no Hero Academia, and Honkai: Star Rail.
Most active classified fandoms:
| Rank | Fandom (and top three ships) | Rating for week | F/F works updated this week | % of F/F works updated this week | F/F:M/M ratio (all works) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (182) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (90) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (25) | 242.36 | 355 (-8) | 1.57% | 1:5 |
| 2 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (144) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (56) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (14) | 175.05 | 178 (-13) | 1.86% | 4:1 |
| 3 | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (153) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (30) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (17) | 153.31 | 168 (+21) | 4.22% | 10:1 |
| 4 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (71) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (11) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (11) | 120.70 | 135 (+9) | 0.96% | 4:1 |
| 5 (↑5) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (84) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (18) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (8) | 113.10 | 117 (+39) | 1.45% | 1.3:1 |
| 6 (↓2) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (97) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (24) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (10) | 105.62 | 130 (-6) | 1.83% | 1:4 |
| 7 | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (78) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (7) | 89.04 | 91 (-2) | 1.85% | 3:1 |
| 8 (↓2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (28) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (22) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (17) | 87.36 | 109 (-15) | 0.83% | 1:4 |
| 9 (↑2) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (35) Taissa Turner,Vanessa "Van" Palmer (33) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (26) | 83.27 | 88 (+17) | 12.77% | 171:1 |
| 10 (↓) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (57) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (10) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (6) | 76.11 | 79 (+6) | 0.25% | 30:1 |
| 11 (↓3) | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (19) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (16) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (13) | 75.24 | 80 (-7) | 2.35% | 1:1.1 |
| 12 | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (69) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (12) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (11) | 70.00 | 70 (+3) | 2.90% | 177:1 |
| 13 (↑2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (28) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (22) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (11) | 57.36 | 96 (+10) | 0.57% | 1:6 |
| 14 (↓) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (46) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (12) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (4) Castaspella (She-Ra),Shadow Weaver | Light Spinner (She-Ra) (4) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (4) | 52.00 | 53 (-8) | 0.46% | 5:1 |
| 15 (↑2) | 機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女 | Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (Anime) Miorine Rembran,Suletta Mercury (47) Chuatury "Chuchu" Panlunch,Nika Nanaura (3) | 48.00 | 48 (+9) | 10.86% | 19:1 |
| 16 | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (51) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (5) | 46.87 | 76 (+4) | 1.49% | 1:1.7 |
| 17 (⇑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (27) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (4) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (3) Nyssa of Traken,Tegan Jovanka (3) | 42.09 | 44 (?) | 0.53% | 1.1:1 |
| 18 (↓4) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (39) | 41.40 | 46 (-10) | 0.26% | 9:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (34) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (5) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (4) | 38.15 | 45 (?) | 0.29% | 5:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Batman - All Media Types Harleen Quinzel,Pamela Isley (16) Ryan Wilder,Sophie Moore (11) Cassandra Cain,Stephanie Brown (7) | 30.55 | 48 (?) | 0.99% | 1:8 |
What is all this again?
Mission statement: help out people (including myself) who read fic on AO3 and wish they were reading more femslash, but don't know what's out there. Plan: do a week-in-review post every week which contains general stats about new fic and a few recs.
I am starting with the list of all works on ao3.org which were updated within a given week, and which were categorized as F/F, but I am not reporting stats on 100% of those works --- I'm narrowing down to a subset of fandoms and works for which it's tractable for me to actually look at all the character tags, and then I'm excluding ships containing what I believe to be cis-male characters. I'll give overall stats about how many works I've reported on and how many I've excluded. If you think I'm excluding a fandom you care about, please let me know!
More info about column headers:
- Fandom (and top three ships): If multiple tags that seem to correspond to the same fandom (e.g. "The 100 (TV)" and "The 100 Series - Kass Morgan") show up in my ranking, I report the one with the best rating. There's totally a judgment call here about what things are "the same fandom" --- I'm going to err on the side of reporting more different things when I can, but I won't skip something with a lot of works which aren't otherwise accounted for. When measuring the top three F/F ships in a fandom, I count both "A/B" and "A & B" as "A,B". Ties are broken by including all of the ships, but I only include a maximum of five ships per fandom to keep the table length reasonable.
- Rating for week: This is the number of works I classified as F/F, multiplied by what I call "F/F fidelity", which is the fraction of all works tagged F/F on AO3 that I classified as containing at least one F/F ship.
- F/F/ works updated this week: includes both new and continued works.
- % of F/F works updated this week: This is the percentage of all F/F works I've ever categorized in the fandom, so a big number probably means a brand new fandom, or at least one which was unusually active this week.
- F/F:M/M ratio (all works): This ratio is taken from all works in the fandom tag, and is just a hint to readers about how F/F-dominant the fandom is. Obviously there's no reason you can't find great F/F works in a predominantly male fandom (we've all read those), but the ratio may give a hint about whether the F/F pairing is likely to be the dominant one in a work with multiple pairings. Note that the "F/F" and "M/M" numbers for this column are taken directly from AO3, not from my compiled character and ship stats. (Since I don't categorize M/M works, I couldn't do it any other way.)
Known bugs which affect the accuracy of this data:
- AO3 does not modify the "last updated" date of a work in a revealed exchange when the exchange reveals, so my database can miss exchange works entirely if they're last edited awhile before the exchange works are revealed. This probably leads to a serious undercount of works in revealed exchanges.
Share and enjoy, and let me know what I can do to make this more useful.
