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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2023-06-06 - 2023-06-12
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7421 (-352 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4438 (-209 from last week) (1948 new, 2490 continued)
- 0.67% of all 659619 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Yellowjackets is at rank 4 for the third week in a row, in its 10th week on the chart.
- Life Is Strange is back at rank 20 after a couple of months away, replacing The 100.
- Signups for the Every Woman Exchange are open until July 21st.
- A quick erratum: Sapphic Summer isn't strictly a drabble exchange: it allows fic up to 250 words, and also "quick works" in other media like podfic, gifs, or sketches.
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 (169) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (84) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (27) | 221.98 | 343 (-1) | 1.49% | 1:5 |
| 2 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (140) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (46) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (22) | 157.10 | 161 (-47) | 1.66% | 4:1 |
| 3 | Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (150) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (28) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (11) | 144.81 | 161 (+1) | 3.80% | 7:1 |
| 4 | Yellowjackets (TV) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (45) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (35) Taissa Turner,Vanessa "Van" Palmer (29) | 106.04 | 108 (-15) | 11.65% | 164:1 |
| 5 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (22) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (22) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (13) | 85.56 | 111 (-27) | 0.84% | 1:4 |
| 6 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (51) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (10) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (9) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) | 82.88 | 103 (-18) | 0.72% | 4:1 |
| 7 (↑5) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (63) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (14) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (11) | 77.62 | 99 (+14) | 1.37% | 1:4 |
| 8 (↑2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (61) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (9) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (8) | 77.29 | 82 (+1) | 0.26% | 30:1 |
| 9 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (58) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (12) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (5) | 76.03 | 78 (+4) | 1.56% | 3:1 |
| 10 (↓3) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (54) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (10) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (8) | 75.70 | 83 (-23) | 1.02% | 1.4:1 |
| 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 (22) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (9) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (8) Hoshino Ichika (Project SEKAI),Tenma Saki (8) | 71.15 | 75 (-7) | 2.11% | 1:1.1 |
| 12 (↓3) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (59) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (13) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (13) | 66.00 | 66 (-13) | 2.65% | 158:1 |
| 13 (↑2) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (58) | 61.83 | 90 (+13) | 1.74% | 1:1.7 |
| 14 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (52) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (12) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (6) | 58.00 | 59 (+4) | 0.51% | 5:1 |
| 15 (↓2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (28) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (21) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (11) | 45.96 | 81 (-18) | 0.47% | 1:6 |
| 16 (↑2) | 崩坏3rd | Honkai Impact 3rd (Video Game) Bronya (Honkai: Star Rail),Seele (Honkai: Star Rail) (27) Kiana Kaslana | K-423,Raiden Mei (10) Bronya Zaychik,Seele Vollerei (6) | 45.23 | 49 (+6) | 2.82% | 5:1 |
| 17 (↓) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (33) Emma Swan,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) | 39.26 | 45 (-6) | 0.26% | 9:1 |
| 18 (↓) | Virtual Streamer Animated Characters Hakos Baelz,IRyS (Hololive) (13) Nanashi Mumei,Ouro Kronii (8) Mori Calliope,Takanashi Kiara (4) | 31.61 | 36 (-13) | 1.30% | 1:1.9 |
| 19 (↑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (14) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (9) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (7) | 30.19 | 40 (-3) | 0.95% | 1.1:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (19) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Rachel Amber (5) Kate Marsh,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (3) | 30.03 | 31 (?) | 0.57% | 8:1 |
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.
