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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2023-08-29 - 2023-09-04
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7863 (+27 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4578 (+18 from last week) (2196 new, 2382 continued)
- 0.67% of all 685444 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- I didn't find out about this Marvel Femslash Drabbles challenge in time to post before signups closed, but you can still keep an eye out for works to reveal on September 24th.
- Four fandoms most recently seen last month return to the charts: Once Upon a Time at 14, Game of Thrones at 16, Gideon the Ninth at 19, and Doctor Who at 20. They replace four fandoms with streaks of only 1-2 weeks: Avatar, Critical Role, Honkai Impact 3rd, and Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury.
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 (170) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (80) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (42) | 230.00 | 369 (+15) | 1.49% | 1:5 |
| 2 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (93) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (33) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (11) | 111.29 | 117 (-27) | 1.14% | 4:1 |
| 3 (↑2) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (95) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (19) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (10) | 109.87 | 133 (+10) | 1.63% | 1:4 |
| 4 | Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (106) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (16) Bianca Barclay,Wednesday Addams (11) | 106.31 | 112 (-6) | 2.29% | 8:1 |
| 5 (↓2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (27) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (17) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (13) | 96.03 | 122 (-52) | 0.86% | 1:4 |
| 6 | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (70) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (10) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (5) | 84.17 | 88 (-8) | 1.65% | 3:1 |
| 7 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (62) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (9) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (9) | 75.48 | 82 (-3) | 0.25% | 30:1 |
| 8 (↑5) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (38) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (36) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (13) | 72.90 | 112 (+17) | 0.63% | 1:6 |
| 9 (↑3) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (65) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (12) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (12) | 72.00 | 72 (+15) | 2.59% | 129:1 |
| 10 (↑) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (52) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (9) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (9) | 71.50 | 78 (+15) | 0.91% | 1.3:1 |
| 11 (↓) | 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 (15) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (12) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (11) | 70.05 | 72 (-2) | 1.70% | 1:1.2 |
| 12 (↓4) | Yellowjackets (TV) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (38) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (27) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (16) | 70.00 | 70 (-12) | 4.34% | 129:1 |
| 13 (↓4) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (41) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (8) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (5) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (5) | 58.59 | 75 (-16) | 0.51% | 4:1 |
| 14 (⇑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (41) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (4) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (4) | 47.52 | 53 (?) | 0.30% | 9:1 |
| 15 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (37) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (20) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (13) | 46.92 | 100 (-1) | 0.87% | 1:7 |
| 16 (⇑) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (49) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (14) | 43.95 | 75 (?) | 1.37% | 1:1.7 |
| 17 (↓3) | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (36) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (3) Castaspella (She-Ra),Shadow Weaver | Light Spinner (She-Ra) (3) | 39.00 | 42 (-13) | 0.37% | 17:1 |
| 18 (↓) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (33) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (4) ... | 36.16 | 43 (+0) | 0.28% | 5:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir Gideon Nav,Harrowhark Nonagesimus (28) Harrowhark Nonagesimus,Ianthe Tridentarius (4) Coronabeth Tridentarius,Gideon Nav (2) | 36.00 | 36 (?) | 1.87% | 19:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (25) Nyssa of Traken,Tegan Jovanka (5) Bill Potts,Clara Oswin Oswald (2) Clara Oswin Oswald,Missy (Doctor Who) (2) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (2) | 35.56 | 40 (?) | 0.47% | 1.1:1 |
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.
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