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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2023-09-12 - 2023-09-18
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7540 (-258 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4485 (+15 from last week) (2092 new, 2393 continued)
- 0.65% of all 689619 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Critical Role, Miraculous Ladybug, and Honkai Impact 3rd, all return after short absences. They replace BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party!, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Wars.
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 (167) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (67) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (23) | 217.13 | 344 (+1) | 1.37% | 1:5 |
| 2 (↑4) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (121) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (10) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (9) | 131.04 | 151 (+51) | 1.81% | 1:4 |
| 3 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (72) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) | 120.01 | 131 (+36) | 0.89% | 4:1 |
| 4 (↓2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (103) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (28) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (13) | 113.10 | 117 (+0) | 1.13% | 4:1 |
| 5 (↓2) | Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (104) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (23) Bianca Barclay,Wednesday Addams (7) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (7) | 98.77 | 108 (+11) | 2.17% | 8:1 |
| 6 (↓) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (63) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (15) | 85.10 | 88 (+7) | 1.63% | 3:1 |
| 7 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (68) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (7) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (5) | 82.10 | 85 (+3) | 0.26% | 30:1 |
| 8 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (18) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Columbina (Genshin Impact) (8) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (8) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (8) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (8) | 69.96 | 95 (-7) | 0.66% | 1:4 |
| 9 (↑4) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (62) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (15) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (13) | 65.00 | 65 (+1) | 2.30% | 136:1 |
| 10 (↑2) | 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 (18) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (11) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (10) | 64.22 | 68 (-1) | 1.57% | 1:1.2 |
| 11 (↑4) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (63) | 62.09 | 65 (+19) | 0.37% | 9:1 |
| 12 (↓2) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (29) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (28) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (13) | 61.06 | 63 (-11) | 3.76% | 124:1 |
| 13 (↓5) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (32) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (24) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (10) | 58.68 | 100 (-15) | 0.56% | 1:6 |
| 14 (↓3) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (42) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (10) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (6) | 52.74 | 59 (-14) | 0.69% | 1.3:1 |
| 15 (⇑) | Critical Role (Web Series) Imogen Temult,Laudna (Critical Role) (23) Allura Vysoren,Kima (Critical Role) (6) Keyleth (Critical Role),Vex'ahlia (Critical Role) (6) | 39.00 | 39 (?) | 0.78% | 1:1.5 |
| 16 (↑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (34) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (8) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (4) | 37.14 | 43 (-3) | 0.28% | 5:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | 崩坏3rd | Honkai Impact 3rd (Video Game) Bronya (Honkai: Star Rail),Seele (Honkai: Star Rail) (14) Kiana Kaslana | K-423,Raiden Mei (11) Bronya Zaychik (Honkai Impact 3rd),Seele Vollerei (Honkai Impact 3rd) (3) | 37.03 | 38 (?) | 1.87% | 5:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (14) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (6) Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (6) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (6) | 34.57 | 43 (?) | 0.96% | 1.1:1 |
| 19 (↓5) | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (31) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (3) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (2) | 33.00 | 34 (-14) | 0.30% | 16:1 |
| 20 | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (21) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (4) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (3) | 32.70 | 38 (-5) | 0.44% | 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.
