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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2023-11-28 - 2023-12-04
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7486 (+70 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4300 (+24 from last week) (1903 new, 2397 continued)
- 0.6% of all 712655 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Motherland: Fort Salem returned to the charts for the first time since May. A little poking around shows a likely partial cause, a prompt festival called Talder Fluffcember. (I'm mentioning this as a reminder that one-off prompt festivals and exchanges do move the needle on femslash stats!)
- The 100 is also back this week, and those two fandoms replace Star Wars and The Amazing Digital Circus.
- Stranger Things celebrates 80 consecutive weeks on the chart.
- Works have posted for Femslashex 2023, so go check that out!
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 (122) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (55) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (29) | 199.06 | 318 (+9) | 1.20% | 1:5 |
| 2 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (18) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (17) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (17) | 127.22 | 153 (+22) | 1.01% | 1:4 |
| 3 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (96) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (32) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (14) | 110.63 | 119 (+1) | 1.10% | 4:1 |
| 4 (↑2) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (102) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (17) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (7) | 100.49 | 108 (+14) | 2.04% | 12:1 |
| 5 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (63) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (8) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (5) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (5) | 78.11 | 81 (-10) | 0.25% | 30:1 |
| 6 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (63) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (9) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (4) | 77.11 | 80 (+13) | 1.41% | 3:1 |
| 7 (↑2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (40) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (8) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (7) | 68.53 | 88 (+8) | 0.58% | 4:1 |
| 8 (↑3) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (55) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (13) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (8) | 62.00 | 62 (+6) | 2.00% | 117:1 |
| 9 (↑5) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (46) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (5) | 58.43 | 64 (+12) | 0.71% | 1.2:1 |
| 10 (↓6) | 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 (8) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (7) | 52.48 | 58 (-35) | 1.19% | 1:1.2 |
| 11 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (32) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (26) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (12) | 52.26 | 96 (+3) | 0.53% | 1:6 |
| 12 (↑7) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (48) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) | 52.16 | 55 (+11) | 0.31% | 9:1 |
| 13 (↓6) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (48) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (7) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (6) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (6) | 47.10 | 61 (-29) | 0.69% | 1:4 |
| 14 (↑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (28) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (7) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (3) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (3) | 45.83 | 52 (-1) | 0.59% | 1.1:1 |
| 15 (↑3) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (37) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (4) | 43.83 | 64 (+6) | 1.12% | 1:1.7 |
| 16 (⇑) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (23) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (18) | 41.00 | 42 (?) | 1.71% | 93:1 |
| 17 (↓5) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (35) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (19) Uraraka Ochako,Yaoyorozu Momo (10) | 37.79 | 87 (-16) | 0.73% | 1:7 |
| 18 (⇑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (34) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (6) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (5) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (5) | 37.00 | 41 (?) | 0.26% | 5:1 |
| 19 (↓2) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (19) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (14) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (7) | 35.00 | 35 (-9) | 1.72% | 148:1 |
| 20 (↓4) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (35) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (3) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (3) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (3) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (3) | 34.00 | 37 (-9) | 0.31% | 5:1 |
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.
