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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2023-12-19 - 2023-12-25
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8142 (+1077 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4799 (+727 from last week) (2413 new, 2386 continued)
- 0.67% of all 718731 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Happy New Year's! Here's hoping 2024 is an acceptable year for the world, and a great year for femslash.
- Cartoon Total Drama has its first-ever chart appearance, at 19. Avatar returns for the first time in a couple of months, joined by The 100 after a couple of weeks away. They replace Star Wars, Amazing Digital Circus, and Bou no Nero Academia.
- Chart anniversaries: Addams Family celebrates 60 consecutive weeks on the chart. Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! reaches 80. And MCU reaches 110 consecutive (out of over 400 total weeks over time).
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 (127) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (57) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (33) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (33) | 208.30 | 336 (+74) | 1.25% | 1:5 |
| 2 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (115) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (36) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (20) | 134.01 | 135 (+34) | 1.24% | 4:1 |
| 3 (↑2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (75) Cat Grant,Kara Danvers (16) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (14) | 115.33 | 122 (+39) | 0.37% | 30:1 |
| 4 (↓) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (17) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (17) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (14) | 100.36 | 131 (+11) | 0.85% | 1:4 |
| 5 (↑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 (24) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (11) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (11) | 87.03 | 90 (+16) | 1.78% | 1:1.2 |
| 6 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (54) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (10) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (10) | 86.57 | 102 (+2) | 0.67% | 4:1 |
| 7 (↓3) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (79) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (13) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (7) | 78.74 | 88 (-10) | 1.63% | 12:1 |
| 8 | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (63) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (8) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (7) | 77.19 | 81 (+15) | 1.42% | 3:1 |
| 9 | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (62) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (8) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (5) | 66.00 | 67 (+8) | 2.11% | 112:1 |
| 10 (↑2) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (46) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (7) Diana (League of Legends),Leona (League of Legends) (4) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (4) | 60.42 | 66 (+11) | 0.73% | 1.2:1 |
| 11 (↓) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (36) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (12) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (4) | 55.59 | 65 (+3) | 0.72% | 1.1:1 |
| 12 (↑3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (56) | 55.19 | 59 (+15) | 0.33% | 9:1 |
| 13 (↓2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (36) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (25) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (12) | 53.55 | 95 (+4) | 0.52% | 1:6 |
| 14 (↑3) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (40) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (6) | 47.16 | 73 (+11) | 1.26% | 1:1.7 |
| 15 (↑) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (37) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (12) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (9) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (9) | 46.69 | 63 (+13) | 0.71% | 1:4 |
| 16 (↓2) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (37) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (3) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (3) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (3) | 37.00 | 40 (-5) | 0.36% | 16:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (36) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (5) Kuvira (Avatar),Opal (Avatar) (3) | 36.28 | 40 (?) | 0.49% | 5:1 |
| 18 (↓5) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (19) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (18) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (12) | 36.03 | 37 (-8) | 1.76% | 143:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Total Drama (Cartoon) Julia (Total Drama),Mary Kate "MK" (Total Drama) (21) Courtney (Total Drama),Emma (Total Drama) (3) Courtney (Total Drama),Gwen (Total Drama) (3) Heather (Total Drama),Sierra (Total Drama) (3) Millie (Total Drama),Priya (Total Drama) (3) | 34.38 | 38 (?) | 10.53% | 1:2 |
| 20 (⇑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (36) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (5) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (3) | 33.65 | 43 (?) | 0.27% | 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.
