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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2024-01-30 - 2024-02-05
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8313 (+846 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4890 (+705 from last week) (2414 new, 2476 continued)
- 0.67% of all 731110 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Hazbin Hotel jumps again. The web series reaches the top 3 this week, in the third week of its TV-debut-inspired chart run.
- Speaking of adaptations, Mean Girls is on the chart for the first time in nearly a decade; it last charted in fall 2014.
- The first chart exit also deserves its own callout: She-Ra falls off the top 20 after 272 consecutive appearances, including 20 weeks at rank 1.
- Other re-entrances: Miraculous Ladybug and Star Wars are also back after a week away each. Other exits: The 100 exits after 4 consecutive weeks, and Boku no Hero Academia after 5.
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 (137) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (65) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (36) | 181.76 | 313 (+40) | 1.14% | 1:5 |
| 2 (↑2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (29) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (22) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (17) | 125.57 | 152 (+36) | 0.96% | 1:4 |
| 3 (↑5) | Hazbin Hotel (Web Series) Charlie Magne,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (135) | 116.95 | 141 (+60) | 8.88% | 1:3 |
| 4 (↓2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (95) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (34) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (12) | 106.22 | 111 (+14) | 1.00% | 4:1 |
| 5 (↓2) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (103) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (23) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (6) | 101.43 | 108 (+7) | 1.93% | 13:1 |
| 6 (↑3) | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (21) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (18) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (15) | 84.32 | 90 (+22) | 1.67% | 1:1.2 |
| 7 (↑3) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (41) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (9) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (9) | 75.44 | 89 (+11) | 0.58% | 4:1 |
| 8 (↓3) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (54) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (9) ... | 75.08 | 78 (-4) | 0.23% | 30:1 |
| 9 (↓3) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (63) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (8) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (4) | 72.20 | 76 (+1) | 1.30% | 3:1 |
| 10 (↓3) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (58) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (10) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (7) | 72.12 | 75 (-3) | 0.81% | 1.1:1 |
| 11 (↑3) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (21) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (7) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (5) | 64.00 | 72 (+20) | 0.79% | 1.1:1 |
| 12 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (35) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (19) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (15) | 60.71 | 102 (+0) | 0.55% | 1:6 |
| 13 (↑2) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (55) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (12) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (8) | 58.02 | 59 (+17) | 1.78% | 109:1 |
| 14 (↑6) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (24) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (17) Laura Lee (Yellowjackets),Lottie Matthews (15) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (15) | 50.02 | 51 (+20) | 2.26% | 162:1 |
| 15 (↓3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (44) | 48.02 | 49 (+1) | 0.27% | 9:1 |
| 16 (↑3) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (32) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (8) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (7) | 43.32 | 59 (+18) | 0.65% | 1:4 |
| 17 | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (40) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (12) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (4) | 41.88 | 70 (+0) | 1.18% | 1:1.7 |
| 18 (⇑) | Star Wars - All Media Types Sabine Wren,Shin Hati (19) Bo-Katan Kryze,The Armorer (The Mandalorian TV) (6) Ahsoka Tano,Sabine Wren (5) | 41.07 | 56 (?) | 1.12% | 1:7 |
| 19 (⇑) | Mean Girls (2004) Janis Ian | Janis Sarkisian | Janis "Imi'ike,Regina George (23) Cady Heron,Regina George (13) Janis Ian | Janis Sarkisian,Regina George (6) | 41.07 | 44 (?) | 5.33% | 8:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (11) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (9) Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (8) | 38.08 | 45 (?) | 0.95% | 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.
