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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2024-03-26 - 2024-04-01
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8053 (+163 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4604 (+54 from last week) (2049 new, 2555 continued)
- 0.61% of all 748873 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- RWBY has a good week; returning to the top 5 for the first time since January.
- Typical chart churn: Avatar and Once Upon a Time are back; they replace Splatoon and Stranger Things.
- Nominations for the 2024 Femslash Kink Exchange are open until April 11, followed by signups until April 26.
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 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (289) | 264.58 | 303 (+25) | 26.39% | 1:3 |
| 2 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (151) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (80) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (33) | 216.99 | 352 (+20) | 1.23% | 1:5 |
| 3 (↑5) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (88) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (8) | 106.78 | 124 (+36) | 0.79% | 4:1 |
| 4 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (96) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (24) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (15) | 104.14 | 112 (+5) | 0.98% | 4:1 |
| 5 | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (90) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (6) Amelia Shepherd,Arizona Robbins (5) | 95.34 | 101 (+6) | 1.68% | 3:1 |
| 6 (↓2) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (86) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (21) Bianca Barclay,Wednesday Addams (6) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (6) | 87.10 | 90 (-13) | 1.54% | 13:1 |
| 7 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (19) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (18) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (9) | 83.08 | 102 (-6) | 0.63% | 1:4 |
| 8 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (68) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (12) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (8) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (8) | 82.09 | 86 (+7) | 0.26% | 30:1 |
| 9 (↑) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (54) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (12) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (8) | 66.87 | 75 (+2) | 0.79% | 1.0:1 |
| 10 (↓4) | 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 (20) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (13) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (12) | 57.69 | 64 (-27) | 1.11% | 1:1.2 |
| 11 (↑) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (51) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (14) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (11) | 56.00 | 57 (+9) | 1.64% | 112:1 |
| 12 (↑6) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (28) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (23) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (12) | 51.53 | 89 (+18) | 0.47% | 1:6 |
| 13 (↑3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (26) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (23) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (10) | 51.26 | 101 (+17) | 0.82% | 1:7 |
| 14 (↓3) | Yellowjackets (TV) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (22) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (16) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (16) | 44.02 | 45 (-4) | 1.83% | 119:1 |
| 15 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (38) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (6) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (3) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (3) | 41.00 | 43 (-1) | 0.35% | 5:1 |
| 16 (↓3) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (44) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (11) Daenerys Targaryen,Sansa Stark (4) | 40.25 | 70 (-9) | 1.15% | 1:1.7 |
| 17 (↓3) | Mean Girls (2004) Janis Ian | Janis Sarkisian | Janis "Imi'ike,Regina George (27) Cady Heron,Regina George (16) Cady Heron,Janis Ian | Janis Sarkisian | Janis "Imi'ike (7) | 37.21 | 40 (-4) | 3.95% | 9:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (35) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (2) Emma Swan,Red Riding Hood | Ruby (2) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Queen of Hearts | Cora (2) | 37.10 | 39 (?) | 0.21% | 9:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (15) Azula (Avatar),Katara (Avatar) (10) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (7) | 36.53 | 44 (?) | 0.91% | 1:1.6 |
| 20 (↓3) | 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) Acheron (Honkai: Star Rail),Black Swan (Honkai: Star Rail) (12) Bronya (Honkai: Star Rail),Seele (Honkai: Star Rail) (12) Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail),Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) (7) | 32.49 | 47 (-8) | 3.33% | 1:4 |
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.
