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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2024-04-23 - 2024-04-29
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8047 (-2 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4599 (+18 from last week) (2081 new, 2518 continued)
- 0.61% of all 757235 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Hazbin Hotel reaches 10 weeks in the top slot.
- Web series Murder Drones makes it first chart appearance at rank 19, with works representing several characters and ships.
- MCU and Yellowjackets are both back this week after breaking long chart streaks last week, when MCU ended a 126-consecutive-week chart run, and Yellowjackets fell off after 54 weeks.
- Those three fandoms replace Doctor Who, Fire Emblem, and Miraculous Ladybug, all of which had bounced back onto the chart only last week.
- To round out the catchup, I'll mention another new web series, Alien Stage, which had an inaugural chart appearance the week ending April 15th, and fell off the chart the following week.
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) (239) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Emily (Hazbin Hotel) (15) | 231.70 | 261 (-6) | 16.00% | 1:3 |
| 2 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (137) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (62) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (38) | 221.40 | 348 (-15) | 1.19% | 1:5 |
| 3 (↑3) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (86) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (24) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (17) | 93.16 | 97 (+19) | 0.84% | 4:1 |
| 4 (↑4) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (81) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (13) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (8) | 80.22 | 85 (+10) | 1.42% | 13:1 |
| 5 (↓2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (26) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (9) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (8) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (8) | 79.49 | 111 (-28) | 0.67% | 1:4 |
| 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 (19) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (17) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (15) | 79.05 | 81 (+6) | 1.35% | 1:1.2 |
| 7 (↓3) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (66) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (10) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (6) | 78.11 | 81 (-5) | 0.24% | 30:1 |
| 8 (↓3) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (68) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (7) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (5) | 75.62 | 83 (+1) | 1.36% | 3:1 |
| 9 (↑2) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (53) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (11) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (10) | 61.13 | 64 (+10) | 0.67% | 1.0:1 |
| 10 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (35) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (9) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) | 60.33 | 77 (+2) | 0.49% | 4:1 |
| 11 (↓) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (34) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (23) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (11) | 56.54 | 102 (+0) | 0.82% | 1:7 |
| 12 | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (37) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (10) | 47.14 | 69 (-9) | 1.12% | 1:1.7 |
| 13 (⇑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (23) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (19) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (16) | 45.32 | 79 (?) | 0.41% | 1:6 |
| 14 (↑4) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (38) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (7) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (5) | 43.00 | 43 (+7) | 1.22% | 113:1 |
| 15 (↓2) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (40) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (3) | 42.00 | 42 (-4) | 0.34% | 5:1 |
| 16 (⇑) | Yellowjackets (TV) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (17) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (16) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (11) | 37.03 | 38 (?) | 1.51% | 122:1 |
| 17 (↓3) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (37) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (9) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (3) | 36.67 | 45 (-4) | 0.54% | 5:1 |
| 18 (↓2) | Mean Girls (2004) Janis Ian | Janis Sarkisian | Janis "Imi'ike,Regina George (20) Cady Heron,Regina George (16) Gretchen Wieners,Karen Smith | Karen Shetty (9) | 36.21 | 39 (-3) | 3.59% | 9:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Murder Drones (Web Series) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (18) Doll (Murder Drones),Lizzy (Murder Drones) (12) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (11) | 35.77 | 41 (?) | 10.76% | 4:1 |
| 20 (↓3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (35) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Queen of Hearts | Cora (5) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (3) | 34.53 | 42 (+3) | 0.23% | 8:1 |
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.
