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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2024-05-28 - 2024-06-03
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8514 (+587 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4959 (+506 from last week) (2380 new, 2579 continued)
- 0.65% of all 767334 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- I've been remiss in pointing out how well Grey's Anatomy is doing on the charts this spring. The long-running show has had previous chart appearances, including brief appearances at rank 1 in 2008, 2010, and 2014. But it hasn't been seen in the top three in 10 years, so the current run, courtesy of canonical ship Carina DeLuca/Maya Bishop, is noteworthy.
- Critical Role is back for the first time since last September. Once Upon a Time exits the chart after a 7-week run, and Boku no Hero Academia drops off after a 13 (its longest chart run since 2022).
- Avatar: The Last Airbender celebrates 10 consecutive chart-weeks. Hazbin Hotel reaches its first 20 consecutive weeks. Owl House hits a nice milestone, 200 consecutive out of 200 total appearances; the fantasy cartoon entered at rank 9 in 2020, and hasn't missed the top 10 since.
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 (149) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (59) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (35) | 281.33 | 421 (+111) | 1.42% | 1:5 |
| 2 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (203) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Emily (Hazbin Hotel) (11) | 192.60 | 215 (+1) | 10.65% | 1:3 |
| 3 | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (89) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (15) Amelia Shepherd,Monica Beltran (9) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (9) | 118.20 | 123 (+18) | 1.94% | 3:1 |
| 4 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (93) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (13) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (10) | 110.17 | 115 (+19) | 0.34% | 30:1 |
| 5 (↑2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (21) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (21) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (14) | 105.03 | 128 (+30) | 0.76% | 1:4 |
| 6 | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (86) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (24) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (12) | 91.16 | 95 (-4) | 1.54% | 13:1 |
| 7 (↓3) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (78) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (18) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (14) | 87.21 | 92 (-11) | 0.79% | 4:1 |
| 8 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (42) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (8) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (8) | 70.72 | 89 (-3) | 0.56% | 4:1 |
| 9 (↑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 (15) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (12) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (9) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (9) | 63.48 | 69 (+12) | 1.12% | 1:1.2 |
| 10 | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (58) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (11) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (3) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (3) | 60.00 | 60 (+1) | 0.52% | 17:1 |
| 11 (↑5) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (22) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (21) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (8) | 56.00 | 88 (+19) | 0.46% | 1:6 |
| 12 (↓3) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (43) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (9) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (8) | 54.26 | 58 (-6) | 0.60% | 1:1.0 |
| 13 (⇑) | Critical Role (Web Series) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (30) Imogen Temult,Laudna (Critical Role) (21) Keyleth (Critical Role),Vex'ahlia (Critical Role) (3) | 53.07 | 55 (?) | 1.02% | 1:1.5 |
| 14 (↓) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (49) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (6) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (5) | 50.70 | 82 (+12) | 1.30% | 1:1.7 |
| 15 (↑2) | 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) Firefly (Honkai: Star Rail),Robin (Honkai: Star Rail) (19) Acheron (Honkai: Star Rail),Black Swan (Honkai: Star Rail) (15) Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail),Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) (13) | 46.70 | 69 (+16) | 3.93% | 1:4 |
| 16 (↑4) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (40) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (10) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (8) | 46.00 | 47 (+16) | 1.30% | 115:1 |
| 17 (↓2) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (37) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (11) | 42.48 | 47 (+6) | 0.55% | 5:1 |
| 18 (↓6) | Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn Cressida Cowper,Eloise Bridgerton (37) Eloise Bridgerton,Penelope Featherington (8) | 37.53 | 42 (-9) | 15.05% | 1.1:1 |
| 19 (↓4) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (15) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (10) Azula (Avatar),Katara (Avatar) (6) | 35.61 | 42 (+1) | 0.84% | 1:1.6 |
| 20 (↓) | Criminal Minds (US TV) Emily Prentiss,Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (34) Alex Blake,Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (2) | 33.33 | 40 (+1) | 1.16% | 1:2 |
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.
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Date: 2024-06-12 02:18 am (UTC)It's super amazing that you've been tracking this data for so many years. <333
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Date: 2024-06-25 04:25 pm (UTC)I haven't actually been tracking data since 2014; I think I started posting around 2018, but when I first started, I backfilled data to the earliest dates AO3 works were tagged. Those numbers aren't as accurate as they would have been if I'd collected the data at the time works were actually posted, but I think they're good enough to get some sense of relative rankings.