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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2024-06-25 - 2024-07-01
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8401 (+14 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4825 (-53 from last week) (2240 new, 2585 continued)
- 0.62% of all 776013 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Mean Girls vaults onto the chart for the first time since May, jumping to rank 6. As far as I can tell, the chart entrance is on the strength of something called Cadina Week 2024; nice work shippers!
- Avatar: the Last Airbender returns after a couple of weeks away, Stranger Things returns for the first time since April, and The 100 returns for the first time since March.
- On the other end, Warrior Nun ends an 85-consecutive-week chart run this week. Also Criminal Minds falls off after 5 consecutive weeks, and Doctor Who and Once Upon a Time exit as well.
- MCU hits 10 consecutive chart weeks (out of a lifetime total of 445). The current biggest F/F ship is Kate Bishop/Yelena Belova.
- The multi-fandom multi-format f/f drabble ficathon Sapphic Summer is running from now through September.
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 (144) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (77) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (37) | 202.79 | 330 (-3) | 1.09% | 1:5 |
| 2 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (190) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Emily (Hazbin Hotel) (11) | 176.86 | 203 (-13) | 8.78% | 1:3 |
| 3 | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (74) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (20) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (10) | 111.01 | 112 (-1) | 1.72% | 3:1 |
| 4 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (93) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (21) Camila Noceda,Luz Noceda (13) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (13) | 99.06 | 102 (+7) | 0.87% | 4:1 |
| 5 (↑3) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (19) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (18) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (16) | 94.76 | 116 (+18) | 0.68% | 1:4 |
| 6 (⇑) | Mean Girls (2004) Cady Heron,Regina George (74) Gretchen Wieners,Karen Smith | Karen Shetty (11) Janis Ian | Janis Sarkisian | Janis "Imi'ike,Regina George (11) | 89.01 | 90 (?) | 7.21% | 11:1 |
| 7 (↓) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (75) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (12) Bianca Barclay,Wednesday Addams (7) | 79.27 | 85 (-9) | 1.35% | 13:1 |
| 8 (↓) | 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 (15) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (11) | 77.40 | 83 (+6) | 1.30% | 1:1.2 |
| 9 | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (72) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (9) | 68.51 | 110 (+4) | 1.70% | 1:1.7 |
| 10 (↑2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (38) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (11) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (8) | 66.12 | 81 (+12) | 0.50% | 4:1 |
| 11 (↓7) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (58) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (18) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (10) | 64.68 | 73 (-28) | 0.75% | 1:1.0 |
| 12 (↓2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (52) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (9) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (6) | 64.17 | 68 (-5) | 0.20% | 31:1 |
| 13 (↑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (33) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (21) Todoroki Fuyumi,Usagiyama Rumi | Miruko (9) | 54.75 | 111 (+13) | 0.87% | 1:7 |
| 14 (↓3) | Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn Cressida Cowper,Eloise Bridgerton (39) Francesca Bridgerton,Michaela Stirling (10) Eloise Bridgerton,Penelope Featherington (7) | 48.60 | 54 (-11) | 11.61% | 1.4:1 |
| 15 (⇑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (38) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (9) Anya (The 100),Clarke Griffin (4) | 45.00 | 47 (?) | 0.29% | 5:1 |
| 16 (↑3) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (27) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (20) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (15) | 45.00 | 45 (+6) | 1.66% | 112:1 |
| 17 (↓4) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (40) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (4) | 42.04 | 44 (-9) | 0.35% | 5:1 |
| 18 (↑2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (28) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (15) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (12) | 41.89 | 76 (+1) | 0.39% | 1:6 |
| 19 (⇑) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (33) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (8) Asami Sato,Lin Beifong (2) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (2) | 38.10 | 40 (?) | 0.47% | 5:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (33) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (6) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (5) | 37.52 | 49 (?) | 0.52% | 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.
