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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2024-07-30 - 2024-08-05
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8657 (+112 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4800 (-59 from last week) (2132 new, 2668 continued)
- 0.61% of all 786537 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Four reappearances after absences of six weeks or less: Bridgerton, Yellowjackets, Criminal Minds, and Warrior Nun. Four disappearances after streaks of 2 weeks or less: Pitch Perfect, Total Drama, The 100, Honkai: Star Rail.
- Chart anniversaries: Game of Thrones and She-Ra each reach 20 weeks in their most recent chart runs. RWBY reaches 380 weeks. Supergirl keeps right on trucking at 450 weeks.
- Passing on an observation from tumblr reader aimmyarrowshigh, who pointed out what a nice job Kate Bishop/Yelena Belova shippers have been doing at keeping MCU in the top 20.
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 (160) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (60) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (41) | 202.72 | 333 (-22) | 1.08% | 1:5 |
| 2 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (146) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Emily (Hazbin Hotel) (9) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (8) | 136.18 | 157 (-11) | 6.09% | 1:3 |
| 3 (↑2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (32) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (20) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (17) | 113.20 | 135 (+5) | 0.77% | 1:4 |
| 4 | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (103) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (23) | 106.40 | 153 (-12) | 2.26% | 1:1.7 |
| 5 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (87) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (9) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (7) | 106.01 | 107 (+24) | 1.61% | 3:1 |
| 6 (↑3) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (73) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (13) Cat Grant,Kara Danvers (10) | 96.02 | 98 (+22) | 0.29% | 31:1 |
| 7 (↓4) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (73) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (15) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (14) | 93.04 | 95 (-31) | 0.95% | 1:1.0 |
| 8 (↓2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (81) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (22) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (16) | 82.34 | 90 (-5) | 0.75% | 4:1 |
| 9 (↑2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (36) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) Robyn Hill,Winter Schnee (9) | 78.68 | 86 (+6) | 0.53% | 4:1 |
| 10 (↓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 (19) Asahina Mafuyu,Shinonome Ena (19) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (12) | 76.86 | 85 (-1) | 1.28% | 1:1.2 |
| 11 (↓) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (73) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (10) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (6) | 76.11 | 79 (+6) | 1.22% | 13:1 |
| 12 (↑4) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (41) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (35) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (12) | 57.31 | 123 (+28) | 0.95% | 1:7 |
| 13 | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (49) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (9) Catra (She-Ra),Entrapta (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (3) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (3) | 50.00 | 51 (-2) | 0.43% | 17:1 |
| 14 (↑3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (44) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) | 44.38 | 49 (+6) | 0.26% | 8:1 |
| 15 (⇑) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (33) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (7) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (5) | 40.00 | 40 (?) | 1.08% | 111:1 |
| 16 (⇑) | Criminal Minds (US TV) Emily Prentiss,Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (44) Emily Prentiss,Tara Lewis (3) | 37.52 | 49 (?) | 1.33% | 1:2 |
| 17 (↓2) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (33) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (8) ... | 35.29 | 39 (-12) | 0.45% | 5:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (16) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (15) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (10) | 32.00 | 33 (?) | 1.17% | 95:1 |
| 19 (↓7) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (22) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (17) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (12) | 31.54 | 62 (-26) | 0.32% | 1:6 |
| 20 (⇑) | Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn Cressida Cowper,Eloise Bridgerton (30) Francesca Bridgerton,Michaela Stirling (5) Eloise Bridgerton,Penelope Featherington (3) | 31.11 | 37 (?) | 6.21% | 1.5:1 |
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.
