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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2024-08-06 - 2024-08-12
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8475 (-182 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4716 (-84 from last week) (2148 new, 2568 continued)
- 0.6% of all 788685 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- A Song of Ice and Fire hits rank 3 this week, thanks almost entirely to the Alicent Hightower/Rhaenyra Targaryen ship. The fandom has had a number of appearances in the chart over the years, but it reached the top five three weeks ago for the first time in 10 years.
- Total Drama and Honkai: Star Rail return after brief absences. They replace Bridgerton and Warrior Nun after one week each.
- Chart anniversaries: Hazbin Hotel reaches 30 consecutive weeks. Owl House returns to the top five to celebrate 210 consecutive weeks on the chart.
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 (158) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (74) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (41) | 188.52 | 314 (-19) | 1.02% | 1:5 |
| 2 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (150) | 139.60 | 162 (+5) | 6.17% | 1:3 |
| 3 (↑) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (116) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (26) | 110.52 | 162 (+9) | 2.36% | 1:1.7 |
| 4 (↓) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (44) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (21) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (18) | 110.41 | 139 (+4) | 0.79% | 1:4 |
| 5 (↑3) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (90) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (27) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (17) | 97.12 | 101 (+11) | 0.84% | 4:1 |
| 6 (↑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 (19) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (13) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (13) | 95.24 | 100 (+15) | 1.49% | 1:1.2 |
| 7 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (72) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (16) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (10) | 82.32 | 88 (-7) | 0.88% | 1:1.0 |
| 8 (↓3) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (62) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (11) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (6) | 82.01 | 83 (-24) | 1.24% | 3:1 |
| 9 (↓3) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (65) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (9) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (8) | 79.23 | 84 (-14) | 0.25% | 31:1 |
| 10 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (36) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) Pyrrha Nikos,Weiss Schnee (8) | 72.52 | 83 (-3) | 0.51% | 4:1 |
| 11 | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (69) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (8) Wednesday Addams,Yoko Tanaka (5) | 71.12 | 74 (-5) | 1.14% | 13:1 |
| 12 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (65) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (31) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (11) | 66.76 | 132 (+9) | 1.01% | 1:7 |
| 13 (↑6) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (25) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (25) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (7) | 46.84 | 77 (+15) | 0.39% | 1:6 |
| 14 (↑2) | Criminal Minds (US TV) Emily Prentiss,Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (43) Elle Greenaway,Emily Prentiss (3) Emily Prentiss,Tara Lewis (3) | 40.42 | 48 (-1) | 1.29% | 1:2.0 |
| 15 (⇑) | Total Drama (Cartoon) Dakota Milton,Dawn (Total Drama) (31) Mary Kate "MK" (Total Drama),Nichelle (Total Drama) (25) Heather (Total Drama),Sierra (Total Drama) (8) | 40.33 | 44 (?) | 4.73% | 1:1.9 |
| 16 (↓2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (39) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (3) Red Riding Hood | Ruby,Wicked Witch of the West | Zelena (3) | 40.33 | 44 (-5) | 0.24% | 8:1 |
| 17 | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (36) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (7) | 38.33 | 43 (+4) | 0.50% | 5:1 |
| 18 (↓5) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (34) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (9) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (4) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (4) | 37.00 | 39 (-12) | 0.31% | 5:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail),Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) (20) Firefly (Honkai: Star Rail),Robin (Honkai: Star Rail) (8) Bronya (Honkai: Star Rail),Seele (Honkai: Star Rail) (7) | 36.36 | 60 (?) | 2.88% | 1:4 |
| 20 (↓2) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (19) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (17) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (11) | 36.00 | 36 (+3) | 1.27% | 99:1 |
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.
