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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2024-08-20 - 2024-08-26
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8266 (-102 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4594 (-29 from last week) (2005 new, 2589 continued)
- 0.58% of all 792703 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- The Murder Drones web series, which had a one-week chart appearance in April, is back this week. It's joined by Honkai: Star Rail, and those two replace Avatar: the Last Airbender (with a 6-week streak) and Criminal Minds (with a 3-week streak).
- Chart anniversaries: Grey's Anatomy hits 100 consecutive chart-weeks (of its lifetime total of 256 chart-weeks). Genshin Impact reaches 190 consecutive chart-weeks.
- Nominations are open through September 14th for the Make Up! magical girl exchange (not strictly an F/F exchange, but I'm flagging it as a mostly-female-character-centric exchange for which F/F would be welcome).
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 (165) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (61) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (42) | 200.11 | 316 (-11) | 1.02% | 1:5 |
| 2 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (132) | 124.65 | 146 (+2) | 5.40% | 1:3 |
| 3 | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (76) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (13) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (6) | 98.09 | 101 (-6) | 1.50% | 3:1 |
| 4 (↑) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (102) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (19) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (8) | 96.18 | 138 (-6) | 1.98% | 1:1.7 |
| 5 (↓) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (32) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (23) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (13) | 95.43 | 116 (-13) | 0.66% | 1:4 |
| 6 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (73) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (13) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (12) | 90.16 | 94 (-1) | 0.93% | 1:1.0 |
| 7 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (80) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (23) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (17) | 83.51 | 90 (+13) | 0.75% | 4:1 |
| 8 (↑2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (44) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (8) | 81.18 | 95 (+15) | 0.58% | 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) Hanasato Minori,Kiritani Haruka (14) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (13) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (11) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (11) | 77.23 | 82 (+13) | 1.20% | 1:1.2 |
| 10 (↓) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (63) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (10) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (6) | 76.18 | 81 (+6) | 0.24% | 31:1 |
| 11 (↓4) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (60) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (10) Larissa Weems,Wednesday Addams (6) | 66.01 | 67 (-18) | 1.02% | 13:1 |
| 12 (↑4) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (45) Emma Swan,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) | 51.27 | 55 (+12) | 0.30% | 8:1 |
| 13 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (25) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (16) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (12) | 50.00 | 80 (-8) | 0.41% | 1:6 |
| 14 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (42) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (9) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (7) | 50.00 | 50 (+4) | 0.39% | 5:1 |
| 15 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (37) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (30) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (8) | 42.32 | 92 (-3) | 0.70% | 1:7 |
| 16 (↑2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (39) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (11) Clarke Griffin,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (3) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (3) | 42.12 | 48 (+10) | 0.30% | 5:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) Firefly (Honkai: Star Rail),Robin (Honkai: Star Rail) (20) Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail),Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) (10) Feixiao (Honkai: Star Rail),Yukong (Honkai: Star Rail) (6) | 41.25 | 55 (?) | 2.56% | 1:4 |
| 18 (⇑) | Murder Drones (Web Series) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (18) Doll (Murder Drones),Lizzy (Murder Drones) (14) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (13) | 40.33 | 44 (?) | 7.57% | 4:1 |
| 19 (↓6) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (21) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (19) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (9) | 39.09 | 41 (-6) | 1.42% | 97:1 |
| 20 (↓3) | Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn Cressida Cowper,Eloise Bridgerton (34) Francesca Bridgerton,Michaela Stirling (4) | 35.02 | 41 (-1) | 6.38% | 1.6:1 |
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.
