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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2024-11-05 - 2024-11-11
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8491 (-1024 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4788 (-629 from last week) (2184 new, 2604 continued)
- 0.59% of all 817453 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- MCU has fallen off last week's peak, but is still crushing the charts, with over twice as many new/updated F/F works as the next fandom.
- Meanwhile, League of Legends is up at rank 2. That's a jump of 81 works week-over-week. Given that Arcane season 2 dropped only two days before the end of the week represented in this listing, I expect next week will be even stronger.
- Those surges take Harry Potter out of the top two for the first time in two years, which seems fine.
- Web series Alien Stage continues to slowly climb the chart, reaching another best-ever rank of 13.
- Long-running British soap opera Coronation Street joins the chart at rank 18, its first appearance since (wait for it) 2015. Maybe there's a canon reason for this jump, or maybe someone is running a successful exchange or prompt. If you know, tell me, and I'll mention it next week!
- Once Upon a Time also returns, and those two fandoms replace Batman and The 100.
- Finally, the new Problematic Femslash dreamwidth community is running a Sapphic Dead Dove December prompt event. I don't know the community, but I assume it is what it says on the tin, so go there if you go there and don't if you don't.
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 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (353) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (28) Agatha Harkness,Wanda Maximoff (26) | 385.33 | 442 (-64) | 2.07% | 1:6 |
| 2 (↑2) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (179) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (24) | 185.47 | 202 (+81) | 1.87% | 1:1.0 |
| 3 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (114) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (46) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (33) | 153.84 | 279 (-67) | 0.86% | 1:5 |
| 4 (↓) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (128) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (8) | 111.13 | 135 (-35) | 4.28% | 1:3 |
| 5 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (64) Amelia Shepherd,Arizona Robbins (10) Jules Millin,Mika Yasuda (10) | 101.00 | 101 (+12) | 1.43% | 4:1 |
| 6 (↓) | 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 (21) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (20) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (15) | 89.25 | 94 (-1) | 1.28% | 1:1.2 |
| 7 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (66) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (8) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (5) | 80.04 | 83 (-3) | 0.24% | 31:1 |
| 8 (↑2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (26) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (15) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (10) | 76.34 | 100 (-2) | 0.55% | 1:5 |
| 9 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (37) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) Cinder Fall,Winter Schnee (9) | 74.08 | 87 (-5) | 0.53% | 4:1 |
| 10 (↑2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (58) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (37) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (13) | 64.29 | 120 (-8) | 0.89% | 1:7 |
| 11 (↑2) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (72) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (9) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (6) | 64.25 | 99 (+0) | 1.32% | 1:1.7 |
| 12 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (58) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (24) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (8) | 62.33 | 68 (-4) | 0.55% | 4:1 |
| 13 (↑) | Alien Stage (Web Series) Mizi (Alien Stage),Sua (Alien Stage) (59) Hyuna (Alien Stage),Mizi (Alien Stage) (6) | 57.14 | 60 (-5) | 11.30% | 1:3 |
| 14 (↓8) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (51) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (8) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (4) | 55.25 | 59 (-36) | 0.85% | 14:1 |
| 15 (↑5) | Murder Drones (Web Series) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (16) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (14) Doll (Murder Drones),Lizzy (Murder Drones) (11) | 47.36 | 52 (+7) | 6.06% | 5:1 |
| 16 (↓) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (36) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Rachel Amber (10) Alex Chen (Life Is Strange),Steph Gingrich (4) | 45.02 | 46 (-4) | 0.76% | 8:1 |
| 17 (↓) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (35) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (7) ... | 39.00 | 39 (-6) | 0.33% | 17:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (36) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (2) | 36.00 | 36 (?) | 11.76% | 6:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (33) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (2) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Queen of Hearts | Cora (2) | 34.38 | 38 (?) | 0.20% | 8:1 |
| 20 (↓2) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (20) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (13) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (12) | 34.23 | 37 (-5) | 1.19% | 91:1 |
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.
