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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2024-12-17 - 2024-12-23
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9315 (+297 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5516 (+168 from last week) (2720 new, 2796 continued)
- 0.66% of all 833052 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- League of Legends is still going very strong in its sixth week at rank 1.
- Avatar: Legend of Korra and Avatar: The Last Airbender are both on the chart this week, which occasionally happens (some of the ships overlap, some don't). The 100 also returns. Coronation Street leaves the chart after a 6-week run. She-Ra leaves the chart after 39 consecutive weeks (317 total weeks).
- Chart anniversaries: Game of Thrones has been on the chart for 40 consecutive weeks. A couple of big hitters who are still around: RWBY reaches 400 consecutive chart-weeks, and Supergirl, still the longest-tenured fandom on the chart, reaches 470 consecutive weeks.
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 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (651) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (129) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (55) | 706.93 | 766 (+49) | 5.62% | 1:1.0 |
| 2 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (246) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (30) | 274.59 | 331 (-48) | 1.46% | 1:5 |
| 3 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (120) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (45) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (27) | 172.12 | 291 (-10) | 0.88% | 1:5 |
| 4 (↑) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (115) | 98.92 | 122 (-12) | 3.63% | 1:3 |
| 5 (↓) | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (95) | 93.04 | 95 (-24) | 9.06% | 7:1 |
| 6 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (56) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (16) Jules Millin,Mika Yasuda (7) | 86.10 | 89 (+4) | 1.23% | 4:1 |
| 7 (↑2) | Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (76) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (10) | 82.05 | 84 (+7) | 1.17% | 10:1 |
| 8 (↑3) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (60) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (9) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (9) | 74.41 | 81 (+13) | 0.23% | 31:1 |
| 9 (↑6) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (31) Cinder Fall,Winter Schnee (8) ... | 72.00 | 84 (+22) | 0.50% | 4:1 |
| 10 | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (65) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (11) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (8) | 71.14 | 98 (+2) | 1.28% | 1:1.7 |
| 11 (↑8) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (68) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (7) Kuvira (Avatar),Opal (Avatar) (4) | 71.05 | 73 (+30) | 0.83% | 5:1 |
| 12 (↓5) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (22) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (17) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (10) | 69.95 | 92 (-11) | 0.49% | 1:5 |
| 13 (↓7) | 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 (15) Akiyama Mizuki,Asahina Mafuyu,Shinonome Ena,Yoisaki Kanade (13) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (11) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (11) | 65.17 | 69 (-20) | 0.89% | 1:1.2 |
| 14 (↓) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (56) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (28) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (6) | 64.51 | 116 (+7) | 0.84% | 1:7 |
| 15 (↓3) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (57) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (20) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (9) | 61.26 | 67 (+0) | 0.54% | 4:1 |
| 16 | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (25) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (17) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (14) | 48.17 | 51 (+5) | 1.57% | 93:1 |
| 17 (↑3) | Murder Drones (Web Series) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (15) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (15) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (14) | 45.55 | 55 (+13) | 5.73% | 5:1 |
| 18 (↓4) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (40) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) | 44.31 | 48 (-15) | 0.25% | 8:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (39) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (8) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (4) | 40.02 | 41 (?) | 0.25% | 5:1 |
| 20 (↓) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (23) Azula (Avatar),Katara (Avatar) (7) Azula (Avatar),Mai (Avatar) (5) | 36.46 | 43 (+0) | 0.80% | 1:1.5 |
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.
