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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2024-12-31 - 2025-01-06
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10661 (+357 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 6174 (-5 from last week) (2928 new, 3246 continued)
- 0.74% of all 839177 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- A very stable week; the top four is unchanged from last week, as League of Legends hits yet another all-time-high weekly work count.
- Honkai: Star Rail returns to the chart, replacing Alien Stage.
- Murder Drones celebrates 20 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 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (716) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (137) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (47) | 762.36 | 813 (+53) | 5.60% | 1:1.0 |
| 2 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (234) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (39) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (23) | 274.02 | 336 (-44) | 1.46% | 1:5 |
| 3 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (146) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (56) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (51) | 215.99 | 368 (+42) | 1.11% | 1:5 |
| 4 | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (154) | 155.00 | 155 (+29) | 12.31% | 7:1 |
| 5 (↑) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (136) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (9) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Emily (Hazbin Hotel) (8) | 128.85 | 148 (+28) | 4.30% | 1:3 |
| 6 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (64) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (13) Jules Millin,Mika Yasuda (11) | 98.01 | 99 (+1) | 1.36% | 4:1 |
| 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 (32) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (16) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (13) | 89.48 | 96 (-6) | 1.23% | 1:1.2 |
| 8 (↑6) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (72) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (22) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (11) | 81.22 | 86 (+19) | 0.69% | 4:1 |
| 9 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (41) Cinder Fall,Winter Schnee (10) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (8) | 79.03 | 95 (+0) | 0.57% | 4:1 |
| 10 (↓) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (13) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (12) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (10) | 73.51 | 97 (-12) | 0.52% | 1:5 |
| 11 (↑) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (67) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (11) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (9) | 70.04 | 103 (+5) | 1.33% | 1:1.7 |
| 12 (↓7) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (65) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (10) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (9) | 68.28 | 90 (-20) | 0.26% | 31:1 |
| 13 (↓2) | 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 (36) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (7) | 68.14 | 131 (-3) | 0.94% | 1:7 |
| 14 (↓) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (38) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (25) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (20) | 63.06 | 65 (-2) | 1.96% | 94:1 |
| 15 | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (65) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (11) | 62.64 | 69 (+4) | 0.96% | 14:1 |
| 16 (↑4) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (53) Carla Connor,Michelle Connor (3) | 54.00 | 54 (+17) | 10.91% | 8:1 |
| 17 | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (42) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (14) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (4) | 44.16 | 48 (+3) | 0.29% | 5:1 |
| 18 | Murder Drones (Web Series) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (13) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (12) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (12) | 41.19 | 44 (-5) | 4.42% | 5:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail),Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) (13) Bronya (Honkai: Star Rail),Seele (Honkai: Star Rail) (9) Acheron (Honkai: Star Rail),Black Swan (Honkai: Star Rail) (6) | 38.68 | 54 (?) | 2.04% | 1:4 |
| 20 (↓4) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (36) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (7) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (3) | 37.00 | 38 (-12) | 0.29% | 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.
