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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-01-07 - 2025-01-13
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9477 (-1184 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5566 (-608 from last week) (2504 new, 3062 continued)
- 0.66% of all 841681 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- The top five is totally stable since last week. I don't even see any major changes in relative work counts.
- Hololive returns to the chart in its second-ever appearance; the first was last October (though other Virtual Streamer Animated Characters subfandoms have had other appearances in the past). It replaces Honkai: Star Rail.
- Grey's Anatomy celebrates 120 consecutive weeks on the chart. Genshin Impact reaches 210 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) (680) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (143) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (52) | 750.42 | 793 (-20) | 5.31% | 1:1.0 |
| 2 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (214) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (28) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (27) | 258.76 | 309 (-27) | 1.34% | 1:5 |
| 3 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (134) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (47) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (36) | 190.25 | 322 (-46) | 0.97% | 1:5 |
| 4 | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (129) | 127.02 | 129 (-26) | 9.56% | 6:1 |
| 5 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (113) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (7) | 107.76 | 125 (-23) | 3.60% | 1:3 |
| 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 (30) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (18) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (16) | 87.26 | 92 (-4) | 1.17% | 1:1.2 |
| 7 (↑4) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (59) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (11) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (5) | 74.26 | 101 (-2) | 1.30% | 1:1.7 |
| 8 (↓2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (49) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (10) Jules Millin,Mika Yasuda (7) | 71.12 | 74 (-25) | 1.01% | 4:1 |
| 9 (↑3) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (55) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (9) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (8) | 71.04 | 74 (-16) | 0.21% | 31:1 |
| 10 (↑3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (54) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (35) Todoroki Fuyumi,Usagiyama Rumi | Miruko (6) | 67.74 | 124 (-7) | 0.89% | 1:7 |
| 11 (↓) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (13) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (10) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (10) | 61.54 | 80 (-17) | 0.43% | 1:5 |
| 12 (↓3) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (35) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (8) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) | 60.18 | 74 (-21) | 0.44% | 4:1 |
| 13 (↓5) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (58) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (15) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (8) | 57.27 | 63 (-23) | 0.51% | 4:1 |
| 14 | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (35) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (18) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (16) | 55.07 | 57 (-8) | 1.70% | 95:1 |
| 15 | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (47) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (11) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (3) | 49.04 | 51 (-18) | 0.71% | 14:1 |
| 16 (↑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (48) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (11) Clarke Griffin,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (4) Clarke Griffin,Raven Reyes (4) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (4) | 48.36 | 55 (+7) | 0.34% | 5:1 |
| 17 (↓) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (47) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (4) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (3) | 47.00 | 47 (-7) | 9.11% | 9:1 |
| 18 | Murder Drones (Web Series) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (13) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (12) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (11) | 46.04 | 48 (+4) | 4.72% | 5:1 |
| 19 (↑) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (32) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (6) ... | 34.00 | 34 (-4) | 0.28% | 17:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Hololive (Virtual Streamers) Cecilia Immergreen,Gigi Murin (14) Elizabeth Rose Bloodflame,Nerissa Ravencroft (7) Elizabeth Rose Bloodflame,Raora Panthera (4) Nerissa Ravencroft,Shiori Novella (4) | 33.11 | 35 (?) | 5.22% | 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.
