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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-01-28 - 2025-02-03
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9868 (+502 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5735 (+344 from last week) (2674 new, 3061 continued)
- 0.68% of all 848972 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Fifth week in a row with a totally stable top five.
- Pokemon enters the chart at rank 20, replacing Dandy's World.
- Wicked celebrates 10 weeks on the chart in its latest run (out of 30 total lifetime appearances).
- The Femslash Big Bang Challenge is running this year. Signups run through February. Apparently there is a discord associated with the challenge, so if you are looking for a femslash-centric discord, that might be one. (I'm sure there are others.)
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) (563) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (103) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (43) | 625.67 | 658 (-37) | 4.15% | 1:1.0 |
| 2 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (213) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (31) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (23) | 261.12 | 315 (+25) | 1.34% | 1:5 |
| 3 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (150) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (58) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (57) | 212.39 | 362 (+11) | 1.08% | 1:5 |
| 4 | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (123) | 124.01 | 125 (-24) | 7.83% | 7:1 |
| 5 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (106) | 92.53 | 113 (-10) | 3.19% | 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 (25) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (16) | 86.63 | 94 (+19) | 1.17% | 1:1.2 |
| 7 (↑10) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (79) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (11) | 77.40 | 83 (+29) | 1.14% | 14:1 |
| 8 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (48) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (16) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (7) | 77.11 | 80 (+11) | 1.09% | 4:1 |
| 9 (↑3) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (71) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (25) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (12) | 72.05 | 76 (+10) | 0.61% | 4:1 |
| 10 (↓4) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (43) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) | 70.24 | 88 (-6) | 0.52% | 4:1 |
| 11 (↓2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (9) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (8) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (6) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (6) | 68.44 | 91 (+4) | 0.48% | 1:5 |
| 12 (↑) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (35) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (25) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (21) | 64.22 | 68 (+7) | 1.96% | 104:1 |
| 13 (↓5) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (50) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (11) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (5) | 60.61 | 69 (-9) | 0.20% | 31:1 |
| 14 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (50) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (30) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (9) | 56.82 | 106 (-1) | 0.76% | 1:7 |
| 15 | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (49) | 55.03 | 57 (+3) | 0.30% | 8:1 |
| 16 (↓5) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (46) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (5) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (5) | 53.31 | 83 (-10) | 1.06% | 1:1.7 |
| 17 (↑2) | Murder Drones (Web Series) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (17) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (16) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (15) | 43.10 | 50 (+2) | 4.66% | 5:1 |
| 18 (↓2) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (41) | 42.00 | 42 (-10) | 7.09% | 10:1 |
| 19 (↓) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (41) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (15) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (4) | 40.37 | 46 (+5) | 0.28% | 5:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types Dot (Pokemon),Liko (Pokemon) (9) Huuro | Skyla,Kamitsure | Elesa (4) Carnet | Diantha,Shirona | Cynthia (3) Mary | Marnie,Yuuri | Gloria (3) | 40.13 | 53 (?) | 2.01% | 1:3 |
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.
