Femslash week in review: 2019-01-29 - 2019-02-04

High-level stats for week of 2019-01-29 - 2019-02-04

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4288 (+326 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 2684 (+193 from last week) (1309 new, 1375 continued)


• 1.11% of all 242319 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• This is ASOIAF's first time in the top 20 since about six months ago, which seems surprising at a glance given that it's a pretty big fandom with only a 2:1 M/M:F/F ratio. Turns out that the overwhelming majority of stuff in the fandom is F/M: nearly 80% of works in the fandom are tagged neither M/M nor F/F. So, on the one hand, the ratio is AFAIK accurately telling us that there are only twice as many male characters as female characters in ASOIAF. But on the other hand, if you actually go to AO3 and filter for F/F works, only two of the top ten ships are actually F/F ships. Compare to Overwatch, which also has a 2:1 M/M:F/F ratio, but where at a glance eight of the top ten ships tagged F/F are actually F/F ships. I don't have a proposed fix for this, just wanted to note a weakness of the "ratio" metric. Maybe I should be reporting how many of the top 10 ships in tagged F/F works are actually F/F. If the question I'm really trying to answer is "if I go spelunking in the F/F tag, how happy will I be?", arguably that would be a better metric. Food for thought.


• Buffy/Kendra long time-travel fix-it


• This Catra/Adora fic introduced me to "25 Lives", a poem which has apparently been going around fandom for awhile and has become like unto a meme.

( Full top-20 table and description of methodology after the jump )