Femslash week in review: 2020-07-28 - 2020-08-03

High-level stats for week of 2020-07-28 - 2020-08-03

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6737 (-109 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 4180 (-57 from last week) (2041 new, 2139 continued)


• 1.2% of all 349414 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• Something I didn't mention the week of 2020-05-18, in commenting on the She-Ra post-s5 bounce, is that that was the first week Adora/Catra ousted Kara/Lena as the top ship by work count in a top-20 fandom, and that Adora/Catra has been the top ship every week since then. That's quite the sea change, actually: before this, Kara/Lena had topped the charts every week in 2020, and every week in 2019 with the exception of one week each for Blake Belladonna/Yang Xiao Long and Clarke/Lexa.
  
• Keep in mind that "top ship in a top-20 fandom" is not necessarily the same metric as "top ship" would be: because my algorithm considers additional works in one ship to have diminishing returns relative to a diversity of ships within a fandom, in theory a single-ship fandom could have thousands of works and not hit the top 20. I'm not aware of such a ship out there, and I think it's unlikely that people would write hundreds of works in one ship without considering any neighboring ships (and at a glance at my dataset, it looks like the largest fandom which really only has one ship this week is the highly-specific Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, with 12 works for Aerith Gainsborough/Tifa Lockhart). It's probably pretty safe to assume that for all but extremely unusual weeks, the top ship on my table is the top ship.
  

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