Femslash week in review: 2020-12-01 - 2020-12-07

High-level stats for week of 2020-12-01 - 2020-12-07

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6260 (+80 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 3964 (+148 from last week) (1883 new, 2081 continued)


• 1.03% of all 384119 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• The age of Supergirl is ending. For the first time since I started this project, Supergirl has been out of the top place for three of the past eight weeks. RWBY and Harry Potter are posting better numbers than they were six months ago, but also the Girl of Steel's numbers have gotten worse.
  
• New video game Genshin Impact made a splash on the charts this week, vaulting from never-been-seen to 9th place. There's a caveat here which applies to most video game fandoms where you pick the gender of the protagonist: the main value-add of these stats (and the main timesink, I might add) is that I track which character tags belong to women or gender minorities and thus can be part of an F/F ship. Since "Traveler (Genshin Impact)" could be either Lumine or Aether (so the internet tells me; I'm not otherwise familiar with this game), there's no way to tell from the tag whether the included character is female, so I have to assume it is. For any work that is tagged "F/F" on AO3, I'm going to count all ships containing Traveler and other female characters as F/F ships, even though in reality some of them might be het within those tagged works. In huge video game fandoms, someone eventually redoes the tagset to differentiate, but a new video game fandom probably doesn't have very clean tags and simply gets a bonus. That said, Genshin Impact is obviously growing rapidly, and I think the jump onto the femslash charts is real.
  

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