Femslash week in review: 2021-11-16 - 2021-11-22

High-level stats for week of 2021-11-16 - 2021-11-22

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6451 (+217 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 3806 (+67 from last week) (1771 new, 2035 continued)


• 0.79% of all 483689 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• Wow, League of Legends. The 12-year-old video game isn't a chart newcomer: prior to this month, it appeared six times within the past year, always at rank 19 or 20, and with previous top ships including characters Akali, Evelynn, Ahri, and Kai'Sa. The chart explosion that has the fandom vaulting to the number two slot this week is because of Arcana, the new netflix animated series, and the Vi/Caitlyn ship which is newly popular as a result of that adaptation, is this week's top ship in any fandom with 142 works.
  
• The low end of the chart has a typical amount of noise this week. The most notable change is Squid Game dropping off the chart after 7 weeks. It's joined by Miraculous Ladybug, Wynonna Earp, and Virtual Streamer Animated Characters. Those four fandoms are replaced in the lowest quarter of the chart by usual suspects MCU, the Wilds, Legend of Korra, and Critical Role.
  

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