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Femslash week in review: 2020-09-01 - 2020-09-07
High-level stats for week of 2020-09-01 - 2020-09-07
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6523 (+1 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4112 (+0 from last week) (2035 new, 2077 continued)
- 1.14% of all 359584 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- And there's Owl House in the top 5, with Avatar bouncing back to join it and She-Ra and Dangan Ronpa falling out to make room.
- This is actually the first top 20 appearance ever for British black comedy/thriller Killing Eve. It's not really an ensemble show, and it probably needed three seasons to acquire enough distinct ships to place.
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 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (133) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (21) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (19) | 52.26 | 184 (+14) | 0.81% | 29:1 |
| 2 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Fleur Delacour,Hermione Granger (32) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (29) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (28) | 44.64 | 168 (+32) | 1.86% | 1:7 |
| 3 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (50) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (41) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (13) | 39.77 | 118 (+0) | 1.34% | 3:1 |
| 4 (↑2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (163) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (21) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (16) | 37.91 | 182 (+18) | 24.36% | 35:1 |
| 5 (↑3) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (28) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (27) Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (20) | 34.12 | 96 (+14) | 6.32% | 1:1.9 |
| 6 (↑) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Minato Yukina,Mitake Ran (6) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (4) ... | 32.73 | 48 (+4) | 2.02% | 282:1 |
| 7 (↓2) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (137) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (21) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (15) | 31.25 | 152 (-39) | 2.75% | 7:1 |
| 8 (↑5) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Hawke,Isabela (Dragon Age) (7) Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age),Josephine Montilyet (6) Cassandra Pentaghast,Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age) (5) | 30.41 | 44 (+12) | 0.95% | 1:3 |
| 9 (↑3) | Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hilda Valentine Goneril,Marianne von Edmund (18) Dorothea Arnault,Petra Macneary (12) Dorothea Arnault,Ingrid Brandl Galatea (10) | 30.41 | 75 (+12) | 3.76% | 1:2 |
| 10 (↓6) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (11) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (8) Asahina Aoi,Ogami Sakura (8) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (8) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (8) | 28.47 | 54 (-13) | 1.81% | 1:3 |
| 11 (↓) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (89) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (15) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (6) | 23.22 | 98 (-9) | 0.76% | 5:1 |
| 12 (↑2) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (30) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (18) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (9) | 21.19 | 52 (-14) | 1.77% | 1.5:1 |
| 13 (↓2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (9) Carol Danvers,Maria Rambeau (8) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (5) | 18.97 | 56 (-10) | 0.59% | 1:8 |
| 14 (↑) | League of Legends Akali (League of Legends),Evelynn (League of Legends) (8) Ahri (League of Legends),Leona (League of Legends) (6) Kai'Sa (League of Legends),Sivir (League of Legends) (4) | 17.41 | 26 (+2) | 3.06% | 1:1.1 |
| 15 (⇑) | 明日方舟 | Arknights (Video Game) Doctor (Arknights),Exusiai (Arknights) (13) Ch'en (Arknights),Hoshiguma (Arknights) (2) Doctor (Arknights),Lappland (Arknights) (2) Exusiai (Arknights),Mostima (Arknights) (2) | 17.03 | 26 (?) | 4.88% | 1:1.6 |
| 16 (↑2) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (60) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (15) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (12) | 16.58 | 65 (-4) | 1.43% | 18:1 |
| 17 (↓8) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (61) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (30) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (5) | 16.16 | 104 (-31) | 2.05% | 1:8 |
| 18 (⇑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (15) Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (10) Chloé Bourgeois,Sabrina Raincomprix (8) | 16.07 | 43 (?) | 2.40% | 1.3:1 |
| 19 (↑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (27) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (7) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Kate Marsh (5) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (5) | 16.07 | 40 (+8) | 1.06% | 8:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Killing Eve (TV 2018) Eve Polastri,Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (114) Anna Leonova,Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (4) Elena Felton,Eve Polastri (3) Maria (Killing Eve),Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (3) | 15.85 | 119 (?) | 6.98% | 43:1 |
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: I like fandoms with ensemble casts, so I'm doing a weighted sum based on the logarithm of number of works by pairing, so that fandoms with several different F/F pairings get a significant bonus.
- 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.
- When canonical names for characters and ships change over time, my database can wind up containing entries for both ships. This makes ratings inaccurate.
Share and enjoy, and let me know what I can do to make this more useful.