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Femslash week in review: 2021-02-02 - 2021-02-08
High-level stats for week of 2021-02-02 - 2021-02-08
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7693 (+382 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4880 (+316 from last week) (2411 new, 2469 continued)
- 1.21% of all 403786 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- I've never seen an exchange move the needle like this. Well-deserved kudos to the Winter ATLA Femslash Exchange, which ran Feb 1st - 8th, bringing Avatar up 76 femslash works from last week and catapulting the fandom into first place for the first time since (wait for it) 2009.
- Happy Femslash February, by the way; we're up yet another several hundred works from last week, to the second-highest work count ever.
- Here's an Andy/Quynh post-canon reunion fic I liked.
- Active predictions watch: last week I claimed that The Wilds is never going to make the top five, and while it had a reasonable week (improving to 12 ships containing 12 distinct characters, including a crossover), I still feel good about that prediction.
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 (↑4) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (40) Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (30) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (28) | 67.71 | 179 (+76) | 6.40% | 1:1.7 |
| 2 | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (18) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (14) Nanami Chiaki,Sonia Nevermind (14) | 62.95 | 125 (+38) | 3.25% | 1:3 |
| 3 (↓2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (152) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (22) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (19) | 58.70 | 202 (+6) | 0.82% | 28:1 |
| 4 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (41) Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (31) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (19) | 54.37 | 190 (+30) | 1.82% | 1:7 |
| 5 (↓2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (67) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (16) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (11) | 44.43 | 129 (+0) | 1.29% | 3:1 |
| 6 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (117) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (25) Boscha (The Owl House),Willow Park (13) | 36.35 | 142 (+18) | 5.91% | 16:1 |
| 7 (↑7) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (45) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (27) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (15) | 35.36 | 91 (+28) | 2.61% | 1.6:1 |
| 8 (↑4) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (96) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (25) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (10) | 32.68 | 106 (+2) | 0.78% | 5:1 |
| 9 (↓3) | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (47) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (29) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (19) | 31.88 | 66 (-106) | 3.86% | 18:1 |
| 10 (↓2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (94) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (41) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (10) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (10) | 28.52 | 157 (-9) | 2.57% | 1:8 |
| 11 (↓2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (21) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (17) Amber (Genshin Impact),Ying | Lumine (Genshin Impact) (7) | 26.92 | 59 (-2) | 13.41% | 1:7 |
| 12 (↑3) | Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Dorothea Arnault,Petra Macneary (11) Hilda Valentine Goneril,Marianne von Edmund (6) Dorothea Arnault,Ingrid Brandl Galatea (5) | 25.10 | 53 (+2) | 2.08% | 1:2 |
| 13 | League of Legends Akali (League of Legends),Evelynn (League of Legends) (19) Ahri (League of Legends),Kai'Sa (League of Legends) (7) Kai'Sa (League of Legends),Sivir (League of Legends) (6) | 25.10 | 41 (+1) | 3.58% | 1:1.0 |
| 14 (↓4) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (67) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (5) Emma Swan,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) | 24.12 | 83 (+4) | 0.57% | 9:1 |
| 15 (↑3) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (11) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (10) Carol Danvers,Maria Rambeau (6) | 23.46 | 74 (+20) | 0.73% | 1:8 |
| 16 (↓5) | Doctor Who & Related Fandoms Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (29) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (11) Clara Oswin Oswald,Thirteenth Doctor (5) | 21.62 | 56 (-5) | 1.12% | 1:2 |
| 17 (⇑) | DCU (Comics) Harleen Quinzel,Pamela Isley (5) Raven (DCU),Tara Markov (5) Cassandra Cain,Stephanie Brown (4) | 20.25 | 59 (?) | 1.70% | 1:6 |
| 18 (⇑) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (5) Female Hawke,Isabela (Dragon Age) (4) Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age),Josephine Montilyet (4) | 20.24 | 32 (?) | 0.66% | 1:3 |
| 19 (↑) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (59) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (16) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (5) | 18.46 | 68 (-8) | 18.89% | 228:1 |
| 20 (↓3) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (15) Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (12) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (7) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (7) | 18.27 | 43 (-9) | 1.97% | 1.1:1 |
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.