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Femslash week in review: 2021-03-30 - 2021-04-05
High-level stats for week of 2021-03-30 - 2021-04-05
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7180 (+206 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4428 (+124 from last week) (2033 new, 2395 continued)
- 1.05% of all 420915 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- I'm not sure it's a desirable algorithm feature to have both Legend of Korra and Last Airbender on the charts at the same time, given that at least a quarter of their works overlap. I do make some effort to deduplicate fandoms, by only allowing each work to count towards the rating of one fandom in a given week. But even without the doubly-tagged Kya/Lin works, A:tlA still counts as top 20 on the strength of other ships, so here we are.
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 (156) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (26) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (22) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (22) | 194.17 | 200 (+2) | 0.79% | 28:1 |
| 2 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (125) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (25) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (17) | 137.00 | 139 (+3) | 1.80% | 5:1 |
| 3 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (76) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (21) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (12) | 128.21 | 149 (+0) | 1.42% | 3:1 |
| 4 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (103) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (17) Boscha (The Owl House),Willow Park (14) | 119.00 | 120 (-10) | 4.24% | 16:1 |
| 5 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (50) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (31) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (19) | 109.09 | 194 (-7) | 1.73% | 1:7 |
| 6 (↑4) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (87) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (45) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (13) | 91.91 | 172 (+35) | 2.60% | 1:8 |
| 7 (↑6) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (30) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (28) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (12) | 80.45 | 95 (+20) | 10.87% | 1:6 |
| 8 (↑4) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (61) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (26) | 77.39 | 84 (+11) | 1.42% | 6:1 |
| 9 (↓2) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (52) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (19) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (15) | 76.15 | 86 (-1) | 2.31% | 1.7:1 |
| 10 (↓2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (59) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (5) | 70.08 | 73 (-13) | 0.49% | 9:1 |
| 11 (↓5) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (62) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (20) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (6) | 67.26 | 72 (-25) | 0.52% | 5:1 |
| 12 (↑2) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (60) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (18) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (15) | 63.00 | 64 (+9) | 1.25% | 18:1 |
| 13 (↑2) | Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (72) Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (23) Mikasa Ackerman,Sasha Blouse (15) | 59.79 | 102 (+14) | 2.52% | 1:6 |
| 14 (↓5) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (14) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (10) Koizumi Mahiru,Saionji Hiyoko (9) | 58.59 | 75 (-25) | 1.77% | 1:3 |
| 15 (↑3) | The Haunting of Bly Manor (TV) Dani Clayton,Jamie (The Haunting of Bly Manor) (50) | 51.00 | 51 (+9) | 5.31% | 540:1 |
| 16 (↓5) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (38) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (25) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (3) | 51.00 | 51 (-16) | 8.32% | 346:1 |
| 17 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Wanda Maximoff (16) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (16) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (16) | 49.58 | 96 (-4) | 0.92% | 1:8 |
| 18 (↓6) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (26) Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (16) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (14) | 49.18 | 88 (+15) | 2.81% | 1:1.7 |
| 19 | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (31) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (6) Amy Pond (Doctor Who),Clara Oswin Oswald (3) Clara Oswin Oswald,Missy (Doctor Who) (3) | 38.89 | 50 (+2) | 0.92% | 1:1.1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Glee Brittany S. Pierce,Santana Lopez (21) Quinn Fabray,Rachel Berry (12) Rachel Berry,Santana Lopez (4) | 34.00 | 34 (?) | 0.63% | 1:4 |
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: This is the number of works I classified as F/F, multiplied by what I call "F/F fidelity", which is the fraction of all works tagged F/F on AO3 that I classified as containing at least one F/F ship.
- 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.
Share and enjoy, and let me know what I can do to make this more useful.