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Femslash week in review: 2021-04-13 - 2021-04-19
High-level stats for week of 2021-04-13 - 2021-04-19
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6945 (-309 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4208 (-222 from last week) (1886 new, 2322 continued)
- 0.99% of all 424810 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- A couple of recs: here's a long contemporary Carol retelling, and a short Eowyn/Tauriel meeting
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 (164) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (27) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (20) | 212.07 | 216 (-7) | 0.85% | 28:1 |
| 2 (↑2) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (128) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (27) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (13) | 137.00 | 137 (+13) | 1.75% | 5:1 |
| 3 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (70) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (25) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (19) | 125.77 | 208 (-8) | 1.83% | 1:7 |
| 4 (↓2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (84) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (12) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (12) | 124.72 | 149 (-24) | 1.40% | 3:1 |
| 5 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (98) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (17) Camila Noceda,Eda Clawthorne (14) | 107.00 | 108 (-13) | 3.70% | 16:1 |
| 6 (↑2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (81) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (14) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (6) | 79.38 | 86 (+6) | 0.62% | 5:1 |
| 7 (↑3) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (62) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (23) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (9) | 76.01 | 87 (+5) | 1.46% | 5:1 |
| 8 (↓) | The Vampire Diaries (TV) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (50) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (21) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (16) | 73.30 | 78 (-3) | 2.12% | 1:1.7 |
| 9 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (71) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (42) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (9) | 71.65 | 151 (+4) | 2.24% | 1:8 |
| 10 (↑) | Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (81) Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (19) Annie Leonhart,Hitch Dreyse (7) Mikasa Ackerman,Sasha Blouse (7) | 67.36 | 110 (-1) | 2.65% | 1:6 |
| 11 (↑3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (50) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) | 56.03 | 58 (-6) | 0.39% | 9:1 |
| 12 (↑3) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (12) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (8) Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (8) | 54.72 | 69 (-9) | 1.60% | 1:3 |
| 13 (↓7) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (18) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (17) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (8) | 53.26 | 70 (-33) | 7.11% | 1:6 |
| 14 (↓) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (50) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (7) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (6) | 53.00 | 53 (-13) | 1.02% | 18:1 |
| 15 (↑4) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (30) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (15) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (8) | 50.07 | 52 (+6) | 3.16% | 1.8:1 |
| 16 (↓4) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (37) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (19) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (4) | 47.00 | 47 (-19) | 6.98% | 375:1 |
| 17 | The Haunting of Bly Manor (TV) Dani Clayton,Jamie (The Haunting of Bly Manor) (47) | 47.00 | 47 (+1) | 4.79% | 367:1 |
| 18 (↓8) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (23) Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (19) Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (14) | 43.82 | 78 (-4) | 2.44% | 1:1.7 |
| 19 (↓3) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (19) Agatha Harkness,Wanda Maximoff (15) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (11) | 38.41 | 87 (-28) | 0.83% | 1:8 |
| 20 (⇑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (18) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (6) ... | 32.09 | 38 (?) | 0.69% | 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: 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.