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Femslash week in review: 2019-02-05 - 2019-02-11
High-level stats for week of 2019-02-05 - 2019-02-11
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4229 (-59 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 2665 (-19 from last week) (1299 new, 1366 continued)
- 1.09% of all 243618 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Hi, Worst Witch fans! The good news is that 18th is the fandom's best rank yet, tying a few appearances from December. The bad news is that the "top three ships" makes it look an awful lot like I'm double-counting ships due to a change in tagging conventions. Well, sorting that out will keep me busy for awhile, I guess.
- Susan Pevensie post-canon meets Wendy Darling
- Jordan/Daisy night-before-wedding pre-canon
- Eve/Villanelle time-loop
- Some She-Ra recs this week: Adora/Catra post-S1, about scars; Catra/Entrapta in the lab
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 (131) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (53) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (35) | 44.85 | 205 (+1) | 1.34% | 27:1 |
| 2 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (66) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (35) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (13) | 42.28 | 116 (+6) | 2.37% | 5:1 |
| 3 | Steven Universe (Cartoon) Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (25) Amethyst (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (14) Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (14) | 36.19 | 76 (+18) | 1.50% | 15:1 |
| 4 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (22) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (8) Ginny Weasley,Hermione Granger (7) | 28.26 | 80 (+7) | 1.40% | 1:9 |
| 5 (↑) | Overwatch (Video Game) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (17) Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (10) Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Moira O'Deorain (8) Emily (Overwatch),Lena "Tracer" Oxton (8) | 27.31 | 56 (+3) | 1.07% | 1:2 |
| 6 (↑) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (59) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (12) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) Entrapta (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) | 24.37 | 71 (-8) | 8.54% | 10:1 |
| 7 (↑2) | BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game) Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (7) Hikawa Sayo,Minato Yukina (6) Imai Lisa,Minato Yukina (4) | 22.94 | 28 (+3) | 3.75% | 334:1 |
| 8 (↑7) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (7) Akamatsu Kaede,Harukawa Maki (4) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (4) | 22.64 | 35 (+7) | 2.26% | 1:3 |
| 9 (↓5) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (67) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (17) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (6) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (6) | 20.74 | 73 (-38) | 0.67% | 5:1 |
| 10 (↑3) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (36) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (7) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (7) | 19.53 | 58 (+1) | 1.94% | 1:1.6 |
| 11 (↑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (44) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (19) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (7) | 19.36 | 58 (+9) | 2.08% | 9:1 |
| 12 (↓4) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Mantis (Marvel),Nebula (Marvel) (9) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (8) Angie Martinelli,Peggy Carter (7) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Pepper Potts (7) | 18.59 | 61 (+1) | 0.91% | 1:8 |
| 13 (↓3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (67) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (5) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (4) | 18.48 | 79 (+6) | 0.65% | 9:1 |
| 14 (↑2) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (18) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (10) Freya Mikaelson,Keelin Malraux (5) | 18.42 | 35 (-1) | 4.28% | 1:1.5 |
| 15 (⇑) | Fire Emblem: If | Fire Emblem: Fates Aqua | Azura,My Unit | Kamui | Corrin (3) Camilla (Fire Emblem),Hinoka (Fire Emblem) (2) Lucina (Fire Emblem),My Unit | Reflet | Robin (2) Oboro (Fire Emblem),Rinkah (Fire Emblem) (2) Sumia (Fire Emblem),Tiamo | Cordelia (2) | 17.34 | 21 (+9) | 1.80% | 1:2 |
| 16 (↓2) | Archie Comics Cheryl Blossom,Toni Topaz (37) Betty Cooper,Veronica Lodge (10) Cheryl Blossom,Veronica Lodge (3) | 15.09 | 50 (-4) | 2.37% | 1:1.0 |
| 17 (⇑) | DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (33) Charlie (DC's Legends of Tomorrow),Zari Tomaz (8) Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (4) | 14.96 | 57 (+8) | 2.69% | 1:1.7 |
| 18 (⇑) | The Worst Witch (TV 2017) Ada Cackle,Hecate Hardbroom (12) Hecate Hardbroom,Phyllis Pentangle (7) Hardbroom (Worst Witch),Pentangle (Worst Witch) (5) | 13.64 | 25 (+10) | 3.46% | 426:1 |
| 19 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (39) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (24) Ashido Mina,Hagakure Tooru (3) Kendou Itsuka,Yaoyorozu Momo (3) | 13.54 | 67 (-9) | 3.29% | 1:8 |
| 20 (⇑) | Supernatural Charlie Bradbury,Jo Harvelle (5) Donna Hanscum,Jody Mills (5) Charlie Bradbury,Dorothy Baum (4) | 13.52 | 28 (+4) | 1.10% | 1:21 |
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.)
Share and enjoy, and let me know what I can do to make this more useful.