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Femslash week in review: 2021-05-04 - 2021-05-10
High-level stats for week of 2021-05-04 - 2021-05-10
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6993 (-17 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4243 (-39 from last week) (1947 new, 2296 continued)
- 0.99% of all 430653 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Ugh, Avatar: there are several related bugs here, and that's why the graph looks so terrible. (The fandom problem that's setting off all of said bugs is that Kya/Lin almost always gets tagged both "Legend of Korra" and "Last Airbender," but both fandoms also have significant other ships that don't overlap.) I have a plan to fix it; it's just a question of time.
- Meanwhile, I enjoyed this Azula/Ty Lee mixed martial arts AU. Also I went back to the archives and found a cute Darcy/Natasha fic.
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 (146) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (25) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (21) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (21) | 216.00 | 216 (+21) | 0.84% | 28:1 |
| 2 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (137) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (21) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (8) | 143.01 | 144 (+20) | 1.81% | 5:1 |
| 3 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (54) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (12) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (9) | 109.83 | 124 (-18) | 1.15% | 3:1 |
| 4 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (68) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (19) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (18) | 106.78 | 186 (-15) | 1.60% | 1:7 |
| 5 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (89) Boscha (The Owl House),Willow Park (14) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (14) | 89.28 | 101 (+1) | 3.32% | 16:1 |
| 6 (↑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (80) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (27) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (8) | 80.09 | 84 (+9) | 0.60% | 5:1 |
| 7 (↑9) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (38) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (16) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (13) | 79.42 | 102 (+27) | 8.73% | 1:6 |
| 8 (↓2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (81) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (33) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (8) | 71.55 | 148 (-12) | 2.14% | 1:8 |
| 9 (↓) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (54) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (27) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (10) | 69.43 | 81 (+7) | 1.34% | 5:1 |
| 10 (↑4) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (12) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (12) Iruma Miu,K1-B0 (Dangan Ronpa) (9) | 64.18 | 76 (-1) | 1.72% | 1:3 |
| 11 (↓2) | Line of Duty (TV 2012) Joanne Davidson,Kate Fleming (Line of Duty) (60) | 61.00 | 61 (-9) | 26.29% | 12:1 |
| 12 (↓2) | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (38) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (16) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (15) | 60.06 | 62 (-8) | 2.05% | 13:1 |
| 13 | Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (68) Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (32) Mikasa Ackerman,Sasha Blouse (14) | 59.55 | 102 (+4) | 2.39% | 1:6 |
| 14 (↓3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (41) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) Mulan (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) | 53.15 | 56 (-10) | 0.37% | 9:1 |
| 15 | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (33) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (14) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (4) | 51.27 | 55 (-4) | 3.14% | 1.9:1 |
| 16 (↑2) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (49) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (11) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (10) | 49.00 | 51 (+3) | 0.97% | 18:1 |
| 17 (↓5) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (36) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (15) Dot Campbell,Fatin Jadmani (5) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (5) | 45.00 | 45 (-14) | 6.11% | 163:1 |
| 18 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (31) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (13) Agatha Harkness,Wanda Maximoff (11) | 42.29 | 89 (-22) | 0.83% | 1:8 |
| 19 (⇑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (28) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (12) Chloé Bourgeois,Sabrina Raincomprix (10) | 40.44 | 61 (?) | 2.50% | 1.1:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | The Haunting of Bly Manor (TV) Dani Clayton,Jamie (The Haunting of Bly Manor) (40) | 40.00 | 40 (?) | 3.94% | 284:1 |
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.