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Femslash week in review: 2021-05-11 - 2021-05-17
High-level stats for week of 2021-05-11 - 2021-05-17
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7086 (+93 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4301 (+58 from last week) (1918 new, 2383 continued)
- 0.99% of all 432571 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Here's a cute Gideon/Harrow fanfic-writer AU. It occurs to me that I'm a little surprised Gideon the Ninth has never hit the top 20. Its best week to date was the week of 2020-10-05, where its 31 works that week would have merited #39. It's hard to be a book fandom.
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 (136) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (24) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (24) | 191.12 | 196 (-20) | 0.76% | 28:1 |
| 2 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (159) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (26) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (22) | 184.00 | 184 (+40) | 2.28% | 5:1 |
| 3 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (63) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (32) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (13) | 143.64 | 159 (+35) | 1.46% | 3:1 |
| 4 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (70) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (26) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (18) | 115.31 | 198 (+12) | 1.69% | 1:7 |
| 5 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (100) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (19) Boscha (The Owl House),Willow Park (14) | 98.22 | 114 (+13) | 3.71% | 16:1 |
| 6 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (35) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (25) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (16) | 92.64 | 111 (+9) | 8.92% | 1:6 |
| 7 (↑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (88) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (29) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (11) | 85.57 | 162 (+14) | 2.32% | 1:8 |
| 8 (↑4) | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (52) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (21) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (19) | 72.12 | 75 (+13) | 2.46% | 14:1 |
| 9 (↑) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (14) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (11) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (11) Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (11) | 70.89 | 88 (+12) | 1.98% | 1:3 |
| 10 (↓4) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (67) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (17) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (5) | 70.13 | 75 (-9) | 0.54% | 5:1 |
| 11 (↓2) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (26) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (17) Azula (Avatar),Katara (Avatar) (14) | 69.58 | 77 (-4) | 2.34% | 1:1.7 |
| 12 (↑) | Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (71) Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (28) Mikasa Ackerman,Sasha Blouse (15) | 66.56 | 107 (+5) | 2.48% | 1:6 |
| 13 (↑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (59) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (5) | 63.23 | 67 (+11) | 0.45% | 9:1 |
| 14 (↓3) | Line of Duty (TV 2012) Joanne Davidson,Kate Fleming (Line of Duty) (53) | 55.00 | 55 (-6) | 20.15% | 13:1 |
| 15 (↑) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (48) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (15) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (13) | 52.00 | 53 (+2) | 1.01% | 18:1 |
| 16 (↓7) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (55) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (17) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (8) | 50.52 | 79 (-2) | 1.30% | 5:1 |
| 17 (↓2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (28) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (13) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (9) | 41.68 | 47 (-8) | 2.64% | 1.9:1 |
| 18 (↑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (23) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (11) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (9) | 38.99 | 56 (-5) | 2.27% | 1.1:1 |
| 19 (↓2) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (31) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (15) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (6) | 38.00 | 38 (-7) | 5.07% | 165:1 |
| 20 (↓2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (29) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (6) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Pepper Potts (6) | 33.52 | 84 (-5) | 0.78% | 1:8 |
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.