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Femslash week in review: 2021-05-25 - 2021-05-31
High-level stats for week of 2021-05-25 - 2021-05-31
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6844 (-158 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4193 (+8 from last week) (1910 new, 2283 continued)
- 0.96% of all 436366 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Big week for Critical Role (which we've never seen in the top 10 before, but under the new algorithm it would have appeared there a couple of times in 2019). I assume there was some canonical activity for popular pairing Beauregard/Yasha.
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 (117) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (17) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (17) | 160.15 | 165 (-45) | 0.64% | 28:1 |
| 2 (↑2) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (86) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (25) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (20) | 155.14 | 236 (+44) | 1.99% | 1:7 |
| 3 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (101) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (16) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (13) | 118.00 | 118 (+2) | 3.71% | 15:1 |
| 4 (↓2) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (107) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (26) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (10) | 113.00 | 114 (-16) | 1.40% | 5:1 |
| 5 (↑3) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (35) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (29) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (16) | 99.84 | 124 (+24) | 8.91% | 1:6 |
| 6 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (50) Robyn Hill,Winter Schnee (12) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (9) | 94.59 | 113 (-7) | 1.03% | 3:1 |
| 7 (↓) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (85) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (23) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (7) | 87.13 | 91 (+5) | 0.65% | 5:1 |
| 8 (↑12) | Critical Role (Web Series) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (80) | 84.01 | 85 (+48) | 3.00% | 1:1.5 |
| 9 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (79) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (42) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (10) | 79.07 | 149 (-3) | 2.11% | 1:8 |
| 10 (↓3) | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (40) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (25) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (19) | 73.05 | 75 (-7) | 2.41% | 13:1 |
| 11 (↓) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (22) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (20) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (13) | 62.49 | 68 (-8) | 2.03% | 1:1.7 |
| 12 (↓) | Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (66) Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (20) Mikasa Ackerman,Sasha Blouse (13) | 55.32 | 92 (-10) | 2.09% | 1:6 |
| 13 (↑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (52) | 53.17 | 58 (+5) | 0.39% | 9:1 |
| 14 (↑5) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (41) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (16) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (5) | 51.00 | 51 (+12) | 6.50% | 173:1 |
| 15 (⇑) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (32) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (12) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (3) | 49.11 | 52 (?) | 2.86% | 1.9:1 |
| 16 (↓4) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (8) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (7) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (7) | 47.53 | 61 (-7) | 1.35% | 1:3 |
| 17 (↓2) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (42) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (11) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (8) | 46.00 | 46 (-5) | 0.87% | 18:1 |
| 18 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (31) Agatha Harkness,Wanda Maximoff (12) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (11) | 44.62 | 95 (+8) | 0.88% | 1:8 |
| 19 (↓9) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (55) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (20) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (5) | 41.03 | 69 (-7) | 1.13% | 5:1 |
| 20 (↓7) | Line of Duty (TV 2012) Joanne Davidson,Kate Fleming (Line of Duty) (39) | 38.02 | 39 (-13) | 11.75% | 14:1 |
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.
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