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Femslash week in review: 2021-06-01 - 2021-06-07
High-level stats for week of 2021-06-01 - 2021-06-07
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7199 (+355 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4302 (+109 from last week) (1990 new, 2312 continued)
- 0.98% of all 438356 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Genshin Impact is showing signs of pulling away from RWBY and joining the top five in earnest.
- I figured out the Avatar bug. Briefly: works have ship tags and fandom tags. Canonical ship tags also have fandom tags. I use both when associating works with fandoms, which is fine except I need to watch out for ships that are tagged with fandoms that don't actually match most of the works in that ship. Anyway, my cache is now fixed, so this should get smoothed out going forward.
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 (119) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (20) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (18) | 162.36 | 170 (+5) | 0.65% | 29:1 |
| 2 (↑2) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (119) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (17) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (16) | 132.01 | 133 (+19) | 1.62% | 5:1 |
| 3 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (85) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (24) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (20) | 127.44 | 213 (-23) | 1.78% | 1:7 |
| 4 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (107) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (17) Boscha (The Owl House),Willow Park (12) | 124.00 | 126 (+8) | 3.90% | 15:1 |
| 5 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (44) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (29) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (18) Hu Tao (Genshin Impact),Yanfei (Genshin Impact) (18) | 108.74 | 126 (+2) | 8.54% | 1:6 |
| 6 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (48) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (8) Robyn Hill,Winter Schnee (8) | 96.21 | 107 (-6) | 0.97% | 3:1 |
| 7 | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (71) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (21) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (7) | 76.04 | 79 (-12) | 0.57% | 5:1 |
| 8 (↑) | 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 (41) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (12) | 76.01 | 155 (+6) | 2.17% | 1:8 |
| 9 (↑) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (52) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (18) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (12) Hope Mikaelson,Penelope Park (12) | 73.08 | 83 (+8) | 2.08% | 1.7:1 |
| 10 (↑3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (59) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) | 68.05 | 72 (+14) | 0.48% | 9:1 |
| 11 (↑4) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (44) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (21) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (4) | 67.20 | 72 (+20) | 3.86% | 2.0:1 |
| 12 (↓) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (55) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (18) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (4) Kuvira (Avatar),Suyin Beifong (4) | 64.55 | 71 (+3) | 1.16% | 5:1 |
| 13 (↑4) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (53) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (11) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (9) | 57.00 | 59 (+13) | 1.11% | 18:1 |
| 14 (↑2) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (10) Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (9) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (8) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (8) | 56.97 | 72 (+11) | 1.58% | 1:3 |
| 15 (⇑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (25) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (20) Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (14) | 51.38 | 68 (?) | 2.67% | 1.1:1 |
| 16 (↓4) | Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (57) Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (20) Mikasa Ackerman,Sasha Blouse (6) | 48.29 | 78 (-14) | 1.76% | 1:6 |
| 17 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (28) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (18) Agatha Harkness,Wanda Maximoff (6) Brunnhilde | Valkyrie (Marvel),Carol Danvers (6) | 47.42 | 101 (+6) | 0.93% | 1:8 |
| 18 (↓4) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (44) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (21) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (6) | 47.00 | 47 (-4) | 5.91% | 178:1 |
| 19 (↓11) | Critical Role (Web Series) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (33) Beauregard Lionett,Jester Lavorre (8) Dairon (Critical Role),Marion Lavorre | Ruby of the Sea (3) | 40.02 | 41 (-44) | 1.43% | 1:1.6 |
| 20 (↓9) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (20) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (10) Kyoshi (Avatar),Rangi (Avatar) (9) | 38.02 | 49 (-19) | 1.46% | 1:1.7 |
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.