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Femslash week in review: 2021-06-08 - 2021-06-14
High-level stats for week of 2021-06-08 - 2021-06-14
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7064 (-135 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4284 (-18 from last week) (2035 new, 2249 continued)
- 0.97% of all 440391 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- As expected, Critical Role dropped off the charts again following its end-of-series bump. Not much change this week otherwise.
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 (132) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (35) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (21) | 179.19 | 185 (+15) | 0.71% | 29:1 |
| 2 (↑2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (137) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (24) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (14) | 149.01 | 151 (+25) | 4.59% | 14:1 |
| 3 (↓) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (132) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (22) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (18) | 139.00 | 140 (+7) | 1.69% | 5:1 |
| 4 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (91) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (27) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (21) | 138.70 | 225 (+12) | 1.86% | 1:7 |
| 5 (↑2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (81) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (18) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (6) | 86.03 | 89 (+10) | 0.64% | 5:1 |
| 6 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (71) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (10) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) | 81.35 | 124 (+17) | 1.13% | 3:1 |
| 7 (↓2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (23) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (21) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (21) | 78.82 | 102 (-24) | 6.60% | 1:6 |
| 8 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (74) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (41) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (12) | 74.00 | 149 (-6) | 2.08% | 1:8 |
| 9 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (30) Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (26) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (10) | 67.00 | 67 (-5) | 3.51% | 2.0:1 |
| 10 (↓) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (40) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (20) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (18) | 66.53 | 73 (-10) | 1.81% | 1.7:1 |
| 11 (↑3) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (10) Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (10) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (9) | 62.23 | 74 (+2) | 1.62% | 1:3 |
| 12 | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (56) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (13) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (7) | 61.39 | 68 (-3) | 1.10% | 5:1 |
| 13 (↓3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (50) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) | 54.20 | 58 (-14) | 0.38% | 9:1 |
| 14 (↑4) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (51) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (14) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (5) | 54.00 | 54 (+7) | 6.64% | 180:1 |
| 15 (↓3) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (21) Azula (Avatar),Katara (Avatar) (13) Kyoshi (Avatar),Rangi (Avatar) (12) | 52.26 | 62 (-9) | 1.83% | 1:1.7 |
| 16 (⇑) | Line of Duty (TV 2012) Joanne Davidson,Kate Fleming (Line of Duty) (46) | 46.00 | 46 (?) | 12.14% | 13:1 |
| 17 (↓4) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (42) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (12) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (11) | 45.00 | 48 (-11) | 0.90% | 18:1 |
| 18 (↓2) | Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (60) Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (17) Annie Leonhart,Hitch Dreyse (9) | 43.02 | 75 (-3) | 1.68% | 1:6 |
| 19 (↓2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (31) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (15) Agatha Harkness,Wanda Maximoff (6) | 41.53 | 91 (-10) | 0.84% | 1:8 |
| 20 (↓5) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (18) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (10) Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (8) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (8) | 38.82 | 51 (-17) | 1.98% | 1.1:1 |
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.