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Femslash week in review: 2021-06-29 - 2021-07-05
High-level stats for week of 2021-06-29 - 2021-07-05
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7249 (+29 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4323 (-119 from last week) (1975 new, 2348 continued)
- 0.97% of all 446549 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- First appearance on the charts for Fate: The Winx Saga, a live-action adaptation of the animated Winx Club series. The animated series has a number of backdated works from before the launch of AO3, but hasn't been seen on the charts since 2008.
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 (124) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (23) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (21) | 166.02 | 168 (-15) | 0.64% | 29:1 |
| 2 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (129) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (18) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (12) | 144.03 | 146 (+3) | 4.19% | 14:1 |
| 3 (↓) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (130) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (21) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (9) | 133.00 | 136 (-12) | 1.61% | 5:1 |
| 4 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (88) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (30) Emmeline Vance,Mary Macdonald (18) | 122.70 | 209 (-5) | 1.69% | 1:7 |
| 5 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (37) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (28) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (25) | 98.63 | 120 (+3) | 6.62% | 1:6 |
| 6 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (52) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (11) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (10) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (10) | 92.23 | 110 (-5) | 0.99% | 3:1 |
| 7 | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (83) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (18) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (8) | 89.01 | 90 (+16) | 0.64% | 5:1 |
| 8 (↑) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (55) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (17) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (15) | 76.86 | 85 (+11) | 2.06% | 1.8:1 |
| 9 (↓) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (60) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (19) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (7) Kuvira (Avatar),Opal (Avatar) (7) | 74.12 | 79 (+1) | 1.26% | 5:1 |
| 10 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (70) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (33) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (12) | 70.07 | 145 (-3) | 1.98% | 1:8 |
| 11 (↑3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (59) | 67.36 | 74 (+20) | 0.49% | 9:1 |
| 12 (↓) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (47) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (14) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (13) | 48.00 | 49 (-9) | 0.91% | 18:1 |
| 13 | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (7) Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (6) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (5) Nanami Chiaki,Sonia Nevermind (5) | 44.26 | 58 (-11) | 1.25% | 1:3 |
| 14 (⇑) | Line of Duty (TV 2012) Joanne Davidson,Kate Fleming (Line of Duty) (41) Farida Jatri,Joanne Davidson (3) | 43.00 | 43 (?) | 9.86% | 11:1 |
| 15 (↑5) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (27) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (11) Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (8) | 42.01 | 55 (-3) | 2.08% | 1.1:1 |
| 16 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (25) Agatha Harkness,Wanda Maximoff (14) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (9) | 40.35 | 97 (+16) | 0.88% | 1:8 |
| 17 | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (35) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (17) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (3) Regan (The Wilds),Toni Shalifoe (3) | 39.00 | 39 (-7) | 4.57% | 187:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Fate: The Winx Saga (TV) Farah Dowling,Stella's Mother Luna (Winx Club) (24) Farah Dowling,Luna of Solaria (Winx Club),Rosalind (Fate: The Winx Saga) (9) Farah Dowling,Rosalind (Fate: The Winx Saga) (9) | 36.56 | 49 (?) | 30.43% | 7:1 |
| 19 (↓) | Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (48) Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (15) Mikasa Ackerman,Sasha Blouse (9) | 36.41 | 63 (-11) | 1.39% | 1:6 |
| 20 (↓8) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (26) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (8) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (4) | 35.15 | 38 (-16) | 1.90% | 2:1 |
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.