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Femslash week in review: 2021-07-27 - 2021-08-02
High-level stats for week of 2021-07-27 - 2021-08-02
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7182 (+323 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4331 (+236 from last week) (2036 new, 2295 continued)
- 0.95% of all 454299 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Supergirl is back at number one after two weeks out, but Owl House is still very close to the top spot.
- Another best-ever week for Genshin Impact, which is up to rank three and growing fast.
- Pitch Perfect and Killing Eve, both last seen on the charts in March, are back at 7th and 17th places respectively. Was there a challenge or exchange of some sort last week?
- The rest of the chart noise: Line of Duty and Motherland: Fort Salem are back after a few weeks off each, and those four fandoms replace Fear Street, Life Is Strange, Attack on Titan, and Haunting of Bly Manor.
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 (↑2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (88) Cat Grant,Kara Danvers (30) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (19) | 159.10 | 163 (+29) | 0.61% | 29:1 |
| 2 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (147) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (15) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (12) | 156.29 | 163 (+3) | 4.27% | 12:1 |
| 3 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (36) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (29) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (22) | 138.28 | 170 (+18) | 7.66% | 1:5 |
| 4 (↓2) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (118) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (17) | 123.00 | 123 (-18) | 1.42% | 5:1 |
| 5 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (78) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (18) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (16) | 111.03 | 196 (-10) | 1.55% | 1:6 |
| 6 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (55) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (14) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (12) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (12) | 101.41 | 120 (+23) | 1.06% | 3:1 |
| 7 (⇑) | Pitch Perfect (Movies) Beca Mitchell,Chloe Beale (76) | 77.00 | 77 (?) | 1.39% | 61:1 |
| 8 | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (67) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (17) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (8) | 74.08 | 77 (+15) | 0.55% | 5:1 |
| 9 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (75) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (33) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (12) | 73.51 | 149 (+26) | 1.98% | 1:8 |
| 10 (↑2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (57) | 63.23 | 67 (+9) | 0.44% | 9:1 |
| 11 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (39) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (20) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (15) | 59.60 | 124 (+8) | 1.10% | 1:8 |
| 12 (↑5) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (30) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (15) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (11) | 53.64 | 63 (+11) | 2.31% | 1.1:1 |
| 13 (⇑) | Line of Duty (TV 2012) Joanne Davidson,Kate Fleming (Line of Duty) (51) | 52.00 | 52 (?) | 9.83% | 10:1 |
| 14 (↓8) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (41) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (15) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (4) Kuvira (Avatar),Opal (Avatar) (4) | 51.25 | 56 (-35) | 0.88% | 5:1 |
| 15 (↓2) | Grey's Anatomy Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (25) Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (16) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (7) | 46.02 | 47 (-8) | 2.24% | 2:1 |
| 16 (↓) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (45) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (14) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (8) | 45.00 | 46 (-1) | 0.85% | 18:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Killing Eve (TV 2018) Eve Polastri,Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (44) | 44.00 | 44 (?) | 1.88% | 46:1 |
| 18 (↓7) | The Vampire Diaries (TV) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (27) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (12) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (10) | 43.75 | 50 (-9) | 1.22% | 1:1.6 |
| 19 (⇑) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (23) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (15) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (6) | 39.00 | 39 (?) | 5.59% | 61:1 |
| 20 (↓4) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (8) Asahina Aoi,Ogami Sakura (7) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (6) | 37.16 | 48 (-9) | 1.01% | 1:3 |
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.