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Femslash week in review: 2021-08-24 - 2021-08-30
High-level stats for week of 2021-08-24 - 2021-08-30
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6692 (-195 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4026 (-102 from last week) (1827 new, 2199 continued)
- 0.87% of all 462058 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Motherland: Fort Salem suddenly jumped to rank 6 last week, and remains in the top 10 this week. Wynonna Earp missed the chart last week for the first time in well over a year, though it's back this week. And Little Witch Academia made an appearance this week for the first time since August 2020, I believe as a result of a "Dianakko week" challenge.
- A quick rec from last week: Hermione/Bellatrix canon-divergence
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 (174) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (26) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (24) | 228.00 | 229 (+60) | 0.85% | 29:1 |
| 2 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (147) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (15) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (14) | 157.10 | 161 (-49) | 3.77% | 10:1 |
| 3 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (40) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (35) Kujou Sara,Raiden Shogun | Baal (Genshin Impact) (22) | 156.99 | 182 (+3) | 6.78% | 1:5 |
| 4 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (81) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (28) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (17) | 123.01 | 203 (-9) | 1.57% | 1:6 |
| 5 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (104) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (21) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (7) | 109.00 | 110 (-5) | 1.24% | 5:1 |
| 6 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (44) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (6) | 67.69 | 84 (-7) | 0.73% | 3:1 |
| 7 (↑3) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (69) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (17) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (9) | 66.24 | 72 (+7) | 0.51% | 5:1 |
| 8 (↑) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (51) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (22) Kuvira (Avatar),Opal (Avatar) (4) | 64.11 | 68 (-17) | 1.05% | 5:1 |
| 9 (↓3) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (33) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (31) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (6) | 62.02 | 63 (-13) | 7.24% | 72:1 |
| 10 (↓2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (53) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (26) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (17) | 51.85 | 117 (-40) | 1.51% | 1:8 |
| 11 (↑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (45) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (3) | 51.07 | 53 (+6) | 0.35% | 9:1 |
| 12 (↑3) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (33) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (15) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (14) | 50.50 | 102 (+12) | 0.89% | 1:7 |
| 13 (↑) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (8) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (6) Asahina Aoi,Ogami Sakura (5) Nanami Chiaki,Sonia Nevermind (5) | 44.33 | 52 (+4) | 1.08% | 1:3 |
| 14 (↑2) | Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (48) Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (20) Mikasa Ackerman,Sasha Blouse (6) | 42.29 | 66 (+9) | 1.39% | 1:5 |
| 15 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (24) Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (14) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (7) | 42.19 | 45 (+6) | 2.05% | 2:1 |
| 16 (↑2) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (24) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (9) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (8) | 39.71 | 45 (+9) | 1.05% | 1.8:1 |
| 17 (↓8) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (14) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (12) Azula (Avatar),Katara (Avatar) (10) | 35.71 | 49 (-36) | 1.38% | 1:1.7 |
| 18 (⇑) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (35) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (8) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (5) | 34.00 | 36 (?) | 0.66% | 17:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Little Witch Academia Atsuko "Akko" Kagari,Diana Cavendish (30) Amanda O'Neill,Hannah England (3) | 32.00 | 32 (?) | 1.63% | 90:1 |
| 20 (↓7) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (18) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (8) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (6) | 31.37 | 40 (-14) | 1.43% | 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.