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Femslash week in review: 2021-08-31 - 2021-09-06
High-level stats for week of 2021-08-31 - 2021-09-06
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6623 (-69 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 3887 (-139 from last week) (1808 new, 2079 continued)
- 0.84% of all 463866 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Genshin Impact reached a new all-time best rank this week, at 2.
- Critical Role and Dragon Age are back, each for the first time since June. They replace Dangan Ronpa and Little Witch Academia.
- Miraculous Ladybug is doing well recently. It hits rank 11 this week, the highest rank it's ever had, last achieved in October 2019.
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 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (153) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (21) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (17) | 164.14 | 169 (+8) | 3.88% | 10:1 |
| 2 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (34) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (34) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (24) | 153.57 | 177 (-5) | 6.32% | 1:5 |
| 3 (↓2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (116) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (19) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (19) | 152.06 | 155 (-74) | 0.57% | 29:1 |
| 4 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (82) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (19) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (17) | 119.05 | 200 (-3) | 1.53% | 1:6 |
| 5 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (116) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (21) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (12) | 119.00 | 120 (+10) | 1.35% | 5:1 |
| 6 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (38) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (9) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (9) | 66.94 | 89 (+5) | 0.78% | 3:1 |
| 7 (↑3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (56) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (28) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (25) | 62.01 | 132 (+15) | 1.69% | 1:8 |
| 8 (↓) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (55) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (14) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (8) | 59.18 | 63 (-9) | 0.44% | 5:1 |
| 9 (↓) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (49) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (15) Kuvira (Avatar),Opal (Avatar) (7) | 56.45 | 62 (-6) | 0.96% | 5:1 |
| 10 (↑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (49) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (3) | 52.40 | 57 (+4) | 0.37% | 9:1 |
| 11 (↑9) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (27) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (13) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (10) | 45.29 | 58 (+18) | 2.05% | 1.1:1 |
| 12 (↑3) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (20) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (19) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (8) | 43.24 | 47 (+2) | 2.11% | 2:1 |
| 13 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (33) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (17) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (12) | 41.97 | 90 (-12) | 0.78% | 1:7 |
| 14 (↓5) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (24) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (21) Abigail Bellweather,Tally Craven (3) | 41.00 | 42 (-21) | 4.70% | 74:1 |
| 15 (↑3) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (39) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (7) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (5) | 38.00 | 40 (+4) | 0.73% | 17:1 |
| 16 | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (23) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (9) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (9) | 36.64 | 42 (-3) | 0.98% | 1.8:1 |
| 17 (↓9) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (16) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (14) Azula (Avatar),Katara (Avatar) (7) Azula (Avatar),Mai (Avatar) (7) | 33.74 | 49 (-19) | 1.37% | 1:1.7 |
| 18 (⇑) | Critical Role (Web Series) Allura Vysoren,Kima (Critical Role) (16) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (15) | 33.00 | 33 (?) | 1.08% | 1:1.6 |
| 19 (⇑) | Dragon Age (Video Games) Female Adaar,Josephine Montilyet (3) Female Hawke,Meredith Stannard (3) Isabela (Dragon Age),Merrill (Dragon Age) (3) Leliana (Dragon Age),Morrigan (Dragon Age) (3) | 32.07 | 42 (?) | 0.81% | 1:3 |
| 20 (↓6) | Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (39) Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (13) Hange Zoë,Pieck (Shingeki no Kyojin) (5) Mikasa Ackerman,Sasha Blouse (5) | 32.04 | 54 (-12) | 1.13% | 1:5 |
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.