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Femslash week in review: 2021-09-28 - 2021-10-04
High-level stats for week of 2021-09-28 - 2021-10-04
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6774 (+498 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4048 (+302 from last week) (2012 new, 2036 continued)
- 0.86% of all 470973 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Squid Game vaults into the top ten on its first appearance. Only one major F/F ship (before next week, I'll fix the data error that has it showing up as two distinct ships), but it's huge.
- Otherwise, just the usual churn: Legacies and Critical Role return; Attack on Titan, Batman, and Buffy leave.
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 (158) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (18) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (18) | 195.30 | 203 (+38) | 0.74% | 29:1 |
| 2 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (140) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (20) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (14) | 153.06 | 156 (+29) | 3.40% | 9:1 |
| 3 (↓) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (41) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (25) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (21) | 123.63 | 150 (-3) | 4.74% | 1:5 |
| 4 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (105) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (23) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (8) | 109.00 | 112 (+5) | 1.24% | 5:1 |
| 5 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (71) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (26) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (12) | 98.13 | 173 (+0) | 1.30% | 1:6 |
| 6 (↑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (67) | 70.04 | 73 (-2) | 0.47% | 9:1 |
| 7 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (41) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (8) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) Robyn Hill,Winter Schnee (6) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (6) | 68.53 | 88 (-12) | 0.76% | 3:1 |
| 8 (↑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (52) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (23) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (16) | 65.94 | 139 (+14) | 1.74% | 1:8 |
| 9 (⇑) | Squid Game (TV 2021) Ji-yeong (Squid Game),Kang Sae-byeok (66) Jiyeong (Squid Game),Kang Saebyeok (26) | 64.22 | 68 (?) | 87.18% | 1:1.0 |
| 10 (↓2) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (39) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (25) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (4) | 61.00 | 61 (+0) | 6.05% | 72:1 |
| 11 (↓) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (58) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (12) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (6) | 60.42 | 66 (+4) | 0.46% | 5:1 |
| 12 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (34) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (24) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (4) | 55.90 | 63 (+24) | 2.63% | 2:1 |
| 13 (↓2) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (49) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (16) Izumi (Avatar),Lin Beifong (4) | 55.15 | 66 (+2) | 1.00% | 5:1 |
| 14 (↑5) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (31) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (31) Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (24) | 50.00 | 52 (+17) | 9.63% | 16:1 |
| 15 (⇑) | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (31) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (9) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (7) | 42.00 | 42 (?) | 1.21% | 13:1 |
| 16 (↓4) | Captain America (Movies) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (31) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (14) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (10) | 40.67 | 77 (-24) | 0.93% | 1:23 |
| 17 (↑) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Asahina Aoi,Ogami Sakura (6) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (5) ... | 37.77 | 48 (+5) | 0.98% | 1:3 |
| 18 (↓) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (21) Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (8) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (7) Chloé Bourgeois,Sabrina Raincomprix (7) | 35.00 | 50 (+4) | 1.73% | 1.1:1 |
| 19 (↓4) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (35) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (9) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (8) | 33.16 | 36 (-2) | 0.65% | 17:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Critical Role (Web Series) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (17) Allura Vysoren,Kima (Critical Role) (10) Beauregard Lionett,Jester Lavorre (4) | 30.00 | 30 (?) | 0.96% | 1:1.6 |
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.