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Femslash week in review: 2021-10-19 - 2021-10-25
High-level stats for week of 2021-10-19 - 2021-10-25
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6539 (-129 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 3945 (-49 from last week) (1888 new, 2057 continued)
- 0.83% of all 476738 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Amphibia reaches rank 10 this week, a new best for the portal fantasy cartoon.
- The chart churn news is that Buffy is back after 6 weeks off the chart, and The Wilds is back after 8 weeks off. They replace Dangan Ronpa and Miraculous Ladybug, breaking the latter's streak of 20 consecutive chart weeks.
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 (147) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (20) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (17) | 200.04 | 203 (-29) | 0.73% | 29:1 |
| 2 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (31) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (24) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (23) | 127.04 | 159 (-13) | 4.58% | 1:5 |
| 3 (↑2) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (68) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (26) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (18) | 124.79 | 197 (+26) | 1.46% | 1:6 |
| 4 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (103) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (19) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (11) | 115.00 | 115 (-23) | 2.43% | 9:1 |
| 5 (↓) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (106) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (19) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (9) | 109.00 | 109 (+14) | 1.19% | 5:1 |
| 6 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (55) Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (31) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (6) | 95.04 | 97 (+25) | 3.81% | 2:1 |
| 7 (↓) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (65) | 71.08 | 74 (-5) | 0.47% | 9:1 |
| 8 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (42) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (8) | 69.12 | 86 (+9) | 0.74% | 3:1 |
| 9 (↓2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (58) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (11) Clarke Griffin,Raven Reyes (5) | 61.34 | 67 (-9) | 0.47% | 5:1 |
| 10 (↑3) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (35) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (25) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (23) | 57.00 | 58 (+1) | 8.80% | 16:1 |
| 11 (↑3) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (38) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (12) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (9) | 53.26 | 57 (-2) | 0.86% | 5:1 |
| 12 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (48) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (17) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (15) | 48.00 | 108 (-21) | 1.33% | 1:8 |
| 13 (↑4) | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (23) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (12) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (8) | 45.00 | 45 (-7) | 1.28% | 13:1 |
| 14 (↓4) | Squid Game (TV 2021) Jiyeong (Squid Game),Kang Saebyeok (52) | 44.33 | 52 (-12) | 21.58% | 1:1.7 |
| 15 (↑3) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Alex Chen (Life Is Strange),Steph Gingrich (23) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (15) Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (7) | 40.02 | 41 (-9) | 0.91% | 8:1 |
| 16 (⇑) | Buffy the Vampire Slayer Tara Maclay,Willow Rosenberg (29) Buffy Summers,Faith Lehane (12) Buffy Summers,Tara Maclay (3) | 39.20 | 42 (?) | 1.15% | 1:1.2 |
| 17 (↓2) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (21) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (19) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (4) | 37.00 | 37 (-17) | 3.45% | 76:1 |
| 18 (↑) | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (37) Nicole Haught,Shae Pressman (5) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (4) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (4) | 34.10 | 38 (-7) | 0.69% | 17:1 |
| 19 (↓3) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (23) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (11) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (10) | 32.64 | 81 (-28) | 0.68% | 1:7 |
| 20 (⇑) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (29) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (10) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (4) | 31.00 | 31 (?) | 3.12% | 209:1 |
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.