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Femslash week in review: 2021-11-30 - 2021-12-06
High-level stats for week of 2021-11-30 - 2021-12-06
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6616 (+116 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4013 (+64 from last week) (2027 new, 1986 continued)
- 0.82% of all 487602 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- League of Legends is back at number one for a second week. Work count is down slightly from last week's peak, but still going strong.
- Glee is back for the first time since June, all the way at number 12. I see a lot of works tagged "Faberry Month 2021," so if that's relevant to your interests, go check it out. Otherwise: Life Is Strange and Miraculous Ladybug are back in, and Doctor Who, The Wilds, and Wynonna Earp are back out.
- Happy chart anniversary to Owl House, which is sitting at rank 4 in its 70th consecutive week on the chart.
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 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (207) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (32) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (14) | 231.40 | 241 (-23) | 10.70% | 1.1:1 |
| 2 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (126) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (22) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (19) | 176.01 | 177 (+14) | 0.62% | 29:1 |
| 3 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (43) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (37) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (28) | 175.66 | 201 (+16) | 4.82% | 1:4 |
| 4 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (92) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (13) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (11) | 104.06 | 107 (-6) | 2.16% | 9:1 |
| 5 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (62) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (21) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (18) | 103.51 | 180 (+3) | 1.30% | 1:6 |
| 6 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (83) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (18) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (9) | 92.00 | 92 (-2) | 0.98% | 5:1 |
| 7 (↑5) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (63) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) Emma Swan,Lily | Lilith Page (4) | 70.03 | 72 (+19) | 0.46% | 9:1 |
| 8 (↑2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (47) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (9) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) | 65.01 | 79 (+3) | 0.67% | 3:1 |
| 9 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (58) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (20) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (17) | 64.36 | 140 (+13) | 1.68% | 1:8 |
| 10 (↑) | The Vampire Diaries (TV) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (45) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (12) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (7) | 62.03 | 70 (+4) | 1.56% | 1:1.5 |
| 11 (↓3) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (55) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (14) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (10) | 59.09 | 62 (-4) | 0.43% | 4:1 |
| 12 (⇑) | Glee Quinn Fabray,Rachel Berry (46) Brittany S. Pierce,Santana Lopez (9) Rachel Berry,Santana Lopez (4) | 56.07 | 58 (?) | 1.00% | 1:4 |
| 13 (↓6) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (44) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (31) Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (29) | 56.00 | 56 (-18) | 6.34% | 18:1 |
| 14 (↑5) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (38) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (16) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (8) | 47.52 | 53 (+9) | 0.79% | 5:1 |
| 15 (↑3) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Akamatsu Kaede,Harukawa Maki (7) Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (7) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (6) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (6) | 43.65 | 49 (+2) | 0.96% | 1:3 |
| 16 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (28) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (22) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (7) | 41.47 | 99 (+13) | 0.81% | 1:7 |
| 17 (⇑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (20) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (9) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (8) | 41.44 | 52 (?) | 1.69% | 1.1:1 |
| 18 (↓5) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (28) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (8) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (3) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (3) | 41.02 | 42 (-7) | 1.53% | 2:1 |
| 19 (↓5) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (25) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (19) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (10) | 41.00 | 41 (-2) | 3.46% | 84:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (17) Alex Chen (Life Is Strange),Steph Gingrich (13) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (5) | 39.00 | 39 (?) | 0.85% | 8:1 |
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.