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Femslash week in review: 2022-03-22 - 2022-03-28
High-level stats for week of 2022-03-22 - 2022-03-28
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7134 (-5 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4222 (-65 from last week) (1955 new, 2267 continued)
- 0.81% of all 522093 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Genshin Impact is at number one for the second week, and has opened up a significant work count gap over second-ranked League of Legends.
- At the bottom of the chart, Legend of Korra is back, along with Fire Emblem. They replace Mass Effect and Attack on Titan.
- League of Legends celebrates 20 consecutive weeks on the chart, while Harry Potter is at 170, and Boku no Hero Academia clocks an impressive 210.
- Finally, a rec, for this well-constructed Belle/Mulan crossover.
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 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (80) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (50) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (39) | 244.63 | 270 (+38) | 4.16% | 1:4 |
| 2 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (152) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (28) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (25) | 184.49 | 194 (-6) | 4.30% | 1.2:1 |
| 3 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (116) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (27) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (12) | 142.03 | 144 (+5) | 0.49% | 29:1 |
| 4 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (95) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (21) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (18) | 124.73 | 218 (+7) | 1.43% | 1:6 |
| 5 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (93) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (25) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (11) | 112.05 | 115 (-17) | 2.08% | 8:1 |
| 6 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (83) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (17) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (10) | 85.00 | 89 (+6) | 0.89% | 5:1 |
| 7 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (41) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (8) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (8) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (8) | 84.77 | 97 (+14) | 0.79% | 3:1 |
| 8 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (57) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (28) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (14) | 76.40 | 134 (+4) | 0.98% | 1:7 |
| 9 (↑3) | Doctor Who & Related Fandoms Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (35) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (10) Ashildr | Lady Me,Clara Oswin Oswald (4) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (4) | 60.29 | 65 (+5) | 1.01% | 1:2 |
| 10 (↓) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (36) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (21) Josie Saltzman,Lizzie Saltzman (5) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (5) | 56.22 | 65 (-13) | 1.29% | 1.9:1 |
| 11 (↑2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (54) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (8) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (6) | 55.07 | 59 (-4) | 0.40% | 5:1 |
| 12 (↑2) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (31) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (29) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (28) | 54.07 | 58 (+10) | 4.01% | 21:1 |
| 13 (↓2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (47) Alice Jones | Tilly,Robin | Margot (4) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) | 54.04 | 56 (-4) | 0.35% | 9:1 |
| 14 (⇑) | Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Hilda Valentine Goneril,Marianne von Edmund (11) Catherine (Fire Emblem),Shamir Nevrand (8) Dorothea Arnault,Edelgard von Hresvelg (6) Dorothea Arnault,Petra Macneary (6) | 53.78 | 66 (?) | 2.00% | 1:2 |
| 15 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (37) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (5) | 46.30 | 50 (+9) | 1.59% | 3:1 |
| 16 (⇑) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (42) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (14) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (5) Kuvira (Avatar),Opal (Avatar) (5) | 44.70 | 52 (?) | 0.74% | 5:1 |
| 17 (↓7) | Batman - All Media Types Ryan Wilder,Sophie Moore (28) Harleen Quinzel,Pamela Isley (22) Cassandra Cain,Stephanie Brown (4) | 43.46 | 68 (-23) | 1.86% | 1:8 |
| 18 (↓2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (50) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (25) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (14) | 42.15 | 102 (+3) | 1.14% | 1:8 |
| 19 (↓4) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (20) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (6) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Rachel Amber (5) | 38.00 | 38 (-5) | 0.79% | 9:1 |
| 20 | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (33) Nicole Haught,Shae Pressman (5) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (5) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (5) | 36.00 | 36 (+1) | 0.63% | 17:1 |
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.