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Femslash week in review: 2022-03-29 - 2022-04-04
High-level stats for week of 2022-03-29 - 2022-04-04
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6972 (-162 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4118 (-104 from last week) (1860 new, 2258 continued)
- 0.79% of all 523953 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- League of Legends is back in the top slot, but the big top-five news is Supergirl, which falls to rank five this week for the first time since, if you'll believe it, 2016.
- At the bottom of the chart, Killing Eve, Attack on Titan, and Virtual Streamer Animated Characters are all back this week, replacing Legend of Korra, Batman, and Fire Emblem. Meanwhile, Amphibia celebrates 30 consecutive and total weeks on the chart, while MCU celebrates 20 consecutive weeks (out of many more than that total appearances).
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) (157) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (32) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (32) | 202.37 | 211 (+17) | 4.57% | 1.3:1 |
| 2 (↓) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (50) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (39) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (36) | 193.05 | 221 (-49) | 3.33% | 1:4 |
| 3 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (89) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (25) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (21) | 139.32 | 239 (+21) | 1.56% | 1:6 |
| 4 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (106) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (15) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (9) | 123.03 | 125 (+10) | 2.24% | 8:1 |
| 5 (↓2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (87) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (19) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (12) | 111.03 | 113 (-31) | 0.38% | 29:1 |
| 6 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (81) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (14) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (6) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (6) | 85.00 | 87 (-2) | 0.87% | 5:1 |
| 7 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (42) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (26) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (11) | 67.10 | 125 (-9) | 0.91% | 1:7 |
| 8 (↑5) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (57) | 64.06 | 66 (+10) | 0.41% | 9:1 |
| 9 (↑) | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (50) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (17) Josie Saltzman,Lizzie Saltzman (10) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (10) | 64.00 | 65 (+0) | 1.58% | 12:1 |
| 10 (↓) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (46) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (6) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (5) | 62.64 | 69 (+4) | 1.02% | 1.0:1 |
| 11 (↑) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (34) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (26) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (21) | 59.00 | 62 (+4) | 4.16% | 21:1 |
| 12 (↑3) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (40) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (7) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (5) | 49.28 | 53 (+3) | 1.67% | 3:1 |
| 13 (↓6) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (26) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (10) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) | 48.37 | 65 (-32) | 0.53% | 3:1 |
| 14 (⇑) | Killing Eve (TV 2018) Eve Polastri,Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (46) | 45.02 | 46 (?) | 1.69% | 51:1 |
| 15 (↓4) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (47) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (8) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (6) | 43.55 | 54 (-5) | 0.37% | 5:1 |
| 16 (⇑) | Virtual Streamer Animated Characters Mori Calliope,Takanashi Kiara (15) Hakos Baelz,IRyS (Hololive) (9) Hoshimachi Suisei,Sakura Miko (7) Nanashi Mumei,Ouro Kronii (7) | 42.88 | 49 (?) | 3.99% | 1.8:1 |
| 17 (↑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (54) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (23) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (11) | 40.00 | 100 (-2) | 1.11% | 1:8 |
| 18 (⇑) | Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (44) Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (17) Mikasa Ackerman,Sasha Blouse (6) | 37.59 | 61 (?) | 1.14% | 1:5 |
| 19 | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (18) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (8) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Rachel Amber (7) | 36.00 | 36 (-2) | 0.75% | 9:1 |
| 20 | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (33) Nicole Haught,Shae Pressman (4) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (4) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (4) | 35.00 | 35 (-1) | 0.61% | 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.