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Femslash week in review: 2022-04-05 - 2022-04-11
High-level stats for week of 2022-04-05 - 2022-04-11
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6972 (+0 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4092 (-26 from last week) (1849 new, 2243 continued)
- 0.78% of all 525802 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Lots of turnover in the top 3: a big work count drop for League of Legends and a big jump for Supergirl, conspired to put Genshin Impact in the top slot.
- This is the first ever chart appearance for 2016 RPG video game Honkai Impact 3rd, which apparently has a mostly-female main team. I'm not immediately sure why the work count jump that put the fandom at rank 17 this week.
- We also have a momentous chart departure: Boku no Hero Academia falls off the chart after 211 consecutive appearances (about 4 years). It'll surely be back, but possibly as a chart irregular.
- Otherwise, Batman reappears after a week off, and Wynonna Earp falls off the chart after three weeks on.
- One last callout for Killing Eve --- that jump to rank 6 is presumably the end-of-series fic bump viewers were expecting.
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) (52) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (49) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (39) | 188.20 | 225 (+4) | 3.31% | 1:4 |
| 2 (↑3) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (125) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (22) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (17) | 158.05 | 161 (+48) | 0.55% | 29:1 |
| 3 (↓2) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (114) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (27) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (27) | 147.84 | 159 (-52) | 3.40% | 1.3:1 |
| 4 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (90) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (19) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (16) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (16) | 126.39 | 218 (-21) | 1.42% | 1:6 |
| 5 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (114) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (17) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (12) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (12) | 122.12 | 126 (+1) | 2.23% | 8:1 |
| 6 (↑8) | Killing Eve (TV 2018) Eve Polastri,Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (88) | 89.01 | 90 (+44) | 3.21% | 52:1 |
| 7 (↑6) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (47) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (6) Raven Branwen,Summer Rose (RWBY) (6) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (6) | 74.25 | 92 (+27) | 0.75% | 3:1 |
| 8 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (41) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (33) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (12) | 73.60 | 126 (+1) | 0.91% | 1:7 |
| 9 (↓3) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (67) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (11) | 73.00 | 73 (-14) | 0.73% | 5:1 |
| 10 (↓2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (56) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (5) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (4) | 61.00 | 62 (-4) | 0.38% | 9:1 |
| 11 (↑) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (37) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (15) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (6) | 56.15 | 59 (+6) | 1.84% | 3:1 |
| 12 (↓3) | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (43) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (15) Josie Saltzman,Lizzie Saltzman (8) | 56.10 | 59 (-6) | 1.43% | 12:1 |
| 13 (↓3) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (40) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (4) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (3) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (3) | 55.07 | 57 (-12) | 0.84% | 1.0:1 |
| 14 (↓3) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (26) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (24) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (24) | 54.00 | 55 (-7) | 3.61% | 20:1 |
| 15 | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (51) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (10) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (5) | 50.31 | 56 (+2) | 0.38% | 5:1 |
| 16 | Virtual Streamer Animated Characters Finana Ryugu,Selen Tatsuki (10) Mori Calliope,Takanashi Kiara (10) Hakos Baelz,IRyS (Hololive) (8) | 39.95 | 54 (+5) | 4.27% | 1.6:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | 崩坏3rd | Honkai Impact 3rd (Video Game) Eden (Honkai Impact 3rd),Elysia (Honkai Impact 3rd) (19) Fu Hua,Kiana Kaslana | K-423 (6) Bianka Ataegina | Durandal,Rita Rossweisse (5) | 37.03 | 38 (?) | 7.24% | 6:1 |
| 18 | Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (38) Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (12) Mikasa Ackerman,Sasha Blouse (7) | 36.10 | 57 (-4) | 1.07% | 1:5 |
| 19 (⇑) | Batman - All Media Types Harleen Quinzel,Pamela Isley (24) Ryan Wilder,Sophie Moore (20) Kate Kane,Sophie Moore (3) | 35.62 | 57 (?) | 1.54% | 1:9 |
| 20 (↓) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (21) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (6) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Rachel Amber (6) | 32.00 | 32 (-4) | 0.66% | 9:1 |
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.
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