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Femslash week in review: 2022-05-03 - 2022-05-09
High-level stats for week of 2022-05-03 - 2022-05-09
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6777 (-30 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4095 (+37 from last week) (1940 new, 2155 continued)
- 0.77% of all 533379 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- League of Legends and Genshin Impact trade places again this week, with Genshin Impact falling to 2nd place in its 70th consecutive week on the chart. Harry Potter and Owl House both have good weeks, while Supergirl falls to fifth place.
- Star Trek: Voyager is back on the charts for the first time since 2017. Based on the top character tags, I suspect this is actually Picard, but it's still notable to have a Trek property on the charts. (For context, Discovery has never been in the top 20.)
- Also The Wilds is back for the first time since January, and those two fandoms replace Batman and Legends of Tomorrow.
- Here's a League of Legends rec: "Grenadier" by antistar_e, with Caitlyn/Vi and Jinx post-Arcane-season-1.
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) (161) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (31) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (26) | 196.12 | 201 (+29) | 4.01% | 1.3:1 |
| 2 (↓) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (51) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (37) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (33) | 188.33 | 220 (-5) | 2.99% | 1:4 |
| 3 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (95) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (31) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (20) Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (20) | 136.51 | 236 (+13) | 1.50% | 1:6 |
| 4 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (111) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (23) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (18) | 126.56 | 135 (+7) | 2.31% | 7:1 |
| 5 (↓2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (96) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (18) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (12) | 123.07 | 126 (-31) | 0.42% | 29:1 |
| 6 | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (43) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (37) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (31) | 76.00 | 82 (-2) | 4.83% | 21:1 |
| 7 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (58) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (13) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5) | 66.00 | 67 (-14) | 0.66% | 5:1 |
| 8 (↑3) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (33) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) | 61.45 | 76 (+8) | 0.61% | 3:1 |
| 9 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (41) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (31) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (14) | 59.53 | 123 (+7) | 0.87% | 1:7 |
| 10 (↑7) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (37) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (23) Freya Mikaelson,Keelin Malraux (6) | 57.43 | 67 (+23) | 1.29% | 1.9:1 |
| 11 (↓3) | Killing Eve (TV 2018) Eve Polastri,Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (56) | 56.02 | 57 (-16) | 1.88% | 53:1 |
| 12 (↓2) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (35) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (5) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 51.16 | 54 (-9) | 0.78% | 1.0:1 |
| 13 (⇑) | Star Trek: Voyager Raffi Musiker,Seven of Nine (21) Kathryn Janeway,Seven of Nine (19) Agnes Jurati,Borg Queen (Star Trek) (7) | 48.02 | 49 (?) | 2.65% | 1.2:1 |
| 14 (↓2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (42) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (17) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (11) | 48.00 | 98 (-11) | 1.06% | 1:8 |
| 15 (↓2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (43) | 45.18 | 48 (-4) | 0.29% | 9:1 |
| 16 (↓2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (34) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (12) Amelia Shepherd,Kai Bartley (3) | 45.18 | 48 (+1) | 1.46% | 3:1 |
| 17 (↓2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (40) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (5) | 44.06 | 47 (-5) | 0.32% | 5:1 |
| 18 | Avatar: The Last Airbender Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (21) Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (12) Azula (Avatar),Mai (Avatar) (5) | 41.33 | 45 (+2) | 1.14% | 1:1.7 |
| 19 (⇑) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (29) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (19) Leah Rilke,Rachel Reid (5) | 41.00 | 41 (?) | 3.12% | 230:1 |
| 20 | Virtual Streamer Animated Characters Mori Calliope,Takanashi Kiara (14) Hakos Baelz,IRyS (Hololive) (11) Nanashi Mumei,Ouro Kronii (9) | 38.37 | 54 (+7) | 3.90% | 1.3:1 |
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.