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Femslash week in review: 2022-06-21 - 2022-06-27
High-level stats for week of 2022-06-21 - 2022-06-27
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7483 (+47 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4501 (+12 from last week) (2133 new, 2368 continued)
- 0.82% of all 547798 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Congrats this week to Stranger Things, which tops the chart for the first time. Amphibia moves down from the top five to make space.
- The 100 is back at rank 20, no surprise. It replaces Legend of Korra.
- Chart anniversaries: RWBY celebrates 270 consecutive weeks on the chart, and Supergirl is at 340.
- Here are a couple of upcoming exchanges:
- Femslash After Dark - 2022: Unfortunately signups for this closed between when I found out about it and when I could post about it, but keep an eye out for works to reveal on August 26th.
- A Woman's Place [...is in the Resistance]: This is a multiformat exchange to celebrate characters who identify women or who are aligned with womanhood, and to raise money for abortion funds. It's running through the second half of this year. Through July, you can rec fanworks and sign up for a vid auction. There will be a prompt fest starting at the end of July. Check out the dreamwidth page for information and links.
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 (↑5) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (198) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (32) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (20) | 200.00 | 240 (+69) | 13.56% | 1:5 |
| 2 (↑2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (59) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (31) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (21) | 179.86 | 215 (+19) | 2.64% | 1:4 |
| 3 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (155) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (29) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (20) | 173.16 | 179 (-14) | 2.76% | 6:1 |
| 4 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (120) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (40) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (22) | 171.70 | 265 (+2) | 1.61% | 1:6 |
| 5 (↓4) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (107) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (37) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (21) | 149.65 | 160 (-52) | 2.88% | 1.3:1 |
| 6 (↓) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (67) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (58) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (58) | 113.19 | 125 (-23) | 5.39% | 19:1 |
| 7 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (84) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (18) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (15) | 112.05 | 115 (-11) | 0.38% | 29:1 |
| 8 (↑5) | Grey's Anatomy Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (33) Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (33) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (5) | 73.05 | 75 (+13) | 2.12% | 3:1 |
| 9 (↑2) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (64) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (6) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (4) | 71.00 | 71 (+6) | 0.69% | 5:1 |
| 10 (↑7) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (40) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (6) | 66.57 | 82 (+19) | 0.65% | 3:1 |
| 11 (↓2) | First Kill (TV 2022) Calliope Burns (First Kill),Juliette Fairmont (62) Margot Fairmont,Talia Burns (6) | 66.06 | 68 (-14) | 38.86% | 49:1 |
| 12 (↓2) | The Originals (TV) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (36) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (23) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (10) | 55.59 | 65 (-13) | 1.34% | 1.1:1 |
| 13 (↓5) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (34) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (32) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (15) | 55.25 | 111 (-46) | 0.76% | 1:7 |
| 14 (↑4) | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (23) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (11) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (10) | 54.15 | 57 (+12) | 6.46% | 1.0:1 |
| 15 (↓) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (33) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (31) Leah Rilke,Rachel Reid (3) | 53.00 | 53 (-6) | 3.42% | 76:1 |
| 16 (↑4) | Killing Eve (TV 2018) Eve Polastri,Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (40) | 41.00 | 41 (-1) | 1.27% | 55:1 |
| 17 (↓2) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (33) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (5) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (4) | 40.42 | 48 (-10) | 0.67% | 1.0:1 |
| 18 (↓2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (34) Alice Jones | Tilly,Robin | Margot (4) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) | 39.26 | 43 (-6) | 0.26% | 9:1 |
| 19 (↓7) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (46) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (19) Fukukado Emi | Ms. Joke,Kayama Nemuri | Midnight (9) | 39.20 | 99 (-27) | 1.05% | 1:8 |
| 20 (⇑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (38) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (8) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (7) | 37.55 | 46 (?) | 0.31% | 5:1 |
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.