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Femslash week in review: 2022-06-28 - 2022-07-04
High-level stats for week of 2022-06-28 - 2022-07-04
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7345 (-138 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4392 (-109 from last week) (2090 new, 2302 continued)
- 0.8% of all 549888 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Stranger Things stays at number one, and Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! regains its previous best-ever rank of 13. Owl House celebrates 100 consecutive weeks on the chart.
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 | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (237) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (47) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (39) | 248.96 | 310 (+70) | 15.45% | 1:5 |
| 2 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (153) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (29) Camila Noceda,Luz Noceda (14) | 168.01 | 169 (-10) | 2.58% | 6:1 |
| 3 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (95) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (31) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (29) | 152.31 | 251 (-14) | 1.52% | 1:6 |
| 4 (↓2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (32) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (29) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (20) | 148.62 | 181 (-34) | 2.20% | 1:4 |
| 5 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (96) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (24) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (20) | 132.25 | 138 (-22) | 2.46% | 1.3:1 |
| 6 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (88) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (15) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (11) | 122.12 | 127 (+12) | 0.42% | 29:1 |
| 7 (↓) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (53) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (50) Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (36) | 99.00 | 105 (-20) | 4.42% | 19:1 |
| 8 (↑2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (44) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (9) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (6) | 78.19 | 94 (+12) | 0.75% | 3:1 |
| 9 (↑4) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (41) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (40) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (11) | 66.26 | 132 (+21) | 0.90% | 1:7 |
| 10 (↓) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (64) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (8) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (4) | 66.00 | 71 (+0) | 0.68% | 5:1 |
| 11 (↑6) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (25) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (20) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 53.55 | 59 (+11) | 0.83% | 1.0:1 |
| 12 (↓4) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (25) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (24) | 47.70 | 54 (-21) | 1.51% | 3:1 |
| 13 (↑) | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (18) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (13) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (7) Hinomori Shizuku,Momoi Airi (7) | 47.29 | 51 (-6) | 5.54% | 1.0:1 |
| 14 (↑) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (28) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (26) | 47.00 | 47 (-6) | 3.01% | 70:1 |
| 15 (↓4) | First Kill (TV 2022) Calliope Burns (First Kill),Juliette Fairmont (42) Elinor Fairmont,Juliette Fairmont (6) Juliette Fairmont,Margot Fairmont (5) Juliette Fairmont,Talia Burns (5) | 45.02 | 46 (-22) | 22.33% | 40:1 |
| 16 (↑3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (30) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (20) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (13) | 42.42 | 100 (+1) | 1.06% | 1:8 |
| 17 (↑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (38) Aurora (Once Upon a Time),Mulan (Once Upon a Time) (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (3) | 42.09 | 44 (+1) | 0.27% | 9:1 |
| 18 (↓2) | Killing Eve (TV 2018) Eve Polastri,Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (41) | 41.00 | 41 (+0) | 1.26% | 55:1 |
| 19 (↓7) | The Vampire Diaries (TV) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (26) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (17) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (8) | 39.72 | 48 (-17) | 0.91% | 1:1.4 |
| 20 | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (39) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (5) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (4) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (4) | 39.09 | 43 (-3) | 0.29% | 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.