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Femslash week in review: 2022-07-05 - 2022-07-11
High-level stats for week of 2022-07-05 - 2022-07-11
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7388 (+43 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4502 (+110 from last week) (2214 new, 2288 continued)
- 0.82% of all 552102 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Stranger Things tops the chart for a third week, but that understates a massive week-over-week jump in work count, on top of an already-high baseline. This is the first time an F/F fandom has ever had a rating of over 300 for a week. (The rating means that my best guess is that if you look at the AO3 works from the past week, you will actually find 300 F/F-tagged works with ships containing multiple canonical non-male characters.)
- Elsewhere on the chart, Miraculous Ladybug and Virtual Streamer Animated Characters are back, replacing Once Upon a Time and The 100. The Wilds celebrates 10 consecutive chart appearances in its latest run.
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 (315) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (75) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (56) | 338.96 | 417 (+107) | 17.87% | 1:5 |
| 2 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (108) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (41) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (30) | 161.49 | 257 (+6) | 1.55% | 1:6 |
| 3 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (131) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (27) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (26) | 157.00 | 157 (-12) | 2.38% | 6:1 |
| 4 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (32) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (26) Hu Tao (Genshin Impact),Yanfei (Genshin Impact) (16) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (16) | 144.76 | 171 (-10) | 2.05% | 1:4 |
| 5 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (91) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (26) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (18) | 130.18 | 135 (-3) | 2.38% | 1.3:1 |
| 6 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (99) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (23) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (13) | 116.28 | 122 (-5) | 0.40% | 29:1 |
| 7 | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (51) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (37) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (35) | 80.35 | 91 (-14) | 3.75% | 19:1 |
| 8 (↑2) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (78) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (8) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5) | 80.00 | 82 (+11) | 0.86% | 16:1 |
| 9 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (42) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (42) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (13) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (13) | 77.23 | 147 (+15) | 1.00% | 1:7 |
| 10 (↑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (39) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (20) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (4) | 65.27 | 70 (+11) | 0.97% | 1.0:1 |
| 11 (↓3) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (26) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (7) | 63.37 | 80 (-14) | 0.63% | 3:1 |
| 12 (↑2) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (31) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (30) Dot Campbell,Fatin Jadmani (3) | 50.00 | 50 (+3) | 3.16% | 71:1 |
| 13 (↑5) | Killing Eve (TV 2018) Eve Polastri,Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (50) | 50.00 | 50 (+9) | 1.53% | 56:1 |
| 14 (↓2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (27) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (15) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (10) | 49.16 | 52 (-2) | 1.44% | 3:1 |
| 15 (↓2) | 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 (12) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (8) | 48.17 | 51 (+0) | 5.33% | 1:1.0 |
| 16 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (37) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (20) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (11) | 47.01 | 96 (-4) | 1.01% | 1:8 |
| 17 (⇑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (26) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (13) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (6) | 45.12 | 57 (?) | 1.58% | 1.1:1 |
| 18 (↓3) | First Kill (TV 2022) Calliope Burns (First Kill),Juliette Fairmont (41) Elinor Fairmont,Juliette Fairmont (4) | 44.00 | 45 (-1) | 19.31% | 35:1 |
| 19 | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (30) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (14) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (7) | 41.49 | 46 (-2) | 1.04% | 10:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Virtual Streamer Animated Characters Nanashi Mumei,Ouro Kronii (13) Mori Calliope,Takanashi Kiara (12) Hakos Baelz,IRyS (Hololive) (5) | 39.58 | 48 (?) | 2.94% | 1:1.1 |
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.