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Femslash week in review: 2022-07-12 - 2022-07-18
High-level stats for week of 2022-07-12 - 2022-07-18
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7586 (+198 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4655 (+153 from last week) (2235 new, 2420 continued)
- 0.84% of all 554337 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Genshin Impact has a great week and decisively returns to rank 2. The top five is unchanged otherwise. Stranger Things has another amazing week, matching last week's new work count and staying at rank 1. Virtual Streamer Animated Characters also has a good week, reaching rank 9 in its first-ever top ten appearance.
- Critical Role is back on the chart for the first time since May, while The 100 and Once Upon a Time each return after a week away. They replace First Kill which ends its five-week inaugural run, Grey's Anatomy which leaves the chart after seven consecutive weeks on, and Killing Eve which ends the 15-week streak set off by the series finale.
- Happy chart anniversary to Genshin Impact, which celebrates 80 consecutive chart weeks.
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 (321) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (74) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (54) | 324.89 | 413 (-4) | 15.90% | 1:5 |
| 2 (↑2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Columbina (Genshin Impact) (44) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (30) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (29) | 215.76 | 251 (+80) | 2.95% | 1:4 |
| 3 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (107) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (43) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (25) | 156.69 | 255 (-2) | 1.53% | 1:6 |
| 4 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (128) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (28) Camila Noceda,Luz Noceda (16) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (16) | 145.01 | 146 (-11) | 2.19% | 5:1 |
| 5 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (88) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (21) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (20) | 129.44 | 137 (+2) | 2.39% | 1.3:1 |
| 6 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (87) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (16) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (13) | 114.20 | 119 (-3) | 0.39% | 29:1 |
| 7 | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (56) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (42) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (37) | 86.33 | 94 (+3) | 3.81% | 19:1 |
| 8 (↑3) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (45) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (18) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (6) | 84.35 | 95 (+15) | 0.75% | 3:1 |
| 9 (↑11) | Virtual Streamer Animated Characters Nanashi Mumei,Ouro Kronii (26) Mori Calliope,Takanashi Kiara (14) Ceres Fauna,Ouro Kronii (6) Hakos Baelz,IRyS (Hololive) (6) | 67.64 | 81 (+33) | 4.81% | 1:1.1 |
| 10 (↓2) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (60) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (6) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (5) | 65.00 | 65 (-17) | 0.62% | 5:1 |
| 11 (↓) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (33) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (13) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (4) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (4) | 57.30 | 62 (-8) | 0.86% | 1.0:1 |
| 12 (↓3) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (35) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (30) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (16) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (16) | 55.32 | 115 (-32) | 0.78% | 1:7 |
| 13 (↑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 (16) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (14) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (8) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (8) | 55.07 | 57 (+6) | 5.69% | 1:1.0 |
| 14 (⇑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (51) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (8) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (5) Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (5) | 48.53 | 59 (?) | 0.40% | 5:1 |
| 15 (⇑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (45) Alice Jones | Tilly,Robin | Margot (4) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) | 48.35 | 53 (?) | 0.32% | 9:1 |
| 16 (↑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (23) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (18) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (9) | 48.32 | 61 (+4) | 1.67% | 1.1:1 |
| 17 (↓5) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (27) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (26) Dot Campbell,Fatin Jadmani (6) | 46.00 | 46 (-4) | 2.87% | 68:1 |
| 18 (↓2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (41) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (23) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (17) | 43.71 | 102 (+6) | 1.07% | 1:8 |
| 19 (⇑) | Critical Role (Web Series) Imogen Temult,Laudna (Critical Role) (24) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (10) Beauregard Lionett,Jester Lavorre (3) | 41.00 | 41 (?) | 1.09% | 1:1.7 |
| 20 (↓) | The Vampire Diaries (TV) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (36) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (11) Finch Tarrayo,Josie Saltzman (5) Freya Mikaelson,Keelin Malraux (5) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (5) | 40.64 | 51 (+5) | 0.97% | 1:1.4 |
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.