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Femslash week in review: 2022-08-23 - 2022-08-29
High-level stats for week of 2022-08-23 - 2022-08-29
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7248 (-227 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4339 (-139 from last week) (2006 new, 2333 continued)
- 0.76% of all 567337 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Stranger Things fever cools slightly. It celebrates 10 weeks at number one, but Genshin Impact also had a good week, returning to number two and closing the gap somewhat.
- Pitch Perfect is back for the first time since March, jumping to rank 8 on the strength of Bechloe Week 2022. Boku no Hero Academia is also back after a week away. These two replace Fire Emblem and The 100.
- A couple of upcoming exchanges:
- Signup and nominations for the Marvel Femslash Drabble Exchange 2022 are open through Sep 10th, with remaining deadlines later in September. The exchange is works of 100 words or more for F/F MCU ships.
- The annual Ladies Bingo prompt challenge is back for its 10th(!) year. Sign-ups are open as of September 1st, and remain open through the challenge, which runs until the end of March.
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 (218) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (68) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (44) | 237.01 | 314 (-64) | 7.83% | 1:4 |
| 2 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (76) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (36) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (24) | 196.91 | 228 (+32) | 2.44% | 1:4 |
| 3 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (121) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (57) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (22) | 158.42 | 261 (+3) | 1.51% | 1:6 |
| 4 (↑) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (104) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (29) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (23) | 144.50 | 153 (+18) | 2.50% | 1.3:1 |
| 5 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (110) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (23) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (19) | 127.03 | 129 (-5) | 1.84% | 5:1 |
| 6 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (72) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (12) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (10) | 91.01 | 92 (-9) | 0.30% | 29:1 |
| 7 (↑4) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (40) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (37) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (6) | 72.00 | 72 (+9) | 4.07% | 96:1 |
| 8 (⇑) | Pitch Perfect (Movies) Beca Mitchell,Chloe Beale (67) | 70.00 | 70 (?) | 1.13% | 70:1 |
| 9 (↓2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (38) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (31) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (16) | 64.40 | 123 (-11) | 0.81% | 1:6 |
| 10 (↓) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (44) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (28) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (25) | 59.12 | 67 (-6) | 2.51% | 19:1 |
| 11 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (25) Cinder Fall,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (5) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (5) | 57.09 | 68 (-10) | 0.53% | 3:1 |
| 12 (↓4) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (55) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (4) | 57.00 | 59 (-15) | 0.61% | 16:1 |
| 13 (↓3) | 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 (15) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (12) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (8) | 51.16 | 54 (-10) | 4.28% | 1:1.1 |
| 14 | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (47) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (7) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (5) | 49.34 | 58 (+0) | 0.79% | 5:1 |
| 15 (↓2) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (30) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (28) Dot Campbell,Fatin Jadmani (4) | 48.00 | 48 (-4) | 2.75% | 46:1 |
| 16 (↑2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (37) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (3) | 38.43 | 43 (-4) | 0.26% | 9:1 |
| 17 (↓) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (28) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (7) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (5) | 38.18 | 42 (-3) | 1.12% | 3:1 |
| 18 (↑) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (28) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (3) Ruby White,Sarah Jane Smith (3) | 37.50 | 45 (+1) | 0.61% | 1.0:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (40) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (18) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (8) | 36.43 | 87 (?) | 0.90% | 1:8 |
| 20 | Batman - All Media Types Harleen Quinzel,Pamela Isley (18) Ryan Wilder,Sophie Moore (18) Cassandra Cain,Stephanie Brown (7) | 34.62 | 50 (-7) | 1.20% | 1:9 |
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.
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Thanks for all your work in compiling these stats.
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I think the top of the chart often looks stable because I use relative ranks rather than absolute work counts. So the top five aren't moving because they're generating at least 30 works/week more than Supergirl, and Supergirl is 20 works/week more than anything lower on the chart.
Using relative ranks makes the chart easier to read and think about, which is why I do it, but it loses information that's interesting. In particular, as I commented this week, Stranger Things has now fallen from a work count that was pretty much unheard-of for F/F, something like 400 works/week, to a more normal chart-topping 200 works/week. Now it's at risk of falling back out of 1st place sometime. But until it actually happens, you don't see that movement on the chart.
tl;dr: data visualization is hard.