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Femslash week in review: 2022-10-18 - 2022-10-24
High-level stats for week of 2022-10-18 - 2022-10-24
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7102 (-380 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4241 (-242 from last week) (2037 new, 2204 continued)
- 0.73% of all 584550 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- No chart entrances or exits this week, a first since I started tracking entrances and exits more consistently.
- Chart anniversaries: League of Legends hits 50 consecutive chart weeks (of 58 total appearances), and Harry Potter reaches 200 consecutive chart weeks (of 729 total).
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 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (145) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (33) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (22) | 167.05 | 170 (-7) | 2.27% | 5:1 |
| 2 (↑2) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (119) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (16) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (13) | 157.10 | 161 (+23) | 2.42% | 1.3:1 |
| 3 (↑4) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (54) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (29) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (22) | 146.31 | 179 (+54) | 1.77% | 1:4 |
| 4 (↓2) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (131) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (33) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (25) | 131.33 | 183 (-30) | 3.73% | 1:4 |
| 5 (↓2) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (92) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (42) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (23) | 124.23 | 210 (-45) | 1.16% | 1:6 |
| 6 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (89) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (10) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (9) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (9) | 121.00 | 121 (-5) | 0.39% | 30:1 |
| 7 (↑9) | Doctor Who & Related Fandoms Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (68) | 80.45 | 87 (+32) | 1.20% | 1:1.9 |
| 8 (↑2) | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (70) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (11) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5) | 76.00 | 77 (+11) | 0.75% | 16:1 |
| 9 (↓4) | 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 (21) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (18) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (10) | 71.12 | 74 (-58) | 4.28% | 1:1.1 |
| 10 (↓2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (48) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (16) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (4) | 68.38 | 74 (-21) | 1.87% | 3:1 |
| 11 (↑3) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (59) Daenerys Targaryen,Sansa Stark (5) | 65.32 | 90 (+18) | 2.25% | 1:1.7 |
| 12 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (40) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (28) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (17) | 60.12 | 113 (+11) | 0.73% | 1:6 |
| 13 (↓4) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (55) | 57.19 | 61 (-7) | 0.36% | 9:1 |
| 14 (↑4) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (28) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) | 54.89 | 70 (+9) | 0.54% | 3:1 |
| 15 (↓4) | A League of Their Own (TV 2022) Carson Shaw,Greta Gill (37) Jess McCready,Lupe García (14) Greta Gill,Jo De Luca (3) Jo De Luca,Maybelle Fox (3) | 49.00 | 49 (-13) | 12.69% | 351:1 |
| 16 (↑3) | Splatoon Marina (Splatoon),Pearl (Splatoon) (18) Agent 3 (Splatoon),Agent 8 (Splatoon) (16) Frye (Splatoon),Shiver (Splatoon) (11) | 48.08 | 50 (+4) | 4.55% | 1.6:1 |
| 17 (↓2) | Critical Role (Web Series) Imogen Temult,Laudna (Critical Role) (40) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (5) Ashton Greymoore,Laudna (Critical Role) (3) | 47.04 | 49 (+0) | 1.17% | 1:1.6 |
| 18 (↓) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (25) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (23) Anacostia Quartermaine,Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem) (4) | 47.00 | 47 (+1) | 2.42% | 109:1 |
| 19 (↑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (39) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (10) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (6) | 44.08 | 48 (+1) | 0.32% | 5:1 |
| 20 (↓7) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (24) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (19) Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (16) | 39.13 | 45 (-12) | 1.56% | 18:1 |
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.