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Femslash week in review: 2022-11-01 - 2022-11-07
High-level stats for week of 2022-11-01 - 2022-11-07
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7304 (-138 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4413 (-27 from last week) (2135 new, 2278 continued)
- 0.75% of all 588982 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Addams Family hits the chart at rank 17 for its first-ever appearance, powered by the Enid/Wednesday ship, presumably in advance of the upcoming Wednesday TV show.
- Critical Role returns this week after a brief absence, as does video game Honkai Impact 3rd. They replace chart standbys Boku no Hero Academia, The 100, and Once Upon a Time, which exit after 1, 4, and 12 consecutive chart weeks, respectively.
- A couple of League of Their Own recs: Walking Home Backwards is a terrific canon-compatible slow-burn Jess/Lupe retelling of season 1. you got a fastball (heads-up: gen) is a hypothetical Lupe/Max friendship, also canon-compatible-ish. I haven't looked around much in this fandom yet; any readers want to share their recs?
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 (147) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (49) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (25) | 162.21 | 168 (+11) | 2.21% | 5:1 |
| 2 (↑3) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (109) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (61) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (18) | 148.56 | 248 (+34) | 1.35% | 1:6 |
| 3 (↓2) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (119) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (38) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (21) | 144.48 | 182 (-23) | 3.58% | 1:4 |
| 4 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (93) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (20) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (13) | 125.12 | 129 (-8) | 1.90% | 1.3:1 |
| 5 (↓2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (38) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (26) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (25) | 116.10 | 152 (-16) | 1.47% | 1:4 |
| 6 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (82) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (10) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (9) | 105.04 | 107 (-17) | 0.34% | 29:1 |
| 7 (↑9) | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (21) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (19) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (13) | 82.22 | 87 (+28) | 4.75% | 1:1.1 |
| 8 | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (87) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (6) | 81.91 | 118 (+12) | 2.86% | 1:1.7 |
| 9 | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (63) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (11) Amelia Shepherd,Kai Bartley (5) | 76.14 | 80 (+12) | 1.98% | 3:1 |
| 10 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (56) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (10) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (5) | 63.00 | 63 (+0) | 0.58% | 5:1 |
| 11 (↑8) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (37) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (28) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (10) | 60.03 | 114 (+14) | 0.73% | 1:6 |
| 12 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (28) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (9) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (7) | 56.69 | 73 (-3) | 0.56% | 3:1 |
| 13 (↓) | Splatoon Agent 3 (Splatoon),Agent 8 (Splatoon) (24) Marina (Splatoon),Pearl (Splatoon) (20) Frye (Splatoon),Shiver (Splatoon) (11) | 54.15 | 57 (-7) | 4.88% | 1.7:1 |
| 14 | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (32) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (27) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (26) | 54.00 | 56 (-4) | 1.91% | 18:1 |
| 15 (↓8) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (45) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (5) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 53.73 | 60 (-25) | 0.78% | 1.1:1 |
| 16 (⇑) | Critical Role (Web Series) Imogen Temult,Laudna (Critical Role) (37) Beauregard Lionett,Yasha (Critical Role) (8) Delilah Briarwood,Laudna (Critical Role) (4) | 46.02 | 47 (?) | 1.10% | 1:1.6 |
| 17 (⇑) | Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (44) | 45.00 | 45 (?) | 30.00% | 1.7:1 |
| 18 (↓5) | A League of Their Own (TV 2022) Carson Shaw,Greta Gill (31) Jess McCready,Lupe García (12) Greta Gill,Jo De Luca (5) Jo De Luca,Maybelle Fox (5) | 42.00 | 42 (-17) | 9.66% | 258:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | 崩坏3rd | Honkai Impact 3rd (Video Game) Kallen Kaslana,Yae Sakura (9) Kiana Kaslana | K-423,Raiden Mei (9) Eden (Honkai Impact 3rd),Elysia (Honkai Impact 3rd) (5) | 40.09 | 44 (?) | 3.83% | 5:1 |
| 20 (↓5) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (25) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (19) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (5) | 40.00 | 41 (-14) | 2.06% | 112:1 |
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.