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Femslash week in review: 2023-02-28 - 2023-03-06
High-level stats for week of 2023-02-28 - 2023-03-06
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8025 (-375 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4930 (-275 from last week) (2325 new, 2605 continued)
- 0.78% of all 629718 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Wednesday is back at number one this week.
- The 100 is back on the chart for the first time in a month, jumping to 11th place. It replaces Star Trek: Voyager.
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 (↑) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (225) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (31) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (23) | 218.02 | 239 (+5) | 7.49% | 9:1 |
| 2 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (183) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (92) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (27) | 213.91 | 343 (-39) | 1.65% | 1:6 |
| 3 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (40) Hu Tao (Genshin Impact),Yanfei (Genshin Impact) (37) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (31) | 162.50 | 195 (-10) | 1.60% | 1:4 |
| 4 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (116) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (29) Camila Noceda,Luz Noceda (19) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (19) | 139.16 | 145 (-11) | 1.69% | 4:1 |
| 5 (↑) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (86) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (28) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (25) | 115.63 | 149 (-5) | 2.38% | 1:4 |
| 6 (↓) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (100) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (18) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (16) | 105.00 | 105 (-19) | 5.08% | 193:1 |
| 7 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (76) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (15) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (14) | 95.19 | 100 (-16) | 1.31% | 1.3:1 |
| 8 (↑) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (66) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (17) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (8) | 93.01 | 94 (+0) | 2.11% | 3:1 |
| 9 (↓) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (68) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (17) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (10) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (10) | 88.26 | 93 (-6) | 0.29% | 29:1 |
| 10 (↑) | 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 (23) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (14) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (13) | 84.10 | 87 (+4) | 3.11% | 1:1.1 |
| 11 (⇑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (70) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (9) | 77.01 | 78 (?) | 0.51% | 5:1 |
| 12 (↓2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (46) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (9) Raven Branwen,Summer Rose (RWBY) (8) | 76.17 | 96 (-5) | 0.71% | 3:1 |
| 13 | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (56) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (9) Castaspella (She-Ra),Shadow Weaver | Light Spinner (She-Ra) (5) | 62.00 | 63 (+0) | 0.60% | 17:1 |
| 14 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (30) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (28) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (12) | 60.47 | 104 (-3) | 0.63% | 1:6 |
| 15 (↑2) | Virtual Streamer Animated Characters Ceres Fauna,Ouro Kronii (10) Ceres Fauna,Nanashi Mumei (9) ... | 52.74 | 59 (+9) | 2.39% | 1:1.8 |
| 16 (↓4) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (35) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (3) | 47.03 | 54 (-14) | 0.66% | 1.1:1 |
| 17 (↑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (31) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (21) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (14) | 44.46 | 99 (+1) | 0.93% | 1:8 |
| 18 (↓3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (44) | 43.12 | 46 (-11) | 0.27% | 9:1 |
| 19 (↓3) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (56) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (10) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (4) | 42.16 | 80 (-4) | 1.66% | 1:1.7 |
| 20 (↓) | Amphibia (Cartoon) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (29) Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (14) Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (14) Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (14) | 41.21 | 46 (-1) | 1.40% | 19:1 |
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.