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Femslash week in review: 2023-03-28 - 2023-04-03
High-level stats for week of 2023-03-28 - 2023-04-03
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7999 (+189 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4777 (+55 from last week) (2240 new, 2537 continued)
- 0.75% of all 638305 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Owl House replaces Wednesday at rank 2 this week.
- Legends of Tomorrow and Fire Emblem return to the charts for the first time in awhile, along with Virtual Streamer Animated Characters. They replace Amphibia, Gideon the Ninth, and Scream.
- RWBY celebrates 310 consecutive weeks on the chart, and Supergirl reaches 380.
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 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (161) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (70) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (24) | 212.33 | 331 (-2) | 1.55% | 1:5 |
| 2 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (134) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (35) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (24) | 159.37 | 167 (-8) | 1.88% | 4:1 |
| 3 (↓) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (171) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (34) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (17) | 153.08 | 182 (-15) | 5.16% | 9:1 |
| 4 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (37) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (24) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (13) | 123.86 | 157 (-8) | 1.25% | 1:4 |
| 5 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (72) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (9) | 105.44 | 125 (-2) | 0.91% | 3:1 |
| 6 (↑3) | 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 (22) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (15) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (15) | 91.04 | 93 (+2) | 3.09% | 1:1.1 |
| 7 (↑3) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (72) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (12) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (6) | 90.09 | 93 (+8) | 2.01% | 3:1 |
| 8 (↓2) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (85) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (18) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (18) | 90.00 | 90 (-12) | 4.06% | 166:1 |
| 9 (↓) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (63) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (10) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (8) | 88.16 | 93 (-6) | 1.19% | 1.3:1 |
| 10 (↓3) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (82) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (20) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (8) | 87.01 | 115 (-8) | 1.78% | 1:4 |
| 11 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (63) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (12) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (9) | 83.05 | 85 (+2) | 0.27% | 29:1 |
| 12 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (31) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (24) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (12) | 66.57 | 106 (+17) | 0.64% | 1:6 |
| 13 (↑2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (58) | 58.05 | 61 (+13) | 0.35% | 9:1 |
| 14 (↓2) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (56) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (9) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (6) | 56.17 | 93 (+3) | 1.88% | 1:1.7 |
| 15 (↓) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (50) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (8) Castaspella (She-Ra),Shadow Weaver | Light Spinner (She-Ra) (4) | 53.04 | 55 (+5) | 0.52% | 17:1 |
| 16 (↑2) | Splatoon Marina (Splatoon),Pearl (Splatoon) (20) Agent 3 (Splatoon),Agent 8 (Splatoon) (18) Agent 4 (Splatoon),Marie (Splatoon) (8) | 45.18 | 48 (+6) | 2.85% | 1.9:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses Dorothea Arnault,Petra Macneary (10) Dorothea Arnault,Edelgard von Hresvelg (7) Annette Fantine Dominic,Mercedes von Martritz (6) | 44.51 | 57 (?) | 1.36% | 1:2 |
| 18 (⇑) | DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV) Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (13) Astra Logue,Esperanza "Spooner" Cruz (11) Charlie (DC's Legends of Tomorrow),Zari Tomaz | Zari 1.0 (8) | 42.35 | 48 (?) | 0.98% | 1.0:1 |
| 19 (↓2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (39) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (5) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (3) | 41.21 | 46 (+4) | 0.30% | 5:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Virtual Streamer Animated Characters Ceres Fauna,Ouro Kronii (10) Ceres Fauna,Nanashi Mumei (5) Ceres Fauna,Nanashi Mumei,Ouro Kronii (4) Hoshimachi Suisei,Sakura Miko (4) Nanashi Mumei,Ouro Kronii (4) | 39.72 | 48 (?) | 1.88% | 1:1.8 |
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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Also I see that lil RWBY jump.... Recently (I think maybe two or three weeks ago?) a particular very popular F/F ship CANONICALLY got together so I imagine some folks have been inspired <3
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Second, yes, I'm sure the exchange contributed. That's great!
Also neat about Blake/Yang becoming canon! I don't follow RWBY, but I assume it's good news for fans.
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Also YESS I haven't been a part of the RWBY fandom in many, many years, but I literally watched that episode with literally no context to see Blake/Yang FINALLY confess their feelings and kiss <3. They've been a long-running popular ship in the fandom-sphere for AGES
Thank u for all the work u do!
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And now I'm tempted to watch that episode, with really literally no context...