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Femslash week in review: 2023-10-24 - 2023-10-30
High-level stats for week of 2023-10-24 - 2023-10-30
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7753 (-110 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4561 (+23 from last week) (2136 new, 2425 continued)
- 0.65% of all 702939 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Miraculous Ladybug and Once Upon a Time return to the chart, as does Vampire Diaries, which I feel like we haven't seen in a little while. They replace Game of Thrones, The 100, and Virtual Streamer Animated Characters.
- Yellowjackets celebrates 30 consecutive weeks on the chart, RWBY is at 340, and Supergirl ticks up to 410.
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 (137) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (62) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (34) | 223.70 | 344 (+37) | 1.33% | 1:5 |
| 2 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (97) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (31) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (16) | 105.22 | 110 (-16) | 1.04% | 4:1 |
| 3 (↑2) | Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (104) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (14) Bianca Barclay,Wednesday Addams (6) | 99.99 | 111 (+9) | 2.14% | 9:1 |
| 4 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (81) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (12) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (10) | 93.09 | 96 (+5) | 0.29% | 30:1 |
| 5 (↓2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (44) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (16) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (16) | 90.37 | 105 (-3) | 0.70% | 4:1 |
| 6 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (23) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (19) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (10) | 82.14 | 111 (+4) | 0.76% | 1:4 |
| 7 (↑) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (66) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (9) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (4) Andy Herrera,Victoria Hughes (4) | 81.00 | 81 (+4) | 1.46% | 3:1 |
| 8 (↑) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (57) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (14) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (10) | 79.31 | 90 (+13) | 1.02% | 1.3:1 |
| 9 (↓3) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (57) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (19) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (8) | 66.00 | 66 (-10) | 2.21% | 138:1 |
| 10 (↑) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (28) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (24) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (12) | 59.06 | 61 (+1) | 3.18% | 140:1 |
| 11 (↓) | 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 (15) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (9) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (9) | 58.59 | 65 (-11) | 1.39% | 1:1.2 |
| 12 (↑2) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (25) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (16) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (4) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 51.43 | 60 (+7) | 0.69% | 1.1:1 |
| 13 (↑2) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (48) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (8) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (7) | 50.26 | 68 (+3) | 0.79% | 1:4 |
| 14 (↓2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (26) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (23) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (10) | 48.51 | 83 (-14) | 0.46% | 1:6 |
| 15 (↑2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (30) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (29) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (9) | 45.77 | 94 (+11) | 0.80% | 1:7 |
| 16 (⇑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (41) | 42.20 | 47 (?) | 0.26% | 9:1 |
| 17 (↓4) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (40) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (4) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (4) | 42.00 | 43 (-8) | 0.36% | 5:1 |
| 18 (↓2) | Star Wars: Rebels Sabine Wren,Shin Hati (28) Ahsoka Tano,Sabine Wren (10) ... | 34.78 | 40 (-8) | 3.64% | 1:4 |
| 19 (⇑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (18) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (10) Chloé Bourgeois,Sabrina Raincomprix (6) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (6) | 31.70 | 42 (?) | 0.92% | 1.1:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (16) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (14) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (5) | 31.11 | 37 (?) | 0.61% | 1.9:1 |
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.