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Femslash week in review: 2023-10-31 - 2023-11-06
High-level stats for week of 2023-10-31 - 2023-11-06
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7963 (+210 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4524 (-37 from last week) (2046 new, 2478 continued)
- 0.64% of all 704985 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Game of Thrones replaces Vampire Diaries, and the chart is stable otherwise.
- Doctor Who celebrates 10 consecutive weeks in its most recent chart run. Owl House has been on the chart for 170 consecutive weeks. She-Ra reaches 260 consecutive weeks.
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 (132) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (62) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (36) | 201.57 | 320 (-24) | 1.23% | 1:5 |
| 2 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (98) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (31) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (15) | 113.03 | 115 (+5) | 1.08% | 4:1 |
| 3 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (73) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (13) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (8) | 101.08 | 104 (+8) | 0.32% | 30:1 |
| 4 (↓) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (93) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (20) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (9) | 94.34 | 100 (-11) | 1.94% | 12:1 |
| 5 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (16) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (16) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (15) | 87.81 | 114 (+3) | 0.77% | 1:4 |
| 6 (↑) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (67) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (12) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (6) | 83.32 | 89 (+8) | 1.59% | 3:1 |
| 7 (↑) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (63) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (16) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (14) | 80.91 | 90 (+0) | 1.01% | 1.3:1 |
| 8 (↑5) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (61) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (13) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (10) | 77.44 | 88 (+20) | 1.02% | 1:4 |
| 9 (↓4) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (46) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (12) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (6) | 76.68 | 94 (-11) | 0.62% | 4:1 |
| 10 (↑) | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (11) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (11) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (10) | 59.36 | 64 (-1) | 1.36% | 1:1.2 |
| 11 (↓2) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (54) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (10) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (6) | 57.03 | 59 (-7) | 1.96% | 139:1 |
| 12 (↑2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (34) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (20) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (10) | 50.08 | 93 (+10) | 0.52% | 1:6 |
| 13 (↓) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (24) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (7) Nyssa of Traken,Tegan Jovanka (4) | 47.70 | 54 (-6) | 0.61% | 1.1:1 |
| 14 (↑3) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (42) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (4) | 45.00 | 47 (+4) | 0.42% | 16:1 |
| 15 (↑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (40) | 42.00 | 45 (-2) | 0.25% | 9:1 |
| 16 (⇑) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (37) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (15) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (5) | 41.28 | 70 (?) | 1.24% | 1:1.7 |
| 17 (↓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 (27) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (10) | 40.30 | 90 (-4) | 0.77% | 1:7 |
| 18 (↓8) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (26) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (17) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (16) | 39.02 | 40 (-21) | 2.07% | 143:1 |
| 19 (↓) | Star Wars: Forces of Destiny (Web Series) Sabine Wren,Shin Hati (36) Ahsoka Tano,Sabine Wren (7) Ahsoka Tano,Shin Hati (4) | 39.00 | 39 (-1) | 10.51% | 2:1 |
| 20 (↓) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (13) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (11) Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (8) | 34.10 | 46 (+4) | 1.01% | 1.1:1 |
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.