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Femslash week in review: 2024-01-02 - 2024-01-08
High-level stats for week of 2024-01-02 - 2024-01-08
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8122 (-276 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4710 (-164 from last week) (2163 new, 2547 continued)
- 0.65% of all 723259 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Gideon the Ninth returns to the chart for the first time since September, joined by The 100. They replace Miraculous Ladybug and Stranger things.
- Chart anniversaries: Yellowjackets celebrates 40 consecutive chart weeks. RWBY reaches 350 consecutive weeks. Supergirl hasn't been at rank 1 in awhile, but it continues to extend its impressive consecutive-chart-appearances streak, now at 420 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 (155) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (77) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (28) | 204.84 | 342 (-37) | 1.26% | 1:5 |
| 2 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (26) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (17) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (17) | 116.12 | 138 (+6) | 0.89% | 1:4 |
| 3 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (92) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (29) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (14) | 104.01 | 105 (-19) | 0.95% | 4:1 |
| 4 (↑2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (79) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (12) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (9) | 96.04 | 98 (+5) | 0.29% | 30:1 |
| 5 | 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 (18) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (14) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (12) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (12) | 86.55 | 94 (-1) | 1.82% | 1:1.2 |
| 6 (↓2) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (82) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (18) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (11) | 84.78 | 94 (-6) | 1.73% | 12:1 |
| 7 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (47) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (25) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (22) | 82.45 | 129 (+1) | 0.70% | 1:6 |
| 8 (↓) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (64) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (7) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (5) | 80.01 | 81 (-7) | 1.41% | 3:1 |
| 9 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (41) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (9) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (7) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) | 76.15 | 90 (-4) | 0.59% | 4:1 |
| 10 (↑7) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (36) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (34) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (15) | 69.00 | 69 (+28) | 3.19% | 147:1 |
| 11 (↓2) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (49) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (11) | 61.57 | 68 (-11) | 0.75% | 1.2:1 |
| 12 (↓) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (53) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (11) | 56.00 | 57 (-6) | 1.77% | 110:1 |
| 13 (↑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (46) | 52.07 | 54 (+0) | 0.30% | 9:1 |
| 14 (↑4) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (42) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (6) Baela Targaryen,Helaena Targaryen (5) | 50.00 | 80 (+14) | 1.37% | 1:1.8 |
| 15 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (25) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (25) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (9) | 43.52 | 90 (-13) | 0.75% | 1:7 |
| 16 (↓3) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (46) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (7) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (3) | 43.08 | 47 (-4) | 0.39% | 5:1 |
| 17 (↓5) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (27) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (6) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (3) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (3) | 42.37 | 50 (-14) | 0.55% | 1.1:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir Gideon Nav,Harrowhark Nonagesimus (33) Camilla Hect,Harrowhark Nonagesimus (4) Harrowhark Nonagesimus,Ianthe Tridentarius (3) | 37.00 | 37 (?) | 1.75% | 18:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (30) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (7) Clarke Griffin,Madi (The 100) (3) Clarke Griffin,Raven Reyes (3) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (3) | 32.11 | 36 (?) | 0.23% | 5:1 |
| 20 (↓) | Total Drama (Cartoon) Julia (Total Drama),Mary Kate "MK" (Total Drama) (12) Courtney (Total Drama),Heather (Total Drama) (4) Millie (Total Drama),Priya (Total Drama) (4) | 31.41 | 35 (-8) | 8.35% | 1:2 |
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.