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Femslash week in review: 2024-01-16 - 2024-01-22
High-level stats for week of 2024-01-16 - 2024-01-22
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7771 (+258 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4388 (+76 from last week) (1869 new, 2519 continued)
- 0.6% of all 726972 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Total Drama is back after a week away with a best-ever rank of 14. Hazbin Hotel is back for the first time since 2020. Once Upon a Time cycles back in as well. Those three replace Miraculous Ladybug, Star Wars, and Stranger Things.
- Signups are open until February 18th for A Woman's Place's vid gifting fest.
- I'm sure lots of Femslash February activity is about to spring into life. As always, comment or message me with F/F or female-character-centric exchanges, and I'll signal-boost them in a future post.
- One I'm aware of: Fire Emblem (FE) Femslash Week will run from Feb 25th - Mar 2nd.
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 (143) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (61) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (43) | 180.58 | 318 (-13) | 1.16% | 1:5 |
| 2 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (96) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (28) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (17) | 113.01 | 114 (-14) | 1.03% | 4:1 |
| 3 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (18) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (18) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (17) | 93.50 | 114 (-14) | 0.73% | 1:4 |
| 4 (↑3) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (88) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (18) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (8) | 80.91 | 90 (+3) | 1.64% | 12:1 |
| 5 (↑4) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (55) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (17) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (7) | 78.19 | 82 (+2) | 0.89% | 1.1:1 |
| 6 (↓2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (44) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (14) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (9) | 73.94 | 91 (-6) | 0.59% | 4:1 |
| 7 (↑) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (55) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (10) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (6) | 73.05 | 75 (-5) | 1.29% | 3:1 |
| 8 (↓3) | 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 (15) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (13) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (9) | 68.26 | 73 (-13) | 1.38% | 1:1.2 |
| 9 (↓3) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (48) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (10) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (10) | 67.00 | 70 (-14) | 0.21% | 30:1 |
| 10 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (33) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (23) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (9) | 60.40 | 99 (-4) | 0.53% | 1:6 |
| 11 | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (55) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (15) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (13) | 59.03 | 61 (+7) | 1.86% | 111:1 |
| 12 | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (52) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (4) | 53.00 | 55 (+7) | 0.45% | 5:1 |
| 13 | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (22) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (17) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (12) | 44.00 | 44 (-2) | 1.99% | 149:1 |
| 14 (⇑) | Total Drama (Cartoon) Julia (Total Drama),Mary Kate "MK" (Total Drama) (27) Axel (Total Drama),Nichelle (Total Drama) (5) Courtney (Total Drama),Heather (Total Drama) (4) Millie (Total Drama),Priya (Total Drama) (4) | 41.33 | 45 (?) | 9.38% | 1:2 |
| 15 (↓) | 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 (16) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (13) | 39.98 | 86 (-10) | 0.71% | 1:7 |
| 16 (⇑) | Hazbin Hotel (Web Series) Charlie Magne,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (43) | 38.08 | 45 (?) | 3.15% | 1:3 |
| 17 | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (21) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (7) Nyssa of Traken,Tegan Jovanka (3) | 36.54 | 41 (+2) | 0.45% | 1.1:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (32) Aurora (Once Upon a Time),Mulan (Once Upon a Time) (2) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (2) | 36.15 | 39 (?) | 0.22% | 9:1 |
| 19 (↓4) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (40) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (8) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (4) Rhaenyra Targaryen,Rhaenys Targaryen Velaryon (4) | 34.71 | 60 (-7) | 1.02% | 1:1.8 |
| 20 (↓4) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (34) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (4) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (2) Clarke Griffin,Raven Reyes (2) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (2) | 34.19 | 42 (+3) | 0.27% | 5:1 |
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.