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Femslash week in review: 2024-01-23 - 2024-01-29
High-level stats for week of 2024-01-23 - 2024-01-29
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7467 (-304 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4185 (-203 from last week) (1724 new, 2461 continued)
- 0.57% of all 728696 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Hazbin Hotel is having a great run on the charts after its TV debut. It jumps to best-ever rank 8 this week on the strength of canonical ship Charlie/Vaggie.
- Stranger Things returns after a week away, replacing Total Drama.
- Chart anniversaries: Doctor Who and Game of Thrones have each been on the chart for 10 weeks in a row. Grey's Anatomy hits 70 weeks in a row. Video game Genshin Impact reaches the three-year mark with 160 consecutive weeks on the chart.
- Nominations are open until February 10 for the Star Trek Femslash Drabble Exchange, with the exchange itself running through the rest of February.
- The Fancake recs community's February theme is trans and non-binary characters, which overlaps F/F eligibility, and readers may be interested.
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 (138) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (62) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (32) | 150.87 | 273 (-45) | 0.99% | 1:5 |
| 2 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (85) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (22) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (14) | 96.01 | 97 (-17) | 0.87% | 4:1 |
| 3 (↑) | Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (98) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (18) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (10) | 92.74 | 101 (+11) | 1.80% | 9:1 |
| 4 (↓) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (17) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (14) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (14) | 89.71 | 116 (+2) | 0.74% | 1:4 |
| 5 (↑4) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (61) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (9) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (4) | 79.07 | 82 (+12) | 0.25% | 30:1 |
| 6 (↑) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (59) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (7) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (5) | 72.12 | 75 (+0) | 1.29% | 3:1 |
| 7 (↓2) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (60) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (10) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (7) | 71.58 | 78 (-4) | 0.85% | 1.1:1 |
| 8 (↑8) | Hazbin Hotel (Web Series) Charlie Magne,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (81) | 64.32 | 81 (+36) | 5.46% | 1:3 |
| 9 (↓) | 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 (16) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (11) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (9) | 64.17 | 68 (-5) | 1.28% | 1:1.2 |
| 10 (↓4) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (32) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (8) Pyrrha Nikos,Weiss Schnee (7) | 63.06 | 78 (-13) | 0.50% | 4:1 |
| 11 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (39) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (27) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (15) | 56.04 | 102 (+3) | 0.55% | 1:6 |
| 12 (↑6) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (40) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (4) Emma Swan,Lily | Lilith Page (3) | 44.24 | 48 (+9) | 0.26% | 9:1 |
| 13 (↑2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (31) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (27) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (9) | 43.90 | 94 (+8) | 0.77% | 1:7 |
| 14 (↑3) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (23) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (7) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (5) | 43.61 | 52 (+11) | 0.57% | 1.1:1 |
| 15 (↓4) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (38) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (8) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (4) | 41.02 | 42 (-19) | 1.28% | 112:1 |
| 16 (↓4) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (37) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (6) ... | 39.00 | 41 (-14) | 0.36% | 16:1 |
| 17 (↑2) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (41) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (8) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (8) | 37.44 | 70 (+10) | 1.19% | 1:1.8 |
| 18 (↑2) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (31) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (4) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (2) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (2) | 32.65 | 39 (-3) | 0.25% | 5:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (20) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (8) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (7) | 32.33 | 41 (?) | 0.46% | 1:4 |
| 20 (↓7) | Yellowjackets (TV) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (16) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (15) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (8) | 30.03 | 31 (-13) | 1.39% | 151:1 |
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.