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Femslash week in review: 2024-02-13 - 2024-02-19
High-level stats for week of 2024-02-13 - 2024-02-19
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9330 (+1066 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5453 (+620 from last week) (2899 new, 2554 continued)
- 0.74% of all 736394 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- An all-time best ranking for Hazbin Hotel, which reaches 2 this week.
- I think I fixed the Hazbin Hotel duplication bug, but only after generating this week's report. Next week's report should show only one entry (and the fix wouldn't have changed this week's ranking).
- Mean Girls returns after a week away, replacing Miraculous Ladybug.
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 (139) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (66) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (51) | 222.96 | 363 (+14) | 1.30% | 1:5 |
| 2 (↑2) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (169) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Emily (Hazbin Hotel) (10) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (10) | 165.33 | 195 (+71) | 74.71% | 1:3 |
| 3 (↑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 (23) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (15) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (15) | 109.01 | 110 (+26) | 2.00% | 1:1.2 |
| 4 (↓) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (28) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (18) ... | 104.60 | 145 (+21) | 0.91% | 1:4 |
| 5 (↓3) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (95) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (21) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (15) | 101.54 | 110 (+2) | 0.98% | 4:1 |
| 6 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (69) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (11) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (8) | 84.05 | 86 (-4) | 0.26% | 30:1 |
| 7 (↓2) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (82) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (15) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (8) | 81.38 | 88 (-16) | 1.55% | 13:1 |
| 8 (↓) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (65) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (10) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (6) | 79.07 | 82 (-5) | 0.88% | 1.1:1 |
| 9 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (53) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (9) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (5) | 76.01 | 77 (+8) | 1.31% | 3:1 |
| 10 (↑3) | Doctor Who & Related Fandoms Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (34) Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (6) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (4) Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 67.53 | 74 (+7) | 0.83% | 1:1.8 |
| 11 (↑) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (60) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (10) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (7) | 64.00 | 64 (+4) | 1.90% | 111:1 |
| 12 (↓2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (39) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (8) | 63.04 | 79 (-5) | 0.51% | 4:1 |
| 13 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (42) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (25) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (11) | 61.66 | 107 (+9) | 0.57% | 1:6 |
| 14 (↑2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (51) | 58.14 | 61 (+8) | 0.34% | 9:1 |
| 15 (↑3) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (27) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (21) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (16) | 48.00 | 48 (+7) | 2.08% | 147:1 |
| 16 (↑3) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (44) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (10) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (5) | 47.55 | 73 (+6) | 1.22% | 1:1.7 |
| 17 (↑3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (30) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (29) Todoroki Fuyumi,Usagiyama Rumi | Miruko (5) | 47.51 | 97 (+11) | 0.79% | 1:7 |
| 18 (↓14) | Hazbin Hotel (Web Series) Charlie Magne,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (74) | 47.15 | 85 (-39) | 5.04% | 1:3 |
| 19 (⇑) | Mean Girls (2004) Janis Ian | Janis Sarkisian | Janis "Imi'ike,Regina George (25) Cady Heron,Regina George (16) Gretchen Wieners,Regina George (6) | 46.06 | 49 (?) | 5.56% | 8:1 |
| 20 (↓5) | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (43) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (4) | 45.00 | 47 (-3) | 0.40% | 16:1 |
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.