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Femslash week in review: 2024-02-27 - 2024-03-04
High-level stats for week of 2024-02-27 - 2024-03-04
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8305 (-113 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4848 (-136 from last week) (2246 new, 2602 continued)
- 0.65% of all 741017 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Another busy week for Hazbin Hotel.
- Also a busy week for turnover: Avatar is back for the first time in 2024 (due entirely to Legend of Korra ships, but the reboot of A:tLA may well be driving some enthusiasm across the board). Stranger Things, The 100, and Boku no Hero Academia, are each back after a few weeks away.
- Those four fandoms replace Doctor Who and Game of Thrones (after chart runs of 14 weeks each), Once Upon a Time (after a 6-week run), and Miraculous Ladybug (which just reentered the chart last week).
- Chart anniversaries: Wednesday celebrates 70 consecutive weeks on the chart. Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! reaches 90. Marvel Cinematic Universe hits 120 consecutive weeks (out of 400+ total 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 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (265) | 242.05 | 277 (+1) | 48.01% | 1:3 |
| 2 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (128) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (58) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (40) | 195.49 | 324 (+34) | 1.16% | 1:5 |
| 3 (↑2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (33) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (16) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (14) | 103.10 | 132 (+9) | 0.82% | 1:4 |
| 4 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (97) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (27) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (23) | 101.31 | 108 (-2) | 0.96% | 4:1 |
| 5 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (84) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (14) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (10) | 94.01 | 95 (+5) | 0.28% | 30:1 |
| 6 (↑2) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (85) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (21) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (8) | 80.66 | 89 (+3) | 1.55% | 13:1 |
| 7 (↑4) | 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 (23) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (19) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (9) | 76.11 | 79 (+15) | 1.41% | 1:1.2 |
| 8 (↓) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (55) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (14) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (7) | 73.11 | 76 (-15) | 0.81% | 1.1:1 |
| 9 | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (61) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (6) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (5) | 72.20 | 76 (-3) | 1.29% | 3:1 |
| 10 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (45) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (12) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (7) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) | 70.08 | 87 (+1) | 0.56% | 4:1 |
| 11 (↓7) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (40) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (27) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (13) | 60.40 | 98 (-34) | 0.52% | 1:6 |
| 12 (↑7) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (56) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (15) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (12) | 59.00 | 60 (+22) | 1.76% | 113:1 |
| 13 (↑2) | Yellowjackets (TV) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (24) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (18) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (13) | 49.00 | 49 (+6) | 2.08% | 133:1 |
| 14 (⇑) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (45) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (4) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (3) | 47.17 | 50 (?) | 0.60% | 5:1 |
| 15 (⇑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (42) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (7) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (4) | 41.24 | 47 (?) | 0.30% | 5:1 |
| 16 (↑) | Splatoon Marina (Splatoon),Pearl (Splatoon) (22) Agent 3 (Splatoon),Agent 8 (Splatoon) (10) Agent 3 (Splatoon),New Agent 3 (Splatoon 3) (4) | 41.09 | 43 (+4) | 1.77% | 1.9:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (27) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (9) Barbara "Barb" Holland,Nancy Wheeler (5) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (5) | 40.31 | 54 (?) | 0.59% | 1:4 |
| 18 (↓4) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (41) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (6) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5) | 40.00 | 42 (-4) | 0.37% | 16:1 |
| 19 (↓6) | Mean Girls (2004) Janis Ian | Janis Sarkisian | Janis "Imi'ike,Regina George (24) Cady Heron,Regina George (16) Cady Heron,Janis Ian | Janis Sarkisian | Janis "Imi'ike (3) | 39.09 | 41 (-5) | 4.39% | 8:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (22) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (18) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (12) | 36.00 | 81 (?) | 0.66% | 1:7 |
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.