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Femslash week in review: 2024-03-12 - 2024-03-18
High-level stats for week of 2024-03-12 - 2024-03-18
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7885 (+62 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4574 (+66 from last week) (1894 new, 2680 continued)
- 0.61% of all 744842 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Genshin-Impacted-related video game Honkai: Star Rail is back after a year away from the charts, at a best-ever rank of 16. Batman returns for the first time in 2024. Avatar and Stranger Things are back as well. Those four replace She-Ra, Splatoon, The 100, and Doctor Who.
- Yellowjackets celebrates 50 consecutive weeks on the chart. RWBY reaches 360, and Supergirl is at 430.
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) (306) | 297.69 | 326 (+36) | 36.55% | 1:3 |
| 2 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (136) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (60) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (48) | 213.21 | 339 (+4) | 1.20% | 1:5 |
| 3 (↑3) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (81) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (12) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (8) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (8) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor,Supergirl (DCU) (8) | 98.09 | 101 (+18) | 0.30% | 30:1 |
| 4 (↑3) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (16) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (16) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (14) | 92.31 | 120 (+18) | 0.74% | 1:4 |
| 5 (↓2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (83) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (20) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (13) | 92.18 | 98 (-4) | 0.86% | 4:1 |
| 6 (↓) | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (24) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (18) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (11) | 80.39 | 86 (-4) | 1.51% | 1:1.2 |
| 7 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (65) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (7) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (4) Amelia Shepherd,Carina DeLuca (4) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (4) | 74.20 | 78 (+6) | 1.31% | 3:1 |
| 8 (↓4) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (73) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (16) Wednesday Addams,Yoko Tanaka (6) | 73.33 | 80 (-15) | 1.38% | 13:1 |
| 9 (↓) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (47) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (11) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (9) | 69.21 | 73 (+0) | 0.78% | 1.0:1 |
| 10 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (36) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (9) | 64.49 | 82 (-1) | 0.53% | 4:1 |
| 11 (↑6) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (37) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (20) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (19) | 63.06 | 65 (+26) | 2.70% | 129:1 |
| 12 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (29) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (22) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (11) | 51.85 | 86 (+1) | 0.46% | 1:6 |
| 13 | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (47) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (14) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (9) | 51.00 | 51 (+2) | 1.48% | 114:1 |
| 14 (↓3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (29) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (18) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (8) | 42.75 | 87 (-11) | 0.71% | 1:7 |
| 15 (↓) | Mean Girls (2004) Janis Ian | Janis Sarkisian | Janis "Imi'ike,Regina George (25) Cady Heron,Regina George (20) Cady Heron,Janis Ian | Janis Sarkisian | Janis "Imi'ike (4) | 40.09 | 42 (-5) | 4.31% | 9:1 |
| 16 (⇑) | 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail),Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) (16) Bronya (Honkai: Star Rail),Seele (Honkai: Star Rail) (13) Acheron (Honkai: Star Rail),Black Swan (Honkai: Star Rail) (7) | 36.16 | 45 (?) | 3.37% | 1:4 |
| 17 (⇑) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (37) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (9) | 31.13 | 41 (?) | 0.49% | 5:1 |
| 18 | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (33) Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (2) | 30.62 | 35 (-4) | 0.19% | 9:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (24) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (7) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (6) | 30.23 | 46 (?) | 0.50% | 1:4 |
| 20 (⇑) | Batman - All Media Types Harleen Quinzel,Pamela Isley (14) Cassandra Cain,Stephanie Brown (10) Ryan Wilder,Sophie Moore (8) | 29.68 | 46 (?) | 0.84% | 1:8 |
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.