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Femslash week in review: 2024-03-19 - 2024-03-25
High-level stats for week of 2024-03-19 - 2024-03-25
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7890 (+5 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4550 (-24 from last week) (1982 new, 2568 continued)
- 0.61% of all 746824 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Hazbin Hotel reaches its 10th consecutive week on the chart, and 5th consecutive week at rank 1.
- Game of Thrones, She-Ra, and Splatoon return to the chart. They replace Avatar, Batman, and Once Upon a Time.
- Cartoon Owl House celebrates 190 consecutive weeks on the chart.
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) (263) | 242.27 | 278 (-48) | 27.34% | 1:3 |
| 2 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (113) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (62) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (34) | 208.36 | 332 (-7) | 1.17% | 1:5 |
| 3 (↑2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (93) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (26) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (16) | 98.40 | 107 (+9) | 0.94% | 4:1 |
| 4 (↑4) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (99) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (20) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (9) | 94.72 | 103 (+23) | 1.77% | 13:1 |
| 5 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (76) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (11) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (7) | 93.04 | 95 (+17) | 1.59% | 3:1 |
| 6 | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (20) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (18) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (16) | 87.17 | 91 (+5) | 1.58% | 1:1.2 |
| 7 (↓3) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (16) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (11) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (10) | 79.89 | 108 (-12) | 0.66% | 1:4 |
| 8 (↑2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (47) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (8) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) | 75.92 | 88 (+6) | 0.56% | 4:1 |
| 9 (↓6) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (66) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (11) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (11) | 74.18 | 79 (-22) | 0.24% | 30:1 |
| 10 (↓) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (54) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (11) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (9) | 69.21 | 73 (+0) | 0.77% | 1.0:1 |
| 11 | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (26) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (25) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (16) | 49.00 | 49 (-16) | 2.02% | 124:1 |
| 12 (↑) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (46) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (7) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (7) | 48.00 | 48 (-3) | 1.39% | 111:1 |
| 13 (⇑) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (47) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (8) Baela Targaryen,Helaena Targaryen (4) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (4) | 45.31 | 79 (?) | 1.30% | 1:1.7 |
| 14 (↑) | Mean Girls (2004) Janis Ian | Janis Sarkisian | Janis "Imi'ike,Regina George (25) Cady Heron,Regina George (21) Cady Heron,Janis Ian | Janis Sarkisian | Janis "Imi'ike (5) | 43.02 | 44 (+2) | 4.41% | 9:1 |
| 15 (⇑) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (40) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (6) Castaspella (She-Ra),Shadow Weaver | Light Spinner (She-Ra) (4) | 43.00 | 44 (?) | 0.36% | 5:1 |
| 16 (↓2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (28) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (13) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (7) | 42.25 | 84 (-3) | 0.68% | 1:7 |
| 17 (↓) | 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) Acheron (Honkai: Star Rail),Black Swan (Honkai: Star Rail) (23) Bronya (Honkai: Star Rail),Seele (Honkai: Star Rail) (11) Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail),Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) (8) | 39.60 | 55 (+10) | 4.00% | 1:4 |
| 18 (↓6) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (27) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (18) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (14) | 38.88 | 71 (-15) | 0.38% | 1:6 |
| 19 (⇑) | Splatoon Marina (Splatoon),Pearl (Splatoon) (17) Frye (Splatoon),Shiver (Splatoon) (6) Agent 3 (Splatoon),Agent 8 (Splatoon) (5) | 35.00 | 35 (?) | 1.41% | 1.9:1 |
| 20 (↓) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (24) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (9) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (7) | 31.74 | 44 (-2) | 0.48% | 1:4 |
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.