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Femslash week in review: 2024-05-21 - 2024-05-27
High-level stats for week of 2024-05-21 - 2024-05-27
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7927 (+124 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4453 (-52 from last week) (1925 new, 2528 continued)
- 0.58% of all 764954 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Harry Potter slides back into first place, ending Hazbin Hotel's 13-week run in the top slot.
- Bridgerton gets its first ever chart appearance, presumably thanks to the recently-launched TV third season. Criminal Minds returns to the chart for the first time in a year. Yellowjackets falls off after 4 weeks in a row.
- Game of Thrones and She-Ra have both reached 10 consecutive chart weeks in their latest runs. RWBY is at 370 consecutive weeks, and Supergirl reaches 440.
- There's a new ongoing Babylon 5 femslash prompt meme on dreamwidth, so go check that out.
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 (146) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (63) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (35) | 198.96 | 310 (+34) | 1.05% | 1:5 |
| 2 (↓) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (196) | 191.62 | 214 (-5) | 11.01% | 1:3 |
| 3 (↑) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (82) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (7) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (7) | 105.00 | 105 (+15) | 1.67% | 3:1 |
| 4 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (84) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (21) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (15) | 97.28 | 103 (+5) | 0.88% | 4:1 |
| 5 (↑4) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (73) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (13) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (9) | 93.03 | 96 (+22) | 0.28% | 31:1 |
| 6 | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (93) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (20) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (13) | 92.46 | 99 (+12) | 1.62% | 13:1 |
| 7 (↓2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (16) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (15) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (15) | 77.45 | 98 (-5) | 0.58% | 1:4 |
| 8 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (51) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (6) | 74.90 | 92 (+2) | 0.58% | 4:1 |
| 9 (↑4) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (46) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (12) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (6) | 59.29 | 64 (+9) | 0.67% | 1:1.0 |
| 10 (↓2) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (55) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (8) Castaspella (She-Ra),Shadow Weaver | Light Spinner (She-Ra) (4) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (4) | 58.00 | 59 (-12) | 0.51% | 17:1 |
| 11 | 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 (13) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (9) Akiyama Mizuki,Asahina Mafuyu,Shinonome Ena,Yoisaki Kanade (8) | 54.15 | 57 (-5) | 0.93% | 1:1.2 |
| 12 (⇑) | Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn Cressida Cowper,Eloise Bridgerton (45) Eloise Bridgerton,Penelope Featherington (6) | 41.95 | 51 (?) | 20.65% | 1.0:1 |
| 13 (↓) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (43) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (7) Aemma Arryn,Rhaenys Targaryen Velaryon (4) Baela Targaryen,Helaena Targaryen (4) | 41.39 | 70 (-5) | 1.12% | 1:1.7 |
| 14 (↑2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (34) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (14) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (10) | 40.84 | 86 (-1) | 0.68% | 1:7 |
| 15 (↑3) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Katara (Avatar) (12) Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (9) Azula (Avatar),Mai (Avatar) (6) | 35.02 | 41 (-5) | 0.82% | 1:1.6 |
| 16 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (27) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (9) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (8) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (8) | 34.77 | 69 (-14) | 0.36% | 1:6 |
| 17 (↓3) | 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) Firefly (Honkai: Star Rail),Robin (Honkai: Star Rail) (24) Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail),Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) (9) Acheron (Honkai: Star Rail),Black Swan (Honkai: Star Rail) (8) | 32.96 | 53 (-20) | 3.10% | 1:4 |
| 18 (↓) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (33) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (2) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Queen of Hearts | Cora (2) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Red Riding Hood | Ruby (2) | 32.70 | 38 (-8) | 0.21% | 8:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Criminal Minds (US TV) Emily Prentiss,Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (28) Elle Greenaway,Emily Prentiss (2) Emily Prentiss,Tara Lewis (2) Rebecca Wilson (Criminal Minds),Tara Lewis (2) | 30.24 | 39 (?) | 1.14% | 1:2 |
| 20 (↓) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (28) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (6) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (5) | 30.00 | 31 (-7) | 0.86% | 115:1 |
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.