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Femslash week in review: 2024-07-09 - 2024-07-15
High-level stats for week of 2024-07-09 - 2024-07-15
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8374 (+74 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4693 (-22 from last week) (2044 new, 2649 continued)
- 0.6% of all 780105 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Avatar: The Last Airbender, Once Upon a Time, and Stranger Things, are all back after short absences. They replace Boku no Hero Academia after five consecutive chart-weeks, and Inside Out and Honkai: Star Rail after one week each.
- Chart anniversaries: League of Legends reaches 140 consecutive weeks on the chart. Harry Potter reaches 290 consecutive weeks (out of 819 total appearances).
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 (69) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (42) | 185.66 | 321 (-12) | 1.06% | 1:5 |
| 2 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (178) | 169.31 | 193 (-17) | 7.95% | 1:3 |
| 3 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (96) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (24) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (16) | 101.15 | 105 (+3) | 0.89% | 4:1 |
| 4 (↓) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (75) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (11) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (9) | 99.15 | 103 (-15) | 1.57% | 3:1 |
| 5 (↑5) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (78) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (12) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (11) | 90.09 | 93 (+19) | 0.27% | 31:1 |
| 6 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (40) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (16) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (8) | 79.41 | 90 (-11) | 0.56% | 4:1 |
| 7 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (15) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (11) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (11) | 78.38 | 104 (+5) | 0.60% | 1:4 |
| 8 (↑) | 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) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (11) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (10) | 73.20 | 77 (+1) | 1.19% | 1:1.2 |
| 9 (↓2) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (62) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (17) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (11) | 70.21 | 74 (-11) | 0.75% | 1:1.0 |
| 10 (↓4) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (73) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (9) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (7) | 68.65 | 113 (-17) | 1.72% | 1:1.7 |
| 11 (↑) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (60) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (6) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (5) | 60.34 | 66 (-6) | 1.04% | 13:1 |
| 12 (↓) | Criminal Minds (US TV) Emily Prentiss,Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (54) Jennifer "JJ" Jareau,Penelope Garcia (3) | 49.73 | 59 (-21) | 1.63% | 1:2 |
| 13 (↑) | Doctor Who & Related Fandoms Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (18) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (14) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (10) | 48.69 | 55 (+0) | 0.59% | 1:1.8 |
| 14 (↑2) | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (41) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) | 43.00 | 44 (-2) | 0.37% | 17:1 |
| 15 | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (23) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (17) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (12) | 42.02 | 43 (-2) | 1.55% | 98:1 |
| 16 (⇑) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Kyoshi (Avatar),Rangi (Avatar) (15) Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (9) Azula (Avatar),Katara (Avatar) (6) | 39.26 | 43 (?) | 0.85% | 1:1.5 |
| 17 (⇑) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (27) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (8) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (6) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (6) | 38.09 | 47 (?) | 0.50% | 1:4 |
| 18 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (23) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (18) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (9) | 37.64 | 73 (-1) | 0.38% | 1:6 |
| 19 (↓6) | Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn Cressida Cowper,Eloise Bridgerton (30) Francesca Bridgerton,Michaela Stirling (7) Eloise Bridgerton,Penelope Featherington (5) | 37.23 | 44 (-17) | 8.35% | 1.5:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (39) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) | 35.88 | 42 (?) | 0.23% | 8:1 |
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.