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Femslash week in review: 2024-07-16 - 2024-07-22
High-level stats for week of 2024-07-16 - 2024-07-22
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8221 (-153 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4625 (-68 from last week) (2050 new, 2575 continued)
- 0.59% of all 782155 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Bridgerton's not new, though it is up from 19 to 13 this week. It just had a change to best-known tag, and I don't have time to make the graph look right. It'll be fixed next week.
- The 100, Boku no Hero Academia, and Honkai: Star Rail, all return after short absences. They replace Criminal Minds, Once Upon a Time, and Stranger Things.
- Last week, I was remiss in not mentioning Supergirl's return to the top 5. Thanks, tumblr folks who flagged it! So far in 2024, the Girl of Steel has been in the top 5 a respectable 25% of weeks.
- Chart anniversaries: Addams Family/Wednesday reaches 90 consecutive weeks on the chart. Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! hits 110 consecutive 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 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (159) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (63) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (48) | 176.99 | 308 (-13) | 1.01% | 1:5 |
| 2 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (168) | 155.76 | 183 (-10) | 7.37% | 1:3 |
| 3 (↑) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (83) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (9) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (6) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (6) | 103.14 | 107 (+4) | 1.62% | 3:1 |
| 4 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (78) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (22) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (13) | 80.45 | 87 (-18) | 0.73% | 4:1 |
| 5 (↑2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (19) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (13) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (13) | 79.08 | 101 (-3) | 0.58% | 1:4 |
| 6 (↑5) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (67) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (10) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (8) | 74.11 | 77 (+11) | 1.20% | 13:1 |
| 7 (↑3) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (69) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (9) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (8) | 69.27 | 118 (+5) | 1.78% | 1:1.7 |
| 8 (↓3) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (62) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (9) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (8) | 69.19 | 74 (-19) | 0.22% | 31:1 |
| 9 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (57) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (10) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (8) | 69.08 | 72 (-2) | 0.73% | 1:1.0 |
| 10 (↓2) | 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 (12) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (11) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (10) | 59.24 | 63 (-14) | 0.97% | 1:1.2 |
| 11 (↓5) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (32) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) | 55.91 | 73 (-17) | 0.45% | 4:1 |
| 12 (↑4) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Kyoshi (Avatar),Rangi (Avatar) (35) Azula (Avatar),Katara (Avatar) (10) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (8) | 54.63 | 61 (+18) | 1.19% | 1:1.5 |
| 13 (↑6) | Bridgerton (TV) Cressida Cowper,Eloise Bridgerton (40) Francesca Bridgerton,Michaela Stirling (12) Agatha Danbury,Violet Bridgerton (5) | 48.43 | 53 (+9) | 10.37% | 1.5:1 |
| 14 (⇑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (33) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (29) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (9) | 47.12 | 100 (?) | 0.78% | 1:7 |
| 15 (⇑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (42) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (10) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (4) | 47.04 | 49 (?) | 0.31% | 5:1 |
| 16 (↑2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (26) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (14) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (9) | 44.87 | 79 (+6) | 0.41% | 1:6 |
| 17 (↓4) | Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (22) Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (13) River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (4) | 43.97 | 51 (-4) | 0.53% | 1.1:1 |
| 18 (↓4) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (42) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (8) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (3) | 42.00 | 43 (-1) | 0.37% | 17:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail),Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) (14) Firefly (Honkai: Star Rail),Robin (Honkai: Star Rail) (12) Acheron (Honkai: Star Rail),Black Swan (Honkai: Star Rail) (6) Bronya (Honkai: Star Rail),Seele (Honkai: Star Rail) (6) | 38.57 | 55 (?) | 2.78% | 1:4 |
| 20 (↓5) | Yellowjackets (TV) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (15) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (14) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (9) | 38.14 | 41 (-2) | 1.47% | 99:1 |
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.