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Femslash week in review: 2024-08-27 - 2024-09-02
High-level stats for week of 2024-08-27 - 2024-09-02
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8683 (+417 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4707 (+113 from last week) (2084 new, 2623 continued)
- 0.59% of all 794787 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Web series Murder Drones reaches a best-ever rank of 17 this week, in its third chart appearance.
- Criminal Minds returns after a week away, Warrior Nun returns after three weeks away, and Motherland: Fort Salem returns for the first time in 2024. They replace Bridgerton, The 100, and Honkai: Star Rail.
- Signups are open for the 2024-2025 round of Ladies Bingo, a seven month challenge for creative works about the relationships between women.
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 (145) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (62) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (38) | 176.34 | 306 (-10) | 0.98% | 1:5 |
| 2 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (145) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Emily (Hazbin Hotel) (9) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (8) | 139.36 | 161 (+15) | 5.86% | 1:3 |
| 3 (↑) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (97) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (14) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (8) | 100.55 | 146 (+8) | 2.07% | 1:1.7 |
| 4 (↓) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (78) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (8) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (6) | 94.16 | 98 (-3) | 1.45% | 3:1 |
| 5 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (20) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (16) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (15) | 91.84 | 115 (-1) | 0.65% | 1:4 |
| 6 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (72) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (23) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (15) | 85.07 | 88 (-2) | 0.73% | 4:1 |
| 7 (↓) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (62) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (16) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (9) | 78.05 | 80 (-14) | 0.79% | 1:1.0 |
| 8 (↑3) | Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (73) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (11) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (7) | 77.11 | 80 (+13) | 1.20% | 10:1 |
| 9 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (60) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (8) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (5) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (5) | 75.24 | 80 (-1) | 0.23% | 31:1 |
| 10 (↓) | 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 (20) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (11) Hanasato Minori,Kiritani Haruka (11) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (11) | 68.05 | 77 (-5) | 1.12% | 1:1.2 |
| 11 (↓3) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (43) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (5) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (5) | 67.37 | 80 (-15) | 0.49% | 4:1 |
| 12 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (29) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (23) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (12) | 57.17 | 92 (+12) | 0.47% | 1:6 |
| 13 (↓) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (47) | 50.11 | 53 (-2) | 0.29% | 8:1 |
| 14 | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (48) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) | 49.00 | 50 (+0) | 0.42% | 17:1 |
| 15 (↑4) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (28) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (19) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (10) | 46.02 | 47 (+6) | 1.62% | 98:1 |
| 16 (↓) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (35) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (30) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (8) | 43.65 | 98 (+6) | 0.75% | 1:7 |
| 17 (↑) | Murder Drones (Web Series) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (17) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (11) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (11) | 38.46 | 50 (+6) | 8.24% | 5:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (36) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (10) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (8) | 38.00 | 38 (?) | 1.01% | 112:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Criminal Minds (US TV) Emily Prentiss,Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (34) Emily Prentiss,Tara Lewis (3) Elle Greenaway,Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (2) | 32.36 | 39 (?) | 1.03% | 1:2.0 |
| 20 (⇑) | Motherland: Fort Salem (TV) Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (20) Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (9) Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (4) | 31.00 | 31 (?) | 1.15% | 85:1 |
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.