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Femslash week in review: 2024-10-08 - 2024-10-14
High-level stats for week of 2024-10-08 - 2024-10-14
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8918 (-421 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4947 (-229 from last week) (2416 new, 2531 continued)
- 0.61% of all 807790 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Fun fact: last week's post was the most active Week In Review post on tumblr ever, primarily due to MCU (Agatha All Along) fans. Anecdotally, it seems that F/F shippers are very excited about this show, which is at rank 1 for the second week, and has added 57 F/F works week-over-week.
- Miraculous Ladybug is back on the chart for the first time since April. The 100 and Honkai: Star Rail are back after shorter absences. They replace Dead Boy Detectives, Doctor Who, and Hololive, after one week each.
- Chart anniversaries: Game of Thrones and She-Ra each reach 30 consecutive weeks in their latest chart appearances. RWBY reaches 390 consecutive weeks. And Supergirl is at 460 consecutive chart-weeks, which continues to be the longest streak of any fandom currently 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 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (202) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (39) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (30) | 227.93 | 297 (+57) | 1.47% | 1:6 |
| 2 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (145) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (49) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (48) | 198.44 | 324 (+4) | 1.02% | 1:5 |
| 3 (↑) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (128) | 123.48 | 137 (+2) | 4.57% | 1:3 |
| 4 (↓) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (88) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (14) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (10) | 105.02 | 117 (-18) | 1.12% | 1:1.0 |
| 5 (↑3) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (28) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (16) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (15) | 99.41 | 130 (+3) | 0.72% | 1:5 |
| 6 (↓) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (94) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (12) | 95.06 | 98 (-20) | 1.44% | 14:1 |
| 7 (↑5) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (80) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (22) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (13) | 87.21 | 92 (+15) | 0.75% | 4:1 |
| 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 (44) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (19) Akiyama Mizuki,Asahina Mafuyu,Shinonome Ena,Yoisaki Kanade (12) | 82.51 | 89 (+4) | 1.25% | 1:1.2 |
| 9 (↓2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (70) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (7) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (5) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (5) | 82.03 | 85 (-12) | 0.25% | 31:1 |
| 10 (↓4) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (42) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) Cinder Fall,Winter Schnee (7) | 75.47 | 86 (-20) | 0.52% | 4:1 |
| 11 | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (80) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (11) | 69.84 | 109 (-14) | 1.48% | 1:1.7 |
| 12 (↑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (67) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (22) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (7) | 69.71 | 124 (+14) | 0.93% | 1:7 |
| 13 (↓3) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (51) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (5) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (4) Jules Millin,Mika Yasuda (4) | 66.12 | 69 (-16) | 1.00% | 3:1 |
| 14 (↑2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (42) Alice Jones | Tilly,Robin | Margot (3) | 47.70 | 54 (+9) | 0.29% | 8:1 |
| 15 | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (26) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (20) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (14) | 43.86 | 50 (-1) | 1.65% | 94:1 |
| 16 (↑) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (39) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (7) Light Hope (She-Ra),Mara (She-Ra) (4) | 41.00 | 42 (+3) | 0.35% | 17:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Miraculous Ladybug Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (8) Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (7) Lila Rossi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (6) | 36.44 | 41 (?) | 0.79% | 1.1:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) Bronya (Honkai: Star Rail),Seele (Honkai: Star Rail) (9) Firefly (Honkai: Star Rail),Robin (Honkai: Star Rail) (8) Acheron (Honkai: Star Rail),Black Swan (Honkai: Star Rail) (7) Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail),Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) (7) | 35.42 | 52 (?) | 2.22% | 1:4 |
| 19 (↓5) | Murder Drones (Web Series) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (14) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (13) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (11) | 35.41 | 43 (-12) | 5.70% | 5:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (35) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (9) ... | 34.47 | 39 (?) | 0.24% | 5:1 |
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.