Femslash week in review: 2024-11-19 - 2024-11-25

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High-level stats for week of 2024-11-19 - 2024-11-25

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8855 (+217 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5223 (+297 from last week) (2572 new, 2651 continued)


• 0.64% of all 822311 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• League of Legends is seriously blowing up. In its second week at rank 1, the fandom has an unprecedented number of new or updated F/F works. In fact, both MCU and League of Legends broke work count records in November; every week of last month saw more works from the top fandom than we'd ever seen prior to last month. This week's League of Legends numbers just take it to a new level.
  
• Meanwhile, Coronation Street hits a personal-best rank of 16.
  
• The 100 returns to the chart after a couple of weeks away, replacing Star Wars.
  
• Prompts and fills are open for the 15th annual Femslash Kink meme. It's very impressive that this event has been happening for 15 years; read cleo's post about the timeline and status of the project.
  
• This year's sapphic stocking stuffers exchange is open for the next few weeks for prompts, and the rest of December for fills.
  

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	League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (568) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (109) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (38) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (38)	627.48	658 (+253)	5.67%	1:1.0
2	Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (314) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (33)	343.61	398 (-37)	1.82%	1:6
3	Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (127) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (47) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (40)	167.53	290 (-18)	0.89%	1:5
4 (↑)	Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (119)	110.94	129 (+11)	3.99%	1:3
5 (↓)	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 (31) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (22) Akiyama Mizuki,Asahina Mafuyu,Shinonome Ena,Yoisaki Kanade (13) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (13)	108.08	111 (+5)	1.48%	1:1.2
6	Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (52) Jules Millin,Mika Yasuda (14) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (7)	82.10	85 (-5)	1.20%	4:1
7 (↑5)	RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (36) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) Cinder Fall,Winter Schnee (6) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (6)	72.86	85 (+13)	0.51%	4:1
8	Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (58) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (7) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (5)	69.19	74 (+3)	0.21%	31:1
9 (↑5)	僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (51) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (44) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (8)	67.96	116 (+14)	0.85%	1:7
10 (↓)	Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (66) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (13) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (4)	67.26	72 (+2)	1.03%	14:1
11 (↓)	The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (64) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (19) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (8)	61.66	71 (+5)	0.58%	4:1
12 (↓)	A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (57) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (10)	60.75	95 (+0)	1.26%	1:1.7
13 (↓6)	原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (15) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (14) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (10)	58.09	74 (-17)	0.40%	1:5
14 (↓)	Alien Stage (Web Series) Mizi (Alien Stage),Sua (Alien Stage) (49) Hyuna (Alien Stage),Mizi (Alien Stage) (5)	48.17	51 (-4)	8.54%	1:3
15 (↑)	She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (39) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (8) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (3) Castaspella (She-Ra),Shadow Weaver | Light Spinner (She-Ra) (3) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (3)	45.00	45 (-1)	0.38%	17:1
16 (↑4)	Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (39) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (2) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (2)	40.00	40 (+7)	11.17%	7:1
17 (↓2)	Murder Drones (Web Series) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (10) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (10) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (10)	38.08	45 (-7)	5.04%	5:1
18	Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (27) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Rachel Amber (9) Kate Marsh,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (5)	38.00	39 (+2)	0.64%	8:1
19	Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (22) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (14) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (11)	36.54	41 (+6)	1.30%	90:1
20 (⇑)	The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (34) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (7) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (3)	36.07	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.