Femslash week in review: 2026-04-14 - 2026-04-20

High-level stats for week of 2026-04-14 - 2026-04-20

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10661 (-461 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5558 (-293 from last week) (2358 new, 3200 continued)


• 0.55% of all 1017688 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• I got an anonymous ask this week, and if one person asked, lots of other people are probably curious: "Could you please help me understand the weekly stats? Is this literally ships with the most new works in that week or is this an all time list updated weekly?" Thanks for asking, anon! Yes, it's fandoms and ships with the most new (or updated) works every week. Right now, AO3 sees approximately 10000 new or updated works tagged F/F every week, of which approximately 60% contain at least one named ship containing at least two canonically female or nonbinary fictional characters. The weekly stats report the biggest fandoms/ships in those 6000 or so fics/week. So if you read League of Legends (this week's top-ranked fandom), you'll have approximately 200 new or updated F/F fics to look at every week.
  
• Amazing Digital Circus reaches a best-ever rank of 9 in its 15th-ever chart appearance. Uma Musume: Pretty Derby reaches a best-ever rank of 10 in its 33rd-ever chart appearance.
  
• There are no entrances or exits this week, which isn't unheard of, but is rare.
  
• Chart anniversaries: Supergirl reaches 40 consecutive weeks in its latest chart run (of 540 all-time appearances) . Yellowjackets reaches 90 consecutive weeks (of 155 all-time appearances).
  
• Signups will be open from May 1 to May 8 for a 2026 Fire Emblem: Three Houses Femslash Exchange.
  
• The Women of MDZS Mini Exchange revealed this week with 11 F/F works.
  

( Full top-20 table and description of methodology after the jump )