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High-level stats for week of 2019-02-05 - 2019-02-11


  • Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 4229 (-59 from last week)

  • Works I classified F/F: 2665 (-19 from last week) (1299 new, 1366 continued)

  • 1.09% of all 243618 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week






A few callouts this week:


  • Hi, Worst Witch fans! The good news is that 18th is the fandom's best rank yet, tying a few appearances from December. The bad news is that the "top three ships" makes it look an awful lot like I'm double-counting ships due to a change in tagging conventions. Well, sorting that out will keep me busy for awhile, I guess.

  • Susan Pevensie post-canon meets Wendy Darling

  • Jordan/Daisy night-before-wedding pre-canon

  • Eve/Villanelle time-loop

  • Some She-Ra recs this week: Adora/Catra post-S1, about scars; Catra/Entrapta in the lab






Most active classified fandoms:


RankFandom (and top three ships)Rating for weekF/F works
updated this week
% of F/F works
updated this week
F/F:M/M ratio
(all works)
1Supergirl (TV 2015)
Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (131)
Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (53)
Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (35)
44.85205 (+1)1.34%27:1
2RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (66)
Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (35)
Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (13)
42.28116 (+6)2.37%5:1
3Steven Universe (Cartoon)
Lapis Lazuli (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (25)
Amethyst (Steven Universe),Peridot (Steven Universe) (14)
Ruby (Steven Universe),Sapphire (Steven Universe) (14)
36.1976 (+18)1.50%15:1
4 (↑)Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (22)
Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (8)
Ginny Weasley,Hermione Granger (7)
28.2680 (+7)1.40%1:9
5 (↑)Overwatch (Video Game)
Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Fareeha "Pharah" Amari (17)
Lena "Tracer" Oxton,Widowmaker | Amélie Lacroix (10)
Angela "Mercy" Ziegler,Moira O'Deorain (8)
Emily (Overwatch),Lena "Tracer" Oxton (8)
27.3156 (+3)1.07%1:2
6 (↑)She-Ra: Princess Of Power
Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (59)
Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (12)
Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5)
Entrapta (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5)
24.3771 (-8)8.54%10:1
7 (↑2)BanG Dream! Girl's Band Party! (Video Game)
Hazawa Tsugumi,Hikawa Sayo (7)
Hikawa Sayo,Minato Yukina (6)
Imai Lisa,Minato Yukina (4)
22.9428 (+3)3.75%334:1
8 (↑7)Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types
Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (7)
Akamatsu Kaede,Harukawa Maki (4)
Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (4)
22.6435 (+7)2.26%1:3
9 (↓5)The 100 (TV)
Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (67)
Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (17)
Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (6)
Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (6)
20.7473 (-38)0.67%5:1
10 (↑3)Doctor Who
Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (36)
River Song,Thirteenth Doctor (7)
Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (7)
19.5358 (+1)1.94%1:1.6
11 (↑)Life Is Strange (Video Game)
Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (44)
Chloe Price (Life Is Strange),Rachel Amber (19)
Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (7)
19.3658 (+9)2.08%9:1
12 (↓4)Marvel Cinematic Universe
Mantis (Marvel),Nebula (Marvel) (9)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (8)
Angie Martinelli,Peggy Carter (7)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Pepper Potts (7)
18.5961 (+1)0.91%1:8
13 (↓3)Once Upon a Time (TV)
Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (67)
Dorothy Gale (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (5)
Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (4)
18.4879 (+6)0.65%9:1
14 (↑2)The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (18)
Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (10)
Freya Mikaelson,Keelin Malraux (5)
18.4235 (-1)4.28%1:1.5
15 (⇑)Fire Emblem: If | Fire Emblem: Fates
Aqua | Azura,My Unit | Kamui | Corrin (3)
Camilla (Fire Emblem),Hinoka (Fire Emblem) (2)
Lucina (Fire Emblem),My Unit | Reflet | Robin (2)
Oboro (Fire Emblem),Rinkah (Fire Emblem) (2)
Sumia (Fire Emblem),Tiamo | Cordelia (2)
17.3421 (+9)1.80%1:2
16 (↓2)Archie Comics
Cheryl Blossom,Toni Topaz (37)
Betty Cooper,Veronica Lodge (10)
Cheryl Blossom,Veronica Lodge (3)
15.0950 (-4)2.37%1:1.0
17 (⇑)DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV)
Ava Sharpe,Sara Lance (33)
Charlie (DC's Legends of Tomorrow),Zari Tomaz (8)
Nyssa al Ghul,Sara Lance (4)
14.9657 (+8)2.69%1:1.7
18 (⇑)The Worst Witch (TV 2017)
Ada Cackle,Hecate Hardbroom (12)
Hecate Hardbroom,Phyllis Pentangle (7)
Hardbroom (Worst Witch),Pentangle (Worst Witch) (5)
13.6425 (+10)3.46%426:1
19僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (39)
Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (24)
Ashido Mina,Hagakure Tooru (3)
Kendou Itsuka,Yaoyorozu Momo (3)
13.5467 (-9)3.29%1:8
20 (⇑)Supernatural
Charlie Bradbury,Jo Harvelle (5)
Donna Hanscum,Jody Mills (5)
Charlie Bradbury,Dorothy Baum (4)
13.5228 (+4)1.10%1:21




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: I like fandoms with ensemble casts, so I'm doing a weighted sum based on the logarithm of number of works by pairing, so that fandoms with several different F/F pairings get a significant bonus.

  • 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.)



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