High-level stats for week of 2021-04-20 - 2021-04-26
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6884 (-61 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4250 (+42 from last week) (1928 new, 2322 continued)
- 1.0% of all 426738 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:
- No particular callouts.
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 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (137) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (21) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (20) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (20) | 189.08 | 193 (-23) | 0.76% | 28:1 |
| 2 (↑2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (103) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (8) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (8) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (8) | 140.45 | 159 (+10) | 1.49% | 3:1 |
| 3 (↓) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (115) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (19) Catra (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (8) | 121.00 | 121 (-16) | 1.54% | 5:1 |
| 4 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (59) Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (31) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (16) | 119.16 | 200 (-8) | 1.75% | 1:7 |
| 5 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (97) Boscha (The Owl House),Willow Park (13) Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (11) | 110.00 | 113 (+5) | 3.82% | 15:1 |
| 6 (↑3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (85) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (29) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (27) | 91.64 | 177 (+26) | 2.60% | 1:8 |
| 7 (↑6) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (28) Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (23) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (20) | 83.84 | 104 (+34) | 9.88% | 1:6 |
| 8 (↓) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (21) Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (18) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (17) | 81.39 | 87 (+0) | 2.70% | 1:1.7 |
| 9 (↓3) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (69) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (13) Clarke Griffin,Raven Reyes (6) | 75.04 | 78 (-8) | 0.56% | 5:1 |
| 10 (↑2) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (12) Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (11) Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (10) | 64.89 | 77 (+8) | 1.78% | 1:3 |
| 11 | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (57) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (4) | 63.17 | 67 (+9) | 0.45% | 9:1 |
| 12 (↓4) | Legacies (TV 2018) Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (41) Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (21) Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (12) | 63.03 | 65 (-13) | 2.19% | 13:1 |
| 13 (↑6) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (27) Agatha Harkness,Wanda Maximoff (18) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (16) | 61.25 | 116 (+29) | 1.10% | 1:8 |
| 14 | Wynonna Earp (TV) Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (52) Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (12) Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (10) | 59.00 | 59 (+6) | 1.13% | 18:1 |
| 15 (↓5) | Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (60) Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (30) Mikasa Ackerman,Sasha Blouse (9) | 57.96 | 96 (-14) | 2.29% | 1:6 |
| 16 (↓) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (31) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (19) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (3) | 52.11 | 55 (+3) | 3.28% | 1.9:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | Line of Duty (TV 2012) Joanne Davidson,Kate Fleming (Line of Duty) (48) | 48.00 | 48 (?) | 40.68% | 9:1 |
| 18 (↓11) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (56) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (21) Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (7) | 45.03 | 83 (-4) | 1.38% | 5:1 |
| 19 (↓3) | The Wilds (TV 2020) Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (39) Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (17) Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (8) | 45.00 | 45 (-2) | 6.52% | 386:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Miraculous Ladybug Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (18) Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (16) Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (13) | 42.29 | 66 (?) | 2.77% | 1.1:1 |
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.