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High-level stats for week of 2021-06-08 - 2021-06-14


  • Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7064 (-135 from last week)

  • Works I classified F/F: 4284 (-18 from last week) (2035 new, 2249 continued)

  • 0.97% of all 440391 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week






A few callouts this week:


  • As expected, Critical Role dropped off the charts again following its end-of-series bump. Not much change this week otherwise.





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 (132)
Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (35)
Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (21)
179.19185 (+15)0.71%29:1
2 (↑2)The Owl House (Cartoon)
Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (137)
Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (24)
Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (14)
149.01151 (+25)4.59%14:1
3 (↓)She-Ra: Princess Of Power
Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (132)
Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (22)
Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (18)
139.00140 (+7)1.69%5:1
4 (↓)Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (91)
Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (27)
Hermione Granger,Pansy Parkinson (21)
138.70225 (+12)1.86%1:7
5 (↑2)The 100 (TV)
Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (81)
Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (18)
Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (6)
86.0389 (+10)0.64%5:1
6RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (71)
Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (10)
Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9)
81.35124 (+17)1.13%3:1
7 (↓2)原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (23)
Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (21)
Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (21)
78.82102 (-24)6.60%1:6
8僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (74)
Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (41)
Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (12)
74.00149 (-6)2.08%1:8
9 (↑2)Grey's Anatomy
Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (30)
Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (26)
Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (10)
67.0067 (-5)3.51%2.0:1
10 (↓)The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (40)
Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (20)
Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (18)
66.5373 (-10)1.81%1.7:1
11 (↑3)Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types
Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (10)
Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (10)
Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (9)
62.2374 (+2)1.62%1:3
12Avatar: Legend of Korra
Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (56)
Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (13)
Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (7)
61.3968 (-3)1.10%5:1
13 (↓3)Once Upon a Time (TV)
Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (50)
Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4)
54.2058 (-14)0.38%9:1
14 (↑4)The Wilds (TV 2020)
Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (51)
Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (14)
Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (5)
54.0054 (+7)6.64%180:1
15 (↓3)Avatar: The Last Airbender
Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (21)
Azula (Avatar),Katara (Avatar) (13)
Kyoshi (Avatar),Rangi (Avatar) (12)
52.2662 (-9)1.83%1:1.7
16 (⇑)Line of Duty (TV 2012)
Joanne Davidson,Kate Fleming (Line of Duty) (46)
46.0046 (?)12.14%13:1
17 (↓4)Wynonna Earp (TV)
Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (42)
Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (12)
Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (11)
45.0048 (-11)0.90%18:1
18 (↓2)Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (60)
Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (17)
Annie Leonhart,Hitch Dreyse (9)
43.0275 (-3)1.68%1:6
19 (↓2)Marvel Cinematic Universe
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (31)
Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (15)
Agatha Harkness,Wanda Maximoff (6)
41.5391 (-10)0.84%1:8
20 (↓5)Miraculous Ladybug
Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (18)
Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (10)
Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (8)
Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (8)
38.8251 (-17)1.98%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.

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