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High-level stats for week of 2021-06-22 - 2021-06-28


  • Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7220 (+8 from last week)

  • Works I classified F/F: 4442 (+20 from last week) (2105 new, 2337 continued)

  • 1.0% of all 444574 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week






A few callouts this week:


  • Video game Arknights is back on the charts this week after a small number of appearances last summer. The showing is unusual because there is basically no individual ship contributing a significant number of works; it looks like a multiship informal "Arknights WLW Week" tag is responsible for a 20 works/week jump and thus the chart appearance.





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 (144)
Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (22)
Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (19)
180.05183 (+13)0.70%29:1
2 (↑2)She-Ra: Princess Of Power
Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (131)
Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (29)
Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (18)
148.00148 (+19)1.76%5:1
3 (↓)The Owl House (Cartoon)
Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (122)
Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (25)
Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (14)
140.02143 (+13)4.17%14:1
4 (↓)Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (83)
Ginny Weasley,Hermione Granger (22)
Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (21)
127.21214 (-2)1.74%1:7
5 (↑)RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (51)
Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (10)
Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (8)
Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (8)
97.84115 (-3)1.04%3:1
6 (↓)原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (28)
Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (27)
Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (18)
90.66117 (-34)6.75%1:6
7 (↑2)The 100 (TV)
Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (66)
Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (15)
Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (8)
73.0174 (-6)0.53%5:1
8 (↑2)Avatar: Legend of Korra
Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (62)
Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (19)
Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (4)
Kuvira (Avatar),Opal (Avatar) (4)
71.4278 (+1)1.25%5:1
9 (↑2)Legacies (TV 2018)
Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (47)
Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (20)
Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (20)
71.0874 (+7)2.29%13:1
10 (↓3)僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (72)
Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (36)
Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (12)
68.60148 (-1)2.03%1:8
11 (↑7)Wynonna Earp (TV)
Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (56)
Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (18)
Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (13)
57.0058 (+13)1.08%18:1
12 (↓4)Grey's Anatomy
Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (31)
Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (14)
Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (8)
52.0754 (-20)2.72%2:1
13 (↑3)Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types
Akamatsu Kaede,Iruma Miu (9)
Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (9)
Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (9)
51.1969 (+4)1.49%1:3
14 (↓)Once Upon a Time (TV)
Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (45)
49.2654 (-6)0.36%9:1
15 (↓)Captain America (Movies)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (35)
Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (13)
Agatha Harkness,Wanda Maximoff (8)
47.5481 (-21)1.06%1:23
16 (⇑)明日方舟 | Arknights (Video Game)
Saria (Arknights),Silence (Arknights) (4)
47.2951 (?)5.00%1:1.2
17 (↓5)The Wilds (TV 2020)
Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (43)
Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (13)
Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (5)
46.0046 (-11)5.46%185:1
18 (↓)Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (52)
Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (21)
Annie Leonhart,Hitch Dreyse (8)
45.2674 (-3)1.64%1:6
19 (⇑)Glee
Brittany S. Pierce,Santana Lopez (21)
Quinn Fabray,Rachel Berry (16)
Quinn Fabray,Santana Lopez (8)
44.3849 (?)0.89%1:4
20 (↓5)Miraculous Ladybug
Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (20)
Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (13)
Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (9)
Chloé Bourgeois,Kagami Tsurugi (9)
42.5858 (-6)2.21%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.


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