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High-level stats for week of 2021-06-29 - 2021-07-05


  • Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7249 (+29 from last week)

  • Works I classified F/F: 4323 (-119 from last week) (1975 new, 2348 continued)

  • 0.97% of all 446549 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week






A few callouts this week:


  • First appearance on the charts for Fate: The Winx Saga, a live-action adaptation of the animated Winx Club series. The animated series has a number of backdated works from before the launch of AO3, but hasn't been seen on the charts since 2008.





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 (124)
Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (23)
Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (21)
166.02168 (-15)0.64%29:1
2 (↑)The Owl House (Cartoon)
Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (129)
Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (18)
Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (12)
144.03146 (+3)4.19%14:1
3 (↓)She-Ra: Princess Of Power
Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (130)
Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (21)
Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (9)
133.00136 (-12)1.61%5:1
4Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (88)
Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (30)
Emmeline Vance,Mary Macdonald (18)
122.70209 (-5)1.69%1:7
5 (↑)原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (37)
Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (28)
Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (25)
98.63120 (+3)6.62%1:6
6 (↓)RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (52)
Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (11)
Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (10)
Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (10)
92.23110 (-5)0.99%3:1
7The 100 (TV)
Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (83)
Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (18)
Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (8)
89.0190 (+16)0.64%5:1
8 (↑)The Vampire Diaries & Related Fandoms
Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (55)
Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (17)
Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (15)
76.8685 (+11)2.06%1.8:1
9 (↓)Avatar: Legend of Korra
Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (60)
Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (19)
Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (7)
Kuvira (Avatar),Opal (Avatar) (7)
74.1279 (+1)1.26%5:1
10僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (70)
Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (33)
Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (12)
70.07145 (-3)1.98%1:8
11 (↑3)Once Upon a Time (TV)
Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (59)
67.3674 (+20)0.49%9:1
12 (↓)Wynonna Earp (TV)
Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (47)
Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (14)
Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (13)
48.0049 (-9)0.91%18:1
13Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types
Celestia Ludenberg,Kirigiri Kyouko (7)
Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (6)
Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (5)
Nanami Chiaki,Sonia Nevermind (5)
44.2658 (-11)1.25%1:3
14 (⇑)Line of Duty (TV 2012)
Joanne Davidson,Kate Fleming (Line of Duty) (41)
Farida Jatri,Joanne Davidson (3)
43.0043 (?)9.86%11:1
15 (↑5)Miraculous Ladybug
Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (27)
Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (11)
Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (8)
42.0155 (-3)2.08%1.1:1
16 (↓)Marvel Cinematic Universe
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (25)
Agatha Harkness,Wanda Maximoff (14)
Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (9)
40.3597 (+16)0.88%1:8
17The Wilds (TV 2020)
Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (35)
Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (17)
Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (3)
Regan (The Wilds),Toni Shalifoe (3)
39.0039 (-7)4.57%187:1
18 (⇑)Fate: The Winx Saga (TV)
Farah Dowling,Stella's Mother Luna (Winx Club) (24)
Farah Dowling,Luna of Solaria (Winx Club),Rosalind (Fate: The Winx Saga) (9)
Farah Dowling,Rosalind (Fate: The Winx Saga) (9)
36.5649 (?)30.43%7:1
19 (↓)Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (48)
Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (15)
Mikasa Ackerman,Sasha Blouse (9)
36.4163 (-11)1.39%1:6
20 (↓8)Grey's Anatomy
Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (26)
Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (8)
Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (4)
35.1538 (-16)1.90%2:1




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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