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High-level stats for week of 2021-08-10 - 2021-08-16


  • Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7108 (-75 from last week)

  • Works I classified F/F: 4270 (-63 from last week) (2019 new, 2251 continued)

  • 0.93% of all 458372 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week






A few callouts this week:


  • The top 5 is entirely flat this week, and there's not much other change. Attack on Titan is back for the first time in August. A:tLA and Line of Duty are gone.
  • Special callout to Star Wars, which was last seen in December 2018, but which charted at number 12 this week, almost certainly thanks to Star Wars WLWeek 2021. Check it out, and congrats to the organizers on a very successful event!





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)
1The Owl House (Cartoon)
Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (198)
Emira Blight,Viney (The Owl House) (27)
Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (14)
Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (14)
208.07212 (-23)5.19%11:1
2Supergirl (TV 2015)
Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (114)
Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (21)
Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (18)
154.15159 (+10)0.59%29:1
3原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (42)
Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (38)
Hu Tao (Genshin Impact),Yanfei (Genshin Impact) (25)
138.06167 (+0)6.84%1:5
4Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (95)
Emmeline Vance,Mary Macdonald (18)
Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (16)
Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (16)
126.73213 (-7)1.66%1:6
5She-Ra: Princess Of Power
Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (120)
Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (19)
120.02123 (+0)1.40%5:1
6RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (55)
Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (9)
Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (8)
Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (8)
88.17102 (-11)0.90%3:1
7 (↑2)The 100 (TV)
Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (61)
Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (20)
Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (9)
64.0265 (+5)0.46%5:1
8 (↓)僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (71)
Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (28)
Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (13)
60.93129 (-40)1.69%1:8
9 (↑3)Avatar: Legend of Korra
Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (49)
Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (15)
Kuvira (Avatar),Opal (Avatar) (7)
57.5765 (+6)1.02%5:1
10 (↓2)Captain America (Movies)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (40)
Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (24)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (17)
57.5198 (-27)1.23%1:23
11 (↑6)Once Upon a Time (TV)
Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (50)
Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (5)
Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (4)
51.5658 (+9)0.38%9:1
12 (⇑)Star Wars - All Media Types
Ahsoka Tano,Barriss Offee (10)
Amilyn Holdo,Leia Organa (7)
Ahsoka Tano,Kaeden Larte (5)
Padmé Amidala,Sabé (Star Wars) (5)
Rey (Star Wars),Rose Tico (5)
49.4271 (?)2.32%1:8
13 (↓3)Legacies (TV 2018)
Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (30)
Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (18)
Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (14)
49.1152 (-12)1.54%13:1
14 (↓)Grey's Anatomy
Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (22)
Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (14)
Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (8)
47.0248 (+0)2.23%2:1
15 (↓4)Motherland: Fort Salem (TV)
Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (27)
Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (19)
Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (5)
46.0046 (-9)6.00%64:1
16 (↓)Miraculous Ladybug
Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (27)
Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (9)
Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (9)
Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (9)
44.8558 (+5)2.10%1.1:1
17 (⇑)Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
Krista Lenz | Historia Reiss,Ymir (Shingeki no Kyojin) (52)
Annie Leonhart,Mikasa Ackerman (22)
Mikasa Ackerman,Sasha Blouse (5)
43.7570 (?)1.49%1:5
18Fear Street Trilogy (TV)
Deena Johnson,Samantha "Sam" Fraser (Fear Street) (35)
Alice (Fear Street Part 2: 1978),Cindy Berman (Fear Street) (11)
Christine "Ziggy" Berman,Cindy Berman (Fear Street) (4)
43.0244 (+5)28.39%16:1
19Wynonna Earp (TV)
Nicole Haught,Waverly Earp (42)
Waverly Earp,Wynonna Earp (12)
Nicole Haught,Wynonna Earp (11)
43.0044 (+6)0.81%18:1
20 (↓6)Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types
Mioda Ibuki,Tsumiki Mikan (8)
Chabashira Tenko,Yumeno Himiko (7)
Iruma Miu,K1-B0 (Dangan Ronpa) (6)
Nanami Chiaki,Sonia Nevermind (6)
39.5852 (-8)1.09%1:3




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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