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High-level stats for week of 2022-02-08 - 2022-02-14


  • Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7754 (-144 from last week)

  • Works I classified F/F: 4826 (+9 from last week) (2580 new, 2246 continued)

  • 0.95% of all 509729 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week






A few callouts this week:


  • Japanese rhythm game Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! breaks onto the charts at number 14, after its work count almost doubles week-over-week. The game was released in English in December. (Apologies about the bad fandom name parsing in the graph legend. I'll fix it for next week.)
  • Top five is mostly stable, with Supergirl falling to rank 4 again. Grey's Anatomy falls off the charts after 37 consecutive weeks in its most recent run. The usual churn: Life is Strange and Motherland: Fort Salem reenter, Dangan Ronpa and Wynonna Earp leave.
  • Happy chart anniversary to Owl House, which sits at number 6 this week in its 80th consecutive week on the chart.





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)
1League of Legends
Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (214)
Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (46)
Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (34)
260.22278 (+21)7.19%1.2:1
2原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (56)
Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (48)
Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (48)
240.00281 (+4)5.02%1:4
3 (↑)Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (90)
Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (21)
Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (20)
154.99253 (+15)1.71%1:6
4 (↓)Supergirl (TV 2015)
Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (124)
Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (21)
Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (11)
151.06154 (-12)0.53%29:1
5Marvel Cinematic Universe
Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (85)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (38)
Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (17)
124.92199 (-14)1.51%1:7
6The Owl House (Cartoon)
Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (92)
Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (19)
Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (16)
105.01106 (+11)2.00%8:1
7She-Ra: Princess Of Power
Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (92)
Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (21)
Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (9)
99.02101 (+14)1.03%5:1
8Doctor Who
Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (49)
Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (7)
73.7281 (-12)1.25%1:1.0
9 (↑2)Once Upon a Time (TV)
Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (59)
Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4)
61.2966 (-1)0.41%9:1
10Amphibia (Cartoon)
Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (37)
Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (33)
Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (28)
61.0063 (-6)4.98%22:1
11 (↓2)RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (28)
Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7)
Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (5)
Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (5)
57.6072 (-15)0.59%3:1
12 (↑8)Batman - All Media Types
Harleen Quinzel,Pamela Isley (23)
Ryan Wilder,Sophie Moore (21)
Mary Hamilton (DCU),Ryan Wilder (11)
56.6371 (+17)2.06%1:9
13 (↑)The 100 (TV)
Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (49)
Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (7)
Luna (The 100),Raven Reyes (3)
52.3860 (+3)0.41%5:1
14 (⇑)プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ!| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (15)
Asahina Mafuyu,Shinonome Ena (6)
Hinomori Shizuku,Momoi Airi (6)
48.0048 (?)10.50%1.5:1
15 (↓3)僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (48)
Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (27)
Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (14)
46.18106 (-11)1.21%1:8
16 (↑3)Miraculous Ladybug
Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (19)
Cassandra Cain,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (10)
Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (10)
45.1869 (+20)2.12%1.1:1
17The Originals (TV)
Hope Mikaelson,Josie Saltzman (28)
Hope Mikaelson,Lizzie Saltzman (10)
Josie Saltzman,Penelope Park (8)
43.8650 (+6)1.14%1.1:1
18 (⇑)Motherland: Fort Salem (TV)
Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (29)
Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (15)
Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (5)
42.0042 (?)3.16%90:1
19 (⇑)Life Is Strange (Video Game)
Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (22)
Alex Chen (Life Is Strange),Steph Gingrich (10)
Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Rachel Amber (9)
40.0942 (?)0.89%9:1
20 (↓7)Avatar: Legend of Korra
Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (37)
Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (13)
39.6045 (-12)0.65%5:1




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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