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High-level stats for week of 2022-08-09 - 2022-08-15


  • Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7479 (-323 from last week)

  • Works I classified F/F: 4557 (-237 from last week) (2077 new, 2480 continued)

  • 0.81% of all 563231 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week






A few callouts this week:


  • The top 6 is completely flat, but The Wilds achieves its best rank ever (at 8), and Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! jumps into the top 10 for the first time. These two replace She-Ra and Amphibia in the top 10.
  • At the bottom of the chart, Batman, Killing Eve, and Once Upon a Time are back, after one week away each. They replace Critical Role, Fire Emblem, and The 100, also after one week each.
  • Harry Potter celebrates 190 consecutive (and 719 total) weeks on the chart, and League of Legends hits 40 consecutive chart weeks.





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)
1Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (310)
Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (84)
Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (65)
348.48435 (-2)11.85%1:4
2原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (34)
Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (28)
Ganyu (Genshin Impact),Keqing (Genshin Impact) (24)
162.57202 (-35)2.23%1:4
3Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (108)
Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (54)
Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (20)
142.44240 (-25)1.40%1:6
4League of Legends
Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (100)
Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (26)
Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (25)
142.23148 (-18)2.47%1.3:1
5The Owl House (Cartoon)
Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (124)
Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (26)
Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (16)
140.05144 (-7)2.09%5:1
6Supergirl (TV 2015)
Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (64)
Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (11)
Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (5)
Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor,Supergirl (DCU) (5)
88.0290 (-24)0.30%30:1
7 (↑)Marvel Cinematic Universe
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (47)
Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (31)
Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (13)
75.38135 (+11)0.90%1:7
8 (↑)The Wilds (TV 2020)
Shelby Goodkind,Toni Shalifoe (42)
Fatin Jadmani,Leah Rilke (28)
Dot Campbell,Fatin Jadmani (6)
Martha Blackburn,Toni Shalifoe (6)
65.0065 (+3)3.82%50:1
9 (↑3)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)
Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (14)
Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (11)
65.0065 (+8)5.55%1:1.1
10 (↓3)She-Ra: Princess Of Power
Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (58)
Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (8)
62.0064 (-18)0.61%5:1
11 (↑2)RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (35)
Cinder Fall,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (5)
Cinder Fall,Winter Schnee (5)
Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (5)
61.2573 (+6)0.57%3:1
12 (↓2)Amphibia (Cartoon)
Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (40)
Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (28)
Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (23)
56.1768 (+0)2.61%19:1
13 (↑3)Motherland: Fort Salem (TV)
Sarah Alder (Motherland: Fort Salem),Tally Craven (34)
Raelle Collar,Scylla Ramshorn (27)
Abigail Bellweather,Raelle Collar,Tally Craven (7)
51.0453 (+7)3.13%97:1
14 (↓3)Avatar: Legend of Korra
Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (49)
Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (7)
Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (5)
46.3856 (-8)0.77%5:1
15 (⇑)Once Upon a Time (TV)
Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (44)
46.1249 (?)0.30%9:1
16 (↓)Grey's Anatomy
Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (33)
Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (10)
42.4648 (-6)1.29%3:1
17 (↓3)Doctor Who
Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (28)
Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (7)
Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (3)
Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (3)
42.3750 (-5)0.68%1.0:1
18 (↓)僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (26)
Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (12)
Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (11)
38.7194 (-5)0.97%1:8
19 (⇑)Batman - All Media Types
Harleen Quinzel,Pamela Isley (19)
Ryan Wilder,Sophie Moore (17)
Cassandra Cain,Stephanie Brown (8)
38.1254 (?)1.31%1:9
20 (⇑)Killing Eve (TV 2018)
Eve Polastri,Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (35)
34.0035 (?)1.05%56:1




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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