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High-level stats for week of 2022-11-15 - 2022-11-21


  • Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 6887 (-143 from last week)

  • Works I classified F/F: 4175 (-37 from last week) (2049 new, 2126 continued)

  • 0.7% of all 592957 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week






A few callouts this week:


  • Whoa. Warrior Nun shoots to rank 2 this week, in its second week on the chart for this season.
  • Addams Family also reaches a best-ever rank of 11 this week.
  • "Goncharov (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese - beelzeebub" enters the charts at rank 17. I have no idea what I just typed there, but Destination: Toast! is here to help out with an explanation of sorts. Goncharov replaces The School for Good and Evil after a single chart-week for the latter.
  • Chart anniversaries: A League of Their Own (TV 2022) reaches 10 consecutive weeks on the chart, and Owl House hits an impressive 120 consecutive weeks.
  • Exchange callout: fills are open for the 2022 Femslash Kink Meme, so go check that out.





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)
1Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (118)
Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (60)
Ginny Weasley,Luna Lovegood (16)
154.58243 (-17)1.31%1:6
2 (↑8)Warrior Nun (TV)
Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (122)
127.00127 (+58)14.42%113:1
3 (↓)Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (121)
Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (27)
Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (15)
125.92163 (-25)3.12%1:4
4 (↓)The Owl House (Cartoon)
Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (113)
Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (43)
Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (28)
122.46130 (-19)1.68%5:1
5 (↓)原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (31)
Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (27)
Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (22)
112.52144 (+12)1.37%1:4
6 (↓)League of Legends
Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (87)
Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (21)
Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (16)
111.39118 (+17)1.71%1.3:1
7プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ!| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (16)
Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (14)
Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (11)
77.1180 (-10)4.08%1:1.1
8 (↓2)Grey's Anatomy
Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (51)
Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (10)
71.0172 (-19)1.75%3:1
9A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (78)
Baela Targaryen,Helaena Targaryen (6)
Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (6)
70.35110 (-12)2.59%1:1.7
10 (↓2)Supergirl (TV 2015)
Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (46)
Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (8)
Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (6)
69.0472 (-16)0.23%29:1
11 (↑8)Addams Family - All Media Types
Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (67)
Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (9)
68.0068 (+26)27.98%3:1
12 (↑)She-Ra - All Media Types
Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (57)
Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (12)
Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (4)
Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (4)
61.0062 (+9)0.62%16:1
13 (↑4)Marvel Cinematic Universe
Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (29)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (25)
Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (14)
60.71102 (+10)0.65%1:6
14 (↓3)Doctor Who
Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (40)
Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (7)
Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (4)
Nyssa of Traken,Tegan Jovanka (4)
59.7667 (+4)0.87%1.1:1
15 (↓3)RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (28)
Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7)
Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (5)
57.6570 (+4)0.53%3:1
16 (↓)Amphibia (Cartoon)
Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (31)
Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (28)
Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (23)
52.1757 (+4)1.91%18:1
17 (⇑)Goncharov (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese - beelzeebub
Katya (Goncharov (1973)),Sofia (Goncharov (1973)) (51)
49.0851 (?)100.00%1.2:1
18 (↓4)A League of Their Own (TV 2022)
Carson Shaw,Greta Gill (35)
Jess McCready,Lupe García (9)
Jo De Luca,Maybelle Fox (6)
44.0044 (-8)9.09%410:1
19 (↓3)Splatoon
Agent 3 (Splatoon),Agent 8 (Splatoon) (17)
Marina (Splatoon),Pearl (Splatoon) (13)
Frye (Splatoon),Shiver (Splatoon) (12)
39.3443 (-8)3.50%1.8:1
20Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
Gideon Nav,Harrowhark Nonagesimus (30)
Harrowhark Nonagesimus,Ianthe Tridentarius (6)
Coronabeth Tridentarius,Ianthe Tridentarius (4)
37.0037 (-1)2.71%23:1




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.


Share and enjoy, and let me know what I can do to make this more useful.

Date: 2022-11-29 07:09 pm (UTC)
vriddy: Cute dragon hatching from an egg (Default)
From: [personal profile] vriddy
I can't believe Goncharov got onto the chart... 😂👏👏 Fandom <3

Date: 2022-11-30 12:18 pm (UTC)
goodbyebird: Sarah Connor Chronicles: John and Cameron are looking at one another. (SCC Cameron John look)
From: [personal profile] goodbyebird
Yesss, just as I'd hoped, Wednesday has spurred fandom into action 🙌
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