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High-level stats for week of 2022-12-13 - 2022-12-19


  • Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7346 (-291 from last week)

  • Works I classified F/F: 4411 (-171 from last week) (2219 new, 2192 continued)

  • 0.73% of all 602123 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week






A few callouts this week:


  • Wednesday hits its third week at number one, with another 300+ works since last week.
  • A League of Their Own and Virtual Streamer Animated Characters are back on the chart, replacing Splatoon (which just last week hit 10 consecutive weeks) and Boku no Hero Academia.
  • Stranger Things, at rank 6 this week, celebrates 30 consecutive chart-weeks.
  • Happy Yuletide! I'll put a few recs in a separate post, but please enjoy reading through the Yuletide 2022 F/F works if you somehow haven't been.





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)
1Wednesday (TV 2022)
Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (343)
Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (28)
Bianca Barclay,Wednesday Addams (24)
343.15363 (+7)28.01%7:1
2Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (118)
Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (58)
Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (22)
148.46255 (+5)1.34%1:6
3 (↑)Warrior Nun (TV)
Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (139)
141.00141 (+4)11.16%161:1
4 (↓)原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (35)
Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (33)
Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (26)
137.62170 (-21)1.56%1:4
5 (↑)The Owl House (Cartoon)
Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (105)
Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (22)
Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (15)
116.16121 (+4)1.53%5:1
6 (↑)Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (103)
Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (19)
Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (18)
115.68155 (+13)2.81%1:4
7 (↓2)League of Legends
Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (87)
Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (15)
Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (11)
107.14111 (-30)1.56%1.3:1
8Supergirl (TV 2015)
Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (50)
Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (13)
Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (10)
80.2885 (-4)0.27%29:1
9 (↑11)Amphibia (Cartoon)
Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (45)
Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (32)
Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (30)
64.0070 (+29)2.28%17:1
10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 (12)
Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (12)
Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (12)
63.3468 (+7)3.13%1:1.1
11Grey's Anatomy
Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (42)
Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (6)
Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (5)
59.0962 (+3)1.48%3:1
12 (↑4)Marvel Cinematic Universe
Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (41)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (21)
Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (9)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (9)
54.80108 (+9)0.68%1:6
13 (↑2)Doctor Who
Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (46)
Rose Tyler,Thirteenth Doctor (6)
Nyssa of Traken,Tegan Jovanka (4)
54.7465 (+9)0.83%1.1:1
14 (↑4)RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (31)
Raven Branwen,Summer Rose (RWBY) (5)
Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (4)
Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (4)
54.4566 (+7)0.50%3:1
15 (↓3)A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (63)
46.2384 (-3)1.91%1:1.7
16 (↓3)She-Ra: Princess Of Power
Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (41)
Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (9)
Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (5)
45.0648 (-2)0.44%4:1
17 (⇑)A League of Their Own (TV 2022)
Carson Shaw,Greta Gill (28)
Jess McCready,Lupe García (16)
Esther Warner,Maxine "Max" Chapman (3)
Greta Gill,Jo De Luca (3)
43.0043 (?)7.53%447:1
18 (↓)Once Upon a Time (TV)
Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (43)
40.8948 (-5)0.28%9:1
19 (⇑)Virtual Streamer Animated Characters
Mori Calliope,Takanashi Kiara (9)
Nanashi Mumei,Ouro Kronii (8)
Ceres Fauna,Ouro Kronii (4)
Rosemi Lovelock,Selen Tatsuki (4)
36.7542 (?)1.93%1:1.6
20 (↓11)Killing Eve (TV 2018)
Eve Polastri,Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (35)
35.0035 (-30)0.98%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.


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

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