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:
| Rank | Fandom (and top three ships) | Rating for week | F/F works updated this week | % of F/F works updated this week | F/F:M/M ratio (all works) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (343) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (28) Bianca Barclay,Wednesday Addams (24) | 343.15 | 363 (+7) | 28.01% | 7:1 |
| 2 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (118) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (58) Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (22) | 148.46 | 255 (+5) | 1.34% | 1:6 |
| 3 (↑) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (139) | 141.00 | 141 (+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) | 137.62 | 170 (-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) | 116.16 | 121 (+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) | 115.68 | 155 (+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) | 107.14 | 111 (-30) | 1.56% | 1.3:1 |
| 8 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (50) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (13) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (10) | 80.28 | 85 (-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) | 64.00 | 70 (+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) | 63.34 | 68 (+7) | 3.13% | 1:1.1 |
| 11 | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (42) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (6) Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (5) | 59.09 | 62 (+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) | 54.80 | 108 (+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) | 54.74 | 65 (+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) | 54.45 | 66 (+7) | 0.50% | 3:1 |
| 15 (↓3) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (63) | 46.23 | 84 (-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) | 45.06 | 48 (-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) | 43.00 | 43 (?) | 7.53% | 447:1 |
| 18 (↓) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (43) | 40.89 | 48 (-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) | 36.75 | 42 (?) | 1.93% | 1:1.6 |
| 20 (↓11) | Killing Eve (TV 2018) Eve Polastri,Villanelle | Oksana Astankova (35) | 35.00 | 35 (-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.