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High-level stats for week of 2023-01-10 - 2023-01-16


  • Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7476 (-574 from last week)

  • Works I classified F/F: 4553 (-377 from last week) (2107 new, 2446 continued)

  • 0.74% of all 612482 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week






A few callouts this week:


  • Owl House has a good week, returning to the top three for the first time in a couple of months.
  • Amphibia is back after a week off, and Miraculous Ladybug is back for the first time since last July. They replace A League of their Own and Gideon the Ninth.
  • Warrior Nun, at rank four this week, celebrates 10 consecutive chart-weeks.
  • Nominations are open until February 5 for the A Woman's Place [...is in the Resistance] 2023 Vid Exchange.





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 (321)
Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (28)
Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (28)
320.10346 (-29)15.16%7:1
2Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (156)
Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (78)
Bellatrix Black Lestrange,Hermione Granger (22)
200.96307 (-22)1.56%1:6
3 (↑2)The Owl House (Cartoon)
Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (129)
Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (24)
Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (18)
138.28145 (+14)1.78%5:1
4 (↓)Warrior Nun (TV)
Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (129)
Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (18)
Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (15)
137.00137 (-23)8.21%216:1
5 (↓)原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (38)
Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (34)
Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (31)
134.08167 (-11)1.47%1:4
6 (↑)Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (99)
Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (26)
Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (18)
106.14144 (+1)2.48%1:4
7 (↓)League of Legends
Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (71)
Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (17)
Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (16)
97.23102 (-7)1.39%1.3:1
8 (↑)Supergirl (TV 2015)
Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (56)
Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (15)
Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (7)
76.0578 (-5)0.25%29:1
9 (↓)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 (20)
Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (15)
Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (12)
67.1270 (-20)2.90%1:1.1
10 (↑3)She-Ra: Princess Of Power
Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (52)
Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (7)
Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (7)
58.0059 (+0)0.53%4:1
11 (↑4)Grey's Anatomy
Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (37)
Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (12)
Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (4)
57.0057 (+1)1.33%3:1
12 (↑2)RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (38)
Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (6)
Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (5)
Cinder Fall,Winter Schnee (5)
56.3968 (+0)0.51%3:1
13 (↓3)A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (50)
Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (8)
Baela Targaryen,Helaena Targaryen (6)
54.4697 (-16)2.13%1:1.7
14 (↓2)The 100 (TV)
Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (38)
Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (9)
Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (5)
Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (5)
48.0249 (-13)0.32%5:1
15 (↑)Doctor Who
Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (33)
Nyssa of Traken,Tegan Jovanka (5)
Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (3)
Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (3)
43.5649 (-5)0.62%1.1:1
16 (↑2)Once Upon a Time (TV)
Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (37)
Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (5)
42.0444 (-2)0.26%9:1
17 (⇑)Amphibia (Cartoon)
Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu,Sasha Waybright (26)
Anne Boonchuy,Sasha Waybright (20)
Anne Boonchuy,Marcy Wu (18)
40.0045 (?)1.43%18:1
18 (↓7)Marvel Cinematic Universe
Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (32)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (18)
Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (10)
39.1486 (-28)0.53%1:6
19 (⇑)Miraculous Ladybug
Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (18)
Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (7)
Kagami Tsurugi,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (7)
37.9644 (?)1.11%1.1:1
20僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (35)
Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (15)
Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (12)
37.5791 (+5)0.88%1:8




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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