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High-level stats for week of 2023-04-04 - 2023-04-10


  • Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8031 (+32 from last week)

  • Works I classified F/F: 4833 (+56 from last week) (2306 new, 2527 continued)

  • 0.75% of all 640611 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week






A few callouts this week:


  • Two first-time fandoms enter the chart this week: TV show Willow comes in at 16, and Yellowjackets comes in at 20. Life Is Strange returns after a year away from the charts, and Doctor Who returns after a few weeks away. These four replace Legends of Tomorrow, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Once Upon a Time, and The 100.
  • TV show Owl House celebrates 140 consecutive weeks on the chart.
  • Exchange callout: Signups are open until April 29th for The Femslash Kink Exchange; go check it 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 (173)
Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (81)
Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (31)
268.98396 (+65)1.84%1:5
2The Owl House (Cartoon)
Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (160)
Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (44)
Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (30)
179.41188 (+21)2.10%4:1
3Wednesday (TV 2022)
Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (174)
Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (34)
Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (17)
174.04188 (+6)5.22%10:1
4原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (34)
Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (30)
Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (14)
130.26161 (+4)1.27%1:4
5 (↑5)Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (108)
Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (19)
Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (7)
Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (7)
110.90141 (+26)2.16%1:4
6 (↓)RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (64)
Raven Branwen,Summer Rose (RWBY) (11)
Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (10)
102.80125 (+0)0.91%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 (27)
Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (16)
Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (12)
92.2597 (+4)3.14%1:1.1
8 (↓)Grey's Anatomy
Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (75)
Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (13)
90.0993 (+0)1.99%3:1
9League of Legends
Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (63)
Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (13)
Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (11)
87.1791 (-2)1.16%1.3:1
10 (↑)Supergirl (TV 2015)
Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (60)
Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (10)
Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (10)
81.0583 (-2)0.26%29:1
11 (↓3)Warrior Nun (TV)
Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (75)
Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (14)
Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (11)
79.0079 (-11)3.52%167:1
12 (↑3)She-Ra - All Media Types
Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (55)
Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5)
Castaspella (She-Ra),Shadow Weaver | Light Spinner (She-Ra) (4)
60.0261 (+6)0.58%17:1
13 (↑)A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (58)
Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (7)
57.0490 (-3)1.81%1:1.7
14 (↑2)Splatoon
Marina (Splatoon),Pearl (Splatoon) (26)
Agent 3 (Splatoon),Agent 8 (Splatoon) (21)
Callie (Splatoon),Marie (Splatoon) (6)
52.1655 (+7)3.20%1.9:1
15 (↓3)Marvel Cinematic Universe
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (24)
Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (19)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (9)
41.3280 (-26)0.48%1:6
16 (⇑)Willow (TV 2022)
Jade Claymore,Kit Tanthalos (41)
Elora Danan (Willow),Kit Tanthalos (3)
41.0041 (?)12.65%27:1
17 (⇑)Life Is Strange (Video Game)
Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (26)
Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Rachel Amber (8)
Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Rachel Amber (6)
36.0337 (?)0.69%8:1
18 (⇑)Doctor Who
Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (31)
Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (4)
Clara Oswin Oswald,Thirteenth Doctor (3)
35.5640 (?)0.49%1.1:1
19 (↑)Virtual Streamer Animated Characters
Ceres Fauna,Ouro Kronii (7)
Hakos Baelz,IRyS (Hololive) (6)
Hoshimachi Suisei,Sakura Miko (5)
35.3739 (-9)1.52%1:1.8
20 (⇑)Yellowjackets (TV)
Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (11)
Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (9)
Taissa Turner,Vanessa "Van" Palmer (9)
35.0035 (?)8.86%163:1




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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