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High-level stats for week of 2023-08-29 - 2023-09-04

Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7863 (+27 from last week)

Works I classified F/F: 4578 (+18 from last week) (2196 new, 2382 continued)

0.67% of all 685444 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

I didn't find out about this Marvel Femslash Drabbles challenge in time to post before signups closed, but you can still keep an eye out for works to reveal on September 24th.
Four fandoms most recently seen last month return to the charts: Once Upon a Time at 14, Game of Thrones at 16, Gideon the Ninth at 19, and Doctor Who at 20. They replace four fandoms with streaks of only 1-2 weeks: Avatar, Critical Role, Honkai Impact 3rd, and Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury.

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	Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (170) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (80) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (42)	230.00	369 (+15)	1.49%	1:5
2	The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (93) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (33) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (11)	111.29	117 (-27)	1.14%	4:1
3 (↑2)	Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (95) Eleven \| Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (19) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (10)	109.87	133 (+10)	1.63%	1:4
4	Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (106) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (16) Bianca Barclay,Wednesday Addams (11)	106.31	112 (-6)	2.29%	8:1
5 (↓2)	原神 \| Genshin Impact (Video Game) Raiden Ei \| Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (27) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (17) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (13)	96.03	122 (-52)	0.86%	1:4
6	Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (70) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (10) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (5)	84.17	88 (-8)	1.65%	3:1
7	Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (62) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (9) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (9)	75.48	82 (-3)	0.25%	30:1
8 (↑5)	Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (38) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (36) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (13)	72.90	112 (+17)	0.63%	1:6
9 (↑3)	Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (65) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (12) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (12)	72.00	72 (+15)	2.59%	129:1
10 (↑)	League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (52) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (9) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (9)	71.50	78 (+15)	0.91%	1.3:1
11 (↓)	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 (15) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (12) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (11)	70.05	72 (-2)	1.70%	1:1.2
12 (↓4)	Yellowjackets (TV) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (38) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (27) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (16)	70.00	70 (-12)	4.34%	129:1
13 (↓4)	RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (41) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (8) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (5) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (5)	58.59	75 (-16)	0.51%	4:1
14 (⇑)	Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen \| Regina Mills (41) Evil Queen \| Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (4) Evil Queen \| Regina Mills,Snow White \| Mary Margaret Blanchard (4)	47.52	53 (?)	0.30%	9:1
15	僕のヒーローアカデミア \| Boku no Hero Academia \| My Hero Academia Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (37) Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (20) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (13)	46.92	100 (-1)	0.87%	1:7
16 (⇑)	A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (49) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (14)	43.95	75 (?)	1.37%	1:1.7
17 (↓3)	She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (36) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (5) Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (3) Castaspella (She-Ra),Shadow Weaver \| Light Spinner (She-Ra) (3)	39.00	42 (-13)	0.37%	17:1
18 (↓)	The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (33) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (4) ...	36.16	43 (+0)	0.28%	5:1
19 (⇑)	Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir Gideon Nav,Harrowhark Nonagesimus (28) Harrowhark Nonagesimus,Ianthe Tridentarius (4) Coronabeth Tridentarius,Gideon Nav (2)	36.00	36 (?)	1.87%	19:1
20 (⇑)	Doctor Who Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (25) Nyssa of Traken,Tegan Jovanka (5) Bill Potts,Clara Oswin Oswald (2) Clara Oswin Oswald,Missy (Doctor Who) (2) Jenny Flint,Madame Vastra (Doctor Who) (2)	35.56	40 (?)	0.47%	1.1:1

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.