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High-level stats for week of 2023-12-26 - 2024-01-01


  • Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8398 (+256 from last week)

  • Works I classified F/F: 4874 (+75 from last week) (2365 new, 2509 continued)

  • 0.68% of all 721096 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week






A few callouts this week:


  • Boku no Hero Academia is back after a week away, and Miraculous Ladybug is back after two months away. They replace Avatar and The 100.
  • Warrior Nun celebrates 60 consecutive chart appearances.





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 (176)
Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (70)
Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (37)
247.23379 (+43)1.40%1:5
2The Owl House (Cartoon)
Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (103)
Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (30)
Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (17)
123.01124 (-11)1.13%4:1
3 (↑)原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (23)
Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (20)
Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (14)
106.24132 (+1)0.86%1:4
4 (↑3)Wednesday (TV 2022)
Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (89)
Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (15)
Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (9)
92.52100 (+12)1.84%12:1
5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 (19)
Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (13)
Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (13)
91.1295 (+5)1.86%1:1.2
6 (↓3)Supergirl (TV 2015)
Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (75)
Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (10)
Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (9)
91.0293 (-29)0.28%30:1
7 (↑)Grey's Anatomy
Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (66)
Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (13)
Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (6)
86.0488 (+7)1.53%3:1
8 (↑5)Marvel Cinematic Universe
Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (35)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (21)
Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (20)
80.40128 (+33)0.69%1:6
9 (↑)League of Legends
Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (50)
Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (9)
Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (8)
76.1179 (+13)0.87%1.2:1
10 (↓4)RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (40)
Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9)
Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7)
Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7)
74.0894 (-8)0.61%4:1
11 (↓2)Warrior Nun (TV)
Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (59)
Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (13)
Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (12)
62.0063 (-4)1.97%109:1
12 (↓)Doctor Who
Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (35)
Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (4)
51.8564 (-1)0.71%1.1:1
13 (↑3)She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (48)
Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (4)
Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (3)
Castaspella (She-Ra),Shadow Weaver | Light Spinner (She-Ra) (3)
Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (3)
51.0051 (+11)0.44%16:1
14 (↓2)Once Upon a Time (TV)
Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (45)
Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3)
50.2154 (-5)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 (36)
Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (24)
Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (8)
49.09103 (?)0.86%1:7
16 (↓)Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (35)
Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (7)
Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (7)
42.9656 (-7)0.63%1:4
17 (↑)Yellowjackets (TV)
Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (23)
Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (16)
Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (12)
40.0241 (+4)1.93%145:1
18 (↓4)A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (37)
Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (7)
Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (5)
38.6566 (-7)1.14%1:1.8
19Total Drama (Cartoon)
Julia (Total Drama),Mary Kate "MK" (Total Drama) (22)
Eva (Total Drama),Izzy (Total Drama) (3)
Katie (Total Drama),Sadie (Total Drama) (3)
Millie (Total Drama),Priya (Total Drama) (3)
36.8643 (+5)10.89%1:2
20 (⇑)Miraculous Ladybug
Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (21)
Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (7)
Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (7)
35.0444 (?)0.94%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.

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