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High-level stats for week of 2024-02-06 - 2024-02-12


  • Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8264 (-49 from last week)

  • Works I classified F/F: 4833 (-57 from last week) (2385 new, 2448 continued)

  • 0.66% of all 733495 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week






A few callouts this week:


  • Hazbin Hotel shows up in this week's top 20 twice, which isn't supposed to happen. As far as I can tell, what happened is that the canonical name of the fandom was changed from "Hazbin Hotel (Web Series)" to "Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)" sometime during the week, and that's not something my scripts can handle. If that's the situation, I expect this to be a one-time thing, so I'm not going to debug further unless it happens again next week.
  • She-Ra and Boku no Hero Academia are each back after a week away. Mean Girls, Star Wars, and Stranger Things, all exit the charts.





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 (144)
Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (63)
Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (37)
213.31349 (+36)1.26%1:5
2 (↑2)The Owl House (Cartoon)
Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (93)
Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (23)
Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (15)
105.08108 (-3)0.97%4:1
3 (↓)原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (20)
Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (15)
Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (15)
101.16124 (-28)0.78%1:4
4 (↓)Hazbin Hotel (Web Series)
Charlie Magne,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (119)
95.75124 (-17)7.45%1:3
5Wednesday (TV 2022)
Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (95)
Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (14)
Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (9)
91.45104 (-4)1.85%13:1
6 (↑2)Supergirl (TV 2015)
Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (72)
Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (10)
Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (6)
Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (6)
87.0790 (+12)0.27%30:1
7 (↑3)League of Legends
Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (61)
Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (16)
Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (8)
84.1087 (+12)0.94%1.1:1
8 (↓2)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 (10)
77.4784 (-6)1.54%1:1.2
9 (↓6)Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (86)
Carmilla Carmine (Hazbin Hotel),Velvette (Hazbin Hotel) (5)
Charlie Magne,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (5)
73.9897 (-44)104.30%1:3
10 (↓3)RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (40)
Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10)
Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (7)
72.0084 (-5)0.54%4:1
11 (↓2)Grey's Anatomy
Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (57)
Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (10)
Andy Herrera,Victoria Hughes (4)
68.0169 (-7)1.18%3:1
12 (↑)Warrior Nun (TV)
Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (54)
Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (8)
Jillian Salvius,Mother Superion (Warrior Nun) (4)
Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (4)
60.0060 (+1)1.79%111:1
13 (↓2)Doctor Who
Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (19)
Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (6)
56.1167 (-5)0.73%1.1:1
14 (↓2)Marvel Cinematic Universe
Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (34)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (29)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (9)
55.4998 (-4)0.52%1:6
15 (⇑)She-Ra - All Media Types
Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (48)
Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (7)
Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (3)
50.0050 (?)0.44%16:1
16 (↓)Once Upon a Time (TV)
Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (46)
49.2153 (+4)0.29%9:1
17 (↑3)Miraculous Ladybug
Chloé Bourgeois,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (11)
Juleka Couffaine,Rose Lavillant (11)
Alya Césaire,Marinette Dupain-Cheng (8)
41.8051 (+6)1.07%1.1:1
18 (↓4)Yellowjackets (TV)
Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (18)
Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (14)
Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (11)
40.0241 (-10)1.80%145:1
19 (↓2)A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (40)
Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (7)
Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (5)
39.2367 (-3)1.13%1:1.7
20 (⇑)僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (25)
Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (20)
Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (12)
38.8886 (?)0.71%1:7




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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