letzan: (Default)
[personal profile] letzan

High-level stats for week of 2024-02-27 - 2024-03-04


  • Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8305 (-113 from last week)

  • Works I classified F/F: 4848 (-136 from last week) (2246 new, 2602 continued)

  • 0.65% of all 741017 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week






A few callouts this week:


  • Another busy week for Hazbin Hotel.
  • Also a busy week for turnover: Avatar is back for the first time in 2024 (due entirely to Legend of Korra ships, but the reboot of A:tLA may well be driving some enthusiasm across the board). Stranger Things, The 100, and Boku no Hero Academia, are each back after a few weeks away.
  • Those four fandoms replace Doctor Who and Game of Thrones (after chart runs of 14 weeks each), Once Upon a Time (after a 6-week run), and Miraculous Ladybug (which just reentered the chart last week).
  • Chart anniversaries: Wednesday celebrates 70 consecutive weeks on the chart. Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! reaches 90. Marvel Cinematic Universe hits 120 consecutive weeks (out of 400+ total weeks).





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)
1Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (265)
242.05277 (+1)48.01%1:3
2Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (128)
Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (58)
Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (40)
195.49324 (+34)1.16%1:5
3 (↑2)原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (33)
Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (16)
Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (14)
103.10132 (+9)0.82%1:4
4 (↓)The Owl House (Cartoon)
Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (97)
Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (27)
Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (23)
101.31108 (-2)0.96%4:1
5 (↑)Supergirl (TV 2015)
Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (84)
Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (14)
Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (10)
94.0195 (+5)0.28%30:1
6 (↑2)Wednesday (TV 2022)
Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (85)
Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (21)
Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (8)
80.6689 (+3)1.55%13:1
7 (↑4)プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ!| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (23)
Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (19)
Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (9)
76.1179 (+15)1.41%1:1.2
8 (↓)League of Legends
Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (55)
Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (14)
Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (7)
73.1176 (-15)0.81%1.1:1
9Grey's Anatomy
Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (61)
Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (6)
Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (5)
72.2076 (-3)1.29%3:1
10RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (45)
Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (12)
Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (7)
Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7)
70.0887 (+1)0.56%4:1
11 (↓7)Marvel Cinematic Universe
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (40)
Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (27)
Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (13)
60.4098 (-34)0.52%1:6
12 (↑7)Warrior Nun (TV)
Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (56)
Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (15)
Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (12)
59.0060 (+22)1.76%113:1
13 (↑2)Yellowjackets (TV)
Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (24)
Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (18)
Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (13)
49.0049 (+6)2.08%133:1
14 (⇑)Avatar: Legend of Korra
Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (45)
Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (4)
Korra (Avatar),Kuvira (Avatar) (3)
47.1750 (?)0.60%5:1
15 (⇑)The 100 (TV)
Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (42)
Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (7)
Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (4)
41.2447 (?)0.30%5:1
16 (↑)Splatoon
Marina (Splatoon),Pearl (Splatoon) (22)
Agent 3 (Splatoon),Agent 8 (Splatoon) (10)
Agent 3 (Splatoon),New Agent 3 (Splatoon 3) (4)
41.0943 (+4)1.77%1.9:1
17 (⇑)Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (27)
Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (9)
Barbara "Barb" Holland,Nancy Wheeler (5)
Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (5)
40.3154 (?)0.59%1:4
18 (↓4)She-Ra - All Media Types
Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (41)
Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (6)
Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5)
40.0042 (-4)0.37%16:1
19 (↓6)Mean Girls (2004)
Janis Ian | Janis Sarkisian | Janis "Imi'ike,Regina George (24)
Cady Heron,Regina George (16)
Cady Heron,Janis Ian | Janis Sarkisian | Janis "Imi'ike (3)
39.0941 (-5)4.39%8:1
20 (⇑)僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (22)
Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (18)
Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (12)
36.0081 (?)0.66%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.

This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting
Page generated Dec. 28th, 2025 02:13 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios