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High-level stats for week of 2024-05-21 - 2024-05-27


  • Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 7927 (+124 from last week)

  • Works I classified F/F: 4453 (-52 from last week) (1925 new, 2528 continued)

  • 0.58% of all 764954 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week






A few callouts this week:


  • Harry Potter slides back into first place, ending Hazbin Hotel's 13-week run in the top slot.
  • Bridgerton gets its first ever chart appearance, presumably thanks to the recently-launched TV third season. Criminal Minds returns to the chart for the first time in a year. Yellowjackets falls off after 4 weeks in a row.
  • Game of Thrones and She-Ra have both reached 10 consecutive chart weeks in their latest runs. RWBY is at 370 consecutive weeks, and Supergirl reaches 440.
  • There's a new ongoing Babylon 5 femslash prompt meme on dreamwidth, so go check that 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)
1 (↑)Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (146)
Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (63)
Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (35)
198.96310 (+34)1.05%1:5
2 (↓)Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (196)
191.62214 (-5)11.01%1:3
3 (↑)Grey's Anatomy
Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (82)
Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (7)
Andy Herrera,Maya Bishop (7)
105.00105 (+15)1.67%3:1
4 (↓)The Owl House (Cartoon)
Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (84)
Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (21)
Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (15)
97.28103 (+5)0.88%4:1
5 (↑4)Supergirl (TV 2015)
Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (73)
Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (13)
Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (9)
93.0396 (+22)0.28%31:1
6Wednesday (TV 2022)
Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (93)
Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (20)
Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (13)
92.4699 (+12)1.62%13:1
7 (↓2)原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (16)
Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (15)
Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (15)
77.4598 (-5)0.58%1:4
8 (↓)RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (51)
Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10)
Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (6)
74.9092 (+2)0.58%4:1
9 (↑4)League of Legends
Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (46)
Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (12)
Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (6)
59.2964 (+9)0.67%1:1.0
10 (↓2)She-Ra - All Media Types
Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (55)
Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (8)
Castaspella (She-Ra),Shadow Weaver | Light Spinner (She-Ra) (4)
Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (4)
58.0059 (-12)0.51%17:1
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 (13)
Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (9)
Akiyama Mizuki,Asahina Mafuyu,Shinonome Ena,Yoisaki Kanade (8)
54.1557 (-5)0.93%1:1.2
12 (⇑)Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
Cressida Cowper,Eloise Bridgerton (45)
Eloise Bridgerton,Penelope Featherington (6)
41.9551 (?)20.65%1.0:1
13 (↓)A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (43)
Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (7)
Aemma Arryn,Rhaenys Targaryen Velaryon (4)
Baela Targaryen,Helaena Targaryen (4)
41.3970 (-5)1.12%1:1.7
14 (↑2)僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (34)
Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (14)
Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (10)
40.8486 (-1)0.68%1:7
15 (↑3)Avatar: The Last Airbender
Azula (Avatar),Katara (Avatar) (12)
Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (9)
Azula (Avatar),Mai (Avatar) (6)
35.0241 (-5)0.82%1:1.6
16 (↓)Marvel Cinematic Universe
Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (27)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Yelena Belova (9)
Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (8)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (8)
34.7769 (-14)0.36%1:6
17 (↓3)崩坏:星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
Firefly (Honkai: Star Rail),Robin (Honkai: Star Rail) (24)
Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail),Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) (9)
Acheron (Honkai: Star Rail),Black Swan (Honkai: Star Rail) (8)
32.9653 (-20)3.10%1:4
18 (↓)Once Upon a Time (TV)
Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (33)
Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (2)
Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Queen of Hearts | Cora (2)
Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Red Riding Hood | Ruby (2)
32.7038 (-8)0.21%8:1
19 (⇑)Criminal Minds (US TV)
Emily Prentiss,Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (28)
Elle Greenaway,Emily Prentiss (2)
Emily Prentiss,Tara Lewis (2)
Rebecca Wilson (Criminal Minds),Tara Lewis (2)
30.2439 (?)1.14%1:2
20 (↓)Warrior Nun (TV)
Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (28)
Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (6)
Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (5)
30.0031 (-7)0.86%115:1




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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