High-level stats for week of 2024-06-04 - 2024-06-10
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8300 (-214 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4736 (-223 from last week) (2095 new, 2641 continued)
- 0.62% of all 769429 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:
- Once Upon a Time, Yellowjackets, and Boku no Hero Academia all return after short absences. Critical Role and Honkai: Star Rail exit the chart.
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 (158) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (63) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (37) | 198.72 | 330 (-91) | 1.11% | 1:5 |
| 2 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (190) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Emily (Hazbin Hotel) (22) | 198.36 | 220 (+5) | 10.48% | 1:3 |
| 3 | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (74) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (21) | 104.04 | 106 (-17) | 1.66% | 3:1 |
| 4 (↑2) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (94) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (15) Bianca Barclay,Wednesday Addams (8) | 94.16 | 98 (+3) | 1.58% | 13:1 |
| 5 (↑2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (82) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (31) Camila Noceda,Luz Noceda (13) | 90.08 | 94 (+2) | 0.80% | 4:1 |
| 6 (↓) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (32) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (13) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (13) | 89.71 | 116 (-12) | 0.68% | 1:4 |
| 7 (↓3) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (76) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (15) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (9) | 86.33 | 94 (-21) | 0.28% | 30:1 |
| 8 (↑) | 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 (20) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (15) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (10) | 77.05 | 79 (+10) | 1.27% | 1:1.2 |
| 9 (↑3) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (62) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (10) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (5) | 73.30 | 78 (+20) | 0.81% | 1:1.0 |
| 10 (↓2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (33) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) | 61.53 | 74 (-15) | 0.46% | 4:1 |
| 11 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (23) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (16) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (15) | 52.58 | 87 (-1) | 0.45% | 1:6 |
| 12 (↓2) | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (49) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (6) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (4) | 51.00 | 52 (-8) | 0.44% | 17:1 |
| 13 (↑) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (58) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (9) Daenerys Targaryen,Sansa Stark (5) | 50.04 | 83 (+1) | 1.31% | 1:1.7 |
| 14 (↑4) | Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn Cressida Cowper,Eloise Bridgerton (47) Eloise Bridgerton,Penelope Featherington (11) | 44.86 | 54 (+12) | 16.82% | 1.3:1 |
| 15 (⇑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (45) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (4) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (3) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Queen of Hearts | Cora (3) | 44.26 | 51 (?) | 0.28% | 8:1 |
| 16 (⇑) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (19) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (19) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (12) | 41.00 | 41 (?) | 1.55% | 109:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | 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 (17) | 39.80 | 89 (?) | 0.70% | 1:7 |
| 18 (↓2) | Warrior Nun (TV) Ava Silva,Sister Beatrice (Warrior Nun) (35) Sister Camila (Warrior Nun),Sister Lilith (Warrior Nun) (8) Shannon Masters,Shotgun Mary (Warrior Nun) (5) | 39.00 | 39 (-8) | 1.08% | 116:1 |
| 19 (↑) | Criminal Minds (US TV) Emily Prentiss,Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (38) Emily Prentiss,Tara Lewis (4) Alex Blake,Emily Prentiss (3) | 37.79 | 46 (+6) | 1.33% | 1:2 |
| 20 (↓3) | Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula (Avatar),Katara (Avatar) (9) Azula (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (9) Mai (Avatar),Ty Lee (Avatar) (8) | 34.57 | 39 (-8) | 0.78% | 1:1.6 |
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.