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High-level stats for week of 2024-07-02 - 2024-07-08


  • Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8300 (-101 from last week)

  • Works I classified F/F: 4715 (-110 from last week) (2048 new, 2667 continued)

  • 0.61% of all 778061 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week






A few callouts this week:


  • RWBY is back in the top five for the first time in a couple of months, replacing Genshin Impact.
  • Pixar movie series Inside Out makes its first ever chart appearance. It's joined by Criminal Minds, Doctor Who, and Honkai: Star Rail, all of which return after short absences. Those four replace Avatar: The Last Airbender, Mean Girls, Stranger Things, and The 100, all of which fall off after one week.





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 (158)
Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (68)
Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (34)
199.80333 (+3)1.10%1:5
2Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (183)
190.91210 (+7)8.83%1:3
3Grey's Anatomy
Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (93)
Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (10)
Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (7)
111.39118 (+6)1.81%3:1
4The Owl House (Cartoon)
Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (86)
Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (25)
Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (15)
95.39102 (+0)0.86%4:1
5 (↑5)RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (46)
Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (12)
Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7)
88.70101 (+20)0.63%4:1
6 (↑3)A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (93)
83.20130 (+20)1.99%1:1.7
7 (↑4)League of Legends
Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (61)
Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (13)
Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (10)
78.4685 (+12)0.87%1:1.0
8 (↓3)原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (20)
Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (16)
Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (14)
73.6999 (-17)0.57%1:4
9 (↓)プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ!| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game)
Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (15)
Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (12)
Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (10)
71.3176 (-7)1.18%1:1.2
10 (↑2)Supergirl (TV 2015)
Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (57)
Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (13)
Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (9)
70.1674 (+6)0.22%31:1
11 (⇑)Criminal Minds (US TV)
Emily Prentiss,Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (75)
Emily Prentiss,Tara Lewis (4)
67.3780 (?)2.23%1:2
12 (↓5)Wednesday (TV 2022)
Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (65)
Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (11)
Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (6)
65.5472 (-13)1.14%13:1
13 (↑)Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
Cressida Cowper,Eloise Bridgerton (47)
Francesca Bridgerton,Michaela Stirling (11)
Eloise Bridgerton,Penelope Featherington (10)
54.7261 (+7)12.20%1.4:1
14 (⇑)Doctor Who
Thirteenth Doctor,Yasmin Khan (18)
Helen Sinclair,Liv Chenka (13)
Kate Lethbridge-Stewart,Petronella Osgood (9)
48.0255 (?)0.57%1.1:1
15 (↑)Yellowjackets (TV)
Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (21)
Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (18)
Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (11)
44.0245 (+0)1.64%101:1
16 (↑)She-Ra - All Media Types
Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (43)
Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5)
Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (3)
43.0046 (+2)0.39%17:1
17 (↑)Marvel Cinematic Universe
Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (22)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (18)
Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (13)
42.7274 (-2)0.38%1:6
18 (⇑)Inside Out (Pixar Movies)
Riley Andersen,Val Ortiz (Inside Out) (40)
Anxiety (Inside Out),Joy (Inside Out) (6)
Dani (Inside Out),Val Ortiz (Inside Out) (6)
42.1945 (?)60.00%4:1
19 (↓6)僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (33)
Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (25)
Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (10)
40.9488 (-23)0.69%1:7
20 (⇑)崩坏:星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
Firefly (Honkai: Star Rail),Robin (Honkai: Star Rail) (15)
Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail),Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) (14)
Acheron (Honkai: Star Rail),Black Swan (Honkai: Star Rail) (8)
35.5654 (?)2.81%1:4




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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