High-level stats for week of 2024-09-24 - 2024-09-30
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8221 (+85 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4446 (+4 from last week) (1907 new, 2539 continued)
- 0.55% of all 802680 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:
- Visual novel Class of '09 makes its first-ever chart appearance at rank 18. Honkai: Star Rail also returns this week. Those two fandoms replace Life Is Strange and The 100.
- Chart anniversaries: Once Upon a Time has been back for 10 consecutive weeks, its longest run since 2022. Addams Family/Wednesday reaches 100 consecutive weeks. Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! reaches 120 consecutive weeks.
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 (146) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (50) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (47) | 202.97 | 323 (+11) | 1.02% | 1:5 |
| 2 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (127) | 118.79 | 140 (-14) | 4.79% | 1:3 |
| 3 (↑4) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (88) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (18) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (7) | 90.35 | 96 (+5) | 1.43% | 14:1 |
| 4 (↑6) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (35) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (34) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (20) | 85.50 | 121 (+19) | 0.61% | 1:6 |
| 5 (↓) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (67) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (7) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (6) | 81.09 | 85 (-13) | 1.24% | 3:1 |
| 6 (↓3) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (78) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (15) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (6) | 78.12 | 88 (-23) | 0.85% | 1:1.0 |
| 7 (↑5) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (57) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (12) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (7) | 76.04 | 79 (+19) | 0.23% | 31:1 |
| 8 (↓3) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (83) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (7) | 73.52 | 117 (-22) | 1.61% | 1:1.7 |
| 9 (↓) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (20) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (19) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (9) | 70.00 | 91 (-4) | 0.51% | 1:5 |
| 10 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (34) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (11) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) | 65.28 | 82 (+4) | 0.50% | 4:1 |
| 11 (↓5) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (59) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (20) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (12) | 61.64 | 69 (-23) | 0.57% | 4:1 |
| 12 (↓) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (55) | 58.12 | 62 (-2) | 0.33% | 8:1 |
| 13 | 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 (13) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (11) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (10) | 57.37 | 62 (+10) | 0.89% | 1:1.2 |
| 14 (↑2) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (42) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (7) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (4) | 45.00 | 45 (+10) | 0.35% | 5:1 |
| 15 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (34) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (26) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (11) | 40.59 | 91 (-5) | 0.69% | 1:7 |
| 16 (⇑) | 崩坏:星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail),Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) (13) Feixiao (Honkai: Star Rail),Yukong (Honkai: Star Rail) (9) Acheron (Honkai: Star Rail),Black Swan (Honkai: Star Rail) (6) | 39.75 | 53 (?) | 2.32% | 1:4 |
| 17 (↓3) | Murder Drones (Web Series) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (18) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (14) Doll (Murder Drones),Lizzy (Murder Drones) (13) | 38.20 | 41 (-15) | 5.79% | 5:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Class of '09 (Visual Novel) Jecka (Class of '09),Nicole (Class of '09) (23) Ari (Class of '09),Nicole (Class of '09) (7) Emily (Class of '09),Nicole (Class of '09) (7) | 32.00 | 32 (?) | 9.20% | 16:1 |
| 19 (↓2) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (16) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (11) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Natalie Scatorccio (8) | 29.26 | 32 (+0) | 1.08% | 95:1 |
| 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) | 29.00 | 29 (+0) | 0.76% | 113:1 |
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.
Share and enjoy, and let me know what I can do to make this more useful.
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Date: 2024-10-11 09:08 pm (UTC)I think I fixed it, and thanks very much for letting me know!