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High-level stats for week of 2024-10-15 - 2024-10-21
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 8669 (-249 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 4788 (-159 from last week) (2365 new, 2423 continued)
- 0.59% of all 810155 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:
- MCU remains in first place for a third week, and fic count is still growing week-over-week.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender and Life Is Strange return after absences of about a month each. They replace Miraculous Ladybug and Honkai: Star Rail.
- Chart anniversaries: Hazbin Hotel reaches 40 consecutive chart-weeks. Owl House reaches 220, which is over 4 years.
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) |
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1 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (232) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (28) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (19) | 265.14 | 317 (+20) | 1.55% | 1:6 |
2 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (126) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (56) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (36) | 167.02 | 292 (-32) | 0.91% | 1:5 |
3 (↑) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (106) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (19) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (8) | 121.71 | 131 (+14) | 1.24% | 1:1.0 |
4 (↓) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (126) | 118.04 | 137 (+0) | 4.51% | 1:3 |
5 (↑3) | 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 (37) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (19) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (15) | 110.04 | 112 (+23) | 1.56% | 1:1.2 |
6 (↑3) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (73) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (7) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (6) | 86.00 | 87 (+2) | 0.25% | 31:1 |
7 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (75) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (24) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (14) | 82.13 | 86 (-6) | 0.70% | 4:1 |
8 (↓2) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (74) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (11) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (5) | 74.42 | 80 (-18) | 1.17% | 14:1 |
9 (↓4) | 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) (14) | 73.14 | 96 (-34) | 0.53% | 1:5 |
10 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (36) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) Cinder Fall,Winter Schnee (6) | 71.42 | 82 (-4) | 0.50% | 4:1 |
11 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (50) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (8) Jules Millin,Mika Yasuda (6) | 66.46 | 72 (+3) | 1.04% | 3:1 |
12 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (51) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (28) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (6) | 57.54 | 112 (-12) | 0.84% | 1:7 |
13 (↓2) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (59) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (5) | 52.36 | 85 (-24) | 1.15% | 1:1.7 |
14 (↑2) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (43) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (7) Adora (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (4) | 48.00 | 49 (+7) | 0.41% | 17:1 |
15 (↓) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (40) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) | 42.13 | 45 (-9) | 0.24% | 8:1 |
16 (↓) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (16) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (16) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Natalie Scatorccio (14) | 42.09 | 44 (-6) | 1.44% | 97:1 |
17 (↑3) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (39) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (10) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (4) | 39.26 | 43 (+4) | 0.27% | 5:1 |
18 (↑) | Murder Drones (Web Series) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (18) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (12) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (10) | 39.19 | 46 (+3) | 5.93% | 5:1 |
19 (⇑) | Avatar: Legend of Korra Asami Sato,Korra (Avatar) (31) Kya II (Avatar),Lin Beifong (10) Korra (Avatar),Kya II (Avatar) (2) Lin Beifong,Suyin Beifong (2) | 34.29 | 38 (?) | 0.44% | 5:1 |
20 (⇑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (25) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Rachel Amber (8) Kate Marsh,Maxine "Max" Caulfield (5) | 34.03 | 35 (?) | 0.58% | 8:1 |
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.