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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:


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)
1Marvel Cinematic Universe
Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (232)
Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (28)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (19)
265.14317 (+20)1.55%1:6
2Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (126)
Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (56)
Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (36)
167.02292 (-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)
121.71131 (+14)1.24%1:1.0
4 (↓)Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (126)
118.04137 (+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)
110.04112 (+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)
86.0087 (+2)0.25%31:1
7The Owl House (Cartoon)
Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (75)
Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (24)
Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (14)
82.1386 (-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)
74.4280 (-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)
73.1496 (-34)0.53%1:5
10RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (36)
Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10)
Cinder Fall,Winter Schnee (6)
71.4282 (-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)
66.4672 (+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)
57.54112 (-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)
52.3685 (-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)
48.0049 (+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)
42.1345 (-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)
42.0944 (-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)
39.2643 (+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)
39.1946 (+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)
34.2938 (?)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)
34.0335 (?)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.


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