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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-01-14 - 2025-01-20
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9215 (-262 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5324 (-242 from last week) (2303 new, 3021 continued)
- 0.63% of all 843984 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Another stable week in the top five, and indeed in the chart overall.
- Life Is Strange returns for the first time in 2025, replacing Hololive (Virtual Streamers).
- An American Girl 100-prompt table challenge is starting up, so check that out.
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 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (623) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (123) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (38) | 660.68 | 710 (-83) | 4.65% | 1:1.0 |
| 2 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (230) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (26) Alice Gulliver,Jennifer Kale (16) | 259.19 | 308 (-1) | 1.32% | 1:5 |
| 3 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (125) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (48) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (40) | 176.57 | 309 (-13) | 0.93% | 1:5 |
| 4 | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (135) | 138.01 | 139 (+10) | 9.70% | 6:1 |
| 5 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (108) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Emily (Hazbin Hotel) (9) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (9) | 97.14 | 120 (-5) | 3.43% | 1:3 |
| 6 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (48) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (16) Jules Millin,Mika Yasuda (6) | 79.05 | 81 (+7) | 1.11% | 4:1 |
| 7 (↑5) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (46) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (8) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (8) | 76.02 | 94 (+20) | 0.56% | 4:1 |
| 8 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (57) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (11) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (9) | 72.19 | 77 (+3) | 0.22% | 31:1 |
| 9 (↑2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (15) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (12) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (11) | 71.85 | 89 (+9) | 0.47% | 1:5 |
| 10 (↑3) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (68) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (22) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (9) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (9) | 70.99 | 81 (+18) | 0.65% | 4:1 |
| 11 (↓5) | 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 (23) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (14) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (10) | 65.13 | 68 (-24) | 0.86% | 1:1.2 |
| 12 (↑3) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (64) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (10) Bianca Barclay,Yoko Tanaka (4) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (4) | 62.64 | 69 (+18) | 0.95% | 14:1 |
| 13 (↑) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (36) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (23) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (20) | 61.23 | 65 (+8) | 1.92% | 99:1 |
| 14 (↓7) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (53) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (11) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (6) | 57.88 | 84 (-17) | 1.08% | 1:1.7 |
| 15 (↓5) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (47) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (33) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (6) | 53.56 | 104 (-20) | 0.74% | 1:7 |
| 16 (↑) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (53) | 53.00 | 53 (+6) | 9.67% | 9:1 |
| 17 (↑) | Murder Drones (Web Series) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (16) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (16) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (14) | 45.45 | 50 (+2) | 4.82% | 5:1 |
| 18 (↑) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (43) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (9) Catra (She-Ra),Glimmer (She-Ra) (5) | 45.00 | 46 (+12) | 0.38% | 17:1 |
| 19 (↓3) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (37) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (13) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (5) | 38.43 | 43 (-12) | 0.26% | 5:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (26) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Rachel Amber (8) Kate Marsh,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (4) | 34.00 | 34 (?) | 0.55% | 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.
