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Femslash week in review: 2025-01-21 - 2025-01-27
High-level stats for week of 2025-01-21 - 2025-01-27
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9366 (+151 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5391 (+67 from last week) (2314 new, 3077 continued)
- 0.64% of all 846298 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Another stable week for the top five.
- Roblox horror game Dandy's World makes its first appearance at rank 20. Once Upon a Time returns for the first time in 2025. Those two fandoms replace Life Is Strange and She-Ra.
- Chart anniversary: MCU reaches 40 consecutive weeks (out of 558 lifetime weeks) in its current run.
- Happy Femslash February. I saw a few announcements of prompts and exchanges this week.
- Signups are open for the Femgiftboxes female-character-centric gifting community.
- Elasticella is running the fresh femslash salad bar prompt challenge for a second year.
- Sapphicsunshower announced Femslash February Funkathon, a musical prompt fest.
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) (589) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (118) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (36) | 655.39 | 695 (-15) | 4.46% | 1:1.0 |
| 2 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (222) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (21) Agatha Harkness,Wanda Maximoff (20) | 241.53 | 290 (-18) | 1.24% | 1:5 |
| 3 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (160) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (61) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (59) | 211.81 | 351 (+42) | 1.05% | 1:5 |
| 4 | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (147) | 147.03 | 149 (+10) | 9.78% | 7:1 |
| 5 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (111) | 105.06 | 123 (+3) | 3.49% | 1:3 |
| 6 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (42) Cinder Fall,Winter Schnee (8) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (8) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (8) | 80.94 | 94 (+0) | 0.56% | 4:1 |
| 7 (↑4) | 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 (16) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (15) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (12) | 74.01 | 75 (+7) | 0.94% | 1:1.2 |
| 8 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (66) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (13) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (9) | 72.22 | 78 (+1) | 0.22% | 31:1 |
| 9 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (12) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (11) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (8) | 68.64 | 87 (-2) | 0.46% | 1:5 |
| 10 (↓4) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (40) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (16) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (7) | 67.03 | 69 (-12) | 0.94% | 4:1 |
| 11 (↑3) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (54) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (10) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (9) | 61.78 | 93 (+9) | 1.19% | 1:1.7 |
| 12 (↓2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (55) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (17) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (10) | 59.40 | 66 (-15) | 0.53% | 4:1 |
| 13 | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (35) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (20) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (19) | 59.06 | 61 (-4) | 1.78% | 103:1 |
| 14 (↑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (50) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (27) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (8) | 57.28 | 107 (+3) | 0.76% | 1:7 |
| 15 (⇑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (48) | 53.02 | 54 (?) | 0.28% | 8:1 |
| 16 | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (52) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (5) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (4) | 52.00 | 52 (-1) | 9.03% | 9:1 |
| 17 (↓5) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (52) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (12) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (7) | 51.11 | 54 (-15) | 0.74% | 14:1 |
| 18 (↑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (38) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (10) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (4) | 40.00 | 41 (-2) | 0.25% | 5:1 |
| 19 (↓2) | Murder Drones (Web Series) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (16) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (15) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (13) | 39.58 | 48 (-2) | 4.54% | 5:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Dandy's World (Roblox) Shelly (Dandy's World),Vee (Dandy's World) (29) Shelly (Dandy's World),Tisha (Dandy's World) (14) Brightney (Dandy's World),Tisha (Dandy's World) (6) Poppy (Dandy's World),Scraps (Dandy's World) (6) | 38.21 | 45 (?) | 14.29% | 1:2 |
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.