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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-02-18 - 2025-02-24
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10442 (-747 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 6134 (-668 from last week) (2934 new, 3200 continued)
- 0.71% of all 858405 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Yellowjackets returns to its best-ever rank of 4.
- Stranger Things returns to the chart for the first time since last September, replacing Hololive.
- A Woman's Place [...Is in the Resistance] is running a monthlong recs challenge for fic involving women.
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) (598) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (105) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (38) | 654.88 | 690 (-106) | 4.09% | 1:1.0 |
| 2 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (191) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (35) Alice Gulliver,Jennifer Kale (23) | 241.37 | 296 (-42) | 1.23% | 1:5 |
| 3 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (156) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (70) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (44) | 204.65 | 359 (-38) | 1.05% | 1:5 |
| 4 (↑) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (80) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (38) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (38) | 153.04 | 156 (+22) | 4.20% | 97:1 |
| 5 (↓) | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (132) Elphaba Thropp,Nessarose Thropp (8) | 133.04 | 136 (-5) | 7.54% | 6:1 |
| 6 (↑2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (82) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (25) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (14) | 94.19 | 99 (+7) | 0.79% | 4:1 |
| 7 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (107) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Emily (Hazbin Hotel) (8) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (8) | 93.20 | 114 (-10) | 3.13% | 1:3 |
| 8 (↓2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (19) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (15) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (13) | 90.58 | 115 (-18) | 0.60% | 1:5 |
| 9 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (68) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (7) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (7) | 80.14 | 84 (-6) | 0.24% | 31:1 |
| 10 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (52) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (11) Amelia Shepherd,Monica Beltran (4) Jules Millin,Mika Yasuda (4) | 75.11 | 78 (-6) | 1.05% | 4:1 |
| 11 | 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 (21) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (15) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (13) | 68.45 | 74 (-13) | 0.90% | 1:1.2 |
| 12 (↑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (38) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (6) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee (6) | 63.02 | 83 (+0) | 0.49% | 4:1 |
| 13 (↑3) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (66) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (9) | 62.77 | 98 (+10) | 1.23% | 1:1.7 |
| 14 (↓5) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (56) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (11) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (4) | 60.06 | 62 (-29) | 0.84% | 14:1 |
| 15 (↑3) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (57) | 58.00 | 58 (+7) | 8.80% | 10:1 |
| 16 (↑) | 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 (27) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (7) | 55.54 | 108 (+7) | 0.76% | 1:7 |
| 17 (↓3) | Alien Stage (Web Series) Mizi (Alien Stage),Sua (Alien Stage) (52) Hyuna (Alien Stage),Mizi (Alien Stage) (4) | 49.16 | 52 (-21) | 5.89% | 1:3 |
| 18 (↑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (42) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) | 46.17 | 49 (+0) | 0.26% | 8:1 |
| 19 (↓4) | Dangan Ronpa - All Media Types Enoshima Junko,Tsumiki Mikan (7) Fukawa Touko,Naegi Komaru (4) ... | 43.86 | 50 (-19) | 0.66% | 1:3 |
| 20 (⇑) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (30) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (16) Chrissy Cunningham,Robin Buckley (6) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (6) | 43.51 | 59 (?) | 0.59% | 1:4 |
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.
