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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-03-11 - 2025-03-17
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9690 (-40 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5523 (-41 from last week) (2427 new, 3096 continued)
- 0.64% of all 865889 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Yellowjackets edges up to rank four, pushing Harry Potter out of the top three.
- She-Ra returns to the chart after a week away, replacing BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!
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) (474) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (92) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (32) | 508.14 | 554 (-65) | 3.15% | 1:1.0 |
| 2 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (166) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (26) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (22) | 204.85 | 260 (-14) | 1.07% | 1:5 |
| 3 (↑) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (76) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (58) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (56) | 178.05 | 181 (+23) | 4.47% | 84:1 |
| 4 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (133) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (53) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (48) | 177.29 | 322 (-52) | 0.94% | 1:5 |
| 5 | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (119) | 122.01 | 123 (+6) | 6.25% | 6:1 |
| 6 (↑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 (28) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (19) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (13) | 91.25 | 96 (+20) | 1.15% | 1:1.2 |
| 7 (↓) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (93) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (10) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Emily (Hazbin Hotel) (9) | 86.44 | 102 (-25) | 2.74% | 1:3 |
| 8 (↓) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (62) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (9) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (8) | 79.31 | 86 (-4) | 0.25% | 30:1 |
| 9 (↓) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (49) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (12) Jules Millin,Mika Yasuda (5) | 77.10 | 81 (-5) | 1.08% | 4:1 |
| 10 (↑2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (36) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (8) Raven Branwen,Summer Rose (RWBY) (7) | 69.19 | 82 (+4) | 0.48% | 4:1 |
| 11 (↑3) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (57) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (9) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (7) | 67.63 | 98 (+18) | 1.22% | 1:1.7 |
| 12 (↓2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (62) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (18) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (9) | 64.37 | 71 (-10) | 0.56% | 4:1 |
| 13 (↓4) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (15) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (12) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (10) | 60.84 | 78 (-22) | 0.40% | 1:5 |
| 14 (↑5) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (51) | 54.24 | 59 (+10) | 0.31% | 8:1 |
| 15 | Hey Duggee (Cartoon) Betty (Hey Duggee),Norrie (Hey Duggee) (54) | 54.00 | 54 (-2) | 30.86% | 1:1.0 |
| 16 | Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (53) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (11) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (4) | 53.32 | 58 (+0) | 0.77% | 10:1 |
| 17 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (49) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (26) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (9) | 52.55 | 102 (+13) | 0.72% | 1:7 |
| 18 | Murder Drones (Web Series) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (16) Doll (Murder Drones),Lizzy (Murder Drones) (13) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (13) | 43.86 | 50 (+3) | 4.20% | 5:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (40) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (9) | 41.00 | 43 (?) | 0.33% | 5:1 |
| 20 (↓7) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (40) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (6) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (3) | 41.00 | 42 (-15) | 5.79% | 11:1 |
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.
