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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-03-18 - 2025-03-24
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9930 (+240 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5600 (+77 from last week) (2422 new, 3178 continued)
- 0.64% of all 868311 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Life Is Strange returns after two months away, and The 100 returns after one month away. They replace Hey Duggee and She-Ra.
- Grey's Anatomy celebrates 130 consecutive weeks on the chart. Genshin Impact reaches 220 consecutive weeks.
- Nominations are open until April 4th for the Everything Is Femslash Exchange.
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) (496) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (98) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (39) | 546.00 | 579 (+25) | 3.26% | 1:1.0 |
| 2 (↑2) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (159) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (58) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (40) | 220.81 | 370 (+48) | 1.07% | 1:5 |
| 3 | Yellowjackets (TV) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (68) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (67) Melissa (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (56) | 203.12 | 208 (+27) | 4.96% | 84:1 |
| 4 (↓2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (159) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (25) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (20) | 184.70 | 235 (-25) | 0.96% | 1:5 |
| 5 | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (132) | 133.11 | 137 (+14) | 6.73% | 6:1 |
| 6 (↑) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (94) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Emily (Hazbin Hotel) (6) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (6) | 91.65 | 105 (+3) | 2.80% | 1:3 |
| 7 (↓) | 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 (23) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (21) | 85.37 | 91 (-5) | 1.09% | 1:1.2 |
| 8 | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (62) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (7) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (6) | 73.42 | 79 (-7) | 0.23% | 31:1 |
| 9 (↑7) | Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (64) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (16) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (5) | 70.05 | 72 (+14) | 0.95% | 10:1 |
| 10 (↓) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (44) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (13) Amelia Shepherd,Monica Beltran (4) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (4) | 68.16 | 72 (-9) | 0.95% | 4:1 |
| 11 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (61) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (16) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (12) | 63.25 | 69 (-2) | 0.54% | 4:1 |
| 12 (↓2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (36) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) | 56.32 | 70 (-12) | 0.41% | 4:1 |
| 13 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (12) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (11) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (10) | 55.72 | 79 (+1) | 0.41% | 1:5 |
| 14 (↓3) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (47) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (8) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (8) | 51.88 | 84 (-14) | 1.05% | 1:1.7 |
| 15 (↑2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (42) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (27) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (10) | 47.20 | 101 (-1) | 0.71% | 1:7 |
| 16 (↑4) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (47) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (7) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (4) | 47.00 | 48 (+6) | 6.41% | 12:1 |
| 17 (↑) | Murder Drones (Web Series) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (19) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (13) Doll (Murder Drones),Lizzy (Murder Drones) (12) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (12) | 42.32 | 46 (-4) | 3.80% | 5:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | Life Is Strange (Video Game) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (27) Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Rachel Amber (7) Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Victoria Chase (Life is Strange) (6) | 40.00 | 40 (?) | 0.64% | 8:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (36) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (10) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (5) | 38.14 | 41 (?) | 0.25% | 5:1 |
| 20 (↓6) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (35) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Red Riding Hood | Ruby (2) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Snow White | Mary Margaret Blanchard (2) | 35.68 | 43 (-16) | 0.22% | 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.
