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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-04-01 - 2025-04-07
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9853 (+59 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5530 (+62 from last week) (2386 new, 3144 continued)
- 0.63% of all 873064 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! returns to the chart for its second-ever appearance. She-Ra is also back, and the two fandoms replace Doctor Who and Hey Duggee.
- MCU celebrates 50 consecutive weeks on the chart in its latest run (out of 568 total weeks ever).
- Prompts are open for this year's Fire Emblem Femslash Week. The event itself will be in mid-June.
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) (483) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (92) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (36) | 524.01 | 547 (-7) | 3.01% | 1:1.0 |
| 2 | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (96) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (69) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (65) | 233.32 | 242 (+32) | 5.42% | 78:1 |
| 3 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (144) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (54) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (51) | 209.55 | 345 (+24) | 0.99% | 1:5 |
| 4 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (154) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (21) Alice Gulliver,Jennifer Kale (16) | 174.77 | 231 (-4) | 0.94% | 1:5 |
| 5 (↑) | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (37) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (33) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (13) | 109.51 | 117 (+4) | 1.37% | 1:1.2 |
| 6 (↓) | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (99) | 102.01 | 103 (-12) | 4.86% | 6:1 |
| 7 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (78) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Emily (Hazbin Hotel) (6) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (6) | 72.12 | 85 (-36) | 2.24% | 1:3 |
| 8 (↑2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (66) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (7) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (5) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (5) | 69.19 | 74 (+3) | 0.21% | 30:1 |
| 9 (↑4) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (44) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (16) Jules Millin,Mika Yasuda (5) | 67.46 | 73 (+9) | 0.96% | 4:1 |
| 10 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (59) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (19) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (9) | 66.08 | 69 (-4) | 0.54% | 4:1 |
| 11 (↓3) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (34) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (8) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (7) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) | 64.31 | 77 (-13) | 0.45% | 4:1 |
| 12 (↑4) | 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 (34) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (9) | 56.71 | 107 (+18) | 0.75% | 1:7 |
| 13 (↑) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (58) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (9) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (6) | 53.73 | 60 (+4) | 0.80% | 15:1 |
| 14 (↑) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (50) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (5) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (5) | 52.80 | 88 (+9) | 1.09% | 1:1.7 |
| 15 (↑3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (48) Aurora (Once Upon a Time),Mulan (Once Upon a Time) (3) | 51.39 | 57 (+7) | 0.30% | 8:1 |
| 16 (↓5) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (12) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (10) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (7) | 50.20 | 71 (-11) | 0.37% | 1:5 |
| 17 (↓5) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (44) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (9) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (5) | 45.00 | 45 (-19) | 5.56% | 12:1 |
| 18 (↑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (41) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (7) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (7) | 44.08 | 48 (+5) | 0.29% | 5:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! (Anime) Misumi Uika,Togawa Sakiko (17) Shiina Taki,Yahata Umiri (6) ... | 43.02 | 44 (?) | 5.35% | 111:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (43) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (8) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (3) | 41.00 | 43 (?) | 0.35% | 17:1 |
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.
