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Femslash week in review: 2025-04-08 - 2025-04-14
High-level stats for week of 2025-04-08 - 2025-04-14
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10029 (+176 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5766 (+236 from last week) (2599 new, 3167 continued)
- 0.66% of all 875663 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! reaches a best-ever rank of 14 in its third week on the chart.
- New RPG Zenless Zone Zero enters the chart for the first time this week. Hey Duggee also returns after a week away. These two replace Once Upon a Time (whose most recent run was 8 consecutive weeks), and The 100.
- The Wicked Years Series celebrates 20 consecutive chart appearances (out of 40 total appearances).
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) (467) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (80) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (33) | 518.10 | 542 (-5) | 2.95% | 1:1.0 |
| 2 | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (92) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (62) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (60) | 227.26 | 235 (-7) | 5.10% | 69:1 |
| 3 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (161) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (35) Agatha Harkness,Wanda Maximoff (20) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (20) | 211.02 | 257 (+26) | 1.04% | 1:5 |
| 4 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (129) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (52) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (50) | 190.63 | 331 (-14) | 0.95% | 1:5 |
| 5 (↑) | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (114) | 115.03 | 117 (+14) | 5.39% | 6:1 |
| 6 (↓) | 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 (32) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (30) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (15) | 108.30 | 114 (-3) | 1.32% | 1:1.2 |
| 7 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (71) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (6) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (5) | 78.46 | 85 (+11) | 0.24% | 30:1 |
| 8 (↓) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (86) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (8) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Emily (Hazbin Hotel) (6) | 77.65 | 92 (+7) | 2.41% | 1:3 |
| 9 (↑7) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (15) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (11) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (10) | 75.54 | 96 (+25) | 0.49% | 1:5 |
| 10 (↓) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (44) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (12) Jules Millin,Mika Yasuda (7) | 70.25 | 75 (+2) | 0.99% | 4:1 |
| 11 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (34) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) ... | 63.20 | 75 (-2) | 0.44% | 4:1 |
| 12 (↓2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (63) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (20) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (13) | 58.74 | 67 (-2) | 0.53% | 4:1 |
| 13 | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (59) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (11) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (6) | 58.24 | 62 (+2) | 0.82% | 15:1 |
| 14 (↑5) | BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! (Anime) Nagasaki Soyo,Takamatsu Tomori (15) Misumi Uika,Togawa Sakiko (10) Chihaya Anon,Kaname Raana,Nagasaki Soyo,Shiina Taki,Takamatsu Tomori (9) | 54.00 | 54 (+10) | 6.20% | 98:1 |
| 15 (⇑) | Hey Duggee (Cartoon) Betty (Hey Duggee),Norrie (Hey Duggee) (49) | 47.08 | 49 (?) | 15.71% | 1:1.0 |
| 16 (↓2) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (42) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (5) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (4) | 46.81 | 80 (-8) | 0.99% | 1:1.7 |
| 17 | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (45) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (10) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (9) | 46.00 | 47 (+2) | 5.70% | 12:1 |
| 18 (↑2) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (46) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (10) | 45.04 | 47 (+4) | 0.38% | 17:1 |
| 19 (↓7) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (35) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (28) Ashido Mina,Uraraka Ochako (6) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (6) | 43.05 | 89 (-18) | 0.62% | 1:7 |
| 20 (⇑) | Zenless Zone Zero (Video Game) Hoshimi Miyabi,Tsukishiro Yanagi (Zenless Zone Zero) (12) Astra Yao (Zenless Zone Zero),Evelyn Chevalier (Zenless Zone Zero) (7) Belle (Zenless Zone Zero),Ellen Joe (Zenless Zone Zero) (4) Belle (Zenless Zone Zero),Hoshimi Miyabi (4) | 43.04 | 45 (?) | 7.84% | 1:1.4 |
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.