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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-04-15 - 2025-04-21
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10301 (+272 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5825 (+59 from last week) (2585 new, 3240 continued)
- 0.66% of all 878248 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Wheel of Time makes its first-ever (somewhat to my surprise) chart appearance at rank 20 this week. It's joined by Murder Drones, Once Upon a Time, and The 100, all returning after short absences. Those four fandoms replace BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!, Hey Duggee, She-Ra, and Zenless Zone Zero.
- Chart anniversaries: Boku no Hero Academia reaches 40 consecutive weeks on the chart. League of Legends is at 180 consecutive weeks. Harry Potter is at 330 consecutive weeks.
- A smut prompt community called lesbifreaks is running a Friday hopscotch prompt challenge, starting this week.
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) (453) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (70) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (29) | 482.99 | 514 (-28) | 2.77% | 1:1.0 |
| 2 | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (127) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (88) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (87) | 287.46 | 299 (+64) | 6.22% | 64:1 |
| 3 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (152) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (61) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (55) | 228.90 | 376 (+45) | 1.07% | 1:5 |
| 4 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (162) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (29) Maria Hill,Natasha Romanov (Marvel) (23) | 204.85 | 252 (-5) | 1.02% | 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) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (31) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (23) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (19) | 99.56 | 107 (-7) | 1.23% | 1:1.2 |
| 6 (↓) | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (94) | 95.09 | 98 (-19) | 4.46% | 6:1 |
| 7 (↑3) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (48) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (18) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (13) | 89.09 | 92 (+17) | 1.20% | 4:1 |
| 8 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (87) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Emily (Hazbin Hotel) (6) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (5) | 83.02 | 97 (+5) | 2.52% | 1:3 |
| 9 (↓2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (71) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (7) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (5) | 77.39 | 84 (-1) | 0.24% | 31:1 |
| 10 (↑2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (69) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (13) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (10) | 74.30 | 79 (+12) | 0.62% | 4:1 |
| 11 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (48) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (7) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (5) | 72.23 | 88 (+13) | 0.51% | 4:1 |
| 12 (↑5) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (62) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (7) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (6) | 62.00 | 63 (+16) | 7.39% | 12:1 |
| 13 | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (57) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (7) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (6) | 61.34 | 67 (+5) | 0.89% | 15:1 |
| 14 (↓5) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (10) Furina (Genshin Impact),Neuvillette (Genshin Impact) (9) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (8) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (8) | 60.90 | 90 (-6) | 0.46% | 1:4 |
| 15 (↑4) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (57) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (34) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (15) | 60.68 | 109 (+20) | 0.76% | 1:7 |
| 16 | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (48) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (7) | 56.64 | 91 (+11) | 1.12% | 1:1.7 |
| 17 (⇑) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (53) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) | 53.54 | 60 (?) | 0.31% | 8:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (44) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (7) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (6) | 50.06 | 53 (?) | 0.32% | 5:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Murder Drones (Web Series) Doll (Murder Drones),Lizzy (Murder Drones) (15) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (13) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (12) | 43.31 | 47 (?) | 3.72% | 5:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan Moiraine Damodred,Siuan Sanche (34) | 39.09 | 41 (?) | 3.79% | 1.9:1 |
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.
