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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-05-06 - 2025-05-12
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9482 (-475 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5425 (-200 from last week) (2336 new, 3089 continued)
- 0.61% of all 885476 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Great week for Coronation Street, which shoots up to rank 6 in its best-ever chart appearance.
- Murder Drones, Hey Duggee, and Hololive are all back after brief absences. They replace Dandy's World, The 100, and Wheel of Time (whose inaugural chart run lasted three weeks).
- Chart anniversaries: Game of Thrones has been on the chart for 60 consecutive weeks (of its 274 total chart appearances). RWBY reaches 420 consecutive chart-weeks. Supergirl reaches 490 consecutive weeks, but skates in at rank 15, its worst performance since 2015. I admit to having my fingers crossed that the Girl of Steel makes it to 500 chart-weeks, because that would be cool.
- Speaking of things I think are cool: AO3 just reported the milestone of 15 million fanworks. If my all-time works tally above is to be believed, that means that 5.9% of all works on AO3 ever have been works tagged F/F with at least one ship containing canonically non-male fictional characters. I'd always like to see more, of course, but that's worth celebrating, so let's.
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) (368) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (79) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (33) | 420.54 | 446 (-7) | 2.35% | 1:1.0 |
| 2 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (141) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (60) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (29) | 224.64 | 282 (+14) | 1.12% | 1:5 |
| 3 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (137) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (60) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (52) | 221.42 | 353 (-3) | 1.00% | 1:5 |
| 4 (↓2) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (81) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (62) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (52) | 168.75 | 180 (-50) | 3.48% | 57:1 |
| 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 (20) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (14) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (12) | 82.98 | 92 (-14) | 1.04% | 1:1.2 |
| 6 (↑10) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (74) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (8) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (8) | 75.00 | 75 (+25) | 7.97% | 13:1 |
| 7 (↑5) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (42) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (8) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (8) | 73.61 | 85 (+8) | 0.49% | 4:1 |
| 8 (↑3) | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (71) | 73.01 | 74 (+6) | 3.25% | 6:1 |
| 9 (↓2) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (73) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (13) Bianca Barclay,Wednesday Addams (4) Wednesday Addams,Yoko Tanaka (4) | 72.29 | 78 (-13) | 1.02% | 15:1 |
| 10 (↓2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (20) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (10) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (9) | 70.94 | 98 (-7) | 0.50% | 1:4 |
| 11 (⇑) | Hey Duggee (Cartoon) Betty (Hey Duggee),Norrie (Hey Duggee) (67) | 67.00 | 67 (?) | 15.95% | 1:1.0 |
| 12 (↓6) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (83) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (6) | 66.01 | 89 (-15) | 2.27% | 1:3 |
| 13 (↓3) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (41) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (11) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (5) | 62.56 | 69 (-6) | 0.89% | 4:1 |
| 14 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (56) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (15) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (11) | 61.29 | 66 (+7) | 0.51% | 4:1 |
| 15 (↓2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (60) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (5) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (4) | 57.65 | 69 (-1) | 0.20% | 31:1 |
| 16 (⇑) | Murder Drones (Web Series) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (19) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (11) Doll (Murder Drones),Lizzy (Murder Drones) (10) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (10) | 51.07 | 53 (?) | 4.04% | 5:1 |
| 17 | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (47) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (7) Margaery Tyrell,Sansa Stark (4) | 47.29 | 78 (+1) | 0.95% | 1:1.7 |
| 18 (↓3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (43) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (30) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (8) | 45.31 | 94 (-8) | 0.65% | 1:7 |
| 19 (↓10) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (39) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) | 44.00 | 45 (-42) | 0.23% | 8:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Hololive (Virtual Streamers) Cecilia Immergreen,Gigi Murin (11) Elizabeth Rose Bloodflame,Nerissa Ravencroft (11) Elizabeth Rose Bloodflame,Shiori Novella (4) Gigi Murin,Mori Calliope (4) | 38.05 | 40 (?) | 4.11% | 5:1 |
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.
