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Femslash week in review: 2025-05-20 - 2025-05-26
High-level stats for week of 2025-05-20 - 2025-05-26
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9829 (+67 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5693 (+69 from last week) (2590 new, 3103 continued)
- 0.64% of all 890619 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Honkai Star Rail returns to the chart after a few months away, replacing She-Ra.
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) (369) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (84) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (37) | 409.47 | 434 (+2) | 2.25% | 1:1.0 |
| 2 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (308) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (49) Alice Gulliver,Jennifer Kale (23) | 378.91 | 437 (+79) | 1.70% | 1:5 |
| 3 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (130) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (47) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (41) | 184.95 | 313 (-28) | 0.88% | 1:5 |
| 4 (↓) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (83) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (63) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (50) | 179.19 | 185 (-56) | 3.44% | 58:1 |
| 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 (28) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (26) Akiyama Mizuki,Asahina Mafuyu,Shinonome Ena,Yoisaki Kanade (12) | 96.33 | 102 (+10) | 1.14% | 1:1.2 |
| 6 (↑4) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (75) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (24) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (13) | 83.02 | 85 (+20) | 0.66% | 4:1 |
| 7 (↑12) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (77) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (7) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (6) | 80.00 | 80 (+30) | 7.98% | 15:1 |
| 8 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (44) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (7) | 79.09 | 93 (+8) | 0.54% | 4:1 |
| 9 (↓2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (47) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (16) Amelia Shepherd,Monica Beltran (5) | 73.36 | 79 (-3) | 1.02% | 4:1 |
| 10 (↑2) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (75) | 69.45 | 83 (+8) | 2.10% | 1:3 |
| 11 | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (65) | 69.00 | 69 (+7) | 2.97% | 6:1 |
| 12 (↑4) | Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (69) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (13) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (8) | 66.53 | 73 (+8) | 0.93% | 11:1 |
| 13 (↓4) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (14) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (9) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (8) | 62.11 | 76 (-18) | 0.38% | 1:4 |
| 14 (↓9) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (60) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (7) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (5) | 60.86 | 71 (-25) | 0.20% | 31:1 |
| 15 (↓) | Hey Duggee (Cartoon) Betty (Hey Duggee),Norrie (Hey Duggee) (60) | 59.02 | 60 (+1) | 11.13% | 1:1.0 |
| 16 (↓) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (48) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (26) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (11) | 57.97 | 103 (+2) | 0.71% | 1:7 |
| 17 (↑3) | Murder Drones (Web Series) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (24) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (19) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (13) | 54.07 | 56 (+4) | 4.17% | 5:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) Aglaea (Honkai: Star Rail),Cipher (Honkai: Star Rail) (16) Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail),Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) (14) Aglaea (Honkai: Star Rail),Castorice (Honkai: Star Rail) (8) | 51.77 | 68 (?) | 2.12% | 1:5 |
| 19 (↓2) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (46) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (4) Mysaria | Lady Misery (A Song of Ice and Fire),Rhaenyra Targaryen (4) | 51.41 | 82 (+1) | 0.99% | 1:1.7 |
| 20 (↓2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (45) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) | 48.04 | 50 (-5) | 0.26% | 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.