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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-06-03 - 2025-06-09
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9862 (-227 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5630 (-131 from last week) (2525 new, 3105 continued)
- 0.63% of all 895799 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Game of Thrones returns after a week away. Alien Stage returns for the first time since April. Cookie Run, an RPG series with a huge array of characters who are all cookies, reaches the top 20 for the first time ever this week, on the strength of the semi-canonical Hollyberry/Eternal Sugar Cookie ship. These fandoms replace Doctor Who, Hey Duggee, and Murder Drones.
- I really appreciate questions, but I've historically been bad at answering them. I'm trying to get better! If you ask a question via tumblr inbox, reblog, or dreamwidth comment, I'll try to answer it in the next week's post. Let me know if you don't want me to credit you for the question.
- This week, an anonymous commenter asked: "how many weeks total has Supergirl charted?" As of now, the answer is 496: Supergirl entered the top 20 the week ending 2015-12-07, had an initial two week run, took a week off, and then returned on 2015-12-28 and has been in the top 20 every week since. Of those weeks, 231 (47%) have been at rank 1, and 355 (72%) have been in the top five. Bottom line: Supergirl has been an incredibly consistent F/F fandom, and, while it's not a canon I've read widely in, I think it's worth celebrating as it (I'm guessing) nears the end of of its unbroken chart streak.
- Toothpastepancake is running Sapphic Summer 2025, a short fic (100-250 word) prompt fest around F/F relationships. It runs until 2025-09-30.
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) (367) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (83) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (33) | 434.39 | 459 (+3) | 2.34% | 1:1.0 |
| 2 (↑2) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (149) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (40) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (38) | 200.40 | 335 (-7) | 0.93% | 1:5 |
| 3 (↓) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (91) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (71) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (57) | 192.18 | 198 (-37) | 3.54% | 59:1 |
| 4 (↓) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (115) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (50) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (23) | 178.54 | 235 (-27) | 0.91% | 1:5 |
| 5 (↑) | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (98) | 99.00 | 99 (+7) | 4.14% | 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 (26) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (16) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (12) | 82.51 | 89 (-12) | 0.98% | 1:1.2 |
| 7 (↑8) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (20) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (19) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (8) | 79.73 | 92 (+12) | 0.46% | 1:4 |
| 8 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (50) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (13) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (9) | 78.23 | 83 (+10) | 1.06% | 4:1 |
| 9 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (36) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) Cinder Fall,Winter Schnee (8) | 73.50 | 84 (+0) | 0.48% | 4:1 |
| 10 (↑2) | Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (70) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (9) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (8) | 70.37 | 76 (+4) | 0.97% | 11:1 |
| 11 (↑6) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (67) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (16) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (14) | 69.27 | 76 (+22) | 0.59% | 4:1 |
| 12 (↓) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (62) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (7) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (6) | 64.00 | 65 (-4) | 6.10% | 15:1 |
| 13 (⇑) | A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin Alicent Hightower,Rhaenyra Targaryen (46) Laena Velaryon (Daughter of Corlys),Rhaenyra Targaryen (9) | 54.78 | 87 (?) | 1.05% | 1:1.7 |
| 14 (↓6) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (65) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (5) | 53.79 | 75 (-31) | 1.87% | 1:3 |
| 15 (↓2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (49) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (4) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (4) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (4) | 53.49 | 61 (-7) | 0.17% | 31:1 |
| 16 (⇑) | Alien Stage (Web Series) Mizi (Alien Stage),Sua (Alien Stage) (52) Hyuna (Alien Stage),Mizi (Alien Stage) (5) | 49.78 | 56 (?) | 4.64% | 1:3 |
| 17 (↓) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (48) | 49.06 | 52 (-4) | 0.27% | 8:1 |
| 18 | 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 (24) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (10) | 48.78 | 95 (-3) | 0.65% | 1:7 |
| 19 (↑) | Criminal Minds (US TV) Emily Prentiss,Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (48) Emily Prentiss,Tara Lewis (7) Rebecca Wilson (Criminal Minds),Tara Lewis (3) | 46.56 | 58 (+3) | 1.31% | 1:1.9 |
| 20 (⇑) | Cookie Run (Video Game) Eternal Sugar Cookie (Cookie Run),Hollyberry Cookie (Cookie Run) (28) Moonlight Cookie (Cookie Run),Sea Fairy Cookie (Cookie Run) (9) Burning Spice Cookie (Cookie Run),Golden Cheese Cookie (Cookie Run) (6) | 44.26 | 58 (?) | 4.67% | 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.
