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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-06-17 - 2025-06-23
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10272 (+319 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5775 (+93 from last week) (2537 new, 3238 continued)
- 0.64% of all 900898 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Hololive, Murder Drones, and She-Ra are all back. They replace Alien Stage, Cookie Run, and Honkai: Star Rail.
- Once Upon a Time reaches 10 consecutive weeks in its latest chart run, out of 665 total weeks. (I think the latest chart run is just luck, rather than some new content or event somewhere; the fandom remains popular and has never fallen out of the top 20 for more than a month at a time. But let me know if you know otherwise!) Wicked reaches 30 consecutive weeks.
- Exchange activity of interest: Hidden Gems: Bring On The Heat 2025, a Boku no Hero Academia rare pairs exchange, revealed works recently, and has 8 F/F works.
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) (384) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (72) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (32) | 433.69 | 451 (+4) | 2.26% | 1:1.0 |
| 2 (↑) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (96) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (67) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (65) | 215.04 | 218 (+15) | 3.75% | 59:1 |
| 3 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (127) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (49) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (29) | 202.57 | 261 (+27) | 1.00% | 1:5 |
| 4 (↓2) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (121) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (44) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (33) | 167.87 | 298 (-36) | 0.82% | 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 (33) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (26) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (13) | 105.41 | 112 (+13) | 1.22% | 1:1.1 |
| 6 (↓) | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (96) | 101.00 | 101 (+4) | 4.10% | 6:1 |
| 7 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (94) | 90.14 | 108 (+8) | 2.66% | 1:3 |
| 8 (↑4) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (12) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (11) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (10) | 79.73 | 95 (+13) | 0.48% | 1:4 |
| 9 | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (71) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (11) Bianca Barclay,Wednesday Addams (8) | 74.29 | 80 (-5) | 1.02% | 15:1 |
| 10 (↓2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (37) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) ... | 60.49 | 70 (-22) | 0.40% | 4:1 |
| 11 (↓) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (47) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (9) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (5) | 59.36 | 64 (-15) | 0.81% | 4:1 |
| 12 (↑2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (58) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (15) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (9) | 59.26 | 65 (+0) | 0.50% | 4:1 |
| 13 (↓2) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (58) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (10) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (6) | 59.00 | 59 (-4) | 5.29% | 16:1 |
| 14 (↓) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (52) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (5) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (4) Diana (Wonder Woman),Kara Danvers (4) | 58.37 | 63 (-5) | 0.18% | 31:1 |
| 15 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (55) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (27) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (8) | 49.75 | 100 (-2) | 0.68% | 1:7 |
| 16 (⇑) | Murder Drones (Web Series) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (16) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (15) Doll (Murder Drones),Lizzy (Murder Drones) (13) | 47.17 | 50 (?) | 3.55% | 5:1 |
| 17 (↓) | Criminal Minds (US TV) Emily Prentiss,Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (44) Emily Prentiss,Tara Lewis (6) Rebecca Wilson (Criminal Minds),Tara Lewis (5) | 46.41 | 55 (-8) | 1.22% | 1:1.8 |
| 18 (⇑) | Hololive (Virtual Streamers) Cecilia Immergreen,Gigi Murin (13) Elizabeth Rose Bloodflame,Nerissa Ravencroft (11) Nerissa Ravencroft,Shiori Novella (7) | 45.02 | 46 (?) | 4.12% | 5:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | She-Ra - All Media Types Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (40) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (11) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (6) | 42.00 | 44 (?) | 0.36% | 17:1 |
| 20 (↓3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (37) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (6) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) | 41.19 | 44 (-10) | 0.23% | 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.
