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High-level stats for week of 2025-07-01 - 2025-07-07
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10015 (-299 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5659 (-332 from last week) (2524 new, 3135 continued)
- 0.62% of all 906236 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:
- KPop Demon Hunters jumps to rank 2 in its second week on the chart, beating out everything except still-thriving League of Legends.
- Criminal Minds and Honkai: Star Rail return to the chart, replacing Murder Drones, and Once Upon a Time (the latter of which ends an 11-consecutive-week chart run, out of 666 all-time chart appearances).
- Addams Family celebrates 140 consecutive weeks on the chart. Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! reaches 160.
- Recently-revealed exchanges: the Terrible Temperature Troubles Flash Exchange has 11 F/F works from various fandoms.
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) |
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1 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (356) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (59) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (25) | 386.13 | 407 (-44) | 2.01% | 1:1.0 |
2 (↑3) | KPop Demon Hunters (2025) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (210) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (95) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters) (67) | 241.22 | 249 (+81) | 62.41% | 3:1 |
3 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (113) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (37) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (23) | 175.13 | 233 (-17) | 0.89% | 1:5 |
4 | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (89) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (50) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (49) | 173.16 | 179 (-4) | 2.98% | 59:1 |
5 (↓3) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (118) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (44) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (35) | 162.17 | 294 (-45) | 0.81% | 1:5 |
6 (↑) | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (92) | 91.09 | 94 (-1) | 3.70% | 6:1 |
7 (↑8) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (57) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (8) Amelia Shepherd,Monica Beltran (6) | 76.29 | 81 (+18) | 1.02% | 4:1 |
8 (↓2) | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ!| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (17) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (13) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (9) | 76.05 | 78 (-20) | 0.84% | 1:1.1 |
9 (↑4) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (39) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (8) | 74.94 | 87 (+7) | 0.50% | 4:1 |
10 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (72) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (15) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (14) | 70.57 | 78 (+1) | 0.60% | 4:1 |
11 (↑5) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (67) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (10) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (9) | 69.00 | 69 (+9) | 5.94% | 16:1 |
12 (↓3) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (73) | 67.63 | 82 (-9) | 2.00% | 1:3 |
13 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (58) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (5) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (4) | 67.11 | 71 (+0) | 0.20% | 31:1 |
14 (↓2) | Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (66) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (12) Bianca Barclay,Wednesday Addams (9) | 66.46 | 72 (-3) | 0.90% | 11:1 |
15 (↓7) | Alien Stage (Web Series) Mizi (Alien Stage),Sua (Alien Stage) (66) Hyuna (Alien Stage),Mizi (Alien Stage) (6) | 59.85 | 67 (-22) | 4.79% | 1:3 |
16 (↑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (52) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (38) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (9) | 57.87 | 107 (+6) | 0.72% | 1:7 |
17 (↓7) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (9) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (7) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (7) | 55.84 | 71 (-28) | 0.35% | 1:4 |
18 (⇑) | Criminal Minds (US TV) Emily Prentiss,Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (43) Rebecca Wilson (Criminal Minds),Tara Lewis (6) Emily Prentiss,Tara Lewis (5) | 43.33 | 52 (?) | 1.14% | 1:1.8 |
19 (↑) | Deltarune (Video Game) Noelle Holiday,Susie (Deltarune) (36) Kris (Deltarune),Susie (Deltarune) (16) Kris (Deltarune),Noelle Holiday (10) | 42.32 | 46 (+4) | 5.11% | 1:1.4 |
20 (⇑) | 崩坏:星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) Acheron (Honkai: Star Rail),Black Swan (Honkai: Star Rail) (10) Aglaea (Honkai: Star Rail),Cipher (Honkai: Star Rail) (10) Castorice (Honkai: Star Rail),Cipher (Honkai: Star Rail) (10) Herta (Honkai: Star Rail),Ruan Mei (Honkai: Star Rail) (10) Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail),Kafka (Honkai: Star Rail) (10) | 41.65 | 60 (?) | 1.75% | 1:5 |
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.