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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-08-26 - 2025-09-01
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10856 (+189 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 6204 (+150 from last week) (2837 new, 3367 continued)
- 0.67% of all 928819 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- KPop Demon Hunters completes its first 10 weeks on the chart, down a little from last week but still in the top slot with 500+ new F/F works/week.
- Magical horse-girl anime Uma Musume: Pretty Derby charts for the first time. Web series Amazing Digital Circus returns to the chart after a short run in 2023. The 100 is back for the first time since May. Those three replace Coronation Street, ending a 35-week run, as well as She-Ra and Honkai: Star Rail.
- Alien Stage also reaches 10 consecutive weeks on the chart, and Wicked reaches 40.
- The Extreme Timed Challenge Labor Day weekend gift exchange revealed, with 56 F/F works in various fandoms.
- Fandom nominations are open through September 12, and signups will be open soon, for Festivids 2025-2026, a rare fandoms vidding exchange. This isn't technically an F/F exchange at all, but there are always some F/F vids, and I'll try to write a links post when the exchange reveals at the end of January.
- For something completely different: the AO3 Femslash Top 100 Tournament is currently running on tumblr. I'm late to the party, but round 4 begins on September 12th and polls run for one week.
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 | KPop Demon Hunters (2025) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (447) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (174) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters) (142) | 504.23 | 515 (-29) | 18.89% | 4:1 |
| 2 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (289) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (50) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (23) | 345.99 | 365 (+10) | 1.69% | 1:1.0 |
| 3 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (126) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (45) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (35) | 179.11 | 311 (+7) | 0.83% | 1:5 |
| 4 (↑) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (100) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (30) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (26) | 159.29 | 207 (-12) | 0.77% | 1:5 |
| 5 (↑) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (67) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (45) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (36) | 147.01 | 148 (+6) | 2.19% | 54:1 |
| 6 (↓3) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (148) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (18) | 138.57 | 159 (-27) | 1.86% | 12:1 |
| 7 | 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) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (12) Akiyama Mizuki,Asahina Mafuyu (11) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (11) | 82.18 | 86 (-4) | 0.89% | 1:1.2 |
| 8 (↑3) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (51) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (7) Amelia Shepherd,Monica Beltran (6) | 78.01 | 79 (+8) | 0.97% | 4:1 |
| 9 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (14) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (10) ... | 68.48 | 86 (-7) | 0.42% | 1:4 |
| 10 (↓) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (81) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (6) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Emily (Hazbin Hotel) (5) | 67.39 | 83 (-3) | 1.94% | 1:3 |
| 11 (↓3) | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (66) | 66.00 | 66 (-10) | 2.43% | 6:1 |
| 12 (↑3) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (38) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (8) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (8) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (8) | 59.38 | 76 (+4) | 0.43% | 4:1 |
| 13 (↓) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (48) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (9) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (6) | 55.89 | 64 (-11) | 0.18% | 31:1 |
| 14 (⇑) | The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series) Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus),Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus) (42) Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus),Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus) (34) | 53.04 | 61 (?) | 7.19% | 3:1 |
| 15 (↓2) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (45) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (19) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (8) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (8) | 51.33 | 56 (-7) | 0.43% | 4:1 |
| 16 (↑2) | Alien Stage (Web Series) Mizi (Alien Stage),Sua (Alien Stage) (56) Hyuna (Alien Stage),Mizi (Alien Stage) (5) | 50.58 | 56 (+7) | 3.28% | 1:3 |
| 17 | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (49) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) | 48.29 | 52 (-1) | 0.26% | 8:1 |
| 18 (⇑) | ウマ娘 プリティーダービー | Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (Anime) Agnes Tachyon (Uma Musume),Jungle Pocket (Uma Musume) (14) Daiwa Scarlet (Uma Musume),Vodka (Uma Musume) (8) El Condor Pasa (Uma Musume),Grass Wonder (Uma Musume) (4) Gold Ship (Uma Musume),Mejiro McQueen (Uma Musume) (4) | 48.02 | 49 (?) | 19.68% | 81:1 |
| 19 | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (40) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (26) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (12) | 47.28 | 92 (+3) | 0.61% | 1:7 |
| 20 (⇑) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (42) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (7) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (6) | 46.02 | 47 (?) | 0.28% | 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.
