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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-09-09 - 2025-09-15
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9912 (-457 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5631 (-367 from last week) (2416 new, 3215 continued)
- 0.6% of all 933904 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Uma Musume: Pretty Derby reaches a best-ever rank of 16.
- Web series Amazing Digital Circus returns, replacing Honkai: Star Rail.
- Wednesday is at 150 consecutive chart-weeks, and Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! is at 170.
- The Locked Tomb: Dead Dove with Left Grief darkfic fest will run from Nov 16-23, 2025. If that's up your alley, check it out.
- In response to my recent "high-velocity fandoms" post, kj-yikes noticed that Supergirl wasn't on the list of fandoms losing the most ground. It is still losing ground, but more slowly: average rank fell by 1.1 over the past quarter (from 11.5 to 12.6), and I only listed fandoms that have lost at least 2 places.
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) (398) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (153) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters) (136) | 450.41 | 464 (+10) | 14.47% | 4:1 |
| 2 (↑) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (264) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (20) Agnes DeMille (Wednesday TV),Enid Sinclair (19) Agnes DeMille (Wednesday TV),Wednesday Addams (19) | 277.25 | 298 (+2) | 3.33% | 11:1 |
| 3 (↓) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (228) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (37) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (20) | 258.10 | 276 (-39) | 1.27% | 1:1.0 |
| 4 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (122) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (45) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (32) | 159.40 | 284 (-28) | 0.76% | 1:5 |
| 5 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (83) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (30) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (23) | 123.58 | 172 (-24) | 0.64% | 1:5 |
| 6 | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (52) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (30) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (21) | 112.08 | 115 (-11) | 1.67% | 54:1 |
| 7 (↑2) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (89) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (8) | 82.41 | 97 (+10) | 2.25% | 1:3 |
| 8 (↑2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (42) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (10) Jules Millin,Mika Yasuda (6) | 68.01 | 69 (-3) | 0.85% | 4:1 |
| 9 (↓) | 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 (14) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (13) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (10) | 66.22 | 70 (-11) | 0.72% | 1:1.2 |
| 10 (↑3) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (64) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (12) Becky Swain,Lisa Swain (10) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (10) | 65.00 | 65 (-1) | 4.68% | 18:1 |
| 11 (↓4) | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (62) | 62.00 | 62 (-19) | 2.25% | 6:1 |
| 12 (↑2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (57) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (11) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (5) | 61.83 | 69 (-4) | 0.19% | 31:1 |
| 13 (↓) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (10) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (10) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Columbina (Genshin Impact) (6) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (6) | 61.31 | 82 (-3) | 0.40% | 1:4 |
| 14 (↓3) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (54) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (18) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (16) | 60.34 | 66 (-6) | 0.50% | 4:1 |
| 15 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (38) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (9) | 57.03 | 75 (-2) | 0.42% | 4:1 |
| 16 (↑4) | 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) (10) Daiwa Scarlet (Uma Musume),Vodka (Uma Musume) (8) Gold Ship (Uma Musume),Mejiro McQueen (Uma Musume) (5) | 46.02 | 47 (-1) | 14.73% | 79:1 |
| 17 (⇑) | 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) (29) | 44.84 | 51 (?) | 5.60% | 3:1 |
| 18 (↓2) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (41) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (26) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (9) | 44.80 | 87 (-19) | 0.58% | 1:7 |
| 19 (↓) | Alien Stage (Web Series) Mizi (Alien Stage),Sua (Alien Stage) (44) Hyuna (Alien Stage),Mizi (Alien Stage) (6) Hyuna (Alien Stage),Sua (Alien Stage) (3) | 44.02 | 45 (-13) | 2.55% | 1:3 |
| 20 (↓) | The 100 (TV) Clarke Griffin,Lexa (The 100) (34) Anya (The 100),Raven Reyes (The 100) (6) Costia (The 100),Lexa (The 100) (4) | 36.03 | 37 (-13) | 0.22% | 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.
