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High-level stats for week of 2025-09-16 - 2025-09-22

Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10120 (+208 from last week)

Works I classified F/F: 5824 (+193 from last week) (2555 new, 3269 continued)

0.62% of all 936459 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

Once Upon a Time returns after a few weeks away, Murder Drones returns after a month away, and Dragon Age: Inquisition returns for the first time since 2018, for reasons that aren't entirely clear to me (maybe something to do with Veilguard, maybe not). If you know, let me know!
Those three replace The 100, Alien Stage (which falls off after a 12-week streak), and Boku no Hero Academia (which falls off after a 61-week streak, of its 371 lifetime weeks on the chart).
Supergirl reaches 10 consecutive chart weeks in its latest run. Yellowjackets is at 60.
I for one am grateful to the AO3 team for the upgrade which required last Friday's downtime: they've made some improvements to collection browsing which should make it easier for me to report on upcoming and recent exchanges with F/F themes or works. Nothing specific to report this week, but the big improvement as far as I'm concerned is that it's now much easier to find exchanges that happen to be subcollections of another exchange.

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) (375) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters) (162) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (158)	458.08	464 (+0)	13.49%	4:1
2 (↑)	League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (265) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (38) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (20)	294.32	314 (+38)	1.43%	1:1.0
3 (↓)	Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (242) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (28) Agnes DeMille (Wednesday TV),Wednesday Addams (15)	253.74	269 (-29)	2.96%	10:1
4	Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (127) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (45) Fleur Delacour,Hermione Granger (41)	205.11	338 (+54)	0.90%	1:5
5	Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (88) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (28) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (20)	135.77	179 (+7)	0.66%	1:5
6	Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (55) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (36) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (25)	117.13	121 (+6)	1.74%	53:1
7 (↑3)	Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (82) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (22) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (19)	83.00	83 (+18)	5.81%	19:1
8 (↓)	Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne \| Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (85)	80.33	94 (-3)	2.17%	1:3
9 (↑4)	原神 \| Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (11) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (11) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (8) Lauma (Genshin Impact),Nefer (Genshin Impact) (8)	73.63	94 (+12)	0.46%	1:4
10 (↑2)	Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (61) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (8) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (5) Alex Danvers,Maggie Sawyer (5) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (5)	69.92	79 (+10)	0.22%	31:1
11 (↓3)	Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (47) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (11) Amelia Shepherd,Monica Beltran (6)	64.34	69 (+0)	0.85%	4:1
12 (↓3)	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 (17) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (12) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (7)	63.72	71 (+1)	0.73%	1:1.2
13 (↑2)	RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (36) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (8)	63.09	81 (+6)	0.46%	4:1
14 (↓3)	The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (61)	61.02	62 (+0)	2.24%	7:1
15 (⇑)	Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen \| Regina Mills (61)	57.30	62 (?)	0.31%	8:1
16 (↓2)	The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (45) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (17) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (8)	52.33	57 (-9)	0.43%	4:1
17 (↓)	ウマ娘プリティーダービー \| Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (Anime) Gold Ship (Uma Musume),Mejiro McQueen (Uma Musume) (9) Agnes Tachyon (Uma Musume),Jungle Pocket (Uma Musume) (8) Daiwa Scarlet (Uma Musume),Vodka (Uma Musume) (8)	48.08	50 (+3)	14.16%	66:1
18 (⇑)	Murder Drones (Web Series) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (17) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (11) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (10)	42.32	46 (?)	2.88%	5:1
19 (↓2)	The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series) Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus),Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus) (38) Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus),Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus) (26) Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus),Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus) (4)	40.80	52 (+1)	5.56%	2:1
20 (⇑)	Dragon Age: Inquisition Female Warden (Dragon Age),Leliana (Dragon Age) (9) Female Inquisitor (Dragon Age),Josephine Montilyet (8) Female Lavellan,Josephine Montilyet (7)	37.87	54 (?)	0.90%	1:3

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.