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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-10-28 - 2025-11-03
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 11470 (+706 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 6442 (+382 from last week) (3181 new, 3261 continued)
- 0.68% of all 954146 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Apologies, I missed a couple of posts, but this post is now here.
- KPop Demon Hunters is still at rank 1, and is still beating out second-place League of Legends by almost 100 works per week.
- Action adventure game series Hollow Knight makes a first-ever appearance, on the strength of the Hornet/Lace ship containing characters from the recently-released sequel game.
- Uma Musume: Pretty Derby reaches 10 weeks on the chart. MCU celebrates 80 consecutive weeks (out of 598 total appearances).
- Signups are open through Nov 30 for a new femslash gift exchange, appropriately named Femslash Gift Exchange 2026. Assignments will be due in February.
- Ace Attorney fans should take a look at the upcoming Fradrian Week event, a prompt event running in mid-December for Franziska von Karma/Adrian Andrews.
- A couple of F/F-y Halloween exchanges revealed recently: the Worst Witch Hallowe'en Exchange 2025 has 22 F/F works, mostly Hardbroom/Pentangle. The Paternoster Halloween Exchange 2025 has 25 Jenny/Vastra 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 | KPop Demon Hunters (2025) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (316) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters) (109) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (106) | 374.49 | 388 (-6) | 8.22% | 4:1 |
| 2 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (262) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (36) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (18) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (18) | 289.33 | 310 (-22) | 1.36% | 1.0:1 |
| 3 | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (197) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (19) | 203.40 | 214 (+11) | 2.20% | 9:1 |
| 4 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (117) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (42) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (24) | 193.41 | 248 (+13) | 0.90% | 1:5 |
| 5 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (108) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (52) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (22) | 158.88 | 281 (+12) | 0.73% | 1:5 |
| 6 | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (58) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (45) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (38) | 149.04 | 152 (+23) | 2.08% | 52:1 |
| 7 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (147) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Emily (Hazbin Hotel) (10) | 142.66 | 166 (+45) | 3.68% | 1:3 |
| 8 (↑) | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (99) Elphaba Thropp,Nessarose Thropp (7) | 96.09 | 99 (+4) | 3.32% | 7:1 |
| 9 (↓) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (44) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (19) Amelia Shepherd,Monica Beltran (13) | 86.10 | 89 (-16) | 1.06% | 4:1 |
| 10 | 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 (25) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (22) Kusanagi Nene,Ootori Emu (12) | 83.22 | 88 (-11) | 0.87% | 1:1.2 |
| 11 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (78) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (8) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (6) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (6) | 79.63 | 89 (+3) | 0.25% | 31:1 |
| 12 (↑2) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (41) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (14) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (8) | 75.54 | 96 (+18) | 0.54% | 4:1 |
| 13 (↓2) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Lauma (Genshin Impact),Nefer (Genshin Impact) (16) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (12) Columbina (Genshin Impact),Sandrone (Genshin Impact) (10) | 71.82 | 97 (-15) | 0.46% | 1:4 |
| 14 (↑3) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (70) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (10) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (9) | 71.00 | 72 (+19) | 4.59% | 20:1 |
| 15 | 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) Aglaea (Honkai: Star Rail),Cipher (Honkai: Star Rail) (27) Herta (Honkai: Star Rail),Ruan Mei (Honkai: Star Rail) (13) Cerydra (Honkai: Star Rail),Hysilens (Honkai: Star Rail) (9) | 67.64 | 96 (+15) | 2.31% | 1:5 |
| 16 (↑2) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (57) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (4) | 61.09 | 64 (+12) | 0.32% | 8:1 |
| 17 (↓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) (11) Mejiro McQueen (Uma Musume),Tokai Teio (Uma Musume) (9) Gold Ship (Uma Musume),Mejiro McQueen (Uma Musume) (7) Meisho Doto (Uma Musume),TM Opera O (Uma Musume) (7) | 59.05 | 62 (-7) | 10.05% | 55:1 |
| 18 (↑) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (53) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (20) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (12) | 57.18 | 63 (+15) | 0.48% | 4:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Alien Stage (Web Series) Mizi (Alien Stage),Sua (Alien Stage) (54) Hyuna (Alien Stage),Mizi (Alien Stage) (5) | 51.21 | 55 (?) | 2.81% | 1:3 |
| 20 (⇑) | Hollow Knight (Video Games) Hornet (Hollow Knight),Lace (Hollow Knight) (41) Hornet (Hollow Knight),Shakra (Hollow Knight) (8) Lace (Hollow Knight),Phantom (Hollow Knight) (4) | 48.04 | 50 (?) | 10.99% | 1:1.0 |
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.
