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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-11-25 - 2025-12-01
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10199 (+207 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5753 (+237 from last week) (2581 new, 3172 continued)
- 0.6% of all 963945 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Stranger Things returns for the first time since February, presumably thanks to the start of season 5. Boku no Hero Academia is also back, and those two fandoms replace Alien Stage and Game of Thrones.
- Supergirl celebrates 20 consecutive weeks back on the chart, after falling off just shy of 500 earlier this year. Yellowjackets is at 70 consecutive chart-weeks out of 135 total appearances.
- Nominations are open until December 10th for the Rare Femslash Exchange, and signups will open on the 13th. A ship counts as "rare" if it has fewer than 250 works on AO3, so that excludes the top ship in all of the current Top 20 fandoms with the exception of the relatively new Uma Musume: Pretty Derby. But obviously many many ships qualify, so check it out.
- The Star Wars: Rare Pairs 2025 exchange revealed this week with 23 F/F 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) (235) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (91) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters) (81) | 281.03 | 284 (-45) | 5.41% | 4:1 |
| 2 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (220) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (36) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (23) | 269.49 | 281 (-9) | 1.21% | 1:1.0 |
| 3 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (188) | 175.20 | 220 (-18) | 4.54% | 1:3 |
| 4 (↑2) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (91) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (43) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (32) | 142.42 | 254 (+19) | 0.66% | 1:5 |
| 5 (↓) | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (146) | 138.37 | 146 (-13) | 4.46% | 7:1 |
| 6 (↑) | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (36) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (29) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (16) | 134.11 | 138 (+27) | 1.33% | 1:1.1 |
| 7 (↓2) | Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (127) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (17) | 129.66 | 140 (-23) | 1.39% | 7:1 |
| 8 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (52) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (37) Mel (Thunderbolts 2025),Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (21) | 106.58 | 146 (+4) | 0.52% | 1:5 |
| 9 | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (42) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (23) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (19) | 94.00 | 94 (+2) | 1.25% | 50:1 |
| 10 (↑) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (65) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (9) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (8) | 74.30 | 79 (+6) | 0.22% | 31:1 |
| 11 (⇑) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (53) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (38) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (13) | 71.15 | 105 (?) | 0.99% | 1:4 |
| 12 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (12) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Columbina (Genshin Impact) (9) Clorinde (Genshin Impact),Navia (Genshin Impact) (9) | 70.56 | 89 (+18) | 0.42% | 1:4 |
| 13 (↓) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (68) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (17) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (12) | 68.00 | 68 (+12) | 4.06% | 21:1 |
| 14 (↓4) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (38) Amelia Shepherd,Monica Beltran (10) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (9) | 67.06 | 69 (-1) | 0.81% | 4:1 |
| 15 (↓) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (48) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (11) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (7) | 52.00 | 56 (+2) | 0.42% | 4:1 |
| 16 (⇑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (48) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (24) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (5) | 48.59 | 93 (?) | 0.60% | 1:7 |
| 17 (↑) | Murder Drones (Web Series) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (20) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (14) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (13) | 47.08 | 49 (+7) | 2.79% | 5:1 |
| 18 (↓3) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (26) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (6) | 46.33 | 61 (+1) | 0.34% | 4:1 |
| 19 (↓3) | ウマ娘 プリティーダービー | Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (Anime) Daiwa Scarlet (Uma Musume),Vodka (Uma Musume) (9) Gold Ship (Uma Musume),Mejiro McQueen (Uma Musume) (6) Mejiro McQueen (Uma Musume),Tokai Teio (Uma Musume) (6) | 46.08 | 48 (-5) | 6.31% | 62:1 |
| 20 (↓3) | 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) Cerydra (Honkai: Star Rail),Hysilens (Honkai: Star Rail) (14) Aglaea (Honkai: Star Rail),Castorice (Honkai: Star Rail) (8) Herta (Honkai: Star Rail),Ruan Mei (Honkai: Star Rail) (5) | 40.81 | 58 (+1) | 1.35% | 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.
