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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-12-09 - 2025-12-15
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9906 (-145 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5442 (-128 from last week) (2335 new, 3107 continued)
- 0.56% of all 968749 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Web series The Amazing Digital Circus returns to the chart after a couple of months away, replacing Honkai: Star Rail.
- Hazbin Hotel celebrates 100 consecutive weeks on the chart. Owl House reaches 280 consecutive weeks.
- I'm tracking a lot of exchanges that reveal on Christmas, and I'll try to flag any that have a reasonable number of F/F works in my post next week. If there are any exchanges you particularly recommend, let me know about them and I'll make sure to mention them!
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) (229) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters) (98) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (86) | 278.27 | 287 (+27) | 5.28% | 4:1 |
| 2 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (186) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (23) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (21) | 217.29 | 234 (-26) | 1.00% | 1:1.0 |
| 3 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (183) | 167.07 | 213 (-6) | 4.25% | 1:3 |
| 4 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (90) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (33) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (32) | 145.07 | 263 (-14) | 0.68% | 1:5 |
| 5 (↑2) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (76) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (32) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (21) | 124.13 | 166 (+4) | 0.59% | 1:5 |
| 6 (↓) | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (122) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (21) Bianca Barclay,Wednesday Addams (7) | 121.58 | 131 (-22) | 1.30% | 9:1 |
| 7 (↓) | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (122) | 121.03 | 123 (-5) | 3.63% | 7:1 |
| 8 (↑2) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (52) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (27) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (27) | 96.00 | 96 (-1) | 1.27% | 50:1 |
| 9 (↑2) | 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 (29) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (24) Akiyama Mizuki,Asahina Mafuyu,Shinonome Ena,Yoisaki Kanade (12) | 90.16 | 94 (-1) | 0.90% | 1:1.1 |
| 10 (↓2) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (71) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (39) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (22) | 87.61 | 129 (-10) | 1.19% | 1:4 |
| 11 (↑) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (43) Amelia Shepherd,Monica Beltran (12) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (8) | 72.01 | 73 (-4) | 0.86% | 4:1 |
| 12 (↓3) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Columbina (Genshin Impact),Sandrone (Genshin Impact) (16) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (8) Lauma (Genshin Impact),Nefer (Genshin Impact) (8) | 68.89 | 83 (-25) | 0.39% | 1:4 |
| 13 (↑2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (59) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (9) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (6) | 68.31 | 74 (-2) | 0.20% | 31:1 |
| 14 | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (28) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (5) Neopolitan (RWBY),Ruby Rose (RWBY) (5) | 67.84 | 79 (-10) | 0.44% | 4:1 |
| 15 (↓2) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (62) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (19) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (15) | 62.00 | 63 (-12) | 3.64% | 21:1 |
| 16 (↑3) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (56) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (28) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (8) | 58.16 | 107 (+17) | 0.69% | 1:7 |
| 17 (↑3) | ウマ娘 プリティーダービー | Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (Anime) Mejiro McQueen (Uma Musume),Tokai Teio (Uma Musume) (8) Agnes Tachyon (Uma Musume),Jungle Pocket (Uma Musume) (6) Agnes Tachyon (Uma Musume),Manhattan Cafe (Uma Musume) (6) | 54.91 | 62 (+19) | 7.38% | 64:1 |
| 18 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (42) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (15) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (7) | 47.00 | 51 (-2) | 0.38% | 4:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series) Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus),Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus) (33) Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus),Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus) (20) Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus),Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus) (3) Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus),Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus) (3) Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus),Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus) (3) | 38.72 | 44 (?) | 3.83% | 2:1 |
| 20 (↓4) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (36) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Queen of Hearts | Cora (2) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Wicked Witch of the West | Zelena (2) | 36.21 | 39 (-18) | 0.19% | 8:1 |
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.
