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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2025-12-16 - 2025-12-22
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10204 (+298 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5679 (+237 from last week) (2577 new, 3102 continued)
- 0.58% of all 971326 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- Alien Stage returns, replacing The Amazing Digital Circus.
- There's a Sapphic Stories 2025 prompt meme open through the end of the year, so think fast if that's something you'd like to jump on.
- As expected, a number of winter-holiday-themed exchanges revealed this week.
- For F/F content, your best bet is, of course, Yuletide 2025, with 141 works across a variety of fandoms.
- Other holiday exchanges: The Worst Witchmas Exchange 2025 revealed with 27 F/F works. For fans who read German, the female-character-focused *innendienst Tatort exchange revealed with 11 F/F works. And the Tokusatsu exchange Another Toku Holiday Special (2025) revealed 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) (210) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (88) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters) (85) | 267.13 | 273 (-14) | 4.93% | 5:1 |
| 2 | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (222) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (34) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (22) | 248.33 | 267 (+33) | 1.14% | 1:1.0 |
| 3 | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (182) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (12) | 172.23 | 205 (-8) | 4.03% | 1:3 |
| 4 | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (87) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (35) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (27) | 137.60 | 257 (-6) | 0.66% | 1:5 |
| 5 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (77) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (39) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (24) | 129.76 | 176 (+10) | 0.63% | 1:5 |
| 6 | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (126) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (15) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (8) | 123.36 | 130 (-1) | 1.28% | 9:1 |
| 7 | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (119) | 122.01 | 123 (+0) | 3.58% | 7:1 |
| 8 (↑2) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (81) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (57) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (19) | 114.95 | 152 (+23) | 1.39% | 1:4 |
| 9 (↓) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (50) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (18) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (16) | 97.02 | 99 (+3) | 1.30% | 48:1 |
| 10 (↓) | プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (23) Akiyama Mizuki,Shinonome Ena (22) Akiyama Mizuki,Asahina Mafuyu,Shinonome Ena,Yoisaki Kanade (14) | 87.10 | 90 (-4) | 0.86% | 1:1.1 |
| 11 (↑6) | ウマ娘 プリティーダービー | Uma Musume: Pretty Derby (Anime) Mejiro Ramonu (Uma Musume),Symboli Rudolf (Uma Musume) (16) Agnes Tachyon (Uma Musume),Manhattan Cafe (Uma Musume) (10) Agnes Tachyon (Uma Musume),Jungle Pocket (Uma Musume) (8) | 83.18 | 87 (+25) | 9.56% | 59:1 |
| 12 | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Columbina (Genshin Impact),Sandrone (Genshin Impact) (17) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (12) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (8) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (8) Lauma (Genshin Impact),Nefer (Genshin Impact) (8) | 74.90 | 92 (+9) | 0.43% | 1:4 |
| 13 (↓2) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (49) Amelia Shepherd,Monica Beltran (10) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (7) | 72.05 | 74 (+1) | 0.86% | 4:1 |
| 14 (↑) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (65) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (19) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (14) | 67.00 | 67 (+4) | 3.82% | 21:1 |
| 15 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (30) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (8) Blake Belladonna,Weiss Schnee (8) Cinder Fall,Winter Schnee (8) | 63.38 | 78 (-1) | 0.43% | 4:1 |
| 16 (↓3) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (52) Alex Danvers,Kelly Olsen (Supergirl TV 2015) (6) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (4) | 61.36 | 71 (-3) | 0.20% | 31:1 |
| 17 (↑3) | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (53) | 56.19 | 60 (+21) | 0.30% | 8:1 |
| 18 | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (56) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (18) Masha (The Owl House),Vee (The Owl House) (11) | 56.08 | 61 (+10) | 0.46% | 4:1 |
| 19 (⇑) | Alien Stage (Web Series) Mizi (Alien Stage),Sua (Alien Stage) (48) Hyuna (Alien Stage),Mizi (Alien Stage) (7) | 47.02 | 48 (?) | 2.27% | 1:3 |
| 20 (↓4) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (44) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (25) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (7) | 47.00 | 94 (-13) | 0.61% | 1:7 |
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.
