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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2026-01-06 - 2026-01-12
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10734 (-1189 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5954 (-671 from last week) (2719 new, 3235 continued)
- 0.61% of all 980529 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- The Pitt reaches the chart for the first time this week.
- Owl House falls off the chart after a run of 283 consecutive weeks, starting in August 2020.
- Less dramatically: She-Ra returns for the first time since October, and Murder Drones returns after a few weeks away. Game of Thrones and Pluribus leave the chart.
- Uma Musume: Pretty Derby celebrates its first 20 weeks on the chart, and Marvel Cinematic Universe reaches a streak of 90 consecutive weeks (out of 608 total appearances).
- There will be a DCU femslash comment fest running for the month of February.
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 | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (211) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (140) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (61) | 297.07 | 402 (-94) | 3.41% | 1:4 |
| 2 (↑) | KPop Demon Hunters (2025) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (226) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (81) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters) (67) | 279.04 | 283 (+12) | 4.80% | 5:1 |
| 3 (↓) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (195) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (38) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (25) | 229.49 | 248 (-38) | 1.05% | 1:1.0 |
| 4 (↑) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (132) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggi | Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (33) Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (10) Melissa (Hazbin Hotel),Velvette (Hazbin Hotel) (10) | 148.54 | 182 (-23) | 3.44% | 1:4 |
| 5 (↓) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (93) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (38) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (33) | 145.43 | 262 (-47) | 0.67% | 1:5 |
| 6 | Wednesday (TV 2022) Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (120) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (19) Larissa Weems,Morticia Addams (10) | 128.39 | 136 (-9) | 1.32% | 9:1 |
| 7 (↑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 (25) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (22) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (19) | 112.00 | 112 (+0) | 1.04% | 1:1.1 |
| 8 | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (58) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (29) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (25) | 101.75 | 141 (-14) | 0.50% | 1:5 |
| 9 (↑) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (35) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (30) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (17) | 90.09 | 93 (+0) | 1.20% | 47:1 |
| 10 (↓3) | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (84) Elphaba Thropp,Nessarose Thropp (5) | 82.10 | 85 (-50) | 2.38% | 7:1 |
| 11 (↑6) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (71) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (23) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (20) | 72.00 | 72 (+6) | 3.92% | 20:1 |
| 12 (↓) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Columbina (Genshin Impact),Sandrone (Genshin Impact) (18) Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (8) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Columbina (Genshin Impact) (5) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (5) Lauma (Genshin Impact),Nefer (Genshin Impact) (5) | 71.07 | 94 (-1) | 0.44% | 1:4 |
| 13 | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (40) Amelia Shepherd,Monica Beltran (11) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (10) | 69.26 | 74 (-5) | 0.86% | 4:1 |
| 14 (↓2) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (68) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (6) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (6) | 68.14 | 78 (-9) | 0.21% | 31:1 |
| 15 (↓) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (42) Blake Belladonna,Ruby Rose (RWBY),Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (8) ... | 67.83 | 80 (-13) | 0.44% | 4:1 |
| 16 (↓) | 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) (7) Daiwa Scarlet (Uma Musume),Vodka (Uma Musume) (7) Oguri Cap (Uma Musume),Tamamo Cross (Uma Musume) (6) | 60.84 | 68 (-17) | 6.23% | 58:1 |
| 17 (↓) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (54) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (29) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (8) | 60.55 | 118 (-7) | 0.75% | 1:7 |
| 18 (⇑) | The Pitt (TV) Trinity Santos,Yolanda Garcia (33) Cassie McKay,Victoria Javadi (11) Samira Mohan,Trinity Santos (6) | 53.82 | 61 (?) | 8.54% | 1:4 |
| 19 (⇑) | She-Ra: Princess Of Power Adora (She-Ra),Catra (She-Ra) (51) Perfuma (She-Ra),Scorpia (She-Ra) (10) Netossa (She-Ra),Spinnerella (She-Ra) (6) | 52.00 | 54 (?) | 0.40% | 6:1 |
| 20 (⇑) | Murder Drones (Web Series) J (Murder Drones),Tessa James Elliott (14) Uzi Doorman,V (Murder Drones) (9) Doll (Murder Drones),Lizzy (Murder Drones) (7) Lizzy (Murder Drones),V (Murder Drones) (7) | 45.30 | 49 (?) | 2.66% | 5:1 |
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.
