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letzanHigh-level stats for week of 2026-01-20 - 2026-01-26
- Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10707 (+217 from last week)
- Works I classified F/F: 5823 (+60 from last week) (2546 new, 3277 continued)
- 0.59% of all 985591 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
- League of Legends is back at number one for the first time since KPop Demon Hunters took over last summer.
- RWBY of course returns after its surprise chart exit last week, replacing The Pitt.
- League of Legends also celebrates 220 consecutive weeks on the chart, and Harry Potter reaches 370.
- Happy Femslash February! There are a bunch of exchanges and prompt meme announcements to celebrate.
- linky's Tokusatsu Femslash Prompt Meme runs until March 1st.
- elasticella's Fresh Femslash Salad Bar prompt table event runs through February as well.
- cmk418's Half a Moon 14-day posting challenge focused on female characters, runs through February 14th.
- likealighthouse's Multifandom: Fall Out Boy Femslash February Ficathon, a multifandom femslash event involving Fall Out Boy lyric prompts, runs through the end of February.
- Signups are open through February 14th for TechnicolorRevel's Femslash Erotic Horror Flash exchange.
- The Holly Poly 2025 polyamorous exchange went live, with 18 works that contain an F/F pairing.
- One rec: the festivids2025 collection went live, and I enjoyed this Dykes to Watch Out For vid, Everything I Need.
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 (↑2) | League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (194) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (39) Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (16) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (16) | 234.65 | 247 (+3) | 1.04% | 1:1.0 |
| 2 (↓) | Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (157) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (131) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (55) | 223.92 | 328 (-37) | 2.69% | 1:4 |
| 3 (↓) | KPop Demon Hunters (2025) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (189) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (68) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters) (66) | 222.28 | 233 (-15) | 3.83% | 5:1 |
| 4 (↑) | Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (98) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (40) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (32) | 145.56 | 261 (+5) | 0.66% | 1:5 |
| 5 (↓) | Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (99) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggi | Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (41) Melissa (Hazbin Hotel),Velvette (Hazbin Hotel) (10) | 126.72 | 158 (-20) | 2.93% | 1:4 |
| 6 | Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (122) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (17) Bianca Barclay,Wednesday Addams (7) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (7) | 123.22 | 129 (-6) | 1.23% | 7:1 |
| 7 (↑) | 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Columbina (Genshin Impact),Sandrone (Genshin Impact) (50) Beidou (Genshin Impact),Ningguang (Genshin Impact) (8) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (7) Jean (Genshin Impact),Lisa (Genshin Impact) (7) Lauma (Genshin Impact),Nefer (Genshin Impact) (7) | 111.25 | 133 (+20) | 0.61% | 1:4 |
| 8 (↑) | 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) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (17) | 101.37 | 108 (+15) | 0.99% | 1:1.1 |
| 9 (↑) | Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (55) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (19) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (17) | 96.00 | 97 (+8) | 1.24% | 47:1 |
| 10 (↓3) | Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (49) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (33) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (23) | 86.47 | 128 (-27) | 0.45% | 1:5 |
| 11 (↑) | The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire Elphaba Thropp,Galinda Upland (75) Dorothy Gale,Galinda Upland (4) Elphaba Thropp,Nessarose Thropp (4) | 73.05 | 75 (+6) | 2.08% | 7:1 |
| 12 (↑) | Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (40) Addison Montgomery,Meredith Grey (16) Amelia Shepherd,Monica Beltran (7) | 71.05 | 73 (+8) | 0.84% | 4:1 |
| 13 (⇑) | RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (38) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10) Cinder Fall,Winter Schnee (8) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (8) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (8) | 66.67 | 80 (?) | 0.44% | 4:1 |
| 14 (↑) | Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (65) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (12) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (10) | 65.00 | 66 (+10) | 3.50% | 20:1 |
| 15 (↓) | 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) Mejiro McQueen (Uma Musume),Tokai Teio (Uma Musume) (5) | 63.23 | 67 (+5) | 5.71% | 61:1 |
| 16 (↓5) | Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (52) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (6) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (5) | 59.73 | 68 (-12) | 0.19% | 31:1 |
| 17 (↑) | 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (57) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (27) Todoroki Fuyumi,Usagiyama Rumi | Miruko (7) | 58.07 | 113 (+12) | 0.72% | 1:7 |
| 18 (↓) | Pluribus (TV 2025) Carol Sturka,Zosia (Pluribus) (45) Carol Sturka,Helen (Pluribus) (32) | 56.02 | 57 (+6) | 17.92% | 54:1 |
| 19 | Once Upon a Time (TV) Emma Swan,Evil Queen | Regina Mills (50) Belle (Once Upon a Time),Red Riding Hood | Ruby (3) Evil Queen | Regina Mills,Maleficent (Once Upon a Time) (3) | 52.17 | 57 (+5) | 0.28% | 8:1 |
| 20 (↓4) | The Owl House (Cartoon) Amity Blight,Luz Noceda (50) Eda Clawthorne,Raine Whispers (13) Eda Clawthorne,Luz Noceda (9) | 49.58 | 58 (-1) | 0.43% | 4:1 |
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.
