Femslash week in review: 2026-05-19 - 2026-05-25
High-level stats for week of 2026-05-19 - 2026-05-25
Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 11129 (+56 from last week)
Works I classified F/F: 5799 (+91 from last week) (2490 new, 3309 continued)
0.56% of all 1029974 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
Boku no Hero Academia returns, replacing Murder Drones.
The Amazing Digital Circus celebrates 10 consecutive weeks on the chart.
Signups open on June 8 for a femslash exchange themed around sparring, called June Joust. That sounds great.
An undressing-themed F/F exchange called Take It Off! revealed this week with 38 works.
Full top-20 table and description of methodology after the jump.
Most active classified fandoms:
RankFandom (and top three ships)Rating for weekF/F works updated this week% of F/F works updated this weekF/F:M/M ratio (all works) 1League of Legends Caitlyn (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (145) Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (32) Jinx (League of Legends),Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard (15)180.33188 (-16)0.75%1:1.0 2 (↑)The Pitt (TV) Trinity Santos,Yolanda Garcia (75) Baran Al-Hashimi,Trinity Santos (45) Cassie McKay,Victoria Javadi (23)162.42186 (+9)6.94%1:3 3 (↓)KPop Demon Hunters (2025) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (136) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters) (52) Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (46)162.12167 (-17)2.29%5:1 4Addams Family - All Media Types Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (114) Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (19) Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (9)113.20118 (-13)1.05%7:1 5 (↑2)Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggi | Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (77) Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (38)109.47130 (-4)2.13%1:4 6Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (69) Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (24) Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (22)109.05223 (+0)0.55%1:5 7 (↓2)The Devil Wears Prada (2006) Andrea Sachs,Emily Charlton (63) Andrea Sachs,Miranda Priestly (53)105.31111 (-1)2.53%112:1 8 (↑7)原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game) Columbina (Genshin Impact),Sandrone (Genshin Impact) (34) Lauma (Genshin Impact),Nefer (Genshin Impact) (11) Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (8)97.66119 (+37)0.52%1:4 9 (↓)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 (26) Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (13) Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (13)97.15101 (+7)0.86%1:1.1 10Yellowjackets (TV) Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (37) Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (25) Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (18)84.1087 (+4)1.01%44:1 11 (↓2)Marvel Cinematic Universe Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (43) Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (25) Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (20)72.28112 (-11)0.38%1:5 12The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series) Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus),Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus) (55) Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus),Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus) (40)64.4274 (-5)4.06%1.7:1 13 (↑)Stranger Things (TV 2016) Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (39) Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (38) Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (25)59.7795 (-12)0.70%1:5 14 (↑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) (7) Daiwa Scarlet (Uma Musume),Vodka (Uma Musume) (5) Silence Suzuka (Uma Musume),Special Week (Uma Musume) (5)59.5165 (-7)3.26%81:1 15 (↑4)RWBY Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (37) Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (6) Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (6) Weiss Schnee,Yang Xiao Long (6)58.1970 (-3)0.38%4:1 16 (↑2)Coronation Street Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (57) Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (9) Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (8)58.0058 (+3)2.73%18:1 17 (↓)Grey's Anatomy Carina DeLuca,Maya Bishop (32) Arizona Robbins,Calliope "Callie" Torres (8) Amelia Shepherd,Toni Wright (7)57.1460 (+0)0.67%4:1 18 (⇑)僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Toga Himiko,Uraraka Ochako (65) Jirou Kyouka,Yaoyorozu Momo (22) Asui Tsuyu,Uraraka Ochako (7)56.52111 (?)0.68%1:7 19 (↓6)Bridgerton (TV) Francesca Bridgerton,Michaela Stirling (50) Cressida Cowper,Eloise Bridgerton (4)54.0255 (-20)3.45%2:1 20 (↓9)Supergirl (TV 2015) Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (47) Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (11) Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (9)50.0659 (-23)0.16%31:1
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.