purveyor of niche Warrior Nun analysis posts and stories (yes, i am also skivvery on tumblr, not just ao3). lesbian, not a nun. this is a sideblog! i follow back from sisterdiviniumfollows... but i spend a lot more time on dreamwidth now.
This is a blog for Warrior Nun or other occasional shenunigans. I try focusing on actual commentary and talking to people (so feel free to come and talk to me!) rather than mindless reblogs or likes.
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#narratives and similar: short form Warrior Nun fanfiction written by me, mostly doctor superion (Jillian Salvius/Mother Superion);
#analysis and similar / #exercises in observation: interesting analysis and commentary by others (first tag) or hesitant observations of my own (second tag);
#sister makes gifs once in a blue moon: gifs of varying quality by yours truly.
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There are lots of reasons why fandom is "quieter" now than it used to be. Some theories are more compelling to me than others, and they all have a different scale of impact. We'll never know for sure, of course, but I like to think about it. Thus, this poll.
Of the list below, which reason do you find most compelling or do you think had the biggest impact?
New entrants to fandom don't know the old ways
fandom olds didn't teach the newcomers how to fandom
covid/surge in fandom due to quarantine and lockdowns
"antis" and other harassment campaigns against creators
creators posting complaints about comments (people worry about commenting wrong)
rise of discord popularity - fandom is walled off from each other
tumblr porn ban and other reasons people left the site
capitalism turning fandom into a passive "view and move on" commodity
rules from social media impacting fan culture (eg. don't comment on old posts)
general state of the world / burnout
social anxieties in an increasingly complex online culture
"surveillance state" worries and not wanting to be perceived
Remaining time: 3 days 11 hours
This is an incomplete list, so if your most compelling reason isn't listed, feel free to add it in the notes.
High-level stats for week of 2026-04-21 - 2026-04-27
Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10701 (+40 from last week)
Works I classified F/F: 5599 (+41 from last week) (2419 new, 3180 continued)
0.55% of all 1020107 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week
A few callouts this week:
Alien Stage returns for the first time in 2026. Life Is Strange returns after a brief absence.
Grey's Anatomy falls off the chart this week, ending a chart run of 186 consecutive weeks (out of 342 total appearances). Boku no Hero Academia also exits the chart.
The Season of Drabbles - Spring Round 2026 exchange revealed with 68 F/F 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) (188)
Jinx (League of Legends),Vi (League of Legends) (30)
Caitlyn (League of Legends),Jinx (League of Legends) (18)214.35223 (+22)0.90%1:1.0 2KPop Demon Hunters (2025)
Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (149)
Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Rumi (KPop Demon Hunters) (51)
Mira (KPop Demon Hunters),Zoey (KPop Demon Hunters) (49)187.05190 (+1)2.69%5:1 3The Pitt (TV)
Trinity Santos,Yolanda Garcia (82)
Cassie McKay,Victoria Javadi (43)
Baran Al-Hashimi,Trinity Santos (41)175.43209 (-5)9.33%1:3 4 (↑2)Addams Family - All Media Types
Enid Sinclair,Wednesday Addams (115)
Divina (Wednesday),Yoko Tanaka (19)
Enid Sinclair,Yoko Tanaka (10)112.69122 (+17)1.10%7:1 5 (↓)Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Dorcas Meadowes,Marlene McKinnon (82)
Lily Evans Potter,Pandora Lovegood (26)
Lily Evans Potter,Mary Macdonald (23)103.50207 (-19)0.51%1:5 6 (↓)Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)
Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggi | Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (68)
Charlie Magne | Morningstar,Vaggie (Hazbin Hotel) (44)
Emily (Hazbin Hotel),Sera (Hazbin Hotel) (7)103.09126 (-9)2.11%1:4 7 (↑4)Yellowjackets (TV)
Jackie Taylor (Yellowjackets),Shauna Shipman (48)
Lottie Matthews,Natalie Scatorccio (31)
Taissa Turner,Van Palmer (29)96.0498 (+20)1.16%44:1 8 (↓)Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Nancy Wheeler,Robin Buckley (67)
Robin Buckley,Vickie (Stranger Things) (54)
Eleven | Jane Hopper,Maxine "Max" Mayfield (25)95.61140 (+7)1.05%1:5 9 (↑5)原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
Columbina (Genshin Impact),Sandrone (Genshin Impact) (25)
Raiden Ei | Baal,Yae Miko (Genshin Impact) (11)
Arlecchino (Genshin Impact),Furina (Genshin Impact) (8)81.5696 (+12)0.43%1:4 10 (↓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 (24)
Azusawa Kohane,Shiraishi An (12)
Asahina Mafuyu,Yoisaki Kanade (10)75.4181 (-11)0.70%1:1.1 11 (↓2)The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
Gangle (The Amazing Digital Circus),Zooble (The Amazing Digital Circus) (63)
Pomni (The Amazing Digital Circus),Ragatha (The Amazing Digital Circus) (53)74.8883 (-14)4.93%1.7:1 12 (↑7)Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
Francesca Bridgerton,Michaela Stirling (60)
Cressida Cowper,Eloise Bridgerton (6)
Eloise Bridgerton,Penelope Featherington (6)74.1177 (+19)4.90%2:1 13Marvel Cinematic Universe
Agatha Harkness,Rio Vidal (41)
Kate Bishop,Yelena Belova (23)
Natasha Romanov (Marvel),Wanda Maximoff (13)65.86106 (-5)0.37%1:5 14 (↑2)Coronation Street
Carla Connor,Lisa Swain (60)
Betsy Swain,Carla Connor (10)
Betsy Swain,Lisa Swain (8)61.0061 (-3)2.94%18:1 15RWBY
Blake Belladonna,Yang Xiao Long (41)
Penny Polendina,Ruby Rose (RWBY) (10)
Cinder Fall,Winter Schnee (6)
Coco Adel,Velvet Scarlatina (6)
Ruby Rose (RWBY),Yang Xiao Long (6)59.8977 (-2)0.42%4:1 16 (↓4)Supergirl (TV 2015)
Kara Danvers,Lena Luthor (54)
Alex Danvers,Samantha "Sam" Arias (7)
Alex Danvers,Kara Danvers (6)59.1865 (-10)0.18%31:1 17 (↓7)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) (5)
Agnes Tachyon (Uma Musume),Manhattan Cafe (Uma Musume) (5)
Air Groove (Uma Musume),Symboli Rudolf (Uma Musume) (5)
Oguri Cap (Uma Musume),Tamamo Cross (Uma Musume) (5)58.6271 (-20)3.95%78:1 18 (↓)The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Andrea Sachs,Miranda Priestly (51)
Andrea Sachs,Emily Charlton (9)56.0758 (-6)1.40%113:1 19 (⇑)Alien Stage (Web Series)
Mizi (Alien Stage),Sua (Alien Stage) (54)
Hyuna (Alien Stage),Mizi (Alien Stage) (9)
Hyuna (Alien Stage),Sua (Alien Stage) (3)53.2057 (?)2.22%1:3 20 (⇑)Life Is Strange (Video Game)
Chloe Price (Life is Strange),Maxine "Max" Caulfield (39)
Maxine "Max" Caulfield,Safiya "Safi" Llewellyn-Fayyad (6)
Alex Chen (Life Is Strange),Steph Gingrich (5)
Kate Marsh,Maxine "Max" Caulfield (5)46.0046 (?)0.68%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.
you get a comment on tumblr. it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a DM. it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a message on instagram. its a bot trying to scam you. you're an author and you get an email telling you how much they loved your book and want to showcase it at their bookclub. it's a bot trying to scam you (and it uses bad AI to pretend it knows your story). you get a comment on ao3 saying how much they love your fic - and they made you fanart!! it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a hate comment on ao3 which insults your writing or calls you a monster for writing something "problematic". it's a bot. but at least that one isn't trying to scam you.
there's just something really cruel and insidious about this wave of scams going after creatives. You get an email and think someone genuinely loved what you made but - no. It's another scam. It's someone trying to trick you into sending them money. On AO3, it might literally just be a bot someone made specifically to be a hateful little shit.
putting the stuff you've made out there for everyone to see is hard and scary and we're all just bumping around looking for a bit of appreciation and love and connection and these bastards are using that to try to rob us. I hate it.
Okay everybody go leave a comment on the fics you're reading, find your favorite author's social media and tell them you liked their book, and comment on your favorite artist's YouTube or Bandcamp page, go go gooooo.
This week’s Ship Sunday features the canon femslash Warrior Nun pairing of Avatrice. This pairing between Ava Silva and Sister Beatrice on the - now canceled - Netflix TV show is based on the comic character Warrior Nun Areala by Ben Dunn, has two seasons running from 2020 to 2022.
It follows the 19-year-old, newly appointed but reluctant protagonist of Ava, who inherited her powers, to be the new Warrior Nun after being resurrected. With her new powers and new take on life, Ava works with Sister Beatrice to figure out how to control her abilities. Now a part of the Order of the Cruciform Sword, Ava is tasked with fighting demons on Earth alongside her allies. Ava, torn between her desire to live freely in a way that she had never been able to before her original death and the call to fight for Earth against the forces of evil, decides that she is to be the last of the Warrior Nun lineage and end the battle.
Although this is not fully resolved due to the cancelation by Netflix, the story had a campaign to save this series, successfully reviving it as a slated movie trilogy. The goal of these movies is to expand on this universe, following more closely the comics that the show was based on; although some fans object to this revival, others are excited to see more content from this universe.
Read more on Fanlore about these heroes.
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Seasons of Drabbles - Spring Round: Signups and Nominations Still Open!
Posted by: littlefics
Signups are upon through the end of the week for Seasons of Drabbles, a quarterly exchange for drabbles and drabble variants! We are also still taking nominations.
Schedule:
Nominations open: Sunday, March 29 (will remain open through signups)
Signups open: Sunday, April 5
Signups close: Sunday, April 12 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Assignments out by: Wednesday, April 15
Assignments due: Saturday, April 25 @ 11:59pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Collection opens: Saturday, May 2 @ 1:00pm Eastern Daylight time (Countdown)
Authors revealed: Tuesday, May 5 @ 1:00pm Eastern Daylight time
Dreamwidth: seasonsofdrabbles | AO3 Collection | Tagset
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There's a super cool drabble exchange event I've signed up for despite having no illusions on whether I'll match up with anyone or not, lol and that reminded me of the fact that I once tried writing some doctor superion chess-themed story with drabbles... And then it never went anywhere.
The two first ones are still in my drafts, however! Maybe one day...
and if i said that tumblr thought they could get away with that update bc they know the majority of this website ignores the reblog option entirely compared to years ago, so they figured they could just BREAK the very foundation of how this website was built to operate and people would just shrug and be fine with that. please let this be a wake up call. our strong reaction to that change should start to reflect significantly in that ACTUAL reblog count under those notes we just fought for to stay untouched. fandoms and communities cannot thrive on likes alone. as much as tumblr has tried to turn this place in tiktok and twitter, it's not. posts need to circulate. art needs to be seen and shared. tumblr is not tumblr if this is not happening consistently because reblogs are the heartbeat of this website. please don't ever take it for granted. never give tumblr a reason to take away the thing that links us together and amplifies creativity. make reblogging a priority, PLEASE.
obsessed with Warrior Nun season 1 going “you know maybe Not All Men” and then in the season finale goes “but most of them” and then takes the stance “so the only people you can trust. Are lesbian nuns who fight good”
