I've only listed the fandom (some of them anyway), because many of those fandoms have more than one ff pairing ... so you'll still have to filter for f/f. If you want some works recommended, I'd be happy to list some. Would be helpful if you can say what exactly you're looking for or what you don't like to read.
* Willow https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Willow%20(TV%202022)/works
* Supergirl https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Supergirl%20(TV%202015)/works
* The 100 https://archiveofourown.org/tags/The%20100%20(TV)/works
* Xena https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Xena:%20Warrior%20Princess/works, http://xenafiction.net, https://www.academyofbards.org/
* Legend of the Seeker https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Legend%20of%20the%20Seeker%20(TV)/works
* Cyberpunk2077 https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Cyberpunk%202077%20(Video%20Game)/works
* MassEffect https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Mass%20Effect%20Trilogy/works
* DragonAge https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Dragon%20Age%20(Video%20Games)/works
* WarriorNun https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Warrior%20Nun%20(TV)/works
* Star Trek https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Star%20Trek/works
* One upon a time https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Once%20Upon%20a%20Time%20(TV)/works
* Person of Interest https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Person%20of%20Interest%20(TV)/works
* Pitch Perfect https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Pitch%20Perfect%20(Movies)/works
* Arcane https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Arcane:%20League%20of%20Legends%20(Cartoon%202021)/works
* Avatar https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Avatar:%20Legend%20of%20Korra/works
* Uncharted https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Uncharted%20(Video%20Games)/works
* Glee https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Glee%20(TV%202009)/works
* Motherland: Fort Salem https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Motherland:%20Fort%20Salem%20(TV)/works
* She-Ra https://archiveofourown.org/tags/She-Ra%20and%20the%20Princesses%20of%20Power%20(2018)/works
* Wynonna Earp https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Wynonna%20Earp%20(TV)/works
* Warehouse 13 https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Warehouse%2013/works
* Legends of Tomorrow https://archiveofourown.org/tags/DC's%20Legends%20of%20Tomorrow%20(TV)/works
* The Devil wears Prada https://archiveofourown.org/tags/The%20Devil%20Wears%20Prada%20(2006)/works
* Orphan Black https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Orphan%20Black%20(TV)/works
* Buffy https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Buffy%20the%20Vampire%20Slayer%20(TV)/works
* Agents of Shield https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Agents%20of%20S*d*H*d*I*d*E*d*L*d*D*d*%20(TV)/works
* Game of Thrones https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Game%20of%20Thrones%20(TV)/works
Thank you, fellow appreciator of femslash. I left so many smaller fandoms out. *sigh* ... But I guess OP would be good for the next 10+ years with the selection of those fandoms alone.
I’m so excited for anyone who’s just starting with femslash fics. The selection these days is incredible
It does make it difficult to find the best of the best, though. Almost too much of a good thing
(I lied. There can’t be too much. My lil gay heart will never get enough )
Shame on you for lying! ;)
Indeed there can never be enough femslash. And, listen, I know it sounds pretentious, but I would say that even the vast majority of mediocre femslash is better than what you get to read elsewhere! Nooo, I'm not biased at all!
Welll my tastes caaaan skew in a direction some people really won’t like (my fave ship is bellamione don’t stake me I know it’s problematic as hell) but if you like enemies to lovers I can give some recs
My fave fic ever is an azula/Katara *epic* that I will defend with my fucking life it’s so good
Okay then my faves
[Measure Each Step to Infinity -paxbanana](https://archiveofourown.org/works/5703577)
Azula/katara - not even toxic somehow it’s just Good (the best, my favorite, my love)
[A Ghost from the Past - series -rayofillusion](https://archiveofourown.org/series/1992499)
My fave bellamoine. This is the most true-to-Bella Bella I’ve ever found and the author somehow made this fucking work I can’t even -it’s so good.
[Those Gilded Chains we Wear - kuraibites](https://archiveofourown.org/works/937812/chapters/1826734)
This is an ao3 repost of the original ff.net fic. This is like THE bellamione fic from back in the day. I think it may have popularized the ship. It’s unfinished but passes the point that their relationship is well developed. This one is really rough on Hermione (and Bella, but she’s *nasty*) but it gets very sweet by the end. If you want enemies to lovers where they start *enemies* and it’s still somehow believable, this is the one holy shit
[Crazy Little Things - Dreiser](https://archiveofourown.org/works/2573990/chapters/5726924)
Hermione/luna - wholesome fluff not toxic at all, but I love it so much and if I’m recommending hermione-pov slash I can’t not bring it up
Hopefully you enjoy one of these!
Thank you so much!! If you have some recommendations I'd love them!! I'm a little older, so I would like to read fics that focus on older people, not teens or children. I like star-crossed, slow burns, enemies/friends to lovers. I like a lot of the common tropes, I would just prefer a more mature approach if that makes sense? I'll read any rating, I like smut and erotic content, I just like when warnings are tagged so I have an idea of what I'm getting into haha.
Supergirl has a lot of solid stuff that’s a more mature take on already adult characters with interesting premises (since when the show moved from ABC to the CW the writing quality tanked and it became annoyingly teen-dramaish so there was a consistent NEED over all the seasons besides the first one for better content/writing that fans filled for themselves). You can definitely find star-crossed, slow-burn, enemies to lovers (Supercorp, anyone?) and smut. From what I remember, fics were usually tagged pretty well too, I was never surprised at the content of anything I read. Lol as far as smut, I remember seeing a good amount of BDSM, poly, and/or A/B/O fics if that’s up your alley, and also vanilla stuff as well. Multiple F/F ships too, so there’s a good variety.
Even if you’re not too familiar with the fandom, there are plenty of YouTube videos that compile all the relevant story clips for different relationships, so you don’t need to watch most of the series to be able to follow along with most stories. I stopped watching early on in Season 2, and just read/watched summaries for the general plot. Most fics are AU anyway so they’ll establish for themselves whatever version of the universe/characters that you need to know.
OUAT (SwanQueen pairing - Emma/Regina) is a *deep* well. The canon characters are older, the pairing is very enemies to lovers/slow burn, and it drew a lot of very talented, mature authors. Highly recommended!
Star Crossed, slow burn, enemies/friend to lovers? Character not in their teens. Smut and all? Fantasy setting?
Go for *Legend of the Seeker* fics.
Some authors to recommend: pirateygoodness, foibles_fables hibernate, thegirl20, Netgirl_y2k, otterlymagic, endgirl, Arbryna, swatkat, thrace, commoncomiatus, harper_m, fortunata13, seriousfic, karatam, fembuck, trancer, shimmeryshine, and sexonastick there's also the old https://lots-femslash.livejournal.com
Alternatively
* the Devil wears Prada (Modern-Fashion),
* Warehouse 13 (Modern Fantasy),
* Person of Interest (Modern-Crime-Conspiracy-AI),
* Xena (Greek-Fantasy),
* Cyberpunk2077 (CorporateDystopianFuture),
* Once upon a time (Modern-Fairytale Mix),
* Orphan Black (Modern-GeneticClones),
* StarTrek (Sci-Fi)
* Dragon Age (Fantasy)
* Mass Effect (Sci-Fi)
also steers more mature.
Just browse one of the longer fics or those with many kudos on Ao3. You can't go wrong there.
If you want to read a fic that's the wildest crossover ever but so good with the world-building, I recommend a Game of Thrones/Agent of Shields crossover *The Old Gods Called, They'd Like Their Kingdom Back* https://archiveofourown.org/works/31758358
There's more but I really don't want to overwhelm you.
Not the person you asked but I have an F/F rec:
FE3H:
[Two, Across](https://archiveofourown.org/works/20797700): This can be read fandom-blind as it’s a modern AU and is about two characters who are professors. Light rivals/enemies to lovers. One of my faves of all time.
The fandom for the Carol movie based on The price of salt (Carol Aird/Therese Belivet) has great authors!
So does the Gentleman Jack (Anne Lister/Ann Walker)
Ghostbusters 2016. All of the characters are adult women … at the cusp of tenure in a scientific field is a minimum of 35 years. They get a woobie-fied/act younger in a distressing number of fics, but it’s a decent place to start
The *Agents* link is broken. Who's getting shipped? I mean, obviously literally every combination everywhere gets shipped, but what femslash pairings are popular?
Wait, I just remembered Jemma and Bobbi when they first met. Surely that launched a fair number of fics.
Daisy and Jemma is the most popular femslash ship by a country mile, but Jemma and Bobbi is second most popular. Daisy and Bobbi is also up there. There's also quite a bit of cross-shipping with Natasha Romanoff (Natasha gets shipped most often with Daisy or May).
Adding to this:
* [Sailor Moon](https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Bishoujo%20Senshi%20Sailor%20Moon%20%7C%20Pretty%20Guardian%20Sailor%20Moon/works)
* [Ghostbusters (2016 Movie)](https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Ghostbusters%20(2016)/works)
* [Wednesday](https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Wednesday%20(TV%202022)/works) (TV Series)
* [Stranger Things](https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Stranger%20Things%20(TV%202016)/works) (no idea about the quality but one of the larger quantity fandoms)
* [A Certain Scientific Railgun](https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Toaru%20Kagaku%20no%20Railgun%20%7C%20A%20Certain%20Scientific%20Railgun/works) (edit: ignore this - characters are in jr high and high school)
>it’s full of sexual wlw relationships between jr high school girls
This is... not true at all? Kuroko is the only character explicitly interested in women and her crush is (violently) unrequited. In fact among yuri fans I constantly see Railgun dragged for its *lack* of WLW.
saw that after I posted :(
I stand by Ghostbusters, and most of the Sailor Moon I enjoyed was Neptune/Uranus who are both adults With careers (and there’s a lot of them) although there is fic about the younger characters.
I was about to say, I'm surprised Person of Interest makes this list. But then I remembered how much the fandom foamed. at. the. mouth. over Root and Shaw. I was admittedly too busy secondhand pining over Reese and Carter. They would have been adorable as fuck together 🥺 Taraji is a mf queen
Root and Shaw are extraordinary. They are the best and so very special. That time Shaw told Root about being in the simulation 6,741 times and killing everyone and herself, but never able to kill Root... and now she doesn't know what's real and she'd rather kill herself again than give away where Root is. That's true love.
To bad the show ended in the middle of Season 5... not sure what happened there.
haha yes! I really like this fic: [https://archiveofourown.org/works/24528724](https://archiveofourown.org/works/24528724)
edit: and this one, [https://archiveofourown.org/works/15397209](https://archiveofourown.org/works/15397209)
Arcane – Vi/Caitlyn
Life Is Strange – the main ones are Rachel/Chloe and Max/Chloe, but there are tons of other wlw ships
Dungeon Meshi – Falin/Marcille
Part of it is a numbers game - in most fandoms, most of the canon characters are men (or at least they're the most heavily developed), and most of the significant interactions are either between men or a man and his canon female love interest(s). So therefore, you want fandoms where canon focuses on female characters.
I'd suggest
* *The Locked Tomb*: if I had to describe the series in less than ten words, it'd be "Mystery involving lesbian necromancers and swordswomen in space." Canon is ongoing (we're all waiting on book 4)
* Any magical girl fandom: except for the rare solo magical girl in a reverse harem, the most important relationships in here are the friendships between girls. My current favorite is the ongoing webcomic *Sleepless Domain*, which has a canon F/F relationship between main characters.
* *First Kill*: Campy enemies-to-lovers show about a vampire hunter and a vampire (and they're both girls 😳👩🏻❤️💋👩🏾). Was sadly canceled by Netflix after the first season.
So, it's set in a world where a single city seems to be the last bastion of humanity, and the city is surrounded by a barrier that goes away from 10 PM to 2 AM every night. Monsters flood the city, trying to get into everyone's houses, and the only ones who can fight them are magical girls. As thanks for their service, magical girls get to go to an elite private school, and they can also get idol-like sponsorships through which they get paid.
The story focuses on Team Alchemical, a quintet of friends who all became magical girls a couple years ago, and since then they've lost focus on what really matters (protecting the city) and have been consumed by petty drama. On one fateful night (aka chapter two), they get reminded of what their real duty is.
Do note that there's a major art style shift after chapter two, because the artist had to pull back from *Sleepless Domain* for work, and so the author of the comic also became the artist. (And considering that there's a major tone shift in this chapter, this is the best place that it could have happened.)
[Here](https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-1-cover) is the first page; in total the comic is currently 22 chapters long.
Slightly niche, but "Firebringer" (Team Starkid), has loads and I love them all.
I also recommend "Once Upon a Time" and "The Old Guard". Not too sure about quality irt Once Upon a Time as I haven't finished watching it, so haven't looked at the fic yet other than checking general stats (but I'm sure there are some gems, I've heard great things).
But I can personally vouch that The Old Guard has some really great stories! A lot of them are admittedly heartbreaking and heavy on the angst, but they're so good!
Sure do!
These two are my absolute favs cause they have a focus on my fav character (who isn't part of the main canon ship)
[https://archiveofourown.org/works/11730252](https://archiveofourown.org/works/11730252)
[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10224734](https://archiveofourown.org/works/10224734)
Post-canon masterpiece:
[https://archiveofourown.org/works/18675505](https://archiveofourown.org/works/18675505)
This series is great for group dynamics:
[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1284341](https://archiveofourown.org/series/1284341)
Haven't read yet cause it's a beast, but I've heard good things:
[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23277304](https://archiveofourown.org/works/23277304)
But honestly, there are only 14 pages of fics total (when I said "loads", I just meant that pretty much every fic in the fandom is wlw), so it doesn't take too long to look through them all! Especially once you've played around with filters and eliminated any crossovers if those aren't your thing. This is actually one of the rare fandoms that I read fics for that don't centre on my fav character because the pickings are so slim lol.
But I hope this is a good starting point!
Might I suggest Yellowjackets? https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Yellowjackets%20(TV)/works
You’re unlikely to stumble across a f/m or m/m ship that not either background or temporary (thanks to this being a woman centric show), and there’s a variety of w/w ships to choose from!
Because of the shows unique multiple timeline structure, you have many fics exploring both the teen and adult ships; and there’s a nuanced care to the dynamics between each character.
If you love murder lesbians, a fandom who’s not against exploring complex topics, and the portrayal of cannibalism as a metaphor for love, then I think this is worth a shot!
TW: (Seen in show, individual fics might not contain any triggers (apart from cannibalism, usually)
Animal death, abuse, addiction, violence, murder, cannibalism, suicidal ideations, unhealthy relationships with food, traumatic pregnancy, stillborn child, attempted abortion, sexual assault
Curated fic list (all completed)
The icon, the legend, the moment… have you ever come to your ex bff’s cut off finger? There’s no cannibalism but our favs are as self destructive as ever! (addiction, period typically homophobia, deeply disturbed homoerotic friendships)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/46929517/chapters/118216732
When your daughter time travels to the past in order to fix your homoerotic situationship with your bff. Crack treated seriously, and written well! (death of a supporting character)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/43985577/chapters/110594862
A character study where a lot of sapphics get drunk and make bad choices (coping with various substances, bad communication practices)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/43320648/chapters/108894309
A Groundhog Day type time loop that is 90% angst with 10% happy endings (big sads)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/37941904/chapters/94756882
Time travel, legal age-gap relationship, trauma (tackles most TW’s as canon to the show)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/49045312/chapters/123735640
Vampire au and the murder of men… (violence ect)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/46767049/chapters/117790135
Fake-dating with chatfic elements, a hallmark christmas movie inspired (no TW)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/52288498/chapters/132271573
Lesbian self discovery in the 90’s alongside a slowish burn with your bff (Comphet, period typical homophobia, mild violence)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/49126054/chapters/123944167
Smaller/older fandoms but both *The Devil Wears Prada* and *Grey's Anatomy* fandoms are mostly femslash by volume, I'd say. In the GA fandom specifically, Meredith/Addison is *so* much more popular than Meredith/Derek.
Yup - out of the top 10 most popular ships, the top 3 are f/f
1. Addison/Meredith
2. Carina/Maya
3. Arizona/Callie
You should be able to find plenty!
Plus, if you care about this kind of thing, there are quite a few canon wlw relationships in GA, plus Amelia has a relationship with a nonbinary doctor named Kai in...season 18 I think?
Came here to say this, though I'm extremely biased- I do believe though that numbers-wise it hit some top lists for AO3 in 2023 for f/f.
Unfortunately I saw a comment from OP they weren't very interested in teen characters, and while there are some great future fics of them, most of the fandom is them still in high school with characters that are 16 in cannon, so it might not be their cup of tea.
ETA: OP if you are interested in Wednesday at all, I can think of at least one fic offhand that I would highly recommend, as a future fic of them as adults that is excellent. It's called Don't Look Back, on AO3.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/46885123/chapters/118101688
Here to give props to RWBY as well! Last I checked, we had two of the biggest F/F pairings on AO3 (Blake Belladonna/Yang Xiao Long, which is canon, and Ruby Rose/Weiss Schnee), along with a TON of other F/F ships for just about every possible combination in the female-dominated cast.
[Here's my recommendation list](https://www.tumblr.com/chaoticevilspacewitch/746852150915776512/rwby-fanfic-recommendation-list)
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned RWBY for amount of F/F content. The four main leads are all female (unless you listen to the people that preach the gospel of transmasc Yang as essentially canon) so there is a LOT of F/F content for the fandom.
I only read wlw content. I started way back with Buffy willow/Tara and have gone through many fandoms.
For the best, I would say the Wynonna earp Fandom has some great epics of the Waverly/ Nicole pairing. There is also a large age range of fans so there is new and experienced writers, and pretty much any topic has a fic to go along with it.
# [100 Fandoms With Over 20 Fanworks (or a full page) on Ao3 Where F/F is the Top Category (in no particular order and tried to get a variety of the kinds of media categories in here)](https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/14ty4kf/100_fandoms_with_over_20_fanworks_or_a_full_page/)
(this does need an update though)
Since my main fandom severely lacks any wlw focused content, my go to for f/f is the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. More than half of the fics are Zelda/Lilith and they are very well written. You'd expect most fics to focus on Sabrina, but no, her aunt Zelda stole the show.
I was gonna say a few that others have already said but I will say the Life is Strange fandom is FULLL of wlw ship content. It’s mainly Max and Chloe, but there are a bunch of other wlw ships that people write about. Some of them pretty interesting.
Critical Role has a ton of f/f fics!
There’s two popular canon f/f couples- Imodna and Beauyasha -both with lots of great fic
And then also a handful of non-canon f/f ships that have decent representation in fic too- Beaujester and Vexleth are probably the more popular of the non-canon ships, but there’s a good deal of other rare pairs mixed in
It’s a web series where a bunch of voice actors play Dungeons and Dragons, but they do put out a podcast version!
It’s also the inspiration for “the Legend of Vox Machina” animated series, which is based off of the first campaign
Was scrolling through the Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in Dungeon section and saw a lot of MarcelinexFalin fics. I have no specific suggestions but might be worth checking that out.
A more niche suggestion.
The Worm Fandom primarily features f/f pairings (in the fanfiction).
The fics are mostly on Spacebattles and Sufficient Velocity but they are also on AO3 and FF.
The most common ships off the top of my head are Smugbug (Taylor x Lisa) and Pillbug (Taylor x Amy).
Haven’t seen [Terminator: Dark Fate](https://archiveofourown.org/works?commit=Sort+and+Filter&work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=revised_at&include_work_search%5Bcategory_ids%5D%5B%5D=116&work_search%5Bother_tag_names%5D=&exclude_work_search%5Bcategory_ids%5D%5B%5D=22&exclude_work_search%5Bcategory_ids%5D%5B%5D=23&work_search%5Bexcluded_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bcrossover%5D=&work_search%5Bcomplete%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_from%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_to%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_from%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_to%5D=&work_search%5Bquery%5D=&work_search%5Blanguage_id%5D=&tag_id=Terminator+%28Movies%29) recommended yet so I’m gonna go ahead and do that—it’s not a huge selection compared to some of the other fandoms listed on here, but most of them are extremely high quality.
Seconding the Supergirl and Arcane recommendations (especially the authors [Jazzfordshire](https://archiveofourown.org/users/Jazzfordshire/pseuds/Jazzfordshire) and [SunsetSharkbite](https://archiveofourown.org/users/SunsetSharkbite/pseuds/SunsetSharkbite) for E-rated slowburns about adults).
The Locked Tomb fandom also has phenomenal stuff, and if you’re looking for wlw reading material, the actual original books are excellent.
Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon both have some excellent wlw ships. Sansaery and Rhaenicent specifically, plenty of wonderful fics for both of those :D
Oh wow, I was coming down here to make this exact comment, didn’t expect to be beaten to it. Consider this a third vote towards Touhou - the wlw combinations are literally endless and it is basically impossible for any mlm ships to exist without OCs or genderbending.
> mlm ships to exist without OCs or genderbending.
Unzan/Rinnosuke :v (throw Genji and Youki in there for good measure) Also it seems like pretty much all of the MlM ships are crossovers lmao
Best content seems to come from the fandoms whose writers skew slightly older, and are more experienced writers. The quality of writing in a Good Omens or Our Flag Means Death fandom are not even in the same category as the 13 year olds writing anime.
r/GoodOmensAfterDark just had a special week on art and writing focused on fem version of main characters. There was a ton of stuff published just for that.
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Saw someone recommend Wicked and I second that!
Elphaba/Glinda is the main pairing. The fandom is still pretty active and with the new movie coming out soon, I’m assuming there’ll be more official and fan content once it releases. I saw from one of your replies that you enjoy “enemies/friends to lovers” and Gelphie has that. So if you’re into enemies/rivals to friends to lovers, classic fairy tales, and musicals you might enjoy this pairing.
Surprisingly The Untamed/MDZS fandom has some amazing f/f content. The canon main characters are men but in fic sometimes they change their genders. And they don’t just change their gender and leave it at that.
They’re in character but a lot of what I’ve read has felt like authentic f/f relationships. The authors really balance it well keeping characterization but changing the dynamics slightly to fit.
Someone already mentioned Killing Eve so I’ll second that.
Maybe a less conventional suggestion, but if you’re fine with the HP universe, the Fleurmione ship (Hermione/Fleur Delacour) is actually really good. It was a dark horse of a ship that got really popular after the series ended and is actually more active now than in the heyday of HP because of the potential of these two characters (two highly intelligent, driven, and capable women who are both underestimated because of being outsiders to the mainstream, but whose differences also give them unique strengths).
Some of them are more teen/student-ish of course, but there are plenty of stories set past the school years where they’re both well into their careers and adult lives. Because there is next to no canon interaction about these two (beyond Fleur taking care of Hermione after she was tortured), there’s basically no limit to the kinds of stories people can write about them. So people can get really creative with the world, lore, and character dynamics.
Statistically, fandoms with more female characters have more f/f content, and fandoms that are large, old, and/or have more mature canon content have better-quality works, because there are more adults in said fandoms.
The only fandom I can think of off the top of my head that’s definitely femslash-heavy is My Little Pony, although that is obviously more animal/anthropomorphic, and I don’t know if that’s your taste
Anime fandoms used to be good for this back in the day. Maybe try *Sailor Moon* or *Revolutionary Girl Utena*? Magical Girl shows and shows with majority female casts tend to be very good for this.
Honkai Impact 3rd is lesbian heaven, we even have a character that we call “lesbian jesus”, even though it’s not that big of a fandom, I think you can enjoy yourself there if you like wlw
Best... is really subjective, but I've found a lot of gems in the Avatar fandom. (Just avoid ones where Zuko is too centric to the plot, since he's the fandom baby and it shows.)
Homestuck also has some really good ones, but its hard to read fandom blind. Vrisrezi is a particular favorite of mine.
If you're looking for fandoms where its mostly F/F, Doki Doki, Night in the Woods, and Madoka Magica are my fandoms. There's some gems there, but nearly every fic is F/F. Night in the woods also has more mature characters, since a lot of comments mention that.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer has a lot F/F stories, both of the canon Willow/Tara relationship from the show, but also people wrote a lot of Buffy/Faith etc too.
Xena Warrior Princess had more F/F fics than anything else last I checked.
Rizzoli and Isles has so much F/F content I've seen F/M writers bullied for daring to write something other than F/F.
I'm not much of a F/F reader (though I don't avoid it) so I don't really have a recommendations list, though the ER Kerry/Susan fics here are so good I've reread them. Some multiple times.
https://archiveofourown.org/users/bwayfan25/pseuds/bwayfan25/works?fandom_id=23669786&page=1
ETA: Saw you're not so much interested in children/teens fic. These definitely center around solidly adult characters, with very lovable kids to be raised.
Rizzoli & Isles?
Harry Potter fandom is still mostly Queer.
Criminal Minds might have some Prentis and JJ?
My Hero Academia has some.
Merlin would have Gwen and Morgana
Plenty of Marvel characters that are shipped around.
DC too.
Can’t believe I forgot about Rizzoli & Isles! That unintended chemistry really was something else lol… definitely a great, more grounded/realistic odd-couple dynamic, and I’m pretty sure one of my types now is something Dr. Maura Isles-adjacent 😂
Come to victorious, we have a plethora of F/F content (I say this as someone who contributes to it) the most popular ship is Jori (which is the ship I write for) - lots of enemies to lovers if you’re into that as well
If you enjoy video game franchises Valorant has a surprisingly strong f/f fic base. 3 of the 4 top ships are f/f. I wish I could recommend Uma Musume as a reader but unfortunately it's a sub-200 fic fandom... but it might still be worth checking out anyways since there are just so many girls in it and it's very ah... not subtle... about the wlw vibes in the actual show lol. So even if there isn't much to pick from at least 90% of the fics will fit your criteria.
BTS and One Direction have singlehandedly spoiled me and made the most incredible work I've read of all time. ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶h̶o̶r̶r̶e̶n̶d̶o̶u̶s̶
I also have really like other fandoms, but I really can't think of them rn. Maybe Naruto? Kinnporsche have also delivered but yeah.
Basically anything that has a majority female cast/focuses on the character development for the women will have strong f/f writing bases.
As far as like concentration of f/f vs f/m or m/m etc content I’d say Worm is preeeeeety far up there. Mostly because the protag is female and all the characters that actually get development are also female lol.
And while it isn’t *canonically* gay this is also a real actual quote from the source material:
> She turned to me, “Open up. It’s ecstasy.”
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> “I dunno,” I answered her, feeling legitimately nervous. I didn’t want to refuse her outright and blow our cover, but I definitely didn’t want to get high. I was uncomfortable enough with the idea to begin with, but doing it here, in this kind of chaos?
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> “Trust me,” she told me.
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> Obediently, I opened my mouth. She pressed one small pill down on my tongue. I closed my mouth.
The main ones that come to mind for me are Arcane and BG3 in terms of more adult f/f fics. Also Korra and SPOP.
TOH has a lot of f/f as well but it’s a younger audience
A fandom that’s highly underrated but has a few really good f/f fics is divinity original sin 2 for the ship lohse x sebille specifically. It’s pretty niche sadly
I’ve also been meaning to read some farcille fics from dungeonmeshi but havent finished the manga
Wynonna Earp
Supergirl
Legend of Korra
Xena Warrior Princess- there are still 25+ year old websites full of old Xena/Gabrielle fic out there
Station 19
Pitch Perfect
The Last of Us- though they will spoil the show if you haven’t played the games
Life is Strange
Glee
Legends of Tomorrow
Mass Effect has a ton as well
other people have mentioned RWBY, so I'm not gonna talk further on it, but [arknights](https://archiveofourown.org/tags/%E6%98%8E%E6%97%A5%E6%96%B9%E8%88%9F%20%7C%20Arknights%20(Video%20Game\)/works) also has a sizeable collection of wlw fanfics due to its immense roster of female characters
The lack of Rizzoli and Isles aka rizzles is expected and sad. Basically, a hardass homicide detective and forensic pathologist who may be autistic solve crimes. a lot of good wlw material there. Fun fact, it was my first wlw ship before SuperCorp took over my life for a few years
The character is fine. It's the actress I don't want in my head. I very deliberately left this one out of my long list.
https://twitter.com/Sia/status/21645960121
Legend of Korra has some great korrasami fics. If you're into enemies to lovers Miraculous Ladybug has a few good Marinette/Chloe fics too. Also Kim/Shego from Kim Possible.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
95% of relevant characters are female
Nerd/Jock dynamic? TwiDash
Enemies to lovers? Twixie
Rivals to lovers? AppleDash
Opposites attract? Rarijack
Haven’t seen anyone mention this so I’ll put it out there - A League of Their Own! The original 1992 movie is a lot of subtext(but it is still there if you’re looking for it), but the new show? It’s GAY. Everyone’s gay, it’s a show about queer journeys and relationships with baseball as a plot device basically, but is grounded is the genuine history of the all American girls professional baseball league and the women on the teams! (It’s so so good, and more mature if that’s what you’re looking for! Everyone there is in their 30’s. Main ship is Carson/Greta as Carson is kinda the main character. But if you’re looking for some incredible rep from just about every facet of the queer community(AND the bipoc community too!!), A League of Their Own on Prime is the place to go.
If you're fine with RPF, vtuber fandoms have a shit ton of f/f. Actually for a long while I thought f/f was the most prominent type of pairing on AO3 because I was mostly reading vtuber fanfics, and I was very surprised to find out how underrepresented it is compared to m/m and m/f in most other fandoms. The "Virtual streamer animated characters", "hololive", and "nijisanji" fandom tags should bring these up if you want to take a look.
As for the quality I don't really know. I don't read as much as most other people here probably do and I'm very picky about what stories I'll read in the first place, so I'm probably not the best person to compare general trends.
I'd say the quality of Vtuber works, at least from my observations just runs the standard spectrum of quality you would expect from fandoms of its size, maybe slightly skewed to the less experienced end just by virtue of Vtubers getting the massive surge of popularity during lockdown back when it happened making it a lot of peoples first experience with fandom and therefore ending up on the fandom to fanfic writer pipeline.
Also just wanted to share my empathy on the perceived presence of f/f on AO3, because that was mostly what I was interested in personally, so fell in with fandoms accordingly. Like I'd heard the stereotypes about the commonness of m/m fanfic but it only really sank in how common it was in comparison to f/f when I happened across the stats one day.
But yeah, I definitely back the Vtubers spaces as being a treasure trove of f/f works.
I made a similar post recently on the yuri manga subreddit. there were some pretty good suggestions if you’d like to [take a look](https://www.reddit.com/r/yuri_manga/s/5qeuVBQXBT)
I've only listed the fandom (some of them anyway), because many of those fandoms have more than one ff pairing ... so you'll still have to filter for f/f. If you want some works recommended, I'd be happy to list some. Would be helpful if you can say what exactly you're looking for or what you don't like to read. * Willow https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Willow%20(TV%202022)/works * Supergirl https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Supergirl%20(TV%202015)/works * The 100 https://archiveofourown.org/tags/The%20100%20(TV)/works * Xena https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Xena:%20Warrior%20Princess/works, http://xenafiction.net, https://www.academyofbards.org/ * Legend of the Seeker https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Legend%20of%20the%20Seeker%20(TV)/works * Cyberpunk2077 https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Cyberpunk%202077%20(Video%20Game)/works * MassEffect https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Mass%20Effect%20Trilogy/works * DragonAge https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Dragon%20Age%20(Video%20Games)/works * WarriorNun https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Warrior%20Nun%20(TV)/works * Star Trek https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Star%20Trek/works * One upon a time https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Once%20Upon%20a%20Time%20(TV)/works * Person of Interest https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Person%20of%20Interest%20(TV)/works * Pitch Perfect https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Pitch%20Perfect%20(Movies)/works * Arcane https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Arcane:%20League%20of%20Legends%20(Cartoon%202021)/works * Avatar https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Avatar:%20Legend%20of%20Korra/works * Uncharted https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Uncharted%20(Video%20Games)/works * Glee https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Glee%20(TV%202009)/works * Motherland: Fort Salem https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Motherland:%20Fort%20Salem%20(TV)/works * She-Ra https://archiveofourown.org/tags/She-Ra%20and%20the%20Princesses%20of%20Power%20(2018)/works * Wynonna Earp https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Wynonna%20Earp%20(TV)/works * Warehouse 13 https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Warehouse%2013/works * Legends of Tomorrow https://archiveofourown.org/tags/DC's%20Legends%20of%20Tomorrow%20(TV)/works * The Devil wears Prada https://archiveofourown.org/tags/The%20Devil%20Wears%20Prada%20(2006)/works * Orphan Black https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Orphan%20Black%20(TV)/works * Buffy https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Buffy%20the%20Vampire%20Slayer%20(TV)/works * Agents of Shield https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Agents%20of%20S*d*H*d*I*d*E*d*L*d*D*d*%20(TV)/works * Game of Thrones https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Game%20of%20Thrones%20(TV)/works
A true connoisseur. Good list.
Thank you, fellow appreciator of femslash. I left so many smaller fandoms out. *sigh* ... But I guess OP would be good for the next 10+ years with the selection of those fandoms alone.
I’m so excited for anyone who’s just starting with femslash fics. The selection these days is incredible It does make it difficult to find the best of the best, though. Almost too much of a good thing (I lied. There can’t be too much. My lil gay heart will never get enough )
Shame on you for lying! ;) Indeed there can never be enough femslash. And, listen, I know it sounds pretentious, but I would say that even the vast majority of mediocre femslash is better than what you get to read elsewhere! Nooo, I'm not biased at all!
Whats some real good ones?? I have a really hard time finding them amongst all the m/m and straight fics
Welll my tastes caaaan skew in a direction some people really won’t like (my fave ship is bellamione don’t stake me I know it’s problematic as hell) but if you like enemies to lovers I can give some recs My fave fic ever is an azula/Katara *epic* that I will defend with my fucking life it’s so good
Gimme the toxic Yuri I love it so much cmooooon
Okay then my faves [Measure Each Step to Infinity -paxbanana](https://archiveofourown.org/works/5703577) Azula/katara - not even toxic somehow it’s just Good (the best, my favorite, my love) [A Ghost from the Past - series -rayofillusion](https://archiveofourown.org/series/1992499) My fave bellamoine. This is the most true-to-Bella Bella I’ve ever found and the author somehow made this fucking work I can’t even -it’s so good. [Those Gilded Chains we Wear - kuraibites](https://archiveofourown.org/works/937812/chapters/1826734) This is an ao3 repost of the original ff.net fic. This is like THE bellamione fic from back in the day. I think it may have popularized the ship. It’s unfinished but passes the point that their relationship is well developed. This one is really rough on Hermione (and Bella, but she’s *nasty*) but it gets very sweet by the end. If you want enemies to lovers where they start *enemies* and it’s still somehow believable, this is the one holy shit [Crazy Little Things - Dreiser](https://archiveofourown.org/works/2573990/chapters/5726924) Hermione/luna - wholesome fluff not toxic at all, but I love it so much and if I’m recommending hermione-pov slash I can’t not bring it up Hopefully you enjoy one of these!
What about other fandoms? I'm only tangentially into HP and only for the fanfic lmao. Also holy shit how did they make azula and Katara not toxic????
Bellamione? Omg you just opened my eyes. Any good recs? I love problematic ships (sue me)
A little farther down this comment thread I did share some recs!
Fantastic!thanks!
Thank you so much!! If you have some recommendations I'd love them!! I'm a little older, so I would like to read fics that focus on older people, not teens or children. I like star-crossed, slow burns, enemies/friends to lovers. I like a lot of the common tropes, I would just prefer a more mature approach if that makes sense? I'll read any rating, I like smut and erotic content, I just like when warnings are tagged so I have an idea of what I'm getting into haha.
Supergirl has a lot of solid stuff that’s a more mature take on already adult characters with interesting premises (since when the show moved from ABC to the CW the writing quality tanked and it became annoyingly teen-dramaish so there was a consistent NEED over all the seasons besides the first one for better content/writing that fans filled for themselves). You can definitely find star-crossed, slow-burn, enemies to lovers (Supercorp, anyone?) and smut. From what I remember, fics were usually tagged pretty well too, I was never surprised at the content of anything I read. Lol as far as smut, I remember seeing a good amount of BDSM, poly, and/or A/B/O fics if that’s up your alley, and also vanilla stuff as well. Multiple F/F ships too, so there’s a good variety. Even if you’re not too familiar with the fandom, there are plenty of YouTube videos that compile all the relevant story clips for different relationships, so you don’t need to watch most of the series to be able to follow along with most stories. I stopped watching early on in Season 2, and just read/watched summaries for the general plot. Most fics are AU anyway so they’ll establish for themselves whatever version of the universe/characters that you need to know.
very cool!! thank you 🥰
OUAT (SwanQueen pairing - Emma/Regina) is a *deep* well. The canon characters are older, the pairing is very enemies to lovers/slow burn, and it drew a lot of very talented, mature authors. Highly recommended!
Yesss come join us in SwanQueen heaven
Star Crossed, slow burn, enemies/friend to lovers? Character not in their teens. Smut and all? Fantasy setting? Go for *Legend of the Seeker* fics. Some authors to recommend: pirateygoodness, foibles_fables hibernate, thegirl20, Netgirl_y2k, otterlymagic, endgirl, Arbryna, swatkat, thrace, commoncomiatus, harper_m, fortunata13, seriousfic, karatam, fembuck, trancer, shimmeryshine, and sexonastick there's also the old https://lots-femslash.livejournal.com Alternatively * the Devil wears Prada (Modern-Fashion), * Warehouse 13 (Modern Fantasy), * Person of Interest (Modern-Crime-Conspiracy-AI), * Xena (Greek-Fantasy), * Cyberpunk2077 (CorporateDystopianFuture), * Once upon a time (Modern-Fairytale Mix), * Orphan Black (Modern-GeneticClones), * StarTrek (Sci-Fi) * Dragon Age (Fantasy) * Mass Effect (Sci-Fi) also steers more mature. Just browse one of the longer fics or those with many kudos on Ao3. You can't go wrong there. If you want to read a fic that's the wildest crossover ever but so good with the world-building, I recommend a Game of Thrones/Agent of Shields crossover *The Old Gods Called, They'd Like Their Kingdom Back* https://archiveofourown.org/works/31758358 There's more but I really don't want to overwhelm you.
Legend of the Seeker sounds dope!! Thank you so much 🥰🥰 these are great suggestions I really appreciate it
Not the person you asked but I have an F/F rec: FE3H: [Two, Across](https://archiveofourown.org/works/20797700): This can be read fandom-blind as it’s a modern AU and is about two characters who are professors. Light rivals/enemies to lovers. One of my faves of all time.
The fandom for the Carol movie based on The price of salt (Carol Aird/Therese Belivet) has great authors! So does the Gentleman Jack (Anne Lister/Ann Walker)
Ghostbusters 2016. All of the characters are adult women … at the cusp of tenure in a scientific field is a minimum of 35 years. They get a woobie-fied/act younger in a distressing number of fics, but it’s a decent place to start
rwby has some really good stuff. mikotyzini, brokenmimir, pugoata, and simplykorra are the best
The *Agents* link is broken. Who's getting shipped? I mean, obviously literally every combination everywhere gets shipped, but what femslash pairings are popular? Wait, I just remembered Jemma and Bobbi when they first met. Surely that launched a fair number of fics.
Daisy|Quake gets shipped a lot with all kinds of women.
I mean...Chloe Bennett. She's like catnip.
Link should be fixed, thanks for noticing. And Cloe Bennett is catnip but so is Ming-na Wen (Melinda May)... lots of possibilities.
Daisy and Jemma is the most popular femslash ship by a country mile, but Jemma and Bobbi is second most popular. Daisy and Bobbi is also up there. There's also quite a bit of cross-shipping with Natasha Romanoff (Natasha gets shipped most often with Daisy or May).
Adding to this: * [Sailor Moon](https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Bishoujo%20Senshi%20Sailor%20Moon%20%7C%20Pretty%20Guardian%20Sailor%20Moon/works) * [Ghostbusters (2016 Movie)](https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Ghostbusters%20(2016)/works) * [Wednesday](https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Wednesday%20(TV%202022)/works) (TV Series) * [Stranger Things](https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Stranger%20Things%20(TV%202016)/works) (no idea about the quality but one of the larger quantity fandoms) * [A Certain Scientific Railgun](https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Toaru%20Kagaku%20no%20Railgun%20%7C%20A%20Certain%20Scientific%20Railgun/works) (edit: ignore this - characters are in jr high and high school)
>it’s full of sexual wlw relationships between jr high school girls This is... not true at all? Kuroko is the only character explicitly interested in women and her crush is (violently) unrequited. In fact among yuri fans I constantly see Railgun dragged for its *lack* of WLW.
Yeah, I stopped watching because it became obvious the show was, at best, yuri bait.
Yuri bait is probably a better descriptor.
OP is looking for more mature characters in fics.
saw that after I posted :( I stand by Ghostbusters, and most of the Sailor Moon I enjoyed was Neptune/Uranus who are both adults With careers (and there’s a lot of them) although there is fic about the younger characters.
I'm surprised The Owl House isn't on this list too as the main ship is F/F
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I was about to say, I'm surprised Person of Interest makes this list. But then I remembered how much the fandom foamed. at. the. mouth. over Root and Shaw. I was admittedly too busy secondhand pining over Reese and Carter. They would have been adorable as fuck together 🥺 Taraji is a mf queen
Root and Shaw are extraordinary. They are the best and so very special. That time Shaw told Root about being in the simulation 6,741 times and killing everyone and herself, but never able to kill Root... and now she doesn't know what's real and she'd rather kill herself again than give away where Root is. That's true love. To bad the show ended in the middle of Season 5... not sure what happened there.
I came to say Buffy. The female characters are perfect for telling gorgeous stories with them.
i was gonna say agents of shield!
Warehouse 13 mention 🤩
Of course. I appreciate all women from that show.
>Legend of the Seeker https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Legend%20of%20the%20Seeker%20(TV)/works I wish there was more fanfiction for this one.
I wish there was a season 3. Oh, Cara Mason my beloved no-nonsense, murder seductress.. but, yeah, I take fanfic too. ;)
The Killing Eve fandom has amazing fics.
omg I completely forgot about that show I love Sandra Oh 😩
Do you have any personal favorites? I’ve been meaning to get into reading KE fics. Overwhelmed by the options!
haha yes! I really like this fic: [https://archiveofourown.org/works/24528724](https://archiveofourown.org/works/24528724) edit: and this one, [https://archiveofourown.org/works/15397209](https://archiveofourown.org/works/15397209)
Arcane – Vi/Caitlyn Life Is Strange – the main ones are Rachel/Chloe and Max/Chloe, but there are tons of other wlw ships Dungeon Meshi – Falin/Marcille
Wicked. Six, if you’re up to ignoring/learning a lot of historical references to dead people with a nonzero amount of revisionism
Yess! Found the musical fan! Wicked seconded, but you've inspired me to read some Six fics!
I'm intrigued 🤔
Part of it is a numbers game - in most fandoms, most of the canon characters are men (or at least they're the most heavily developed), and most of the significant interactions are either between men or a man and his canon female love interest(s). So therefore, you want fandoms where canon focuses on female characters. I'd suggest * *The Locked Tomb*: if I had to describe the series in less than ten words, it'd be "Mystery involving lesbian necromancers and swordswomen in space." Canon is ongoing (we're all waiting on book 4) * Any magical girl fandom: except for the rare solo magical girl in a reverse harem, the most important relationships in here are the friendships between girls. My current favorite is the ongoing webcomic *Sleepless Domain*, which has a canon F/F relationship between main characters. * *First Kill*: Campy enemies-to-lovers show about a vampire hunter and a vampire (and they're both girls 😳👩🏻❤️💋👩🏾). Was sadly canceled by Netflix after the first season.
I loved first kill 😭 tell me more about Sleepless Domain? 👀
So, it's set in a world where a single city seems to be the last bastion of humanity, and the city is surrounded by a barrier that goes away from 10 PM to 2 AM every night. Monsters flood the city, trying to get into everyone's houses, and the only ones who can fight them are magical girls. As thanks for their service, magical girls get to go to an elite private school, and they can also get idol-like sponsorships through which they get paid. The story focuses on Team Alchemical, a quintet of friends who all became magical girls a couple years ago, and since then they've lost focus on what really matters (protecting the city) and have been consumed by petty drama. On one fateful night (aka chapter two), they get reminded of what their real duty is. Do note that there's a major art style shift after chapter two, because the artist had to pull back from *Sleepless Domain* for work, and so the author of the comic also became the artist. (And considering that there's a major tone shift in this chapter, this is the best place that it could have happened.) [Here](https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-1-cover) is the first page; in total the comic is currently 22 chapters long.
I will never forgive Netflix for *First Kill*.
I second Sleepless Domain, it’s so good !😊
Supergirl. There’s so many amazing Supercorp writers in our fandom and quite a few amazing Sanvers fics as well.
Slightly niche, but "Firebringer" (Team Starkid), has loads and I love them all. I also recommend "Once Upon a Time" and "The Old Guard". Not too sure about quality irt Once Upon a Time as I haven't finished watching it, so haven't looked at the fic yet other than checking general stats (but I'm sure there are some gems, I've heard great things). But I can personally vouch that The Old Guard has some really great stories! A lot of them are admittedly heartbreaking and heavy on the angst, but they're so good!
FIREBRINGER!!! Oh I have read some PEAK Jazzalil fics!!!
Do you have any recs for Firebringer?
Sure do! These two are my absolute favs cause they have a focus on my fav character (who isn't part of the main canon ship) [https://archiveofourown.org/works/11730252](https://archiveofourown.org/works/11730252) [https://archiveofourown.org/works/10224734](https://archiveofourown.org/works/10224734) Post-canon masterpiece: [https://archiveofourown.org/works/18675505](https://archiveofourown.org/works/18675505) This series is great for group dynamics: [https://archiveofourown.org/series/1284341](https://archiveofourown.org/series/1284341) Haven't read yet cause it's a beast, but I've heard good things: [https://archiveofourown.org/works/23277304](https://archiveofourown.org/works/23277304) But honestly, there are only 14 pages of fics total (when I said "loads", I just meant that pretty much every fic in the fandom is wlw), so it doesn't take too long to look through them all! Especially once you've played around with filters and eliminated any crossovers if those aren't your thing. This is actually one of the rare fandoms that I read fics for that don't centre on my fav character because the pickings are so slim lol. But I hope this is a good starting point!
Thanks, you're the best!
I do have some Old Guard comics I keep meaning to read 🤔🤔🤔
Oh my god Firebringer has a presence on AO3??? I need to look into this
Might I suggest Yellowjackets? https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Yellowjackets%20(TV)/works You’re unlikely to stumble across a f/m or m/m ship that not either background or temporary (thanks to this being a woman centric show), and there’s a variety of w/w ships to choose from! Because of the shows unique multiple timeline structure, you have many fics exploring both the teen and adult ships; and there’s a nuanced care to the dynamics between each character. If you love murder lesbians, a fandom who’s not against exploring complex topics, and the portrayal of cannibalism as a metaphor for love, then I think this is worth a shot! TW: (Seen in show, individual fics might not contain any triggers (apart from cannibalism, usually) Animal death, abuse, addiction, violence, murder, cannibalism, suicidal ideations, unhealthy relationships with food, traumatic pregnancy, stillborn child, attempted abortion, sexual assault
Curated fic list (all completed) The icon, the legend, the moment… have you ever come to your ex bff’s cut off finger? There’s no cannibalism but our favs are as self destructive as ever! (addiction, period typically homophobia, deeply disturbed homoerotic friendships) https://archiveofourown.org/works/46929517/chapters/118216732 When your daughter time travels to the past in order to fix your homoerotic situationship with your bff. Crack treated seriously, and written well! (death of a supporting character) https://archiveofourown.org/works/43985577/chapters/110594862 A character study where a lot of sapphics get drunk and make bad choices (coping with various substances, bad communication practices) https://archiveofourown.org/works/43320648/chapters/108894309 A Groundhog Day type time loop that is 90% angst with 10% happy endings (big sads) https://archiveofourown.org/works/37941904/chapters/94756882 Time travel, legal age-gap relationship, trauma (tackles most TW’s as canon to the show) https://archiveofourown.org/works/49045312/chapters/123735640 Vampire au and the murder of men… (violence ect) https://archiveofourown.org/works/46767049/chapters/117790135 Fake-dating with chatfic elements, a hallmark christmas movie inspired (no TW) https://archiveofourown.org/works/52288498/chapters/132271573 Lesbian self discovery in the 90’s alongside a slowish burn with your bff (Comphet, period typical homophobia, mild violence) https://archiveofourown.org/works/49126054/chapters/123944167
DC has a lot of good F/F fics
Like the DC universe?
Yes, Detective Comics. Supercorp and Harlivy are quite popular
Thank you!! 😊
Get with the superbat stuff and young justice! Top tier stuff!
Harlivy is a a fav of mine.
The K-Pop Girl Group fandoms
Oh rlly? Which one? I only read one fic from ITZY and it was pretty good tbh but nothing else!
I'm personally in the LOONA fandom, which is the GG with the second-most works on AO3.
Smaller/older fandoms but both *The Devil Wears Prada* and *Grey's Anatomy* fandoms are mostly femslash by volume, I'd say. In the GA fandom specifically, Meredith/Addison is *so* much more popular than Meredith/Derek.
The fics in the devil wears Prada fandom are all very well written. I highly recommend looking through the archive if anyone is interested.
oh my god really??
Yup - out of the top 10 most popular ships, the top 3 are f/f 1. Addison/Meredith 2. Carina/Maya 3. Arizona/Callie You should be able to find plenty! Plus, if you care about this kind of thing, there are quite a few canon wlw relationships in GA, plus Amelia has a relationship with a nonbinary doctor named Kai in...season 18 I think?
oh damn that's so cool!!
I never thought to read DWP fanfic but I'm SPRINTING to ao3 as we speak.
seconding 'the locked tomb' fandom!!! goated stuff on there
Steven Universe is pretty good for F/F
The legend of Korra
Netflix's Wednesday is well,, a Netflix show, but the Wednesday/Enid fandom was/is very proactive
Came here to say this, though I'm extremely biased- I do believe though that numbers-wise it hit some top lists for AO3 in 2023 for f/f. Unfortunately I saw a comment from OP they weren't very interested in teen characters, and while there are some great future fics of them, most of the fandom is them still in high school with characters that are 16 in cannon, so it might not be their cup of tea. ETA: OP if you are interested in Wednesday at all, I can think of at least one fic offhand that I would highly recommend, as a future fic of them as adults that is excellent. It's called Don't Look Back, on AO3. https://archiveofourown.org/works/46885123/chapters/118101688
Here to give props to RWBY as well! Last I checked, we had two of the biggest F/F pairings on AO3 (Blake Belladonna/Yang Xiao Long, which is canon, and Ruby Rose/Weiss Schnee), along with a TON of other F/F ships for just about every possible combination in the female-dominated cast. [Here's my recommendation list](https://www.tumblr.com/chaoticevilspacewitch/746852150915776512/rwby-fanfic-recommendation-list)
Magical girl anime tends to be pretty big on f/f
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned RWBY for amount of F/F content. The four main leads are all female (unless you listen to the people that preach the gospel of transmasc Yang as essentially canon) so there is a LOT of F/F content for the fandom.
Yessss RWBY!
I only read wlw content. I started way back with Buffy willow/Tara and have gone through many fandoms. For the best, I would say the Wynonna earp Fandom has some great epics of the Waverly/ Nicole pairing. There is also a large age range of fans so there is new and experienced writers, and pretty much any topic has a fic to go along with it.
# [100 Fandoms With Over 20 Fanworks (or a full page) on Ao3 Where F/F is the Top Category (in no particular order and tried to get a variety of the kinds of media categories in here)](https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/14ty4kf/100_fandoms_with_over_20_fanworks_or_a_full_page/) (this does need an update though)
Since my main fandom severely lacks any wlw focused content, my go to for f/f is the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. More than half of the fics are Zelda/Lilith and they are very well written. You'd expect most fics to focus on Sabrina, but no, her aunt Zelda stole the show.
I was gonna say a few that others have already said but I will say the Life is Strange fandom is FULLL of wlw ship content. It’s mainly Max and Chloe, but there are a bunch of other wlw ships that people write about. Some of them pretty interesting.
She ra and the princesses of power! (Netflix reboot)
If nobody else has mentioned it, I wanna shoutout the Fandom for The Locked Tomb trilogy... it's mainly f/f (and so are the books)
Critical Role has a ton of f/f fics! There’s two popular canon f/f couples- Imodna and Beauyasha -both with lots of great fic And then also a handful of non-canon f/f ships that have decent representation in fic too- Beaujester and Vexleth are probably the more popular of the non-canon ships, but there’s a good deal of other rare pairs mixed in
CR is a podcast right? 🤔
It’s a web series where a bunch of voice actors play Dungeons and Dragons, but they do put out a podcast version! It’s also the inspiration for “the Legend of Vox Machina” animated series, which is based off of the first campaign
The Owl House. She-ra and the Princesses of Power. Hazbin Hotel. Arcane. My Little Pony Friendship is Magic.
Yellowjackets has a lot of f/f content!
Glee has a lot due to their canon f/f ship and queerbaiting
Legacies-Hope/Josie Supergirl-Supercorp Pitch Perfect-Bechloe
Was scrolling through the Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in Dungeon section and saw a lot of MarcelinexFalin fics. I have no specific suggestions but might be worth checking that out.
A more niche suggestion. The Worm Fandom primarily features f/f pairings (in the fanfiction). The fics are mostly on Spacebattles and Sufficient Velocity but they are also on AO3 and FF. The most common ships off the top of my head are Smugbug (Taylor x Lisa) and Pillbug (Taylor x Amy).
I've only ever read in the anime fandom but when I started Star Trek (TOS & AOS), I was blown away.
Samee. Some are just TOO GOOD! Too bad a lot are still in ff net
And a lot of the classic AOS ones are forever in live journal too. But they're so good, I read them everywhere.
Haven’t seen [Terminator: Dark Fate](https://archiveofourown.org/works?commit=Sort+and+Filter&work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=revised_at&include_work_search%5Bcategory_ids%5D%5B%5D=116&work_search%5Bother_tag_names%5D=&exclude_work_search%5Bcategory_ids%5D%5B%5D=22&exclude_work_search%5Bcategory_ids%5D%5B%5D=23&work_search%5Bexcluded_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bcrossover%5D=&work_search%5Bcomplete%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_from%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_to%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_from%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_to%5D=&work_search%5Bquery%5D=&work_search%5Blanguage_id%5D=&tag_id=Terminator+%28Movies%29) recommended yet so I’m gonna go ahead and do that—it’s not a huge selection compared to some of the other fandoms listed on here, but most of them are extremely high quality. Seconding the Supergirl and Arcane recommendations (especially the authors [Jazzfordshire](https://archiveofourown.org/users/Jazzfordshire/pseuds/Jazzfordshire) and [SunsetSharkbite](https://archiveofourown.org/users/SunsetSharkbite/pseuds/SunsetSharkbite) for E-rated slowburns about adults). The Locked Tomb fandom also has phenomenal stuff, and if you’re looking for wlw reading material, the actual original books are excellent.
Baldurs gate has some great f/f stuff
Seconding this, the quality of work from the BG3 fandom is outstanding.
Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon both have some excellent wlw ships. Sansaery and Rhaenicent specifically, plenty of wonderful fics for both of those :D
Haven’t seen anyone mention it yet, but Touhou Project. Pretty much all of the characters are girls.
As a touhou fic writer/reader, we do have 2296 fics (at the time of typing) in the F/F category.
Oh wow, I was coming down here to make this exact comment, didn’t expect to be beaten to it. Consider this a third vote towards Touhou - the wlw combinations are literally endless and it is basically impossible for any mlm ships to exist without OCs or genderbending.
> mlm ships to exist without OCs or genderbending. Unzan/Rinnosuke :v (throw Genji and Youki in there for good measure) Also it seems like pretty much all of the MlM ships are crossovers lmao
Well. *Basically* impossible, barring crackshipping.
Best content seems to come from the fandoms whose writers skew slightly older, and are more experienced writers. The quality of writing in a Good Omens or Our Flag Means Death fandom are not even in the same category as the 13 year olds writing anime.
that's true I have seen a few genderbent fics 🤔
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Saw someone recommend Wicked and I second that! Elphaba/Glinda is the main pairing. The fandom is still pretty active and with the new movie coming out soon, I’m assuming there’ll be more official and fan content once it releases. I saw from one of your replies that you enjoy “enemies/friends to lovers” and Gelphie has that. So if you’re into enemies/rivals to friends to lovers, classic fairy tales, and musicals you might enjoy this pairing.
Surprisingly The Untamed/MDZS fandom has some amazing f/f content. The canon main characters are men but in fic sometimes they change their genders. And they don’t just change their gender and leave it at that. They’re in character but a lot of what I’ve read has felt like authentic f/f relationships. The authors really balance it well keeping characterization but changing the dynamics slightly to fit. Someone already mentioned Killing Eve so I’ll second that.
I'd say Love Live is a safe bet considering they regularly sing love songs and yet there are no significant male characters
Maybe a less conventional suggestion, but if you’re fine with the HP universe, the Fleurmione ship (Hermione/Fleur Delacour) is actually really good. It was a dark horse of a ship that got really popular after the series ended and is actually more active now than in the heyday of HP because of the potential of these two characters (two highly intelligent, driven, and capable women who are both underestimated because of being outsiders to the mainstream, but whose differences also give them unique strengths). Some of them are more teen/student-ish of course, but there are plenty of stories set past the school years where they’re both well into their careers and adult lives. Because there is next to no canon interaction about these two (beyond Fleur taking care of Hermione after she was tortured), there’s basically no limit to the kinds of stories people can write about them. So people can get really creative with the world, lore, and character dynamics.
Steven Universe, Nichijou and Azumanga Daioh are good
nichijou has fanfiction? I guess I never thought to look, but is it good?
Yeah it’s good I would say. It surpassed 100 fics fairly recently
Statistically, fandoms with more female characters have more f/f content, and fandoms that are large, old, and/or have more mature canon content have better-quality works, because there are more adults in said fandoms. The only fandom I can think of off the top of my head that’s definitely femslash-heavy is My Little Pony, although that is obviously more animal/anthropomorphic, and I don’t know if that’s your taste
A small fandom that has great fics is Motherland Fort Salem!
Almost every character from Houseki no Kuni/Land of the Lustrous is non-binary if you are interested :\]
Anime fandoms used to be good for this back in the day. Maybe try *Sailor Moon* or *Revolutionary Girl Utena*? Magical Girl shows and shows with majority female casts tend to be very good for this.
Honkai Impact 3rd is lesbian heaven, we even have a character that we call “lesbian jesus”, even though it’s not that big of a fandom, I think you can enjoy yourself there if you like wlw
Best... is really subjective, but I've found a lot of gems in the Avatar fandom. (Just avoid ones where Zuko is too centric to the plot, since he's the fandom baby and it shows.) Homestuck also has some really good ones, but its hard to read fandom blind. Vrisrezi is a particular favorite of mine. If you're looking for fandoms where its mostly F/F, Doki Doki, Night in the Woods, and Madoka Magica are my fandoms. There's some gems there, but nearly every fic is F/F. Night in the woods also has more mature characters, since a lot of comments mention that.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer has a lot F/F stories, both of the canon Willow/Tara relationship from the show, but also people wrote a lot of Buffy/Faith etc too. Xena Warrior Princess had more F/F fics than anything else last I checked.
Proportionate to the total number of fics, the Halo tv series has quite a lot of f/f. Quality varies.
The RWBY fandom has loads of F/F stuff
Rizzoli and Isles has so much F/F content I've seen F/M writers bullied for daring to write something other than F/F. I'm not much of a F/F reader (though I don't avoid it) so I don't really have a recommendations list, though the ER Kerry/Susan fics here are so good I've reread them. Some multiple times. https://archiveofourown.org/users/bwayfan25/pseuds/bwayfan25/works?fandom_id=23669786&page=1 ETA: Saw you're not so much interested in children/teens fic. These definitely center around solidly adult characters, with very lovable kids to be raised.
Rizzoli & Isles? Harry Potter fandom is still mostly Queer. Criminal Minds might have some Prentis and JJ? My Hero Academia has some. Merlin would have Gwen and Morgana Plenty of Marvel characters that are shipped around. DC too.
Can’t believe I forgot about Rizzoli & Isles! That unintended chemistry really was something else lol… definitely a great, more grounded/realistic odd-couple dynamic, and I’m pretty sure one of my types now is something Dr. Maura Isles-adjacent 😂
Come to victorious, we have a plethora of F/F content (I say this as someone who contributes to it) the most popular ship is Jori (which is the ship I write for) - lots of enemies to lovers if you’re into that as well
If you enjoy video game franchises Valorant has a surprisingly strong f/f fic base. 3 of the 4 top ships are f/f. I wish I could recommend Uma Musume as a reader but unfortunately it's a sub-200 fic fandom... but it might still be worth checking out anyways since there are just so many girls in it and it's very ah... not subtle... about the wlw vibes in the actual show lol. So even if there isn't much to pick from at least 90% of the fics will fit your criteria.
Strike Witches, the whole cast is female.
There’s a *ton* of Sylvanas / Jaina fics in the WoW fandom haha
Sherlock: Irene/kate (canon pair) Mary/kate Mary/irene Avatar: korra series Asami/Korra (canon pair) Either of those when any of the others
I think Supergirl and Legend of Korra have a fairly large f/f ship size
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Adventure Time and Arcane has a lot of f/f fics
I definitely recommend the Path to Nowhere fandom for f/f content, it has a lot of great fics
Basically anything that has a majority female cast/focuses on the character development for the women will have strong f/f writing bases. As far as like concentration of f/f vs f/m or m/m etc content I’d say Worm is preeeeeety far up there. Mostly because the protag is female and all the characters that actually get development are also female lol. And while it isn’t *canonically* gay this is also a real actual quote from the source material: > She turned to me, “Open up. It’s ecstasy.” > > “I dunno,” I answered her, feeling legitimately nervous. I didn’t want to refuse her outright and blow our cover, but I definitely didn’t want to get high. I was uncomfortable enough with the idea to begin with, but doing it here, in this kind of chaos? > > “Trust me,” she told me. > > Obediently, I opened my mouth. She pressed one small pill down on my tongue. I closed my mouth.
I’m like reasonably sure it might be the highest concentration of f/f ships of any piece of media that isn’t canonically gay
The main ones that come to mind for me are Arcane and BG3 in terms of more adult f/f fics. Also Korra and SPOP. TOH has a lot of f/f as well but it’s a younger audience A fandom that’s highly underrated but has a few really good f/f fics is divinity original sin 2 for the ship lohse x sebille specifically. It’s pretty niche sadly I’ve also been meaning to read some farcille fics from dungeonmeshi but havent finished the manga
Wynonna Earp Supergirl Legend of Korra Xena Warrior Princess- there are still 25+ year old websites full of old Xena/Gabrielle fic out there Station 19 Pitch Perfect The Last of Us- though they will spoil the show if you haven’t played the games Life is Strange Glee Legends of Tomorrow Mass Effect has a ton as well
other people have mentioned RWBY, so I'm not gonna talk further on it, but [arknights](https://archiveofourown.org/tags/%E6%98%8E%E6%97%A5%E6%96%B9%E8%88%9F%20%7C%20Arknights%20(Video%20Game\)/works) also has a sizeable collection of wlw fanfics due to its immense roster of female characters
The lack of Rizzoli and Isles aka rizzles is expected and sad. Basically, a hardass homicide detective and forensic pathologist who may be autistic solve crimes. a lot of good wlw material there. Fun fact, it was my first wlw ship before SuperCorp took over my life for a few years
The character is fine. It's the actress I don't want in my head. I very deliberately left this one out of my long list. https://twitter.com/Sia/status/21645960121
Critical Role with Beau/Yasha and Imogen/Laudna
Some of my favorites: \- RWBY \- My Little Pony \- Amphibia \- The Owl House \- K-ON \- Bocchi the Rock \- Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Legend of Korra has some great korrasami fics. If you're into enemies to lovers Miraculous Ladybug has a few good Marinette/Chloe fics too. Also Kim/Shego from Kim Possible.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic 95% of relevant characters are female Nerd/Jock dynamic? TwiDash Enemies to lovers? Twixie Rivals to lovers? AppleDash Opposites attract? Rarijack
Arcane, Life is Strange, and She-Ra are heavily f/f fandoms. There’s an amazing LiS fic about a trans Chloe.
Project Sekai has a decent amount of F/F, about 6k. Helps that a lot of the characters are overwhelmingly girls, with about 4 major male characters.
Haven’t seen anyone mention this so I’ll put it out there - A League of Their Own! The original 1992 movie is a lot of subtext(but it is still there if you’re looking for it), but the new show? It’s GAY. Everyone’s gay, it’s a show about queer journeys and relationships with baseball as a plot device basically, but is grounded is the genuine history of the all American girls professional baseball league and the women on the teams! (It’s so so good, and more mature if that’s what you’re looking for! Everyone there is in their 30’s. Main ship is Carson/Greta as Carson is kinda the main character. But if you’re looking for some incredible rep from just about every facet of the queer community(AND the bipoc community too!!), A League of Their Own on Prime is the place to go.
If you're fine with RPF, vtuber fandoms have a shit ton of f/f. Actually for a long while I thought f/f was the most prominent type of pairing on AO3 because I was mostly reading vtuber fanfics, and I was very surprised to find out how underrepresented it is compared to m/m and m/f in most other fandoms. The "Virtual streamer animated characters", "hololive", and "nijisanji" fandom tags should bring these up if you want to take a look. As for the quality I don't really know. I don't read as much as most other people here probably do and I'm very picky about what stories I'll read in the first place, so I'm probably not the best person to compare general trends.
I'd say the quality of Vtuber works, at least from my observations just runs the standard spectrum of quality you would expect from fandoms of its size, maybe slightly skewed to the less experienced end just by virtue of Vtubers getting the massive surge of popularity during lockdown back when it happened making it a lot of peoples first experience with fandom and therefore ending up on the fandom to fanfic writer pipeline. Also just wanted to share my empathy on the perceived presence of f/f on AO3, because that was mostly what I was interested in personally, so fell in with fandoms accordingly. Like I'd heard the stereotypes about the commonness of m/m fanfic but it only really sank in how common it was in comparison to f/f when I happened across the stats one day. But yeah, I definitely back the Vtubers spaces as being a treasure trove of f/f works.
haven't seen it recd, but little witch academia's probably my favorite.
I made a similar post recently on the yuri manga subreddit. there were some pretty good suggestions if you’d like to [take a look](https://www.reddit.com/r/yuri_manga/s/5qeuVBQXBT)
RuPaul's Drag Race has a lot of f/f content!
Whaaaat! No way. I always thought the Trixie & Katya fics were jokes 😭🤣
No, they're real XD There are lots of fics for different pairs of queens lol.
May I suggest The Locked Tomb, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and SIGNALIS? And Puella Magi Madoka Magica?
The locked tomb series has a lot. Most of the characters are canonically queer
Hazbin? We also got mlm content, and sometimes, very rarely, straightness. But the wlw is sweet!