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High-level stats for week of 2025-07-08 - 2025-07-14

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10352 (+337 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5942 (+283 from last week) (2722 new, 3220 continued)


• 0.65% of all 908958 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• Oh no, Supergirl! Off the chart after 498 consecutive weeks (500 total weeks). I'm sure it'll be back next week, but how sad. You have to understand: I don't even go here, it's just that I started posting these stats in fall 2017, and Supergirl was in the number one slot for every single one of the first 70 weeks, and all but two of the first 133 weeks (2.5 years). Even after She-Ra got big, Supergirl was in the top slot more often than not until Arcane blew up in late 2021. That's just a long time and a lot of fic. Let's toast to them with beerbad's classic vid, The Last of the Real Ones.
  
• KPop Demon Hunters has another best-ever week, remaining at rank 2.
  
• Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Murder Drones, and Once Upon a Time, all return after brief absences. In addition to Supergirl, they replace Criminal Minds, Deltarune, and Honkai: Star Rail.
  
• Yellowjackets celebrates 50 consecutive chart-weeks (out of 115 total appearances).
  
• Last but not least, many thanks to saunteringvaguelydownwards for replying to my recent ask with a bunch of House of the Dragon (Rhaenyra/Alicent) recs which look great. She suggests floodonthefloor's smutty and angsty AUs black out days, there you go again, easy on your own, and pedestal, as well as molter's modern AUs grey ridge and love is complicated, and DMCMercy's huge canon-divergence fic The Mistress of the Red Keep. Check those out, especially if you like novel-length fic!
  

High-level stats for week of 2025-06-24 - 2025-06-30

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10314 (+42 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5991 (+216 from last week) (2814 new, 3177 continued)


• 0.66% of all 903712 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• Animated movie KPop Demon Hunters was released via Netflix on 2025-06-20, and went straight to chart rank 5 with over 160 F/F works in its first week.
  
• Video game Deltarune also hits the chart for the first time, slotting in at rank 20 on the strength of new content released earlier this month.
  
• Alien Stage returns to the chart after a week away. The three new entrants replace Criminal Minds, Hololive, and She-Ra.
  
• Boku no Hero Academia reaches 50 consecutive weeks on the chart, League of Legends is at 190, and Harry Potter hits 340.
  
• Recently-revealed exchanges: multifandom Pick Me Up: A Happily Ever After Exchange 2025 revealed with 10 F/F works.
  
• Finally, a reminder that as part of my recent report on F/F fandoms that are moving up or down the chart rapidly right now, I'm looking for recs for a grab-bag of long-running fandoms (Game of Thrones, Wicked, Hazbin Hotel, Supergirl, Owl House) and growing fandoms (The Pitt, Split Fiction, Death Becomes Her, ENA, Severance, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage). If you read in any of those fandoms and want to rec some works you like, please do! Thanks to everyone who's sent things in so far. I'm hoping to post something this weekend.
  

I want to shine an occasional spotlight on fandoms that are in flux. There are two kinds of fandoms here:

• Fandoms that are growing rapidly, which are typically not in the top 20 now, and may never get there, but might be interesting for F/F readers to check out and encourage.
  
• Fandoms that are losing ground on the top 20, and seem to be "post-peak." They may well peak again in the future, but it's a good moment to look back at the impressive amount of F/F which has been written so far.
  

This post comes with homework! I want readers to help me signal-boost some recs for these fandoms. If you've read and enjoyed F/F fic in any of the fandoms listed in this post (either the new ones or the old standards), please send me some works you liked! In a couple of weeks, I'll share the recs I got. Feel free to send recs on Tumblr as reposts, inbox messages, or DMs, and on Dreamwidth as comments or messages. Please tell me if you don't want to be credited for your rec.

Fandoms that are growing rapidly

Each of these fandoms has at least twice as many total F/F works now as it did 12 weeks ago.

• The Pitt (TV): medical procedural drama that premiered in early 2025. It's not primarily F/F, but is growing overall, and adding about 10 F/F works per week. The biggest ship is Yolanda Garcia/Trinity Santos (Yolanda is a surgeon, Trinity is a resident).
  
• Split Fiction (Hazelight Studios Video Game): a cooperative multiplayer video game which was released this year. The fandom is exclusively F/F, and the ship is the two protagonists, Mio Hudson/Zoe Foster, who are authors who become trapped in their own stories. It's adding about 10 F/F works per week.
  
• Death Becomes Her (1992): a terrific dark comedy film which was adapted into a Broadway musical last year. The fandom is mostly F/F, and the ship is the two leads, Madeline Ashton/Helen Sharp, women who drink a potion of eternal youth and get more than they bargained for. It's adding about 10 F/F works per week.
  
• ENA - Joel G (Web Series): a Peruvian avant-garde animated comedy series with various female characters, including the title character Ena, Coral Glasses, and Moony. Fic for the series is about half F/F, and it's adding maybe 7 F/F works per week, probably as a result of some new episodes which were posted recently.
  
• Severance (TV): a popular science fiction TV show about a technology that lets employers isolate their employees' memories of work. It's not primarily F/F, and the primary F/F ships involve Helena Eagan. The fandom is growing because the second season was released earlier this year, and it's adding about 6 F/F works per week.
  
• Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (Video Game): a game focused on four teenage girls who go on an adventure together in the 90s, and then reunite a quarter century later. It's an exclusively F/F fandom, and it's only adding about 6 F/F works per week right now, but it's from the same team that did Life Is Strange, and the plot structure sounds like it has some shades of Yellowjackets. Those are both giant F/F fandoms, so this may be one to watch.
  

Fandoms that are losing ground

Each of these fandoms dropped on the chart by at least two places, comparing the average in the past twelve weeks to the twelve weeks before that.

• Game of Thrones (TV): a long-running blockbuster set of television series based on the George R.R. Martin novels. It's not currently on the chart, and its average chart rank fell from 13.2 to 17.5, the largest drop this quarter. The drop is presumably because it's been almost a year since the latest season of the currently-airing series, House of the Dragon, finished. The fandom is not primarily F/F, but it's a big ensemble cast show, and there have been several popular F/F ships. The all-time top ship is Sansa Stark/Margaery Tyrell. The top recent ship is Alicent Hightower/Rhaenyra Targaryen.
  
• The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire: a series of books which became a musical which became an extremely popular movie. It's an alternate take on Oz told primarily from the point of view of the Wicked Witch of the West. Its current chart run is 30 weeks, which is the number of weeks since the movie was released. Its average chart rank fell from 4.5 to 7.1, so it's not in much danger yet, and may well stay on the chart until the sequel movie is released late this year. The fandom is predominantly F/F, and the top and almost only F/F ship is the two protagonists, Elphaba Thropp/Galinda Upland.
  
• Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon): an animated TV show about some residents of hell who are trying to improve their circumstances. Its current chart run is 72 weeks, and its average chart rank fell from 6.2 to 8.8. The drop is because the first season of the show finished airing in early 2024, and I'm not aware of an air date for the second season. The show is on the chart primarily because the protagonist is in a canonical lesbian relationship. The fandom isn't primarily F/F, with about 15% of all works tagged F/F, almost all of them with that main ship (Charlie Magne | Morningstar/Vaggie).
  
• Supergirl (TV 2015): the all-time example of how to create an enduring F/F fandom. The show aired from 2015-2021, and has charted continuously for the past 496 weeks, 231 of those at rank 1. Nothing lasts forever, and this quarter, its average rank fell from 9.1 to 11.5. That's an average, keep in mind, which is why I've been eyeing that upcoming 500-week milestone nervously. Fic in this giant fandom is overwhelmingly F/F. The second-biggest ship is the canonical Alex Danvers/Maggie Sawyer relationship, and the biggest ship is Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor. It's a big ensemble cast, and there are lots of other ships.
  
• The Owl House (Cartoon): a portal fantasy cartoon series that aired from 2020-2023, and has charted every week since mid-2020, 255 weeks in total. Its average rank fell from 9.6 to 11.7 this quarter, so it's probably nearing the end of that streak. Fic is predominantly F/F, with a good helping of Gen. The series protagonist is in a canonical F/F relationship, and in this case that ship (Amity Blight/Luz Noceda) actually is the top ship by far. It's followed by Eda Clawthorne/Raine Whispers (my longtime ruling is that canonically nonbinary characters are "F/F-eligible", meaning that if the fic author tags the work "F/F", I'll count a ship containing nonbinary characters as an eligible F/F ship), and, again, it's an ensemble cast, and there are numerous other ships.
  

As I said at the top, I'm excited to try doing a recs post for these fandoms, so if you have favorite F/F fics in any of them (or want to do research and get some), please send me your recs in the next week or so!

High-level stats for week of 2025-06-03 - 2025-06-09

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9862 (-227 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5630 (-131 from last week) (2525 new, 3105 continued)


• 0.63% of all 895799 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• Game of Thrones returns after a week away. Alien Stage returns for the first time since April. Cookie Run, an RPG series with a huge array of characters who are all cookies, reaches the top 20 for the first time ever this week, on the strength of the semi-canonical Hollyberry/Eternal Sugar Cookie ship. These fandoms replace Doctor Who, Hey Duggee, and Murder Drones.
  
• I really appreciate questions, but I've historically been bad at answering them. I'm trying to get better! If you ask a question via tumblr inbox, reblog, or dreamwidth comment, I'll try to answer it in the next week's post. Let me know if you don't want me to credit you for the question.
  
• This week, an anonymous commenter asked: "how many weeks total has Supergirl charted?" As of now, the answer is 496: Supergirl entered the top 20 the week ending 2015-12-07, had an initial two week run, took a week off, and then returned on 2015-12-28 and has been in the top 20 every week since. Of those weeks, 231 (47%) have been at rank 1, and 355 (72%) have been in the top five. Bottom line: Supergirl has been an incredibly consistent F/F fandom, and, while it's not a canon I've read widely in, I think it's worth celebrating as it (I'm guessing) nears the end of of its unbroken chart streak.
  
• Toothpastepancake is running Sapphic Summer 2025, a short fic (100-250 word) prompt fest around F/F relationships. It runs until 2025-09-30.
  

High-level stats for week of 2025-05-20 - 2025-05-26

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9829 (+67 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5693 (+69 from last week) (2590 new, 3103 continued)


• 0.64% of all 890619 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• Honkai Star Rail returns to the chart after a few months away, replacing She-Ra.
  

High-level stats for week of 2025-05-06 - 2025-05-12

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9482 (-475 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5425 (-200 from last week) (2336 new, 3089 continued)


• 0.61% of all 885476 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• Great week for Coronation Street, which shoots up to rank 6 in its best-ever chart appearance.
  
• Murder Drones, Hey Duggee, and Hololive are all back after brief absences. They replace Dandy's World, The 100, and Wheel of Time (whose inaugural chart run lasted three weeks).
  
• Chart anniversaries: Game of Thrones has been on the chart for 60 consecutive weeks (of its 274 total chart appearances). RWBY reaches 420 consecutive chart-weeks. Supergirl reaches 490 consecutive weeks, but skates in at rank 15, its worst performance since 2015. I admit to having my fingers crossed that the Girl of Steel makes it to 500 chart-weeks, because that would be cool.
  
• Speaking of things I think are cool: AO3 just reported the milestone of 15 million fanworks. If my all-time works tally above is to be believed, that means that 5.9% of all works on AO3 ever have been works tagged F/F with at least one ship containing canonically non-male fictional characters. I'd always like to see more, of course, but that's worth celebrating, so let's.
  

High-level stats for week of 2025-04-22 - 2025-04-28

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9673 (-628 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5451 (-374 from last week) (2361 new, 3090 continued)


• 0.62% of all 880609 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• I still find it a little surprising that Wheel of Time has never been on the chart before, but it's doing well now, reaching a new best-ever rank of 13 in its second chart-week.
  
• She-Ra returns after a week away, and Alien Stage returns after a month away. They replace Murder Drones and The 100.
  
• Addams Family celebrates 130 consecutive weeks on the chart, and Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! hits a tidy 150 consecutive weeks.
  
• Toothpastepancake writes that the femgiftboxes gifting community is looking for fills for a few last prompts before reveals on May 15. If you have a little time to help out, check that out.
  

High-level stats for week of 2025-04-08 - 2025-04-14

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10029 (+176 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5766 (+236 from last week) (2599 new, 3167 continued)


• 0.66% of all 875663 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! reaches a best-ever rank of 14 in its third week on the chart.
  
• New RPG Zenless Zone Zero enters the chart for the first time this week. Hey Duggee also returns after a week away. These two replace Once Upon a Time (whose most recent run was 8 consecutive weeks), and The 100.
  
• The Wicked Years Series celebrates 20 consecutive chart appearances (out of 40 total appearances).
  

High-level stats for week of 2025-03-25 - 2025-03-31

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9794 (-136 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5468 (-132 from last week) (2367 new, 3101 continued)


• 0.63% of all 870678 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• Yellowjackets reaches a best-ever rank of 2 in its 100th chart appearance.
  
• Doctor Who returns for the first time since October, and Hey Duggee returns after a week away. They replace Life Is Strange and Murder Drones.
  
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• Nominations are open for the Sixth Annual Femslash Kink Exchange.
  

High-level stats for week of 2025-03-11 - 2025-03-17

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9690 (-40 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5523 (-41 from last week) (2427 new, 3096 continued)


• 0.64% of all 865889 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• Yellowjackets edges up to rank four, pushing Harry Potter out of the top three.
  
• She-Ra returns to the chart after a week away, replacing BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!