Femslash year in review: 2024

High-level stats for year 2024

• Total works I classified as F/F on AO3: 117295 (+3833 from last year)


• 14.07% of all 833418 AO3 works I've classified F/F were initially created this year

A few callouts about this year:

• Hey, look, I made a thing. I've been meaning to add some extra regular reports to the rotation for awhile now, and took the excuse of it being the beginning of the year to build an annual report. This was fairly easy; it's basically the same report as the weekly report. But it took some wall-clock time and effort to actually crunch the numbers. Anyway, here we are!
  
• This year's top five has similarities and differences from last year:
  • Harry Potter remains in the top slot, and you can see that fandom's slow year-over-year climb over the past eight years. (I'm sympathetic to those who find this a bit discouraging.)
  • Genshin Impact has fallen a bit since last year, but remains in the top five, and related game Honkai: Star Rail had a good year, reaching rank 11 overall.
  • The other three top-five fandoms are new, though no surprise to those who follow the weekly report: MCU jumped a bit thanks to Agatha All Along, League of Legends jumped quite a bit due to Arcane season 2, and Hazbin Hotel vaulted into fourth place in its first annual chart appearance.
  • Wednesday, Stranger Things, and Owl House, all exited the top five since last year, though they remain in the top 20.
  
  
• Only three top 20 fandoms are new to the chart, which seems like pretty good continuity year-over-year. In addition to Hazbin Hotel, D&D enters at rank 18 due to Baldur's Gate 3, and Criminal Minds enters at rank 19 (due to the Emily/JJ ship, which I actually don't know much about, and seem not to have covered in the past). The three fandoms that exited the annual chart in 2024 to make way for these are Warrior Nun (which charted only in 2023, but was at rank 11), She-Ra (which was on the chart for 5 years starting in 2019, and maxed out at rank 2 in the 2020 ratings), and Star Wars (which has certainly charted in the past, but I don't have high-quality pre-2023 data about when).
  
• That leaves 11 fandoms which sat lower on the annual chart during both 2023 and 2024: Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE!, A Song of Ice and Fire, Boku no Hero Academia, Supergirl, Honkai: Star Rail, Grey's Anatomy, RWBY, Yellowjackets, Doctor Who, and Once Upon A Time (which is noteworthy for having been on the chart without interruption since 2012, including a couple of first-place finishes in 2014 and 2015, though both this year and last it has barely hung on at rank 20).
  
• I hope you find this interesting; feedback is very welcome!
  

( Full top-20 table and description of methodology after the jump )