Femslash Week In Review side content: high-velocity F/F fandoms as of 2025-12-08

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.
  

I'd love for 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! I'll share all the recs I get in a future Week In Review post. Feel free to send recs on Tumblr as reposts, inbox messages, or DMs, and on Dreamwidth as comments or messages. (Let me know 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.

• Dispatch (Video Game): This is a superhero workplace comedy video game, which was released in the past couple of months. The fandom is primarily M/M, but it's growing by about 20 F/F works per week. The top femslash ship is Blonde Blazer | Mandy/Invisigal | Courtney.
  
• Pluribus (TV 2025): This is a post-apocalpytic SF TV show which premiered in November. Fic in the small fandom is almost entirely F/F, and the fandom is growing at about 10 F/F works/week. The top ship is Carol/Zosia (an author who is resisting the hive mind and the chaperone tasked to help her join it).
  
• Pokemon Legends: Z-A (Video Game): This is a new RPG in the Pokemon universe. It's not predominantly F/F, but it's growing about 5 F/F works/week, spread over a couple of ships.
  

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.

• Alien Stage (Web Series): This is a Korean animated web series in which aliens run a singing contest for abducted humans. The web series ran from 2022-2025. The fandom first appeared on the chart in 2024, and charted every week over summer 2025, briefly cracking the top 10. It's falling off the chart now, from an average weekly rank of 14.7 last quarter to 20.0 this quarter, presumably because the series ended. Fic in the fandom is about 1/4 F/F, and the top ship is Mizi/Sua.
  
• The Owl House (Cartoon): a portal fantasy cartoon series that aired from 2020-2023, and has charted every week since mid-2020, 279 weeks in total. Its average rank fell from 13.4 to 16.8 this quarter, which is still pretty good for a show that ended over two years ago, but that chart streak is likely to end soon. The biggest ship by far is canonical F/F ship Amity/Luz.
  
• Yellowjackets (TV): this thriller drama series about a group of teenagers stranded in the wilderness by a plane crash, has been a chart regular since 2023. The most recent season ended in April, so it's no surprise that the fandom has fallen out of the top five, from an average rank of 4.7 last quarter, to 7.2 this quarter. However, the current chart streak of 71 consecutive weeks is very likely to continue until the next and final season airs in 2026. Fic in the fandom is overwhelmingly F/F, and the top ships are still Shauna Shipman/Jackie Taylor, Lottie Matthews/Natalie Scatorccio, and Van Palmer/Taissa Turner, all of whom are members of the soccer team.