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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!