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High-level stats for week of 2025-04-29 - 2025-05-05

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9957 (+284 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5625 (+174 from last week) (2531 new, 3094 continued)


• 0.64% of all 883140 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• Roblox horror game Dandy's World returns for its second-ever chart appearance. The 100 is also back, and the two replace Alien Stage and She-Ra.
  
• Yellowjackets celebrates 40 consecutive weeks on the chart, and is also in its sixth consecutive week at rank 2.
  
• The Toxic Femslash Convenience Store prompt meme opened on May 11.
  

High-level stats for week of 2025-04-15 - 2025-04-21

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10301 (+272 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5825 (+59 from last week) (2585 new, 3240 continued)


• 0.66% of all 878248 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• Wheel of Time makes its first-ever (somewhat to my surprise) chart appearance at rank 20 this week. It's joined by Murder Drones, Once Upon a Time, and The 100, all returning after short absences. Those four fandoms replace BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!, Hey Duggee, She-Ra, and Zenless Zone Zero.
  
• Chart anniversaries: Boku no Hero Academia reaches 40 consecutive weeks on the chart. League of Legends is at 180 consecutive weeks. Harry Potter is at 330 consecutive weeks.
  
• A smut prompt community called lesbifreaks is running a Friday hopscotch prompt challenge, starting this week.
  

High-level stats for week of 2025-04-01 - 2025-04-07

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9853 (+59 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5530 (+62 from last week) (2386 new, 3144 continued)


• 0.63% of all 873064 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! returns to the chart for its second-ever appearance. She-Ra is also back, and the two fandoms replace Doctor Who and Hey Duggee.
  
• MCU celebrates 50 consecutive weeks on the chart in its latest run (out of 568 total weeks ever).
  
• Prompts are open for this year's Fire Emblem Femslash Week. The event itself will be in mid-June.
  

High-level stats for week of 2025-03-18 - 2025-03-24

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9930 (+240 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5600 (+77 from last week) (2422 new, 3178 continued)


• 0.64% of all 868311 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• Life Is Strange returns after two months away, and The 100 returns after one month away. They replace Hey Duggee and She-Ra.
  
• Grey's Anatomy celebrates 130 consecutive weeks on the chart. Genshin Impact reaches 220 consecutive weeks.
  
• Nominations are open until April 4th for the Everything Is Femslash Exchange.
  

High-level stats for week of 2025-03-04 - 2025-03-10

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9730 (-286 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5564 (-194 from last week) (2412 new, 3152 continued)


• 0.64% of all 863462 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• Two new fandoms enter the chart for the first time this week: cartoon Hey Duggee, and new BanG Dream variant BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!. In addition, web series Murder Drones returns. These three fandoms replace Alian Stage, Dangan Ronpa, and She-Ra.
  
• Hazbin Hotel celebrates 60 consecutive weeks on the chart. Owl House reaches 240 consecutive weeks.
  

High-level stats for week of 2025-02-18 - 2025-02-24

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 10442 (-747 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 6134 (-668 from last week) (2934 new, 3200 continued)


• 0.71% of all 858405 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• Yellowjackets returns to its best-ever rank of 4.
  
• Stranger Things returns to the chart for the first time since last September, replacing Hololive.
  
• A Woman's Place [...Is in the Resistance] is running a monthlong recs challenge for fic involving women.
  

High-level stats for week of 2025-02-04 - 2025-02-10

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9925 (+57 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5941 (+206 from last week) (2914 new, 3027 continued)


• 0.7% of all 851886 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• Genshin Impact has a good week, and edges Hazbin Hotel out of the top five.
  
• She-Ra returns after a couple of weeks away, and Dangan Ronpa returns for the first time since last October. They replace Once Upon a Time and Pokemon.
  
• Chart anniversaries: Boku no Hero Academia reaches 30 consecutive chart weeks in its latest run. League of Legends hits 170 consecutive weeks. Harry Potter reaches 320 consecutive weeks.
  

High-level stats for week of 2025-01-21 - 2025-01-27

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9366 (+151 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5391 (+67 from last week) (2314 new, 3077 continued)


• 0.64% of all 846298 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• Another stable week for the top five.
  
• Roblox horror game Dandy's World makes its first appearance at rank 20. Once Upon a Time returns for the first time in 2025. Those two fandoms replace Life Is Strange and She-Ra.
  
• Chart anniversary: MCU reaches 40 consecutive weeks (out of 558 lifetime weeks) in its current run.
  
• Happy Femslash February. I saw a few announcements of prompts and exchanges this week.
  • Signups are open for the Femgiftboxes female-character-centric gifting community.
  • Elasticella is running the fresh femslash salad bar prompt challenge for a second year.
  • Sapphicsunshower announced Femslash February Funkathon, a musical prompt fest.
  
  

High-level stats for week of 2025-01-07 - 2025-01-13

• Total works categorized F/F on AO3: 9477 (-1184 from last week)


• Works I classified F/F: 5566 (-608 from last week) (2504 new, 3062 continued)


• 0.66% of all 841681 AO3 works I've classified F/F were updated this week

A few callouts this week:

• The top five is totally stable since last week. I don't even see any major changes in relative work counts.
  
• Hololive returns to the chart in its second-ever appearance; the first was last October (though other Virtual Streamer Animated Characters subfandoms have had other appearances in the past). It replaces Honkai: Star Rail.
  
• Grey's Anatomy celebrates 120 consecutive weeks on the chart. Genshin Impact reaches 210 consecutive weeks.
  

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!