{"id":215177,"date":"2026-01-06T20:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/ao3-year-in-review-2025-fanfiction\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:54:09","slug":"ao3-year-in-review-2025-fanfiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/ao3-year-in-review-2025-fanfiction\/","title":{"rendered":"AO3 Year In Review: 2025 Fanfiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"ht\" dir=\"ltr\">ao3 2025 ship stats (jan-dec) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KopZLnNsnD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/KopZLnNsnD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 b (@wwxwashere) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwxwashere\/status\/2007959533529002025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wwxwashere\/status\/2007959533529002025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">source<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wwxwashere\/status\/2008453601056714955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The annual list of popular fanfiction couples is out<\/p>\n<p>*yes the methodology for this list is notoriously flawed, but the OP is trying their best. they have excluded spam tags this year<\/p>\n<p>some notable points:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Harry Potter is somehow still going strong<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Real Person fuction is still going strong<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Heated Rivalry is very popular<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the list is dominated by male\/male couples: There are 62 M\/M pairings, 13 F\/M, 8 F\/F, 8 Gen, 1 F\/F\/F Polyamorous relationship, and 8 Other. <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"cutid1\"\/><a name=\"cutid1-end\"\/><\/p>\n<p>another list with a different methodology but less data<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">reddit user Agamar13 made a list titled &#8220;AO3&#8217;s 100 Most Tagged Ships of 2025 (includes archive locked fics)&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VXfX3qUxf2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/VXfX3qUxf2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 b (@wwxwashere) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwxwashere\/status\/2008453601056714955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a name=\"cutid2-end\"\/> <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/131728803.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ao3 2025 ship stats (jan-dec) pic.twitter.com\/KopZLnNsnD \u2014 b (@wwxwashere) January 4, 2026 source 2 The annual list of popular fanfiction couples is out *yes the methodology for this list is notoriously flawed, but the OP is trying their best. they have excluded spam tags this year some notable points: &#8211; Harry Potter is somehow still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-215177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}