You've done all the work for me (except for the table of contents, which is underway)! Seriously, these were the stats I was starting to compile last night for the stats part of the "thoughts about the fest" post the mods are writing. (In case you couldn't tell, I'm the statistician of the two of us.)
So: if you would like to repost this to dudley_redeemed, we would welcome you to do so. (If you aren't yet a member with full posting privileges, I'll invite you as soon as I post this comment.)
If, on the other hand, you prefer not to post it, do you mind if I copy the stats and link to credit your post?
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In other thoughts, I think you're absolutely right that the quality of the submissions here are because the requirement that a canon!arse be redeemed, which required significant character development, and that pairing him with wizards would necessitate explanation.
We did label this an "anything goes" fest, but we also did some quality-control by requiring works to be beta-read (or viewed) and returning some with suggestions for revision due to SPAG or continuity (in fact, wwmrsweasleydo returned my own fic because somewhere in the final revision, I'd accidentally deleted a sentence and a half, making the paragraph unintelligible). However, most of those returned for revision were for minor SPAG things; it was just that I don't feel comfortable changing words unless I've got the permission of the author.
The lack of cross-gen pairings is really interesting, especially since several prompts were cross-gen (Dudley/Hestia, Dudley/Kingsley). Also: there was no cest!fic (well, unless you include deathjunke's fic, which was not a "cest!fic" as far as fanon usually has them -- it's a fic about the trauma of incest). But I was very surprised that nobody actually paired Dudley and Harry for this.
Also, the 944-word fic was an "extra"; it was not a prompt claimed at the beginning, but a bunny that one of our members decided to contribute at the last minute. Her first contribution was 2107, which is within the mode according to your analysis.
Anyway, thanks ever so much for your stats, and for paying attention to a little fest run by two newbie mods!
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Date: 2010-10-21 10:19 pm (UTC)You've done all the work for me (except for the table of contents, which is underway)! Seriously, these were the stats I was starting to compile last night for the stats part of the "thoughts about the fest" post the mods are writing. (In case you couldn't tell, I'm the statistician of the two of us.)
So: if you would like to repost this to
If, on the other hand, you prefer not to post it, do you mind if I copy the stats and link to credit your post?
...
In other thoughts, I think you're absolutely right that the quality of the submissions here are because the requirement that a canon!arse be redeemed, which required significant character development, and that pairing him with wizards would necessitate explanation.
We did label this an "anything goes" fest, but we also did some quality-control by requiring works to be beta-read (or viewed) and returning some with suggestions for revision due to SPAG or continuity (in fact,
The lack of cross-gen pairings is really interesting, especially since several prompts were cross-gen (Dudley/Hestia, Dudley/Kingsley). Also: there was no cest!fic (well, unless you include
Also, the 944-word fic was an "extra"; it was not a prompt claimed at the beginning, but a bunny that one of our members decided to contribute at the last minute. Her first contribution was 2107, which is within the mode according to your analysis.
Anyway, thanks ever so much for your stats, and for paying attention to a little fest run by two newbie mods!