H/D Fan Fair Travel Fair Stats

[swissmarg]

hd_fan_fair has posted their big reveal, and I'm so excited because I can make stats for something in addition to the usual ratings and word counts, namely... countries! (Yes, I do lead a rather sad and uneventful life.) So join with me in the statistical celebration of the H/D Travel fair!

Fest community: hd_fan_fair 
Theme: Harry/Draco, Travel
Fest type: Open prompting with anonymous claims
Fic length: Minimum 1000 words, no maximum
Rating restrictions: None, all ratings allowed
Creation period: 2 and a half months

There were 48 fics and 14 artworks created for the fest. 3 of the fics had integrated artwork, so actually there were 17 works of fan art created. However, in the following statistics, the fic/art combos are counted together in the fic category.

By rating:

ART
G - 2
PG - 7
PG-13 - 4
R - 1

FIC
G - 1
PG - 3
PG-13 - 11
R - 14
NC-17 - 19

By travel destination:

USA - 9
Multiple/Around the world - 9
Time travel/Historical - 7
France - 4
A dream - 4 (including waking dream states)
Alternate universe - 3
Japan - 3
Canada - 2
1 each: An airplane, a cave, Cambodia, Canary Islands, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, space, Scotland, Spain, Thailand, the Underworld, Wales

Most popular continents:

Europe - 16
North America - 11
Asia - 6
Africa - 2 (both North Africa)

By word count:

The shortest fic was 1,578 words long. The longest was ~50,000 words long.

1-2K - i
2-3K - iii
3-4K - ii
4-5K - iii
5-6K - i
6-7K - iiii
7-8K - iii
8-9K - ii
9-10K - iii
10-15K - iiiii
15-20K - iiiii iiiii
20-30K - iiiii
30-40K - iiii
40-50K - i
50K+ - i

Mode (most frequent word count): 6-7K and 17-18K (not visible in these statistics because I compressed some of the longer categories for display)
Mean (average): 14,462 words
Median (half the fics longer, half shorter): 10,500 words

Some thoughts: Harry/Draco is popular. Not that anyone needed me to tell them that. :) There was just an all-round wide range of creativity in this fest, whether it was genre (angst, fluff, humor, smex, you name it), plots, ratings, fic lengths, everything really.

The fics did tend more toward the high ratings, with 2/3 of the fics rated R or above, and 2/5 rated NC-17. The art, though, as these things have tended to pan out, was lower-rated, with all but one artwork rated PG-13 or below.

The United States was the most popular single travel destination, although Europe was the most popular continent. To me, this says that there were quite a lot of Americans writing (and/or prompting). There was also a lot of non-geographical travel (time travel/AU/historical/dreams/etc.). Added up, the non-geographical travel accounts for just over 1/3 of the fics. I was surprised there were no fics set in Australia or Central/South America (although there may have been stops in those places in some of the multiple-location fics).

The word counts were quite long, with the mean, median, and mode being even higher than those from the sshg_exchange. This to me is a hallmark of a pairing that people are passionate about. You have to get emotionally invested in the characters in order to be willing to spend so much time with them, writing their stories. And not only willing, but glad to do so. This wasn't a big bang fest, so there was no reason for writers to create novel-length gifts. I think that when a story goes beyond 10,000 words, it becomes not so much a gift for the other fan, but a gift to oneself as well. You have to enjoy what you're doing to do that much! Which is not to say that people who wrote less don't care about the characters, or care less. I'm really glad that there are people who are able to "keep it down" to a couple of thousand words. I don't always have time to read a 30,000+ word fic, and then I'm happy to have a fan fix in 5,000 words or less.

My pick, by the way, of the fest is Hot Pursuit by naadi, which I also recced separately.

Comments

H/D Travel Fair Stats

[vaysh]

SQUEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just discovered this post via the pingbot. This is beyond awesome. Can I just say that I love you for doing the stats, and doing them so brilliantly?!!!! *adores*

There will be a post on hd_fan_fair this afternoon with the fic/art of Travel Fair sorted by continent and country. Would it be okay with you if I posted a link to your awesome stats on this post?

Re: H/D Travel Fair Stats

[swissmarg]

But of course! I would be honored. :) I'm sorry I didn't wait until you were done with all of your lists and stuff, but when I see a master list, I cannot wait to get my hands and calculator all over it. :D

Re: H/D Travel Fair Stats

[vaysh]

*lol* You are my kind of girl! :D

It's no problem at all that you did the stats before we have all our lists up. What we have planned for this afternoon is simply a "Country Roundup" for people who want to search/read the Fair by country. You saved us doing the stats, and you did them much better than we could have done. *thank you*

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

OH! Fabulous! ♥

[swissmarg]

Thanks, enjoy!

[phoenixacid.livejournal.com]

Great job! :D

[swissmarg]

Thank you!

[nenne.livejournal.com]

This is interesting. Thanks for doing this.

[swissmarg]

You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it. :)

[jamie2109.livejournal.com]

Oh wow thanks so much!!!

[swissmarg]

You're welcome, happy to serve. :)

Harry/Draco Travel Fair Statistics

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[tigersilver.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's both helpful and superb:) Thank you; I find this fascinating, personally.

[swissmarg]

Thanks, me, too! I especially like comparing the statistics of the various fests.

[kawanale.livejournal.com]

What about prompts that were claimed and not submitted? I'd be interested in knowing the success rate, especially since one of my prompts (#6) wasn't submitted despite being claimed for fiction. Like there were so many prompts claimed, and so many submitted, that sort of thing. Thanks!

Overall it was an awesome fest! Kudos to all the artists and writers. I can't believe it's been 3 years since I signed on (2007-11-05) and now with the first part of the last movie out this month I can only hope this new movie will provide more fodder for more awesome drawings and stories in the next year or two! :-D

*claps hands in glee and throws sparkly glitter in the air*

[swissmarg]

I don't know about that, I only work from the master list of gifts actually posted. But I agree it would be interesting to know. :-)

[potteresque_ire]

That is one interesting statistics! Thank you so much for coupling them.

I think it would be interesting to have fics with Harry and Draco in South America. Involved in the drug wars in Mexico, or maybe continuing the study of evolution on the Galapagos island off Ecuador, trying to figure out when wizards separated from Homo Sapians. So many possible ideas! :D

[swissmarg]

Yes, so many possibilities! I was really surprised there was nothing with them in Mexico or Peru or Brazil, for example. It just seems like such a fertile field for a story.