H/D Glompfest Statistics

[swissmarg]

It's been a long time in coming, but the Harry/Draco Glompfest has finally come to a close with the posting of its master list. Enjoy some statistics under the cut.

Fest community: serpentinelion 
Fest premise: Harry/Draco
Fest type: Open prompting with anonymous claims
Ratings restrictions: None
Length restrictions: Minimum 1500 words, no maximum
Creation period: From 5 weeks to 3 and a half months, depending on claimed posting date

There were 61 fics and 8 artworks created for this fest. One gift contained a fic and two artworks, which I counted separately. That is why I ended up with a different total than the fest mods. :)

Art-to-fic ratio: 13%

There were a total of 398,100 words written for this fest.

Mean (average): 6,526 words
Median (half the fics shorter, half the fics longer): 5,500 words
Mode (most frequent fic length): 2-3K, 5-6K

Some authors and artists were so full of glomp that they created multiple gifts!

Most prolific glompers:

subversivepizza - 4* (2 gifts, but one gift contained a fic and 2 artworks)
deirdre_aithne and tigersilver - 3 each
dysonrules, silenceberry, uniquepov - 2 each

Gifts by rating:

FIC
G - 4
PG - 3
PG-13 - 13
Soft R - 3
R - 10
Hard R - 5
NC-17 - 23

ART
G - 2
G/PG-13 - 1
PG-13 - 3
R - 1
NC-17 - 1

Fics by word count:
The shortest fic was 1,500 words. The longest fic was 25,000 words.

1-2K - iii
2-3K - iiiii iiiii
3-4K - iiiii i
4-5K - iiiii ii
5-6K - iiiii iiiii
6-7K - iiii
7-8K - iiii
8-9K - iiiii
9-10K - i
10-11K - i
11-12K - iii
12-13K - 0
13-14K - iii
14-15K - 0
15-16K - 0
16-17K - iii
17-18K - 0
18-19K - 0
19-20K - 0
25K - i

Some thoughts: Harry/Draco always brings out the love. I don't think it would be possible to hold a Harry/Draco fest of any kind and not have a great turnout. It's just that popular. Simply the fact that multiple authors/artists created more than one gift for this fest shows how invested this fandom is in this pairing. It's like we just can't get enough.

The ratings covered the full range, although there was a clear bias toward the higher ratings, with 73% of the fics rated at least R, and 62% of the overall gifts rated at least R (as usual, the art was generally rated lower than the fics). I find it interesting that so many authors found it necessary to nuance the R rating into three separate degrees. No one ever rates a fic as 'soft PG' or 'hard PG-13'. (Well, that I can recall, anyway). There is actually an official '15' rating between PG-13 and R in the U.K. and other countries, but Americans may not be familiar with it, and thus resort to 'soft R'.

The word counts were actually a bit on the low side in my opinion, given both the popularity of this pairing (which usually leads to several long fics), as well as the fact that late-posting authors had over three months to write. There was a pretty clear delineation at 9,000 words, with a very sudden drop-off and 80% of the fics below that mark. A goodly number managed to write up to 17,000 words, but only one author went beyond that. I didn't correlate fic length with posting date, but a logical expectation would be that the longer fics were generally posted later in the fest. However, the longest fic was the second one posted, only 5 weeks after the prompts were posted. So there goes that theory.

Comments

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this! Mind if I link to it later?

[swissmarg]

Of course, link away!

[tigersilver.livejournal.com]

Gawds, but I do luuurve hard data! Thanks for this:> Very much appreciated.

[swissmarg]

You're welcome. Nice work on the fest. :)

[vaysh]

I ♥ you. No, seriously, your stats posts are awesome.

One (or two) thought(s) about the somewhat low average word count in Glompfest:
For many writers in H/D fandom this has been an additional fest besides the ones they usually write for in the second half of the year. Some writers, I am sure, decided to "write something shorter" for Glompfest, because of time and scheduling constraints.

Also, every single prompt was claimed and written for which must be a first for any prompt fest, and - to me - totally astounding. Now, I signed up for Glompfest last minute, to claim one of the last unclaimed prompts - I wouldn't have written for the fest otherwise. I knew that I wouldn't have the time to write a long, fleshed-out fic, and I assume it was similar for other people. :)

[swissmarg]

I was amazed about all the prompts being claimed as well, and you're right, that does deserve an extra mention.

[nenne.livejournal.com]

This was interesting. Thanks for putting the statistics together!

I'm still in awe of the whole idea and so very, very grateful for all the contribution. This was an amazing fest. Thank you all! :)

[swissmarg]

You're very welcome, glad you found them interesting. And yay for all the participants! \o/