Snupin Santa stats

[swissmarg]

Snupin Santa over on lupin_snape posted their master list a week ago (wow, I'm behind!), but I sort of got distracted. :p Nevertheless, it's been burning a hole in my hard drive, begging to have its statistics done, and now here they are!

Fest community: lupin_snape 
Fest type: Anonymous exchange
Premise: Lupin/Snape
Ratings restrictions: None
Length restrictions: Minimum 1,500 words, no maximum
Creation period: about 2 months (2 weeks longer for veterans)

There were 48 gifts created:

- 33 fics
- 14 artworks (including sets of icons)
- 1 fanmix

Ratio of art to fic: 42%

By rating:

ART
G - 5
PG - 3
PG-13 - 1
R - 2
NC-17 - 3

MIX
R - 1

FIC
G - 0
PG - 4
PG-13 - 7
R - 6
NC-17 - 16

By word count:
The shortest fic was 1,705 words long. The longest fic was 49,103 words long.

1-2K - II
2-3K - IIIII-I
3-4K - II
4-5K - 0
5-6K - III
6-7K - I
7-8K - II
8-9K - I
9-10K - I
10-11K - II
11-12K - 0
12-13K - I
13-14K - III
14-15K - II
15-20K - I
20-25K - I
25-30K - III
30-35K - 0
35-40K - 0
45-50K - II

Total words written: 400,928
Mean (average fic length): 12,149
Median (half the fics longer, half the fics shorter): 7,500
Mode (most frequent word count): 2-3K

Some thoughts: This fest had a lot in common with the recent hd_holidays exchange, although it was only about half as big (in terms of both number of participants and total words written). See my statistics for the H/D exchange for reference. Still, it was a very popular fest, showing that Lupin/Snape is still strong in the fandom.

There was a very high percentage of art in this exchange, and -- always fun -- a mix as well. The art, as usual, was generally lower rated than the fics. Only 36% of the art was rated R or higher, compared to 67% of the fics. There were no G-rated fics at all, while G was the most frequent rating for the art, with 36%. This is very similar to hd_holidays, where there were also no G-rated fics, and the majority of the fics (but not the art) was rated R or higher. Thus, I would draw the same conclusion for this fest, which is that the physical side of the relationship is very important to the Snape/Lupin ship. However, it is certainly not the only attraction, as is evinced by the large number of long fics. (Again, similar to the case with the aforementioned H/D exchange).

Here, hardly any authors stuck to the lowest possible word count (1,500), although the largest number of fics was in the next length category, at 2-3K. Still, 3/4 of the authors wrote at least twice as many words as required, and 6 (nearly 1/5, again similar to the H/D exchange) went over Big Bang length (20K). As long as I'm making comparisions, though, I'd like to point out that the creation period for this exchange was only 2 months, whereas for hd_holidays it was 3 months. So the fact that the average fic length is nearly the same (12K as opposed to 13K), and that the longest fic for this exchange (49K) in fact surpassed the length of the longest fic in the H/D exchange (41K), is even more amazing.

Comments

[kittylefish.livejournal.com]

very interesting. thanks for taking the time to compile the stats.

[swissmarg]

You're welcome, glad you liked it.