Wizard Love Stats

[swissmarg]

You know the drill.

Fest community: wizard_love 
Master list: Here
Fest type: Anonymous exchange
Premise: Het smut
Ratings restrictions: R and NC-17 only
Length restrictions: 1,000 words minimum, no maximum
Creation period: 2 months

There were 68 gifts created for this exchange by 65 participants. rillalicious created 3 gifts (1 art and 2 fics). karasu_hime created 2 artworks.

Art: 10
Fics: 58

Art to fic ratio: 17%

By rating:

ART
R - 6
NC-17 - 4

FIC
R - 16
NC-17 - 42

Total
R - 22
NC-17 - 46

By word count:
The shortest fic was 1,100 words. The longest fic was 23,500 words.

1-2K - 15
2-3K - 9
3-4K - 4
4-5K - 5
5-6K - 4
6-7K - 7
7-8K - 3
8-9K - 2
9-10K - 1
10-11K - 3
11-12K - 2
12-20K - 1
20K+ - 2

Total: 310,369 words
Mean (average fic length): 5,350 words
Median (half the fics shorter, half the fics longer): 3,900 words
Mode (most frequent fic length): 1-2K

 

Most popular characters:
(Number of mentions in a lead pairing/threesome)

Hermione - 19
Harry - 12
Draco, Ginny - 9 each
Lavender, Pansy, Ron, Severus - 6 each
Luna - 5
Katie, Lucius, Millicent, Neville - 4 each
Bill, Lily, Percy, Tonks - 3 each
Charlie, George, Marcus, Michael, Padma, Seamus, Sirius - 2 each

Most promiscuous:
(Number of different partners)

Harry - 8
Hermione - 7
Pansy - 6
Lavender, Severus - 5 each
Ron - 4
Bill, Draco, Millicent, Neville - 3 each
George, Katie, Lily, Lucius, Michael, Padma, Percy, Sirius, Tonks - 2 each

Most popular pairings:
(Number of features as the lead pairing)

Hermione/Ron - 4
Draco/Ginny, Draco/Hermione, Harry/Hermione, Hermione/Lucius - 3 each
Charlie/Millicent, Draco/Pansy, Ginny/Harry, Ginny/Neville, Harry/Luna, Katie/Marcus, Katie/Percy, Lavender/Seamus, Lily/Sirius, Severus/Tonks - 2 each

Most popular Houses:
(Number of times a representative was mentioned in a main pairing/threesome)

Gryffindor - 82
Slytherin - 34
Ravenclaw - 11
Hufflepuff - 4
Unknown - 7

Some thoughts: Now in its fifth sixth year, wizard_love is the big het Valentine's Day fest, and it shows. With 65 participants, 2 Big Bang length fics, and 47 different pairings/threesomes this year, this has become one of the classics.

The amount of art was perhaps slightly low, at just under 20%, although still within 'norm'.

The ratings, as to be expected, were weighted toward the more smutty end of things, although 1/3 of the gifts remained on the low end of the allowed ratings, with R.

The word counts showed a very diverse spread, although the shorter fics were clearly the favored type, with fully 1/4 of the fics in the 1-2K range, and 95% shorter than 12,000 words.

Harry's run of domination as the most popular character in recent fests has been broken by a female character, to my surprise, although Hermione of course is usually right up there in popularity, she rarely takes the top spot. Females had a very strong showing overall, snagging 5 of the top 9 slots. 

Looking at 'promiscuity', though, Harry was able to edge out Hermione for the largest number of partners. That means that Hermione was more often featured with the same partners (Ron, Draco, and Harry), while Harry ended up with a more diverse range of females.

Another surprise was the fact that Hermione/Ron ended up being the most popular pairing. Non-canon pairings usually fare better in fandom than canon ones, and this fest is actually no exception: if you look at the rest of the pairings that were featured more than once, the only other canon one here is Harry/Ginny, which was only the focus of 2 gifts. So out of 15 pairings featured more than once, only 2 were canon.

The fact that Gryffindor blew away all the other Houses in terms of popularity was also unexpected to me; I have the feeling that Slytherin and Gryffindor are usually more evenly split. I'm not sure why this happened, although if you look at the lists of pairings and characters, it's clear that there were more minor Gryffindors (Seamus, Percy, Lavender, Katie, etc.) getting featured than minor Slytherins (Marcus, Millicent, and Theo being the only ones). Usually very popular Slytherins like Snape and Lucius also didn't get a whole lot of love. Maybe it's that people tend to prefer seeing Snape in a slash pairing (Snarry, Snupin).

What was especially nice was to see the relatively big numbers for Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff this time, though. Together, they made it into double digits!

:)

 

Comments

[digital-devi.livejournal.com]

Nice bit of work, but thought I ought to point out to you that this was actually wizard_love's sixth year of operation. :o)

[swissmarg]

Thanks, I'll fix that. I misinterpreted what it says on the community profile about Wizard Love having just celebrated its fifth year. I guess that meant before this current round. ;)

[love-rockerkid.livejournal.com]

It's really interesting to see all the numbers put out like this; thanks for putting it together! You left out a Sirius/Hermione fic, though. I really liked the fic, so I thought I should point it out. :)

[swissmarg]

I'm not sure what you mean. There was only one Sirius/Hermione fic on the master list and I counted that in my statistics. If you think the master list is missing a fic, you can contact the fest mods to let them know. ;)

[love-rockerkid.livejournal.com]

It's not listed in the pairings statistics. I read it over several times before commenting, and just now again. If I'm wrong and am just blind, I apologize, but I seriously do not see it listed in your pairings statistics. Unless you just didn't include it because there was only one Sirius/Hermione? Now I'm rather confused, sorry.

[swissmarg]

I only listed the pairings that were featured more than once in the statistics. ;)

It seems kind of pointless to list all of the once-only pairings. By definition, pairings that only came up once are not 'most popular'.

I also didn't list all of the characters that were only featured once, nor characters in the promiscuity list who only had one partner, for the same reason.

This isn't meant to reproduce the entire master list, only pick out the points that I thought were interesting or unusual.