HP Humour & Crack Fest statistics
Mar. 24th, 2011 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swissmargThe Harry Potter Humour & Crack Fest has wrapped up over at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
hp_crackdealers. See my brief statistics under the cut...
Fest community:hp_crackdealers
Master List: Here
Fest type: Anonymous prompt claiming
Premise: Humour, parody, and crack
Ratings restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length restrictions: 500 words minimum, no maximum
Creation period: 3 and a half months
There were 15 fanworks created for this fest.
Art: 3
Fic: 12
Ratio of art to fic: 25%
By rating:
ART
G - 1
R - 2
FIC
G - 1
PG - 2
PG-13 - 2
R - 5
NC-17 - 2
Some thoughts: Short butsweet snarky. The turnout was not super high, but there was a nice representation anyway, and some very funny fics.
The ratings surprised me, in that this fest didn't set out to be smutty or pairing-centric by any means. Yet 60% of the submissions were rated R or higher. I guess sex is funny?
The word counts make it clear that one-shots were the favored means of conveying humour. Although the long creation period would have allowed for writing very long fics, only one person went over 5,000 words, and even that fic, at nearly 7,500 words, was no Big Banger. It's true that it takes a special kind of writer to keep up the yuks over several chapters, so it's not that I think there should have been any longer fics.
Also worth noting is that the word count statistics for this fest were just about 'perfect', with the mean, median, and mode all just about exactly the same. *little sigh of delight" :)
It was a bit difficult deciding what to do about the most popular characters, since not all of the characters mentioned in a header were actually the lead, but I didn't want to have to make a decision about which ones were lead-worthy and which not, so I just went ahead and used all of the header mentions. This may mean that the results are not exactly accurate as far as who the fics and art were really about, but it's the best I could do.
Given all that, I still think it's pretty fair to say that the Trio were the most popular, along with Severus and Draco.
The reason I didn't do any pairing statistics is, although there were many pairings mentioned, and quite a few mentions of sex and romance, this just wasn't a pairing-based fest. There were several submissions in which pairings were mentioned, but were not the main point of the fic. Or in which there were so many pairings mentioned, and so briefly, that it seemed trivial to even count them.
Still, it's fair to say that het, slash, and gen were all well represented, to my eye in about equal degree. There wasn't any femmeslash (that I noticed).
hp_crackdealers. See my brief statistics under the cut...Fest community:
hp_crackdealers Master List: Here
Fest type: Anonymous prompt claiming
Premise: Humour, parody, and crack
Ratings restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length restrictions: 500 words minimum, no maximum
Creation period: 3 and a half months
There were 15 fanworks created for this fest.
Art: 3
Fic: 12
Ratio of art to fic: 25%
By rating:
ART
G - 1
R - 2
FIC
G - 1
PG - 2
PG-13 - 2
R - 5
NC-17 - 2
By word count:
The shortest fic was 576 words long. The longest fic was 7,449 words long.
<1K - 2
1-2K - 1
2-3K - 4
3-4K - 2
4-5K - 2
5K+ - 1
Total: 35,541 words
Mean (average fic length): 2,962 words
Median (half the fics shorter, half the fics longer): 2,925 words
Mode (most frequent fic length): 2-3K
The shortest fic was 576 words long. The longest fic was 7,449 words long.
<1K - 2
1-2K - 1
2-3K - 4
3-4K - 2
4-5K - 2
5K+ - 1
Total: 35,541 words
Mean (average fic length): 2,962 words
Median (half the fics shorter, half the fics longer): 2,925 words
Mode (most frequent fic length): 2-3K
Most popular characters:
(Number of mentions in a header.)
Harry, Hermione, Ron, Severus - 5 each
Draco - 4
Arthur, Charlie, Minerva, Remus, Sirius - 2 each
(Number of mentions in a header.)
Harry, Hermione, Ron, Severus - 5 each
Draco - 4
Arthur, Charlie, Minerva, Remus, Sirius - 2 each
Some thoughts: Short but
The ratings surprised me, in that this fest didn't set out to be smutty or pairing-centric by any means. Yet 60% of the submissions were rated R or higher. I guess sex is funny?
The word counts make it clear that one-shots were the favored means of conveying humour. Although the long creation period would have allowed for writing very long fics, only one person went over 5,000 words, and even that fic, at nearly 7,500 words, was no Big Banger. It's true that it takes a special kind of writer to keep up the yuks over several chapters, so it's not that I think there should have been any longer fics.
Also worth noting is that the word count statistics for this fest were just about 'perfect', with the mean, median, and mode all just about exactly the same. *little sigh of delight" :)
It was a bit difficult deciding what to do about the most popular characters, since not all of the characters mentioned in a header were actually the lead, but I didn't want to have to make a decision about which ones were lead-worthy and which not, so I just went ahead and used all of the header mentions. This may mean that the results are not exactly accurate as far as who the fics and art were really about, but it's the best I could do.
Given all that, I still think it's pretty fair to say that the Trio were the most popular, along with Severus and Draco.
The reason I didn't do any pairing statistics is, although there were many pairings mentioned, and quite a few mentions of sex and romance, this just wasn't a pairing-based fest. There were several submissions in which pairings were mentioned, but were not the main point of the fic. Or in which there were so many pairings mentioned, and so briefly, that it seemed trivial to even count them.
Still, it's fair to say that het, slash, and gen were all well represented, to my eye in about equal degree. There wasn't any femmeslash (that I noticed).
