Did you, by any chance, run numbers comparing novel length fic for slash, het, gen, and poly? I wonder if there's the same proportion of novel length fic out there for those types of fics. (The stats would, of course, be super dodgy, I'm aware.)
I am also totally aware that might be too much work! I'm not saying "please do this" just asking if you ended up deciding to check out that too.
Dodgyness caveat noted, but I'm not surprised that there's less very long femslash. I suspect it takes community support (betas, cheerleaders, ongoing comments) for people to write novel length fic, and that support may be less forthcoming for less popular pairings.
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2721 femslash,35 over 50K : about one in 78
15979 slash,345 over 50K : about one in 47
So I guess novel length femslash IS rarer, on average. At least according to this one dodgy test :)
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I am also totally aware that might be too much work! I'm not saying "please do this" just asking if you ended up deciding to check out that too.
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I did not! But if someone else crunched the numbers I'd be curious to see the outcome :)
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Dodgyness caveat noted, but I'm not surprised that there's less very long femslash. I suspect it takes community support (betas, cheerleaders, ongoing comments) for people to write novel length fic, and that support may be less forthcoming for less popular pairings.