Discussion prompt

[amaresu]

BigBang: Where are the novel-length stories in femmeslash?

Comments

[woldy]

Good question! I have no idea. I wonder if it's possible to pull together some stats on the A03...

[sqbr]

Super dodgy stats:
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 :)

[havocthecat]

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.

[sqbr]

(shifting this to the right thread to be less confusing, sorry about that!)

I did not! But if someone else crunched the numbers I'd be curious to see the outcome :)

[woldy]

Excellent A03 wrangling skills! Thanks :-)

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.