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amaresu ([personal profile] amaresu) wrote in [community profile] fem_thoughts2012-07-30 07:28 pm
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BigBang: Where are the novel-length stories in femmeslash?
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[personal profile] woldy 2012-07-31 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
Good question! I have no idea. I wonder if it's possible to pull together some stats on the A03...
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[personal profile] sqbr 2012-07-31 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
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 :)
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[personal profile] havocthecat 2012-07-31 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] sqbr 2012-08-01 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
(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 :)
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[personal profile] woldy 2012-07-31 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
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.