H/D Fan Fair is a small data base, but I am still pleased that my gut-level feeling that fandom still favours bottom!Draco (and not to an unsubstantial degree) is correct. Snowgall, thank you so much for doing this study in such a professional way. :)
What it all means - who knows? I love all the speculation but it will be hard to draw definite conclusions.
Just for Fan Fair, there seems to be a decrease in explicit fic, which is something I totally would not have guessed. It may be that the more thematic focus of the fest (unusual careers, books, unusual locations) leads to more world-building fic, and less smut and romance – this just a hypothesis. But it would be really interesting to do a similar study with H/D Smoochfest where the fest focus is explicitly on romance, even when some awesome world-building fics are coming out of the fest every year.
The other fest that I think would be interesting for such a study is, of course, H/D Holidays and its successor H/D Erised. With H/D Holiday and Erised there is the additional fact that these are exchange fests, where participants can explicitly state their topping/bottoming preference in the sign-ups, and gift writers will usually stick to them.
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Date: 2015-04-06 03:15 pm (UTC)What it all means - who knows? I love all the speculation but it will be hard to draw definite conclusions.
Just for Fan Fair, there seems to be a decrease in explicit fic, which is something I totally would not have guessed. It may be that the more thematic focus of the fest (unusual careers, books, unusual locations) leads to more world-building fic, and less smut and romance – this just a hypothesis. But it would be really interesting to do a similar study with H/D Smoochfest where the fest focus is explicitly on romance, even when some awesome world-building fics are coming out of the fest every year.
The other fest that I think would be interesting for such a study is, of course, H/D Holidays and its successor H/D Erised. With H/D Holiday and Erised there is the additional fact that these are exchange fests, where participants can explicitly state their topping/bottoming preference in the sign-ups, and gift writers will usually stick to them.