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I've done so many 8th year fic recs this month, but I haven't yet recced one of my absolute favorite 8th year fics.

This one doesn't involve any magical bonds or creatures, it doesn't rely on party games or love potions or bets or almost any other standard trope other than their simply being roommates. And as much as I adore all of those other tropes, sometimes it's nice to see the boys figure things out organically, without anything or anyone forcing them to be together :)

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Something I Don't Want to Stop by traintracks
Originally published June 7, 2013 on Livejournal as part of hd_smoochfest

Rated: NC-17
Word Count: 16,300
Summary: It's Harry and Draco's eighth year, the Houses have been all but demolished in favor of unity, and they're being forced to room together. How ever will they cope?

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Once again it's time to find out Who tops more in hd-smoochfest fics, Draco or Harry?

This is the second set of HD-fest data we've looked at, the first being data from hd_fan_fair, and the results of that study can be found here. (The impetus for that project came from my original "Who Tops More" post).

If you want to know more about how all of this data was collected and labeled, see the FAQ I wrote up for the hd-fan-fair project. All of it still holds true for the hd-smoochfest project as well.

The data from HD-fan-fair included 231 fics from 5 years of fests, while hd_smoochfest includes 348 fics from 6 years of fests. So this was a bigger project providing much more data than before. Huge thanks once again to (in alpha order) birdsofshore, cagnurit, frnklymrshnkly, germankitty, gracerene, iwao, khalulu, laurelgreengras, lordhellebore, and nia_kantorka for being awesome and contributing to the spreadsheet. I'm constantly amazed at all we've been able to accomplish through crowd-sourcing! If I left out anyone who contributed, please let me know so I can thank you too!

Results
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Once again, that's just about all I can do in terms of analysis - I don't do sociology or psychology, so please let me know what it all means to you in the comments :)

As before, I'm very interested in continuing this project with data from another fest. If people aren't bored yet and would be interested in contributing to a third crowd-sourcing project, please let me know! The next fest I'd like to tackle would be hd_holidays/hd_erised, but those are HUGE fests, and would be even more work. So if there's not enough interest to sustain it, better I know that now. Who's with me?

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More in this series:
Crowd-sourcing Smoochfest Proposal - Spreadsheet link (f-locked)
Progress Report #1
Progress Report #2 - Ratings chart
Progress Report #3 - Nearly There!
Progress Report #4 - Final data double-check!

Just a quick update on the status of the HD-smoochfest Crowd-Sourcing Data Project for anyone interested. A week and a half ago we still had 76 NC-17 or R rated fics that needed top/bottom data. As of today, we're down to just 37!

I'm going to be out of town for most of this coming week, starting Saturday, and won't be able to post much in the interim. But if the pace keeps up as it has been, then there's a good chance the spreadsheet top/bottom data for Smoochfest will be complete by the time I get back, and won't that be great! So hopefully I can do a full report in about a week and a half.

Thanks so much to birdsofshore, cagnurit, khalulu, frnklymrshnkly, gracerene, laurelgreengras, lordhellebore, and nia_kantorka for all their hard work so far. You guys are amazing!

Once again, I invite anyone interested to take a look at the spreadsheet (find the link in this post, or PM me) and enter data for any fics you may have read. There are just 37 fics that we lack top/bottom data on!

**If you add or change any data, it is helpful to leave a note in the "data entry by" column so I know who to thank and what has been added. You can also add a comment right in the same cell if there's data you disagree with. Just highlight anything you do so I can see it and make a note of it. Thanks again for all the help so far!

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More in this series:
Crowd-sourcing Smoochfest Proposal - Spreadsheet link (f-locked)
Progress Report #1
Progress Report #2 - Ratings chart
Progress Report #3 - Nearly There!
Progress Report #4 - Final data double-check!
Who Tops More in HD-smoochfest: Final Results

In case you didn't know, we have started a new crowd-sourcing project! This time we are gathering data on all fics posted to hd_smoochfest from 2009-2014. Once again, the initial goal is to get more information to find out Who tops more?, but there's no reason these datasets couldn't be used to answer any number of interesting fandomstats questions in the future.

Background: Inspired by the comments on my original Who Tops More post, I decided to try running the same analysis just on the fics written for the hd_fan_fair fest from 2009-2014. Crowd-sourcing that data was a smashing success and you can read about the results here.

Once again I have set up a public Google spreadsheet where anyone who wants to can help fill in the gaps in the data. It's actually at the same URL as the first dataset, just in a new sheet beneath it. (Note: my original post suggesting the crowd-sourcing is f-locked to hide the spreadsheet URL from vandals, but if anyone is interested in helping with this project, just PM me so I can send you the link).

There are 348 fics from six years of Smoochfest now listed in the table (with huge thanks to cagnurit for helping add over 200 fics to my original list!) When I opened the sheet for crowd-sourcing 4 days ago, we still needed top/bottom data on 147 fics rated R or NC-17. Since then, frnklymrshnkly, gracerene, khalulu, lordhellebore, and nia_kantorka have whittled that number down to 128 (also adding data on several low-rated fics, and timeframe and theme data as well). As always, if I inadvertently left out anyone who contributed, please let me know so I can thank you.

Note that the dataset for HD Smoochfest is one and a half times larger than the dataset was for HD fan-fair (348 fics vs. 231) so this will be a commensurately larger project. But I know we can do it! The more people who contribute (the more 'crowd'-like we are) the less any one person has to do.

So even if you can only add one piece of information to our dataset, that is valuable and worthwhile. Just take a look at the spreadsheet (find the link in this post, or PM me) and enter data for any fics you may have read; every contribution is greatly appreciated.

**If you add or change any data, it is helpful to leave a note in the "data entry by" column so I know who to thank and what has been added. You can also add a comment right in the same cell if there's data you disagree with. Just highlight anything you do so I can see it and make a note of it. Thanks so much for all the help so far!

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More in this series:
Crowd-sourcing Smoochfest Proposal - Spreadsheet link (f-locked)
Progress Report #1
Progress Report #2 - Ratings chart
Progress Report #3 - Nearly There!
Progress Report #4 - Final data double-check!
Who Tops More in HD-smoochfest: Final Results