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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-01-01 06:49 pm

[ SECRET POST #2191 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2191 ⌋

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tyger66: (Default)

[personal profile] tyger66 2013-01-02 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but all the slash combined beats all the het combined twice over.

(Anonymous) 2013-01-02 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm checking, and I have no idea how that can be the case. As I said before, Draco/Hermonie beats Drarry by a small margin, and, likewise, Harry/Snape barely beats Snape/Hermonie. Even with Sirius/Lupin, you have Harry/Hermonie, Hermonie/Ron, and Harry/Ginny.

And, as we all know, Harry and Hermonie are the shipping bicycles of the fandom, so there's barely any Harry/Ron and Ron/Draco.
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[personal profile] tyger66 2013-01-02 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose that since I have almost completely deserted ff.net, I kind of forget it exists at times. Are those the stats you are checking? If so, we should also take into account AO3, and livejournal (which would be almost impossible, obviously). On AO3 (which, IMO, contains a higher standard than ff.net) there is almost twice as much slash as any other type of fic. And I honestly have no clue what the ratio would be for LJ...

(Anonymous) 2013-01-02 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I'm checking ff.net since it's the biggest fic database. It's also the best indicator since slashers tend use AO3 and LJ more than het-ers (idk what to call them) while het-ers and slashers use ff.net pretty equally. Honestly, AO3 is only higher quality because it's smaller and has older members. Soon enough, it will be a shit show too.

Also, AO3 and LJ are mostly used by girls, so that's another reason why there will be more slash.

Honestly, LJ is terrible when it comes to het and great when it comes to slash. For instance, I was in a fandom where the main het pairing was super popular on ff.net, and the most popular slash pairing was only the third most popular pairing. On the kink meme for that fandom, it was dominated by that slash pairing.
tyger66: (Default)

I REALLY SHOULD HAVE LEARNED MY LESSON BY NOW

[personal profile] tyger66 2013-01-02 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
No, I agree that AO3 is quickly headed down shit street, and it's only their slow "invitation" process that keeps quality up at this point.

I also wasn't really aware that AO3 is used more by slashers. I guess I kind of thought it had a more evenly balanced user-base.

As always though, any opinion I form is based on my subjective experience, and since I don't look for het, I often don't SEE het. As a result, I get into debates like this one and make a complete ass of myself. >.>

(Anonymous) 2013-01-02 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Why're you looking for Harry/Ron and Ron/Draco? They are rareships even within the slash part of HP fandom. I'm pretty sure there are more Snape/Lucius, Snape/Draco, James/Sirius and Harry/Voldemort fics than Harry/Ron and Ron/Darco. There's nextgen slash too and I think even Albus Severus/Scorpius and Harry/Teddy is bigger than Ron/Draco.

Besides, ff.net is not a good standard of measurement. It doesn't allow MA rated fics which means a lot of the really smutty slash and het are offsite. Also, there are more male characters in HP than female characters. HP rarepair fests on LJ are full of rare male pairings, though LJ does have a slash bias.