Statistics on the acd_holmesfest exchange over the past 6 rounds

[garonne]

TL;DR: acd_holmesfest participants tend to produce PG-rated fic in the range 2000-4000 words, with a slight preference for M/M fic (almost exclusively Holmes/Watson) over gen fic, but with more gen fic than fandom in general.

Inspired by billiethepoet's recent analysis of the holmestice fic exchange, I did a purely descriptive statistical analysis of the contributions

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[colebaltblue]

I think most exchanges have a recommended/required min fic length too, which will skewed the numbers a bit. But I'd suspect there isn't much of a difference between those that do and those that don't unless the min is significant to the exchange (i.e. Big Bangs).

I think a lot of Ritchie-verse isn't obviously Ritchie verse either if not on a site like AO3 where it is labeled as such or directly tied into the movie. Especially since most victorian-Holmes is just lumped together - moreso for the casual fan who came at it more recently from a more mainstream adaptation! That's a personal ancedote though since I came to the fandom right before the first Ritchie movie came out and failed to distinguish between victoriana until I began to understand Canon and Grananda a bit more!

I didn't deliberately skew Holmestice the first few times other than to say, "oh look! someone requested this and someone else offered it!" Then, I realized how much people actually enjoyed that. This was also at a time when fandom was HEAVILY dominated by Sherlock people and a lot of people participated in Holmestice specifically because of the pan-Holmesania. There were other Sherlock-only themed exchanges going on and Lavvyan and I sought to differentiate/distinguish ourselves. Then it just grew from there. Now, it's a fun exercise. A lot of it is the participant though, I know many come back every year BECAUSE of the opportunity to create/read/see works in so many different Holmesian adaptations.

And to be honest, as I look at the daunting workload every year, it's what keeps Billiethepoet and I going.