H/D Food Fair 2018 Statistics
The Food Fair has now ended and we're pretty sure everyone has had an EGG-cellent time! While we wait for the anon reveals, let us interest you with some information and stats for this year's Food Fair:
- A total of 226 prompts were collected during prompting week.
- There were 95 prompt claims during the H/D Food Fair 2018 sign-ups which resulted in a total of 62 works: 55 stories, 7 artworks, 2 art+story. We also have 1 podfic entry this year.
- This brings up the total to 63 fanworks, making the H/D Food Fair 2018 our biggest Fair since 2010!
- There were 56 authors, 8 artists, 1 artist/author and 1 podficcer.
- One of the authors wrote two entries for the fair and 3 of the works we received resulted from collaborations: 2 stories are the products of author-author collaborations, and there is also one artist-author collaboration.
- Out of 63 entries, 40 entries (63.5%) have titles that references food-related ingredients, actions, or setting of some kind.
- The longest fanwork title is, "Feeling Rough, Feeling Raw (In the Prime of My Life)", and the shortest title is "Eat Me".
The breakdown of stories by length can be seen in the following table:
TYPE
FIC
BOTH
<5k
13
5-10k
10
10-15k
9
1
15-20k
12
1
20-30k
6
30-40k
1
40-50k
2
50-75k
0
75-100k
1
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1
TOTAL
55
2
- The total number of words written for the H/D Food Fair 2018 is approximately 840,637 words. This is the most words we have had since the first two H/D Fan Fairs!
- The mod, median and average length of stories is 0-5k & 15-20k, 10,991.5 words, and ~14,748 words, respectively.
- We have quite a few shorter stories compared to our previous years, but under half of the 57 stories (2 story with art) have over 15k words.
- The shortest story is 1,708 words long while the longest one is an impressive 104,357 words long (12.4% of total wordcount).
The breakdown of entry ratings by type can be seen in the following table:
RATING
FIC
ART
BOTH
PODFIC
TOTAL
G
4
2
0
0
6
PG-13
18
5
0
0
23
R
8
0
1
0
9
NC-17
23
0
1
1
25
TOTAL
53
7
2
1
63
- As can be seen from the table, most of the authors love making our readers blush and squirm! Nearly 60% wrote R or NC-17 rated stories!
- In the meantime, artists prefer to make our viewers smile by creating G or PG-13 rated romantic (or *cough* steamy but totally worksafe) artworks.
The breakdown of artwork types can be seen in the following table:
TYPE
ALL
DIGITAL
TRADITIONAL - PENCIL
COMICS
NON-COMICS
ART
7
5
2
4
3
BOTH
2
1
1
0
2
- As always, the favoured medium for art this year is Digital - there were twice as many artworks created using photoshop (and similar art programs) than traditional pencil works. There were also 4 comic submissions this year, 1 more than last year!
Breakdown of timeline-related tags:
Post-Hogwarts (46) or Post-Second War with Voldemort (5) | Hogwarts Eighth Year (7) | Alternate Universe - College/University (2)
Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE (44) | Harry Potter Epilogue Compliant (5)
- There were some fanworks that can be placed in any era and/or are non-linear, but the most preferred Era was without doubt Post-Hogwarts (or adult H/D Post-Second War with Voldemort), out of which 5 stories are epilogue compliant, and the rest - art included - are EWE.
- We also see 7 Eighth Year and 2 University Era EWE stories as well.
- However, there were no Non-Magical AUs this time around.
The breakdown of food themes and genres by type can be seen in the following table:
FOOD TROPES
FIC
ART
BOTH
PODFIC
Chef Draco Malfoy
5
1
Baker/Pastry Chef/Sweet-maker Draco Malfoy
4
Food-related Occupation Draco Malfoy
9
1
Draco Malfoy Cooks
2
1
Draco Malfoy Can't Cook
2
Chef Harry Potter
4
Baker/Pastry Chef/Sweet-maker Harry Potter
6
Food-related Occupation Harry Potter
2
Harry Potter Cooks
7
Dining Together
4
1
Sexy Food/Eating
12
2
Magical Ingredients/Drugs
4
1
Food Issues
4
2
Other
1
1
- Draco is more likely to work in a food-related but non-food-making capacity compared to Harry. Draco has dabbled in numerous food-related fields such as Tea Specialist, French Vineyard Owner, Hotel Owner, Restaurant Worker, Health and Wellness Spa Guru, Bakery Investor and more uniquely, Dinner Lady and Human Sushi Plate.
- Harry and Draco are nearly equally likely to be chefs, or bake bread, cakes, or desserts, for a profession. However, Harry is more than twice as likely to cook at home for his friends and family, or as a hobby/stress-relief. In contrast, there are 2 stories featuring Draco as a terrible cook.
- There are 7 fanworks that revolve around food issues, eating disorders or hunger/starvation. 4 of them features Harry and his relationship with food due to his abusive past with the Dursleys, 2 are about Draco dealing with tastebuds-related curses, and 1 is about hungry food forager Draco.
- Our most popular food trope yet is Sexy Food and/or Eating! With Harry doing most of the eating and slurping! Harry being handfed by Draco! Harry being supplied with sweets! Harry licking custard filled doughnuts! Harry drinking milk/lactation, once straight from the source *ahem* Draco! And the filthiest of all, Harry giving a chocolate dick some sweet sweet loving in one story, and getting a carrot stuck in his butt in the other!
- Draco is no slouch at this department too of course - he has bathed sugar quills with his tongue, he also services the foods in other interesting ways. Draco riding a giant cucumber is quite a sight to behold.
- Surely the most unusual "sexy food" highlighted in this Fair is lube. Enough lube to last Harry and Draco till our next fair!
- There are 5 fanworks that focuses on Harry and Draco dining together, 4 fanworks that features magical ingredients or drugs (i.e. a rare plant, aphrodisiac mushrooms, and magical apples in two very different stories), 1 fairytale fusion starring a cannibalistic witch, and 1 story allows us to see Harry and Draco's relationship through the lens of a sentient kitchen.
We would love to invite you to comment this post with your favourite unusual food theme or topic, and share your favourite moments of the H/D Food Fair 2018! Also, please show all our beloved artists and authors some love by commenting or leaving kudos to their entries. (View the anon masterlists sorted by chronological order and trope order!)
We will be posting the anon reveals this Saturday (24 November 2018) and we will also be closing and announcing the winners of the Guessing Poll and Food Fair Cup on the same date!
Much love,
Your H/D Food Fair Mods