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(love you. hope your day is gentle.)

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i love having friends with favorite colors & shit so i can just send them random crap like yess this is pink ill show it to the pink friend this has a fish ill show it to the fish friend. fish is a color btw

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edit because i just realised the pie graphs were incorrectly labelled, of course that should say less than one word (<1) not more than one word (>1) as the first category oops

i have also made an edited version of the line graph where the x-axis ticks are word count spans but idk if that is a more confusing visualisation so i'm only going to add it here in the reblog..

because i've noticed people (especially in the marauders fandom) call more and more long works on ao3 short fics, and because i saw this post of ao3 word count statistics, i was curious what this looks like now and did some statistics myself

specific notes here:

the line graph follows the same pattern as the pie charts. the points are merely set at the maximum word count included, but they represent all the works between the marked wordcount and the previous one (so a marker at 10k means works from 5001-10000 words).

the grey part of the pie chart combines all the works that are novel length and longer. note that between the marauders fandom and all of ao3 that percentage more than doubles

there is most definitely an overlap between wolfstar and jegulus fics, so i would assume that several of the jegulus fics at 500k+ are also included in the wolfstar fics and vice versa. i wanted a marauders overview overall, but since we don't have a certain way to view that, i simply went with the most popular marauders ship to get a rough overview of the fandom

i did a seperate category with works for 0 words because these are usually podfics and fanart, however i realise that even in the 1-100 words category there are a lot of 'placeholder fics' (which, btw, go against ao3 tos). the 0 word marker is missing in the line graph, so imagine there are some more lower points towards the left

the last marker on the line graph just indicates fics longer than 500k, i just set it to an arbitrary number >500k for visualisation

so i think it is in fact noticable that the harry potter fandoms, but especially the marauders one have a tendency for very long works, which also explains why we are not very good at judging when something is a long fic

as a reminder, in traditional publishing, 20-50k words is considered a novella, 50-100k is a novel, 100-200k is an epic, and above that we don't really have a word for it. use this knowledge to be more impressed with your local fic writers and give them a pat on the shoulder and a comment in their inbox to let them know they're incredible for writing fics, both the short ones and ones that are several novels long :)

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june 2025 version made by yours truly because i was very curious

Simplifying some of these categories in the same way:

about 24% of the fanworks on AO3 had ≤ 1000 words at that time (note that this includes most of the textless fanworks like fanart and podfics). short fics have relatively become a lot less common  

about 48% had between 1K and 5K words - still the most popular word count span, barely changed compared to 2014

28% of the fanworks have more than 5K words! that is a massive increase!

in fact the increase so large enough that the >50k category can be analysed further: of those 3% works over 50k words, 2% are 50k-100k, 1% 100k-200k and less than 1% above that

Fandom stats: word count on AO3

significanceofmoths asked me if I’d analyzed how fandoms differ in terms of their word counts.  I haven’t broken it down by fandom, but I thought I’d do a quick summary of what I know about word count on AO3 in general (at least as of about a year ago).

When I did my initial survey of AO3 in May 2013, here’s what I found about word count:

Simplifying some of these categories:

about 36% of the fanworks on AO3 had <= 1000 words at that time (note that this includes most of the textless fanworks like fanart and podfics).  

about 45% had between 1K and 5K words

only about 18% of the fanworks have more than 5K words.

I also looked at single-chapter vs. multi-chapter fics around the same time. Please note: there are way more single chapter fanworks than multi-chapter – somewhere around 85% of fanworks are one chapter.  Comparing word count for these two different categories:

While it’s most common for single-chapter fic to have fewer than 1000 words, it’s actually most common for multi-chapter fic to have over 10K words.

That second analysis also shows that the longer the work, the more hits it tends to get.  But I haven’t yet dug deeper into this relationship (other than showing that length isn’t the only factor that matters – for instance, rating also affects hits and kudos).

[MORE FANDOM STATS]

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if the vibes are off, close your document. stare at the wall. think about your protagonist’s childhood trauma. return stronger.

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i’d like to formally apologise to anyone i’ve disappointed with my terrible friendship skills

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because i've noticed people (especially in the marauders fandom) call more and more long works on ao3 short fics, and because i saw this post of ao3 word count statistics, i was curious what this looks like now and did some statistics myself

specific notes here:

the line graph follows the same pattern as the pie charts. the points are merely set at the maximum word count included, but they represent all the works between the marked wordcount and the previous one (so a marker at 10k means works from 5001-10000 words).

the grey part of the pie chart combines all the works that are novel length and longer. note that between the marauders fandom and all of ao3 that percentage more than doubles

there is most definitely an overlap between wolfstar and jegulus fics, so i would assume that several of the jegulus fics at 500k+ are also included in the wolfstar fics and vice versa. i wanted a marauders overview overall, but since we don't have a certain way to view that, i simply went with the most popular marauders ship to get a rough overview of the fandom

i did a seperate category with works for 0 words because these are usually podfics and fanart, however i realise that even in the 1-100 words category there are a lot of 'placeholder fics' (which, btw, go against ao3 tos). the 0 word marker is missing in the line graph, so imagine there are some more lower points towards the left

the last marker on the line graph just indicates fics longer than 500k, i just set it to an arbitrary number >500k for visualisation

so i think it is in fact noticable that the harry potter fandoms, but especially the marauders one have a tendency for very long works, which also explains why we are not very good at judging when something is a long fic

as a reminder, in traditional publishing, 20-50k words is considered a novella, 50-100k is a novel, 100-200k is an epic, and above that we don't really have a word for it. use this knowledge to be more impressed with your local fic writers and give them a pat on the shoulder and a comment in their inbox to let them know they're incredible for writing fics, both the short ones and ones that are several novels long :)

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💫Cosmic Swallow💫

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I would like to rot actually. thanks

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We all have that mutual that god just fucking cursed i guess

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TBH you seem cool but your evil presence has run the waters afoul

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Hi, I just finished Operation Walburga's Arbitrary No Kissing Ever Rule. I just wanted to say that I loved it. I loved every word and every chapter. I'm just sorry that it's such a short story, even though it's so good. Even so, I think you gave it the best ending. It helped me a lot, since, as you know, I'm not very happy with most of the jegulus fanfics. So, I hope to reread it soon.

And thank you, I really loved it :)

hi!!!

I'm so glad you liked the fic so much, it is still one of my favourites i've ever written so every time i hear that someone else enhoys it as much as i do it just makes me really happy <33

Regarding the length - please know that it's really, really not a short fic at all. Operation wanker is longer than either of the first two books of its source material. That's a whole entire novel. I know that fanfics, especially in the marauders fandom, have worbed our perception of what a 'long' story is, but this fic took me over a year to plan and write. Generally in traditional literature, <20k is a novella, <50k is a novel and 100-150k is an epic. Longer than that we don't even use words for that anymore. I think that's important to put into perspective...

That being said!! Thank you for your ask and I hope you'll also like the reread as much as the first time reading it <33333 and i hope you'll find other jegulus fics you enjoy just as much! Sending you a not too warm sunny day <33

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I’ll just let you know that it’s 1am and I looked to check if Ritardando updated and a big long colorful swear words strings came out of my mouth and I’m shocked my roommate didn’t wake

Sparkie

Acc no

Snarly

Lemme know if u like it

awwwww rest assured there will be another chapter this week <333

Also i fully misread that as snarkly which is also very adorablr ngl

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Ok that’s it, I’m making a google docs with all the iconic lines from op wanker

Sparkie

Which is getting kind of old, imma change it soon

PLEASE do and then send it to me i want to know what lines you see as iconic so badly;;;

Also regading your othwr ask on this - james really is not realising he's playing with reg. I'm not even sure if it can be considered playing since he is just that oblivious.....

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They’re gay your honour

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i am enthralled by your vibe bro

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Flirting telepathically tonight so if you get nightmares its just me