| Dec. 26th, 2007 @ 07:34 pm Some HIMYM Stats. Because I'm bored. |
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So. By my count, and it *is* an imperfect count, I'll grant you that, there are around 33 stories in HIMYM fandom.
Thirty-three.
And between twenty-five and thirty of them were written this year.
(I pause to mull this over. That's about one every thirteen days, or two a month. No wonder I'm so capable of keeping up with this fandom.)
My inaccurate count (statistical error of plus or minus five, right?) has some interesting break-downs.
Slash
There is very little slash. Most of it is crossover slash with Jim Halpert from The Office. There are three Barney/Ted stories out there, and no Marshall/Ted that I've been able to find (nor any Marshall/Barney)--at least, not without Lily involved.
Watching 2/3rds of the first season of HIMYM with friends this week provoked the question "Where is the Carlos/Ted slash?" Good question. It's where most of the fic for this show lives: in Unwrittania.
Femme-slash
Non-existent. In spite of a canonical kiss between Robin and Lily! (Though, there's also that canonical Marshall/Barney smacker in the first or second episode, so obviously canon is no one's friend when writing fic.)
OT3
One each of Barney/Lily/Marshall and Ted/Lily/Marshall. I'm surprised there isn't more of the latter.
Gen
I count one, and I've written it. (My count might be slightly off.) (Also, that zombie drabble might count as gen. It might also count as Ted/wife or Robin/Barney, but I'm not sure I counted it at all as I stare at my little marks.) (And the story about Barney becoming Suited Up Barney is probably gen, too. So make it 2.5)
Het Pairings
Robin/Barney is the big winner with 13 stories. Yowza! Robin/Ted is mentioned a lot, but it's the focus of about exactly one story, if I'm counting right, so for my purposes, there is only 1 Robin/Ted. We have one Barney/Lily that I can find, and a whopping 2 Ted/Lily. And one Ted/wife (though it's mentioned a lot, it's not the focus of more than one fic, by my count).
Conclusions
There's a lot of uncovered ground in this fandom. There's the OT3 that should never be (Barney/Lily/Ted) and a whole realm of slash waiting to be uncovered, and just about no one has done any crack fic or whacked out AU scenarios in which they're all in Regency England or are space pirates together. I'm ready for it, though. Bring it on! |
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