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kennahijja) wrote2006-12-14 08:46 pm
kennahijja) wrote2006-12-14 08:46 pm
Favourite Pairings Poll: Results
Here are the results from the Favourite Pairings Poll, Round Two, which, in itself, was the follow-up to the Most Popular Fandom Pairings Poll, whose results are here.
With apologies to the threesome lovers, I had to weed those out along with unspecified and non-HP pairings (although I perfectly agree with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
forked that Ian/Irons is the height of hot, and pretty canon too!).
author_by_night: in RL you're right, of course, about homosexual pairings not needing a seperate category. But since fandom has its own conventions, and things would get very murky in a all-for one, you'll have to bear with it :).
Again, first choice was awarded 4 points, second 3, etc.
Maleslash: 1) Harry/Draco (195), 2) Remus/Sirius (142), 3. Snape/Harry (140), 4. Snape/Lupin (79). Runners-up: Harry/Ron (65) and Ron/Draco (62), followed by Harry/Lucius (39), Lucius/Snape (35) and Harry/Voldemort+Tom (33)
Het: 1) Ron/Hermione (129), 2) Snape/Hermione (73), 3. Harry/Ginny (64), 4. Draco/Hermione (56). Runners-up: James/Lily (55), Harry/Hermione (52), and Lucius/Narcissa and Remus/Tonks (both 47)
Femmeslash: 1) Ginny/Luna (107), 2) Pansy/Hermione (84), 3. Hermione/Ginny (69), 4. Ginny/Pansy (35). Runners-up: Hermione/Luna (34), Tonks/Ginny (33), Bellatrix/Narcissa (32).
Slash... interestingly, the personal favourites and 'what do you think are fandom favourites' polls turned up exactly the same results in practically the same order (except for a mention of Harry/Lucius in the former, which I'll blame on running this on my own, slanted f-list, *g*).
Femmeslash... again the first 9 favourites on both lists were identical, different positions aside - some pairings a bit higher or lower.
Het... here, the results are a little more diverse, but not much, although Ron/Hermione came out on top in both polls. Personal favourites seem to rate adult-and-cross-gen pairings a little bit higher, but that, again, may have to do with it being my flist, which isn't very teen-heavy.
Extremely different, however, was the number of pairings mentioned: in the 'personal favourites poll', four times more maleslash pairings were mentioned than in the 'fandom favourites poll', twice as many femmeslash pairings, and a staggering six times as many favourite het pairings. It looks as if people are aware of a limited number of fandom-wide popular ships, but have more diverse personal preferences.
If you want a mad assortment of tables to see the details, throw me a mail :).
Also, *grumbles quietly*, as soon as December is over, I'll so be spamming you lot with femmeslash recs! This amount of "don't really read femmeslash" responses is, well, *frump*... You're missing out on a lot of good stuff there!
With apologies to the threesome lovers, I had to weed those out along with unspecified and non-HP pairings (although I perfectly agree with
forked that Ian/Irons is the height of hot, and pretty canon too!).author_by_night: in RL you're right, of course, about homosexual pairings not needing a seperate category. But since fandom has its own conventions, and things would get very murky in a all-for one, you'll have to bear with it :). Again, first choice was awarded 4 points, second 3, etc.
Maleslash: 1) Harry/Draco (195), 2) Remus/Sirius (142), 3. Snape/Harry (140), 4. Snape/Lupin (79). Runners-up: Harry/Ron (65) and Ron/Draco (62), followed by Harry/Lucius (39), Lucius/Snape (35) and Harry/Voldemort+Tom (33)
Het: 1) Ron/Hermione (129), 2) Snape/Hermione (73), 3. Harry/Ginny (64), 4. Draco/Hermione (56). Runners-up: James/Lily (55), Harry/Hermione (52), and Lucius/Narcissa and Remus/Tonks (both 47)
Femmeslash: 1) Ginny/Luna (107), 2) Pansy/Hermione (84), 3. Hermione/Ginny (69), 4. Ginny/Pansy (35). Runners-up: Hermione/Luna (34), Tonks/Ginny (33), Bellatrix/Narcissa (32).
Slash... interestingly, the personal favourites and 'what do you think are fandom favourites' polls turned up exactly the same results in practically the same order (except for a mention of Harry/Lucius in the former, which I'll blame on running this on my own, slanted f-list, *g*).
Femmeslash... again the first 9 favourites on both lists were identical, different positions aside - some pairings a bit higher or lower.
Het... here, the results are a little more diverse, but not much, although Ron/Hermione came out on top in both polls. Personal favourites seem to rate adult-and-cross-gen pairings a little bit higher, but that, again, may have to do with it being my flist, which isn't very teen-heavy.
Extremely different, however, was the number of pairings mentioned: in the 'personal favourites poll', four times more maleslash pairings were mentioned than in the 'fandom favourites poll', twice as many femmeslash pairings, and a staggering six times as many favourite het pairings. It looks as if people are aware of a limited number of fandom-wide popular ships, but have more diverse personal preferences.
If you want a mad assortment of tables to see the details, throw me a mail :).
Also, *grumbles quietly*, as soon as December is over, I'll so be spamming you lot with femmeslash recs! This amount of "don't really read femmeslash" responses is, well, *frump*... You're missing out on a lot of good stuff there!
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Luna, Susan, Millicent, even Pansy or (surprisingly) Cho -- yeah, much easier for me to see as slashable. (Not especially keen on those two recs though, sorry. Yes, all right, the language in the first one is elaborate and technically good, but the second is pretty much bog standard shagfic. And for me in both the characterisation has a faint air of unreality and there's not much actual story. Although I'll admit I might overlook those points in a story I found genuinely sexy. :D)
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Admittedly, I'm into bog standard shagfic if the characters ring true. The second I found immensely sexy, the first not so much, more effective for the characterisation. Sexiness is a subjective minefield, so sorry that this wasn't yours ;). I'm still reading femmeslash mostly to feed my (admittedly under-developed) desire for romance :).