SPN J2 Big Bang

History

The Big Bang challenge asks authors to write a 20,000+ word Supernatural or Jsquared story, while artists and vidders create pieces of artwork or trailer vids to accompany the stories

The first SPN J2 Big Bang challenge was held in 2007, moderated by audrarose, estrella30 and wendy. The idea came from similar challenges run in Harry Potter and Smallville fandoms, although the minimum requirement there for 50,000+ words.

The 2007 Big Bang was declared officially over on July 5. According to moderator audrarose, there were 49 story contributions, 70 pieces of fan art, 5 vids and approximately one million words written.

The challenge has grown in subsequent years. In 2009, 228 stories were been paired with artists for the challenge. Entries in the 2009 challenge were being posted from 1st June to the 14th August.

Check the SPN-J2 Big Bang community on LJ for stories and art already posted.

Stats

(stats by cinco_series and wraith 816)

Big Bang 2007:
48 fics
28 SPN (57 percent)
20 RPS (43 percent)

Among the fics, 16 were Wincest, 6 gen, 4 were het and 2 were femeslash.
Total words: 1,344,015
Average words per story: 28,000

Big Bang 2008:
112 fics (up by 128 percent from 2007.)
59 SPN (53 percent)
53 RPS (47 percent)

Among the fic, 56 were SPN (38 Wincest, 17 gen and 1 het) and 52 were RPS.
Total words: 4,111,115
Average words per story: 37,717

Big Bang 2009:
228 fics (up by 104% from 2008 and by 365% from 2007!)

87 SPN (40 percent)
138 RPS (60 percent)
Of the SPN fics, there are 49 Wincest, 5 dean/Castiel, 1 dean/OMC, 29 gen fics and 3 het fics,br>

Total words: 8,223,217
Average words per story: 36,548

Total for all three years:
Total words: 13,678,347

Links

• spn_j2_bigbang lj community
  
• 2007 Master list of stories
• 2008 Master list of stories
• 2009 Master list of stories
• All Big Bang stories and art tagged on Delicious
• A list of Big Bang challenges in other fandoms