SPN J2 Big Bang
History
The biggest fanfiction event in Sueprantural fandom 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 wendy, audrarose, and estrella30. The idea came from similar challenges run in Harry Potter and Smallville fandoms, although the minimum requirement there was 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. By the end of the 2009 challenge, over 13 million words had been written for the event.
In 2010 the challnege is run by wnedy adn thehighwaywoman. There have been 687 sign-ups. posting is due to begin on June 1st 201201, and is staggered over the next fwe months.
Stats for Big bang stories 2007-2009
Figure One shows the number of stories in each category. The totals for each year are: 28 (2007), 108 (2008), 225 (2009). The two fem slash stories in 2007 are included in the slash category – there weren’t any in subsequent years – the remainder of the stories were all Wincest. In 2009, the slash category contains 5 Dean/Castiel stories, and one Dean/OMC.
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Figure Two shows the percentage of stories in the Wincest, Gen and RPF categories. Notably, the percentage of Gen stories has stayed pretty stable, with the big increase being in RPF fic which has gone from 42% of all fic in 2007, to 61% in 2009. The vast majority of these stories are RPF AU.
(stats by cinco_series and wraith 816)
Big Bang 2007:
48 fics
28 SPN (57 percent)
20 RPS (42 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% 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:
225 fics (up by 104% from 2008 and by 365% from 2007!)
87 SPN (40 percent)
138 RPS (61 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
For 2007-2009: Total words: 13,678,347
Links
- Video celebrating Big bang and promoting the 2010 challnege
- 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