SPN J2 Big Bang

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The biggest fanfiction event in Supernatural fandom Big Bang challenge asks authors to write a 20,000+ word Supernatural or RPF 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 challenge is run by wendy and thehighwaywoman. There have been 687 sign-ups. posting is due to begin on June 1st 201201, and is staggered over the following months.

As fandom has grown other Big Bang style challneges have arisen:

  • SNcross Bigbang is a challenge for Supernatural fics which crossover with another text. Stories are greater than 20,000 words
  • Dean/Castiel Big Bang started in 2010 and features stories with Dean/Castiel as the central pairing, or Dean and Castiel as the central characters in a Gen fic.
  • SPN reverse Big Bang started in 2010 and reversed the usual process. In this challenge Artists produced work, which writers than produced stories of at least 5,000 words for.
  • Crowley Big Bang started in 2011. Story minimum length 15,000
  • Gabriel Big Bang started in 2010/11. Story minimum length 15,000
  • Gen Big Bang started in 2011. Story minimum length 15,000
  • SPN Slash Big Bang started in 2010. Stories must have a central slash or femmeslash pairing. Story minimum length 15,000


See also Fanfic challenges & exchanges

Stats for Big bang stories 2007-2011

There have been 908 entries of fic and art in the Bog Bang over 5 years.

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The Big Bang started with Supernatural canon-based stories stories in the majority, and this swung around to RPF stories dominating, and in 2011 it was a 50/50 split.

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Unsurprisingly within SPN fic, slash is the dominant genre, although as is typical of SPN fic overall, there is a significant Gen component, with these stories making up from 21 to 33% of stories. This is actually pretty reflective of the proportion of Gen fic in SPN fandom, although it was decreased in the last couple of years, not in absolute numbers but as a percentage of all SPN fic, as the arrival and huge popularity of Dean/Castiel fic swelled the ranks of slash.

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When we start to break the categories down a bit further, we see a definite increase in the variety of fics.

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This graph shows actual numbers of stories rather than percentages, and illustrates the rise in diversity in the last couple of years. This obviously reflects the rise in secondary recurring characters on the show since season 4.

There were 19 Dean/Cas stories in 2010, and 15 this year. This category is obviously heavily influenced by the <lj comm="deancasbigbang which started very successfully last year, and this year has over 50 stories and artwork due to be posted staring on October 3.

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