[Poll] The Science of Slashiness

[thefourthvine]

Recently, cimness posted a graph of genius, comparing level of canon gay and quality of canon writing across several fandoms.

I, of course, immediately looked at it and thought: this calls for science. Because clearly what we need are definitive numbers for each of these values for many, many fandoms, so that they can be plotted on graphs. This will make me HAPPY. Possibly it will also make you happy - or perhaps you are just interested in increasing overall happiness in the universe! - in which case I direct you behind the cut.

ETA: lolitakun has provided us with some preliminary scientific results here. Go and behold!



A quick note on the selection of the fandoms: I picked ones I thought a lot of people would have opinions on. If I left something critical out, feel free to tell me in the comments.

A quick note on voting: When I say "slashy," I include femslash. Buffy/Faith, Gabrielle/Xena - these are pairings worth considering! Also, if you haven't seen an episode of the show, please don't vote on canon writing quality. (Ideally, you would have seen three! Or even more!) But if you think you can make a fair estimate of slashiness based on vids or YouTube pieces or transcripts, by all means, vote on that.

ETA: For quality, 1 = worse than anything you could find on fanfiction.net, even if you were funded by a grant solely for the purpose of finding the worst writing the world has ever known. 10 = genius unparalleled. For slashiness, 1 = straighter than a ruler. 10 = they could suck cocks or finger each other right there on the screen and it would only reduce the overall slashiness. Thanks for pointing out the ambiguity, lolaraincoat!

And now it's time for...SCIENCE.

[Poll #1352713]

Comments

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how to vote on DC -- on either question. For quality, there's just too much variation. For every Mark Waid run on JLA, there's Jon Lewis with the underground tag-team alien Amish twin wrestlers in Robin. Bill Willingham singlehandedly made Schroedinger's cat explode by being simultaneously brilliant in Fables and making a wretched hash of the DCU.

For slashiness, do I focus on the hilariously unintentional stuff from Way Back When (oh, say, Dick and Roy in the Action comics series that introduced Lian) or the intentionally slashy stuff written by gone-legit slasher Devin Grayson (the 'Transference' arc of GK) or do I acknowledge that most of the time it's played straight (pun intended, except where Piper or Rene Montoya or GLBT-Character-Du-Jour is concerned)?

eta: I only saw one episode of it, but considering that there aren't that many, I nominate Crusoe for eligibility in this matter. You know it's bad when even I see slash...

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

For quality, there's just too much variation.

Very, very true. As I was saying to labellementeuse, it's like trying to rate sga_flashfic on writing quality (or slashiness). It, you know. Varies. A lot. Possibly I shouldn't have included it in the poll, because it really isn't consistent enough to rate.

I only saw one episode of it, but considering that there aren't that many, I nominate Crusoe for eligibility in this matter.

Oh, god. I have never seen the canon - well, naturally - but I watched one vid and I was like, GIVE ME THE SLASH. Except I haven't really found any. But, yes: very, very, very slashy.