H/D Erised 2025 Stats Post!
Hi phenomenal @hd-erised community! Our Anonymous Masterlist posted two days ago, and reveals will be up on Wednesday, January 7th, so there’s still plenty of time to catch up on any of the submissions you might have missed before then! While we’re all waiting eagerly to find out who did what, may we interest you in some stats for the 2025 fest? :D
This year we had a total of 51 submissions: 11 beautiful pieces of art, and 38 fantastic fics, and two lovely submissions that did both!! Let’s dig into the details, shall we?
Fanart Stats: This year we had 11 gorgeous digital art pieces. The average submission from our amazing artists this year was ~14 pages, with our longest comic coming in at 33 pages!! The total number of pages we had between all of our art submissions was 147, so definitely loads to enjoy! We’re so impressed with all of the fantastic art we’ve had this year, and we hope that you are too!
Fanart Rating Breakdown: 1 General Audiences 5 Teen & Up 3 Mature 2 Explicit (plus 2 explicit fic + art!!!!)
Let’s hear it for our amazing artists! Please go leave them some love if you haven’t already, because wow have they earned it! <3
Fanfic Stats: This year we had a total of 38 total stories created for this wonderful fest, for an astounding total of:
~1,020,000 words!!!
That’s way more than one million words of Harry and Draco loving on each other and getting up to all sorts of shenanigans! Are you impressed with the dedication of our spectacular writers? Because we sure are!
Our shortest fic this year was 5.1k, while our longest was ~90k! The average fic length this year was ~25k—a perfect size for a day’s read! :D (24 total fics are <25k <3)
Of those 38 stories, we had: 7 Teen & Up 3 Mature 28 Explicit
And once again, the smut has come out on top! (Or on the bottom, as the case may be…)
In those stories, Harry and Draco got up to all sorts of activities in all sorts of places. We had facials and fingering and frottage, wanking and rimming, hand jobs and blow jobs, and of course anal sex (sometimes with somnophilia or collaring or monsterfucking). Of the fics where there was penetration, Draco bottomed about only 1.15x more than Harry, but, as always, they certainly were versatile!
And that versatility isn’t limited to the bedroom (or any of the other places these boys got up to their shenanigans!); we also saw it in their careers. As we’ve seen in years past, Harry’s most popular career of choice was Auror (11 fics—though sometimes we saw a career switch for him!), but he also had a variety of other jobs, including: man of leisure, magical handyman, orphanage owner, professional Quidditch player, professor (or PE teacher, thank you very much), and a wandmaker, amongst other things!
Draco, on the other hand, as usual held a much wider variety of careers. His most popular career was a cursebreaker (at only 4 fics!). He was also a Tedium Taskmaster, bookshop owner, Healer, broommaker, Potions Master, resistance fighter, and a politician among many others!
Once again, our most popular time period by a landslide was Post-Hogwarts EWE with 33 fics set after the boys have left Hogwarts and ignoring (or mostly ignoring) the Epilogue, but we had a diversity of other settings: multiple Voldemort Wins AUs, multiple Muggle AUs, and several eighth years <3 Incredible, right? We’re so impressed with all of our marvelous participants!!
We’d like to give a great big THANK YOU to each and every single one of you, all of our incredible writers and artists who devoted their creative energies to this fest, and another great big THANK YOU to all of our readers, commenters and reccers – you make @hd-erised the wonderful event and community it is, and we are so, so grateful to mod this fest for you.
Thank you for your support, your contributions, and all the love you’ve shared with one another!
♥ Your Erised mods
P.S. If there’s a mistake or an omission, please forgive us, and do let us know by sending an email to our mod account at [email protected]
