#sweaterscience

[coehellacanth]

greensungnostic replied to your post “greensungnostic replied to your post “a new question surfaces in our...”

that is still a very small portion of the fandom! also it is really weird to me that not many people ship DaveJade (I mean I don't but I'm A Gay Lol)

I was really surprised by that too!!!! It seems as though a lot of classic™ homestuck ships (except johndave and dirkjake, which are still holding strong) have almost completely died out - it’s super interesting to see the change in fandom

and yes, i agree, it is a really small portion of the fandom - but davekat owns pretty much everybody’s asses, and add to that the fact that there are so many characters, hs is a work that really predisposes itself to a lot of mostly obscure ships rather than a few ships that everyone ships, ya feel? so i don’t really feel bad for including jaderose as a non-rarepair, considering it’s number 14 out of 191 XD

[coehellacanth]

maidofsalt replied to your post “a new question surfaces in our quest for Fandom Science”

Id call it at around 3%!

actually, i think that’s perfect!! to give some perspective, riiiight above that border is johndavekat and riiiight below it is arafef - that tracks, right? 

[coehellacanth]

greensungnostic replied to your post “a new question surfaces in our quest for Fandom Science”

Less than 5% of what? :O My Rarepair is JadeRose, Idk how prevalent that one is.

oh, as in “less than 5% of the hs fandom ships x ship!” 

also, congrats!! jaderose is not a rarepair anymore! XD it clocks in at 5.33% - just to give perspective, that means that more people ship Jaderose than Gamtav, Davejade, aaaaaaand Erisol

the new era of hs shipping is called Jaderose and Dirkjohn, folks

[coehellacanth]

a new question surfaces in our quest for Fandom Science

.... how do we want to define rarepairs?

does, say, less than 5% sound good to y'all?

[coehellacanth]

hey does anyone remember that survey I hosted about shipping in the Homestuck fandom

well, now that it's a full calendar year later, I've finished analyzing the results!!!

I'm really excited to publish the data, as well as my analyses, but I'm not sure how to go about it - there's far too much to put into a post, or even multiple posts, and I want to make it interactive so that people can engage with it the way they want.

I was wondering: should I make a Tumblr blog? or try to go thru another website hosting service? I don't think Tumblr would give me the kind of flexibility I want, but it would be more connected to the og fanbase that took the survey, and I don't really have Internet Clout anywhere else, so I wouldn't be able to spread it much if I hosted it somewhere else....

thoughts?

[coehellacanth]

I love your statistics project!! It's so interesting im really glad you created this! Like, i discovered that Jake was behind nepeta in popularity? And jane behind equius? I dunno i thought that the kids were pretty popular, so it surprised me (but the strilondes thing is def not a surprise. they're so good.) I can't wait for the rest!! Your project is really great!! :DD

aaaaaaahh, thank you!! it’s been really fun so far!! :D unfortunately, i’ve got a lot of projects n tests in the next few weeks, so updates might be slow, but it’s defo my fav thing to work on at the mo! 

And yeah, I was really quite surprised by how things turned out! I wasn’t expecting Kayana or Vriska to be so popular, honestly - usually male characters are more popular than female ones. Nepeta really took me by surprise, too!! It’s so interesting to see people who passionately love characters that got tiny tiny amounts of screentime, like equius and feferi. and I didn’t expect Jake and Jane to rank so low!! i’m a hardcore harleybert stan so that made me a little sad :’( 

this is just the start, tho - i’m suuuuuuper excited to start looking at ships!!!