Hi all, remember the trope vote we did in July? Well, now the event is coming to a close, we wanted to share some of the statistics!
So out of the 1526 responses to the 223 tropes:
The TOP 10 most voted for tropes were:
Collapsing/Fainting/Passing Out: 974 votes [Day One]
“I'm Fine”: 951 votes [Day Fifteen]
Hidden Illness/Injury/Scars: 920 votes [Day Fifteen/Twenty-Seven]
Ignoring An Injury/Illness: 887 votes [Day Fifteen/Twenty-Four]
Bleeding Through Bandages: 875 votes [Day Twelve/Fifteen]
Not Realizing They’re Injured: 863 votes [Day Fifteen]
Passing Out From Pain: 860 votes [Day One/Twenty-Six]
Touch Starved/Touch Aversion: 855 votes [Day Seventeen]
Emotional Angst: 818 votes [Day Nineteen/Twenty-Four]
Fatigue/Exhaustion: 807 votes [Day Twelve/Twenty-Six]
And the LEAST 3 voted for were:
Cardiac Arrest: 156 votes [Day Sixteen]
Sunburn AND Reluctant Whumper: 146 votes [Alternatives List]
How the prompts list came to be:
From the trope vote, we took from the very top of the list so that we could include the most popular tropes. We also took some of the least voted for tropes to challenge participants outside of their comfort zone, which included the trope Reluctant Whumper, which was our least voted for trope along with Sunburn.
We chose the rest of the tropes from across the list, and also included some suggestions that were submitted by participants. Some of the names of tropes were altered to create more of a provoking prompt for creators to work with, and also to avoid too many duplicates from previous prompt lists. For example, 'Passing Out' became 'Swooning' on day one for a light-hearted start to the event. We also wanted to add a couple of unconventional items to help inspire out of the box thinking. While scented candles, journals and bouquets are traditionally 'comfort' items, it has been truly interesting to see how people have taken the comfort and twisted it to their own whumpy desires.
After the tropes were picked, we assigned them lyrics which would become the days 'theme', and then applied a line of dialogue and an object to it. It took some consideration to fit the right lyrics to the correct tropes, whereas adding dialogue to the tropes was arguably the easiest.
We are very proud with how the prompts list has turned out, and we have been blown away with the positivity and warm welcome we have received - thank you all very much. It has been amazing to see what everyone has been making this month based on our prompt list!
We have more to come, so stay tuned!
Mods Yenn, Kitty, Vanne and Surro
