This week's featured article
Ever so slightly longer but not quite as thick: Toward a quantitative literary sexology of Harry Potter fanfiction is Harry Potter meta in the form of a research paper analyzing the effect of fanon on characters' reported penis size in Drarry slash fanfiction.
The main sections are "Introduction," "Methods," "Results," "Discussion," "Conclusion," "Notes," and "References."
It is commentary on the common Old School Slash trope in which characters compare their genitalia.
This is not the usual kind of meta essay, it is a semi-serious research paper including a survey of 100 Harry/Draco stories for mention of genitals and comparative descriptions thereof, including tables, charts and the AO3 commenter favorite, a Chi-square measurement. The effect is crackfic for grad students and acafans.
It was written some time before February 26, 2006 on a now-purged livejournal account. A version was added to AO3 on approx. May 21, 2013.
Draco Malfoy is the one who is generally "ever so slightly longer but not quite as thick" as Harry Potter.
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