Love to the Nominees (Except Wonderfulchild, I HATE YOU)

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The nominees for the sshg_awards have been posted here with links. Voting begins on the 5th and runs an entire month, so there's time to catch up on stories here you missed, and voting is a lot less involved than nominating (you don't have to worry about what's eligible among other things, and only one vote per category so you don't have to write out multiple

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There are some things it's hard to say if you're nominated.

Which is where, for once, not being nominated I have an advantage. *evil smirk*

I know any kind of award thing like this is subjective in every way. I know people get hurt. I know how it feels to get hurt in these and similar things.

I know, and I know some have claimed that not being rec'd on KIA hurts, that even when a reccer has offered a mild crit or reservation it hurts. I don't know what to say to that. Except that part of fandom has always been in sharing the squee. Are we supposed to not even talk about the stories we love or ever rec them to people who want to start someplace? But you're just not entitled to the recognition--and how empty would it be if you had to whine or guilt trap or bully someone into it?

I've heard rumors of bitching, and it just annoys the fuck out of me. Thank you for addressing it so bluntly.

It happens every year. I don't remember the bitchin' ever being public in Trek though, and a lot of the crit of the awards there was justified imo (and I say this as someone who frequently placed, so this isn't sour grapes). But among other things, in one of the awards, any story with any Het could run in the Het categories, even if the principle pairing was slash, and because Kirk/Spock fen dominated that group, that meant that say, a Kirk/Spock story where Christine has a passing thing with Spock, would win over a true (often better) Spock/Christine. It's as if SSHGs ran in Ron/Hermione awards and consistently won.

But even there, note the reason for those wins. Not cheating or conspiracy, but the nature of the group that generally voted in those awards.

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In the Trek awards cheaters were caught almost every round trying to vote with socks. Think about that a minute. Cheating. For a JPEG. One you can't put on a resume or CV. One you'd know you didn't earn. The mind boggles. People take these things waaaaaay too seriously.