Changes at Fang Fetish Awards
Fang Fetish is undergoing some changes for the time being. Steph (athenewolfe), my co-owner, is unable to take part in fandom right now. She has been given a huge opportunity come fall and has worked diligently to finish her Phd and be ready to move back to the states, find a place to live, and begin a new, exciting job. Of course this means no time for anything else.
To keep Fang Fetish alive, because neither Steph nor I am ready to let our baby go, we’ve decided I will run the award site for the Fang Fetish live journal, fangfetish, and have drastically cut back on our categories. We had tried to do a minor cut back last round while we thought she’d still be able to work on it, but even then we had 39 categories and when we were both hit with RL issues at the same time, we were unable to keep up with it.
We have always been proud that we had one of the largest, judged award sites w/many diverse categories to encompass all parts of the fandom, and that we always announced on time. This last round we failed miserably at announcing on time, and personally, I do not want to see that happen ever again.
Fang Fetish Awards was created in 2005 and we have always striven to be the most unbiased and diverse award site we could be, with the exception of all human fic that is. For us, a true award site is not about our favorite pairing/character/fic type or author. It’s always been about giving someone who has written something wonderful a bow, our thanks, and a custom pretty for the time, effort, and heart they put into their work and share freely w/the world.
I’m sorry for rambling, but going through these changes I’ve thought a great deal about Fang Fetish and what it has meant to us. I’ll get to the point now.
There will be a total of 21 categories, plus judge/mod’s choice. Nineteen of those categories will be fic, we will have one art category, and of course best author. We have changed the limit of fics that can be nommed per category to 12 and must have 5 for a category to be judged. We still have the All/No Pairing Section, Spuffy Section, and Vampiric Non-Spuffy Section, albeit with a slight trim down, but the Character/Type Corner is gone until we have time for more categories. We will be doing everything from fangfetish and so far I’ve been able to put up the rules on our user info page here: http://community.livejournal.com/fangfetish/profile
We will also change all links in our side bar on the LJ for all of you to be able to get to the rules, categories, and the nomination post as soon as we open for nominations in the upcoming weeks.
I will be posting a poll some time in the next week for the public to vote on a special category that will change every round in the All Pairing Section. I’ll pimp in different comms when I put up the poll and everyone should come by and vote for your favorite category suggestion! If you have not joined, or do not watch the Fang Fetish LJ, now would be a good time since that is where you all will be nominating fic and finding all relevant information and award posts.
Thanks,
raemcn (UncagedMuse) co-owner Fang Fetish Awards
To keep Fang Fetish alive, because neither Steph nor I am ready to let our baby go, we’ve decided I will run the award site for the Fang Fetish live journal, fangfetish, and have drastically cut back on our categories. We had tried to do a minor cut back last round while we thought she’d still be able to work on it, but even then we had 39 categories and when we were both hit with RL issues at the same time, we were unable to keep up with it.
We have always been proud that we had one of the largest, judged award sites w/many diverse categories to encompass all parts of the fandom, and that we always announced on time. This last round we failed miserably at announcing on time, and personally, I do not want to see that happen ever again.
Fang Fetish Awards was created in 2005 and we have always striven to be the most unbiased and diverse award site we could be, with the exception of all human fic that is. For us, a true award site is not about our favorite pairing/character/fic type or author. It’s always been about giving someone who has written something wonderful a bow, our thanks, and a custom pretty for the time, effort, and heart they put into their work and share freely w/the world.
I’m sorry for rambling, but going through these changes I’ve thought a great deal about Fang Fetish and what it has meant to us. I’ll get to the point now.
There will be a total of 21 categories, plus judge/mod’s choice. Nineteen of those categories will be fic, we will have one art category, and of course best author. We have changed the limit of fics that can be nommed per category to 12 and must have 5 for a category to be judged. We still have the All/No Pairing Section, Spuffy Section, and Vampiric Non-Spuffy Section, albeit with a slight trim down, but the Character/Type Corner is gone until we have time for more categories. We will be doing everything from fangfetish and so far I’ve been able to put up the rules on our user info page here: http://community.livejournal.com/fangfetish/profile
We will also change all links in our side bar on the LJ for all of you to be able to get to the rules, categories, and the nomination post as soon as we open for nominations in the upcoming weeks.
I will be posting a poll some time in the next week for the public to vote on a special category that will change every round in the All Pairing Section. I’ll pimp in different comms when I put up the poll and everyone should come by and vote for your favorite category suggestion! If you have not joined, or do not watch the Fang Fetish LJ, now would be a good time since that is where you all will be nominating fic and finding all relevant information and award posts.
Thanks,
raemcn (UncagedMuse) co-owner Fang Fetish Awards