In case you're wondering . . .
[Updated 4/11/20]
In case anyone is wondering about my recent obsessive posts trying to put back together a list of links to award-nominated Rayne fanfics, here's a few answers.
1) Where did this information come from?
Information about the "Blue Sun" awards was still available on the "Wayback Machine" archive (see https://web.archive.org/web/20060720163504/http://mysite.verizon.net:80/vzenvl6n/id17.html for the 2004 awards and
https://web.archive.org/web/20070220181225/http://mysite.verizon.net:80/vzenvl6n/bsastrawberries/id25.html for the 2005 awards).
I found the nominees for the 2005 "Best of Rayne" awards still openly available on the internet (see http://www.angelfire.com/planet/rayne/Noms.html), but had to go to the archive for the actual winners and runners-up reports: https://web.archive.org/web/20081121054017/http://www.bestofrayne.com/05WFanFic.html.
For the 2006 "Best of Rayne" nominees and winners, I had to go here: https://web.archive.org/web/20090217022933/http://www.bestofrayne.com:80/06WFanFic.html.
And for the 2007 BoR nominees (and not necessarily a complete list, since the nominations weren't closed until several months AFTER this list was captured for posterity), you look here: https://web.archive.org/web/20081121055550/http://www.bestofrayne.com/nominees2.html.
The archive only had one partially working list of nominees for the "Pretty Deadly" awards, and that was for the 2008 voting (see https://web.archive.org/web/20090815212604/http://www.prettydeadly.net:80/index.php?page=voting). In order to discover the eventual winners, I had to turn to the wonderful gilove2dance, who was able to send me copies of the winning banners made for the 2007-2009 awards.
I had to piece together an estimation of some of the 2010 winners and nominees from these posts: https://goddessofbirth.livejournal.com/150155.html and https://green-amberjade.livejournal.com/121020.html.
I barely even kept a list of what categories my OWN fics had been nominated for in the 2011 awards, and the wonderful Frisky Firelily told us that a well-meaning friend of hers had managed to nominate and vote for her fics over and over, regardless of whether they fit the categories (see https://rayne-shippers.livejournal.com/1473866.html), so even knowing that she won in every category in 2011 I can't begin to guess which fic won for which category.
2) Why are there no winners given for some awards on some years?
Although there was voting for the "Best of Rayne" awards in 2007 and for the "Pretty Deadly" awards in 2011, those results were either never finalized or ran into technical problems. In addition, the categories for the "Blue Sun" and "Best of Rayne" awards underwent changes as they evolved, meaning that some categories were introduced in their second year instead of their first.
3) Why so many brief LJ entries, instead of keeping the categories together?
I didn't want to spend the rest of my life re-entering hyperlinks for the various fics by hand, so I had to trust the new post editor feature to translate them for me and copy them over into 'old-style' posts (since the new editor wouldn't let me publish anything at all), and the software balked at anything larger than the largest of these posts as I have them.
4) Why are there no hyperlinks at all for the stories whose titles appear in bold font?
Wherever possible, I tried my hardest to find alternate locations for fics where their original hyperlink didn't work at all, but I had no luck whatsoever with some authors who've purged their LJ accounts or moved their fic to other communities or archives that can no longer be accessed.
I have file copies of Gem588's "Better Than Gold" and "Stand or Fall" thanks to another fan some time ago, and I was able to make my own copies of the works of Mik109 and The Frisky Firelily to share with anyone who asks (I even managed to find an incomplete copy of Steplianna's "Security Blanket" and a complete copy of "The Spanking Hat Chronicles" using Wayback) but hopefully other fans will be able to help us out with the rest of the fics with 'orphaned' links I couldn't recreate.
5) Why would anyone else care?
Well, most people probably don't care, but this is for my own peace of mind (trying to save a bit of a particular corner of fandom history before it's even harder to piece together) and for those of us who wish that we still had access to the resources on the "Pretty Deadly" website when we're in the mood for Rayne..
In case anyone is wondering about my recent obsessive posts trying to put back together a list of links to award-nominated Rayne fanfics, here's a few answers.
1) Where did this information come from?
Information about the "Blue Sun" awards was still available on the "Wayback Machine" archive (see https://web.archive.org/web/20060720163504/http://mysite.verizon.net:80/vzenvl6n/id17.html for the 2004 awards and
https://web.archive.org/web/20070220181225/http://mysite.verizon.net:80/vzenvl6n/bsastrawberries/id25.html for the 2005 awards).
I found the nominees for the 2005 "Best of Rayne" awards still openly available on the internet (see http://www.angelfire.com/planet/rayne/Noms.html), but had to go to the archive for the actual winners and runners-up reports: https://web.archive.org/web/20081121054017/http://www.bestofrayne.com/05WFanFic.html.
For the 2006 "Best of Rayne" nominees and winners, I had to go here: https://web.archive.org/web/20090217022933/http://www.bestofrayne.com:80/06WFanFic.html.
And for the 2007 BoR nominees (and not necessarily a complete list, since the nominations weren't closed until several months AFTER this list was captured for posterity), you look here: https://web.archive.org/web/20081121055550/http://www.bestofrayne.com/nominees2.html.
The archive only had one partially working list of nominees for the "Pretty Deadly" awards, and that was for the 2008 voting (see https://web.archive.org/web/20090815212604/http://www.prettydeadly.net:80/index.php?page=voting). In order to discover the eventual winners, I had to turn to the wonderful gilove2dance, who was able to send me copies of the winning banners made for the 2007-2009 awards.
I had to piece together an estimation of some of the 2010 winners and nominees from these posts: https://goddessofbirth.livejournal.com/150155.html and https://green-amberjade.livejournal.com/121020.html.
I barely even kept a list of what categories my OWN fics had been nominated for in the 2011 awards, and the wonderful Frisky Firelily told us that a well-meaning friend of hers had managed to nominate and vote for her fics over and over, regardless of whether they fit the categories (see https://rayne-shippers.livejournal.com/1473866.html), so even knowing that she won in every category in 2011 I can't begin to guess which fic won for which category.
2) Why are there no winners given for some awards on some years?
Although there was voting for the "Best of Rayne" awards in 2007 and for the "Pretty Deadly" awards in 2011, those results were either never finalized or ran into technical problems. In addition, the categories for the "Blue Sun" and "Best of Rayne" awards underwent changes as they evolved, meaning that some categories were introduced in their second year instead of their first.
3) Why so many brief LJ entries, instead of keeping the categories together?
I didn't want to spend the rest of my life re-entering hyperlinks for the various fics by hand, so I had to trust the new post editor feature to translate them for me and copy them over into 'old-style' posts (since the new editor wouldn't let me publish anything at all), and the software balked at anything larger than the largest of these posts as I have them.
4) Why are there no hyperlinks at all for the stories whose titles appear in bold font?
Wherever possible, I tried my hardest to find alternate locations for fics where their original hyperlink didn't work at all, but I had no luck whatsoever with some authors who've purged their LJ accounts or moved their fic to other communities or archives that can no longer be accessed.
I have file copies of Gem588's "Better Than Gold" and "Stand or Fall" thanks to another fan some time ago, and I was able to make my own copies of the works of Mik109 and The Frisky Firelily to share with anyone who asks (I even managed to find an incomplete copy of Steplianna's "Security Blanket" and a complete copy of "The Spanking Hat Chronicles" using Wayback) but hopefully other fans will be able to help us out with the rest of the fics with 'orphaned' links I couldn't recreate.
5) Why would anyone else care?
Well, most people probably don't care, but this is for my own peace of mind (trying to save a bit of a particular corner of fandom history before it's even harder to piece together) and for those of us who wish that we still had access to the resources on the "Pretty Deadly" website when we're in the mood for Rayne..