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potatoe1988 in riverside_hq

Jesse got nominated for awards on SKOW

Feb 27, 2011 10:12

Jesse has been nominated for two awards this round on the online fiction award site Some Kind of Wonderful. In best slash, incomplete, Jack Saturday has been nominated and in best one-shot If You Can't Take the Heat has been nominated. You should vote for them because they are awesome, and if you weren't already aware of them being awesome you are ( Read more... )

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zolac_no_miko February 27 2011, 00:49:43 UTC

EFF YEAH I VOTED!! Once I found where they'd hidden the voting page, wtf they did a good job hiding it.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. ...I should maybe read all of these nominees. Guaranteed quality, right?

Jesse, congrats on your nomination!

potatoe1988 February 27 2011, 00:54:04 UTC

Yeah, I had a bit of trouble finding it to. GUYS voting page is under Navigate -> awards -> vote.

I don't trust the internet to guarantee me quality, but the chances are certainly higher than average.

zolac_no_miko February 27 2011, 01:16:35 UTC

...Okay, yeah, "guaranteed quality" is perhaps a bit too optimistic (I mean, only two of those stories are written by Jesse)... but "high probability of quality" I think is probably fair.

potatoe1988 February 27 2011, 02:32:18 UTC

And most of the ones outside of the slash category are not slash, and fuck that shit. Who the hell reads het? Only deviants.

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sirona_gs February 27 2011, 06:43:08 UTC

VOTED! :D Good thing you mentioned where the voting page is, I'd never have found it on my own! ♥

I was just thinking -- oooh, awesome, a list of stuck to check out! Aaaand then you burst my bubble. I've not read het in... well, since I found this place, I guess! And I've only written het once in that time, in the vague, 'I think I might fancy him' sense of the word. Jesse, you have been my fearless reader into a shiny, brand-new world! <3

potatoe1988 February 27 2011, 06:59:21 UTC

Is your life better or worse without the het? There are certainly fewer slash stories than het. It works nicely for me because I read more since I found slash than I did before I found it. Do you enjoy reading/writing slash more than you enjoyed reading/writing het before you discovered slash?

sirona_gs February 27 2011, 07:18:33 UTC

Oh my god, YES, my life is SO MUCH BETTER since I discovered slash, there's no question about it! Otherwise this phase would have passed long ago, as do most of my forrays into new things/areas. It's rare that a phase will last this long, but I really, honestly can't see myself losing interest any time soon! :D

I guess I got tired of the het stereotyping. There's only so many ways you can tell a het story where gender boundaries are as firmly fixed and as heteronormative as in your bog-standard romance novels. Slash is so much more varied; the stories are so much more diverse, and the plot/characterisation possibilities are literally endless. There's so many more ways to explore the dynamic between a slash/femslash couple than your garden variety het couple. Certainly I NEVER wrote as much, or as quickly, as I've done since I got into slash, nor did I get so easily inspired -- virtually anything will transmute into a story idea these days ( ... )

potatoe1988 February 27 2011, 07:42:26 UTC

Yeah, I know what you mean. I think another problem with het is that even when it does break stereotypes/cliches, it's kind of too noticeable. Like I mean you could have a girl fuck a guy with a strap-on to mix up power dynamics, but it would be so hard to pull off without it kind of becoming a big thing. There are just so many expectations behind how het relationships work that on the odd occasion when they do things differently it stands out to the point of distraction ( ... )

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