First of all, the fandom is, what? Three months old? And we're already establishing awards comms for fanfic? I'm not bitching about it - it doesn't matter to me either way - but it seems kinda... premature, you know?
So I was trying to get my mind around the fact that people thought three months' worth of fanfic merited consideration for awards when I saw some people pointing out what was either a thoughtless oversight or a considered snub (I'm not at all sure which it really was) and I thought my mind had too much to consider to do a good job of it.
Then I got a notification that my fic had been nominated for "Best WIP," which totally stunned me and rendered me further unable to adequately process the whole scenario.
Then I get back to the discussion today and realize that the party responsible for nominating my (gen) story was probably doing so out of a feeling of needing to even the score against the pairing that initially dominated the nominations. :D If I'd had time and mental resources to gain a significant ego boost from the nomination, that revelation would certainly have done much to deflate the balloon!
Ah, well. I've never had a story nominated for an award before, so it's cool anyway. Although I now wonder if I should feel ashamed or something for that, since there is a school of thought that nominations without permission is a faux pas. I honestly hadn't thought about that before.
Since I'm new to heavy fandom involvement, I can't comment about the etiquette regarding nominations, except to say that I don't care, but can sort of see why someone might, especially if the nomination in question is to a comm they might be leery of being associated with.
As for the rest, e-mail me. I think I've figured it out.
First of all, the fandom is, what? Three months old? And we're already establishing awards comms for fanfic? I'm not bitching about it - it doesn't matter to me either way - but it seems kinda... premature, you know?
So I was trying to get my mind around the fact that people thought three months' worth of fanfic merited consideration for awards when I saw some people pointing out what was either a thoughtless oversight or a considered snub (I'm not at all sure which it really was) and I thought my mind had too much to consider to do a good job of it.
Then I got a notification that my fic had been nominated for "Best WIP," which totally stunned me and rendered me further unable to adequately process the whole scenario.
Then I get back to the discussion today and realize that the party responsible for nominating my (gen) story was probably doing so out of a feeling of needing to even the score against the pairing that initially dominated the nominations. :D If I'd had time and mental resources to gain a significant ego boost from the nomination, that revelation would certainly have done much to deflate the balloon!
Ah, well. I've never had a story nominated for an award before, so it's cool anyway. Although I now wonder if I should feel ashamed or something for that, since there is a school of thought that nominations without permission is a faux pas. I honestly hadn't thought about that before.
Reply
As for the rest, e-mail me. I think I've figured it out.
Reply
Leave a comment