Introducing the James TipMe Flash Fan Fiction Good Taste Memorial Award
matociquala checked out the longlist for the James Tiptree award and discovered that a piece of Harry Potter/CSI fanfiction, featuring Snape and Nick, with the former attempting to impregnate the latter (and it isn't even finished, so skipping ahead to the ending is useless!) was named to the longlist for the Tiptree award.
The Tiptree, for the uninitiated, is an award for science fiction that explores and expands some conception of gender, comes with a big prize, and is fairly prestigious. Bear, one of these provincialist midlisters, is shocked and appalled at the inclusion. Myself, being as cosmopolitan experimentalist revolutionary, think it's awesome.
So awesome I'm announcing a literary award right now, for today! The Tiptree, run by a patriarcho-legalist "jury" formation (yes, the jury is mostly women each year, but that's just a reification of the patriarchy!) awards the winning author or authors $1000, a box of fine chocolates, and a tiara, or at least that's what I saw in 2003 when I went to Wiscon. Well, when you're not down with the phallocracy, you don't exactly have an extra G to throw around, so this new award will be a bit different.
The James TipMe Flash Fan Fiction Good Taste Memorial Award is looking for your submissions. Post an original piece of fanfiction in the comments that
a) is 250 words or less
b) features a dude from a novel and one from a TV show
c) with one guy making the other pregnant (or trying to)
d) remains unfinished
and you, the PEOPLE, the very POLIS (or is that Pole-Is!) of this lj will choose the winner! The winner gets the following:
A one-dollar bill.
A single Double Stuff Oreo.
A piece of aluminum foil (containing the Oreo).
If you want to play, post your story in the comments. If you want to vote, type YAY in reply to your favorite. Who can vote? Anyone, as often as you like, for anything! We're not cock-counting "one man one vote" types down here. However, as famed socialist SF writer George Orwell said, or might have said, in an early draft, "some pigs, Snorty-Poo, are more equal than others" which means that the tabulations to declare the winner could vary from the hegemonic "majority rules" conception of "democracy."
You may begin now. The submission cycle and the polls both end at midnight eastern, so get to it and come back across the course of the day to check out the fictions and vote. It's time to make his(and his!)story.
The Tiptree, for the uninitiated, is an award for science fiction that explores and expands some conception of gender, comes with a big prize, and is fairly prestigious. Bear, one of these provincialist midlisters, is shocked and appalled at the inclusion. Myself, being as cosmopolitan experimentalist revolutionary, think it's awesome.
So awesome I'm announcing a literary award right now, for today! The Tiptree, run by a patriarcho-legalist "jury" formation (yes, the jury is mostly women each year, but that's just a reification of the patriarchy!) awards the winning author or authors $1000, a box of fine chocolates, and a tiara, or at least that's what I saw in 2003 when I went to Wiscon. Well, when you're not down with the phallocracy, you don't exactly have an extra G to throw around, so this new award will be a bit different.
The James TipMe Flash Fan Fiction Good Taste Memorial Award is looking for your submissions. Post an original piece of fanfiction in the comments that
a) is 250 words or less
b) features a dude from a novel and one from a TV show
c) with one guy making the other pregnant (or trying to)
d) remains unfinished
and you, the PEOPLE, the very POLIS (or is that Pole-Is!) of this lj will choose the winner! The winner gets the following:
A one-dollar bill.
A single Double Stuff Oreo.
A piece of aluminum foil (containing the Oreo).
If you want to play, post your story in the comments. If you want to vote, type YAY in reply to your favorite. Who can vote? Anyone, as often as you like, for anything! We're not cock-counting "one man one vote" types down here. However, as famed socialist SF writer George Orwell said, or might have said, in an early draft, "some pigs, Snorty-Poo, are more equal than others" which means that the tabulations to declare the winner could vary from the hegemonic "majority rules" conception of "democracy."
You may begin now. The submission cycle and the polls both end at midnight eastern, so get to it and come back across the course of the day to check out the fictions and vote. It's time to make his(and his!)story.