I am a bitter, self-involved person.

(The Stargate fan awards were announced today. Yes, the throwaway unbeta'd crossover won. Yes, the monster epic series that took me over a year to write--lost. To a series with kid!fic and the use of the term "tight buns". I'm not bitter. Much.)

And I can't bitch about this on my LJ so I'm going to whinge here. You'd think I'd know better by now, I really do--and yet I almost always find myself disgruntled.

Orithain and Rina won for best slash series?

Were they the only nomination in that category? If not, then the only explanation is that some terrifying space monkeys got loose and stuffed the ballot box.

Well, you know, and Orrymain won again. And Sideburns. WTH is Sideburns, anyway?

Actually, best Slash Series in SG-1 appears to be...Debi C.?

Well, you know, looking at a list of the winners in general...yeah.

(Mice? I like Mice, and she's really funny to listen to in panels, but her stories make me go "buh". And they NEVER seem to end.)

At least the throwaway unbeta'd crossover did rock mightily, and won in the category it belonged in? I dunno, it usually puzzles me how fanfic awards get categorized and picked.

Synechdochic's "Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose" won in a GEN category?!?

Also scratching my head that the story of shalott's that won Best Drama Story: Slash is what I think of as one of her least capably-written stories. She's got like 15 in the last year that would have been much better candidates.

The results of fanfic awards usually leave me confused and disturbed, and wondering what reality other people are living in... quite like how I feel after national elections since we partied like it was 1999.

I was going to say. I've never had truck with any awards, because "there's no accounting for taste" is a polite way of saying that most people don't have any.

Eh, I've never put stock in fanfic awards. You never know how many people are voting, any note of their fannish demographics, yadda yadda. It seems way more like shooting fish in a barrell than anything else.

I finally signed up for Yuletide. I ended up offering fewer fandoms than I did the last couple years, because I realized that while I love fiction in a large number of fandoms, the ones that I would be excited to write in are rather smaller.

I was amused by the many different kinds of RPF, though. And I wonder how Naomi Novik felt with Temeraire in there.

And I wonder how Naomi Novik felt with Temeraire in there.

I haven't talked about Temeraire fanfic with her specifically (although I did get to hear some about book 4 over lunch, ha!), but I'm pretty sure she thinks Temeraire fic is awesome, but that she won't be reading it for the usual legal reasons.

No, of course--I just meant, like, the act of it being put in there. By the person that put it in there. Physically-coding wise.

When was she in Chicago? ETA: Nevermind, VVC.