RL, I'm still a little unclear on how it's OK for you to ignore certain reading options due to dislike, disinterest or lack of experience, whereas it's not OK (naive) for Suela or someone else to ignore certain reading options due to personal choice, ethics or visceral squick, but we seem to be talking past that point now.

And I said, that's not what I said.

LOTR, not slash: Yasmin's The White Ladies of Rohan.

AtS, not on lj, spoilers through "Awakening": Sheila's Light Walks.

Also LOTR, hobbit love, not the slashy kind unless you insist upon it: Sheila's Love All Alike.

And I like language *and* characterization *and* plot, and I've found those things in both sf/f and literary fiction, and more than once in books that have been published as both at different times in their publication histories.

Serial: And for West Wing fans, the Jeds winners are up.

t /not too bad for fanfic awards

Fail-Safe, The movie I watched last night.

One of the very first DVDs I ever bought. I watched it on AMC a couple of years ago, and loved it.

When it comes to reading/avoiding certain stories, I always listen to my squick. It usually takes some heavy badgering by someone I trust before I will read something that contains any of my hot-button issues.

love all of the stylistic and metaphorical things that one can do with fantasy, but as you said, it's how the fantasy mirrors reality that makes it interesting, at least to me.

Yes, this is what I actually mean when I go off on my "real people/real world" thing.

t moving to literary now

One of the very first DVDs I ever bought. I watched it on AMC a couple of years ago, and loved it.

(It was great! Plus I get to make fun of all the insane, stupid people in my class who wrote insane, stupid papers on it.

Oh wait that's not a good thing.)

t random

....so has anyone used the title Menage A Troika, for a piece of slashy fic, I wonder?

....IWillNotWriteFicJustBecauseOfAPun. IWillNotWriteFicJustBecauseOfAPun. IWillNot.....

t /random

t loving Fay

....IWillNotWriteFicJustBecauseOfAPun. IWillNotWriteFicJustBecauseOfAPun. IWillNot.....

Yes you WILL.

travesty

Suh-nerk. Um, how to phrase this most sensitively?

• Until this year, the only stories to be considered in these awards had to be nominated by the writers themselves.
  
• Last year, the individual running the awards won an award.
  
• All nominees are evaluated by judges for each category, who then choose three finalists. Until this year, the names of nominated stories that didn't make the final list were not made available, so it was not clear on what basis any of these decisions were made.
  
• This year the people running the awards realized that nobody was nominating anything (in their defense, the cancellation and campaign likely didn't help), and they threw open the nominations to allow any story ever posted in the fandom to be nominated.
  
• Authors have no control over the categories in which they are nominated.

Some months ago the woman running the campaign asked publicly for recommendations on how to make the awards better. I responded, publicly, with a list of suggestions, and pointed her towards the Spookys as an example of a better/more transparent system. Most of my recommendations were not implemented, but when I received two nominations, I decided it would be politically inappropriate to turn them down, since I'd been pushing for ways to fix the system.

t sigh Of course, since several of the best writers in the fandom did turn down their nominations or didn't get nominated in the first place, I don't see that these awards mean that much.

Fanfic awards: and who says the internet isn't just like high school?