children of time awards

[fictional]

Romance
Winner: Unexpected by teachwriteslash
Runner Up: I Had No Idea I Had Been Traveling by kalichan & rm

Series
Winner: Shades of Ianto by sarcasticchick
Runner Up: I Had No Idea I Had Been Traveling by kalichan & rm

Comments

[athaari.livejournal.com]

Bewildering indeed.

There ought to be an alternative by the TWU or Torchwood House, but we already know what we like and that everything affiliated is good, so it'd be a bit redundant.
And everyone involved would be called elitist, again, although at this point, I consider it to be a compliment rater than an accusation.

[demotu.livejournal.com]

*g*

Yeah, I don't think awards make a heck of a lot of sense. If you do them by vote, it's just exposure and popularity, and if you do them by panel, it's elitist. I think competitions where fics are anonymous - something like writerinadrawer, which I did last round, or HD worldcup - are the best form of real competition in fandom. Far less room for either BNFs who clean up or badfic that decreased their usefulness.

[invaderwitch.livejournal.com]

Seconded, because you said everything I was just thinking.* ;)

*IHNIIHBT aside, as it clearly deserves the accolades.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

No worries. Hey, I was thinking it too! There are plenty of fics deserving of accolades, and plenty of fics that are not, which get them.

But yeah, there's the fics that have immense exposure and popularity, and if it's by a panel, it's too specific to taste, with a very small group deciding.

The only thing I might think of that would work would be one where there was a way to narrow down voters sufficiently such that it wasn't just who appeals to the lowest common denominator, but at the same time, polled enough people that you'd get fandom-wide representation. But I don't know at all how you'd do it.

Anyway, I find it all rather puzzling. But hey, more readers = good. And meeting cool people = good. And having people to flail and squee and analyse to death with. And good dialogue. Everything else is just gravy. And weird bits.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Mostly weird bits.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

LOL.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the anon things are cool. And better then the fest ones where your situation in the fest (were you posted first when people were still enthusiastic, or when people were overwhelmed and bored, did you have a good prompt, etc etc...) can have a lot to do with what fics get recognized. I think gift things are cool, but I think many folk are always secretly hoping that this is the story which will MAKE THEM and it so rarely ever is.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Okay, also "make them" -- this is one of those other digressions -- fanning the fans and how fanfiction can get you book deals and all the other craziness that goes on, and it's like I can't talk about it, because I'm not immune, and, it's just complicated, and it actually, probably should be, but oi.