Crossover Awards, Round 2 begins!
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jedibuttercupI'm not sure I like this Round 1/Round 2 voting business at the Crossover Awards. I think I'd rather get all of my disappointment (and hopefully a bit of elation) over with in one go, rather than "I didn't make the Top 5 cut in that category? But I did in that one? WTF?" and then still have to wait another however many days for results!
These 6 nominations were lost:
Best Crossover, Movie ("Love, After")
Best Crossover, Stargate ("Power of Two")
Best Crossover, Television Other ("Hang In There, Slayer")
Best Pairing, Het ("Love, After", "In Memory of Penny Lesse")
Best Short Fic ("Love, After")
...but these 13 nominations are still up (links in this post):
Best Crossover, CSI ("Closing the Distance", "The Road More Travelled")
Best Crossover, Firefly ("Annual Report")
Best Crossover, Miscellaneous ("In Memory of Penny Lesse")
Best Crossover, Movie ("Daughters of Charon")
Best Crossover, Non-BtVS/AtS ("Good Things Come in Fives")
Best Portrayal, Faith ("Annual Report")
Best Portrayal, Illyria ("Moonfall")
Best Portrayal, Wesley ("A Real Wizard")
Best Short Fic ("In Memory of Penny Lesse")
Best FFA Response ("Goddess of Prophecy", "Identity Theft")
Best Ficlet Collection ("Ten Slayers That Were Never Called")
I understand about the ones I lost (except for the fact that-- damn, "Love, After" really got dissed. Ah, well). On some of the others, though, I've got to say-- I was a bit surprised they all survived. For example, how the hell did my Faith fic stay in over Ava's? And some of the rest of you got seriously shorted, too. I was kind of shocked at all the excellent writing that didn't make it; I'm going to have to re-vote in nearly half the categories.
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These 6 nominations were lost:
Best Crossover, Movie ("Love, After")
Best Crossover, Stargate ("Power of Two")
Best Crossover, Television Other ("Hang In There, Slayer")
Best Pairing, Het ("Love, After", "In Memory of Penny Lesse")
Best Short Fic ("Love, After")
...but these 13 nominations are still up (links in this post):
Best Crossover, CSI ("Closing the Distance", "The Road More Travelled")
Best Crossover, Firefly ("Annual Report")
Best Crossover, Miscellaneous ("In Memory of Penny Lesse")
Best Crossover, Movie ("Daughters of Charon")
Best Crossover, Non-BtVS/AtS ("Good Things Come in Fives")
Best Portrayal, Faith ("Annual Report")
Best Portrayal, Illyria ("Moonfall")
Best Portrayal, Wesley ("A Real Wizard")
Best Short Fic ("In Memory of Penny Lesse")
Best FFA Response ("Goddess of Prophecy", "Identity Theft")
Best Ficlet Collection ("Ten Slayers That Were Never Called")
I understand about the ones I lost (except for the fact that-- damn, "Love, After" really got dissed. Ah, well). On some of the others, though, I've got to say-- I was a bit surprised they all survived. For example, how the hell did my Faith fic stay in over Ava's? And some of the rest of you got seriously shorted, too. I was kind of shocked at all the excellent writing that didn't make it; I'm going to have to re-vote in nearly half the categories.
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Date: 2009-01-22 05:02 am (UTC)Now that the fic that I had voted for as Best Short (a truly superb BtVS/Pride and Prejudice crossover which gets bonus marks for extreme originality) has fallen out I've switched my vote to 'In Memory of Penny Lesse'.
In most of the categories in which the ones I'd voted for didn't make it through I will not be voting again. There were a few where I pondered my decision deeply before voting because there were 3 or 4 truly exceptional stories among the nominees - and none of them made it through! In a couple where I was nominated, and voted for myself, I had another fic in mind as the one I would have voted for if I hadn't been nominated; they didn't make it through either.
I noticed that a few fics that I'd liked as stories, but rejected as recipients of my vote because the spelling and grammar made my eyes bleed, made it through to the second round.
If I can only bring myself to do a serious version of my Ultimate Super!Xander plot bunny I think I can guarantee my outright victory next year; alas, I think that taking the concept seriously is completely impossible for me.
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Date: 2009-01-22 04:32 pm (UTC)> If I can only bring myself to do a serious version of my Ultimate Super!Xander plot bunny I think I can guarantee my outright victory next year; alas, I think that taking the concept seriously is completely impossible for me.
My main problem with Super!Xander is what tends to happen to all the other characters around him as the author emphasises how awesome he has become; and the very people skilled enough to avoid that pitfall seem to be the ones most repelled by the category. *grin* If you ever do manage to write one, it would certainly get my vote.
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Date: 2009-01-22 04:50 pm (UTC)I have read a good example of the genre once (
The two, superficially very different, genres share the same underlying motivation; a belief that the writer's favourite character has been short-changed and an obsessive desire to see them get what the writer feels is their due credit and reward. I would guess that Lecture!Fic writers are almost all female and Super!Xander writers almost all male, hence the different approach (although that could me being sexist; however women do tend to solve problems with communication that men might want to solve with a pair of .50 AE calibre Desert Eagles and a commando knife).
*edited because referring to a 'twin pair' is embarrassingly bad writing and I can't bear to leave it like that.
Good luck!
Date: 2009-01-22 07:44 am (UTC)Re: Good luck!
Date: 2009-01-22 04:36 pm (UTC)I cut my teeth in Buffy fandom, then went into Buffy and Angel crossovers, like many on that site; a lot of the better authors have been drifting away since the shows ended in 2004, but there are enough still there to come up with just about any possibility you can imagine. It's been a fun and creative community to start out in; a little more than half my writing is still TtH-related.