jedibuttercup | Crossover Awards, Round 2 begins!

I'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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Yeah, I was a bit surprised that Penny Lesse made it into the Het category; but I thought, "ah, if you think so, sure?" *shrug* You're probably right about Love, After, too; the only reason I watched Mummy 3 was because Rick O'Connell was my favorite character in the series, and they didn't butcher him nearly as badly as the others in it.

> 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.

Super!Xander fics are the pretty much the equivalent of a class of Spuffy fics that I term 'Lecture Fics', in which someone (a resurrected Joyce, a Mary Sue, a time-travelling Buffy from the future, etc) shows up and lectures all the characters about how mean they are being to Spike, how ashamed of themselves they should be, and how much better for Buffy Spike is than that dreadful Angel creature or that sadistic Nazi Riley Finn.

I have read a good example of the genre once (

pfeifferpack's 'Masks and Mirrors', in which the lecturing is mild, the lecturer original, and there is due credit given for the lecturees' virtues and valid reasons for their actions) but usually they make my eyes bleed.

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.

Edited 2009-01-22 17:01 (UTC)

Crossover Awards, Round 2 begins!

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