AO3 wins Hugo award!

[beer_good_foamy]

Congrats everyone, we just won a Hugo. (The ones actually building and maintaining the site and its organisation somewhat more so, but still.) Raise a glass.

#hugoawards Every fanfic writer in the audience was asked to stand & co accept the award for Best Related Work. pic.twitter.com/A8BbXbPUtF

— Adam Whitehead (@Werthead) August 18, 2019

Full list of winners here. I wish Brooke Bolander had won Best Novelette, that book is awesome.

Comments

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Woo hoo! \o/

[beer_good_foamy]

Congrats!

[molly_may]

This is very cool, and well-deserved for those that maintain the site.

[beer_good_foamy]

Definitely! I love the acceptance speech too.

[molly_may]

Thanks for linking to the speech - I hadn't read it yet and it was well worth reading.

[rthstewart]

Congratulations!! (to all of us!)

[beer_good_foamy]

Congrats!

[ffutures]

Just back from the ceremony - some very good winners, and AO3 winning was the icing on the cake. At one point Naiomi Novak asked everyone who was in the audience and associated with AO3 in some wayto stand, and about 60-70 people stood, myself included.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

That's awesome :)

[beer_good_foamy]

That is awesome. I really wish I could have been there.

[killerweasel]

Oh cool beans! :D

[beer_good_foamy]

Congrats!

[frogfarm]

Well, I certainly know who to blame for this. Lol. What a time to be alive (says the 50-year old).

[beer_good_foamy]

This 45-year-old is happy to take the blame. :)

[kerk_hiraeth]

I'll congratulate you; myself, despite many months now since i got an account set up I cannot bring myself to post.

Still creating; should you be interested, but more and more they are staying in my head and not even making it to pencil and paper.

Seriously enjoying watching Deadwood again, and I haven't even got to Calamity Jane and Joanie Stubbs meeting. Cried over the; at first appearance real-bad-piece-work Al Swearengen putting the preacher out of his suffering; especially at the Doc praying; begging God to explain why he needed to suffer; why the Soldiers had had to treat during the Civil War had to suffer, and why God needed to hear their piteous cries.

What a show! And another example of something that died before it's time.

Started re-watching The Closer and Degrassi again; might even watch some of those Who's I've never watched despite downloading them.

Fanfic is there; just don't see posting anything in the foreseeable.

Anyway comgrats. Back to The Pretty Reckless; love that band.

kerk

[beer_good_foamy]

Sorry about the late reply, but thanks (and you deserve some of the congrats anyway, it's part of how the place works).

I keep meaning to revisit Deadwood, especially now that the movie is out. I remember loving the first season, and then somehow it dropped off my radar (way back in the ancient days of old technology where you had to actually get DVDs to watch a show). Maybe I should just get around to it.

[kerk_hiraeth]

I'd have watched Wynonna Earp by now if there were DVDs; instead I find myself hoping someone will pirate them my way. Only actually found out about the Deadwood movie a couple of days ago because I went on IMDb to look for S3 info. Only ever found out about the show at all because someone posted a Jane Cannery/Joanie Stubbs fanvid.

For a show that is so ridden with racism; misogyny; evil and the downright crudity of white 'manifest destiny' the show is also full of people finding good within themselves out of the most base of circumstances; the Preacher; the Doc; Trixie; even Al Swearengen at times, especially when you hear snippets of his personal history (why Jewel is there at The Gen for example).

Haven't seen S3 yet; despite having had the DVDs for a long time, because I knew it had been cancelled before it's time and seen some stuff about what was coming. Now I know about a movie; though I'll have to, like Wynonna Earp, likely have to wait for piracy to watch it, I'll have some sense of future conclusion (though the reminder of Powers Boothe's passing was a sadness) ~ what an evil character Cy Tolliver is/was.

Like I said still creating, though I'm mot at all certain that, without elisi, I'd even be contemplating posting anything anywhere. Personally my life seems to get worse and more meaningless on a daily basis and it feels a struggle even to keep going one day at a time.

And yet, I still keep finding myself creating fanfic; mostly in my head now, every time I watch or listen to something.

kerk