RD Slash Awards 2009

[laurenthemself]

Dear everyone,

We haven't done awards in this fandom since 2004. This is a Bad Thing, and is largely my fault due to the fact that I keep looking at the volume of fic each year and going WAH I don't want to try and categorise that.

Do people fancy doing awards? What I can do is collate a list of fics from each year, starting with 2009 and working back, and I can sort them by categories and then put up a shedload of polls. In the past we've only had very broad categories for fics (like, I think the most diverse we got was splitting them into 'short' and 'long' fics), but now that we have a much higher volume of fics than back in the early 2000s, I think some more categories are in order.

My ideas:
* Best Angst
* Best Hurt/Comfort
* Best Fluff
* Best New Author (for an author whose first fic is posted during whatever year we're polling)
* Best Smut
* Best Gestalt (for authors who write in pairs/teams)

What I would like from you lovely people:

* An indication as to whether this is even a good idea
* Category ideas
* Someone to volunteer to do banners, because I used to do them and they were utterly shite
* Any ideas or input you have as to how to best run this, as again, I haven't done this since 2004 and the fandom was much smaller then

Love you guys!

Comments

[missflibble.livejournal.com]

I have nothing helpful or useful to offer apart from YAY! Defo! ^__^

[laurenthemself]

I am only halfway through last March and there are already 23 fics on the roundup list, and so many of them are angst that there will need to be, like, subcategories of angst or something.

[missflibble.livejournal.com]

so many of them are angst that there will need to be, like, subcategories of angst or something.

Dude. Oh MAN I love reading angst ^__^

[laurenthemself]

There's so much here. I mean admittedly this is a fandom that lends itself to angst, but still.

[missflibble.livejournal.com]

I KNOW YAYS! ^__^

(Man, this being on the same timezone thing is pretty cool, huh? I'm Sydney-bound on Tuesday!)

[laurenthemself]

I wish you were coming down here instead. *pouts*

[missflibble.livejournal.com]

I know :-( This is what I get for travelling with my mother *shakes fist*

[fearcat.livejournal.com]

good plan :) Skipper.

[leyosura.livejournal.com]

Great idea! How about best drabble, epic, series, WIP, AU?

[laurenthemself]

Good ideas. I'm including drabble, epic, and WIP; still checking to see if anything fits in as series or AU.

[debris_k.livejournal.com]

Def. a good idea! (That's all I've got, sorry. >.< )

[tawg.livejournal.com]

Chipping in late, sorry.

I'm happy to do banners and awards and such. Here's an example of my banners (http://community.livejournal.com/pornathlon/6445.html#cutid1). I think that Best Long Fic in each of your categories, Best Humor, and maybe a Drabbles of Consistent High Standard might also be good categories for awards. Also, maybe something like best homours scene in a drama fic? Or maybe an award for writers who have grown and improved over the years?

As for running it, a master list of each year of fic (with links) should be posted, and then people given enough time to re-read them before voting closes. Depending on the number and length of fics, this could be a few weeks or a few months. As for voting, you could either do a straight up poll for the winner, or get voters to rank fics in order (maybe top ten in each category?) and screen the comments. The first option is the easiest, but the second option means a more representative ranking of fics. Lol, how much time do you have to spend on this? :p

[laurenthemself]

Banners would be awesome. One I have a definite list of categories I'll let you know so you can start on them and then add names once voting's done, if that works for you.

Definitely doing the master list thing. I've got the whole list for 2009 in Word and am transferring it to Excel so I can do a kind of tickybox arrangement for what potential categories each fic fits into. Once that's done I'll work out how best to post it.

[tawg.livejournal.com]

Great. I'm really excited about this - if there's anything else that I can do to help, let me know :)