Victoria: I can't speak for other movieverse folks. I voted for (almost) all the categories that were X-related. If I'd read one of the stories before awards season, I went and I read the others before voting.
I for one had no idea there were awards until I found an email from Minisinoo saying I was nominated in a couple of categories. Granted, I was offline January through mid March, and when I got back, the awards were almost over, and it took me an extra couple of days to figure out what had happened. It was another day or so before I found out what I was nominated for.
Diebin didn't know until I told her in chat a few days after I got back, and we both went looking for the ballot, which I couldn't find. Misty and Molly didn't know, both prolific movieverse writers. I could do a poll, since I'm in touch with a lot of them, and find out who knew, because everyone I talked to seemed pretty damn surprised and curious if they'd made the ballot. It wasn't neglect--if I'd been aware in time to vote, I probably would have. *shrugs*
But I was offline, so this doesn't apply to me anyway.
My claim of bitterness is based, again, on the conflation of movieverse fiction with bad fiction.
It's simply not so that all movieverse fic sucks, and when people say it does, that sets my back up, because I know it's not true. I know I don't suck, nor does Min, nor Die, nor Jenn etc.
Does that make sense?
Hee. I don't suck. I should make that my new sig line.
I've read the arguments up and down, and Vic and I have discussed this before. But if you're wondering what leads to the insecurity, not to mention the bitterness and knee-jerk, I'd guess it could be the multiple messageboards, including two on subreality that I remember, with threads not devoted to the criticism of just the fanfic, but labeling the writers pedophiles, as Vic has said. FF.net X-Men comics section where Diebin posted her movieverse work before ff.net opened up a movieverse section was at a two flames to one feedback on at least a couple of stories--I'm not sure if they're still up but the author search for Diebin would clarify that. Not just the idiotic teeny-bopper, badly spelled RougeLuvsGambit4EVA! (misspelling intentional), but grammatically correct, cool, and utterly demoralizing paragraphs explaining how BAD Diebin was for writing her choice of pairings and genre, in quich the high quality of her work was attacked on the singular basis of being movieverse. I know of at least one messageboard that linked itself to my Jus Ad Bellum within the last six months, deriding movieverse writers and L/R writers in particular at length. It could be the feedback a friend received on one of her better stories from a comicfen that told her that her story would be so much better if it was comicverse and how bad her characterizations were because they weren't comicverse. It could be the fact that this is actuallyy coming up AGAIN and people are acting so surprised, as if this is something they've never heard of before.
Part I
Victoria: I can't speak for other movieverse folks. I voted for (almost) all the categories that were X-related. If I'd read one of the stories before awards season, I went and I read the others before voting.
I for one had no idea there were awards until I found an email from Minisinoo saying I was nominated in a couple of categories. Granted, I was offline January through mid March, and when I got back, the awards were almost over, and it took me an extra couple of days to figure out what had happened. It was another day or so before I found out what I was nominated for.
Diebin didn't know until I told her in chat a few days after I got back, and we both went looking for the ballot, which I couldn't find. Misty and Molly didn't know, both prolific movieverse writers. I could do a poll, since I'm in touch with a lot of them, and find out who knew, because everyone I talked to seemed pretty damn surprised and curious if they'd made the ballot. It wasn't neglect--if I'd been aware in time to vote, I probably would have. *shrugs*
But I was offline, so this doesn't apply to me anyway.
My claim of bitterness is based, again, on the conflation of movieverse fiction with bad fiction.
It's simply not so that all movieverse fic sucks, and when people say it does, that sets my back up, because I know it's not true. I know I don't suck, nor does Min, nor Die, nor Jenn etc.
Does that make sense?
Hee. I don't suck. I should make that my new sig line.
I've read the arguments up and down, and Vic and I have discussed this before. But if you're wondering what leads to the insecurity, not to mention the bitterness and knee-jerk, I'd guess it could be the multiple messageboards, including two on subreality that I remember, with threads not devoted to the criticism of just the fanfic, but labeling the writers pedophiles, as Vic has said. FF.net X-Men comics section where Diebin posted her movieverse work before ff.net opened up a movieverse section was at a two flames to one feedback on at least a couple of stories--I'm not sure if they're still up but the author search for Diebin would clarify that. Not just the idiotic teeny-bopper, badly spelled RougeLuvsGambit4EVA! (misspelling intentional), but grammatically correct, cool, and utterly demoralizing paragraphs explaining how BAD Diebin was for writing her choice of pairings and genre, in quich the high quality of her work was attacked on the singular basis of being movieverse. I know of at least one messageboard that linked itself to my Jus Ad Bellum within the last six months, deriding movieverse writers and L/R writers in particular at length. It could be the feedback a friend received on one of her better stories from a comicfen that told her that her story would be so much better if it was comicverse and how bad her characterizations were because they weren't comicverse. It could be the fact that this is actuallyy coming up AGAIN and people are acting so surprised, as if this is something they've never heard of before.
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