Forsaken Fandom Awards (Round 2) Posted

[brightknightie]

The final forsaken_fandom Awards (Round 2) went up today!  The official List of Winners and Runners-Up is as good as a list of recommendations by consensus, as is the original List of Nominees.  Congratulations to all the Forever Knight winners and nominees!  Thank you so much for writing and sharing.  And congratulations to all the nominators, readers, voters, judges and the project moderators!  No story is complete until it is read.

For brevity, here is a very condensed -- teaser! -- list of winners in selected categories only.  (Please check out the full list.)  By the by, if you're looking to compliment a nominated FK author on her story but she doesn't have an LJ and you don't have her email address, contact me privately; in most cases here, I can share it.

Short Story	The Art Of Deception	pj1228
Long Story	Starwort	brightknightie
Series	FK4	greerwatson
Angst	Full Circle	Amanda B.
Dark	Anno Horribilis, Anno Mirabilis	Nancy K.
Ensemble	Could They Choose Between	havocthecat
Fluff	Faire Things	Elena G.
Friendship	Carpe Noctem	hearts_blood
Holiday	Valentine Ghosts	Ell H.
Missing Scene	Damages	tolakasa

Under "own horn, tooting of," as wiliqueen posted earlier today, y'all were very, very generous to my stories, and recognized "Starwort" (winner, long story), "Steamer Trunk Space" (winner, past; runner-up, missing scene), "A Delicate Balance" (winner, best characterization), and "Last Minutes" (winner, original plot).  Thank you so much!  I am honored.

For those seeking fresh, exciting, new flavors, the winning and runner-up stories that have never yet appeared on fkfic-l include: greerwatson's, dknightshade's, ithildyn's, havocthecat's and tv_elf's.  (If anyone wants any advice I can offer on posting to the list, please just speak up!  I'd be happy to see your story there, and many others would, too.)

Again, thank you, all.

Comments

[brightknightie.livejournal.com]

>"You really think I was a spoiler for myself? :)"

I think there is a noteworthy possibility of that, yes.

>"By the way, did you know there are vampires in Blake's 7?"

I seem to have read that somewhere before. :-)

Unfortunately for the purposes of sucking me in, I, um, well, don't actually like vampires all that much. I love historical fiction and philosophical dilemmas and metaphors and mysteries, and I keep finding them bundled in vampire fiction by complete coincidence. :-)

A friend once marathoned a chunk of B7 for me, but it didn't take. Another friend later said that Friend 1 had made a mistake by starting me at the beginning of the series, and that we should have begun somewhere in the middle...

[gaslightgallows]

I think there is a noteworthy possibility of that, yes.

Wow, that takes talent. I must cultivate this strange power... it may come in useful someday...

Unfortunately for the purposes of sucking me in, I, um, well, don't actually like vampires all that much.

I think it's fair enough to say that vampires as a genre have been done past the point of death and that a bloodsucker alone isn't enough inducement to watch/read anything anymore. I wasn't actually trying to convince you to watch B7, just making a general joke. :) The vampires in that universe aren't very interesting on their own, they need a skillful writer's hand (like mine!) to make them pop off the screen.

And Friend 2 is quite right--the good philosophical and moral conundrums don't begin until the 2nd series, and then they pick up speed in the 3rd... And even then, the messages are never very heavy-handed.