Special Awards are up!!!

[sophia jane]

The year end cat noms aren't up yet but the special awards finally went up. Congrats to all those who got a nomination. Lots and lots of AHers!

 

[matriarch]

The year end cat noms aren't up yet but the special awards finally went up. Congrats to all those who got a nomination. Lots and lots of AHers!

I can't find this on the home page. Link please??

 

[sophia jane]

I can't find this on the home page. Link please??

https://forum.literotica.com/forumdisplay.php?f=7


She's putting up the cat noms right now.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Grats to everyone. I was tryoing to get in my votes early and often, but apparently I caught up with laurel while she is still posting

eager beaver

 

[sophia jane]

Grats to everyone. I was tryoing to get in my votes early and often, but apparently I caught up with laurel while she is still posting

eager beaver

I didn't vote. I just keep checking back to see them all.

ETA: Voted on what I can. I have lots of reading to do on the rest. I'm thrilled that some of the people I nominated (ahem, Imp) made it to the voting.

 

[Unsung Muse]

Weeeeeeee!

I'm soooo giddy!
The POLLS are open!

 

[English Lady]

Congratulations to the nominees -wowsers, lots and lots of AHer's feature! Yay us!

And can I do my own little, very surprised, happy dance here? I can't believe it but my "Once more through the Open door" is in the Celebrities category!

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Oh this is so not fair...

The NonHuman category is categorically evil... how can I CHOOSE?!?!?

Abyss / rgraham666
Myth Perceptions 01 / the_bigbadw0lf
Threlan's Gift / Sexxy Vixen
Vampire Seduction Ch. 02 / wishfulthinking
Will / BlackShanglan



You have GOT to be kidding me!??

I wish election day was this difficult, with this many amazing choices!!

 

[sophia jane]

Oh this is so not fair...

The NonHuman category is categorically evil... how can I CHOOSE?!?!?

Abyss / rgraham666
Myth Perceptions 01 / the_bigbadw0lf
Threlan's Gift / Sexxy Vixen
Vampire Seduction Ch. 02 / wishfulthinking
Will / BlackShanglan



You have GOT to be kidding me!??

I wish election day was this difficult, with this many amazing choices!!

Yeah there are a couple cats that I'm gonna really have to think about.

And I have to say-

 

[Selena_Kitt]

And can I do my own little, very surprised, happy dance here? I can't believe it but my "Once more through the Open door" is in the Celebrities category!

Um... me too...
I somehow managed to get on the "Group Sex" category list with my little "Lizzie, Sarah and David" continuation...

color me shocked!

 

[English Lady]

Um... me too...
I somehow managed to get on the "Group Sex" category list with my little "Lizzie, Sarah and David" continuation...

color me shocked!

let's happy, shocked dance together

 

[arienette]

Much congratulations to RG for getting in the BDSM category with Hypothesis.

 

[Aurora Black]

Just voted. Good luck, everyone.

 

[Unsung Muse]

Oh this is so not fair...

The NonHuman category is categorically evil... how can I CHOOSE?!?!?

Abyss / rgraham666
Myth Perceptions 01 / the_bigbadw0lf
Threlan's Gift / Sexxy Vixen
Vampire Seduction Ch. 02 / wishfulthinking
Will / BlackShanglan

You have GOT to be kidding me!??
I wish election day was this difficult, with this many amazing choices!!

Goodness, I feel the same way...
and how can I possibly not vote for Doc's Leaves?!?

This feels like being nominated for an oscar against Jack Nicholson

 

[Liar]

Ok, a serious question. I'm confuzzled.

First of all: Whee! Congratiulations to all the nominees. (what as the non-serious part. You all done good. Celebrate!)



Second of all: First category I looked at happened to be Sci-fi and Fantasy, and it looks like this...

---
A Knight in King Arthur's Court Ch. 11 / brightlyiburn
Daemon & Sunny Ch. 08 / ladyofthemasque
Genie Chronicles Ch. 24 / Joe Brolly
The Solitary Arrow Ch. 22 / mack_the_knife
The Sorcerer's Bride / cymry
---

Now... does it strike anyone else as odd that single chapters in the middle of long stories (or novels, even) is competing against self-contained short stories like that?

Not sure I'm gonna vote because of that... I don't have a bias towards one or the other, and they all contain good writing... but how could I compare them?

If I only read what is linked, cymry wins hands down, because I'm thrown right into the middle of the others, expecting to know characters and situations that I have no idea what they are. If I am to appreciate the greatness of, for instance "Genie Chronicles Ch. 24" it seems I have to read Ch. 1 thru 23 first. And any subsequent chapters too?

Seems to me a competition like this should treat one story like one story, regardless of if it's posted as separate chapter submissions or as one entry.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Ok, a serious question. I'm confuzzled.

First of all: Whee! Congratiulations to all the nominees. (what as the non-serious part. You all done good. Celebrate!)



Second of all: First category I looked at happened to be Sci-fi and Fantasy, and it looks like this...

---
A Knight in King Arthur's Court Ch. 11 / brightlyiburn
Daemon & Sunny Ch. 08 / ladyofthemasque
Genie Chronicles Ch. 24 / Joe Brolly
The Solitary Arrow Ch. 22 / mack_the_knife
The Sorcerer's Bride / cymry
---

Now... does it strike anyone else as odd that single chapters in the middle of long stories (or novels, even) is competing against self-contained short stories like that?

Not sure I'm gonna vote because of that... I don't have a bias towards one or the other, and they all contain good writing... but how could I compare them?

If I only read what is linked, cymry wins hands down, because I'm thrown right into the middle of the others, expecting to know characters and situations that I have no idea what they are. If I am to appreciate the greatness of, for instance "Genie Chronicles Ch. 24" it seems I have to read Ch. 1 thru 23 first. And any subsequent chapters too?

Seems to me a competition like this should treat one story like one story, regardless of if it's posted as separate chapter submissions or as one entry.

I'm not sure there is much you can do abou tit Liar. The method for selecting year ends is to select the highest rated montly qualifiers. If you're doing a popular story, chapeter by chapter, you may find yourself nominated for what you don't even consider a particularly good chapter.

I would guess it's a judgement call on the voter's part, wherther or not he will read the whole story and judge the chapter that way or if he will read the specific hapter and vote, reguardless of the rest of the work.

 

[Liar]

I'm not sure there is much you can do abou tit Liar. The method for selecting year ends is to select the highest rated montly qualifiers. If you're doing a popular story, chapeter by chapter, you may find yourself nominated for what you don't even consider a particularly good chapter.

I would guess it's a judgement call on the voter's part, wherther or not he will read the whole story and judge the chapter that way or if he will read the specific hapter and vote, reguardless of the rest of the work.

Well, I don't have any pretense to change how it's done now. But maybe to see if I'm not the only one who are unsure how to treat a chapter versus a standalone story. If there's more than me, maybe I could suggest a change in routine for next year. Maybe separate diciplines for them, or something?

And you know, you can end up being nominated for what you don't consider a particularly good standalone story too. The audience has weird taste sometimes.

 

[sophia jane]

Well, I don't have any pretense to change how it's done now. But maybe to see if I'm not the only one who are unsure how to treat a chapter versus a standalone story. If there's more than me, maybe I could suggest a change in routine for next year. Maybe separate diciplines for them, or something?

Well I can tell you that on the cats where I read all of the entries, I do not read previous chapters, and if the chapter that was nominated doesn't make sense to me because of that, I'm not likely to vote for it. So, you're right that it's not particularly fair to have them grouped together. But at the same time, there are obviously going to be alot of fans for stories that had so many chapters, so it might even out in the end.

 

[rgraham666]

Congratulations to all the AHers! Woohoo!

Checked them out. Voted for a couple even.

I'll confess to being a little disappointed. Hypothesis is all right, but The Gift is a much better story, I think.

But I'd be prejudiced.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Well, I don't have any pretense to change how it's done now. But maybe to see if I'm not the only one who are unsure how to treat a chapter versus a standalone story. If there's more than me, maybe I could suggest a change in routine for next year. Maybe separate diciplines for them, or something?

And you know, you can end up being nominated for what you don't consider a particularly good standalone story too. The audience has weird taste sometimes.

I think it would be worth mentioning to Laurel. Perhaps a special category for an ongoing story with the nominees coming from any cat where a chapter of a story got the monthly nod??

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Oh this is so not fair...

The NonHuman category is categorically evil... how can I CHOOSE?!?!?

Abyss / rgraham666
Myth Perceptions 01 / the_bigbadw0lf
Threlan's Gift / Sexxy Vixen
Vampire Seduction Ch. 02 / wishfulthinking
Will / BlackShanglan



You have GOT to be kidding me!??

I wish election day was this difficult, with this many amazing choices!!

I'm glad I saw this post. I somehow missed my nomination when I read through it, lol. I know which one I'm voting for (and no, I'm not voting for myself. )

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Great, I'm up against Colly in MC. Well, it was nice to be nominated anyway.

 

[TxRad]

Congrats to everyone nominated.... happy dance for all

You could have knocked me down when I opened BDSM and found my "Out of the Night" Story in the list........

 

[cloudy]

let's happy, shocked dance together

I'll join the shocked happy dance.

(a poem in there, of all things)

 

[BlackShanglan]

Goodness, I feel the same way...
and how can I possibly not vote for Doc's Leaves?!?

No one of any sense will fail to. It will be a consummate honor to lose to it.

I only pray that in the two categories I've got stories in, the really superb works that are also running take the prize (if I don't - I suppose vanity will have its little hopes). Once or twice I've seen some real clangers take awards, and it would be a source of considerable chagrin to me to see that happen when such remarkable stories are up there. Huzzah for great writing, and may it triumph!

Shanglan