Well hot damn
Aug. 19th, 2019 01:16![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starladyAO3 won a Hugo!!!
I think women* have successfully destroyed science fiction at this point, eh? Science fiction is dead, long live science fiction.
*And all those other non-dude types
I used to have an icon that said "fandom is my fandom," and that's still true. I had convinced myself that this wouldn't happen? I thought the voters would for sure be against it--and ten years ago, they totally would have. But times have changed, and that doesn't always happen for the worse.
When the nominations were announced there was a lot of debate about what "work" meant, and whether the nomination was for AO3 as a platform or for AO3 as a collection, of, well, five million fanworks and counting. The answer of course is that it's both, and they're inextricable from each other--it's in the nature of the thing that it should be so, and I thought Naomi Novik's speech brought that out beautifully.
Anyway, I'm extremely happy, and feeling not a little vindicated. Congratulations to us: the volunteers who put in their time in whatever capacity, and the creators and readers who put in their time and energy and creativity. We've earned it.
P.S. I'm also incredibly pleased that the AO3 Hugo Award itself will join the traveling collection that goes to every con. I couldn't think of a more appropriate thing than for it to be accessible to every Worldcon attendee--to say nothing of the fact that the OTW doesn't have anywhere to put it.
P.P.S. I have been to Worldcon twice and a supporting member for nearly ten years and this is the first I have heard of the traveling Hugo collection.
And who knows? Maybe in AO3's next decade it'll even get out of beta.
I think women* have successfully destroyed science fiction at this point, eh? Science fiction is dead, long live science fiction.
*And all those other non-dude types
I used to have an icon that said "fandom is my fandom," and that's still true. I had convinced myself that this wouldn't happen? I thought the voters would for sure be against it--and ten years ago, they totally would have. But times have changed, and that doesn't always happen for the worse.
When the nominations were announced there was a lot of debate about what "work" meant, and whether the nomination was for AO3 as a platform or for AO3 as a collection, of, well, five million fanworks and counting. The answer of course is that it's both, and they're inextricable from each other--it's in the nature of the thing that it should be so, and I thought Naomi Novik's speech brought that out beautifully.
Anyway, I'm extremely happy, and feeling not a little vindicated. Congratulations to us: the volunteers who put in their time in whatever capacity, and the creators and readers who put in their time and energy and creativity. We've earned it.
P.S. I'm also incredibly pleased that the AO3 Hugo Award itself will join the traveling collection that goes to every con. I couldn't think of a more appropriate thing than for it to be accessible to every Worldcon attendee--to say nothing of the fact that the OTW doesn't have anywhere to put it.
P.P.S. I have been to Worldcon twice and a supporting member for nearly ten years and this is the first I have heard of the traveling Hugo collection.
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Date: 2019-08-19 08:27 (UTC)Also yay AO3!!!!!! It was so amazing to be in the room to celebrate that.
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Date: 2019-08-19 08:30 (UTC)Congratulations to all of us!!! We deserve it.
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Date: 2019-08-19 08:35 (UTC)Why are Men so Bad at Writing Science Fiction?
-The Hugo Awards for fiction seem like they are always dominated by female and nonbinary writers. Yes, there is an occasional male winner, but they are exceptional to their gender. Why can't men write science fiction good enough to make the ballot, let alone win? Our female and nonbinary panelists offer nonjudgmental advice for male writers wishing to write better science fiction.
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Date: 2019-08-19 15:19 (UTC)One can hope.
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