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In Which We Are All Hugo Winners
Aug. 20th, 2019 08:09 pmSo, as everyone doubtless knows by now, AO3 won a Hugo award! On the one hand, I'm not sure Best Related Work was really designed for this, but on the other, it's nice to see the infrastructure and community acknowledged. I am curious to see what approach the committee will take in future if it gets nominated again, though, since there doesn't seem to be anything about its development in 2018 in particular that would qualify it.
I think my favourite part is the number of people who think all the fanfic writers posting 'LOL, I am now a Hugo winner!!!' actually believe this. I guess if you haven't spent any time in fanfic-dominated fandom circles it might be difficult to parse our sense of humour?
That said, the things I am most proud of winning one one-millionenth of a Hugo for:
1. Somehow accumulating more than five hundred kudos on this ridiculous story. I guess that's what happens when you post something at the height of a fandom's movie-related resurgence!
2. Having the most-kudosed Trigun story on the entire archive that isn't a crossover with five other things. (I used to wonder how on Earth this had happened, given that it was never a popular story back when I wrote it. Then I realised how little of the Trigun fanfic on the internet had actually made it onto AO3 and it made more sense. I guess if you go looking for Vash/Wolfwood, that is one of the best things you will actually be able to find fifteen years after the fandom's heyday.)
3. Being the only person on the archive to use the tag 'Robot Watersports'. (It's not quite the only Transformers watersports story on there, but it is the only one with that precise description. There seems to be a lot of watersports fanfic in Mr. Robot, which is not really the same thing.)
I think my favourite part is the number of people who think all the fanfic writers posting 'LOL, I am now a Hugo winner!!!' actually believe this. I guess if you haven't spent any time in fanfic-dominated fandom circles it might be difficult to parse our sense of humour?
That said, the things I am most proud of winning one one-millionenth of a Hugo for:
1. Somehow accumulating more than five hundred kudos on this ridiculous story. I guess that's what happens when you post something at the height of a fandom's movie-related resurgence!
2. Having the most-kudosed Trigun story on the entire archive that isn't a crossover with five other things. (I used to wonder how on Earth this had happened, given that it was never a popular story back when I wrote it. Then I realised how little of the Trigun fanfic on the internet had actually made it onto AO3 and it made more sense. I guess if you go looking for Vash/Wolfwood, that is one of the best things you will actually be able to find fifteen years after the fandom's heyday.)
3. Being the only person on the archive to use the tag 'Robot Watersports'. (It's not quite the only Transformers watersports story on there, but it is the only one with that precise description. There seems to be a lot of watersports fanfic in Mr. Robot, which is not really the same thing.)