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feuervogel) wrote2012-06-02 11:42 am
feuervogel) wrote2012-06-02 11:42 am
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Hugo voting
As a member of this year's WorldCon, I get to vote on the Hugos. This is extremely exciting. I'm making my way through the novelettes, then I'll get to the novellas. I'm not sure I'll have time to read all the novels, especially the GRRM one bc it's number 5 or 6 in a series, and yeah, fuck that.
I've got the pro artist, fan artist, editor long form, and short story categories ranked already. I may take a pass on the short form dramatic presentation (I don't watch Dr Who, and I don't feel like watching a single episode of Community). If we can find Hugo and Source Code to rent/dl and watch them, maybe I'll have more than 2 things to rank in that category. I don't much feel like watching ALL of Game of Thrones season 1, either.
I'll skip the fancast, since I'm not into podcasts.
That leaves related work, graphic story, semiprozine, fanzine, editor short form, and the Campbell (not-a-Hugo). I should be able to get through much of them before voting closes. I have all the text things on my kobo and am reading them & taking notes.
If any of you want to hear my thoughts & reasonings for ranking, I can post that here, locked, when I'm done. I may write up Thots on the short stories (brief reviews) on my blogger blog.
Here's how I did it for pro artist: I opened the files in the voter packet in Preview, in alphabetical order. The ones that made me go "WOW" or "DAMN" were at the top. Some were technically quite good, but lacking life and vibrancy. You get to rank them in order (Hugo voting is instant runoff), so the two I said "WOW" to, I had to decide which was 1 and which was 2. I ranked the one that was more vibrant first. (Since this is public, I won't tell you which that was.)
Does that interest people? (Even if it doesn't, I may do it anyway, neener neener, it's my journal, I can do what I want.)
(I kind of dig this Hugo-voting thing. I may buy supporting ($50) memberships in the future even if I can't make it to the actual con. Like London 2014. Also kind of meh on San Antonio, because it's Dragon*Con weekend again.)
I've got the pro artist, fan artist, editor long form, and short story categories ranked already. I may take a pass on the short form dramatic presentation (I don't watch Dr Who, and I don't feel like watching a single episode of Community). If we can find Hugo and Source Code to rent/dl and watch them, maybe I'll have more than 2 things to rank in that category. I don't much feel like watching ALL of Game of Thrones season 1, either.
I'll skip the fancast, since I'm not into podcasts.
That leaves related work, graphic story, semiprozine, fanzine, editor short form, and the Campbell (not-a-Hugo). I should be able to get through much of them before voting closes. I have all the text things on my kobo and am reading them & taking notes.
If any of you want to hear my thoughts & reasonings for ranking, I can post that here, locked, when I'm done. I may write up Thots on the short stories (brief reviews) on my blogger blog.
Here's how I did it for pro artist: I opened the files in the voter packet in Preview, in alphabetical order. The ones that made me go "WOW" or "DAMN" were at the top. Some were technically quite good, but lacking life and vibrancy. You get to rank them in order (Hugo voting is instant runoff), so the two I said "WOW" to, I had to decide which was 1 and which was 2. I ranked the one that was more vibrant first. (Since this is public, I won't tell you which that was.)
Does that interest people? (Even if it doesn't, I may do it anyway, neener neener, it's my journal, I can do what I want.)
(I kind of dig this Hugo-voting thing. I may buy supporting ($50) memberships in the future even if I can't make it to the actual con. Like London 2014. Also kind of meh on San Antonio, because it's Dragon*Con weekend again.)
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And yeah, since they're run by SF Cubed, UNC-G's student-run sf club, they're always getting an influx of new blood. OTOH, they've done pretty well at chasing off the old guard StellarCon folks, and institutional memory is a real problem in those types of situations. When you piss off the people who did something, and did it well, for several years, you've lost all that expertise and are left reinventing the wheel.
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That sounds like a bad strategy for continued success.
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There was the dude who interrupted the Geek Dating panel by coming into the room and shouting, "It's all about the clitoris!" After he left, Allegra and her other panelists basically said, "See that? Don't be that guy." That was on Friday night.
Clitoris-man came back on Saturday night and made a nuisance of himself in the Barfly suite, until they kicked him out.
My friend Cherie, who was dressed as a Ghostbuster for most of that Stellarcon--e.g., she was in a baggy jumpsuit (not that any of this would've been appropriate no matter how she was dressed), was accosted so many times over the course of the weekend that she finally asked her fellow Ghostbusters pals to come pull her away if they saw a guy they didn't recognize talking to her, because it was inevitably someone being not just clueless, but clueless and creepy.
I don't know what it was about this particular con this year, but it pushed a lot of us over the edge and we started the Nerdiquette 101 thing. Another friend says we're just shouting into the wind with it, but we have to try.
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