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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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Date: 2012-06-03 04:39 pm (UTC)From:I kind of hit that stage in anime fandom, because all the incoming students in COUP weren't interested in anything older than 2 years ago, and I was like, fuck you, there was some good shit in the 80s. (And some really bad shit. Then the 90s happened.) But if it wasn't done on a computer with shiny designs or whatever, they didn't want to see it. Fuck them. They don't care that show X was deeply influenced by something 20 years ago that its creator watched growing up? Fuck them.
I wonder if I should save my commentary on my blogspot about the generation divide until after voting closes 8/1...