Hugo voting

[feuervogel]

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.)

Comments

[corpsefairy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree. summer_jackel and I talked to several of BayCon's organizers, who approached us as new vendors and said, "You're new vendors, we're so happy you came! Please come back next year! Tell us what you'd like to see at BayCon because we'd like to keep you!" We said basically what I outlined above, and they said, "Um. Please tell us what you'd like to see next year!"

So yeah, I don't think they're going to court the furries, but it's clearly the way to go. It wouldn't even be that hard (seriously, throw a fursuit dance. You won't even have to provide your own BayCon DJ; furry DJs are coming out the walls around here), but they aren't going to do it.

Ursula Vernon is THE BEST. And she is the GoH at the next FurCon!

Oh yeah, that's the other thing that cracks me up. The furries have got their shit together: they have a pro-looking website, they communicate lots with their members and dealers, and they are on top of things. From FurCon, I got a nice thick vendor's packet two months in advance of the con. From BayCon, I got an emailed FAQ two days before the con.

....Yeah. That may be why all the vendors ended up at the steampunk con instead, and why I may be either there or Fanime next year.

[feuervogel]

That's really unfortunate. I hate seeing things die out, but that will probably be their fate. Especially if they're so anti-furry.

I've heard decent things about Fanime. They had some pretty good guests this year! Gilles Poitras! (OK, probably only exciting if you're into sociology of fandom and fannish academia... He's sort of an anime Henry Jenkins.)

Speaking of steampunk conventions...I put your name on the potential 2013 guests spreadsheet. The costuming director (ex, I think, and we haven't even had our first con yet?) wasn't terribly communicative. Hopefully that will be changing.

[corpsefairy.livejournal.com]

Oo, yes please! I would love that. I could do a couple of workshop type panels, like how to fit a corset and how to fit a bodice. Especially if you're willing to be a fit model for me.