Fandom, Recognition, & Community

[renay]

The Mark Protection Committee of the World Science Fiction Society, whether they intended to or not, did the equivalent of reminding people that even though the Hugo voters chose the Archive of Our Own to receive a Hugo Award for Best Related Work, they get to set the parameters of how we talk about it amongst ourselves in our own community. Their opinion is more important than the will of voting WSFS members. If they dislike that presentation of their motives, then maybe next time they should run their ideas for lecturing Hugo Award winners on Appropriate Behavior by someone not so close to the issue before they open a new document to write a condescending statement. Because they've done more damage to the Hugo Award and WSFS reputation than any fan celebrating and making fun jokes with each other, or even selling merch, by being joyless and deciding to rules lawyer people who contributed to a Hugo Award winning project into oblivion instead of being mature and just issuing C&Ds. ( Read more... )

Sidetracks - September 19, 2019

[helloladies]

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