Fandom: Oh, Hugo, Where Have HuGone

[escritoireazul]

If I had an active fannish Twitter or Tumblr, I would have added to my profile: 100% Absolutely Positively Not a Hugo Award Winner. But I don't, so I shan't.

The Fanlore write-up of the controversy.

This is really putting me off the Hugos and Worldcon. Feels like another cultural clash in SFF, and I am really fucking tired of them. They're necessary and good changes can come out of them, but so tired.

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[rattfan]

I tried to read through the posts about A03 versus the Hugos but got lost :-) I remember musing that this is probably the closest I'll get to having a Hugo of my very own; people don't like my writing that much, BUT I have 100s of kudos for some of my fic :-) It's hilarious.

[escritoireazul]

There's so many different parts to this whole thing it was a lot to follow for sure. It's the closest I'll come to a Hugo myself, probably; the Hugos are in many ways a popularity contest and I do not build relationships that well. (Not disparaging them in this statement, though. A lot of publishing is about knowing the right people; that's a part of the business you work with or around or outside of, but it's there.)