Fandom: Oh, Hugo, Where Have HuGone
Sep. 20th, 2019 03:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
escritoireazulIf 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.
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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Date: 2019-09-20 09:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-20 10:14 pm (UTC)https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1174704966822445057
Attempting to chill constitutionally protected nominative speech about a registered service mark that is insufficiently famous for dilution protection is censorious legal thuggery. There is a nationwide network of first amendment lawyers who will explain this to you.
Isn't that kickass?
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Date: 2019-09-25 08:40 pm (UTC)