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.

Comments

[ilyena_sylph]

+wry+

It'd be sorta hard for nobody associated with the Hugos to even know AO3 exists, given the Hugo winners who have fic on AO3 (or helped create it)...

...but at the same time Boy Howdy do I feel you on the target on back. More people being fen is great, but fannish spaces in the public eye unsettle me immensely.

[rhoda_rants]

LOL--true, I keep forgetting how many "legit" authors either started out writing fanfic or still do. And yet, the closer the general public comes to finding the channels where fanfic is housed, the more likely we come to my mother finding and reading mine, and well *CRINGE*.