ETA: kore linked this in the comments here, but I wanted to make sure people saw it: the HugoWank2k19 AO3 collection.

ETA 2: dhampyresa made a Hugo Heist RPG (a reskin on Honey Heist). I have zero idea of what Honey Heist is (yet, I'll be looking it up), but this is fantastic.

I didn't actually plan to talk so much today, but I'm waiting on a thing to finish running, so I'm here and I have a couple more things to link to that came out of this whole Hugo debacle. Both links came via dine, so thanks!

and now we grease our trophy sweete by ruinsplume

My name is fen
and wen i win
an award at
a convenshin

i close my eyes
and count to three
and wait for men
to ’splain to me



The rest of it is as delightful as this part.

Stanley Cup — What it Means by Anonymous

“I believe,” the spokesperson said carefully, “that that may have been a joke.”

“Joking,” the PR person replied frostily, “about the Stanley Cup harms its reputation. We don’t want Oviraptors fans making a mockery of it.”


Considering this was the year we won our first Stanley Cup (#letsgoblues), I am even more delighted by this.

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.