MPAs...

[zhie]

To anyone who nominated me this year for the MPAs:

You may have noticed that anything I was individually nominated for has been taken down from the MPA voting site. Tella and I have had, I believe you might call it, creative differences. So, I thank you for your nominations, but alas, they were for naught in those lands, but personally, they were appreciated. And also, the nomination icon was delicious.

Now, there are still things up there that I co-wrote with others. From the email that Tella sent when I stated I would be boycotting the awards this year:

“if you do indeed choose to boycott, I'll happily remove all your stories. Though I
suspect your co-writers will not be altogether happy about that.”

So, I’ll apologize right now, to anyone I co-wrote with, in the case that those are taken down as well. But, since mine are not there as of this moment, I’m officially and publicly boycotting the MPAs. At first, I wasn’t going to say anything, but now that I’m getting emails asking what is going on, I’m just stating it once for everyone.

I’m not getting into specific reasons why; it comes down to being tired of rule changes every year, and sometimes in the midst of the awards. I’m not asking anyone to take sides; I’m not even asking anyone to boycott with me. This is merely an explanation.

There are a lot of great authors on that list that deserve praise. Actually, each and every single one of them, both on that list, and probably even more so, the ones who are not on that list, for their continued creativity and additions to this fandom or whatever fandom they happen to be in.

(In hindsight, like in Harry Potter how the DADA instructor seems to always mysteriously disappear, so too does the elfling writer for the MPAs. So, I guess the only advice I have for all of you is, DON’T take the position that is now open for the elfling writer over there, lol. On the other hand, this does mean I have some wonderful orphaned elfling stories I’ll be able to share once I edit them…)

Comments

[glyrics.livejournal.com]

'K I went over to it, I think, 2006 awards??? And it said:
"MPA 2006 - IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!

is on hiatus due to lack of nominations and a shortage of help."

Not that I was being disloyal or anything...just wanted to see my name

[zhie.livejournal.com]

oh sweetie *huggles* you have the wrong link

http://mpawards.elvenlords.net/library2007.htm

and, you should go vote for yourself.. you wrote much awesomeness...

and, i love you icon ^_^

[glyrics.livejournal.com]

Thanks! But voting is difficult! It never says if the vote is received and when I tried to vote for Jana, it went back to my original vote for me. I wonder if the thing works!

Could be just me though

[glyrics.livejournal.com]

Ignore me... I just figured it out.

Jeesh!

[zeedrippyvessel.livejournal.com]

I purposely asked people NOT to nominate me the last go round. It becomes more and more difficult to navigate every year and the go round where you had to join a different yahoo groupf for each thing... that just did me in.

Personally, they kept coming to fast... seemed like no soon than one set was finished... the next set started up and I burned out. I'm not into awards anyway.

huggles you!

[talullahred.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sorry to read that - I'm sure it wasn't pleasant for you.

Personally, I'm not boycotting or taking sides but next year I won't be participating in any form. Normally I stay the hell way during reading season and it's not like my fics get nominated so everything is fine, but this year I had a stupid bout of enthusiasm and nominated a few fics and (I'm sure this was a consequence) a couple of mine were nommed. Then the fics I nommed started being shuffled around categories in a perfectly illogical way (which, granted, was part of the 'rules', though I'd never think it would go to these extremes), not to mention that this was needed because the categories were shite to begin with. Then there is the slash mixed with het - I have a story about a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in a world where this is not a piece of cake stuffed with het fics in the "Arwen dies" category. Brill. Then there is the lenght of the fics. You can't honestly expect people to read every fic and fairly vote if you accept an incredible high number of novel lenght fics. There should be a limitation or a separate category for this.

I'm not even saying this award is worse than others - look at the last time I participated in the MEFAs, which in theory are a sound, fangrrl, low quality proof awards - this HASA chick completely flooded the nomms with her terrible drabbles and her votes, lord! You'd have to see it to believe it, but I'm sure you can ask larian who quit the same year I did. And of course the Awards for HASA Mithril Awards, which are only elitist in theory, because in practice, crap fic abounds. The BAFTAS that never took off but were only meant to award a certain someone and friends... the Glemil Estel or something to that effect which were basically the same but organised by that certain someone's archnemesis...

I could go on, but I won't. The bottom line is that there aren't any awards that I think honour the people receiving them. I appreciate the nominations but even if I won, and I won't, it would still be the nomination that would count best for me. Eh, sorry, this wasn't all that related to your post but it sorta wanted to get off my chest.

*hugs*

[zhie.livejournal.com]

Normally, I figure, the person/people running the awards can do whatever they want with them. I've been involved with a few other than the MPAs.

Been a Mithril judge for three years. The stuff that comes through... we get good stuff, and then, there are times when something makes it past the first round and you know it's someone's friend or something. The funniest part of those was the whole 'sworn to secrecy' thing. I can't say what I judged or who I voted for or anything like that. It's sort of like the Skull and Bones awards in the fandom. I doubt there's going to be a fourth; who can say? But yes, it was elitist, and it was very HASA-centric. But, the rules made sense and when they changed it was between years (and they changed very little, mostly concerning the judging forms and method of score submission).

Then there have been the smaller awards I have worked on. The one at Haldir Lovers, which, for a 'young' awards, is one of the best run (I judged the first round of it... the judges change each round, and each judge reads every story... the identities of the authors are anonymous. It's a lot of work, but I think so far it is one of the best to date).

Used to run the Golden Mallorn awards, a long long time ago. Those were fun, a little less on the stoic serious side, but fun, and stressfree. And then, there were the failed Eldas... prettiest awards site, but only two nominations.

More later... there's a fire across the street...

[anieni.livejournal.com]

Hmm, from where I stand... this one was long time in coming! I remember a few things that were going on when I did actively participate in the "behind the scenes" at the MPA's hence I did not retunr the following year...

Anyhow I am sure you know where I stand on this. The important part for me is that we write together, nothing else matters and if we get taken down I could care less.

BTW I found the file!! We can keep writing now!

Lotsa love!