~*~ The 2020 Favorites of Fanfic Social Thread ~*~ Who's ready to celebrate?!

Hello, fellow fanficers!

This is the place to socialize and ask questions about the Favorites of FanFic Festival. (If you don't know what the heck we are talking about, see the Favorites of FanFic Festival 2020 post.) But, as usual, there are a few rules to cover, first.

Man, those mods always have rules.

• TOS, as always, applies. (But you knew that already, didn't you?)

• Absolutely NO negative comments.
  • If you don't agree with the story someone posted/don't think it fits the category, keep it to yourself.

• Absolutely YES to thanking people for putting forth your story. (You may also do this in your story thread, but you can only do that once, so if your story gets put forth again for another category and you've already thanked in your story thread, you may not do it again.)

• This isn't the general social thread, so please keep non-FanFic Festival chatter to a minimum.
  • Role playing as your screen name at a FanFic Fest is allowed. Creativity as to what the Fest would look like and how people should dress is encouraged. Have fun! If you would like to make little skits a la the awards, that is fine too.

• Please no asking for people to put forth your stories, nor 'woe is me, my stories aren't being put forth' type posts. We know there is a bit of popularity to this type of thing, we've tried to get rid of as much of it as possible, but we can't get rid of it entirely. We know it sucks to not have your work recognised. It is NOT a testament to your abilities as a writer. Don't get discouraged. Instead, jump in and recognise someone you think might be in the same boat!

And now, let's have some fun!

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So happy we are having this wonderful event again this year

I'm excited to see what stories will get nominated for all the different categories.

There were so many awesome stories produced this year. It'll be great to see them all recognized

 

Me too! I’m ready to celebrate! I look forward to this each year, and goodness knows we could all use some festivities right about now.

So, here’s a question that came to mind for me. We had both the Fanfic Olympics and an Ultimate Drabble Challenge this year, both which generated a lot of truly amazing work—but it’s hard to know how to classify people’s entries in those according to the current categories. Can we count those in the word count categories as multichapters, etc.? Or series? Or either, depending on the category? If you like (say) the way a particular character was portrayed in one of them, could you nominate the whole thing? (For example, if Writer1 wrote a Ree-Yees pentathlon titled “Ree-Yees Rocks,” could Writer2 make, say, one of their Favorite Movie Character nominations “Ree-Yees in ‘Ree-Yees Rocks' by Writer1”?)

Thanks much, and looking forward to this, as always!

 

That's a good tip for classifying entries to things like the Fanfic Olympics, and I definitely want to nominate some of the amazing stories that were written for that event since some of them were simply spectacular.

On that note, it feels like many years ago that I hosted the Fanfic Olympics even though it was only months ago back in the summer.

2020 really was the year that lasted about 20 years in my head...The year that never ended...But thank the Force it is over now, and I can celebrate the fic produced in that crazy year.

 

Oh, but I feel your pain. I swear that I scaled my banner down to 300x50 at one point last week, and it was still blown up ridiculously large. And then, to boot, it was grainy and pixilated because the image was so small. The boards do what the boards want to do. It's part of the fun of the Festival at this point. Just sit back and watch the mods struggle with the banners.

 

You are so welcome, @divapilot! Your work is awesome and more than worthy, and we are blessed to have you—and it—here on the boards.

So, I have a question about this week’s “New Canon/Legends Mash-up or Cross-Over” category: I’m looking at the part of the definition from the rules post that applies to the “New Canon/Legends Mash-up” part...

...and I’m wondering, would we count in that a drabble thread that includes some Legends-based “weeks” and some NuCanon-based “weeks,” even if those individual weeks don’t necessarily feature mixed elements? Or is it necessary that the NuCanon and Legends elements be combined within the same story/chapter/drabble week? Just checking—thanks for any advice you may be able to offer!

 

Oh, I realize I have been remiss in my thank you's!

Well, better late than never, right?

So, a humble thank you to:

@Findswoman
@AzureAngel2
@Raissa Baiard
@Seldes_Katne
@Bel505
@WarmNyota_SweetAyesha
@amidalachick
@Kahara
@gizkaspice
As well as anyone who submitted my stories anonymously via PM

For nominating me in the story and/or author categories. I truly appreciate your support as well as the support that I receive from readers and reviewers all year round, which makes this place such a great environment for encouraging my creativity and sharing the results of my creativity when my muse cooperates!

I also want to congratulate and thank all the other authors who were nominated in the story and/or author categories for their amazing contributions to Star Wars and non Star Wars fan fiction this year. I look forward to seeing all the fanfic everyone will produce in 2021!

And a special shoutout to the people who were nominated in the reviewer categories. Your generosity and thoughtfulness in giving reviews is appreciated by every fanfic author on this site, I am sure.

Also, I wanted to give a big thank you to our lovely mods, @Mira_Jade, @Briannakin, and @mavjade for not only hosting this event but also other fun challenges throughout the year and for making this place one of the best spots to post and talk about fanfic on the whole Internet.

So, big but socially distant, virtual hugs all around to everybody

And that is my better late than never thank you's!