Pimpin' like a big pimpin' thing!

[tielan]

The Isis Awards are open for voting.

The nominated stories are up for reading and voting on until the 30th April.

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The jt_sga_awards are holding a banner-making contest for the awards. Nominations and submissions are due by the 4th May.

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I understand the auficathon is welcoming all pairings. Personally, I'd love to see someone (other than me) write a John/Teyla AU. I realise that none of the comms involved are explicitly John/Teyla friendly which is both intimidating and inhibitive, but it would be nice to see someone else buck the trend.

On the other hand, I'm not signing up this year because I already have all the crackerrific fic I can handle and don't need any more, which means I'm asking someone else to do what I'm not and isn't really fair.

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And, speaking of crackfic... A new chapter of 'In The Game' will shortly be up. It's getting laundered over at the beta's, and will hopefully be back by the end of the week.

I'm actually a little sad about In The Game. It answers a lot of questions that Wrong Kind Of Guy left hanging, has a strong team-orientation, and is much stronger plotwise and in the way it handles the situation resolution, even if it takes longer to build and isn't quite so angsty. Unfortunately, the pairing works against it: it's unlikely to be fully appreciated, let alone popular.

Oh well. We write on.

Comments

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Dude, I write the popular pairings and I'm not popular.

But last year at Isis time, I got Ronon/Elizabeth to check and instead of just skimming through To Serve A Queen, I actually read it in it's entirety because even though I ship Sparky, it was amazing. I feel much the same way about In the Game.

You can't write for the reviews, dear. You have to write for people like me, who'll read you anyway. :)

[tielan]

Actually, I write for me. :)

*hugs*

But I won't deny that the reviews and feedback are nice incentive.

For me, the matter of 'the popularity of a story based on its pairing' is never a maker or a breaker as to whether I'll write it or not. Still, the disappointment in fans and fandom remains, an emotional reaction over which I have no conscious control.

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

Actually, I write for me. :)

I meant to imply that...

Just remember that you do reach through the fog of fandom on occaision.

[tielan]

I know. You and maybe one or two others are priceless gems of readers to me. (Yes, readers can be gems, too!)

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

I am really looking forward to more "In The Game". I am on such an AU kick for Atlantis right now!

[raisintorte.livejournal.com]

I did the auficathon last year and enjoyed it. I ended up writing Sam/Daniel in one of the Sam/Jack friendly AUs. Whoops. I would love to sign up again, but I already have a ficathon and that other project on my plate - which is about as much as I can handle.

Unfortunately, the pairing works against it: it's unlikely to be fully appreciated, let alone popular.

That's the sucky part about being in a fandom where one pairing eclipses everything else.

[madjm.livejournal.com]

More "In the Game"! Yay!

*is excited*

[jeyla4ever.livejournal.com]

Oh, stop whining and just post In The Game...WOOOHOOO!