Buffyverse Top 5 reminder

Just a quick drive by to remind folks that the buffyversetop5 is taking recs for your top 5 fics/art/icons-- by genre, pairing, author, Anything. I'm not seeing as many posts this year, certainly not a lot of Giles Love. I need to get in there and rec the top 5 fics I judged/nominated for awards last year-- those links should be easy to find. Getting the time and energy to hunt them down is a pain, though.

Anyway, it runs now to January 20th, so if there was something outstanding you saw in the Buffy/Firefly fandom last year, by all means join the comm and post your recs-- or shoot them my way and I'll do it. More info can be found at the comm, on the link "What's the Sitch".

I better get back to work now. That is all.

Oh-- if anyone is interested, I posted "Through a Glass Darkly" on ff dot net this weekend. So there's a nice shiny new link for that one. The White on Black at Of Demons and Destiny hurts my eyes, really. I'll put up my other Buffy stuff there eventually, if only to have it archived somewhere in case LJ (heaven forfend) ever pulls a Greatest Journal on us. If you want to kill some time, the Cat/ Other LOL macros in the comments pages are mostly hilarious. Thanks to liz_marcs for the heads up on the Implosion of an apparently not viable alternative to LJ.

Buffyverse Top 5 links - Award Winners, or deserved to win

Cross-posted to buffyversetop5.

Here's 5 (more or less) fics I found outstanding this year, some because I stumbled across them as a fanfic judge. See? No Good deed ever goes unpunished. Or something like that.

( Blood Oranges, by theblackmare )

For the rest of these, I can lift from my judges comments. (There was concrit, too. If I judged you for SOTHA or Lie to Me Round 7 last year, and you never got my comments, ask and ye shall receive. Even if I was mean, concrit is concrit. Just don't hurl rocks through my window or anything. Drop by my journal later and I'll post the categories I judged on those. I won't share scores, just the comments I wished I could leave at the time.)

( Talking Heads, by washaway )

( Undercover, by lorelei_frolick )

( Old Bronze, by D M Evans )

And last but not least, something I didn't judge or get around to nominating, but which I recc'ed earlier in the year on my journal:

( There Should Have Been Trumpets, by rahirah )

( And I'll slip in a bonus 6th rec: Moon Magic by lit_gal. )

ETA: Is someone putting together a top5 of antennapedia's fics? I don't have time right now to look up links or anything, but I hope one of our mutual friends takes it up as a public service.

What I judged last year in the Buffyverse

As promised, here's the list of Buffy Fanfic Awards sections I judged last year. I was not the only judge in any category. As I said, I will not reveal scores/ranking I assigned to any fics. But if you were the author of one of the nominated fics, I'd be happy to shoot you an e-mail with my concrit/ reaction to it. Even the fics I did not much like/ did not quite get had things to teach me, and I thank all of the writers for sharing their talents with the fandom.

Lie to Me Awards
Laugh, Cheer, Smile
Mission Impossible
It's Not Fair
Loner Side of Sunnydale

SOTHA awards (Serenity on the Hellmouth)
Jenny
Lorne
Giles/Ripper

Note that a fic may have been nominated in more than one category.

I enjoyed the experience, even if I felt a bit out of my depth at first. I'd certainly do it again, if asked.

And in a totally unrelated bit of news, Wee Hob was in bed tonight by 6. No idea what's going on with him. I've got him an appointment with the doctor (therapist) this week. Certainly odd sleeping habits will be reported.