#detailed voting results

In a timely fashion and without any further ado: here’s the feedback for the April stories.

Below the cut you will find: a run-down of the bonus restriction points, individual feedback for the stories from the voters and a link to a sheet containing detailed reviews of every April submission, courtesy of our Monthlies Reviewing Club.

BONUS RESTRICTIONS

Points were being awarded for completing three different criteria: including in-universe writing as the story title, mentioning a bath (or bath-time activity) and including ’<pronoun> wait for <pronoun>’ in Elsa or Anna’s dialogue. Each restriction was worth one bonus favorite point for up to three extra points.

Stories awarded 3 extra points: My Heart’s Sitting on Go; Sunday Coffee and Cocoa; git stash chocolate; Vicious Creatures; The Angel On Her Shoulder; warming up cold bricks; Fire Coral; Cruel Summer; To Build a Home; Sun rings; You didn’t wait!; Literally; Winterbird; Linger; Terrible Things; Bright Green; Ground Beneath My Feet; 9A1F; The Ninth Wave; Pilgrims On A Long Journey; Brazen; I, Anna

Stories awarded 2 extra points: Ripples; Where is Home?; A series of complicated problems; 127.0.0.1

Stories awarded 1 extra point: IDK You Yet

The extra points have already been included on the results graph.

FEEDBACK AND REVIEWS

This month’s roster of 8 reviewers included: Antor2001, Jadeykins23, the-silliest-moon, @dont-tell-them-its-me, boubotte, @adoraslastbraincell, RationalToad, Yohixah, help-im-so-gay, onepenitentmore and@ice-bjorn.

The reviews can be read here. The nicknames listed above and on the sheet might not be the same, but the people are in the same order.

Individual stories feedback from the voters:

f = favorite vote, k = kudos vote

1: Ripples
Style 1 (1k)
Fits the prompt best 1 (1f)
Characterisation 2 (1f 1k)
Tone 2 (1f 1k)
Flow 1 (1f)
Plot 2 (1f 1k)
Setting/Universe 3 (2f 1k)

2: My Heart’s Sitting on Go
Style 2 (1f 1k)
Fits the prompt best 1 (1f)
Characterisation 6 (2f 4k)
Dialogues 7 (3f 4k)
Tone 1 (1k)
Flow 2 (1f 1k)
Plot 6 (3f 3k)
The story’s Elsa 1 (1k)
The story’s Anna 1 (1k)

3: Sunday Coffee and Cocoa
Style 2 (2k)
Fits the prompt best 1 (1f)
Characterisation 1 (1f)
Dialogues 2 (1f 1k)
Tone 3 (1f 2k)
Flow 3 (1f 2k)
Plot 1 (1f)
Setting/Universe 4 (3f 1k)

4: git stash chocolate
Style 3 (3f)
Characterisation 3 (3f)
Tone 2 (2f)
Flow 3 (3f)
Plot 3 (2f 1k)
Grammar 1 (1f)
The story’s Elsa 5 (3f 2k)
The story’s Anna 2 (1f 1k)
Setting/Universe 2 (2f)
Other (1f):
- very inventive

5: Where is Home?
Style 3 (2f 1k)
Characterisation 4 (2f 2k)
Dialogues 1 (1f)
Tone 5 (2f 3k)
Flow 2 (2f)
Plot 3 (2f 1k)
Grammar 1 (1f)
The story’s Elsa 3 (1f 2k)
Setting/Universe 5 (3f 2k)
Total other: 2
Other (1f):
- Very cute and simple story. It was pleasant to read.
Other (1k):
- While Anna is largely absent (understandably), I enjoyed this insight into an immortal Elsa’s mind.

6: A series of complicated problems
Style 3 (3f)
Fits the prompt best 1 (1f)
Characterisation 7 (3f 4k)
Dialogues 6 (3f 3k)
Tone 5 (3f 2k)
Flow 4 (2f 2k)
Plot 8 (3f 5k)
Grammar 2 (1f 1k)
The story’s Elsa 3 (2f 1k)
The story’s Anna 3 (2f 1k)
Total other: 3
Other (1f):
- Gayduna
Other (2k):
- Why not, this is a scenario I’ve always thunk in my head and I’m happy someone finally wrote it.
- it’s fresh and original

7: Vicious Creatures
Style 8 (3f 5k)
Characterisation 11 (7f 4k)
Dialogues 5 (1f 4k)
Tone 3 (1f 2k)
Flow 6 (3f 3k)
Plot 11 (7f 4k)
The story’s Elsa 4 (2f 2k)
The story’s Anna 4 (2f 2k)
Setting/Universe 11 (6f 5k)

8: The Angel On Her Shoulder
Style 9 (6f 3k)
Fits the prompt best 1 (1f)
Characterisation 6 (5f 1k)
Dialogues 3 (3f)
Tone 5 (3f 2k)
Flow 8 (6f 2k)
Plot 9 (7f 2k)
Grammar 1 (1f)
The story’s Elsa 1 (1f)
The story’s Anna 1 (1f)
Setting/Universe 4 (3f 1k)
Other (4f):
- The story is well-structured, and while the twist is not something surprising it is delivered in a satisfying manner.
- the twist
- Hoo boy. That was a wild rild. I loved this story, it’s verh intriguing and i definitely didn’t expect that twist towards the end. The author did a good job in capturing Elsa’s grief.
- Omg. This is good!!

9: warming up cold bricks
Style 2 (1f 1k)
Tone 3 (2f 1k)
Flow 2 (1f 1k)
Plot 3 (2f 1k)
Setting/Universe 2 (1f 1k)
Other (1k):
- Very interesting premise and not one that I see often in this fandom.

10: IDK You Yet
Style 1 (1k)
Characterisation 1 (1k)
Dialogues 1 (1k)
Tone 1 (1k)
Plot 2 (2k)
Setting/Universe 1 (1k)

11: Fire Coral
Style 12 (7f 5k)
Fits the prompt best 1 (1f)
Characterisation 10 (5f 5k)
Dialogues 7 (4f 3k)
Tone 3 (1f 2k)
Flow 7 (4f 3k)
Plot 16 (8f 8k)
Grammar 2 (1f 1k)
The story’s Elsa 5 (2f 3k)
The story’s Anna 5 (3f 2k)
Setting/Universe 9 (4f 5k)

12: Cruel Summer
Style 2 (1f 1k)
Characterisation 1 (1f)
Dialogues 1 (1f)
Tone 1 (1f)
Plot 1 (1f)
Grammar 1 (1f)

13: To Build a Home
Style 14 (8f 6k)
Fits the prompt best 17 (12f 5k)
Characterisation 13 (8f 5k)
Dialogues 11 (8f 3k)
Tone 13 (9f 4k)
Flow 11 (6f 5k)
Plot 21 (11f 10k)
Grammar 1 (1f)
The story’s Elsa 3 (3f)
The story’s Anna 5 (4f 1k)
Setting/Universe 2 (2f)
Other (4f):
- Mature writing, pacing and flow are very well done.
- The way the story unfolds and gradually works in the events of the past to show why they are so strange with each other in the present… it’s just beautiful.
- Top tier angst/feels. Nailed the prompt. Liked the parallels between fixing the home and fixing their relationship.
- One of the most natural depictions of their relationship this month. The story also follows a neat structure of events that unravel the past through present in a non-immersion-breaking way.

14: Sun rings
Plot 2 (2k)
The story’s Elsa 1 (1k)
The story’s Anna 1 (1k)
Setting/Universe 4 (1f 3k)

15: You didn’t wait!
Style 4 (2f 2k)
Characterisation 2 (1f 1k)
Dialogues 3 (1f 2k)
Tone 4 (2f 2k)
Flow 3 (1f 2k)
Plot 1 (1k)
Grammar 2 (1f 1k)
Other (2f):
- I know that other more serious stories probably deserve my votes more, you know? But like crack fics just have a special place in my heart.
- it was funny

16: Literally
Style 6 (6f)
Fits the prompt best 2 (2f)
Characterisation 2 (2f)
Dialogues 2 (2f)
Tone 6 (6f)
Flow 5 (5f)
Plot 6 (6f)
Grammar 4 (4f)
The story’s Anna 1 (1f)
Setting/Universe 3 (3f)
Other (3f):
- it’s funny and clever!
- It leaves you with something to think about.
- I love that plottwist, this felt like a serious crack fic with a punch.

17: 127.0.0.1
Style 4 (3f 1k)
Fits the prompt best 2 (2f)
Characterisation 2 (2f)
Dialogues 4 (2f 2k)
Tone 6 (4f 2k)
Flow 2 (2f)
Plot 4 (4f)
Grammar 1 (1f)
The story’s Elsa 2 (2f)
The story’s Anna 2 (2f)
Setting/Universe 1 (1f)
Other (2f):
- Quality over quantity, creative and original take on the prompt.
- A really cute little story, read it multiple times and every time it made me smile genuinely. It is almost like a real day of their life.

18: Winterbird
Style 4 (2f 2k)
Characterisation 2 (2f)
Dialogues 1 (1k)
Tone 3 (1f 2k)
Flow 2 (2f)
Plot 10 (4f 6k)
The story’s Elsa 4 (2f 2k)
The story’s Anna 2 (1f 1k)
Setting/Universe 3 (2f 1k)
Other (1k):
- I enjoyed the feels and the portrayal of their relationship. I liked the unexpected include of magic.

19: Linger
Style 6 (5f 1k)
Fits the prompt best 1 (1f)
Characterisation 1 (1k)
Dialogues 1 (1f)
Tone 8 (6f 2k)
Flow 6 (4f 2k)
Plot 2 (1f 1k)
Grammar 2 (2f)
The story’s Elsa 2 (2f)

20: Terrible Things
Style 9 (4f 5k)
Fits the prompt best 7 (4f 3k)
Characterisation 9 (6f 3k)
Dialogues 7 (1f 6k)
Tone 8 (3f 5k)
Flow 5 (2f 3k)
Plot 11 (6f 5k)
Grammar 3 (1f 2k)
The story’s Elsa 7 (5f 2k)
The story’s Anna 9 (5f 4k)
Setting/Universe 3 (3k)
Total other: 2
Other (1f):
- really well written
Other (1k):
- The story is has too much angst, I love it.

21: Bright Green
Style 1 (1k)
Characterisation 1 (1k)
Dialogues 1 (1k)
Plot 1 (1f)
The story’s Elsa 1 (1k)
The story’s Anna 1 (1k)
Setting/Universe 4 (1f 3k)

22: Ground Beneath My Feet
Style 6 (5f 1k)
Fits the prompt best 3 (3f)
Characterisation 5 (4f 1k)
Dialogues 6 (6f)
Tone 3 (3f)
Flow 3 (3f)
Plot 11 (6f 5k)
Grammar 3 (2f 1k)
The story’s Elsa 5 (4f 1k)
The story’s Anna 3 (3f)
Setting/Universe 12 (8f 4k)
Other (1f):
- Loved the setting and universe. I enjoyed the novelty of seeing them fall in love separated by so much distance.

23: 9A1F
Plot 1 (1f)

24: The Ninth Wave
Style 2 (1f 1k)
Fits the prompt best 1 (1f)
Characterisation 1 (1f)
Tone 2 (1f 1k)
Flow 2 (1f 1k)
Plot 3 (1f 2k)
Grammar 1 (1f)
Setting/Universe 1 (1k)

25: Pilgrims On A Long Journey
Style 2 (2f)
Fits the prompt best 1 (1f)
Characterisation 3 (3f)
Tone 2 (2f)
Flow 1 (1f)
Plot 4 (2f 2k)
The story’s Elsa 1 (1f)
The story’s Anna 1 (1f)

26: Brazen
Style 8 (1f 7k)
Fits the prompt best 1 (1k)
Characterisation 6 (1f 5k)
Dialogues 2 (2k)
Tone 5 (5k)
Flow 6 (6k)
Plot 6 (1f 5k)
Grammar 1 (1k)
The story’s Elsa 1 (1k)
The story’s Anna 4 (4k)
Setting/Universe 6 (1f 5k)
Other (1k):
- First person Kristoff is fun. You really feel for the plight of these girls. The unclear ‘resolution’ makes my heart ache.

27: I, Anna
Style 1 (1k)
Plot 1 (1k)
Setting/Universe 1 (1k)

After ridiculously bad technical difficulties (the mod responsible for taking care of this moved and had no/very poor access to the internet for quite a while, sorry!) we are finally able to present to you the feedback for the February stories.

Below the cut you will find: a run-down of the bonus restriction points, individual feedback for the stories from the voters and a link to a sheet containing detailed reviews of every February submission, courtesy of our Monthlies Reviewing Club.

BONUS RESTRICTIONS

Points were being awarded for completing three different criteria: using a song title or lyrics as the story title, mentioning a mountain view and including the words ‘forever’ and ‘never’ in one person’s dialogue. Each restriction was worth one bonus favorite point for up to three extra points.

Stories awarded 3 extra points: Have you ever, Your Heart Will Fly on Wings, Sleeping in the cold below, Grave Digger, Circles, Learn to be Lonely, La Petite Mort, Never Take a Chance on Me, Nothing Else Matters., The Ocean, This is how it works, Holy Mountains, Welcome to New York

Stories awarded 2 extra points: Lyfjaberg

Stories awarded 1 extra point: obfuscated., Kvitravn

The extra points have already been included on the results graph.

FEEDBACK AND REVIEWS

This month’s roster of 8 reviewers included: Machine, Jadeykins23, the-silliest-moon, Antor2001, KnightSolaire @dont-tell-them-its-me and @the-magic-one-is-you. 

The reviews can be read here. The nicknames listed above and on the sheet might not be the same, but the people are in the same order.

Individual stories feedback from the voters:

f = favorite vote, k = kudos vote

1: Have you ever
Style 7 (2f 5k)
Fits the prompt best 2 (2f)
Characterisation 1 (1k)
Dialogues 4 (1f 3k)
Tone 3 (2f 1k)
I like the flow of the story 4 (2f 2k)
Plot 3 (1f 2k)
Grammar 1 (1k)
The story’s Elsa 3 (3k)
The story’s Anna 1 (1k)
Setting/Universe 4 (2f 2k)
Other (1f):
- wow this was a haunting beautiful story

2: Your Heart Will Fly on Wings
Style 4 (4k)
Characterisation 2 (2k)
Dialogues 3 (3k)
Tone 1 (1f)
I like the flow of the story 3 (1f 2k)
Plot 4 (1f 3k)
The story’s Elsa 1 (1k)
The story’s Anna 2 (2k)
Setting/Universe 5 (5k)
Other (1k):
- really liked the writing style

3: obfuscated.
Style 4 (4k)
Characterisation 1 (1k)
Tone 2 (2k)
I like the flow of the story 1 (1k)
Plot 1 (1k)
The story’s Anna 1 (1k)
Setting/Universe 1 (1k)
Other (2k):
- love me some psychological horror, and the vibes here are immaculate. fic was unsettling right off the bat; the portrayal of elsa’s mental state, especially her disintegrating memories of anna, were so so good. the let it go lyrics at the end made me swear out loud.
- The twist

4: Sleeping in the cold below
Style 3 (2f 1k)
Fits the prompt best 2 (2f)
Characterisation 2 (2f)
Dialogues 2 (2f)
Tone 2 (2f)
I like the flow of the story 2 (2f)
Plot 2 (2f)
Grammar 2 (2f)
The story’s Elsa 3 (2f 1k)
The story’s Anna 2 (1f 1k)
Setting/Universe 4 (2f 2k)
Other (2f):
- I like the story, it has a great I like the flow of the story of the plot from mystery to how the characters interact with each other
- I love the worldbuilding for this.

5: Grave Digger
Style 4 (3f 1k)
Fits the prompt best 1 (1f)
Characterisation 4 (4f)
Dialogues 3 (3f)
Tone 1 (1f)
I like the flow of the story 2 (2f)
Plot 4 (2f 2k)
Grammar 1 (1f)
The story’s Elsa 2 (2f)
Setting/Universe 6 (4f 2k)

6: Circles
Style 15 (5f 10k)
Fits the prompt best 6 (4f 2k)
Characterisation 19 (9f 10k)
Dialogues 16 (8f 8k)
Tone 13 (6f 7k)
I like the flow of the story 10 (4f 6k)
Plot 24 (10f 14k)
Grammar 3 (3f)
The story’s Elsa 8 (2f 6k)
The story’s Anna 15 (8f 7k)
Setting/Universe 10 (5f 5k)
Total other: 3
Other (1f):
- The story hit close to home
Other (2k):
- I personally related to Anna’s situations in this story and it made me feel things.
- great integration of both the surface lyrics and meaning of the song into the fic. extremely detailed setting and chars. lovely scene breaks. very well written!

7: Learn to be Lonely
Style 16 (7f 9k)
Fits the prompt best 6 (5f 1k)
Characterisation 12 (5f 7k)
Dialogues 8 (5f 3k)
Tone 8 (5f 3k)
I like the flow of the story 8 (4f 4k)
Plot 10 (6f 4k)
Grammar 3 (3f)
The story’s Elsa 7 (5f 2k)
The story’s Anna 10 (6f 4k)
Setting/Universe 6 (1f 5k)
Total other: 3
Other (1f):
- Just a wonderful story!
Other (2k):
- Anna was well written
- The Premise really carried this one and that’s okay I love it.

8: La Petite Mort
Style 3 (1f 2k)
Characterisation 4 (1f 3k)
Dialogues 3 (1f 2k)
Tone 2 (1f 1k)
I like the flow of the story 4 (4k)
Plot 6 (1f 5k)
Grammar 1 (1k)
Setting/Universe 3 (1f 2k)
Other (1f):
- just send me to horny jail i guess

9: Never Take a Chance on Me
Style 6 (5f 1k)
Fits the prompt best 3 (2f 1k)
Characterisation 10 (6f 4k)
Dialogues 7 (3f 4k)
Tone 4 (1f 3k)
I like the flow of the story 5 (3f 2k)
Plot 10 (7f 3k)
The story’s Elsa 4 (2f 2k)
The story’s Anna 3 (2f 1k)
Setting/Universe 3 (1f 2k)
Total other: 2
Other (1f):
- Hans was believable, cute fake dating
Other (1k):
- Hayle Kyoko is gay as fuck, I love her songs

10: Nothing else matters.
Style 2 (2f)
Fits the prompt best 1 (1f)
Characterisation 3 (3f)
Dialogues 2 (2f)
Tone 2 (1f 1k)
I like the flow of the story 3 (2f 1k)
Plot 2 (2k)
The story’s Elsa 2 (2f)
The story’s Anna 3 (3f)
Setting/Universe 2 (1f 1k)

11: The Ocean
Style 19 (8f 11k)
Fits the prompt best 10 (5f 5k)
Characterisation 15 (7f 8k)
Dialogues 12 (4f 8k)
Tone 15 (6f 9k)
I like the flow of the story 13 (7f 6k)
Plot 15 (8f 7k)
Grammar 6 (2f 4k)
The story’s Elsa 13 (5f 8k)
The story’s Anna 14 (6f 8k)
Setting/Universe 13 (6f 7k)
Total other: 3
Other (1f):
- i like hurt/comfort and i cannot lie. GREAT use of ‘never’, and other prompts. interesting setting and char backgrounds. effortless exposition.
Other (2k):
- It had a good I like the flow of the story and pattern of events. Elsa is a little bit OOC but I think it fits better with the settings.
- This was honesty really good.

12: Lyfjaberg
Style 1 (1k)
Tone 1 (1k)
I like the flow of the story 1 (1k)
Plot 1 (1k)
The story’s Elsa 2 (2k)
Setting/Universe 4 (4k)

13: This is how it works
Style 5 (1f 4k)
Characterisation 3 (1f 2k)
Dialogues 8 (1f 7k)
Tone 7 (1f 6k)
I like the flow of the story 3 (1f 2k)
Plot 3 (3k)
The story’s Elsa 3 (1f 2k)
The story’s Anna 4 (1f 3k)
Setting/Universe 2 (1f 1k)
Other (1k):
- I have never seen a story like this, I really like this style!

14: Holy Mountains
Style 3 (3k)
Characterisation 2 (2k)
Dialogues 1 (1k)
Tone 3 (3k)
I like the flow of the story 2 (2k)
Plot 2 (2k)
Grammar 1 (1k)
The story’s Elsa 1 (1k)
The story’s Anna 1 (1k)
Setting/Universe 2 (2k)
Other (1k):
- It read like an old tale, which I adored.

15: Welcome to New York
Style 4 (2f 2k)
Characterisation 2 (1f 1k)
Dialogues 4 (2f 2k)
Tone 1 (1k)
Plot 4 (1f 3k)
The story’s Elsa 3 (1f 2k)
The story’s Anna 2 (1f 1k)
Setting/Universe 2 (1f 1k)
Other (1k):
- A nice fluff story

16: Kvitravn
Style 1 (1k)
Tone 1 (1k)
I like the flow of the story 1 (1k)
Setting/Universe 2 (2k)