#hugo award

luckthebard:

luckthebard:

Congrats to everyone who’s ever written something and posted it on AO3 on your Hugo Award nomination.

(The entirety of AO3 was nominated in the “Related Works” category, so technically everyone who’s contributed to the Archive is a nominee.)

Time to finally update this post and say congrats again because

AO3 JUST WON THE HUGO!

(Most congrats to the creators and volunteers who run the site, who also asked every fanfic writer in attendance to stand and co-accept the award.)

This is a big deal. It really is, for a form of writing that can often be seen as less than it is. As embarassing. Fanfiction is composed by an unbelievable community of writers who put their hands to a keyboard and wrote something, anything. Because we wanted to. Because the story was missing, be that a crack fic, a fix-it, or a marginalized group of people making themselves heard. To every fucking person in an English class, proffesor and student alike, who kept trying to tell me with some serious twenty first century angst that “reading was dead”. No. We moved. Readers moved. We made our own shit, for ourselves. Because we wanted to. Because it is tiring to read books written by old white men, because fanfiction taught me more about life than most serious literature (like don’t get me wrong that’s still some good shit, but it didn’t exactly speak to me when I was a twelve year old girl and it still doesn’t now). Fanfiction deserves that award. Ao3 deserves that award.

I’d like to say a massive, and heartfelt THANK YOU to the people who made  Ao3. Thank you for giving us a place to post and/or read fanfiction. You built us the best boat, mansion, castle, community, and you made it free. I know fuck-all about computer stuff but what I do know is that the platform is well moderated and easy to use…even for my illiterate ass. So thank you *I will be crying about this for five thousand years*.