Dokuga Awards: 1st Quarter 2009 Results

[luxken27]

Voting has ended for the first quarter over at Dokuga! Here is the winner's list -

1st Quarter 2009 Winners

I'm pleased to see that two of my fics placed in their respective categories (out of four nominations): Fleeting came in 3rd place for Best AU/AR, while "Promise" was voted 3rd Place for Best Drabble.

Even more exciting for me, several of my nominees won or placed in their respective categories!!

Best Canon: 2nd Place, Cravings by hikari_hime_73
Best Darkfic: 1st Place, Whispers Behind Rice Paper Walls by hikari_hime_73
Best Drabble: 1st Place, "Too Late" by piratequeen0405
Best Drama: 2nd Place, Whispers Behind Rice Paper Walls by hikari_hime_73
Best Sess/Kag Artwork: 2nd Place, Raindrops 5 Cover by Youkai Yume

Congrats, ladies! I'm honored to have nominated such awesome work :)

Congrats to everyone on my f-list who won or placed: tallymark, piratequeen0405, hikari_hime_73, jennabean_dp and pos_sess_ed!!

Comments

[luxken27]

Thanks! :)

Yes, if the vote numbers are in the ( ), then that is a pretty small turnout for this rather large and lively group. But nothing terribly surprising.

Some of the results made me grind my teeth (not because I lost, or any of my noms did, but just a bit of...WTF ARGH), but that's life. *shrug* I've accepted that I'm on the fringes of this particular corner of fandom, and am content to be happy for those people whose work I enjoy who are actually in the thick of things :)

[landofthekwt.livejournal.com]

I guess I was not surprised at the results. I started reading SK over at IYFG
so that I could vote on those stories. I continued the practice of reading award stories and my friends stories. There may be stories that I do not like but if you look at the number of reads you knew that they were going to win from sheer volume. It is really not a surprise that familiar names such as
Lady Battousai, forthright, Priestess Skye, youkaiyoume, piratequeen0405,ilovesilverhair.tallymark, rosieb and elegant paws won awards.
They have also won awards outside SK. I think that you are more familiar than you would think. Many of your votes probably came from the same people who vote for the Weekly Perfection. They have awarded you many banners there and were happy to vote for you at Dokuga Awards.

[luxken27]

There may be stories that I do not like but if you look at the number of reads you knew that they were going to win from sheer volume.

The results didn't really surprise me, but that doesn't mean a few of them didn't make me go ... o.O RLY? But I mean, let's face it, all any awards group really does (no matter what they assert) is essentially award popularity. And that's fine - I'm not saying anybody who won/placed is not worthy of their awards here.

I think that you are more familiar than you would think. Many of your votes probably came from the same people who vote for the Weekly Perfection. They have awarded you many banners there and were happy to vote for you at Dokuga Awards.

Yes, Langus told me I was old hat at Sess/Kag by now, to which I literally went, "Uh, what? Really?!" I don't consider myself a fandom veteran yet, much less an expert at a pairing I've only been writing half my time here!

I know I'm sounding more and more ungrateful as this thread goes on, but that is entirely on my own head. *hangs head* The people at the dokuga_contest group are, on the whole, fabulous. A couple of them supported me right from the start, and were part of the reason I ultimately decided to stay, despite some...troubles I ran into behind the scenes there. I don't think there's that much overlap between said group and the website, however - the people who write for the group and won big on the website also have *huge* followings outside of LJ.

Whoever nominated/voted for me does, of course, have my undying gratitude and support - I would hope that goes without saying :) If I'm more well-known than I think, its only because I don't see any familiarity reflected back at me in number of reads or amount of feedback I receive on that particular site.