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May. 26th, 2006 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fairyd123A partial list of nominees is up for The Lawrence Awardsand I gotta say the list so far is really kinda interesting. I'm incredibly surprised at how many of the stories nominated I haven't read given how many hours a week I spend reading Supernatural fanfiction when I could be doing something much more exciting like having a life!
All the authors I would have expected to have been nominated have been:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eighth_horizon, traveller, maygra, trollprincess and whereupon but interestingly they haven't always been nominated for what in my humble opinion is their best work. The wonderful janissa11 was apparently nominated but has declined participation for understandable reasons in case anyone was wondering where her nominations were.
There are also some glaring omissions. No nomination for Family Comes First byethrosdemon for best original character (I struggle with het in the Supernatural universe so if you can manage to create a character as brilliantly realised as Becky - a character I would have been delighted to see live happily ever after with either Sam or Dean then you deserve all the cookies in the world as far as I'm concerned).
I also probably would have plumped for Cracked bywhereuponover her story By Pavlov's Dog for best episode based fiction.
The line between gen and slash also seems to be a little blurred in relation to some of the nominations.maygra's excellent Second Sight series has been nominated for Best Alternate Universe gen story even though its later chapters feature wincest. Lithium Doll's memorably unsettling The Thousand Ways to Bleed is up for best slash story overall even though whilst it does have a near kiss and mentions Dean's interest in Sam I would in no way call it a slash story (It would be far better placed in the horror category). Decomposure by paperbykwriter is up for best Dean story in the slash category even though that isn't a slash story. This blurring of the categories doesn't concern people like myself who geatly enjoy both slash and gen but there is a pretty vocal anti-wincest section of the fandom who might be a tad upset to see wincest stories labelled as gen.
This is only a provisional list and I'm sure everything will be sorted by the time the final list of nominees is published but its very interesting to see what people lable as a gen or slash story.
One rec:
More Glory to Their Eyes Than Blood byfryadvocate
I had been meaning to rec this before my computer went into meltdown and was prompted to do so by its well deserved nomination for best horror story in The Lawrence Awards. The piece is a future fic set post apocalypse where most of humanity has fallen prey to a deadly sickness and the survivors are menanced by a threat known as the jungle. What works so brilliantly well about this fic is that exposition is kept to an absolute minimum. The reader has no idea what caused the apocalypse, the specifics of the illness that infected everyone including poor Dean and who or what the "Jungle" is. Because the plot is so sparse the reader is left to conjure these details from their own imagination which is always a far more effective way of building up a sense of real horror. What we can imagine in our darkest moments is often far more frightening than spelling everything out on the page. We don't have a clue what the jungle is but we never doubt that it is a very real threat to our boys - its insidious presence permeates every line of the story.The imagery in the story is amazing - the dying girl whom Sam just leaves by the roadside, the description of the smell of Dean's rotting flesh, the drum beats which signle the presence of the jungle. The characterisation of Sam and Dean is also fascinating. This is a very different Sam than we are used to - far harder and colder. This is a man who is keeping Dean alive and with him through his abilities and sheer will power. More Glory to Their Eyes Than Blood is a very dark, bleak piece which leaves the reader with a sense of unease which lingers long after you've finished reading. Highly recommended.
All the authors I would have expected to have been nominated have been:
eighth_horizon, traveller, maygra, trollprincess and whereupon but interestingly they haven't always been nominated for what in my humble opinion is their best work. The wonderful janissa11 was apparently nominated but has declined participation for understandable reasons in case anyone was wondering where her nominations were.There are also some glaring omissions. No nomination for Family Comes First by
ethrosdemon for best original character (I struggle with het in the Supernatural universe so if you can manage to create a character as brilliantly realised as Becky - a character I would have been delighted to see live happily ever after with either Sam or Dean then you deserve all the cookies in the world as far as I'm concerned). I also probably would have plumped for Cracked by
whereuponover her story By Pavlov's Dog for best episode based fiction. The line between gen and slash also seems to be a little blurred in relation to some of the nominations.
maygra's excellent Second Sight series has been nominated for Best Alternate Universe gen story even though its later chapters feature wincest. Lithium Doll's memorably unsettling The Thousand Ways to Bleed is up for best slash story overall even though whilst it does have a near kiss and mentions Dean's interest in Sam I would in no way call it a slash story (It would be far better placed in the horror category). Decomposure by paperbykwriter is up for best Dean story in the slash category even though that isn't a slash story. This blurring of the categories doesn't concern people like myself who geatly enjoy both slash and gen but there is a pretty vocal anti-wincest section of the fandom who might be a tad upset to see wincest stories labelled as gen. This is only a provisional list and I'm sure everything will be sorted by the time the final list of nominees is published but its very interesting to see what people lable as a gen or slash story.
One rec:
More Glory to Their Eyes Than Blood by
fryadvocateI had been meaning to rec this before my computer went into meltdown and was prompted to do so by its well deserved nomination for best horror story in The Lawrence Awards. The piece is a future fic set post apocalypse where most of humanity has fallen prey to a deadly sickness and the survivors are menanced by a threat known as the jungle. What works so brilliantly well about this fic is that exposition is kept to an absolute minimum. The reader has no idea what caused the apocalypse, the specifics of the illness that infected everyone including poor Dean and who or what the "Jungle" is. Because the plot is so sparse the reader is left to conjure these details from their own imagination which is always a far more effective way of building up a sense of real horror. What we can imagine in our darkest moments is often far more frightening than spelling everything out on the page. We don't have a clue what the jungle is but we never doubt that it is a very real threat to our boys - its insidious presence permeates every line of the story.The imagery in the story is amazing - the dying girl whom Sam just leaves by the roadside, the description of the smell of Dean's rotting flesh, the drum beats which signle the presence of the jungle. The characterisation of Sam and Dean is also fascinating. This is a very different Sam than we are used to - far harder and colder. This is a man who is keeping Dean alive and with him through his abilities and sheer will power. More Glory to Their Eyes Than Blood is a very dark, bleak piece which leaves the reader with a sense of unease which lingers long after you've finished reading. Highly recommended.
