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What Meridian said. For what it's worth, I was deeply flattered that people liked my fic enough to nominate it. Votes? I genuinely wouldn't have cared. There are better authors than me in the fandom. I've deleted everything else I typed because I don't think it's possible to say it without offending someone. Maddy, SJ, I'm sorry if I have made your life difficult. It didn't even occur to me that briefly saying why I like a fic was wrong. I'll be over at yahoogroups.

Look, if people are going to turn round and say "I don't want to be nominated", then this basically becomes nonsense - not least because half the fandom's going to say "oh x only won because y pulled out". In that situation, how would you like to be x? I'm _already_ in that situation. I'm not nominating fics to be nice to their authors - that's a side-effect. I'm nominating fics I've loved and think are wonderful above all others, and I'm posting links to them. I'm sorry to be blunt, but I don't need an author's permission to do that and I won't ask for it. It's _always_ acceptable to tell other people what your favourite story is which is freely posted on the internet, and it's _always_ acceptable to link to it. And that's all anyone here is doing. I would not have come over here if I've known this was going to turn into something where people _chose_ whether we were allowed to say we thought their fics were good, and which is fast turning into a contest of who nobly pulls out (because they have accepted that other writers are better) and who selfishly leaves their nomination listed (because they are arrogant). I'm afraid I'm simply bemused by the "can't nominate without leaving someone out" comments. If this is a "let's tell _everyone_ they're the best" set of awards there's no point having it. Just give everyone a fancy graphic and be done with it. You can like someone's story without thinking it's the best one you've ever read, and you shouldn't be ashamed to do it. I've loved a _lot_ of stories I have no plans to nominate, because there are better ones out there. I fully expect the vast majority of mine to be in that category too. Someone once told me one of my fics was the best Princess story they'd ever read. I was deeply flattered...and strongly tempted to send her a list of stories I thought were better. I'd thought the nominations here would be the total of everyone's lists. Cath, disappointed.

Ooh, I have an avatar! Cath is having fun. While contemplating seventy-one pages of beta-read fic to fix. I'm gonna go back to those thousand word stories.

When I see there's an update to this, I drop everything and go read it. I've been living in fear that Jay's not going to make it for the last five years. Defiance, by Katharine Foust-Martin. [URL=http://www.gatchfanfic.com/viewstory.php?sid=128]It's here.[/URL]

Hi everyone! Thanks for the welcome. (And what an astonishing collection of smilies!)