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Hi everyone. I just joined the list and I'm looking forward to
participating. I haven't read a whole lot of fanfiction, so I won't
be able to nominate much, but I plan to read nominated stories and vote.

I'm not an artist, but I like to play around with graphics programs,
so I put together a banner for the Indiana Jones award, and will be
doing matching ones for the other two crossover awards.

I can count votes, if you still need people for that.

Elana

> -----Original Message-----
> From: angelabrooks@yahoo.com [mailto:angelabrooks@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 4:08 AM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MEFAwards] Introduction
>
> Hi everyone. I just joined the list and I'm looking forward
> to participating. I haven't read a whole lot of fanfiction,
> so I won't be able to nominate much, but I plan to read
> nominated stories and vote.

Well we can certainly help with the problem of not having read much.... By
the end of these awards, you'll have read plenty! ;-)

> I'm not an artist, but I like to play around with graphics
> programs, so I put together a banner for the Indiana Jones
> award, and will be doing matching ones for the other two
> crossover awards.

Woohoo! I love it! And you caught on easily to why the Awards in that
category are named the way they are! I"ve moved it into a subfolder for the
Indy award and changed the title info to match the others for the impending
contest. I'll have it up on the web site by the end of the day!

> I can count votes, if you still need people for that.

Bonus! I certainly can! I think, by my latest count, 12, including you.
We still need 14 more!

--Ainaechoiriel

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

http://www.stormpages.com/gabrielle/lotr Land of Myth and Memory
Blog: http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com

Hiya, I'm new around here. I go by the pen name Adi, I'm an English student
in the UK, and I joined up after Marta nominated one of my fic 'Wind and
Fire' for these awards.

I seem to have picked a bad time to start reading this list, but while I'm
delurking, I do have one thing to say on the subject of slash.

To clarify my own position, I'm not offended by slash - I write it in other
fandoms.
You've mentioned not counting as slash any stories which contain only
mentions of homosexuality. Now, for my own writing, I would always mention
if there were any homosexual themes at all present, whether these were
central to the plot or not, for the simple reason that some people who are
going to be offended by homosexuality are quite likely to be offended by ANY
homosexuality, whether central to the plot or incidental. And it's neither
in their best interests nor mine for them to then read my homosexual
content, as it is likely to end up only offending both of us.
When labelling my own stuff I tend to distinguish between 'this is slash'
and 'this contains some slashy elements', although I see that this wouln't
be very easy to implement in this situation.

Just my two cents.

Anyway, on to less controversial, happier things. I like the set up of this
whole competition, I think it's a great idea, and I'm very glad to
participate.

Adi_

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jessie Holder [mailto:do_you_hear_the_people_sing@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 6:16 AM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MEFAwards] Introduction
>
>
> Hiya, I'm new around here. I go by the pen name Adi, I'm an
> English student in the UK, and I joined up after Marta
> nominated one of my fic 'Wind and Fire' for these awards.

Hi, Adi. I know we have one of your stories nominated. Did we get your
permission to do so yet?

> I seem to have picked a bad time to start reading this list,
> but while I'm delurking, I do have one thing to say on the
> subject of slash.

Yes, it's not been one of our better weeks. But I suppose almost all
fanfiction lists go through this at some time or other.

> To clarify my own position, I'm not offended by slash - I
> write it in other fandoms.

Okay.

> You've mentioned not counting as slash any stories which
> contain only mentions of homosexuality. Now, for my own
> writing, I would always mention if there were any homosexual
> themes at all present, whether these were central to the plot
> or not, for the simple reason that some people who are going
> to be offended by homosexuality are quite likely to be
> offended by ANY homosexuality, whether central to the plot or
> incidental. And it's neither in their best interests nor mine
> for them to then read my homosexual content, as it is likely
> to end up only offending both of us.
> When labelling my own stuff I tend to distinguish between
> 'this is slash'
> and 'this contains some slashy elements', although I see that
> this wouln't be very easy to implement in this situation.

That's fine. Any author is free to make that statement if they want. The
Executive Decision says that "we" (meaning the Awards and the Staff of same)
will not add any such labels. We will not remove them if the author puts
them there. "Slashy elements" *might* still fit the definition of "That
Which Needs to Be Identified" (you'd have to read the definition and decide
that for your story) and so a simple romance partner code (ex.
Aragorn/Legolas) is all that would be required.

> Just my two cents.
>
> Anyway, on to less controversial, happier things. I like the
> set up of this whole competition, I think it's a great idea,
> and I'm very glad to participate.

Thanks. I do hope we can all move on to less controversial subjects. Like
nominating stories. We still need quite a few to make The Hobbit and Numenor
into viable categories. Surely there is some Numemor fic out there....

--Ainaechoiriel

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

http://www.stormpages.com/gabrielle/lotr Land of Myth and Memory
Blog: http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com

>Hi, Adi. I know we have one of your stories nominated. Did we get your
>permission to do so yet?
>

I have e-mailed permission to Marta, who nominated the fic. I don't know
whether it's got through to her or you yet, but you definitly have my
permission.

Adi_

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jessie Holder [mailto:do_you_hear_the_people_sing@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 9:10 PM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MEFAwards] RE: Introduction
>
>
>
> >Hi, Adi. I know we have one of your stories nominated. Did
> we get your
> >permission to do so yet?
> >
>
> I have e-mailed permission to Marta, who nominated the fic. I
> don't know whether it's got through to her or you yet, but
> you definitly have my permission.

Great! Thanks. I've updated the Authors Approval database. I also did get
the website updated.

We're up to 242 official nominations now. No change in the Viabilty though.
I've added a Database for that, so you can see instantly which categories
still need some stories.

--Ainaechoiriel

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

http://www.stormpages.com/gabrielle/lotr Land of Myth and Memory
Blog: http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com

Hi everyone,

I'm Elena Tiriel. I (finally) saw the discussion group about the MEFA
Awards that Ainae had started on HASA, and decided to get involved. These
awards look like fun, and I look forward to participating!

- ET

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Hi, everyone! I just joined the list and I'm excited to be involved
with the awards this year; I really like the concept.

Let's see...I'm an American college student who's been writing Tolkien
fanfic for a little less than a year. I can most frequently be found
at HASA, where I'm slowly but surely plugging away at a Houses of
Healing novella, with various random ficlets and pointless humor
pieces thrown in for good measure. Because of school I don't have
nearly as much time as I'd like to read and write, but I'm hoping that
the MEFAs can point me towards some enjoyable fics.

Cheers,
Aliana

*waves excitedly at Aliana*

Yay! I'm noticing several new members showing up, actually, so while I'm here, I'll shout out "hello" to Kenaz! Hey over there!


Thundera Tiger



-- "gadflygirl01" <gadflygirl01@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi, everyone! I just joined the list and I'm excited to be involved
with the awards this year; I really like the concept.

Let's see...I'm an American college student who's been writing Tolkien
fanfic for a little less than a year. I can most frequently be found
at HASA, where I'm slowly but surely plugging away at a Houses of
Healing novella, with various random ficlets and pointless humor
pieces thrown in for good measure. Because of school I don't have
nearly as much time as I'd like to read and write, but I'm hoping that
the MEFAs can point me towards some enjoyable fics.

Cheers,
Aliana







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*waves back at Thundera*

Thanks!

--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "Laura" <thunderalaura@j...> wrote:
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> *waves excitedly at Aliana*
>
> Yay! I'm noticing several new members showing up, actually, so while
I'm here, I'll shout out "hello" to Kenaz! Hey over there!
>
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> Thundera Tiger
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> -- "gadflygirl01" <gadflygirl01@y...> wrote:
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> Hi, everyone! I just joined the list and I'm excited to be involved
> with the awards this year; I really like the concept.
>
> Let's see...I'm an American college student who's been writing Tolkien
> fanfic for a little less than a year. I can most frequently be found
> at HASA, where I'm slowly but surely plugging away at a Houses of
> Healing novella, with various random ficlets and pointless humor
> pieces thrown in for good measure. Because of school I don't have
> nearly as much time as I'd like to read and write, but I'm hoping that
> the MEFAs can point me towards some enjoyable fics.
>
> Cheers,
> Aliana
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