Sad

[kevin_standlee]

Cheryl's withdrawal from many of her current projects saddens me, although it doesn't surprise me.

If there is anyone out there who wants to continue to insinuate that the Hugo Awards are somehow "corrupt," and who has any better evidence than "I didn't win" or "The things I wanted to win didn't," I want them to actually come forward and produce it.

I've said this before and I'll keep saying it: The failure of works/people to win the Hugo Award that you want to win is not a failure of process. Why is it so difficult for people to get it through their heads that not everyone thinks exactly the same way they do? Is it so important to you to consider yourself The Standard Person?

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Re: Speaking For Fandom

[ole a. imsen (from livejournal.com)]

I want to thank you for replying to me. Hope I don't come off as an annoying idiot.

I understand that rules are difficult, and I know that seeing flaws in them is a lot easier than making them flawless. I still can't help think that the dramatic presentation category needs a better definition, especially with television shows with one story arc is becoming more common. -On the other hand I think a discussion of whether the "conspiracy" episodes of X-Files are one story would be neverending. (To just pick a TV series I like, and that is consisting of both standalone episodes, and episodes that form a single storyline as an example.)

Re: Speaking For Fandom

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Conversely, thank you for not writing me off as simply an angry elitist, which I do not consider myself to be. Indeed, within the long-time-Worldcon-attending community, I'm something of a bomb-throwing lunatic leveler who wants to tear down the walls and let the great unwashed hoardes into our castle, which is why I get a bit prickly about this.