Stargate Fan Awards update, and thanks

[fignewton]

So the Stargate Fan Awards have moved into the next phase: informing nominees so they can place their stories in the appropriate categories. They've given a two week period for this. Hopefully, the Awards will go live on April 1st with all the nominations and move into the voting phase soon after that.

And, well... ::scuffs toe:: I wish to thank the lovely people who have chosen to express their enjoyment of my fics by nominating five stories: SG-1, Ninja Style, In Search of Possibilities, All This Time, Team's Day Out, and Famed in Song and Story.

And in even more exciting news, redial_the_gate has also been nominated! I've said over and over again that Redial represents fandom at its shining best. Keep redialing the Gate, guys! (And hey, the recap of 2010 goes up today!)

A couple of questions for my knowledgeable flisters:

First, I archive my stories in three different places: here on my LJ, at Heliopolis, and at Stargatefan. It's interesting to see where people read my fic, based on which links were given for the nominated stories! :) But since I have the option to change the story links, here's my question: where do you prefer to read stories? On LJ? At an archive? The question becomes more complicated for longer stories that don't fit in a single LJ post. All This Time, for example, is posted as two entries here on LJ because I couldn't fit it into a single post, but it's on only one page at the archive sites. But In Search of Possibilities is divided in chapters, so you'd have to click to multiple pages in either case. So which links should I use? All on LJ? All at an archive? A combination of the two?

I also need a little help in categorizing All This Time. Nominees are asked to categorize their stories according to fandom (SG-1 or SGA), then genre (gen or otherwise), then character/team, then story type (ep related, humor, drama, whatever). Now, some of these are easy (Famed in Song and Story, I'm looking at you), but All This Time is very difficult to put in place.

I see ATT as a Sam character story: her first mission as SG-1 leader, and how she copes with crisis. If I had to give a line from the fic as a summary, it would be this: She didn't know if she would ever command SG-1 as well as Jack O'Neill, but she promised herself that she could come close - and maybe, if she worked hard enough, she could keep Daniel's deaths down to an absolute minimum along the way.

On the other hand, it's also a team fic. And, to be frank, I strongly suspect the story's popularity on Stargatefan is due to the copious Daniel-whumping. :D

So if you had to categorize All This Time, where would you put it? As a Sam fic? As a team fic? Even as a Daniel fic? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Yay you! All good stories!

I too prefer to read stories at archives if they take more than one LJ entry. The only advantage I see in reading them on LJ is how easy it is to leave feedback directly.

I would call "All This Time" a Sam story, with Gen Duet Sam/Daniel as a second choice. (You can see I've been wrestling with categories recently!)

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

::nods:: I do agree with the archives being better if it means a single post, but that's not always the case - ISoP is four chapters on the archive, and three entries on LJ. Just to be confusing. :)

Duet Sam/Daniel? Huh. Interesting. I think I need a "duet" Sam/Daniel/Teal'c, actually. :)

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Yeah--I took a little break to reread it, actually, and it really is a trio more than a duet. I guess that would be Team, then, because in that season, it is a three-person team! Poor Jack sits on the sidelines....

You can see in the icon the entire team is uncertain how to class the story.

Maybe Team as a first choice, Sam as a second choice; they're all major characters, but it's Sam's head you're inside.