OMG I am so old. SO OLD. Guys, I have to preface this by saying I am sincerely still as cute as the proverbial button, because otherwise you guys will think I am so old that I might crumble into dust before your eyes, but—GUYS.
I have been cleaning out my file cabinets this weekend, and I found an envelope of fanfiction awards that I won in the 1990s back in the days when if you didn’t show up at the con THEY MAILED YOU THE PAPER CERTIFICATE. PAPER. CERTIFICATE. TO YOUR HOUSE. I have like a whole bunch of these! —Huggys, Z-con awards, etc. Young ‘uns, this is how we did it 15 years ago or whatever—note that I am the winner above in several “on line” categories because of course there were awards just for zine fic, right? right. down there. Why I don’t have these up I don’t know! (Come on, that wolf/panther ship was fierce!)
Also I seem to have a signed copy of the script of The Sentinel’s final episode—where did I get that?
Yes put them up on Fanlore. If you can send scans I’ll see if we can find someone who has time to add them to the awards pages.
Ces this popped up on the Mediawest FanQ Awards Facebook page today
Someone posted in Fan Quality Awards as presented at MW*C 4:11pm Mar 29
“I have a question. As years go by, paper zines are getting fewer and fewer, as people retire from zine publishing and no one new comes along to keep the fire burning as it were. In addition, with the rise of social media, tumblr, and digital outlets, it’s eventually going to get to the point where there aren’t going to be enough zines out there to have a Fan Q around anymore. That said, will the Fan Q ever update and branch out to include artists and writers who publish to online outlets and to fandoms where zine culture hasn’t existed because it’s too new?”