But upon seeing my little pony on the potentials ballot this year, I was scratching my head.

I thought they were specifically for science-fiction fantasy stuff, and I guess MLP qualifies under fantasy, but has there ever been a kid's show nominated before?

I looked at everything else on the ballot and it feels very much adult-focused. Or young adult focused, as opposed to aimed at children.

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The nominating period for the 2021 Hugo Awards, Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, and Astounding Award for Best New Writer opened on January 25 and will remain open until 11:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT; UTC – 7) on March 19, 2021.

The 2021 Hugo Awards are for science fiction, fantasy, and maybe horror if it's by someone the SFF community likes like Neil Gaiman, published in 2020. I know, it's confusing.

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The Hugo Awards are given each year to honor the best writing in fantasy, science fiction, or horror.  To quote from thehugoawards.org:

While the World Science Fiction Society sponsors the Hugos, they are not limited to sf. Works of fantasy or horror are eligible if the members of the Worldcon think they are eligible.

For many years, there's been a category of Best Fan Writer. To quote from the same web page,

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A reminder that Hugo nominations are due tomorrow, Friday March 13th, and that, as far as I can tell, fan fiction is eligible for all fiction Hugos. Fan fiction, fan blogs, and other SFF-ish writing are eligible for the "Best Fan" Hugo. If you're eligible to make nominations, that means you're registered for Worldcon and you already know how to make nominations.

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Well, this is certainly interesting.

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The first ever Worldcon in Finland is over, and I'm making a note here: a huge success!

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I wonder what Rarity would have to say on the topic of Hugo Boss' involvement with the Nazis in the 1930s, and how his company still thrives today. I thought about writing a one-shot about it, but I feel ill-equipped.

I have not written anything in 48 hours and it is starting to affect me psychologically.

Many of you don't know this, but I performed a test last week. I finished one job last month and am transitioning to another hopefully very soon, but in the meantime I have all this free time, so i decided to write. For seven days straight

I wrote approximately 43,000 words
over 9 stories

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The nominees for 2017 Hugo Awards, presented this summer at Worldcon 75, in Helsinki, have been revealed!

Here's the official announcement video, from Worldcon 75's Youtube channel:

And if you prefer to get it all in a text format, you can go check it out at Tor's website, here:

Hugo Award finalists announced.

Well, the 2016 Hugo Award finalists have been announced. And ... I can't say the list is surprising. Good? I also can't say that. At this point, the only topic of the entire set that seems to have any relevancy at all to the real world is the category for film, which looks to be a four-way battle between Fury Road, The Martian, The Force Awakens, and Age of Ultron.

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Okay, so the Hugo Award winners were announced, and there’ve been a few questions of what I’d have to say about it. So here we go. My response?

And?

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Sixteen years ago today, the classic war between Autobots and Decepticons came to the big screen in a whole new way!

Morning!

So, I'm like ... 7,000 words behind on my NaNoWriMo project, and I'm definitely in the 'arg this doesn't work everything is terrible' phase. Part of the problem is I don't give the characters enough time to snark and talk to each other, as dialogue is one of the few writing things I'm good at. Also, y'kno, motivations and stuff.

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Rating Scale:

12/10—a complete masterpiece; flawless and outstanding
11/10—Excellent, near-perfect film
10/10—the standard rating; awesome film with a couple of flaws
9/10—a wonderful film with several flaws
8/10–a great film with numerous flaws but not enough to ruin it

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I've sort of vanished over the last week or two because I've been neck deep in Science Fiction & Fantasy stories: the voting deadline for the Hugo Awards is drawing near.

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Rating Scale:

12/10—a complete masterpiece; flawless and outstanding
11/10—Excellent, near-perfect film
10/10—the standard rating; awesome film with a couple of flaws
9/10—a wonderful film with several flaws
8/10–a great film with numerous flaws but not enough to ruin it

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Rating Scale:

12/10—a complete masterpiece; flawless and outstanding
11/10—Excellent, near-perfect film
10/10—the standard rating; awesome film with a couple of flaws
9/10—a wonderful film with several flaws

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Fellow bronies: Brace yourself for incoming fandom drama.

And here's the weird part — this time, it's not actually our fault.

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Scene Rating Scale:

9/9: Flawless! Outstanding scene!
8/9: Great scene! Totally Rewatchable!
7/9: Pretty good. Not as perfect as I expected though.
6/9: Decent. Doesn’t ruin the movie/episode.
5/9: Mid.
4/9: Pretty bad. One of the weakest scenes of the movie/episode.

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Rating Scale:

12/10—a complete masterpiece; flawless and outstanding
11/10—Excellent, near-perfect film
10/10—the standard rating; awesome film with a couple of flaws
9/10—a wonderful film with several flaws
8/10–a great film with numerous flaws but not enough to ruin it

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