Shiny Things! MEFA Boast Post.

[curiouswombat]

The results for the Middle Earth Fanfic Awards are now decided. For those of you who have no knowledge of the MEFAs, winners are decided by the number and length of reviews written per story over a period of about six months - so real peer review!



This one made me especially happy -



I was so pleased that Pure Morning won - it is the Éowyn/Boromir/Theodred piece that was unlike anything I'd ever written - and there was some, behind the scenes, checking in case it had too much sex for the MEFAs before reviewing started.

I got lots of pretty things for my drabbles too - I am really proud of them all'

This is for Reaping The Reward -



This is for First Snowfall -



This is for Always Something There to Remind Me -



And this is for Threshing Songs





Many congratulations to all my friends who also won pretty, shiny things in the MEFAs - well done to all!

Comments

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Oh very well done! Congratulations.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I am inordinately proud of them all.

[shirebound]

How wonderful! Congratulations!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I am very proud of them all!

[kathyh]

Congratulations. That's an impressive haul of awards :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I am very proud of them. The MEFAs have lots of categories and so it is lovely because lots of people get to win!

[clodia-metelli.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, shiny things. Congratulations! :D

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I'm really pleased. Although I still think Romance;Dunedain was an odd categorisation for PM - but it won it so I'll not complain!

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Well done! Pure Morning is one of the few of yours I have read, and it's fab!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Oh - thank you! I have to admit that I was surprised that so many reviewers wrote long positive reviews for it - it is not exactly a 'fashionable' pairing/trebling.

[binkaslibrary.livejournal.com]

Congrats! YAY! for the shinies! :D I'm very happy for you.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. I really appreciate your reviews over at OSA - they help keep me going.

[binkaslibrary.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) I do love your stories and love giving reviews -- even if I have a few words to say. As for the MEFAs, I hope to have more time and energy to participate next year. This season, I only reviewed the stories I nominated. I know there are tons and tons of stories (yours included) I should have reviewed, but having been as busy as I was -- no chance, sadly.

Well deserved rewards! :D

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Well done!!! Lots of pretty shiny-shines there! :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I am really thrilled at how many of them I got. Mind you only one of them was for something over 100 words long - much less work than yours took!

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Ah, but worthy of the award all the same. Quality is quality, regardless of length. :)

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

Oh fantastic! Well done you! (I have a couple of Hon Mentions I think but nothing so exalted as yours...)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I am really chuffed - especially about Pure Morning. Just wait until next year now that 'Amid the Powers...' is finished and out of Beta!

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

I'm secretly hoping Powers will get a nomination next year - though given the length of the thing, goodness knows how many people would get around to reviewing it...

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It's already on my 'list of things to nominate next year' - although someone might beat me to it.

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

You're too kind ;-) I've already started a Next Year's Nominations list too...

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Very shiny! Congratulations.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I am very pleased with myself at the moment!

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

I'm so pleased for you, particularly for "Pure Morning"!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

particularly for "Pure Morning"

I thought of you when I realised it had won. I remember you warning me, in an aside, that it might just sink without trace, and not to be upset if it did... And I was so pleased when it picked up the first review after your own one - but it didn't occur to me that it might win right until I got the e-mail.

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

(I hope you don't mind) I mentioned to Marta that if she ever wanted to do a "How to Write A Nice Review For A Story That's Not Your Cup of Tea" article, some of your reviews were textbook examples! (Most of them, anyway. There was that one....)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

(I hope you don't mind) Not at all.

Some of them really were, weren't they? And actually more flattering for the writing in many ways - such as the one from Larner who actually said she read it from a sense of duty and was relieved to find it a story she could really respect.

My 'favourite' was by someone I am pretty sure won't read my journal so I can giggle a little - it was actually a very positive, 10 point review, but it included

I must admit, if I had know the fic contained slashy (or multiple partner) elements, I would probably have avoided it. Slash (et al) is fine, when it's canon but I can't read it when it's not.

And I did find myself thinking that "this contains scenes of male/male and male/female sex" in the summary at HASA might have given the impression it contained slashy elements... (The summary at my 'home' archive of Twisting the Hellmouth actually says "Contains sex; sometimes involving more than two people or less than two sexes!" But I thought, especially for the MEFAs, I should be even more clear at HASA.)

My husband and I did wonder what counts as canon slash in LotR...

[gillo]

Many congratulations!

\o/

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. I am inordinately pleased, I have to say. Especially about 'Pure Morning' as it is not my usual style at all.

[virtuella.livejournal.com]

Oh, well done! Pure Morning was indeed a very unusual and interesting story.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - Pure Morning was quite scary to write - it kind of jumped at me, and demanded that I put the words down in black and white and I thought 'I don't write m/m'! I am amazed that it won, to be honest.

[ningloreth.livejournal.com]

Wow! Congratualations, especially for Pure Morning!

(And thank you again for nominating The Little Prince. He came second :-)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - and Hurrah! I am so glad that he did well.

[lady-branwyn.livejournal.com]

Well done! *sends bouquet of roses*

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Roses! Thank you!

[ayinhara.livejournal.com]

Congratulations.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you. The drabble writing, in particular, is such good discipline - I find it a transferable skill useful at work.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Wow! Well done! Congratulations!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I am really pleased about them. (Although I, personally, think the drabble that got the honourable mention was the best of the lot... shows how much I know!)

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[wormwood-7.livejournal.com]

Well done!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And thank you for the congrats at HASA, too.

Ooh - I could have a new MEFA winner icon - I've just remembered this one!

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I was really pleased with them.

[rakshathedemon.livejournal.com]

We are shiny, happy people indeed - well done, Wombat, nice shinies!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Aren't we? Well done to you, too.

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

Cool! Congratulations are definitely in order!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I was really pleased.