The Great Butler
Hush, keep it down
This thread is a new idea I developed based on suggestions for ways to increase engagement in the awards. It will work a bit differently than the threads that are usually seen for the awards events: unlike the other threads, where posters highlight others' work, this is the one place where making a promotion of your own work is permitted. It is inspired by the "For Your Consideration" concept for awards such as the Academy Awards, in which filmmakers and studios promote their work to the voters who will be deciding the winners.
However, this is a thread that comes with some strict ground rules.
First of all, and I cannot stress this enough, the ordinary rules about asking people to nominate your work still apply. Self-promotion is permitted only in this thread and must follow the other rules to be laid out below. As is explained in each year's nomination thread: It is up to your readers to decide whether they want to nominate you. The same goes for applying implicit pressure to nominate you (e.g. messaging your friends about how the awards are going on and linking to your fics, without saying in so many words that you want them to nominate you). You may call attention to the awards and encourage people to nominate their favorite fics in general, to boost participation, but attaching advertisements for your particular work to any such post is not appropriate.
In other words, while this thread is for providing suggestions of what of your work you would like to be considered, you may not do anything more than what is laid out in this thread.
How to participate:
-Choose anywhere from one to four categories from the website for the awards. This can be found at https://serebii-fanfic-awards.herokuapp.com/nomination/all/
-For each category selected, write one to three paragraphs outlining why you feel your selected work should be considered for that category. Remember, selected material *must* have been posted within the 2021 calendar year to be eligible; for longer works, only content posted within the year of 2021 is eligible. As outlined in the main Nominations thread: Broadly, anything posted in the Fan Fiction, Completed Fics or Non-Pokémon Fics forums in 2021, defined as the period from January 1st, 2021, 00:00 UTC to December 31st, 2021, 23:59 UTC according to the forum's post timestamps, is eligible for nomination. Specifically, for the "Fic Moments" awards, the nominated moment should be from an installment posted in 2021; for more general story awards, at least one installment of it must have been posted in 2021; and for author/reviewer awards, the member in question must have posted at least one fic/review in 2021.
-Remember, only write about your own work in this thread. In order to maintain the purpose of this thread, posts mentioning work by authors other than the writer of any individual post will be edited to remove those references.
-For Fic Moments categories, please place the moment you are writing about under spoiler tags, then write out your explanation below it. This will help us keep the thread orderly and avoid unintentional spoiling.
However, this is a thread that comes with some strict ground rules.
First of all, and I cannot stress this enough, the ordinary rules about asking people to nominate your work still apply. Self-promotion is permitted only in this thread and must follow the other rules to be laid out below. As is explained in each year's nomination thread: It is up to your readers to decide whether they want to nominate you. The same goes for applying implicit pressure to nominate you (e.g. messaging your friends about how the awards are going on and linking to your fics, without saying in so many words that you want them to nominate you). You may call attention to the awards and encourage people to nominate their favorite fics in general, to boost participation, but attaching advertisements for your particular work to any such post is not appropriate.
In other words, while this thread is for providing suggestions of what of your work you would like to be considered, you may not do anything more than what is laid out in this thread.
How to participate:
-Choose anywhere from one to four categories from the website for the awards. This can be found at https://serebii-fanfic-awards.herokuapp.com/nomination/all/
-For each category selected, write one to three paragraphs outlining why you feel your selected work should be considered for that category. Remember, selected material *must* have been posted within the 2021 calendar year to be eligible; for longer works, only content posted within the year of 2021 is eligible. As outlined in the main Nominations thread: Broadly, anything posted in the Fan Fiction, Completed Fics or Non-Pokémon Fics forums in 2021, defined as the period from January 1st, 2021, 00:00 UTC to December 31st, 2021, 23:59 UTC according to the forum's post timestamps, is eligible for nomination. Specifically, for the "Fic Moments" awards, the nominated moment should be from an installment posted in 2021; for more general story awards, at least one installment of it must have been posted in 2021; and for author/reviewer awards, the member in question must have posted at least one fic/review in 2021.
-Remember, only write about your own work in this thread. In order to maintain the purpose of this thread, posts mentioning work by authors other than the writer of any individual post will be edited to remove those references.
-For Fic Moments categories, please place the moment you are writing about under spoiler tags, then write out your explanation below it. This will help us keep the thread orderly and avoid unintentional spoiling.
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