Crossing Over Awards

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Is it just me, or is it getting VERY hard to find stories that qualify for the Twisting the Hellmouth crossing-over awards and are actually worth rewarding? I've just tried to nominate some stories, could only find 12 categories I was happy with out of the permitted 60 nominations, with a total of 10 stories (a couple were in two categories). Four other stories I wanted to nominate were ineligible because they were finished after 1st June.

I shall obviously have to do more reading, but I'm wondering why it's so hard to find sufficient stories. My best guess is that many of the best writers have moved on from Buffy and write comparatively few crossovers that would qualify. Increasingly the authors I would have recced are writing in other genres, and what we're left with are the people who write fanfic based on other people's fanfic and rehash tired old ideas.

Looking at my stories in the qualifying period, at least half would not be eligible as complete Buffyverse crossovers, and a lot are entirely non-Buffyverse, which would tend to support that theory.

I hope that I'm wrong, and that there will be some good stories to vote for in most categories when voting time comes. But I'm not holding my breath waiting.

Much later - and the mods have just said that there will not be a NO AWARD option when voting,

Comments

[averageshmoe.livejournal.com]

Outside of you, SpeakerToCustomers and a few others, TTH has fallen into the "wouldn't they make the perfect couple lets write a story about them" claptrap that permeated FFN sometime back.

It's not that there is a complete lack of worthwhile reading, it's just that there's more garbage and fewer diamonds and it gets exhausting going through one to find the other.

Good writers will emerge, write and, most likely, move on. I keep following them as long as they help me enter into the universe that they choose to participate in and expand upon. I've never enjoyed Harry Potter, but was happy that I let you take me along with your expeditions into his world. Speaker2Customers writes a story where the Buffy crew interact with gaming characters that have never interested me before but he is able to engage my curiosity and leaves me awaiting the next installment.

(was that too subtle?)

I'm still going over to check things out at TTH, if anything some of the excesses are good for a chuckle. Even if they do revolve around someone driving across the continental United States in less than eight hours.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

That's about it, I'm afraid.