Hmmm...this is new.

Apparently I've had a meta/essay that has been nominated at wickedawards - although don't see it listed yet, but got an email from moderator telling me I'd been nominated and I sent a response, stating accept. So we shall see...

It's for this one:

Title: Triggers, Chips, & Souls - Trading Clothes & Ringing Pavlov's Bell - Meta on Spike
URL: http://shadowkat67.livejournal.com/478265.html#cutid1
Categories: Not Fade Away (best essay and meta for all the fandoms listed)

Bit surprised, since the meta didn't get that many responses and I'd more or less assumed that it wasn't well recieved or liked - overall. Goes to show you that you can't really tell how people respond to something. Of course all it needed was one person to nominate it...;-)

At any rate, I'm rather pleased about it. I worked hard formatting that thing.
And putting it together. So is nice to have it recognized. Thank you very much to whomever chose to nominate it. ;-)

Another Kitchen Sink Post: awards, fanfiction, Lost...Spuffy...

Well I downloaded Firefox and it still didn't block the pop-up ads. I also don't like how Firefox is setup. Too use to Windows Internet Explorer...evil, but comforting.

Curious about something - it's a general question, well sort of - to all who read this:

How much importance do you place on awards? By that I mean - not how much you place on getting them yourself, but how much you place on choosing to see a film, watching a tv show, or reading a story or book or something on the internet based on awards it has received?

For example:

Do you choose to watch a tv show because it won an Emmy? Or do you care?

How about a movie - would you go see a movie just because it won a bunch of awards? Would you decide to go see AVATAR if it won best picture?

What about books? Would you be more likely to read or buy a book if it won the Booker, Pulitzer, National, Hugo or Nebula book awards?

Do you choose fanfiction or metas based on the rewards they get? Or just recs?

How about music? If an album wins a Grammy - would you be more likely to listen to it?

Or does it matter? Really?

I'm curious. I know if a film, book, tv show, or piece of music wins an award it is more likely to get distributors and have a bigger marketing campaign, also the creator is more likely to get a second deal or get it extended in print or if a tv show, another season.Mad Men for example got reknewed based purely on it's critical acclaim and awards at the Emmy's and Golden Globes. It was not based on ratings, which are below most tv shows. Few people actually watch Mad Man. It has a nitch audience.

So, my question is - what is the importance to you, personally, regarding awards?
( my own rather jumbled feelings regarding it )

( Last Season's Lost Finale Spoilers - okay not really, since you won't understand anything I've written unless you saw last season's finale entitled The Incident )

( The fanfiction that I'm reading... )