First Annual: Year's End Daughters of Moon Fanfiction Awards

Welcome one and all to the First Annual: Year's End Daughters of the Moon Fanfiction Awards, hosted by StarWars-Freak and BatsuSimisu-Chan!

As 2008 fades into 2009, we would like to honor all those fantastic stories written this year.

All writers and reviewers are welcome to submit nominations for these auspacious awards!

Voting will begin on January 1st! So begin looking back over the year's fanfiction and stop procrastinating on "that one story" - see below for eligibility requirements.

And the Categories are:

Stories:

Multichapter: Best Comedy, Best Dark Drama, Best Romance, Best Overall

One-shot: Best Comedy, Best Drama, Best Romance

Misc: Best Final Eclipse Response

Characters:

Best Original Character - Daughter, Best Original Character - Follower, Best Original Character - Other, Best Canon In Character - Daughter, Best Canon In Character - Follower, Best Canon In Character - Other

Misc:

Best Romantic Scene, Best Couple, Best Fight Scene

Voting:

Voting will take place in 2 Rounds.

Round 1:

Each voter will submit up to three stories per category. StarWars-Freak will then select those stories (between 2 and 5) with the most nominations. Voting will take place between 12:00 AM on January first and 11:59 PM on January fifteenth.

Round 2:

The final nominations will be posted and each voter will select their number one choice for that category. Voting will take place between 12:00 AM on January seventeenth and 11:59 PM on January thirty-first.

Guidelines: for Round 1

Submission:

Copy and paste the form below into a PM sent to StarWars-Freak. Enter your top three choices for each category. Please remember to include both Author and Title. You may nominate yourself; however, you may not enter more than one of your stories per category. Stories may be simultaneously nominated for multiple categories, as long as they fall into the indicated categories.

Story Eligibility:

Each story entered must have been completed in the year 2008 or a WIP with at least three chapters posted.

Special Cases:

In the multichapter section, please treat series as long multichapters.

Do not post in this thread. BatsuSimisu-Chan and StarWars-Freak will be using it for announcement purposes only. We will set up another thread in the forum for discussion and questions.

Thank you and Good Luck to all the Writers!

Form:

Best Oneshot-Drama

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Best Oneshot-Comedy

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Best Oneshot-Romance

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Best Multi-Chapter-Drama

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Best Multi-Chapter-Comedy

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Best Multi-Chapter-Romance

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Best Multi-Chapter-Overall

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Best Final Eclipse Response Overall

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Best Original Character-Daughter

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Best Original Character-Follower

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Best Original Character-Other

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Best Canon In Character-Daughter

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Best Canon In Character-Follower

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Best Canon In Character-Other

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Best Couple

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Best Fight Scene

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Best Romantic Scene

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Because I can also nominate for Round 1, I will be giving Batsu a copy of my nominations before I begin tallying up the nominations, so that we checks against my bias in the nomination process.

Thank you,

SWF

NOMINATE NOW.

NOMINATIONS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED.

Please fill out the above form! =D

Thank you all for your support of the First Annual Year's End Daughters of the Moon Fanfiction Awards!

If you didn't get a chance to submit nomination forms, there's good news! You can still vote for your favorite of the Round Two Eligibilty List (to be posted shortly).

For All Authors:

If your story makes it onto this list, then you are welcome to post a note in your story or summary that says you have been nominated. Please make sure you give your readers the category you have been nominated for.

For Readers and Authors Alike Who Want To Vote:

Voting will begin at the stroke of midnight January 17th!

To Submit Your Votes:

Choose ONE story per category from the list provided. In a PM to BatsuSimisu-Chan, you can simply copy and paste from the list but be sure to indicate which category each vote is for, as some stories may have made it into two or more categories. Voting will end on January 31st at 11:59 AM EST.

Thank you for your participation! And the best of luck to all the talented writers of 2008!

~StarWars-Freak and BatsuSimisu-Chan

STORIES FOR ROUND TWO:

(Please note that stories under the categories are listed in no specific order; they are simply copied from SWF's spreadsheet.)

Best Oneshot Drama:

The Shape of Mirrors by LovelyPriestess (Plain to See Evil Inside of Me)

Black and White and Red by StarWars-Freak

Strawberry Gashes by RapidMotion

Guilty by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Betrayal by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Best Oneshot Comedy:

Awkward by StarWars-Freak

Warning: System Malfunction by LovelyPriestess (Plain to See Evil Inside of Me)

The Disney Ending Epidemic by LovelyPriestess (Plain to See Evil Inside of Me)

Sassy Stanton by Nymbis

Of Goddesses and Men by StarWars-Freak

Best Oneshot Romance:

In His Arms by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Her Lovely Virtue by LovelyPriestess (Plain to See Evil Inside of Me)

Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by StarWars-Freak

Best Mutli-Chapter Drama:

Fragilis by StarWars-Freak

Night's Children by Nymbis

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by LovelyPriestess (Plain to See Evil Inside of Me)

Daughter of the Scroll by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Best Multi-Chapter Comedy:

High School Parliament by LovelyPriestess (Plain to See Evil Inside of Me)

Eclectics: Daughters by Rayne9045

The Final Outtakes by Nymbis

Cupid's Still Stupid by Nymbis

Best Multi-Chapter Romance:

Shy by SeleneHekate

Show Your Holiday Spirit by LovelyPriestess (Plain to See Evil Inside of Me)*

Cognoscente by Nymbis

Cupid's Still Stupid by Nymbis

Best Multi-Chapter Overall:

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by LovelyPriestess (Plain to See Evil Inside of Me)

Pearl Drops by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Night's Children by Nymbis

Daughter of the Scroll by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Best Final Eclipse Response:

Crimson Midnight by LovelyPriestess (Plain to See Evil Inside of Me)

Masks by StarWars-Freak

In Omne Tempus by Obsidian Angel

The Final Outtakes by Nymbis

Best Original Character Daughter:

Hailley from Pearl Drops by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Lillian from Circus by StarWars-Freak

Torrence from Pearl Drops by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Imy from Night's Children by Nymbis

Best Original Character Follower:

Jackal from Huntress by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Mercy from Dysphoria/Becoming a Follower by WickedWillow01

Nyssa from Black and White and Red/Fragilis by StarWars-Freak

Anthony from Pearl Drops by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Best Original Character Other:

Ariel from Pearl Drops by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Sian from Huntress by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Best Canon In Character Daughter:

Vanessa from The Shape of Mirrors by LovelyPriestess (Plain to See Evil Inside of Me)

Vanessa from God Called in Sick Today by LovelyPriestess (Plain to See Evil Inside of Me) J

Jimena from Masks by StarWars-Freak

Best Canon In Character Follower:

Cassandra from Strawberry Gashes by Rapid Motion

Stanton from Shattered Innocence by Obsidian Angel

Murray from The Wallflower by Nymbis

Best Canon In Character Other:

Collin from Bonding with Wally by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Collin from Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by StarWars-Freak

Derek from The New Girl by StarWars-Freak

Wally from Bonding with Wally by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Collin from Masks by StarWars-Freak

Best Couple:

Bran x Sian from Huntress by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Imy x Art from Night's Children by Nymbis

Best Fight Scene:

Chapter 17 of Pearl Drops: Bk 3 by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Chapter 7 of Huntress by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Chapter 7 of Fragilis by StarWars-Freak

Chapter 2 of Pearl Drops: Chosen One by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Best Romantic Scene:

Chapter 15 of Pearl Drops: Answers by BatsuSimisu-Chan

Chapter 1 of Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by StarWars-Freak

Chapter 2 from Cupid's Still Stupid by Nymbis

A Note On Scenes Listed By Chapter: Prologues may affect the numbering of the chapter, please check the story for information.

A Note On Author's Voting: Unlike in Round One, there are no restrictions on how many times one can vote for their stories, characters, or scenes because you can only vote for one per category anyway. Please do however, pick the story you find best fit for the category indicated, even if it is not your own. Thank you.

*Show Your Holiday Spirit is technically one post, which would technically make it a oneshot. However, basically everyone who nommed it thought it was a multichapter, so we're pleasing the masses and making a multichapter.

And here we are! Two months into the New Year and we're finally ready to announce the winners of The Year's End Daughters of the Moon Fanficiton Awards 2008!

After all the winners have been announced, anyone can post to congratulate each other and thank everyone for the votes.

And now, BatsuSimisu-Chan for the first category!

=3

Our first winner goes to Best Oneshot Drama:

My lovely co-host, StarWars-Freak takes the win with Black and White and Red!

Runner up is yours truly with Betrayal!

And next: Best Oneshot Comedy!

Nymbis takes her first win of the evening with Sassy Stanton!

And Runner Up is The Disney Ending Epidemic by our LovelyPriestess.

Best Oneshot Romance:

LovelyPriestess takes her first win of the night with Her Lovely Virtue!

And not quite to be forgotten, your fellow hosts took the the Runner Up tie with Meet Me Under the Mistletoe and In His Arms.

And that rounded out the Oneshots. Now for Multichapters... First: Best Multichapter - Drama!

Nymbis opens the multichapter section with her second win of the evening for Night's Children!

And your two oh-so-gorgeous co-hosts once again tie for Runner Up with Fragilis by Me and Daughter of the Scroll by Batsu!

Now on to our Best Multichapter: Comedy category! ^.^

It made us laugh, it made us cry in tears of joy, it made us...

Okay, Nymmie takes yet another win for The Final Outtakes!

And not to be out done... She was also the Runner Up for Cupid's Still Stupid.

Way to go, Nym!

And now onto Best Multichapter Romance, which I was so anxious to get to, I accidently gave Batsu the wrong titles for the comedy section...

Anyway, onto the winner!

Nymbis once again takes first with Cognoscent!

Runners Up are LovelyPriestess with Show Your Holiday Spirit and introducing new blood into the competition, SeleneHekate's Shy edges into the tie!

She really did give me the wrong Runners Up... =D

We seethed, we waited for years, and some (like me) waited even longer...

But we weren't disappointed with the fanfiction results that came from it!

Best "The Final Eclipse" Response goes to... **drum roll**

Crimson Midnight, by our very lovely and talented LP!! **Audience applause**

Runner Up, of course, is my totally fantastical co-host, SWF with Masks!

Aw, you're fantastic too, Batsu!

Now to round out the "stories" part of the evening... Best Multichapter Overall!

My absolutely phenomenal friend and cohost BatsuSimisu-Chan takes a win for her fabulous series Pearl Drops!

But how could we forget the Runner Up? Nymbis with Night's Children!

**Fantastic** I know! Haha.

Ooh, now begins the start of our amazing characters section of tonight's program!

Starting off is Best OC Daughter:

Torrence of Pearl Drops, by moi, takes the delicious OC cake.

Sharing the pieces as Runner Ups are Hailley, also by me, and Imy, who Nym created with much love and craziness!

And for my absolute favorite section of the night: they made cower in terror and send our prayers to the moon... Best Original Character... FOLLOWER!

Taking the win is certainly my favorite Follower, JACKAL from Batsu's Huntress!

But my dear NYSSA of Fragilis and Black and White and Red comes close as Runner Up! I doubt she'd be too happy with those results though...

... Jackal sure appreciates it, though. He sends his regards to Nyssa.

Now on to OC Other...

Which, um...

Sian from Huntress wins!

And Ariel from Pearl Drops takes Runner Up...

Both by your most humble host, Batsu.

This was most unintentional!! I swear!

**Runs away!**

Come back, Batsu! I can't do this alone!

...

Ahem... And now to leave our OC's behind we go to the wonderful characters who kept us coming back for more. Created by Ms. Lynne Ewing, interpreted by YOU! Erm, and me...

To start the Best Canon in Character section, we have the Daughters:

Vanessa from God Called in Sick Today by LovelyPriestess wins!

Jimena from Masks by yours truly comes in second.

**Slips back in quietly**

Well, then! Now for the Followers that have stolen our hearts... And strangely enough GIVEN us hope. ^.^

Best CIC Follower goes to Cassandra of Strawberry Gashes, by our new blood--literally, she's brand new to our fandom!-- Rapid Motion! Congrats dear!!!

In Runner Up place is Stanton of Shattered Innocence, by The Obsidian Angel. I suppose I will have to let her know of her 2nd place win! =D

New blood and old blood together in one, fantastic!

And now to end the single character categories, Canon in Character Other.

This furry guy captured our hearts the moment he scampered by on his way to the toilet to wash his grapes... WALLY from Bonding with Wally once again by dear Batsu.

The runner up is Derek from The New Girl by the lovely cohost typing this.

XDD Toilet grapes...

We move on to those people who gave us warm fuzzies and made us go, "Awww" with their fluffy love.

Best Couple:

Imy x Art from Night's Children, by the always awesome Nymbis (Who will write Tessa's book, btw... =3)

Runner Up goes to the super magical, ever romantical, and yes, slightly sadistic, ME for Bran x Sian.

Awww. Warm fuzzies!!

Sian is certainly known for those warm fuzzies, definitely, Batsu... [/sarcasm]

And as a perfect anecdote to the saccharine mush the previous couples gave us... Best Fight Scene!

BatsuSimisu-Chan takes the win with Pearl Drops: Chosen One, chapter seventeen!

And once again we, that is Batsu and myself, tie for runner up-ness! Myself with Fragilis, chapter seven and Batsu with Huntress... chapter seven!

Apparently the number seven is very important to good fight scenes!

And for the final category of the evening... I give the thread over once again to talented Batsu!

Sian gives people warm fuzzies of DOOM! Phear it!

Our final scene, and our final category, goes to Best Romantic Scene!

My ever talented, awesome friend of greatness, SWF, takes the trophy for this one, folks, for her clever scene (and story, no less, since it's a oneshot) in Meet Me Under the Mistletoe!! Hooray!

Taking up the Runner Up spots, I get to share the 2nd place limelight with Nym. Pearl Drops: Answers, Chapter 15 alongside Cupid's Still Stupid, Chapter 2. Can't you feel the love, darlings?!

But, oh-ho! We are not quite finished, dears! We still have one last scrumptious prize in store!

Before we can end this evening of awards, we have one more surprise award to give out!

She has dazzled us with her wit and slightly odd love of certain Followers since 2003.

The forerunner to all of us, she has remained dedicated to our beloved fandom these now six years!

We are forever indebted to her for her ability to make us laugh so hard we fall out of chairs and scare family members (and in the case of one particular cohost, her crazy plot bunnies!)

This author took five wins this evening as well as second place in four categories.

We are proud to present Nymbis, our friend and cohort, with this special award: The Most Awesome Writer Ever That Inspires Many To Become Just As Fantabulous Award!

^.^

And that wraps up The Year's End Daughters of the Moon Fanfiction Awards Ceremony for the 2008 writing year!

All winners and runners up, please PM BatsuSimisu-Chan with your email address, so she can send you your "trophey"!

Feel free to post in this thread with thoughts, congratulations and acceptance speeches.

Cheers,

StarWars-Freak and BatsuSimisu-Chan

So, Batsu, I think we might have to celebrate Jackal's and Nyssa's take in the Best OC Follower category... maybe with something... oh, I dunno... EPIC!

EPIC!

=o

**Dance of joy**

Hellz yeah!

**Clears throat**

I would like to thank all the little people for my wins.

Joey, Susie, random hobo who felt me up on the bus...

Thank you, thank you!

**Blows kisses, bows, accepts roses**

Oh man, those random hobos, gotta thank them!

A-hem

I would like to thank... nobody but myself for beign so wonderful and talented!

...

But seriously! I want to thank my dear beta and friend and cohost and cohort and fellow criminal mastermind... erm, forget about that last one, you never read it... BatsuSimisu-Chan!

Also, Nymbis for her plot bunnies and support and all my reviewers and everyone who voted for me!

And I give my sincerest congratulations to all the other winners and runners up!

And my sincerest thanks to everyone who voted! We couldn't have done this without you!

Now, go submit a story to the Love Story Contest! :D

**Pimps our contest**

**Pimp pimp**

Now, you can find the Love Story Contest on the corner of...

I mean!

... **Shifty eyes**

Thank you all, and goodnight Cleveland!

**Runs away**

O.O

Holy ** **!

Thanks to everybody!!!! And congrats to the other winners!!!

And...that is seriously one of the best awards I've ever gotten XD Thanks guys! 3

((...I promise to actually, yknow, finish some of these fics XD))

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