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bboiseuxPlease join Jester and Beau below the cut for a special announcement about an amazing award show for Critical Role fanfic that is totally real and not at all made up by Jester at this very moment and will also totally involve real award statuettes and not just ones in your imagination.
[tl;dr Fun opportunity to recommend fics in a fake award show format hosted by the Mighty Nein. Sound interesting? You can jump right to the nomination form here.]
[Jester and Beau sitting on a large dark stage, with a single spotlight centered on them. Jester is hunched over a book. Beau is sitting straight up with her arms crossed.]
JESTER: [Suddenly looking up as if she just noticed someone.] Hi everybody!
BEAU: [Giving a begrudging nod of acknowledgment] Yo.
JESTER: Beau and I were just talking about this amazing idea the Traveler had.
BEAU: Amazing is really pushing it.
JESTER: No! It's super amazing! It's going to be great.
BEAU: Yeah, okay. Cool.
JESTER: [Bouncing in place.] We're going to have an award show for all the fic writers! And there will be shiny statues and pretty lights and--
BEAU: I mean, none of that's going to be real. It's going to be, like, pretending you got an award.
JESTER: Beau. If you pretend hard enough, anything is possible.
BEAU: Sure.
JESTER: And this isn't going to be any old stinky award show! It's going to be the best award show ever!
BEAU: It's probably going to be barely adequate.
JESTER: [Scowling] It's going to be the Best. Award. Show. Ever.
BEAU: [Taking a calming breath.] Yes. Yes it is.
JESTER: [Back to grinning] We want to make this a super fun time for the community, so it doesn’t have to be just [putting on a stuffy voice] "Oh this is objectively the best thing I have ever read and it totally made me want to have sex with the words on the page." [Back to normal voice] Although that might be fun if it’s your kind of thing. It should be "I liked this! It scratched that itch!"
BEAU: Yeah, so while we've got some [air quotes] more traditional categories [end air quotes], this is more about seeing all the different kind of things people wrote this year.
JESTER: Yeah! It'll be like an archive for recording these stories!
BEAU: Um, I think most fic is already on an archive, like, it's explicitly called an Archive of Our Own. [Beau shrugs] Which I guess the Cobalt Soul would totally approve of--
JESTER: Ooo! Ooo! We could call it [fancy announcer voice] “The Traveler Presents the Order of the Cobalt Soul's Kinda Annual Awards for Awesomeness in Fic Writing!"
BEAU: Sure, why the fuck not.
JESTER: And everyone should totally be selfish and just submit whatever they want, even their own fics! Then it will be just the like the Academy Awards!
BEAU: Ummmm
JESTER: That's totally what I'm going to do. I've got like a gazillion stories I wrote about Fjord and Caleb kissing and you and Yasha kissing and--
BEAU: Wait, what?
JESTER: I should totally post them so everyone can read them!
BEAU: [Clamping hand over Jester’s mouth] Uh, so click the magic link below to read the details and make your nominations. I’m going to deal with this right now.
[Drags Jester off stage]
NOMINATE SOME FICS HERE!
[tl;dr Fun opportunity to recommend fics in a fake award show format hosted by the Mighty Nein. Sound interesting? You can jump right to the nomination form here.]
[Jester and Beau sitting on a large dark stage, with a single spotlight centered on them. Jester is hunched over a book. Beau is sitting straight up with her arms crossed.]
JESTER: [Suddenly looking up as if she just noticed someone.] Hi everybody!
BEAU: [Giving a begrudging nod of acknowledgment] Yo.
JESTER: Beau and I were just talking about this amazing idea the Traveler had.
BEAU: Amazing is really pushing it.
JESTER: No! It's super amazing! It's going to be great.
BEAU: Yeah, okay. Cool.
JESTER: [Bouncing in place.] We're going to have an award show for all the fic writers! And there will be shiny statues and pretty lights and--
BEAU: I mean, none of that's going to be real. It's going to be, like, pretending you got an award.
JESTER: Beau. If you pretend hard enough, anything is possible.
BEAU: Sure.
JESTER: And this isn't going to be any old stinky award show! It's going to be the best award show ever!
BEAU: It's probably going to be barely adequate.
JESTER: [Scowling] It's going to be the Best. Award. Show. Ever.
BEAU: [Taking a calming breath.] Yes. Yes it is.
JESTER: [Back to grinning] We want to make this a super fun time for the community, so it doesn’t have to be just [putting on a stuffy voice] "Oh this is objectively the best thing I have ever read and it totally made me want to have sex with the words on the page." [Back to normal voice] Although that might be fun if it’s your kind of thing. It should be "I liked this! It scratched that itch!"
BEAU: Yeah, so while we've got some [air quotes] more traditional categories [end air quotes], this is more about seeing all the different kind of things people wrote this year.
JESTER: Yeah! It'll be like an archive for recording these stories!
BEAU: Um, I think most fic is already on an archive, like, it's explicitly called an Archive of Our Own. [Beau shrugs] Which I guess the Cobalt Soul would totally approve of--
JESTER: Ooo! Ooo! We could call it [fancy announcer voice] “The Traveler Presents the Order of the Cobalt Soul's Kinda Annual Awards for Awesomeness in Fic Writing!"
BEAU: Sure, why the fuck not.
JESTER: And everyone should totally be selfish and just submit whatever they want, even their own fics! Then it will be just the like the Academy Awards!
BEAU: Ummmm
JESTER: That's totally what I'm going to do. I've got like a gazillion stories I wrote about Fjord and Caleb kissing and you and Yasha kissing and--
BEAU: Wait, what?
JESTER: I should totally post them so everyone can read them!
BEAU: [Clamping hand over Jester’s mouth] Uh, so click the magic link below to read the details and make your nominations. I’m going to deal with this right now.
[Drags Jester off stage]
NOMINATE SOME FICS HERE!
So What is This?
This is an excuse to do a ton of fic recs and write the Mighty Nein while not actually writing fic. Basically, I’m hoping everyone will take this opportunity to dump all their favorite fics into that survey link and then I will write the Mighty Nein discussing each of the nominations!Categories
I really want this to be an opportunity to highlight all sorts of different fic, so the categories are purposely broad. They are- Made You Laugh
- Gave You Warm Feelings
- Made You Ugly Cry
- Made You Horny
- Made You Go "What the Fuck?"
- Most Epic
- Gave You Sweet Sweet AU Feels
- Favorite Ficlet (under 1,000 words)
- Favorite Medium-Length (1,000 to 20,000 words)
- Favorite Long-Form Fic (20,000 words or more)
Schedule
- Round 1: (Now until Jan 4th) Submit your nominations!
- Round 2: (Jan 7th - Jan 13th) I push out the nominations for each category with descriptions by the Mighty Nein. Then everyone gets a chance to vote on their top three nominations in each category.
- Round 3: (Jan 14th - Jan 20th) I tally the results and Beau and Jester announce the finalists in each category. Then everyone gets to vote one last time.
- Award Show: (Jan 28th) I write up an award show hosted by Jester and Beau, with presenter duties by the other Mighty Nein (Caduceus as voice over?) and we hand out (totally fake) awards!
