Whoops HPSA's alive-- and an idea

[icarus]

I have an idea.

The benefit of the HPSA was not that people picked the greatest Harry Potter stories ever, but that the HPSA collected, democraticly, a large number high-quality recs in various pairings and ratings.

Many of you know that I talked to Natalie of the HPSA about a complimentary contest, the details of which are not needed here as tinderblast pointed out some fundamental flaws in my idea (yeah, she was right).

A Nominations Page
Fool that I am, I'm creating a nominations page on my site.

Here's how it works:
1 - Give me a link, an author's name and email, pairing, rating & summary (and any warnings please).
2 - I'll post it in my LJ.
3 - If someone seconds the nomination, then I'll add the link to my site (with credit to the person who recommended it).

This is open to any pairing, any rating, Gen, Slash, Chan, Mpreg, Squidfic, Femmeslash -- whatever. It is not subject to my tastes, nor am I allowed to nominate or second anything myself. (Ah, democracy!) I only request (unenforceable of course) that people not nominate (or second) their own work.

Now I'm rather busy and an utter fool to do this, so links will be added on my availability of time and personal whim. But I'll try to get them up once a month or so. Without further ado...

The Nominations Are Now Open!

You can nominate anything, but if we need focus (or an idea scratcher) let's see some Fred/George.

Comments

[mark356.livejournal.com]

Yes, the link Sushi gave, to the HPSA (http://www.sarcastic-muse.com/hpsa/), as well as the nominees page (http://www.sarcastic-muse.com/hpsa/nominees.html) and the voting page (http://www.sarcastic-muse.com/hpsa/vote.html) all work fine for me. But I really like the idea of a collective recommendations thing, the idea that there are some stories that everyone likes. I hope that you get a lot of gen, because gen is often passed up in favor of slash or shipping stories, and I haven't seen nearly enough gen. I also hope that you get some gen nominations other than Scrabble (which was entertaining, although not enough to make it onto a big recs list for me), Harry Potter and the Bookwyrm (same), or Harry Potter and the Polka-Dot Plague (surely the angstiest nonslash non-epic fic in existence other than Green Candle).

I think I'll have some random recs in a few minutes. Btw, is it all right to rec things written for you, or that you helped edit?

[mark356.livejournal.com]

PS: Is it all right to nominate stories that are already on the HPSA's list? And is it all right to nominate stories that you (Icarus) wrote?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Absolutely we can put any story on this list, including those that are up on the HPSA, either among the original nominees or in the finals.

You can recommend stories of mine, but I'm going to put any recommendation of my stories last (and wait a bit before I put them up). Otherwise it'll look like just more of my shameless self-promotion. LOL!

Icarus

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Stories that were written for you, or you beta'd, that's fine. I think if people recommend their own work, it might as well be a self-uploading archive (fanfiction2.net). ;)

I'm looking forward to some Gen, too. That's what got me into the fandom.

Can't wait to see your recommendations.

Icarus