Hugos!

ladybusiness won our second Hugo for Best Fanzine!!!!

I'm excited, so grateful, can still hardly believe it. Folks who were hanging out online with me during the livestream can attest that my first reaction was literally "WHAT". It'll probably take a few days to sink in.

What is not taking time to sink in is the fact that AO3 won the Best Related Work award! Seriously, I am just about as happy about this as I am about LB's award. It's such a wonderful sign that transformative fandom is being taken more seriously by at least some segments of the SFF fandom as a whole. Here's a link to some pictures of the rocket as well as a transcript of Naomi Novik's speech. One tidbit from the speech: the physical award will be joining the collection that travels to every Worldcon, so if you ever attend a Worldcon and feel like a part of the AO3 community, make sure to pay your Hugo a visit.

Also please do not forget to congratulate renay, who's been championing this award for five years. This would never have happened without her.

It's now official that Worldcon 2021 will be happening in Washington DC (with Malka Older as one of the GoH!!). I suspect New Zealand in 2020 is a bit out of reach for me, especially given that I have some other travel already on the books, but my odds of getting to DC in 2021 are quite high. And I'm looking forward to it already.