Fic about the Hugo brouhaha

[elderwitty]

This is delightful.

It was linked - by Hugo winning author RedWombat - in the middle of the comments on the File770 post that is itself linked in the summary before the story. Recursive enough for you? :P

I'm not all the way through the comments, yet, but recognized about 12 barely changed remarks.

I laughed very hard.

Stanley Cup — What it Means by Anonymous - 557 words

Try this collection for more laughs:
HugoWank2k19 Collection - 24 entries


In other news, I can tell I've been on Reddit too much because I'm automatically putting two spaces after the sentence even where I'm going to start a new paragraph. (For those unfamiliar with Reddit's craziness, that's how you MAKE it start a new line. Otherwise, it runs it all together.)

Comments

[danceswithgary]

Wow. Thanks for linking this because wow. Those comments are kinda amazing to read and the comment fic made me lol.

:-D

Fic about the Hugo-wank

[elderwitty]

You're welcome. I just finished reading ALL 700+ comments at File770, and my impression of the WSFS has been materially tarnished if these are the people running it. This is particularly because the blog owner never did approve synecdochic's comment so we could judge it on its own merits. Luckily, she kept the receipts and shared them with us:
receipts and emails

If you want the whole wank timeline elf has a link roundup at:
Hugo Trademark, AO3 Hugo Win Linkspam

I have to admit that my opinion of them wasn't that high to begin with, seeing as my first exposure to them was Kevin Standlee's condescension, derision, and mansplaining in the comments of the AO3 announcement:
Hugo Award – What it Means

I think my absolute favorite take on it is Naomi Novik's (astolat's) on tumblr:
Hugos

The best bit:
Personally I think the WSFS needs to worry about a handful of Twitter jokes and pins about as much as JKR and Warner Bros need to worry about the handmade Harry Potter potion bottles that were on sale in the Worldcon dealers room, and if their trademark committee really does have any sincere worries, they should go talk to a lawyer instead of posting online about it.

I love how she casually points out that:
A) they don't seem too worried about other people's trademarks
B) there's a better, legal-and-could-actually-be-effective method (although synecdochic absolutely blasts that thought into smithereens with facts and legal code citations)