Patch by Lee Madison
It is that time of year again. If you would like to register to vote for the Hugo awards you will need to do so before the end of January. If you participated last time, you are still eligible to nominate this year.
Sad Puppies is a campaign to get authors and artists nominated, who would normally be shunned by the politically motivated Social Justice Warriors who had become an insurmountable voting block. .
Last year I did a big push with several blog posts and cartoons (featuring Wendell as our spokesmanatee) to try to get people who aren’t typical WorldCon attendees to participate. We managed to get people and things despised by SJWs nominated to almost every category. The ensuing public freak out was hilarious and proved my point.
This year I’ve been pretty swamped with one big writing project (1st book coming out October 2015) and a couple other secret projects, but Brad Torgersen has picked up the gauntlet to make up from me being a huge slacker.
The announcement: https://bradrtorgersen.wordpress.com/2015/01/07/announcing-sad-puppies-3/
The explanation: https://bradrtorgersen.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/why-sad-puppies-3-is-going-to-destroy-science-fiction/
What you can do to help: https://bradrtorgersen.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/how-you-can-aid-the-valiant-sad-puppies-3-campaign/
So there you go folks. Enjoy.
For those of you who missed Sad Puppies 2: Rainbow Puppy Lighthouse the Huggening, but would like to see a great example of somebody proving a point, here is a recap of what happened last time:
http://monsterhunternation.com/2014/04/24/an-explanation-about-the-hugo-awards-controversy/
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Larry, someone ought to turn all the Sad Puppies comics and Spokesmanatee PSA’s into a graphic novel where all proceeds goes to some good writing cause ;).
You say that we have to be members by the end of the month to vote, but that’s only to nominate. Last year I didn’t get my supporting membership until well after finalists were announced.
Ah, but the nominations are the real game…
Yes, I meant nominating, but getting the nominations in there is what causes all the sputtery SJW outrage. :D
As Nathan notes, the real scrimmage is in the nominations.
The SJWs have very specific criteria for theirs: they want gay authors, female authors, transexual authors, non-Caucasian authors. AND THIS IS A HARD RULE which they will seldom break.
You can be none of the above, but your book or story must focus on:
Gay characters, female characters, transexual characters, and non-Caucasian characters.
It helps a ton if they are all sad and miserable in some way or another. Because sadness and misery are the only real components of “mature” fiction, according to every MFA program at every podunk college in America. Which is where most of the SJW authors (and many readers) learn their chops these days.
Yup. We’ve fallen a long, long way since Ursula K. Le Guin, George R.R. Martin, and Larry Niven were our best exemplars in this field. A long way.
SAD PUPPIES is trying (up-hill!) to restore a little of the old grandeur.
It’s a bit like the forces of Minas Tirith trying to re-take Osgiliath from the legions of Sauron.
We’re always outnumbered. But we don’t care. Somebody has to fight this fight. It might as well be us.
That Hugo looks mighty limp . . . (narrows eyes). I see what you did there.
I suggest GTA V shows up as an Angry Wolf, Just Cause 4.
I sent the email to register. Although if they find me here, they probably won’t let me sign up. HA!
Has there been any mention of a slate yet?
confusion, despair, hopelessness…
sorry, thought you meant state…
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Just a reminder: registering to vote annoys this guy.
“@damiengwalter
Ah yes. Hugo award nomination season. Which group of whacky sci-fi authors will successfully rig the vote this year?”
They let anyone sign up who has a supporting or attending membership for Worldcon 2014, 2015 or 2016. If you’re getting your first supporting membership, (if 2015 is your first year) you have to do it by January 31st to be able to nominate. Nobody is going to check your politics. They honestly don’t care.
As for “the protagonist must be miserable in some way” yeah, sure. Twenty years ago I was writing short stories, and the rule of thumb for “who is the protagonist?” was “who hurts?” Most stories involve a protagonist trying to reach a significant goal–the goal often being to remove some cause for unhappiness. Menolly runs away because her family is depriving her of music, which hurts. Harry Dresden takes on magical detective work because he has no money, which hurts. Miles Vorkosigan starts the Dendarii Mercenaries because he failed the physical requirements for the military academy, which hurts.
It’s a fairly general characteristic of protagonists–it’s how the author gets them moving.
“they honestly don’t care”
…um…quite the hostile response from such apathy, then.
And “having problems”=”self loathing misery” now?
In tangentially related news…
Wikipedia just dropped the hammer on a several SJWs who were causing problems with the Gamergate article. The troublemakers will no doubt just create new accounts, mitigating the effect somewhat. But this is still big news as Wikipedia seems to almost invariably veer left whenever a right/left opportunity presents itself.