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ghettoelleth
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| ZeeDrippyVessel wrote: | one = 10 servings.
IN WHOSE UNIVERSE???? |
LMFAO
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ghettoelleth
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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| ZeeDrippyVessel wrote: |
As for a committee making the decision, I know this for fact to not be the case. The person I spoke with on GhettoElleth's LJ was also a member of the board and she hunted and told me flat out - [i]this was never brought before the committee. |
HUH? Dude, I haven't had an LJ since 2007...
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ZeeDrippyVessel
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2012 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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| ghettoelleth wrote: | | ZeeDrippyVessel wrote: |
As for a committee making the decision, I know this for fact to not be the case. The person I spoke with on GhettoElleth's LJ was also a member of the board and she hunted and told me flat out - [i]this was never brought before the committee. |
HUH? Dude, I haven't had an LJ since 2007... |
I know. This convo took place in 2006 - a year after the debacle.
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NancyBrooke
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| ghettoelleth wrote: | Hi everybody. Nancy, I'm afraid to ask what that is, sounds toxic.
HAL! In Meh Hee Co  |
Well, kind of toxic 'cause it has vodka in it, + lime juice + simple syrup + ginger beer. Ginger+Lime=YUM!
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/10/magazine/summer-cocktails.html
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dolarabee
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 8:09 am Post subject: |
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Damn. I don't log here for a while and I come back to five pages worth of posts on ONE topic?!
Care to give me the short version of what happened with MEFA? I haven't had fandom drama in so long!
do.
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ZeeDrippyVessel
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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MEFAs? In short? I'm the LAST person but...
Okay... you gotta remember... this is ME in MY language.
They decided to become more inbred.
From the best that I can tell, a week or two before the end of reviewing, they decided a fic was just TOO sexy and drop kicked it... and the thing was the fic was winning or doing REALLY well. (They did the same thing to me, except they did it the first week and according to their own dictates, my fic - Rider - met their sex criteria. Unlike Esteille, she got a committee and I didn't.)
When people asked for them to loosen up and be a bit more accommodating to those (like me) who write sex, basically it was a.. you know, I'm/we're tired so it's the tighter, more inbred rules or we quit.
Monkey feces was slung.   it was quite spectacular.
They ended up quitting.  Some are mourning.  Some are not. (Waves anti-MEFA flag.)  So NOW we have TOME :soon:which is gearing up and we have The Tolkien Awards aka Ugetacookie, which should also be gearing up shortly. One hopes and prays both will be more accommodating to the ENTIRE fandom and not a select few.
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Sulriel
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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well. i guess if you are missing drama, that's the version to go with.  and yeah, i'm one of the mourners.
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NeumeIndil
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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Another short(er) version: in light of a badly handled story last year, rule changes came down from MEFA admin that a lot of people wanted to discuss before they went into effect. MEFA admin wanted to delay discussion until after nominations opened, and when people continued to protest it was the straw that broke the camel's back. The main group of Admin felt overextended and put upon (there were personal attacks as well), so they said 'We have do it this way this year to get one out period, but if that's not good enough, we won't do awards at all. Either way, we're done with the MEFA after 2012."
Ultimately they let the MEFA go. There are still hard feelings on both sides of the debate. As one of the parties responsible for both the 2011 season story being pulled b/c of rating and one of the authors concerned with the decision to rate by numbers, I've been more or less in the thick of it since the first email/LJ post went out, and now I'm on the Promotion Task Force for one of the new awards that will with all luck be up next year. A website is being designed, hosting funds are being estimated, preliminary visuals (like my icon) are in process; it's a pretty expansive collaborative effort in my corner of the fandom.
I don't know much about You Get a Cookie other than it has an awesome name and Zhie seems pretty kick ass from my interactions with her. But no arch rivalries, stealing mascots, or spray painting the opposing team's captains so far, so I think we're all good.
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ZeeDrippyVessel
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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Nah - we just have cookies. We have a website and cookies have been designed (You should see the one for Dead things... killed me.) But we're hoping to up and running soon... Real Life is kicking everyone's buttocks firmly.
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dolarabee
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| Sulriel wrote: | | well. i guess if you are missing drama, that's the version to go with. and yeah, i'm one of the mourners. |
Oh, it's not that I miss drama. I've just been so far removed from fandom (LotR and others), that it's one thing I'd forgotten about. The drama. Even LJ rarely sees me log in, so I haven't been splashed there either. Can't say I missed it at all. I guess drama is the unpleasant side that comes with fandom but which seems necessary every once in a while.
Thanks for the recap. I can only be in and out quick so five pages of 'shit-fighting' couldn't be on the menu for me, if even that's what it was. Actually, I assume the 'fight' happened elsewhere and the end result simply reposted here? ( Yes, I guess that's a firm confirmation that we haven't been monitoring and/or moderating the threads at all. ::hangs head:: )
Well, let's look toward the future and I wish all the best to the newcomers!
do.
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ZeeDrippyVessel
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| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:15 am Post subject: |
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There was no fighting here. Some heated words (you know me, I prefer the terms 'passionate' and 'opinionated') but we were civil. The monkey feces happened elsewhere - several places.
We're NOT kids.... kinda sorta... we know how to behave.
Usually... kinda. sorta.
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ZeeDrippyVessel
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| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:19 am Post subject: |
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We also discussed the stupidity of diabetes and why they make itty bitty bags of sugar free any and then say it's a bunch of servings in the itty bitty bag when they KNOW we're going to eat it all....  
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Rhapsody
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 8:45 am Post subject: |
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Only you guys can turn a thread like this about sex and cookies  Oh and the rum of course, perhaps with a touch of Eric *looks at Binks* 
Almost like Do, I am not that much in touch with the fandom these days, but I do know that what happened in June went very fast. It happened and from what I understood if it wasn't the ratings thing then it would have been the coding troubles that would have delayed or even would have led to a cancellation for that year.
There is Zhie's project with cookies and the TOMIES, and in that I am involved with getting the site off the ground and up and running when RL allows me to. RL is winning though.. although I think it is time to write some ranger smut. Hmmmm 
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