THE DREAMCATCHER AWARDS
Hosted by redroseficz
I entered Morsels in Short Story Anthology, Ancilla in Romance, and - uh, hmm. I seem to have entered a bunch of mini/special categories, because "Drink Deeply From Summer's Cup" (from Excavations) took First Place for Best Opening Line, and Morsels came in second for Best Cover (this contest does not seem to have first, second, and third places in the mini categories, though, so it might be more accurate to say that Excavations won a mini, and - bother, I have no idea if I entered Ancilla in any of the mini categories, or if Morsels is in any mini categories other than Best Cover... I should have written this stuff down when I entered. I DITZED)
UPDATE 1/10/2025
What a debacle.
I'm going to post my bad review here, and then the following page is going to be screenshots of a side conversation that happened when katiegoesmew messaged me in Discord to tell me about a review that had just been posted of Morsels that looked like it might have been at least partly AI-generated.
She had good reasons for letting me know why she thought AI might have played a part in Dreamcatcher - one of those reasons is in the side conversation on the next page, while other reasons involve a fanfic contest she took part in that I sat out, and that's her story to tell, not mine.
Anyway. Morsels did not do well in the Short Story Collection competition at all, partly because the reviewer did not feel comfortable reading sexually explicit material.
I'll let the review speak for itself. I am too tired to correct the many, many SPAG mistakes my reviewer made while writing it. Maybe she was so disturbed by what she read that she was unable to write coherently. We'll give her the benefit of the doubt, here (although it is my opinion that people who are so confused about rules of grammar that they need to consult Google should probably avoid judging books in contests in which grammar is one of the elements that is being judged).
Later that evening...
I quit.
My judge doubled down on the I never used AI to rewrite any of my review ever! Never mind that the first section, the section about the title, is the only part of it that made any kind of grammatical sense, and has that degaussed Facetune prose style that screams AI! argument and refused to back down.
She also doubled down on the You're so mean! You're making me cry! Why are you like this? How can you say things like this? line, despite the fact that nobody has said anything even remotely cruel to her. We've pointed out that it looks like she isn't very confident with her grammar and it looks like some of her writing has been fed to a bot and polished by that bot. (I have also added that she has a right to set her own boundaries and if she doesn't feel comfortable reading erotica, she should not read erotica). Her tone has grown increasingly whiny, and she sounds more like someone between the ages of 14 and 16 than she does like the 20 year old she claims she is.
This, plus the host's frequent calls for people to volunteer as judges, and some comments people made in the sidebar about how they weren't eager to judge sexually explicit writing but were asked to do so anyway, make me think jambudweep got badgered into reading Morsels. Also that she might not be legally old enough to be reading stuff like that anyway.
And this was her introduction to contest judging?
I am done. I want nothing more to do with this contest. I will not be entering any other contests hosted by Redroseficz. I don't want to risk this happening again.
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