Savour the delicious Puppy Tears

[james_davis_nicoll]

Dragon finalists announced, reactions ensue

Comments

[thornsilver]

Links leads to empty page?

[james_davis_nicoll]

? It should lead to file 770.

http://file770.com/reaction-to-2020-dragon-award-ballot/

[thornsilver]

Oh,yeah. That's me completely missing the joke, isn't it? 😬

[autopope]

Is there a link to the actual finalists anywhere?

All I'm seeing is the horrified reaction shots of the deplorables, and while their tears are delicious to me, I'd like to see why they're being shed.

[julian]

Aqui: https://www.tor.com/2020/08/12/dragoncon-dragon-award-2020-finalists-vote/

[jennlk]

Mike links to his post of the Finalists in the first sentence of the File770 post that James linked to.

I've seen it a few places. I think Scalzi posted it as well as Tor.com. And then there's the actual DragonCon post for completeness

[(Anonymous)]

Could my days of not taking the Dragon Awards seriously be coming to a middle?

[dwight_benjamin_thieme]

Oh my. They do tend to swear a lot in perfectly normal conversation. Maybe it's an age thing. Then again, maybe it's a sad puppy thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Over of twitter they're attacking each other - apparently one calls another an idolator, and another of the guys that no one likes, no one likes

https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2020/08/12/2020-dragon-award-ballot-for-reals-this-time/

[matgb]

. If I don’t read every book, I at least hear about a lot of them.

Margaret Atwood at least has a TV show. She’s an opportunistic parasite, but people have at least heard of her (though I haven’t heard of that book. I guess she came out with another)

These two statements contradict quite a lot

I mean, I have zero intention of reading the sequel, the first one was too horrifying already and we're living in a much clearer version of her future now. But to be "fairly hooked into the book community" and to have not heard of the fuss over that, the Booker win, etc? Nah...

[kedamono]

That almost toes the line of "I haven't heard of them, therefore they are not important. (Because I haven't heard of them.)"

[magedragonfire]

I'm pretty sure I've heard of almost all of the nominated authors and haven't heard of Douchebag McGee, there, so...

[sethsellis]

The idea that there's such a thing as "the book community" is a first sign not to take this fella too seriously.

[martianmooncrab]

at least there wasnt too much screaming about Girl Cooties infesting dragons...