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psocopteraFanzines and I'm donezo.
SF Bluestocking - I think Bridget McKinney overlaps with me enough that her reviews are actually useful, or, at least, she makes me want to add things to my to-read list.
Nerds of a Feather - there's a really great Malka Older interview in the packet where she's talking about dystopia and she's just so smart and interesting, so props for publishing that. Their reviews felt a little over the top.
Journey Planet - seems like a cool venue to publish your article on something you particularly care about for other people who also care about that thing, if they happen to do an issue on something you particularly care about. I however don't care about any of this.
Galactic Journey - as a white presently-abled* housewife-of-a-dude I feel like I need to be a little bit suspicious of my enthusiasm for nostalgia projects - in this case knowing that I could likely survive in 1962 much more easily than many friends/fellow fans/etc. That said this project ("liveblogging" the sff/space age world from 55 years in the past) is adorable and I'm going to be hard-pressed not to vote for this.
*modulo some untreated but possibly diagnosable brain glitchiness, but, I mean, I would be as functional in 1962 with that as I am right now :)
File 770 - so valuable, and such a different project than something like Bluestocking or Nerds.
Rocket Stack Rank - So, I'm going to no-award RSR on the basis of Hullender having his head up his ass about gender and pronouns. Maybe I wouldn't have done it if Worldcon hadn't fucked up Bogi Takács' bio, I'm honestly not sure, but given events it feels like a tiny gesture of solidarity I can make in the direction of these things mattering. I do actually use RSR when I'm looking for certain kinds of information (like File 770 and unlike the rest of these) so maybe it's hypocritical to no-award them, but, I don't know, I'm pretty much using them for their indexing, which barely feels like a "fanzine" function at all? (By indexing, I mean identifying novellas and novelettes at sites that don't tag their fiction for length, particularly magazines that I don't intend to just read all of anyways. I guess I do use their ratings to some extent too to identify works that are getting attention - I like being on top of what's getting buzz - but I find Hullender's reviews pretty useless to me, perhaps not unrelated to the headassery. Anyways, I'm not going to stop using them as a tool but I can still say I don't want to see Hullender on the Hugos stage.)
1. Galactic Journey
2. Nerds of a Feather
3. SF Bluestocking
4. File 770
5. Journey Planet
6. no award
7. Rocket Stack Rank
Are my Malka Older feelings inflating my ranking of Nerds? Probably? Shrug? (Who cares I'm DONE?)
SF Bluestocking - I think Bridget McKinney overlaps with me enough that her reviews are actually useful, or, at least, she makes me want to add things to my to-read list.
Nerds of a Feather - there's a really great Malka Older interview in the packet where she's talking about dystopia and she's just so smart and interesting, so props for publishing that. Their reviews felt a little over the top.
Journey Planet - seems like a cool venue to publish your article on something you particularly care about for other people who also care about that thing, if they happen to do an issue on something you particularly care about. I however don't care about any of this.
Galactic Journey - as a white presently-abled* housewife-of-a-dude I feel like I need to be a little bit suspicious of my enthusiasm for nostalgia projects - in this case knowing that I could likely survive in 1962 much more easily than many friends/fellow fans/etc. That said this project ("liveblogging" the sff/space age world from 55 years in the past) is adorable and I'm going to be hard-pressed not to vote for this.
*modulo some untreated but possibly diagnosable brain glitchiness, but, I mean, I would be as functional in 1962 with that as I am right now :)
File 770 - so valuable, and such a different project than something like Bluestocking or Nerds.
Rocket Stack Rank - So, I'm going to no-award RSR on the basis of Hullender having his head up his ass about gender and pronouns. Maybe I wouldn't have done it if Worldcon hadn't fucked up Bogi Takács' bio, I'm honestly not sure, but given events it feels like a tiny gesture of solidarity I can make in the direction of these things mattering. I do actually use RSR when I'm looking for certain kinds of information (like File 770 and unlike the rest of these) so maybe it's hypocritical to no-award them, but, I don't know, I'm pretty much using them for their indexing, which barely feels like a "fanzine" function at all? (By indexing, I mean identifying novellas and novelettes at sites that don't tag their fiction for length, particularly magazines that I don't intend to just read all of anyways. I guess I do use their ratings to some extent too to identify works that are getting attention - I like being on top of what's getting buzz - but I find Hullender's reviews pretty useless to me, perhaps not unrelated to the headassery. Anyways, I'm not going to stop using them as a tool but I can still say I don't want to see Hullender on the Hugos stage.)
1. Galactic Journey
2. Nerds of a Feather
3. SF Bluestocking
4. File 770
5. Journey Planet
6. no award
7. Rocket Stack Rank
Are my Malka Older feelings inflating my ranking of Nerds? Probably? Shrug? (Who cares I'm DONE?)
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Date: 2018-07-26 08:55 pm (UTC)