Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: Paul Kwinn, "Where the Magic Is Real."

I've always liked My Little Ponies...: Pegasus 2010.

The Pegasus Awards for Excellence in Filking are given out each year at the Ohio Valley Filk Festival. This the biggest award in the filk world; when trying to explain them to non-filkers (or even new filkers), it's often said that the Pegasus Awards are "the Hugos of filk." This is not inaccurate. It's a major award in the filk world, with a ballot nominated and voted on by the community.

Every year, there are four "standard" categories—Best Song, Best Classic (for songs more than ten years old), Best Performer, and Best Writer/Composer—and two "floating" categories, which change from ballot to ballot. Floating categories can range from general, like "Best Parody" or "Best Love Song," to extremely specific...like this year's floating categories, "Best Magic Song" and "Best Mad Science Song."

I was at the Skin Horse volume two release party when Amy and Vixy both sent me text messages to inform me that "What A Woman's For," my song about the virtues of being Dr. Frankie's little helper when the world just has to be destroyed, had won the Pegasus Award for Mad Science. Yes. I got an award for Mad Science, at least in song form.

TREMBLE, PUNY MORTALS! TREMBLE, FOR SOON I AND MY GENETICALLY-ALTERED ARMY OF FLESH-RENDING PEGASI WILL COME FOR YOU IN THE NIGHT! THOSE FOOLS LAUGHED AT ME AT THE ACADEMY, BUT THEY'LL PAY! THEY'LL PAY! OH, HOW THEY'LL PAY!

...ahem. And also, thank you to everyone who voted, and squee! Pegasus! Congratulations to all the 2010 ballot winners, especially my frequent musical partner in crime, Paul Kwinn, who won the Pegasus for Best Magic Song. Life is good.

I'm so happy.
Tags: amy, awards and stuff, filk, geekiness, i make music, mad science, vixy
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dornbeast

October 28 2010, 15:03:35 UTC 6 years ago

Flesh-rending pegasi? What happened to the assault equoids disguised as life-size My Little Ponies? :)

(On second thought, I don't want to know.)

seanan_mcguire

October 28 2010, 15:16:10 UTC 6 years ago

No. You don't.

jslinder

October 28 2010, 15:14:34 UTC 6 years ago

Campbell and a Pegasus in one year...

Next year, you are SO karmically screwed! :)

seanan_mcguire

October 28 2010, 15:16:36 UTC 6 years ago

Nope.

This is all payback for the years of suck that came before. I did my happy ending on lay-away, not on credit.

jeffreycwells

6 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

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autographedcat

October 28 2010, 15:18:04 UTC 6 years ago

Congratulations to all the 2010 ballot winners, especially my frequent musical partner in crime, Paul Kwinn, who won the Pegasus for Best Magic Song. Life is good.

He's a wizard. She's a mad scientist.

THEY FIGHT CRIME!

sweetmusic_27

October 28 2010, 23:16:15 UTC 6 years ago

Muahahahaha! What he said.

seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

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jenjen4280

October 28 2010, 15:32:24 UTC 6 years ago

Congrats! What a killer year for you!

seanan_mcguire

October 29 2010, 14:16:06 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks!

mathnerd

October 28 2010, 15:48:54 UTC 6 years ago

Damn. Finally getting your karmic pay-back, I see. (And rightly so!) Congratulations!!

seanan_mcguire

October 29 2010, 14:16:14 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you!

ravenclawed

October 28 2010, 15:50:07 UTC 6 years ago

Congrats! So, are any of your songs old enough to qualify for Best Classic?

Mark E. Horning

October 29 2010, 08:47:10 UTC 6 years ago

Classic is defined as 10+ years old. So yes, many of Seanan's Songs qualify.

seanan_mcguire

6 years ago

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ladymondegreen

October 28 2010, 15:57:23 UTC 6 years ago

I would have texted you when you won, but literally everyone around me was already doing so. :)

seanan_mcguire

October 29 2010, 14:16:35 UTC 6 years ago

Heeeeee.

djonn

October 28 2010, 16:16:47 UTC 6 years ago

Congratulations!

And now you need to see the story about this house in Portland, whose owners would surely welcome a true-born Marilyn with open arms.

seanan_mcguire

October 29 2010, 14:20:07 UTC 6 years ago

I wish to live with these people.

orlacarey

October 28 2010, 17:40:41 UTC 6 years ago

Congrats! And for those of who must not have been paying attention is there anyplace where we hear the song? Signed the music slut

dornbeast

October 28 2010, 18:24:11 UTC 6 years ago

Buy Red Roses and Dead Things.

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cleothyla

October 28 2010, 18:35:30 UTC 6 years ago

Congratulations. :)

seanan_mcguire

October 29 2010, 14:20:15 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks!

brightlotusmoon

October 28 2010, 19:32:15 UTC 6 years ago

So, I was channel surfing on my Comcast account, and saw a little TV special proclaiming itself to be "My Little Pony" on at that very second. So I watched it. It's My Little Pony for the 21st century, done in the style of Powerpuff Girls. It's awesome. I don't know if it's an actual series with episodes, though.
http://www.hubworld.com/my-little-pony/shows/friendship-is-magic

seanan_mcguire

October 30 2010, 16:41:22 UTC 6 years ago

They have toys. It's freaking me out a little.

brightlotusmoon

6 years ago

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vincentursus

October 29 2010, 01:23:45 UTC 6 years ago

Congratulations. More than deserved.

seanan_mcguire

October 30 2010, 16:41:32 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you!

hoppytoad79

October 29 2010, 02:56:06 UTC 6 years ago

Congratulations. I wonder how Dr. Horrible will take the news you beat him out? I'd watch your back, just in case. ;)

seanan_mcguire

October 30 2010, 16:41:58 UTC 6 years ago

I wore my "the world's a mess, and I just need to rule it" shirt today, partially to celebrate this comment.

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kitrinlu

October 29 2010, 06:45:15 UTC 6 years ago

Congratulaaaaations! *worships at the altar of awesome*

seanan_mcguire

October 30 2010, 16:42:07 UTC 6 years ago

Heee.

fayanora

October 29 2010, 09:20:08 UTC 6 years ago

Speaking of My Little Ponies: http://www.amazon.com/MachoPoni-Prance-Death-Lotus-Rose/dp/1933929790

seanan_mcguire

October 30 2010, 16:42:31 UTC 6 years ago

Disturbingly, this book is in my bathroom RIGHT NOW.

fayanora

6 years ago

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Tiara/Pegasus Dance!

phoenixrave

October 29 2010, 14:54:38 UTC 6 years ago

I'm literally dancing in my chair for you, M'dear!

Re: Tiara/Pegasus Dance!

seanan_mcguire

October 30 2010, 16:42:41 UTC 6 years ago

Yay!