Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: Mike and I talking about horrible diseases.

In which Seanan wins a songwriting award.

This past weekend, I attended the Ohio Valley Filk Festival, a three-day convention focusing on the filk music genre. ('Filk' is the music of science fiction and fantasy. Its precise definition has been debated for years, mostly by people with nothing better to do with their time. This includes me. It's a fun, fun argument.) Lots of fun, lots of friendship, and lots of time spent in the Columbus, Ohio Whole Foods Market. Mmmmm, pumpkin parfait.

The Pegasus Awards were created to recognize excellence in filking. Awards are given for individual songs -- two floating categories every year, as well as Best Filk Song and Best Classic Filk Song (a song more than ten years in age). Awards are also given for the Best Performer and Best Writer/Composer. In 2007, I won the Best Performer category in a tie vote with Dr. Mary Crowell (the nice lady in whose kitchen I am typing this entry). This year, I was up for Best Writer/Composer, and my song 'The Black Death' was up for Best Song of Tragedy.

I won Best Writer/Composer. According to those around me, it was one of those rare moments in which I could be seen struck speechless.

Ahem: SQUEE!

Other winners for this year include 'Black Davy's Ride' for Best Song of Tragedy, 'Close Your Eyes' for Best Song of Comedy, 'Archetype Cafe' for Best Classic Song, and 'Uplift' for Best Song. Truly awesome winners all. Best Performer was won by Vixy and Tony, which was neat, since they were sitting at my table. (To be honest, I find most anything good which happens to Vixy neat. I like it when good things happen to Vixy.)

But yes. I won. And I am...really quite over the moon about it.

Glee.
Tags: filk, good things, i make music, vixy
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mneme

October 29 2008, 19:53:20 UTC 8 years ago

Yay! I don't remember whether I got a chance to congratulate you there (I was too busy squeeing over Uplift!) but congrats!

seanan_mcguire

October 30 2008, 15:55:08 UTC 8 years ago

Dude, 'Uplift' winning was EPIC AWESOME. And thank you!

mneme

October 30 2008, 17:24:36 UTC 8 years ago

Oh, god yes. I'm not sure what it is about that song in particular -- maybe because it's an awesome song that richly deserved it, maybe because it's been so long in coming, maybe because Andy's a mensch.

All of the above, really.

Mind, voting in this year's Pegasus was painful -- like having to choose between which really good friend you're going to give a gift to. Ok, it was exactly that; I think only half of what I voted for won, and I didn't really care, because the categories I "lost" on were ones I was, to say the least, "heavily conflicted" on. I'm rather hoping that quite a number of the Pegasus losers from this year become Pegasus winners in future years (that's one nice thing about the way the Pegasus works, actually -- that that can happen, and in cases like Uplift, probably eventually will).

seanan_mcguire

October 31 2008, 01:42:50 UTC 8 years ago

Absolutely agreed. There are some years where I (being a person with opinions, just like absolutely every other person in the known universe) look at the ballot and go 'huh?' at some of the choices.

This was not one of those years.