Comments on: Furry Author Nominated for Actual Award

By: Kabbalist

Kabbalist — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:57:03 +0000

Can I get a woo-hoo? Even a little one?

I’m thrilled to hear about Kyell’s nomination for the Washington Science Fiction Association’s award, just like I would hope the rest of us are. He’s certainly a skilled author, and I knew this, but it’s great to see him getting more public recognition outside of the furry community.

I agree with Sci Cheetah: Let’s celebrate this as a happy event, but let’s not leave it at that. Let’s use it as an incentive to see how many MORE of our authors can turn out work of that quality!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:26:18 +0000

If this makes Gold write less porn then I’m all for it.

By: Chuck Melville

Chuck Melville — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:17:00 +0000

But a tongue-in-cheek attitude only works when it’s evident that it’s tongue-in-cheek. Someone not familiar with a person’s writing style will take it pretty straight-forward. As someone who had never seen this site until just a couple of days before this particular article, I read the headline and took it completely at face value, especially as nothing in the article itself contradicts the apparent snipe. As it stands, it comes off as being a bit misleading.

By: Malin

Malin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:45:04 +0000

A lot of this website is rather tongue-in-cheek. The Ursas have a lot of well-documented problems, as do many awards. We’re just more familiar with them because they’re a community-bestowed award, and we’re all part of the community. To someone from the outside, I believe the Ursas probably appear more prestigious than they do to us, who see all the sausage factory workings.

Sonious does make a point, however, that furries tend to suffer from “furry shame” and discount their own achievements. I don’t think that’s necessarily what’s going on here. I think Lovejoy’s just trying to be funny and mean at the same time–something he does very well. His previous coverage of the Ursas treated them seriously.

By: Sonious

Sonious — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:00:57 +0000

Heaven knows the fandom needs more “legitimacy” seeings as furrys themselves don’t see their rewards as anything but fictional apparently.

Sometimes its hard to see who sees us as illegitimate, the general public or the furries ourselves.

By: Chuck Melville

Chuck Melville — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:45:38 +0000

bersl2: I gathered that was likely the intent. But the ‘headline’ to the article doesn’t really convey that, and comes off as rather insulting to the Ursas. It reads more like, “The heck with that other junk he’s won, he’s just been nominated for a REAL award!”

That was very much my impression when I first read it.

By: bersl2

bersl2 — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:38:04 +0000

Well, it’s not so much that the Ursa Majors are not an actual award, since they clearly are an award; it’s just that it’s much more significant for someone outside the fandom to honor a furry work and its creator. There’s a big gap between “RAH RAH WE’RE AWESOME” and “Of those submitted to us, this work of speculative fiction is the best work coming out of a small publisher in 2009.”

By: Chuck Melville

Chuck Melville — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:20:32 +0000

So… wait…

…an Ursa Major is not an ACTUAL award…!?

By: Sci Cheetah

Sci Cheetah — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:39:52 +0000

Rather than for us to simply just say congrats and well done, I believe that we should go on to say, okay, now it’s my turn. Kyell Gold has been striving to push the furry community further into the spotlight in a positive manner and he is succeeding. It is my personal belief that he has now set the bar higher for us to push further and further. We need to get on the train and begin to strive for more as a community. I know that I myself will be striving to have literary works as good, if not better than Kyell Gold’s works. I see him as an inspiration and a rival. And hopefully, someday, I can call him a friend too.

By: bersl2

bersl2 — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:41:27 +0000

This is fantastic news!