#fandom awards

WE’RE COMING BACK FOR A 5TH YEAR WITH EVEN MORE EXCITEMENT!

THE IRONDAD CREATOR AWARDS 2025!

WHAT? — Awards for fanfic and art creations and creators of the Irondad Fandom.

WHEN? — The 2025 Cycle of the Irondad Creator Awards is now coming to an end.

NOMINATIONS: Nominations Are Now Closed. All nominations have been bookmarked - Links Here!

VOTING: The Final Vote is now closed. Winners will be announced as soon as we've got things sorted.

If you're looking for some reading in the mean time, all nominations are linked here by category.

The top 5 finalists in each category are listed here - 1/3 2/3 3/3 - with bookmark links.

The full selection of finalists are bookmarked here!

ELIGIBILITY: Only stories posted/updated in 2024 and 2025 are eligible for nomination except for the All Time Favorite Award which is open to all timelines and previous winners. Here is a list of ineligible stories and creators for you to check against.

WHY DO THIS? — Still riding high of the success of the previous four cycles, we’re here to showcase the many amazing creators of Irondad content once again. We have had so much fun in previous years and it’s been great to see so many people getting involved by nominating and voting.

WHAT DO I WIN? — The fabulous @superherotiger is creating the winners prizes this year and her stuff is always amazing.

MISCELLANEOUS  — If you have any questions, feel free to send an Ask or DM.

Just in case you might've forgotten the nomination period for The Guild Awards is still ongoing!

So if you haven't gotten the chance to nominate your favourite fic, edits or art then hop to it before October ends!

🎺Tumblr fandom! submit your nominations for the TROPY Awards! Celebrating SEASON 2 of The Rings of Power! Click the link below. Nominations close Feb 8. Thanks to Tea with Tolkien for putting together and hosting this event!

Fandom awards are about which fanworks people happen to remember when it comes time for nominations. They’re about who knows that awards are happening, who encourages people to vote, and who participates in voting. About what kinds of categories are created for awards and how neatly fanworks fit into them and what types of fanworks tend to get the most attention. About popularity and metrics and timing and a lot of random things that have absolutely nothing to do with the care and love that went into creating your fanworks, and that others derive from your work.

The fanworks I treasure the most aren’t the kind that win fandom awards.

The fanworks I loved making the most aren’t the kind that win awards.

The work I’m proudest of and the fandom experiences that mean the most to me simply can’t be captured by awards.

The plodding, painstaking hours of effort that make someone read a piece of writing and call it effortless, or look at a gif and think, “That’s what that shot looked like in the show.”

The fights with Photoshop or tumblr or Word or words that become inside jokes among creators.

The feelings I evoke for myself and, on very flattering occasions, for my readers. The feelings that other people’s fanworks evoke in me.

The jerky, slow motion gifs that call attention to details that sleeker, normal speed gifs tend to swallow.

The aspects of myself and my life that I discover through writing.

The moments when fics, gifs, meta, art, etc. spark a feral frenzy amongst fandom friends.

The squeals I let out when a favorite fic updates, or a favorite edit/art/meta series gets a new installment, or a favorite creator mentions that they’re working on something new.

The niche fanworks that make you feel like you’re glimpsing someone’s soul or showing them your own.

The comments from readers saying that my fanworks have helped or influenced them, in whatever little ways they have. Getting to tell other people that their fanworks have helped or influenced me.

The sighs and giggles and tears that come out when I remember a beloved moment from a fanwork, even years after I encountered it.

The absolutely vital stream of happiness and pride and comfort that creating fanworks and experiencing everyone else’s has given me over the past couple of years.

There is love and pride and artistry (even the clunky, amateur artistry of something like my gifmaking) woven into every second that I have spent making my own fanworks or enjoying yours. Awards are like yearbook superlatives—if you get them, you might briefly smile to yourself when you remember them years later. But the wonder and fondness and joy that you feel for a piece of media, for fandom friends, for fanworks that you made or experienced? That’s the kind of deep, lasting impact that weaves laugh lines onto people’s faces.

Hmmm on the one hand yes, I could think of a number of fandoms I'm in that don't seem to have any fic awards yet, and the game show style I run the headcanon games in would make it a lot easier than, like, a full event with panel selection or whatnot, but on the other hand...

The way I run the headcanon games, they're elimination games, and I'd feel kind of mean, voting against and eliminating the nominated fics?

What could be done instead is letting people hand in nominations and then make one big discord poll via emoji selection to get the highest voted one?

Would be less of a game-event thing of course, but I think more fair and less anxiety inducing for ppl whose fics got nominated.

If you're still interested in the reworked idea, do drop the anon and come into my inbox with the fandom you're in, so we can work something out! Might be a while yet tho until I can organize it, I'm quite stressed with irl things atm, plus there's the @discoveryfemslashfortnight at the end of the month to consider as I'm one of the mods there as well.

Hey Louies!

Take a few minutes to vote for Louis in the 2021 Power Radio Fandom Awards. The winner of the contest will have their music added to the ‘high rotation’ playlist!

It’s unlimited voting (I try to do ten votes every time I see the link) so let’s do our best to win this!

Just two weeks to go until the first InuParents Day Celebration!

The mod team would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the artists who contributed to our promotional materials who have been nominated for @feudalconnection Fandom Awards in 2021Q1! 

Inuyasha Art: @kirrtash @i-dream-of-soup  @kalcia @nartista-digital @clementinesgulag @clearwillow @mamabearcat @thornedraven

InuParents Art: @thunderpot @heavenin–hell 

And a special shout out to @loveyou-x3000 whose InuParents Modern AU Wicked Games is up for Best NSFW Fanfic!