I might even make it through these by Friday! Who knows.

Fancast: Two nominations.

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Best Fan Artist
No puppies! Five nominees.
That's a lot, and they're art and I'm bad at talking about art, so these are going to be short-ish.

All the stuff in the voter packet, tbh, was kind of sad. Was there a rule that you could only put in three items, all of them mediocre? I've seen a lot of people commenting on how little this cat has in common with the fanart we see online, but then again, a lot of these artist show to much better advantage if you look them up online, too. But then I realized the category is specifically for art that's been published in fan publications, which would explain why they were struggling to find qualifying pieces. Also, at least one of the artists has much better stuff from 2014 but a lot of it was sold professionally - it could be that most SF artists who are a) professional-quality and b) connected enough to get a Hugo nom transition to "pro" too fast to win this award.

Anyway that leaves me with the dilemma of, do I go by what's in the voter packet, assuming a lot of their other stuff is ineligible, or go by what I think of their art as a whole?

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