Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Voting is now closed!

Thank you to everyone who has voted! Votes are now being counted, and results will be posted either tonight or Monday, August 8. The winners will be tweeted as well from both my personal account and the official account, so keep an eye out!
Congratulations to all the nominees!

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Possible Delay in Winner Announcement

A change of schedule means that I will be out of town from Thursday through Sunday. I was actually planning on revealing the winners on Thursday, but since this has come up, I might not be able to. I'm going to try though! If I can get the votes counted in time, the results will be up tomorrow night. But if not, then I'll make it sometime on Monday. I highly recommend you follow @TheTwifestivals over on Twitter, or you could even follow me (@buildmeapyramid) if you'd rather hear me moan and groan over counting votes. :)
Congratulations to all the nominees, and thanks to everyone who has already voted!

Friday, July 1, 2011

Changes have been made . . .

Alright, I think I've gotten everything. If you have a problem or catch a mistake either on the nominees post or the voting form, you can drop me a line here or email me at thetwifestivals@gmail.com. Thank you for your patience!
Now go vote!

Announcement

There has been a slight alterration in voting. An author has informed me that she would like her story to not be considered for voting, and so I would appreciate it if y'all did not vote until I have made the necessary adjustments regarding her choice. I'll let you know when everything is set again; it shouldn't take long. Thank you!

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Voting is Open!

Sorry for the slight delay, RL issues came up (i.e., my stupid dogs jumped the fence again). But I'm here, and I'm so excited to announce that voting for The Twifestivals is open! But before I announce the finalists, here are the categories that had to be cut as there were simply not enough nominations:

Best Manwhore
Best Asshole
Best Beard
Best Wolf
Best Family
Best Vamp Fic
Best Wolf Fic
Best Dark Fic
Best Inkfic
Best Hate-to-Love Fic
Best Bromance Fic
Best College Love Fic
Best Forbidden Love Fic
Best Canon Fic
Best Crossover
Best Exception
Best Femslash
Best Sequel
Best HEA
Best UHEA
Best Cliffhanger
Best One-Night Stand
Best Coming Out
Best UST
Best Cockblock
Best First Kiss
Best First Date
Best Overall Kiss
Best Handjob
Best First Time
Best Threesome
Best Fight
Best Break-up/Make-up
Best Moment
Best Banner

Looks like a lot doesn't it? Lol, but considering there were over 70 categories...ah well, next time we'll know better what people want. And now, let's get to the finalists! Here they are:

Best Edward
Magnetism by buildmeapyramid
Maybe It's Make Believe by starry-nights88
Mismatch Made In Heaven by Mrs. Agget
Sleeves by iamamy
There's A Crack in Everything by bellemeer

Best Jasper
Sleeves by iamamy
There's A Crack in Everything by bellemeer
Into You by upsidedownntwisted
Hard by SingleStrand
Tell Me What You Want by MusicMovesMyPen
Best Emmett
Juicy by NanaMun
Some Things Don't Need to Be Said by K says
A Tale of Two Cities by TruceOver
Our House by NanaMun
Submit by cjmuehlb

Best Carlisle
Learning to Fly by KellanCougar
Where You Belong by sadtomato
Submit by cjmuehlb
Stay by avioleta
Untogether by avioleta

Best Jacob
Magnetism by buildmeapyramid
Our House by NanaMun
Into You by upsidedownntwisted
Broken by OnTheTurningAway
Intermediate Imprinting by starry-nights88

Best Supporting Character
Carlisle from Yesternight by Pastiche Pen
Riley from Hard by SingleStrand
Emmett from Inscrutable by Lou-La
Riley from Eat, Laugh, Fuck by prassacut
Esme from Tell Me What You Want by MusicMovesMyPen

Best OC
Liam from Nightfall by MySlashyFriend
Millie from Yesternight by Pastiche Pen
Jack Germanotta from Battlefield by Julie's Jewels
Bex from Roads by prassacut
Isabel from Yesternight by Pastiche Pen

Best Geek
Jasper from Mismatch Made In Heaven by Mrs. Agget
Edward from Sleeves by iamamy
Edward from Magnetism by buildmeapyramid
Edward from Outside the Bubble by OvertlyConcealed
Edward from Inscrutable by Lou-La

Best Villain
Victoria from Intermediate Imprinting by starry-nights88
Lauren from Learning to Fly by KellanCougar
James from Sleeves by iamamy
Jacob from Jasper's Wanted Needs by jaydogrut
Jasper from The Major's Pet by OCDJen

Best Bad-Ass
Jasper from Sleeves by iamamy
Jasper from Inscrutable by Lou-La
Jacob from Magnetism by buildmeapyramid
Jasper from The Major's Pet by OCDJen
Jasper from The Edge of Love by OCDJen

Best Vamp
Jasper from Yesternight by Pastiche Pen
Edward from Yesternight by Pastiche Pen
Edward from The Other Side of Night by venis-envy
Edward from Lost Boys by vampireisthenewblack
Jasper from The Major's Pet by OCDJen

Best Lover
Edward from Maybe It's Make Believe by starry-nights88
Carlisle from Learning to Fly by KellanCougar
Jasper from Sleeves by iamamy
Jasper from Inscrutable by Lou-La
Riley from Eat, Laugh, Fuck by prassacut

Best Couple
Edward and Jasper from Sleeves by iamamy
Edward and Jasper from There's A Crack in Everything by bellemeer
Edward and Jacob from The Stranger's Insight by Dance Alice Dance
Edward and Carlisle from Where You Belong by sadtomato
Edward and Jasper from Roads by prassacut

Best Angst
The Stranger's Insight by Dance Alice Dance
Learning to Fly by KellanCougar
Everything is Broken by blakeney
Jasper's Wanted Needs by jaydogrut
Magnetism by buildmeapyramid

Best Comedy
Outside the Bubble by OvertlyConcealed
Best Part of Me Was Always You by kgq
180 Days Plus Weekends & Holidays by Drizl
There's A Crack in Everything by bellemeer
Roads by prassacut

Best BDSM/Toy-Play Fic
Enough by iamamy
Euphoria by upsidedownntwisted
Walk Away by hidingfromsomeone
Be Careful What You Wish For by Lori94
The Story of E by PandoraGalacia

Best PWP
Juicy by NanaMun
I Knew He'd Come by bellemeer
Submit by cjmuehlb
Mind Games and Biological Warfare by Fr333bird
Inscrutable by Lou-La

Best "But I Thought I Was Straight" Fic
Magnetism by buildmeapyramid
Cinnamon and Vanilla by PolkaDotMama
There's A Crack in Everything by bellemeer
Learning to Fly by KellanCougar
Maybe It's Make Believe by starry-nights88

Best AH/AU Fic
Magnetism by buildmeapyramid
There's A Crack in Everything by bellemeer
Sleeves by iamamy
Our House by NanaMun
Roads by prassacut

Best Plot
Learning to Fly by KellanCougar
Sleeves by iamamy
There's A Crack in Everything by bellemeer
Into You by upsidedownntwisted
Hard by SingleStrand

Best Drabble
Drenched by MizzHyde
Truly, Madly, Deeply by Ohtheseboys
Awake Our Soul by Slashifyed
The Big Top by Oh Jasper My Jasper
Falling in Love At A Coffee Shop by NinjaTurtle1986

Best One-Shot
Eat, Laugh, Fuck by prassacut
Masterpiece by iamamy
The Golden Banana by Touchstone67
The Kilted Vampire by pixie-belle88
Spanish Moss by allryans

Best Work-in-Progress
Magnetism by buildmeapyramid
Tell Me What You Want by MusicMovesMyPen
Sleeves by iamamy
Learning to Fly by KellanCougar
There's A Crack in Everything by bellemeer

Best Completed Fic
Three Days Grace by Temperance
Triptych by McGee42
Mismatch Made In Heaven by Mrs. Agget
Charming Beauty Bright by evilgiraffe82
Drenched by MizzHyde

Best All-Time Fic
Outside the Bubble by OvertlyConcealed
Three Days Grace by Temperance
Sleeves by iamamy
There's A Crack in Everything by bellemeer
Inscrutable by Lou-La

Best Blowjob
Chapter 4 of Mismatch Made In Heaven by Mrs. Agget
Chapter 1 of TACIE What Ifs by bellemeer
Chapter 1 of Maybe It's Make Believe by starry-nights88
How Many Licks? by RockinThatAfroPic and Robin-Red Blackwaters
Eat, Laugh, Fuck by prassacut

Best UNF Moment
Chapters 2-3 of Affliction by The Ultimate Otaku
Chapter 2 of TACIE What Ifs by bellemeer
Chapter 3 of Maybe It's Make Believe by starry-nights88
Chapter 3 of Roads by prassacut
Chapter 4 of Scared Money Never Wins by mrsbeas

Best Overall Lemon
Chapters 2-3 of Sleeves by iamamy
Chapter 5 of Our House by NanaMun
Chapter 1 of Where You Belong by sadtomato
Inscrutable by Lou-La
Eat, Laugh, Fuck by prassacut

Best New Author
buildmeapyramid
kgq
bellemeer
iamamy
upsidedownntwisted

Best Angst Author
KellanCougar
bellemeer
shoefreak37
buildmeapyramid
vampireisthenewblack

Best Comedy Author
OvertlyConcealed
kgq
shadowglove
blakeney
prassacut

Best Lemon Author
KellanCougar
iamamy
bellemeer
Kimmydonn
NanaMun

Best Beta
starry-nights88
Touchstone67
harrytwifan
JaspersDestiny
cocoalvin

Best Recc'er
starry-nights88
harrytwifan
iamamy
bellemeer
Kimmydonn

Best Blogger/Tweeter
vampireisthenewblack
rmhale
jaydogrut
mycrookedsmile
prassacut

Best Reviewer
ravenanalia
sadtomato
OnTheTurningAway
TheUnderStudy
joss859

Best Cheerleader
ItsAThinLine
dariachenowith
bellemeer
Touchstone67
einfach mich

Best Slash H00r
Savannah-Vee
KellanCougar
Kimmydonn
rmhale
Bbebar

Best Banner Maker
RachellexMichelle
UNF4Rob
every9seconds
LostImortal
Touchstone67

Best All-Time Author
NanaMun
KellanCougar
iamamy
bellemeer
vampireisthenewblack

So there you are! All the amazing finalists! Click here to vote.
P.S. I probably made a few mistakes on this post (and probably on the voting doc too) so if you catch them, please let me know either on Twitter or at thetwifestivals@gmail.com. Thanks!

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Nominations are closed!

Squeee! Thank you so much to all the people who took the time to nominate their favorites! I'll be posting the finalists tomorrow.
Now, a few reminders: voting will begin, as said, tomorrow at 12pm Eastern Time, through August 3rd, and winners will be revealed the next day. We have several lovely people helping out with banners, which should get done by that time, but if not, will be done in the following few days. I'm going to attempt to PM all the finalists' authors, but I'd appreciate it very much if you gave them a heads up about being nominated. After all, I know I'd hate to be kept in the dark about it. :)
On another note, it looks as though a few categories will be dropped this round as they did not have enough nominations. *crowd boos* Hopefully next round will bring some more under-the-radar slash to us. :)
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, remember that you can email me at thetwifestivals@gmail.com. I'm here to help!
Thank you again! Til tomorrow!

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Guidelines

To everyone who has nominated, thank you so much. I can't wait to see who makes it to voting. :D
Now, since I must not be explaining it well enough, I'm going to go through EXACTLY what you need to put down when you nominate a story.
Ahem, here I go. Prepare yourself.

Character Awards
  • Best Edward -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Jasper -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Emmett -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Carlisle -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Jacob -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Supporting Character -- Write the following: (Name of the character) from (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best OC -- Write the following: (Name of the character) from (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Geek -- Write the following: (Name of the character) from (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Villain -- Write the following: (Name of the character) from (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Bad-Ass -- Write the following: (Name of the character) from (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Man-Whore -- Write the following: (Name of the character) from (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Asshole -- Write the following: (Name of the character) from (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Beard -- Write the following: (Name of the character) from (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Vamp -- Write the following: (Name of the character) from (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Wolf -- Write the following: (Name of the character) from (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Lover -- Write the following: (Name of the character) from (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Overall Family -- Write the following: [Names are optional] from (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Couple -- Write the following: (Names of the characters) from (Title of the fic) by (Author)
Story Awards
  • Best Angst -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Comedy -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Vamp Fic -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Wolf Fic -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best BDSM/Toy-Play Fic -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Dark Fic -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Inkfic -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best PWP -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Hate-to-Love Fic -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best "But I Thought I Was Straight" Fic -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Bromance Fic -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best College Love Fic -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Forbidden Love Fic -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Canon -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best AH/AU Fic -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Crossover -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Exception -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Femslash -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Plot -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Drabble -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best One-Shot -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Work-in-Progress -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Completed Fic -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Sequel -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best All-Time Fic -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author)
Scene Awards
  • Best HEA -- Write the following: [Chapter is optional] of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best UHEA -- Write the following: [Chapter is optional] of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Cliffhanger -- Write the following: (Chapter) of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best One-Night Stand -- Write the following: (Chapter) of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Coming Out -- Write the following: (Chapter) of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best UST -- Write the following: [Chapter is optional] of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Cock-Block -- Write the following: (Chapter) of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best First Kiss -- Write the following: (Chapter) of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best First Date -- Write the following: (Chapter) of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Overall Kiss -- Write the following: (Chapter) of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Handjob -- Write the following: (Chapter) of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Blowjob -- Write the following: (Chapter) of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best UNF Moment -- Write the following: (Chapter) of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best First Time -- Write the following: (Chapter) of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Threesome -- Write the following: (Chapter) of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Overall Lemon -- Write the following: (Chapter) of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Fight -- Write the following: (Chapter) of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Break-up/Make-up -- Write the following: (Chapter) of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
  • Best Moment -- Write the following: (Chapter) of (Title of the fic) by (Author)
Author Awards
  • Best New Author -- Write the following: (Author)
  • Best Angst Author -- Write the following: (Author)
  • Best Comedy Author -- Write the following: (Author)
  • Best Lemon Author -- Write the following: (Author)
  • Best Beta -- Write the following: (Author)
  • Best Recc'er -- Write the following: (Author)
  • Best Blogger/Tweeter -- Write the following: (Author)
  • Best Reviewer -- Write the following: (Author)
  • Best Cheerleader -- Write the following: (Author)
  • Best Slash H00r -- Write the following: (Author)
  • Best Banner Maker -- Write the following: (Artist)
  • Best All-Time Author -- Write the following: (Author)
Graphic Awards
  • Best Banner -- Write the following: (Title of the fic) by (Author) (Link to banner)
I hope that gives you an idea as to exactly what I need you to put for each category. If you still have questions, please let me know. I'm here to help! :D
Now, to answer a few questions I've gotten today. I'll post an FAQ sometime soon to help you out as well.

Q: Can I nominate a story for more than one category?
A: Yes, you can. Nominate a story for as many categories as you like! For example, you can nominate a fic for Best Edward, Best UST, Best Completed Fic, etc.

Q: Is femslash allowed?
A: Femslash is more than welcome! Though a lot of the categories are focused on M/M slash, unless it's obviously not a category for the ladies (for example, Best Blowjob -- ahem, us females don't possess the necessary equipment for such acts :P), it's perfectly fine.

Q: When can I nominate a story with over 1000 reviews?
A: Never. This awards site is specifically geared toward fics with under 1000 reviews. Sorry!

Q: Do I have to nominate a story for every category?
A: Not at all. You can leave as many blank as you like. Hell, if you only nominate one story, that's fine by me!

Q: Do I have to nominate a different story in every category, even if a story can fit into more than one category?
A: No. If, for example, you want to nominate "Our House" by NanaMun for Best Emmett and Best UST, then go right ahead. I only ask that you not nominate a story for the same category more than once. So please don't nominate "Our House" for Best Emmett twice, etc.

A few reminders: The Twifestivals is for SLASH ONLY. The only category for het fics is Best Exception. Other than that, no het. Also, take care to pay attention in the Authors categories. If the award has something to do with the author's writing then the author MUST NOT HAVE a story with over 1000 reviews. If not, however, then it doesn't matter. Here, I'll make a list. :)
Must not have a story with over 1000 reviews
  • Best New Author
  • Best All-Time Author
  • Best Lemon Writer
  • Best Angst Writer
  • Best Comedy Writer
Doesn't matter
  • Best Reviewer
  • Best Recc'er
  • Best Blogger/Tweeter
  • Best Beta
  • Best Banner Maker
  • Best Cheerleader
  • Best Slash H00r

Okay, that's it for now. I haven't covered everything but I need to sleep, so I'll get back on here sometime soon. Again, thanks to those who've nominated, and to those who've pimped and supported this little site so diligently. Y'all are wonderful!
If you have any questions, concerns, or comments, I'm more than happy to help! Contact me here at thetwifestivals@gmail.com, or you can reach me on Twitter @TheTwifestivals or @buildmeapyramid. I'll get back to you within an hour. :)