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Toot Your Own Horn!

In conjunction with the TMNT Universal Reader’s Choice Awards and for the third year in a row, TMNT Discourse leads the way in encouraging the TMNT fandom to Toot Your Own Horn!

This is the time of year where you get the chance to recognize your favorite fandom writers/creators/artists.  The starting point for that is of course the nominating process.

You may think “Oh that’s easy!  I’ve read so many great stories and seen such great art that I can nominate a lot of things.”

But then when you’re faced with the nomination ballot, you freeze like a deer in headlights. Why?  Because you can’t remember all you’ve consumed over the past year. You can’t remember which of your favorite writers created a certain story, or which artist drew that comic you enjoyed.

That’s the purpose of “Toot Your Own Horn”.  Yes, we want fandom creators to self-promote.  You should, you deserve the recognition for your hard work. There is nothing wrong with saying “Hey, I was here. I left my mark.”

But that isn’t the only reason to make a list of your work.  It helps those of us who are filling out our nomination ballots to remember the things we’ve consumed over the past year.  It helps us to find the things we’ve loved.

It also helps us to make nominations in categories we might not be familiar with.  Did you create an amazing music video?  Did you go in-depth with a profound meta-post?  Those aren’t always easy to find.

Please take a few minutes and make a list for us of your qualifying works for the past year. Works that qualify must have been started or updated in 2017.  They don’t have to be completed works, so long as some part of it was posted in 2017.

In addition, works that placed either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in any prior year Universal type competition do not qualify.  If the work won a contest or competition on DA but not one of the Universal comps, then it still qualifies.

For all the official rules, to see the various categories, or to find last year’s winners please visit the main competition site here @tmntuniversalfanficcomp

The competition administrators on the main competition site can answer any questions you might have.

Remember, the nomination period runs from February 19, 2018 through March 23, 2018.

Post your qualifying list on DeviantArt or here as soon as possible so people can fill out their ballots. If you post your list on Tumblr, please add the tag #tmnttoothorn.  We WANT to know what you wrote or drew or created!

Now go forth and Toot Your Own Horn!

[hummerhouse]

Tooting My Horn

The uncut versions of my fan fictions can be found under hummerhouse on Archive of Our Own (AO3).  The fics that are eligible for the competition are:

Category: GENERAL BALLOT (Rating G thru T)

Encounters: Raph and the Firefighter

Subterranean

Castoff

Warrior

Shadows

The Unforgotten Promise

Category: MATURE BALLOT = Section: Mature

TMNT and the Legendary Creatures Adventure, Turtlecest, Horror, Supernatural, --- OC = Mr. Hidesato

Donatello’s Fantasy Turtlecest, Molestation, Dark Subject Matter

Appetite Turtlecest

How the Strong Survive Turtlecest

Hope Turtlecest

Declaration Turtlecest

Opportunity M/M Slash; LH/Don

Come Together Turtlecest

Across the Multi-Verse Turtlecest

A Span of Time M/M Slash; LH/Don

Making Their Vows Turtlecest

Allure Turtlecest

Category: MATURE BALLOT = Section: Erotica

The Slow Build Up

One Hundred Kinks

In the Family

Lesson Learned

Waiting Up For Him

Comfortably Numb

Not Eligible:

Beck and Call Settling The Clan Encounters: Mikey and the Furries

[brightlotusmoon]

Tooting my own Horn for the 2017 TMNT Universal Fanfiction Competition. For consideration, may I suggest "He Is Quantum" and "Laugh Till It Hurts" for Donnie's thoughts on Mikey. There is "Nothing Else Matters" and "Where My Demons Hide" for Raph. And "The Spirit Within" and either "Sing The Body" or "Neurodiversity" for Leo. Every story is about Mikey anyway. Everything on that first page was published in 2017 except for the last story, which already won for 2016. (I wrote a lot and quickly in 2017. I think my writerbrain asked for a break.)

[affatmntfan]

I posted some art here and #tmnttoothorn so it can be found. I've never entered before. How much can I send in? I know I sent one comic already but I have another comic that I did. Can I send in both? Its hard to pick what to send in cause I'm not sure what is my best work.

You can enter the awards by:

1. Nominating yourself (you will also need to nominate another writer/artist as well. Spread the love!)

2. Getting nominated by a fellow fan

If you want to share a list of eligible works so that people know what they can nominate from your portfolio, share your list here: https://tmnt-discourse.deviantart.com/journal/TOOT-YOUR-OWN-HORN-727219739 or here: https://tmnt-discourse.tumblr.com/post/171277052670/toot-your-own-horn

For more information check out the Rules 

You can find the ballots here:

General

Mature

[brightlotusmoon]

I am tooting Angel123's horn for her since she doesn't have a Tumblr.

Angel123: Oh, yes, please! Nominate my fics! I know whose fics I'm gonna nominate (and you're among those authors definitely)! 😄

Fantastic. Everyone, she goes by No Guns Only Roses on Fanfiction Net! Her fics “Expendable”, “Mourning”, and “Akari” are freaking extraordinarily, fantastic, wonderful, heart wrenching. Plus, in “Akari” my own OC Gaia from my award winning “Cold Fire Rising” sequels is featured in a new, adorable way. Go read please!

[brightlotusmoon]

You can find me at both Fanfiction Net and Archive Of Our Own under the same username; everything is Mikey centric with neurodiversity.

Toot Your Own Horn!

In conjunction with the TMNT Universal Reader’s Choice Awards and for the third year in a row, TMNT Discourse leads the way in encouraging the TMNT fandom to Toot Your Own Horn!

This is the time of year where you get the chance to recognize your favorite fandom writers/creators/artists.  The starting point for that is of course the nominating process.

You may think “Oh that’s easy!  I’ve read so many great stories and seen such great art that I can nominate a lot of things.”

But then when you’re faced with the nomination ballot, you freeze like a deer in headlights. Why?  Because you can’t remember all you’ve consumed over the past year. You can’t remember which of your favorite writers created a certain story, or which artist drew that comic you enjoyed.

That’s the purpose of “Toot Your Own Horn”.  Yes, we want fandom creators to self-promote.  You should, you deserve the recognition for your hard work. There is nothing wrong with saying “Hey, I was here. I left my mark.”

But that isn’t the only reason to make a list of your work.  It helps those of us who are filling out our nomination ballots to remember the things we’ve consumed over the past year.  It helps us to find the things we’ve loved.

It also helps us to make nominations in categories we might not be familiar with.  Did you create an amazing music video?  Did you go in-depth with a profound meta-post?  Those aren’t always easy to find.

Please take a few minutes and make a list for us of your qualifying works for the past year. Works that qualify must have been started or updated in 2017.  They don’t have to be completed works, so long as some part of it was posted in 2017.

In addition, works that placed either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in any prior year Universal type competition do not qualify.  If the work won a contest or competition on DA but not one of the Universal comps, then it still qualifies.

For all the official rules, to see the various categories, or to find last year’s winners please visit the main competition site here @tmntuniversalfanficcomp

The competition administrators on the main competition site can answer any questions you might have.

Remember, the nomination period runs from February 19, 2018 through March 23, 2018.

Post your qualifying list on DeviantArt or here as soon as possible so people can fill out their ballots. If you post your list on Tumblr, please add the tag #tmnttoothorn.  We WANT to know what you wrote or drew or created!

Now go forth and Toot Your Own Horn!