To keep myself from losing track of:
all the contests I've entered,
all the contests I've volunteered myself as a judge (or let myself be voluntold into judging),
all the books I've had to read as a contestant or as a judge,
all the deadlines,
a...
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This dessert-themed contest made me hungry. Just saying. Yes, I have a sweet tooth.
Ancilla is competing in the Mature category. Because spice, spice, baby.
UPDATE (7/4/2025)
Well, things got spicy, all right, just not in the way I would have liked.
I got pinged in Discord this morning with contest results. No, not mine. I wasn't competing in the Fantasy category.
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I had opinions. So did delulu_alex.
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Support for Katie started to arrive obliquely from other sources. Maybe. I'm actually not 100% certain the graphics comment had to do with Creame - it might have pertained to a kerfuffle in which a former friend of mine got accused of using AI, or at least of not divulging that some of her raw material had come from the wild and wooly Westland of Pinterest, where at least half the crap there is AI now, and the viewer is expected to know that because common sense - however, one of the things that got scathing criticism in the Creame review was the book cover, and that cover might have been made by the person accused of using AI. The timing looks right, at any rate. Might be coincidence. Might not. I have no idea.
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The end result: Princess Peach unpublished the contest before things could get any more negative, set her profile dark, and either scarpered off or blocked certain people (like me) for mental health reasons. I foresee a name change and a profile reinvention in the future.
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