Decisions, decisions...

[farla]

Second round of the Shiplympic voting is here, and even more questions arise on how to vote.

Last time, it was to write a story involving a cliche, so mostly I considered if there was a cliche and if the story was good. This time, the prompt is to explore canon. And a variety of intriguing things were produced! You should peruse them.

So, a lot of stories are set in the future, which seems like it's sort of avoiding the issue, but many of them are speculating on what the future will be, which is related to canon. A number of them are doing the worldbuilding/elaboration part, but at the same time aren't overly concerned with staying within canon to get there. Still others are sticking very close to canon, but in the process not really adding anything.

So I'm torn. Do I go with the ones that seemed best, even if they didn't fit the prompt well? The ones that had the most interesting ideas, even if other points aren't canon-compliant? Or the ones that fit best into canon, even if they weren't expanding on anything much?

Comments

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is the point at which I say "fuck objective rubrics" and vote for what I enjoyed most.

[farla.livejournal.com]

That seems like the only sane option. The prompt just covers way too much, and everyone's doing it slightly differently and it plays hell on figuring out how to rank all the various things. (And then, to confuse me more, there's a handful of the multimedia ones where one part is great and the other decidedly less so.)