Oh, so this is gonna be a Thing now.

Maybe vibe-coding your spambots wasn’t the best idea?

The @seattlein2025.org & Hugo staff have not missed a single opportunity to make r/Fantasy feel like second class finalists. The community, however, has been unfailingly supportive and delightful, and that's what I'm trying to take away from this whole experience.

I'm sure we could get more than 80 signatures based on just the people whose names y'all didn't read or mispronounced, including the r/Fantasy team whom you snickered at the size of before ignoring entirely at the ceremony, and did not even include in this apology 🙄

I'm no Jane, but I will take this chance to rec a queer gutterpunk/BDSM-themed Peter Pan retelling that might appeal to you - it's called Lost Boi by Sassafras Patterdale and it absolutely slaps (and I am not usually into retellings)!

Correct, we have no control over the site-level moderation (nor do we get any information about what might have caused a ban).

I did have to reset my password to restore mine, but as a member of some of reddit's mod groups with a regularly active account, I may have some level of priority there.

One of the r/fantasy mods here - I also got banned for no reason not long after commenting in your AMA. Think the site-level AI moderation might have gotten a little overzealous yesterday.

I can at least confirm (as a finalist with r/Fantasy Bingo under Best Related Work - and our team names were skipped and giggled at as well) that we were all asked to send in pronunciation guides for our names, so the con 100% did have that information available to them.

Legit cannot believe they haven't caught a permaban yet. Every time I log in on an alt that hasn't left Trade yet and see them still at it I just facepalm.