Woodling Gameblogging Award Nominees 2020

Look, I'll be honest with you: The focus end of my mental health has taken an absolute nosedive, I've been so bad at getting around to doing basically anything that I completely forgot about IFComp this year, 2020 has been a thing as I'm sure you're all aware, and there is a tremendous urge to just crawl back into bed forever while the completely ignored work and house tasks and unpaid bills (my finances are fine and I can totally afford them; I just, like, forget to get around to sending in the payments) and concerned "hey I haven't heard from you in like three months, are you still alive or what" IMs pile up. It's gone well past the point of me just being lazy and sucking and into the territory where I think I have a legitimate neurodivergency-related problem here. (Either this is an antidepressant side effect or there's an undiagnosed "okay great we nuked the anxiety, now what about the ADHD" or something lurking back in there somewhere.) Kurt joined our system several months ago and (as of when I'm writing this, updating it is on the to-do list for later) this Dreamwidth icon of the system still only has Ardei, Sara, and me. There was a whole big story about how he came to be, his relationship with us, the struggles and growing pains we had getting used to the new addition to the family, that I just... haven't told yet. People who hang out with us every day on Telegram have watched it unfold, but to the Dreamwidth audience, there's just this sort of "oh yeah there are four of us in my head now, don't worry about it, I'll explain later maybe" handwave that has yet to come to fruition.

Basically what I'm saying is that the final few months of 2020 have seen me blow past the point of not just dropping the ball, but somehow losing my hands in a tragic rock/paper/scissors accident and evolving into a lesser form of life that is now physically incapable of grasping the ball. As such, yeah the gameblogging awards are a little late this year.

We're expanding to let all four of us (yes there are four, I'm going to add Kurt to the icon eventually, shut up) weigh in with our respective picks and preferences. As always feel free make your bets and predictions as to how we're each going to vote, though we're on a bit of a compressed schedule since I was maybe a little behind schedule turning the nominations post in.

2020 by the numbers: 24 games completed, 8 abandoned (though that includes a bunch of last-minute housekeeping entries,) and 3 ongoing, for a total of 35 games blogged, a number that exactly ties last year's overall total. Considering how much of a void day the entire last quarter of the year has been for us, I find that hard to believe unless we had a really strong early lead that I just kind of blew at the end there, but that's what the figures claim, anyway.

Anyway! Awards. Nominations. Categories. Words.

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