The Guild Awards are back for the second term of 2025! NOT CLICKBAIT
We hope everyone had a great summer! Big shout out to everyone who participated last term for making it so enjoyable. We look forward to all the new fanfiction and fanart to be nominated for this term.
Shout out as always to @pencilofawesomeness for creating last term's banners! If you haven't received yours, please reach out to one of the mods asap!
Our roulette categories for this term are as follows:
For fanfiction it will be: Best Rising Author. This will be defined as: A piece of fanfiction by an author who has not won a term in the past. A category to appreciate lesser known creators and their incredible work.
For fanart it will be: Best Traditional Artwork. This will be defined as: A piece created using traditional media such as paints, pencils, pens, ink, markers, pastels, crayons, chalks, etc. Computer programs are used to create minor adjustments only or not at all.
To keep things nice and even, the mod-team has also decided to bring back Best NSFW Fanfiction as a permanent category pending future participation.
As a reminder, there is a Winner Ban in place. This means that once any piece of artwork or fanfiction has won an award for a category, it automatically becomes ineligible and cannot be nominated again for that category. However, it can be nominated for other categories after two consecutive terms have passed (ie: one year since that piece won) as long as it fits within that definition. We do not have a rule against nominating an author/artist back into the category they won for in the past, as long as its a different piece of work that is being nominated.
In addition, we are also going to have a mobile-friendly Google Doc with all current nominations listed. This will be updated as frequently as possible so you can be aware of all the nominations that have currently been reviewed and notified. Hopefully this will help everyone select their own nominations. You can access this doc here
If it was not mentioned above, chances are it hasn’t changed. Please be aware that the moderators always take suggestions regarding how the awards are run and category changes into consideration. You can read up on the most recent FAQs, Rules of Eligibility, and Categories for more information. [these links are only available on desktop]
For ease of access, we also include a mobile-friendly Google Docs for the FAQs, Rules of Eligibility, and Categories that will be kept up-to-date each term, which can be viewed here.
The First Term 2025 Nomination Period will begin October 1st and will end October 31st.
Please send in your nominations through the submit button. If you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to send in an ask or reach out to one of the mods!
We also have a discord that is open to everyone! So feel free to hop on in!
Mods: @classysassy9791, @kiliinstinct, @phoenix-before-the-flame, @ratretro, @phoeneboxfairy
Please reblog and spread the word of the start of the new term!