golden ink awards finalists!

[magemadi]

congratulations to all of our 2022 golden ink awards finalists!  

Best Poem

• your arsonist touch by @grumpy viper pilot
• unspoken by @inmystarrylittlecorner
• the cycle of the year: seasons at the castle by @Oregonian
• percy, perceived (book 3) by @Admiral R.G. Friday
• when by @Admiral R.G. Friday

Best Angst

• a few mistakes ago by @RogueSlytherinCadet
• cruel summer by @dreamshadow
• a madness most discreet by @RogueSlytherinCadet
• three acts of grace by @prideofgalactica
• and all the pieces fall by @dark admiral down-in-flames

Best Dark

• by blood by @spaceballet
• a midsummer night's dream by @teh tarik
• a madness most discreet by @RogueSlytherinCadet
• kingdom keys by @grand admiral lostinthelightss
• silence for the departed by @Admiral R.G. Friday
• the color of violets by @kuusi palaa
• drunk on something stronger than the drinks in the bar by @something wicked
• mirrored-silver by @blast aph
• the cover up by @Mottsnave

Best Short-Form Story

• freedom ain't nothing but missing you by @prideofgalactica
• all you need is positivity by @allons-yneke
• kingdom keys by @grand admiral lostinthelightss
• not quite a honeymoon by @Felpata_Lupin
• friends don't by @RogueSlytherinCadet
• your name sounds better when it's whispered low by @grumpy viper pilot

Best Description

• up in flames by @something wicked
• fish for pearls by @blast aph
• silent flutes by @Felpata_Lupin
• the cycle of the year: seasons at the castle by @Oregonian
• all the ways i've loved you by @grand admiral lostinthelightss
• a study in chiaroscuro by @blast aph

Most Thrilling Story

• the cover up by @Mottsnave
• the color of violets by @kuusi palaa
• you are a minute of quiet (in a loud, loud world) by @shadowycorner
• kingdom keys by @grand admiral lostinthelightss
• mirrored-silver by @blast aph
• breathing underwater by @inmystarrylittlecorner

Best Cast/Ensemble

• the pride of burrough house by @Admiral R.G. Friday
• cruel summer by @dreamshadow
• the seventh gate by @Starpuff
• all you need is positivity by @allons-yneke
• big reputations by @dark admiral down-in-flames

Best Original Fiction

• residential by @roisin
• time to be a time fugitive by @BookDinosaur
• favourite worst nightmare by @grumpy viper pilot
• fairies and forests by @Admiral Celestial de Rocinante
• three acts of grace by @prideofgalactica
• under the lightning sky by @something wicked

Best Long-Form Story

• the color of violets by @kuusi palaa
• the pride of burrough house by @Admiral R.G. Friday
• breathing underwater by @inmystarrylittlecorner
• by blood by @spaceballet
• and all the pieces fall by @dark admiral down-in-flames

Best One-Shot

• between dawn and breaking by @shadowycorner
• hogwarts staff meeting by @suzy turquoise blue
• wherever the stars take you by @crowsb4bros
• the smile i gave her by @Owlpost68
• in solitary: a tiramisu vignette by @Oregonian

Best Slow Burn Romance

• all the waves resounded by @BookDinosaur
• you are a minute of quiet (in a loud, loud world) by @shadowycorner
• hardened hearts (say unimaginable things) by @prideofgalactica
• irrational by @Admiral R.G. Friday
• warpaint by @crimson comet
• and all the pieces fall by @dark admiral down-in-flames
• muggle studies by @RogueSlytherinCadet

Best Raging Fire Romance

• your name sounds better when it's whispered low by @grumpy viper pilot
• we're half awake in a fake empire by @grumpy viper pilot
• breathing underwater by @inmystarrylittlecorner
• sex(-adjacent) against the wall bc purple lipstick by @eternal admiral abhorsen
• dancin' in the dark in the pale moonlight by @something wicked

Most Original Character

• cassie yaxley - up in flames by @something wicked
• emma rhodes - all roads lead to you by @dreamshadow
• sid hooper - the prophecy by @Starpuff
• alida selwyn - by blood by @spaceballet
• iris pallida - iris pallida by @Lost_Robin
• astoria greengrass - drastoria trauma series by @eternal admiral abhorsen
• audrey greene - irrational by @Admiral R.G. Friday

Best Worldbuilding

• high stakes by @page thirteen.
• the seventh gate by @Starpuff
• you are a minute of quiet (in a loud, loud world) by @shadowycorner
• hardened hearts (say unimaginable things) by @prideofgalactica
• a visitor's guide to toadopolis by @Lost_Robin

Best Series/Universe

• vauxhall road by @blast aph
• jimmy portman's universe by @Felpata_Lupin
• shenanigans and beyond by @eternal admiral abhorsen
• madness by @RogueSlytherinCadet
• the moonlight-verse by @inmystarrylittlecorner
• on a bed of spider web by @grumpy viper pilot & @something wicked

Funniest Story

• bad education by @magicspacehole
• hogwarts staff meeting by @suzy turquoise blue
• hermione granger's infinite reading list by @Hawksquill
• snows out bros out by @Admiral R.G. Friday
• the rarely defeated corgis by @eternal admiral abhorsen
• this is falling, falling in love (but not actually falling because we don't do that here, al) by @belgian quaffle

Best Dialogue

• notes from the ravenclaw bulletin board 2: hbp edition by @Lost_Robin
• the pride of burrough house by @Admiral R.G. Friday
• the solace of closure by @CambAngst
• blue skies by @crimson comet
• big reputations by @dark admiral down-in-flames