Award Winners 2021

[rhombus]

@jassy @somerandomfangirl @Flathead770 @Mouse-a-saur @chomper94 @Gentle Sharptooth @Mumbling @DiddyKF1 @StardustSoldier @RainbowFaceProtege

With the conclusion of the appreciated member voting, the 2021 Forum Awards have now officially come to a close. We would like to thank all of you who have voted in the awards and who have made the forum a better place with your participation.

The winners are now authorized to pick the award banners from the draft thread and add it to their signatures and also as a post to this topic so that the runner up in each category knows when it is their turn to pick a banner. Runner ups may take their pick after the winners (runners up will need to pick a different draft from the winner but they do not need to mark their award in any way as a runner up).

Here are this year’s winners:

Fanart:
Jassy
somerandomfangir (runner-up)

Feedback:
Flathead770
Rhombus (runner up)

Friendly:
Mouse-a-saur
Chomper94 (runner-up)

LBT Discussion:
Gentle Sharptooth
Chomper94 (runner up)

Helpful:
Mumbling
(No runner-up)

Proactive:
DiddyKF1
Rhombus (runner up)

Appreciated Member:
StardustSoldier
RainbowFaceProtege (runner up)

We would like to congratulate all of the winners and runners up this year! It is the participation and contributions of people like you who make this forum the wonderful place that it is!

As a final note, we will soon have joining awards for those of you who joined in 2018, and Patreon Support banners for those of you who are kindly supporting the forum financially. We will be posting those respective topics within the next few weeks.

[chomper94]

I know I can’t go pick my discussion award banner yet, but I’m pretty sure I recall hearing Gentle Sharptooth having to leave for a bit on the forum?  So what should I do?

[rhombus]

I know I can’t go pick my discussion award banner yet, but I’m pretty sure I recall hearing Gentle Sharptooth having to leave for a bit on the forum?  So what should I do?

For the time being, we can wait until he returns to the forum before picking out a banner. If his absence lasts more than a few weeks, however, then we might grant you an exception to waiting and allow you to pick out a banner first.

[chomper94]

I know I can’t go pick my discussion award banner yet, but I’m pretty sure I recall hearing Gentle Sharptooth having to leave for a bit on the forum?  So what should I do?

For the time being, we can wait until he returns to the forum before picking out a banner. If his absence lasts more than a few weeks, however, then we might grant you an exception to waiting and allow you to pick out a banner first.

Ok, thanks!  Make sure to notify me if he isn’t back after a few weeks.

[Sneak]

Congratulations to winners!

You make forum a much better place.

[aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato)]

Congrats y'all!

[DiddyKT2]

A project editor is always pleased to hear his work is appreciated! I feel very humbled by the support from all of you, and I hope we can keep this project running smoothly in the foreseeable future.  It's an honor to be named Proactive Member of the year for my tireless work!  Thank you all from the bottom of my heart to all those who have helped me with this project and to those who cheered me on to keep it going!  It wouldn't have been possible without everyone who got involved in the project.

[StardustSoldier]

Congratulations to winners!

You make forum a much better place.

Congrats y'all!

Thank you. Much appreciated.
 

[jassy]

Thanks so much everyone!! I've been making LBT fanart for years, but it's nice to gain some recognition. And of course, congratulations to all the winners!!

I'll be picking this banner:

[StardustSoldier]

I shall pick out this lovely banner.

[somerandomfangirl]

Congrats to all of the winners and runner ups! And of course, thanks! Now that Jassy has chosen her fanart banner, I'll take this one:



Time to finally redo my signature.

Speaking of, do any of the admins have a watermark-free version of the 2013 fanart award? If not, no biggie, it's not that noticeable at first glance. It was this one I had:

[Flathead770]

Thanks everyone for the votes! Never thought I'd win a feedback award. And congrats to all the other winners as well!

I think I'll take this one to match my Strut award

[Mumbling]

Thanks everyone for the Helpful member votes, I really appreciate it!

I will go with this one:

[Loire]

Congrats to the winners! Well done! 

[RainbowFaceProtege]

Congrats to the winners, you've all earned it!! And I have to be honest, I forgot Runner Up was even a thing, so that's a pleasant surprise.

I have a question about the banners, though...how is it that you make it so they're visible whether or not you're logged in? I've never been able to get that to work with certain banners, though there are two others currently in my signature that seem to work.

Also, I hope this isn't too off topic, but I've had an embarrassing realization: last year, I totally forgot to request banners for my fanfic award entry and my monthly fanfic prompt participation. Please let me know if it would still be possible to get those banners somehow and, if so, who I can contact for that.

[Mumbling]

^ If you copy the image location directly from an attachment on the forum (e.g. the ones I posted in the drafts topic), this will only show for members who are logged in. This is because attachments are not visible to guests, so references to them aren't visible either.

If you wish to have your signature awards to be shown at all time, I recommend saving them onto your computer, and uploading them to another image hosting service and copy the image location from that website. I can personally recommend imgur.com. That way, the images in your signature will be visible to both guests and members.

As for last year's banners, we can make sure they get to you. @rhombus would probably know best about the fanfic prompt participation, but I can help making your fanfic award entry banner (I just need the correct information to put on there )

[rhombus]

As for last year's banners, we can make sure they get to you. @rhombus would probably know best about the fanfic prompt participation, but I can help making your fanfic award entry banner (I just need the correct information to put on there )

@RainbowFaceProtege

Aye, I think that I have those old banners in my archives. So if you can give me the information via PM about the story you want featured on the banner and your desired banner, then I can get that together in a week or two. 

[RainbowFaceProtege]

@Mumbling @rhombus Awesome, thank you for your help! I'll PM you about those banners shortly, Rhombus!

[chomper94]

I’m going to pick out my banners now due to the fact that the people who won the awards I got runner-up on didn’t pick there’s out yet because they were inactive, so I’ll pick mine out now (don’t worry, I got permission).

Anyway, here’s what I picked out:

[RainbowFaceProtege]

Forgot to pick out a banner, whoops!

EDIT: Great news, I finally got Imgur to work for me!