Who needs Crayola?

STOP! Today is the LAST CHANCE for you to register to vote! Before you read any further, go, visit our website at www.samandjackawards.com for more information!

Now, on to today's feature...

If you are reading this post, you know how to use a computer.  But, most of you probably cannot use your computer to do the things our nominees have done. Instead of using a pen and paper to create these wonderful drawings, the artists nominated in this category have used their mouse and keyboard to draw, paint, and color. Who needs Crayola when you've got an electronic carousel to work with?

Best Computer Drawn

Nominations in this category can be any art created by the sole use of computer drawing software.

"One little change has a ripple effect and it affects everything else."

One theme that is pretty much inescapable for science fiction is time travel: Stargate SG-1 played with this theme several times, even including actual time travel episodes like 1969, 2010, Moebius and the Continuum movie. Of course, fanfiction writers just love to pick up where TPTB left off or, er, improve an alternate timeline because they felt it was lacking... something. Sometimes it's just the 'ship that needs an extra bit of attention but there are also some great stories out there involving alternate timelines that are very original.

In today's post, we're gonna take a look at a number of nominations for the Sam & Jack Multimedia Awards in the...

Best Alternate Timeline category!

Hurts So Good

Isn't there just something about well done angst?  Many Sam/Jack fans just love to hole up in the Angst Caverns.  Sometimes Sam and Jack get their happy ending, sometimes the reader is left with a knot in the pit of their stomach.  But there's no denying that angst is one of the go-to genres for many of our talented writers.

Join us as we begin to review the angst nominees!

Category: Angst

Now, there's a concept!

Whether they've created an original story or have perfectly matched their video with the song they've chosen, vidders nominated in this category have mastered the art of storytelling.  We hope you have some time on your hands because you'll find yourself entranced as you watch these videos over and over and over...

Best Concept

Micro fiction or drabbles?

If you are a big fan of really short stories, then you might already be familiar with fanfic terminology like micro-fiction and drabbles. However, there's a good chance some of you may not know what one or both of them entails. So, we asked a very loyal, die-hard shipper to help us explain what micro-fiction and drabbles are; are they the same thing or are there differences?

Without further ado, let us introduce you to Doctor Daniel Jackson who, unlike normal briefings, will give us a very brief explanation to keep with the theme!

The Best of the Micro-Fiction Category!

Quantum Mirror on the wall...

Alternate Reality.  What's not to love?  Our talented nominees have shared many takes on alternate Sams, Jacks, and completely Alternate SGC's or wildly divergent-from-canon tales.  We've reviewed many of the nominees in the category so far, here are a few more.

Category: Alternate Reality

I Just Can't Take It...

The Angst Continues

Those shippers who dwell in the Cavern of Angst just can't help themselves when it comes to this nomination category. They love the way their hearts get strung along and tangled up as they ride the emotional roller coaster that is Sam and Jack's relationship.  So, once again, we  bring you the best of the best as we showcase the rest of the nominations in the category of Best Video Angst.

Episode-tag, you're it!

Previously, we took a look at a few of the other nominees for Best Tag.  Let's pick up where we left off!  

Category: Best Tag

Fork in the road stuff

At the beginning of the week we brought you the third blog post about the amazing fics nominated in the Best Alternate Reality category, but we're not done yet; here are three more!

Two of them are a few years old and one is by a new author, but that doesn't necessarily make one more popular than the other. All three are relatively long, multi-chapter stories though, so make yourself comfortable before settling in to read!

The Continuation of the Best Alternate Reality Category

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

At one time or another, everyone has toyed around with the idea of what life would have been like if everything were completely different.  One of the reasons we immerse ourselves in science fiction is that frequently we get to see imaginings of our favorite characters play out completely different circumstances on the screen.

Sometimes it's difficult to decide just exactly what sort of "alternate" a story might be.  Is the story the result of an alteration to the timeline?  How about familiar characters stepping into an alternate reality or alternate versions of our beloved characters suddenly becoming a part of our familiar reality?  What if everything changed?

Stargate: SG-1 had a lot of fun playing around with the notion of alternate, well, everything.  In one of the most interesting uses of the convention in modern science fiction history, The Changeling thrust SG-1 into the world of firefighters.  We got to play around with similar personalities in brand new circumstances - a tall order, when you think about it, for a show that specializes in brand new circumstances.

Fanficion writers have long enjoyed taking their favorite characters outside of the worlds built by the show-runners.  It seems like no fandom escapes the phenomenon.  The Sam/Jack ship is no different.  So join us as we celebrate a few of the nominees for...

Category: Best Alternate Universe

Ogle This! Part 2

They take our favorite scenes, break them down, slow them down, speed them up, change the colors and highlight and emphasize the shippy goodness that sometimes hides between the lines.  The SG-1 Fandom is lucky to have some very talented artists who love to create gifs for all of us to enjoy.  Get ready to be entranced as we look at artists nominated in the Art Category of Best Animated.

ICYMI

We're getting down to the wire, folks! Here are some important things you need to know: 

• All nominations must be made, processed and accepted by August 31, 2014. 
• You must register to vote by August 31, 2014. Around the 1st of September you'll be receiving an email regarding how the voting will work. Keep an eye on your inbox or spam folder just in case since the email will be coming from a third party vendor. 
• We're still desperately seeking lost nominees. See the complete list for the details. 
• You can get timely reminders and not miss a thing if you follow us on twitter @samandjackaward. 
• We're accepting guest blog posts. If you're interested in writing a guest feature, please let us know.

If you're a nominee and you haven't received your flair, please let us know.

Finally, we know some of you have lots of thoughts about how we can do this better next year.  We'll be asking for your feedback once the voting is complete.  So if you haven't yet, start thinking about things you'd like to see (or not see!) next year.  To get on our mailing list, email us here. If you're a nominee or made a nomination, you're already on the mailing list.

Through the Looking Glass

A week ago we started highlighting some of the nominations in the Best Alternate Reality category and, since this one is quite popular, here are some more!

The continuation of the Best Alternate Reality Category

Interview With bluemoonmaverick... a Nominee!

Time for another interview! This time we have someone who is relatively new to the fandom; she lives in Texas, like one of our favorite generals and started publishing her first fic about two years ago. At this very moment, she has been nominated seven (7!) times for a Sam & Jack Multimedia Award.

Ring any bells yet? 

If not, that's fine too. Just keep on reading to learn more about the wonderful author known as...

bluemoonmaverick!

Ogle This!

We've all seen pics and gifs that grab our hearts, make us laugh, or just stop us in our tracks for their angst and beauty.  We'd all be unable to get our fix if it weren't for the wonderful artists who spend their free time creating these homages to our favorite couple.  

Sit back, relax and prepare to be dazzeled as we share some of the Sam and Jack awards wonderful nominees in the world of Art.

Hand Drawn

Chuck Lorre has nothing on fandom

One of the most popular ways for people to jump into fanfiction - both reading and writing - is the ever-present episode tag.  Tags allow fans to speculate on what may have happened after the credits rolled.  The Sam/Jack ship is no stranger to this format.  Since the early episodes the fandom has been speculating about exactly what may have transpired between the officers once the screen faded to black.

As we showcase our nominees, here's some of the things readers are saying about a few of the Best Tag nominees:

Category: Best Tag

We're still looking for a LOT of nominees!

If you or someone you know is on this list, we have nominations waiting to be accepted.  Please contact us (or have the author contact us) at nominations[at]samandjackawards[dot]com. 

If you're on this list but you've already accepted a nomination, please get in touch with us anyway.  It means we've received one or more additional nominations since we've last spoken with you or we've inadvertently misplaced your acceptance. 

Please spread the word via whatever social media platform(s) you use.  All nominations must be made, processed and accepted by August 31, 2014.

The complete list of missing nominees is after the jump.

Obviously, the time continuum has been disrupted.

One of the favorite conventions in science fiction is time travel.  In the Stargate Universe we were given several possible modes of time travel: the Stargate interacting with solar flares, time machines, even time dilation fields.  Fanfiction authors, in true fashion, have capitalized on both the canon time travel episodes as well as new time travel opportunities for the team.

Here we'll highlight three of the nominees for Best Alternate Timeline.

Category: Best Alternate Timeline

Nominated and Nominating...an interview with akachankami

A self-professed lurker on Gateworld, akachankami learned of the Sam and Jack awards when one of her shipper friends tweeted about it.  She loved the idea of the awards and was excited to talk to us about why she made her nomination and why she continues to help keep the ship alive as a vidder herself.

"I meant to say it was a great video, but I fainted on my keyboard..."

Derivative works are difficult enough to write let alone to completely re-purpose someone else's edited video to create your own spin on well-loved characters; and yet, that's exactly what our incredibly talented vidders do.  Angst has always been one of the most popular emotions to portray, so it's no big surprise that the genre has bled into fan-made videos.

Here are several of our nominees for Best Angst in the Video medium.

Category: Best Angst

Mirror, mirror, mirror... which is the fairest reality of them all?

We're back with more fork in the road stuff! As all you loyal Stargate: SG-1 fans know, there is an infinite number of ever-growing alternate realities, each existing and evolving concurrently with our own, according to the multiverse theory of quantum physics. Basically, anything that can happen will happen, if not in this reality then in another. So, while our Sam and Jack decided to follow the regs, an alternate version of them from a parallel reality might not - fork in the road stuff!

Earlier this week we highlighted a few nominations that dealt with alternate realities and in the next post you can see some more. So, get geared up and don't forget to pick up the quantum mirror's remote before you step through!

The continuation of the Best Alternate Reality Category

Men Ship Too? An Interview with a Nominator...

Want to know what's keeping this amazing fandom going and keeping the awards committee on their toes?

It's all of you, of course! Without awesome fans to promote the work of other awesome fans, this whole awards process would be pointless.

With that in mind, today we offer you some insight into the mind of someone we don't often get to hear about...the male shipper! What's that? You didn't know that there are guys out there with fluffy feelings and angsty ambitions? Think again!

Down the Rabbit Hole

When it comes to fanfiction, everyone has their favorite genres. However, it can't be denied that Alternate Reality (often mistakenly called AU) is very popular. And how can it not be when it covers many different ways for our favorite characters to get together, from quantum mirrors to non-existing frat regs?


With a category so popular, it is not surprising that there are a lot of nominations already. Today, we'll take take you down the rabbit hole and visit worlds that are just slightly different from the canon we know and love by highlighting a selection of nominated stories.

Category: Best Alternate Reality

AR fics are defined as stories that start in an Alternate Reality (i.e. it has Doctor Carter), are clearly set in an alternate reality as they do not follow canon ( i.e. established relationship, or events that happen at the wrong time), or interact with other realities via the quantum mirror or Stargate anomalies.

Interview with Sal R... a Nominee!

So we've been getting back into the swing of bringing you blog posts and one of the things we're really excited about are the interviews we do with both the nominees and the nominators.

For this installment we're bringing you an article on Sal R (also known in fandom as Sally Reeve and to the rest of the world as published author Sally Malcolm) - an institution in the Sam/Jack fandom.

We're Off to See the Wizard!

And the adventure continues...

We recently highlighted several fanfiction nominations from the Adventure category.  But, we have so many great nominees that we couldn't bring all of them to you in one post!  

So, change into your BDUs, grab your tac vest and your P90, because we're stepping through the gate to find alien planets, crashed ships, strange artifacts, missing stargates, and yes, we really are off to see the wizard.

Just call her JanSam Drew

These awards are most certainly a group effort!  Our committee is constantly going above and beyond what even we think might be possible.

We've also had a huge amount of support from the fandom.  As many of you might be aware, we're desperately seeking some lost nominees.  Thanks to GateWorld member JanSam, we've been able to strike quite a few names off our list!

We've named her our unofficial Private Eye!  So, thank you, JanSam!  We really couldn't have done some of this without you.  

Interview With Midknight Rider... a Nominee!

We are keeping to our strict schedule to make sure we can give you all the best experience for our first year hosting the Awards, so here's another interview with someone whose work has been nominated for the Sam & Jack Multimedia Awards!

At the moment of posting this blog she has received five nominations! Well, let's introduce you all to...

MidKnight Rider!