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The 2012 Weblog Awards were announced last night while the rest of the world was pretending to watch the Oscars and GUESS WHAT. We won all three of the categories we were nominated in: Best Entertainment Weblog, Best Group/Community Weblog, and Weblog of the Motherlovin’ Year! Can you believe it? I bet you can because you voted. You voted so hard, I’m going to do something I never do which is use the word hella. You all voted HELLA hard. You went ham on the Bloggies. Did you get your parents to vote for us? Inform them they went ham. They’ll be thrilled and feel hip and with it.
On behalf of everyone here at Autostraddle, THANK YOU! You’ve made our dreams come true. None of us will be tributes. We all will live to see CAMP. We get to feel a sense of pride and accomplishment that usually only comes with direct deposit. We love you! Count this amongst my growing list of declarations of love on these here interwebs. It’s better than random declarations of love to that girl you just met. Don’t do that! We also want to send a big ol’ congratulations to our friends Kristin and Danielle at Everyone Is Gay who won a Bloggie for Best LGBT Blog!
Are you going to work the Best Community award into your resume? It’s a trophy for your heart that you won with your fingers. It might be similar to your girlfriend in that way. Come on in, lurkers. The water’s fine. Don’t you want some award? In the spirit of Cady Heron, I’ve decided that you will each get a piece if you break your commenting cherry right now. Everyone take a chance today because we have a reason to celebrate. Visibility! We got it [some]!
I feel like the gravity of a lesbian website winning these awards could be lost on some of you because Riese didn’t show up on a screen in a fancy dress, doing her best Lea Michele pose (ironically), thanking Tinkerbelle from a podium. Maybe we can talk her into a speech! I hope she thanks whiskey.
This is great news for you, the reader! You should be pysched. Because of your efforts, we’ve reached a new level of anxiety about letting you down. You just became my parents, internet! Will you pay my rent this month? It’s okay if you can’t, I understand. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Intercuddle forever.
I’ll just leave this here:
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I literally screamed in the middle of HEB when I found out. So all the people in the bread aisle know that OMG, AUTOSTRADDLE WON. Congratulations guys! You deserve to win all the things. :)
I have a feeling some of the people working at HEB already knew, they probably read Autostraddle…
i believe i fall into that category of HEB employees.
for sure all of the Central Market employees
omg, CM employees are all probs all over that shit.
also: Whole Foods. fo sho.
I’m from Canada and everytime I visit ATX I get excited to go to HEB.
Is this abnormal…?
no! have you had their wheat flour tortillas? HEB is probs the only reason I’ll stay loyal to texas.
No, I haven’t.
I usually get just really excited and overwhelmed by there being alcohol in a grocery store.
Because I love grocery stores. And I also love alcohol.
Oh America, you are such a magical land.
HEB wheat flour tortillas are the main staple of my diet, not kidding
Awesome sauce! This is the best thing!
Yes, yes, yes! Good work, team!
Yes! I was wondering when you were going to post about this so we could have a proper thread to celebrate in.
You guys, you all deserve this. I don’t know what I’d do without Autostraddle.
Excitement!
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D x infinity + 3.
yayayayyyy!!!!!
GIRL.
Automatic win.
well played
First the Webblog Awards, then THE WORLD!
Yay!!!! Congrats! This is amazing!!
Can we please have Riese in a ball gown accepting a Bloggie and making a Lea Michelle pose? I mean.. you brought it up!
All the things! All the awards!
I propose we hold a party. Ideally in someone’s pants.
Done and done.
i just sit back and wait for you all to write enjoyable/clever/intellectual/hilarious/heart-breaking/inspirational things for me to read and enjoy. i do nothing related to making this website as amazing as it is, but i felt so proud last night when i saw the announcement. you kiddos deserve the world. thanks for being great.
I interrupted the Oscar party I was attending to announce the wins. You’ve managed to beat out Meryl Streep’s acceptance speech as my favorite thing of February. Good job, ladies :)
Speech speech speech!
you guys are all such fucking winners i can’t even
Yey, so fab! And totally 100% completely deserved. Not sure I could make it through the day without Autostraddle’s sarcastic insights on life.
you win an internet. two, even.
my dad juts sent me a congratulations email!
AWWW!
CONGRATS FRIENDS!
So… does this mean Riese has to down an entire bottle of whiskey?
If you do, I will sponsor a purchase of hangover-curing pancakes.
Intercuddle… Why was this word previously not in my life? Anyway, GO AUTOSTRADDLE!
I’ve been slowly coming out of a comic convention induced haze all day (loooong weekend). But I saw this and freaked out as much as a convention’d out, exhausted, still slightly hungover lesbo-geek can.
You guys are so goddamn amazing. I’m overjoyed the award of blog awards went to such a deserving site. Hugs and whiskey for all!
*FEELINGS*
On a scale of one to ten to express my happiness: THIS GETS 20 MADDOWS!!!!
Best community ever omigod I’m getting emotional just thinking about how much this site has done for my life and happiness. This is a well-earned and much deserved recognition of everything amazing that you all do. Thank you thank you thank you thank you
This gets all the maddows, bbqs, peanut butter, whiskey, kittens, evan Rachel wood bisexual.
I’ll take that last one please.
Autostraddle in your face
Sweeps the Bloggies in first place
Why? Because it’s fuckin’ ACE
Winning every single race
Always getting to home base
More awesome than outer space
Sickest of ALL the webspace
More splendid than ANY PLACE
Let’s drink whiskey, thump the bass
Dance here on our database
Then go to A-camp, FACE TO FACE
See, A.S. is our breathing space
Our lesbionic saving grace
When we need a change of pace
Or need to see hot girls in lace
Autostraddle, WE EMBRACE
I could say comment award but I don’t think I really have to.
I wish I could express to you
How very much I think you’re coo’
Unfortunately I write like poo
So this right here will have to do
If you’re looking to express
I’m not too hard to impress
But I’ll take the work out of your guess
And I’ll tell you, I’ll profess
Like the Gettysburg Address
More or less
Okay, I lied, less
Less fancy dress
And if you’ll let me progress
I mean, I’d love if you’d say yes
Unless you start to second-guess
Consent is sexy, I’ll confess
You could start to maybes undress
But this is getting too dirty for the press
Don’t want anyone in duress
Deffs don’t want to oppress
So I’ll end it with, “caress”
And let you guess the rest
I just want so much to go out drinking with you and have you make a toast every time we raise our glasses
Are you wrong in all the right ways?
Camp will reveal that truth
Fuckin’ perfect to me.
Camp is going to be the shit
I hope we get to to hang a bit
Maybe I’ll even see your tits!
Wow, that was inappropriate
I should definitely stop it
And submit to your superior wit
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Where is the youtube link to you rapping this?
There’s a thought. Hmm. In the meantime, here I am singing a song I wrote about a pretty girl:
http://youtu.be/moj_7E0OUJc
(I don’t know how to do the fancy link-making things)
AS REQUESTED: YouTube link to me rapping the Autostraddle ode. With an autoharp, obvs:
http://youtu.be/Pg-HbtT1cRE
You’re welcome.
YES!!
alfbjfblajfnlabfa, WINNER. You are a winner.
Just standing out here in the dark, holding up my flickering lighter and basking in the glow of your awesomeness!
Hey there, hey there, Girl With Gun
You look like you’re having fun
Lookin’ for a hit and run
Goin’ for it, all or none
Someone bett’r call 9-1-1
Don’t start a fire, don’t hurt someone
You keep that lighter away from
My Rhyming Dic, girl, or I’ll be done!
Hi..I don’t think we’ve officially met..I’m your Fan Club President..
Aww, shucks. Let’s take it back to my blog:
http://0033232.livejournal.com/
I have cookies. All are welcome.
Specifically for 0033232 and generally for anyone else…
Rap battle, live, on AS
It’s all in fun
so don’t distress
I like your style,
your homogayness
It’s right on time
for lesbo greatness
on AS,
it’s all around
the whole crew is so profound
with style and Grace, Riese leads the way
with recaps that pop back
like chocolate souffle
With whiskey
It’s risky, but oh so divine
She took the first step
now it’s yours & mine.
So get out ya glasses & go shake ya asses
As is THE BEST
Now go tell the masses!
Love e’rybody here. <3
I’m deeply embarrassed but I needed to do this:
It’s like looking into the face of god…
I’m so stoked for Autostraddle that I’m using the work stoked to explain my feelings!
Go Team Lady Gays!
I’m doing shots of Bulleit as I type… or…in between typing. I can finally feel vindicated in rambling on & on to anyone who would listen about this Award-Winning Website/Community/Outlet-for-our-feelings!
ok ok, I’ll come out of lurking. you guys fucking rock, Autostraddle.
We’ve got one! Yessss.
YALL. This is awesome and very, VERY well deserved! Congrats! Thank you for continuing to be amazing. I want to hug errbody.
Maybe Taylor Swift will write a song about Autostraddle..She’s written a song about every other fucking thing! Yay team Autostraddle..”It’s a trophy for your heart that you won with your fingers.” Sigh
an orgy of voting?
I’m sorry..Everything else just sort of faded away after I saw “orgy”
WAY MORE EXCITING THAN THE OSCARS. I don’t use all caps for just anything, you know.
:D :D :D :D
I totally cheered out loud when I saw that Autostraddle swept their categories.
I just discovered that we were nominated for this as well and are totally losing:
http://lesbianlife.about.com/library/bl-rca-lesbian-blog.htm?r=facebook
GET ON IT
Done. I’d pretty much vote for/read anything that Riese told me to.
Did I read once you were something like secretly competitive??? BWWWAAAAAHAHHHAHHAAHHAAHAHAHAAHA
anyway congrats to all the staff and to all of us! I SMILED A LOT TODAY.
Still losing… Needs more votes!
LOL, looks like we turned that around quick! Autostraddle should win ALL THE THINGS!
what oscars?
ahaha congrats!
Autostraddle deserves this times a kajillion. This site has made such a great impact on my life! It is the best site on the internet, by far. Also, I was so excited about this that I actually commented, which never happens. So, GO AUTOSTRADDLE!
THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR ALL THE LOVE AND STUFF! and for voting and believing. you’re all just so fantastic!
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Damnit, wrong code!
We’ve got your back!
YAAAAAAAAY
Also that last paragraph is GOLD
Dear Autostraddle,
I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your excellentness. Keep on being wonderful!
Lots of love,
a sortof-lurker-type-person
congrats everyone! thanks for being you.
You guys rock my world. This is where I come for my daily dose of everything.
Ahhh, this makes me so happy. I would elaborate, but I need to study, but YES. We won multiple things! This is better than that time I won a book about dinosaurs from a raffle that included 200 other children. SO MUCH EXCITEMENT. SO MUCH WIN. SO MUCH LOVE OF DINOSAURS.
This is such good news I just +1ed every single comment. Completely and totally deserved in every category. Congrats guys!
popping the comment cherry- CONGRATS AUTOSTRADDLE! :D
Wow! That was great! I need a cigarette now..Except I don’t smoke..So I’ll just bask in the afterglow…Siiiiiigh
What do you mean you don’t smoke? You’re always smokin’ when I see you. #lamepickuplines4evs
Ooh..Ooh..Ooooh!! Please oh please let me be your “wing-man” at camp..Clearly I could learn so much from you!
1. Yes, yes, yes.
2. I think we can learn a lot from each other.
3. Thank you for giving me an excuse to spend my afternoon watching Top Gun.
Wait..In that movie the wing-man…dies!
Spoilers! :P
I’m gonna go make an idiot of myself with Goose now…
Goose, ya big stud..Take me to bed, or lose me forever!
Yayyy!!!!
Wait. This is a lesbian blog???
I came here looking for car-themed porn.
Oh well, congratulations anyway!
I’m sorry. All we have to offer is cat-themed porn. I suppose it’ll have to do, but it shouldn’t be a problem because that right over there is where the whiskey comes from! Hooorayyyyy whiskey!
y’all should use more rugby pictures
good job weirdos!
All of the happies! :D
I kid you not, I found myself randomly singing this out loud in my (really quiet and conservative) office today. I have no idea where it came from, but it was a pretty intense sing along I had all by myself.
Autostraddle wins a thing
wins a thing
win a thing
Autostraddle wins a thing
it wins
it wins
Man, I just love everybody right now
WEEEEEEEEE
Seriously, U GUYS ROCK! I’m sooo happy you guys won all three awards. I love this site. I’m on here every night. Between watching Ellen during the day and coming on here is the small amount of time out of my day where I can find peace,positivity, humor, happiness, relevance, and just all around awesomeness :). You make my days a whole lot better (more than you’ll ever know) and I mean that from the heart. Okay, I feel a girl moment coming on, gotta go! LOL
This really is the best post ever.