Thank you for the congratulations everyone, and thank you Tommy for the nomination!
I would be lying if I said I hadn't idly daydreamed of having my name in the winners' list in the first post. Took me exactly a month shy of a decade from my first AAR's first update, but it's there! By God, it's there! In a wonderful show of just how much these kinds of X-AARland awards matter to writAARs in another way; I had been struggling with nearly a full month of writer's block, and seeing my name there finally got me to push through and finish the chapter I'd been stuck on.
In a wonderful coincidence, this weekend will be my first back from a foreign holiday (which was not an insignificant contributor to the aforementioned block), so I'll be trapped in the house with nothing to do but try devour as many AARs as humanly possible for nomination deliberation.