Best Female Subject: “Sakura and Nightrunners” by Shinigami_deathscythe



Best Male Subject: “Mad Unicorn” by oloyolol



Best Use of Otter (and horrible, horrible pun!): “You Otter Read This Book” by composorlady



Best Use of Stuffed Animals “Otter and Dragon Are Fans, Too” by enicupac



Best Use of Real Animal:  tie between “Alec Reading Nightrunner” by elnnesa
AND
“Where Are the Seedy Characters?” by xenith3456






Best Costume: “Obsession” by omi_tsukiyono_fan



Best Group Shot 2+ (people, animals, etc): “Reading By The Fountain” by asatomuraki



Best Facial Expression: “Fun on the Floor With Flewelling” by walker_of_the_shadow_path



Best Classic Pose: Female: “At the Beach With Tobin and Ki” by LadyRoy



Best Classic Pose-Male: “Reading Traitor’s Moon” by anthonyfournier




Runners Up:
1. “June” by martina.eden
2. “A Girl Can Dream” by wood_opal
3. “A Few of My Favorite Things” by  michyo_seta









Honorable Mentions:

1. “Storytime” by mihakken
 
“And den de haaaaaaansum Sewiggil hit de bad, baaaaad Mardus wif his sword an’ aaaaaaaaalllll his bwod came out and splashyed in the wawer and Mardus said he was going to tell him’s mommy on Sewiggil and Sewiggil said ‘I don’t care. You’re just a big poop head.””



2. “Windowseat Relaxation” by sabriel902

“OK, it gets really good here—hush Cabbage Patch boy. No, this isn’t the end, they haven’t even—NO, bear pig thing, you can’t go to the bathroom—because you’re freakin’ STUFFED, that’s why!  Look, do you guys want me to read this to you or not???!!!”




3. “Reading Aloud” by kagedtiger  

    “I’m scared!” whined Flappy, really scared even though he was the oldest of them all by thousands and thousands of years.
   “Don’t worry,” Lucifer the Mid-Sized Penguin assured him. “See, right here  . . . This word is e.s.c.a.p.e.d . . .” 
    “ ’Escape’!” crowed tiny Damien Emperor Penguin Chick, who was brighter than he looked, even though he did seem to favor Anne Bishop’s work.
     “Did a penguin just crow?” asked Shadow Heartless the Cat, utterly baffled.




4. “Trevor Reads Luck In The Shadows” by cjhonghao

Lynn: “I’ve lived in Oregon. That’s not green paint on the walls and ceiling; it’s mildew. Or maybe algae.”

Trevor: “I’ll deal with it, OK? Just let me finish this chapter. Jeeeeeeze!”
 
Lynn: “The Banana Slug yellow accents do go nicely with it, though.”

Trevor: “If you don’t shut up and let me read I’m going to put you on the first banana slug outta here!”

(I am as surprised as you are, gentle readers. Trevor looks like such a nice young man!)

5. “No matter how many books I read, I always go back to Stalking Darkness” by deisaku_fanlisting

Can’t . . . move.  Trappped under . . . .  bookalanche. Getting . . . weaker.   Air supply . . . nearly gone . Must dig out . . .  Just one more . . . page . . . . . If I could just. . . . read faster . . . before. . .  air runs . . . out. Damn you. . . . Lynn Flewelling . . . .Why . . . do you . . . write such . . .  gripping . . .  yarns . . . . Alec almost in . . . green light . . . naked men . . . .   argggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh   (silence falls)

6. “A Quiet Place To Read” by sura.ken86

Having overcome the foul necromancer and his pack of Warted Fart Wargs, the young nightrunner Hypochonzriel plucked a sprig of white lilac to sooth her senses and threw herself down in the shade of  a nearby tree to read until the healer mage, Ban’dadia, could find her and bind her wounds. Unfortunately for Hypochonzriel, the tree she’d taken refuge beneath—out of all the hundreds of trees immediately available— was in fact a psychotic Ent off its medication. Alas, it ate her. The end.




7. “Garden Reading In A Favorite Skirt” by kk_akki 

“The book was so wonderful she wanted to saver the final few chapters in the most conducive and soothing surroundings possible. She chose her outfit so carefully that day: a modest yet revealing top that let the sun kiss her alabaster shoulders, and her favorite flowered skirt, a well-worn friend on many a garden ramble. “And now,” she thought, “to find the perfect place!” Long and wistfully she wandered the familiar old garden, finding each familiar locale lovely and yet somehow not quite right. At last she spied a disused path that she’d never noticed before! “How perfect!” she cried. “Unknown territory to finish the unknown chapters!” And so she explored the winding path, discovering delight upon delight, and at last, the perfect tussock on which to curl up and lose herself that is the magic of a Lynn Flewelling novel.

The tussock, unfortunately, was a fire ant hill. Cards and gifts can be sent care of Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrows Hospital. The doctors say that the damage would have been minimal if only she’d worn jeans.




8. “At My Local Park” by kiaraangeli

(Couple in background)
“What’s she reading?”

“How should I know? Probably just a manga.

“No, it’s too thick. And look at that ugly cover! Euuwww!

“Who cares? She’s hot, though.”

**whack!**





9. “Reading Break At Work” by pissderseiji

“OK,” she finally admitted to the Grand Inquisitors when faced with the photographic evidence, in the aftermath of the cataclysmic battle that had left less than a tenth of the world’s population alive. “If I hadn’t been distracted by the narrative excellence of that damn Flewelling book, I might have noticed the alien parasite matrix in the cores samples that day . . .
 
But Flewelling had been among the first to perish, ironically enough, and there was no one else left to shoulder the blame.

10. “Reading To The Otters [at the Toronto Zoo]” by bow_ryu 

“Hey otters, there are otters in this book, eh? Wake up. Come on, wake up! Look, right here in chapter 14. You’re missing something reeeeeeallly good! Are you deaf? I’m talking to you! Where’s a rock? If I throw it right next to him . . .  Oops. Ummmm, must be going now.” 

Last words before being swarmed by angry, groggy otter with a lump on his head who climbed up her braid and bit her on the nose.

11. “Fangdorn + I Are Reading Traitor’s Moon” by myshella666

Fangdorn: “Do you have any idea how many people have brought me books with dragons in them? I mean, really. Just because I’m a dragon, do you honestly think that’s the only thing I’m interested in? How shallow do you think I am? Do you only read books with women in them? I can’t remember the last time anyone read me Shakespeare, or Danielle Steele, or even Lewis Carole, damn it! And why? No stinking dragons! Just once I’d like to be surprised, you know? A little T. S. Eliot; is that too much to ask????  Nice outfit, though.”

12. “Horse-Reading” by Kaylen87

Horse: “Hey, what am I, a couch? Two more minutes, lady, then I’m walking. Oh, and FYI? Sit in the middle! You’re breakin’ my withers!

(Sigh, as only a horse can sigh.) 

“Could you at least read out loud? Any horses? There are! Cool! Hey I’m fine. Sit as long as you want.  Read faster!”

13. "Troll On His Armchair" by tawariel

/I think that I shall never see another feline cool as me./
/Now I lay here decoratively, considering corners in which to pee./
"Oh, and if you try to touch this book one more time you'll be eatin' your soup with a metal hook."
"Now, where was I? Something that rhymes with 'pee' . . ."





14. "Contest Entry" by dryas_caesium
Dog:   "I haven't been fed in two days. I hope she finishes that book soon! Otherwise, I'm gonna eat her ear. Heh heh. I just gave her fleas!"





15. "Alec and Helen" by miriade

As the battle between the cats and stuffed animals raged for possession of Traitor's Moon, poor Helen was the first to fall.

"I will avenge you," cried Alec. "Right after I wash this foot."




16. "Medieval Atmosphere" by emily_dorckel

So engrossed was she in a most excellent book called Stalking Darkness, Beka was completely oblivious to the fact that the entire turma had left without her.