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Voting is now open for the 2nd Annual Moany Awards! For those of you who weren't around last year, this is where I give myself awards but also sneakily get some great feedback on what people really liked in the past year and might want more of. It's also just for fun and to coincide with the real awards season.

I'm wondering if we do a stream this month for the awards for a real live show feel? What do you think?

Here's a Google Form to vote in several categories, and nominate up to 5 audios for the Best Overall Audio category, which we'll then vote on.

Voting for this closes in about two weeks, when we'll vote on the Overall Best Audio! There's some new categories too...

No categories are required, so you can just skip any you don't want to vote on, that'll help me out with the write-in.

Categories:

  • Best Rough Audio

  • Best Soft Audio

  • Best Switch & Sub Audio

  • Best Genre Audio

  • Best Overall Audio

  • Best Sound Design in an Audio

  • Best Line in an Audio

  • Best Listener Character

Comments

alisha 🌱

a livestream for the moanys would be so much fun!!

Moira

omg yes please Moany’s livestream!

ky ❣️💌✨

omg moanys livestream?? stars in my eyes!! 🤩

diana

livestream with the envelope ripping sounds? hell yeah 🙂‍↕️

Dana 💥

Oh this is gonna be fun! And yes for the livestream!!

MrsSnugglePuss

Lol I need a round table of friends to narrow down the decisions. 😅

Grace

*cracks knuckles* time for some research 🎧

wiggie

moanys livestream is the best idea anyone’s ever had methinks

aliyah

a livestream in the style of a real awards show would be cute

sarah 💫

Moany Livestream where you read the categories in various accents mayhaps?? 🏆

Craw Daddy

Oh man ITS SO HARD TO CHOOSE

Samma

Yes PLEASE do a live stream! We can all get fancy/dolled up while watching just to pretend that we're at a real award show... You know, to distract ourselves from the horrors 🤣

Caitlin 🩷🌻 (chappelmoan)

Hell yeah a livestream for announcing the winners. This is now the most important show of awards season to me.

alisha 🌱

i need the nosferatu voice to return to read out the "best line" winner please

B

livestream!!! that was the hardest test i've ever taken and i'm a stem major😭

Deedee 🫶🏾

Omg another livestream? Yes pleaseeee 🙇🏾‍♀️

kenna

what if the characters who win do acceptance speeches/theres guest announcers, is that too corny idk im getting way too into this

Deedee 🫶🏾

Time to go do some research 🙂‍↕️🤭🤓

Sierrana89

Best Line in an Audio…it’s definitely gotta be one of the gems from the first 10 minutes of the Hallmark Christmas audio, right!?

charlie

i need grandpa voice back to read "and the best rough audio goes to..." that would literally make my year

ky ❣️💌✨

these questions are too hard. i need to take a lap. and a nap w my laptop

alisha 🌱

making us write in the best line was a diabolical move??? how tf am i supposed to choose just one???

charlie

one of the great things about this is i now have a listening list for the next couple weeks so i can vote for grumpy coworker and drive-in with full confidence

sarah 💫

Can y’all imagine hearing Adam Driver read “Best Sound Design in an Audio Goes to…”

Moira

This was the truest exercise in “kill your darlings,” I started with 9 selections for the Best Overall Audio and very painfully whittled it down from there.

sarah 💫

I HAVEN’T OPENED THE LINK YET WHAT….! I was told (I assumed) this would be multiple choice, he’s pure evil

Gabriella 🥭

The one that makes me teehee the most? The one that makes me crazy? The one that elicits sounds I didn't intend to make??? How the fuck do I choose?! 😫

Jaime Bees

Let us vote on most sequel worthy audio

peaches

OH FUCK IM SO EXCITED

Moira

Oooooooooo that’s so fun, I love any opportunity for an outfit

Ynara

This is my Grammy

AlitaNYM

This is the only awards show i'll be watching tbh

Ynara

I am begging for a Moany Awards Livestream, I can just imagine how fun this is going to be

Gabriella 🥭

The Google Form is giving me agita, how could you make me slaughter some of my most favoritest boys 🥺? Walking through Patreon in March like this: https://i.imgflip.com/4cqzz8.png I raised the roof alone in my office when I read stream, so that's a yes from me 🥂

DivineFeminine

I'VE PLAYED THESE GAMES BEFOREEE 🦑 I thought the first Moany vote was rough but best line?! Just one? 😭

JENNI

Amy Santiago is that you? Lovely, but I am Jake in this. Confused

sarah 💫

*cracks knuckles* time to hack the database and make sure concert friend wins a category 😎💻 (furious typing followed by intense zoom up and: “I’m in” 👁️) (I’M JOKING no hacking will be involved, I can barely solve a captcha thingy 😔)

rachel 🍓

HAPPY MOANYS SEASON! 🥂 I was going to suggest a livestream for the ceremony, so echoing all the support for that! Best Line is going to be my hardest category for sure.

key

OUUUUU

✨ jo ✨

i need the Speakers from last year's winners to present their own category to the new winners 😭

Issay

I don’t think two weeks is enough for me to make decisions 🙂‍↔️

kenna

@gabriella “keep my wife’s name out of your fuckin mouth!!”

✨ jo ✨

cancelling all my plans so i can properly ruminate on my google form responses... no i am not shaking with excitement in my enclosure!!! 🤓

Mimi (she they)

bold of you to assume I'm not going to transcribe every line for "best line in an audio" because wtf do you mean I have to choose???

rachel 🍓

Ready to join this syndicate 🫡 (edit to add that I am fully joking too. I am WAY too much of a goody two-shoes to commit election fraud okay!!!!)

✨ jo ✨

HAHAH this makes me wonder if there is indeed not a limit to that text box 😈

sarah 💫

Google Forms stands no chance against our army of horny hackers 🫡✊🏼

sarah 💫

if I write them all without a period, that counts as one line right?? riGHT??? Just one long freaky deaky run on sentence

sophie

king how am i supposed to choose between BJ and third date 😫

aliyah

having to choose between the staff officer audio, the fencing student one, or the skeptical customer one was brutal. almost as brutal as having to go back through my own degenerate comments to find which lines past aliyah liked enough to point out 😭

Mimi (she they)

Thank you for giving me an excuse to listen to the entire selection of 2024 audios again in 2 weeks! If anyone sees me lurking in the comments... this is why (and not because I'm chronically here)

Jillian

EXCUSE ME SIR BEST OVERALL AUDIO IS MISSING DRIVE-IN

alisha 🌱

super off topic but gabriella, your new pfp is killing me!! you're too cute haha~ 💝💝💝

sarah 💫

!!! wait also concubine and goon with the wind are on the list but those would be 2025 audios right??

Jillian

It’s my personal best overall audio I cannot in good conscience vote without it 😭

Jillian

No same I need to do research for my “best line” submission

rachel 🍓

Quickly clicked through to view the form and I have a question about the Best Sound Design category! How did you determine which audios were eligible for that award (since it’s not all of them!)? I’m assuming they’re the ones that have something special with the production and/or have a standout sound element(s)? I’m happy to see specific curation of the audios you want to uplift for that to be clear; I was just curious how you picked!

Mimi (she they)

PSA: you can submit multiple responses (@ those hacking the moanys so concert friends wins) (august if you see this please keep it so that we can submit multiple responses we would never hack the moanys)

sarah 💫

Mimi ajshsjaksh long, freaky deaky, engorged love is what I’m talkin bout 🐸💖

✨Vi✨

HEAR ME OUT🔔 We need a best accent award Edit: and Luke will have the crown

AugustInTheWinter

Please do not do this!!!! Honor system, everyone, I just don't want to make people sign into their gmail, but I will.

alisha 🌱

he's going to have to end up going through like 10k submissions because we totally didn't hack the moanys 🥸

Agatha Li

Excitedly awaiting the bloodbath 🩸🛁🙆🏻‍♀️ But also, maybe feels like a missed opportunity not to have a category for DTs? 🫣

🐉ᵐᵉⁱ‧₊˚♡彡

See, normally I'm good with decision making but I've been sitting here for the past hour, unable to form a coherent thought about my opinion.

AugustInTheWinter

Those are my nominations, as determined by the ones that required a lot of time/effort to edit because of particular production or sound design elements! For any I missed, I figure they might get some votes but I'm guessing the winner would end up being one of these anyway.

alisha 🌱

haha no hacking on my end!! i trust that potions will win something on its own merit!! 😤💖

Cait

Even before I saw his list of categories I was like oh I KNOW which dirty talk I’m voting for….but my plan was foiled 😩

Diane 🌙

I was feeling bummed about awards season this year (it’s a famine of beauty IMO compared to last year’s nominees, but I digress). Until this notification popped up and reminded me that my favourite season doesn’t need to be dire! These are the only awards I care about 🏆

rachel 🍓

Love it, thank you so much for sharing! Sound Design was the new category I wanted to see added most, and tbh, I'm relieved that you focused the contenders for us a bit based on your experience with the creation! Pumped to give kudos to this dimension of your work this year! ✨

Gabriella 🥭

@jo & @DivineFeminine: pressing my LifeAlert over and over to no avail 😰 @alisha: awwwwww thank you, alisha, I'll revive you with smooch 😘

phonons

⚠️‼️🚨the Moanys are back! nnnn, the hardest category for me will probably be the best line in an audio 😮‍💨

wiggie

ur telling me I have to listen to EVERY 2024 AUDIO FRONT TO BACK? just for my research???! ugh!!! if I must! 🙄

Samma

FUCK!!! This is my favorite idea... I'm already getting outfit ideas 😍😍😍

alisha 🌱

@wiggie: UGH the things we do to provide the most accurate voting 🤧 i can't believe we must have him playing 24/7 during this voting period; how dare he!!

Samma

There's got to be a easy way for me to put something together like a red carpet slide show. Although people would have to submit pictures early so I don't know if that's as doable?!

Dana 💥

I can’t make a decision my god I have never been this stumped in my life, August 😭

Ella

weeee just listened to the last year’s moanys on the commute home yesterday!! excited to give things a re-listen for research 🤓 alsoo looooove the idea of a livestream!

phonons

I agree! It'd have been nice to be able to vote on those as well

kira ✨

OH LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO

adrian🍑

man that was hard 🫨

Gabriella 🥭

Out of Office Message: Cloistered away for the AITW Voting Period. Do NOT contact me, do NOT send help 🙅🏿

Freya

Omg this is literally impossible. AHHHHHHHHHHHH Also, yes livestream, pls and thanks

✨Vi✨

Kinda sad for the Bookish&the Queen didn't get Best Sound award nomination🥲Thats the best

Dana 💥

Ugh I felt like submitting a final exam. This is HARD, y’all! But DONE! Can’t wait!

Dana 💥

Also I just love how this post doesn’t have like a “Hi!!!” Or a “August 🌧️ “ it’s just like “Here you, you freaking Gooners, vote for the moanys” I can’t 😭😂

alisha 🌱

speaking of, if "gooner" wins best line of the year, i'm going to die laughing

amy

let’s fucking gooooooo

raivvin

welp time to listen to everything again 😭

Maia (SullieBee)

Time to go listen to every audio now…for research purposes….

charlie

oh wait now you've got me thinking bcs that audio made me laugh so many times 😭😭 a stand up comic could never

stefffs

I hope the Palentines wins something, would absolutely love more MMF

Agatha Li

I don’t feel like I can do this submission justice until I give the audios a relisten for “best line” Some initial thoughts as I went through the form: 1. Shook to my core that Brute is not in the list for best Rough, he gave L a pounding for the ages 2. For the best L vote, I wonder if “just making out” and “just grinding” should get the benefit of being combined since it’s a part 1&2 within the same release year, and would you think of one without thinking of the other? 3. For best line, are we considering best written line, period? Are we factoring acting/delivery of said line?

roxy 🥀

Yesss award season is upon us!! 🏆 excited to vote and for the possibility of a live moanys stream?? Manifesting concert friend and potions absolutely sweeeeep ✨👯‍♀️

Thelnie

If anyone needs some inspiration for favorite line, I went back through my notes (previous comments, this took a long time 💀) and while these might not be your favorite, maybe it'll jog some memories. I know I needed it. Posted after the break so they don't influence anyone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yikes, you must really like me You keep that away from me Aw, you really f*cked up now You don't even know my name That's big to you? I kissed the shit outta you Yeah, he can’t take it (From D&D) THE SLOW SARDONIC BREATH after he's asked if he uses condoms (a breath can be a line right??)

alisha 🌱

i appreciate you finding so many amazing quotes but now you've also widened the scope for potential nominees even further??? how will we ever be expected to choose??? 😔

Thelnie

In the end, what matters is the lines that haunt us along the way. 🌈

Quercus

This was hard! I had a lot of favorites and choosing which was the best imo was quite difficult 💀

秦词

YES to livestream!!!! If you haven’t listened to the spies, please please please do. It totally deserves an award (AND A PART 2)

秦词

So if I have 6 google emails, does it mean I get to submit 6 responses🤔

Pie 🥧

A livestream for the awards??? 👀 yes pls!

adrian🍑

i would love a livestream! we could all get dressed up and make the cocktail recipe Moira posted!!

alisha 🌱

you and roxy truly are an unstoppable duo with how much magic you two create in such a short amount of time 🥰 also i'm revising my bingo card to include a potions audio superlative win too; let's GO!!

roxy 🥀

@alisha Really is a group effort more than anything! Having so much fun cooking this up with everyone and can’t wait to share what we’re putting together 🌻 Potions audio deserves to sweep everything! What else can I thank for altering my brain chemistry permanently 😮‍💨🧪

Mimi (she they)

@alisha: this one is such a group effort, roxy and i are just the figureheads! these superlatives were a combined effort for sure !!! potions may or may not win something 👀👀

Anna 🦕🍀

a stream would be very sick. definitely do it

🌹💘Lauren 💘🌹

This was so funn! ‘Most likely to cry’ killed meee, you had me revisiting the audios again just so I could make the right choice. 🫶🏾Thank you for this! 💕💕 Whatever you guys do is going to eattt

wiggie

ID SAY “WERE BACK” BUT YOU GUYS NEVER LEFT‼️ thank you both for doing this it was so fun to fill out! can’t wait to see the results 🤩

sarah 💫

Whoa wHAT omg I’d mentioned doing a superlatives thing in my comment on the bingo audio and this is exactly what I had in mind, this is SO COOL!!! Also lmaosksjksk the “wine drunk + get tilted over trivia” question HAHAHAhah (flashbacks to Friday’s livestream)🍷 Ty roxy and mimi for this super fun poll!! 🤩

Anna 🦕🍀

mimi please tell your cat (from your pfp BUT also any other cats you may have are included as well) that i love them

Anna 🦕🍀

off topic but speaking of captchas, I recently got one that no joke provided one photo up top and then underneath that it said “click on the images that best match the *theme* of the sample image” and they had the standard box of nine images to select from. They wanted you to match a VIBE to pass the captcha. Except that the sample image was a cityscape and all of the images you could choose from to match the vibe were…….. penguins and semitrucks. I’m still confused.

erin 💕

If the “you’re not gonna fucking call me that?” Audio has zero fans, I’m dead. Top tier.

Seethesands

Please stream please please pleeease

charlie

wait wait wait what's that last one from bcs i think it may make me pass away

apple pye

whew this is going to require some research. you have an extensive library of A1 material how will i choose 😭

sarah 💫

@anna robots asking us to prove our humanity to them but not giving us any prompts that make actual sense or signify any semblance of real humanity is so dystopian vibes 😔🤖🐧🚛

Gabriella 🥭

This is SO fun omg how did you put this together so quickly???? Also, Worst Listener is so fucking funny to me! Thank you again, queens 🙇🏿‍♀️

karolll

If “listen to the sounds you’re making.. daddy, fuck” from the makeup audio doesn’t win best line 😤

Liv

A stream would be so fun!!!

Rozelin

Your banner on the Google Form is so beautiful- a real vibe.

Ethel M.

Can we do a fave dt?

Valerie

I vote yes to the live stream please!!

Dana 💥

A force to be reckoned with! I loved doing this one as well hahah 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼❤️❤️you two are truly OUR Dynamic Duo👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

JammyJam

Rearranging all my works for the upcoming week so that I have enough time to have a heart to heart with each of the candidates. Choose wet, not wise 🫡🫡🫡 Also I’ve been wondering: how many notes do residents of the August nation typically take for August audios? From what I’ve been seeing, I’d say they could be anywhere between “extensive” and “encyclopedic”…

Gabriella 🥭

Lololol gonna have a sit on, I mean, sit down chat with the various candidates, take my time deciding.... I write down quotes and jokes I want to yap about, but that's it in terms of notes. I think some people also have listening logs???

sarah 💫

Aw jeez *whips out my massive binder of papyrus scrolls + a stick figure drawing of a snowflake on the cover* KIDDING i don’t actually have a binder. That would be crazy haha…ha..No but really I just go ham in my notes app lmao 📝 I usually write down specific lines that jump out at me first, then like Gabriella said, I have a littul fink about the story/dynamics/acting/writing and relisten [redacted] times before posting a Comment. How *many* notes like how many note app entries have i made for the audios?? Deffo more than 20, less than 50?? Maybeeee? 🧠😵‍💫📖

JammyJam

lol same, I was flipping through my docs and let’s just say that it’s definitely better written than some of my class notes lmao

sarah 💫

Idk if this would feel too “self indulgent” for you but I’d love to hear what *you* (August) voted for too (maybe for just a few select categories?) 🫵🏼🗳️ I think your answers could offer a unique “creator” POV to us listeners—I always love hearing artists give BTS insight into why working on a particular project was esp cool for them (was writing this script particularly fun? did you really love sinking into this specific character? were you esp proud of accomplishing [X] sound effect? etc)

Gabriella 🥭

@sarah: lmaooo "well, I pull a special book in my library to reveal my August cave where I keep my color-coded scrolls, sketches, and incense...". @JammyJam: And oh! I just have one, big AITW Google Doc that I would need incinerated (digitally) if I ever got hacked.

Gabriella 🥭

I looooove this idea!! And to curb fears about "self-indulgence", since we will have already voted, it's not like you'd (August) be currying favor for particular audios or anything. Just a fun, sweet treat! Like last year hearing a fun fact about each winner 🍪!

sarah 💫

Exactly, since it’s post-voting it’s just a lil BTS sprinkle!🧁 I understand the hesitance to pick + discuss a fave of YOUR OWN creations but I would love a BTS peek into *why* he voted on specific audios. It’s akin to a writer talking about why a specific book/scene was their fave to write or an actor gushing about their fave scene to film!

cheyenne ☕️

I think a livestream would be a great idea! The last one was really fun ☺️ Now to clear my schedule and relisten to these like I’m a member of the academy with a stack of for your consideration films

rachel 🍓

co-sign on this whole thread! I’m v interested in creator perspective and would be really into any DVD bonus feature BTS kind of chat around his picks per category! Because this is all about celebrating the work, too, maybe there isn’t the same concern about picking things apart + “ruining the magic” that could factor in more with commentary-style content, where folks may want to opt out if they avoid any inside baseball stuff for the sake of their suspension of disbelief! As Gabriella said, more fun fact than in-depth analysis.

rachel 🍓

oooh this question about notes is so fun! 📝 my “process” is basically the same as Sarah's and Gabriella's. I have one note in my notes app where I’ll jot down any moments/lines/impressions after my first listen + during a second or third listen to an audio. Then I take those ideas and formulate that jumble into a coherent comment in my “AITW brain dump” Google Doc! haha my one “rule” for myself is that I don’t write anything down *during* my first listen to any audio. No shade at all to anyone who does, but I prefer to be immersed for that initial experience and not concerned with capturing my thoughts! it’s been such an unexpected treat to flex my analytical writing muscles as a means to appreciate the work here!

sarah 💫

Yessss precisely, I definitely was thinking more “hey fun fact” + “I voted for this bc it was really cool to ___” kinda discourse instead of dissecting the audio to bits fs!

Thelnie

@charlie I think it’s from Teaching Your Slutty Friend 🤔

JammyJam

When straight A creator meets straight A listeners 🫡🫡🫡 now I feel bad for my bullet point notes lmao

✨ jo ✨

my ADHD ass is wishing i had a system for taking Big Notes now that the Moanys are around and i have to formulate Opinions 😭 idk why i didn't learn from last year's Moanys lol, but thank you @sarah Gabriella and rachel for insights into your process!!!! i am deeply humbled by y'all's commitment to HBC, thank you for everything you contribute 💖

✨ jo ✨

so true!! i feel like it's rare for me to see the full banner bc of mobile, it was a real treat :')

✨ jo ✨

these are such good questions..... and now the choice of best line seems more existential then ever 🫠 for #3, my personal opinion is both written and delivery of the line! i don't think i can separate August's script/VA; to me both are what makes the audio an Audio, if that makes sense? i honestly think he (and all of us in HBC) WOULD probably love to hear your best line pick either way though!

✨ jo ✨

wait Anna this is so funny HAHAHAHA are semitrucks or penguins more vibey i need to know lmfao

Agatha Li

Thanks jo!!! Such a good point, thinking more I guess it is hard to separate haha maybe I was overthinking just a tad I’m taking this “best line” question a little too seriously 👀. I’m trying to pick a best line per audio, and then ranking them until I get the top one.

✨ jo ✨

Literally SAME, i am here listening to each audio forensically and scribbling notes like i'm preparing for a final 🤓

Gabriella 🥭

Finally completed the nearly impossible task of choosing a favorite quote from 2024. I have to shout out my runner-ups though because there were simply too many great lines to choose from! My criteria were: 1) good distillation of the nature of AITW S&L pairs, and 2) made me so insane, I have been thinking about it since I first heard it. But honestly, there are no wrong answers. 📑 "I always knew we’d be a perfect fucking fit. Because I know what a little freak you are. Perfect slut for me" from You Were Too Busy Masturbating to Plan Anything for My Visit? (this was my number 2 pick, and it still pains me to have not voted for it 😭) 📑 “Do you yield now?” from Bullying Your Farmboy Fencing Student into Getting Rough 📑 “You didn’t think that a slut like me would be wearing underwear? It’s just so you can take it off, sir” from Dressing Up and Putting On Makeup Turns Your Coworker Into a Pretty Boy Slut 📑 “That was really good, right? I mean, both of us together, what we created here today?” from Sneaking Into an Outdoor Concert with Your Friend to See Your Favorite Popstar 📑 "Hi~~, ready to play?" OR “Any guy that looks at you gets to try that pussy out, is that it?!” from You're Not Gonna Fucking Call Me That?

K

Yes! The DTs were criminally absent from the form. Probably bc they’re more off-the-cuff, but I think they should have a dedicated category in the future…

Agatha Li

Please. Send. Help. 😭 This gargantuan task of finding “best line” by re-listening to all of last year’s audios, is getting me reacquainted with some of my favourite Speakers, and is also disrupting what I thought were my already-set-in-stone rankings for best audio. Now I’m all discombobulated 😩🫠

apple pye

best line could truly be a 600-way tie 😭 choosing just ONE is not only criminal, it is impossible.

Ethel M.

Hey, which audio had "you make me filthy"? I don't think it's a this year audio, maybe last year?

sarah 💫

AHH ty for reminding me of this stellar line, it’s from Jealous Roommate, towards the end! (I may or may not have conducted a thorough….. investigation….to figure this out, anything for research! 🤓🔬)

Ethel M.

Damn, did his grandma say that too? I looooooove that one. Thank you!!

JammyJam

Finally submitted my votes! It’s so funny how I kept revisiting old audios, and every time I listened to one, I ended up changing my entire ballot lol. Maybe next year we should do something like giving each audio its own award! The genre category was brutal - it took me forever to pick a winner, and I genuinely feel bad for the rest of the nominees :((( Anyway, hopefully February is finally being kinder to August, and I cannot wait to celebrate the winners (and all the incredible audios)!!!