User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/Featured Story Acceptance Speech: The Great Quest Completed/@comment-2021069-20110607201332/@comment-1874924-20110609031256

I'm the first to admit that TDI-G&S is probably more a work of scholarship than a true fanfiction, so I understood where the opponents were coming from, even if I did believe that they missed the point. As I noted in one of my "stump speeches" during TDI-G&S' time on the FS ballot, there's more than one way to be original and add creative value. True, TDI-G&S doesn't have an original plot, but neither do most of Shakespeare's plays.

Anyway, I'm glad to hear that you've been reading and enjoying it. If I'm not mistaken, this is the first I've heard that you had even read it, but that's part of the reason why I write these "acceptance speeches". Just as nominating a story gives me feedback from people who haven't commented on the story's talk page, so can these blogs sometimes bring nonvoting/noncommenting readers out of the woodwork.