Hi EF! We’re super pleased to announce that we are adding “Artist of the Month” as a new category to our Members of the Month. Nominations are open now (and will close as normal on the 25th of the month) so get your nominations in for Artist of the Month—and Author of the Month and Commenter of the Month—now.

We have a snazzy new award, designed by MillennialCryBaby, that’s based on the original Author of the Month and Commenter of the Month awards. We also have snazzy, updated awards for those moving forward, so that all three match (and we took advantage of the opportunity to update the language on Commenter of the Month so it no longer says Reviewer).

We’re really excited we now can honor all of our artists, whether they make banner art or post their art as fanwork stories in the archive. We want to thank all the many people who have asked for this over the years via the Suggestion Box, email, private messages, and chats. It’s taken us a long time to get to where we felt this was the right move for the archive, but we’re here now and super happy about it.