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You are cordially invited to the riots of the workforce
We have voted. We filled out our ballots and we dropped them in the box outside our ward's polling place. Now to hope they do what we want them to. My experience of voting in national elections has been more dispiriting than not and I'd like that to change.
(No love to the three separate men we met without masks who under no circumstances would give way or even a berth on the sidewalk to anyone else, because their complacency is worth more to them than the comfort, health, or survival of strangers. They were effectively symbolic, but it's not like we need extra symbolism at this point. The text ate the subtext alive years ago.)
I do not know what the etiquette of such things is, so I hope it is not considered rude to acknowledge it, but I have been informed that a piece of my fiction is in the Yuletide 2020 tagset and I am delighted.
(No love to the three separate men we met without masks who under no circumstances would give way or even a berth on the sidewalk to anyone else, because their complacency is worth more to them than the comfort, health, or survival of strangers. They were effectively symbolic, but it's not like we need extra symbolism at this point. The text ate the subtext alive years ago.)
I do not know what the etiquette of such things is, so I hope it is not considered rude to acknowledge it, but I have been informed that a piece of my fiction is in the Yuletide 2020 tagset and I am delighted.
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Godspeed!
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"a piece of my fiction is in the Yuletide 2020 tagset"
In fact, I know of one author who cut a few scenes from a novel manuscript and posted them to AO3 as official fan-fiction by the canon author, as in "Here, these didn't fit the finished story, but they're entertaining in themselves. Enjoy my orphaned darlings!"
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Thank you! Periodically I run into discourse suggesting it is inappropriate for creators to interact with fanwork at all, which strikes me as bananapants considering how often these categories overlap, but I didn't want to infringe a less bananapants version of some kind of rule of politely non-commenting coexistence.
In fact, I know of one author who cut a few scenes from a novel manuscript and posted them to AO3 as official fan-fiction by the canon author, as in "Here, these didn't fit the finished story, but they're entertaining in themselves. Enjoy my orphaned darlings!"
That's adorable.
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Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle did the same thing with “outtakes” from The Mote in God's Eye, disposable elements of story they really liked even so and didn't want to just toss.
Me, I like when doorstop fantasy books have further Appendices full of such material. The Lord of the Rings and Dune are two examples; we get a look at the years following the War in the one, and the history of the other -
- Including how an absent-minded professor changed history when he barged in on the startled Fremen and started nattering messianic ecology at them with totally insane (i e oblivious) courage and absolute dedication. The Fremen were torn: Iron law and common sense said the intruder must die, but if you believe in God and the Prophets, whaddya want, a map? Finally they decided to err on the side of caution and sent a consecrated assassin to do the necessary. Doctor Kynes was lecturing when the assassin appeared, hooded with ceremonial blade drawn.
Dr Kynes gave zero <bleep>s. “Remove yourself,” he said and turned away, continuing to speak of planting anchor grass on the lee side of dunes, &c. What passed through his mind will never be known, but the assassin turned about, took three steps and fell on his knife, thus “removing himself.”
Well that did it. After that, Dr Kynes had only to say, “Go there,” and entire tribes marched…
Fun stuff.
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thanate’s comment about her father speaking of Jack Benny to someone who’d never heard the name, shows how unlikely is familiarity with the Appendices of a book contemporary with Beatles ’65.
I’m happy to be wrong, believe me!
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(and yay for your work being in Yuletide!)
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Thank you! And good luck with yours, which I hope is less apocalyptic.
(and yay for your work being in Yuletide!)
(Thank you! It was truly not a thing I expected to happen.)
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Understood! Ours arrived in the mail on Thursday, we spent yesterday celebrating my birthday, today we got the ballots out the door. We didn't want to be anywhere near the vicinity of the wire, much less down to it.
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You voted! Have a corn cookie.
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I wrote this one for you! It might just be formally classified as collaboration!
You voted! Have a corn cookie.
Thank you! I am ordering ice cream as we speak. Also because we just cleaned the bathroom.
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2 a.m. ice cream is very often the best ice cream.
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Congratulations!
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Thank you!
I don't think anyone is coming for your Due South icon, unless you mean that you no longer feel comfortable using it.
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I don't know for certain that it will generate fic! It may just be something that someone requested! But I'm still really honored.
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Looking forward to some fabulous fic.
Nine
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Doing my best!
Looking forward to some fabulous fic.
I would continue to be delighted.
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Congrats on getting into the Yuletide tagset! Your work is generative; that is recognition indeed.
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For convenience's sake, I hope your ballot arrives before then, but good luck either way!
Congrats on getting into the Yuletide tagset! Your work is generative; that is recognition indeed.
Thank you! It does feel a bit like making a longlist, whether or not it turns into a win.
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By the bye - and there is a vague connection here, if you squint - have you ever heard of British barrister John Mortimer's stories of "Rumpole of the Bailey"? I ask because you are literally the only person I know beyond my brother with a non-zero chance of saying, “Yes.”
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If you met my parents, you would have two more people with a non-zero chance, although my mother and I are more book-oriented and to my father I suspect Rumpole will always look like Leo McKern.
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Well, but your father is right! What I never knew until recently is that unlike any other example you can think of, the cart came before the horse here: The stories are worked up from his TV scripts, not t’ other way ’round! Of course the written word carries more detail and backstory, so the result is the same either way.
And it’s the stories I was thinking of.
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That happened with at least one story by Angela Carter! "The Lady of the House of Love" started life as the radio play "Vampirella." I am confident I've also seen some films which existed at least simultaneously with their written source material, but I'm not being able to remember them at the moment.
And it’s the stories I was thinking of.
I've still never seen any of the show. The books were in the house, so I grew up reading them.
The Road Not Taken
With me it was the reverse, as with most people if you think on it. My Rumpole Omnibus is stashed in a box somewhere now, so I don’t have story titles handy, but I became aware as I read them of what I’d never seen on telly: Just how sad that man’s life was. He sacrificed happiness for a political maneuver, turning away from the lovely and charming daughter of his Latin professor to marry someone who was neither, but her father was Head of Chambers, and this was a shrewd move, he thought… But he was wrong, and their underheated and tacky apartment was never a home - he lived at Pomeroy’s Wine Bar, spent his time there, had friends there… Only when he had to, did he go to the joyless, loveless world of She Who &c. As it happened someone else, already a QC, was made Head of Chambers - making the sacrifice of his whole life futile.
Meanwhile there was another woman whom he had loved - but she chose a RAF fighter pilot, whose life then stopped at war’s end, who spent the years thereafter endlessly reliving and trying to recreate the only time in his life that was worth a damn - their pub was a throwback to wartime, music and decor &c.… She drank brandy every day and tried not to think. That, too, was just sad.
(I’ve seen the like: As late as 1990 there were still bars in South Carolina dedicated to the early ’60s Southern beach scene, Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head, Foley’s Island, &c., where gerry boomers who should have known better still dressed up as they had and staggered around to the same music, like never-ending middle-aged high school reunions. It was pathetic.)
That was all: As I said, you’re the only one who has any knowledge of my subject, here.
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> simultaneously with their written source material
2001: A Space Odyssey, for one.
(Arthur Clarke depicted Dr Floyd sitting aboard a Space Shuttle, surfing the Internet and pulling up news sites on his laptop while waiting to launch… in a book written in 1964. I am NOT kidding.)
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(I'm always torn about publicly acknowledging, because on the one hand it's so delightful and I want to express my delight, and on the other hand I don't want to make anyone nervous and I know some people would prefer to pretend that the spheres are completely separate.)
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Thank you!
(I'm always torn about publicly acknowledging, because on the one hand it's so delightful and I want to express my delight, and on the other hand I don't want to make anyone nervous and I know some people would prefer to pretend that the spheres are completely separate.)
(The latter is the part I find bananapants because I know so many people who write in both—including, however sporadically, me!—but I agree that I don't want to make people nervous; that seems against the point.)
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Congrats on the Yuletide thing, that is very awesome!
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Mazel tov! Also, seriously.
Congrats on the Yuletide thing, that is very awesome!
Thank you!
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I think being delighted is always good etiquette in this kind of thing!! <3
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Oh, good! Because I still am.
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I have a real psychological issue with the things that brings me close to panic every time, but I still do it, because other people.
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I've seen older and middle-aged men, but it is most often men, and it is maddening.
I have a real psychological issue with the things that brings me close to panic every time, but I still do it, because other people.
You have compassion and you believe that societies are more than individual people. Shock. Horror.
I miss the fistfights.
“Vote early, vote often!”
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That is delightful!
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And unexpected!