You are cordially invited to the riots of the workforce

[sovay]

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.

Comments

Re: "a piece of my fiction is in the Yuletide 2020 tagset"

[sovay]

Oh, cool! I don't think (speaking as one on the fringes) that there's any problem with acknowledging. As long as you don't threaten to sue, people are happy.

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.