A gray cat on a countertop.

A tabby cat stares, hungry.

Faces of judgement. And hunger.

Now heading home to face the meowsic.

just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

Got to the event early, went up to Cindy.

Me: "I don't know if you remember me, I was an intern for you years ago."
Cindy: "You do look familiar--remind me your name?"
Me: "Will Frank--"
Cindy: "Oh yes, thank you! I remember you. What are you up to these days?"
And we had a nice chat.

😁

Surely make you lose your mind.

A good thought.

Got stuck on trains, made it to Grand Central Terminal...but I need to go straight to the event I'm going to tonight (Cindy Cohn, @eff.org outgoing director's, book tour) instead of going home first. Weep for my cats, for dinner shall be late tonight.

I can hear the meows of injustice already.

De Blasio's Aphorism.

(for Reasons, the preferred term is "finalist"--you aren't doing anything wrong by using another one though.)

This is YOUR nomination, this is YOUR honor. Until the names are called at the actual ceremony, this is YOUR imaginary Hugo. Do whatever you must to protect your joy from people who want to tear it down. And there will be plenty of them!

Okay. Let's take a moment to talk about How To Be A Hugo Nominee And Come Out Of It Happy About the Honor. I realize this is relevant to like, twelve people. I don't care, those twelve people deserve my time. (You may have seen a version of this thread before. I do it every year.)

She doesn't seem to like Hotel California or Desperado, so.

A gray cat long-loafs on a pink bedspread.

As to Fellbeasts, how's this?

In this case it's "no mortal fan can slay me, dammit, I'll never get out of this!"

Point.

One has health insurance.

The thing is, the video calls Alex "perfectly normal" which feels like slander.

And then go to them and grant them unchecked power.

You will get efficiency and a lot of retroactive grievance resolution.

Mine for mortal fen, doomed to die...

Not when they find out how much it doesn't pay.

NOT IT

Do you really want to rule fandom? Imagine the workload.

They're still part of that group. Just in a mostly-through-screens way.

Ursula...you realize that by knowing you, they are pretty much all set on that front?

Shrug. Not sure right now.

I think the concepts are pretty neat.

Oh wait.

Over on the hellsite, I think. I'll check my archives later. But yeah, that's what I remember.

Come to Worldcon, right now, says Ms. V.

Hugo, girl!

Across five prose fiction categories, there are 30 different authors shortlisted.

That means no author was shortlisted more than once for a novel, short story, novelette, novella, or series.

Awesome to note there are 10 authors who appear on the ballot in those five categories for the first time.