(no subject)

Okay, so I ended up not getting too much done yesterday thanks to recovering from the headache and then just being generally exhausted, I think. I will be glad when the panels are over, and I'm slightly annoyed with both myself and the track organizers, track organizers because learning which panels you're on three weeks before you're on them? Or am I the only one who prepares/over prepares? Myself because I should have actually started prepping the moment I signed up rather than when I knew what was going on, and I didn't, and lost at least a month's time.

So, the Hugos happened, and a lot of deserving people won, which makes me happy, and a lot of really terrible writers who were suffering a massive case of the bitters lost, which makes me content? because as far as I can tell every goddamn one of the Puppies entries was made of shit. Not even kidding. I read the stuff in the ballot packet, because even if they are assholes I wanted to at least be fair to everyone, and I was actually really surprised how bad they were. Which disproves their point, almost, and it's not as though white men aren't represented in spec-fic fandom. A lot. Often. Still. Their white straight male persecution is a fantasy they make up to cover for the fact that they're bad writers who get no awards because, well, they'd rather stump for their political causes than work on their writing I guess? I don't know. They are terrible writers. John C Wright's stories were, in total, something I might have written in high school with different self-indulgent focus.

Anyway. Yeah, that happened. I am a little sad about some of the editors in those categories, I don't remember my ballot specifically but I remember No Award was second or third down in favor of a couple editors I liked. I'm definitely sad about all the people who got bumped from the ballet who wrote genuinely good things, but were knocked off by the Puppies' slate frenzy. Hopefully their stuff gets publicized by Tobias Buckell's What the Hugos Would Have Looked Like post and they get the attention their work deserves.

(Suddenly now I'm terrorizing the braintwin about what happens if Murderboarding gets nominated for Fan Writer or whatever, and I'm almost tempted to petition for it. If only because it'd be hilarious in the most terrifying of ways. It's only funny as long as I don't think about it seriously.)

I'm actually getting things done on my list pretty reasonably quickly. It's a little startling. The only thing I'm not getting done yet is blogging, which, I can try to get through at least six episodes today, I think? Later? During and after dinner. That leaves me with a fair amount of time to do things that are not that. And if I aim for six and get less than that done, that's fine too. But I think I should be able to manage.

( Rotating To-Do List )

Arrow:
The Flash: