Yuletide, Politics and Doggos

[donutsweeper]

Welp, with the newest bit of canon my Yuletide fic has been Jossed. *sigh* Tis the danger of finishing it early, I suppose. I am having such a hard time finding prompts to treat though, so many canons I don't know or prompts I couldn't hope to fill.

Reading the election returns has been interesting, it's nice to see that in a lot of places there were record highs for odd year voting (the even years are always highest- President and Congress are voted for then but odd years are weird and sometimes there's nothing to vote for at all or only really minor things like dog catcher or minor committees although sometimes it's mayors or governors type positions). There has been SUCH good news coming out though. The guy who wrote Virginia's bathroom bill seems to have been handily unseated after 13 terms by Danica Roem, the first openly transgender person elected to a state legislature in the US. Several states switched from Rep to Dem governors as well. With luck, this will continue and 2018 will have high voter turnout and big changes. We can only hope.

Where I am the most hotly contested race was not the mayoral one, oddly enough, but rather the park board. IDEK.

If you need a pick-me-up go visit this UPS Dogs facebook page which is just a million pictures of UPS drivers and all the dogs (and sometimes cats, etc) who greet them as they go about their day. So cute.

Comments

[rosefox]

There's never any shame in "This fic takes place between book/episode N and book/episode Q" author notes. I've written fic that way for canons I haven't finished watching or reading and it's worked out just fine.

[donutsweeper]

Oh yeah, it's not a problem, it's just kind of frustrating. I already added in an author's note saying it was written before X but I might change it to say it's set between events.. hmm I shall think on it.

[jadesfire]

Gah! I hate it when canon does that. I won't get mine done until after NaNo, but am already leafing through the prompts spreadsheet - it's like being at an overwhelming buffet and not sure what to eat :D

I saw the UPS dogs post doing the rounds on Twitter, but didn't know there was a Facebook page! Wonderful! *adds*

[donutsweeper]

Have you checked out the yuletide prompts app thing? It's really great for if you think you might want to come back to a specific prompt or even the entire fandom in general because it'll remember what you've bookmarked so you can just quickly get to what you need later: https://tagset2017.firebaseapp.com/

[jadesfire]

Oh gosh yes. I lost about an hour of my afternoon to that when it was published! It's annoying because I move between devices, so I'm C&Ping the ones that appeal when I'm on a real computer and have time.

Not that I'm looking at the moment. Of course. I have my NaNo story. And my actual assignment.

*cough*

Maybe just 5 minutes...

[donutsweeper]

Right.. I believe you.. not looking. Not looking at ALL.