My new old story "Displacement" has, I think, the fimfiction record for inspiring people to vote: over half of the people who read it gave it a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down. This appears to be the result of a war between the down-thumbers (who had an early lead) and the up-thumbers (who are currently ahead).

Obviously the thumbs-downers recoil from confronting the true emptiness of their subjectivity.

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Two days until the start of Everfree Northwest, but I leave for the Emerald City tomorrow. If any of you are going to be there and want to meet up, send me a PM and I’ll give you some contact information; I don’t have a smart phone, so the most reliable way of contacting me while I’m wandering around the convention is likely to be an actual, honest-to-god phone call.

I know, shocking.

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