Heather Rose Jones

This happens to me all the time! "Hey, I've got this great scene, which I'll just scribble down and add to the file later."

Now I have two versions of the great scene, often 95% identical.

Yesterday I posted a teaser about my upcoming blog series on the Best Related Work Hugo, but by pure coincidence I'm also starting an 8-part blog sequence for the Lesbian Historic Motif Project about Anne Bonny and Mary Read and the General History of the Pirates.
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Ah, I hadn't realized you were referring to yourself. I apologize if my comment made you uncomfortable.

You keep making me want to buy books that I can’t rationally justify given where my Viking novel is in the writing queue.

Is this a woman with a notable pet lizard? (I kind of flinched at the phrase because I’ve been taught to understand “lizard person” as an anti-Semitic recerence.)

It has to be Twelfth Night, because it's the one that comes closest to allowing me the alternate version with a sapphic ending.

Ah yes, who needs breaking news channels when I have Bluesky?

Honestly, it's not like there isn't precedent for nominating a "phenomenon" or "experience" in the category. Although my conclusions are that such nominations are self-limiting and don't actually disrupt the overall understanding of the category. But you have to read to the end to get there.

I've really enjoyed getting my teeth into this project (despite its lack of cosmic significance) and hope that others will enjoy reading the results. (I'll be posting links regularly as it comes out -- nothing is up yet.) 6/6

shifts and changes (both administrative and based on nominator behavior) in the types of formats and content being nominated, concluding with an examination of some of the thorny questions about eligibility and category-appropriateness that this "catch-all" award illuminates. 5/n

Starting from its origins in 1980 as Best Non-Fiction Book, through more structural changes than possibly any other Hugo category, the article will cover the administrative history of the category, the ways it has interacted with other Hugo categories in terms of content, 4/n

It will initially be released in about 16 installments both on my blog (alpennia.com) and on File 770, followed by an ebook version (that can incorporate any feedback gained along the way).
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One massive spreadsheet, dozens of historic documents, hundreds of online searches, and 60,000 words later, I'm ready to release the result into the world: The Theory of Related-ivity: A History and Analysis of the Best Related Work Hugo Category.
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Back half a year ago, with retirement making me feel bereft of my opportunities for deep data analysis, and in the wake of being a Hugo finalist in the Best Related Work category, I decided to ask the question "just what have fans considered to be a 'related work' anyway?" 1/n

Good thing I proofread before posting because autocarrot was convinced I was talking about cars.

If they’re trying to give you two on the premise that the cats will socialize with each other, make sure the cats in question actually get along! I accepted a pair of cats whose owner had died…and discovered they were, at best, utterly indifferent to each other, more often actively disliked.

#Booksky Working on getting the preorders up, but in the meantime, look at the incredible cover art by @bydhiyanah.bsky.social for @jolantru.bsky.social’s SAILING THE GOLDEN CHERSONESE! Queer pirates, Naks and magic coming your way soon!

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I spent 20 years working at a place that had a monthly ammonia-release alarm (1st Wed, noon).

This is one of the books of my heart. I will definitely be buying the audiobook despite already having ebook and hard copy.

It's the rare bovine-porcine hybrid!

Last task is to review and format the Excel files with the data (that is, the part of the data I’ll be making public) and upload them. Oh, and write alt text for all the figures and tables in the paper itself. (Though this will mostly be labels, as the content is already discussed in the text.)

Working in my garden and smiling at people when I pass them. (Two separate activities, though if I'm working in the front garden I smile at people when they pass me.)

I have reached the "asymptotically approaching doneness" stage of my current research paper. (Paper? I'd call it a book, but I'm planning on first publishing it as a blog series.)

I mean, it seems petty to pick on that one implausibility among so many, but it's rather a load-bearing implausibility.

New Lesbian Historic Motif Project blog -- finishing the cluster on pornography. (Next, we'll be doing a deep dive on pirates!)

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You see? Kids are useful for weight training!

That analysis is so totally me all over. And yet, there's nothing I could point to in my life as a cause. I had those reflexes well before kindergarten. (Later in life I started working on mitigating the reflexes, but they're still in there.)

Presumably so was Khamenei.

I haven't finished the season yet (co-watching with my BFF, so it goes slowly) but this is a plot-hole I have fully anticipated.