I guess my first two yuletide nominations are going to be Madelyn and Liberty/Justice. But you have been unhelpful with the third. :P Thanks for keeping third place almost exactly tied since I posted that poll, it's helped me so much.

(Seriously if you didn't vote or you voted for less than three fandoms, help break the tie? I don't care if you don't know any of the other fandoms, you probably at least have vague memories of me wittering about them, and at this point I'm thinking about flipping a coin. You have until it gets too dark outside for me to rollerskate this afternoon.)



Also you know that Supernatural AU not!fic about Jess and Dean going hunting together that I posted a couple of years ago and linked to the other week? Well, kittydesade actually started writing it! She has the first few thousand words up on AO3! And it is excellent and way better than it would've been if I'd tried to do it. You should all go read. Especially people who like female SPN characters. :D

Juke Joint Jezebel by kittydesade



ETA: And, oh, fine, I keep reading this stuff, I might as well say it here, RE the OTW elections, there are three things I maybe want to add to the discussion right now:

1. The main RL non-profit that I'm involved with is in the middle of undergoing self-destruction-by-Founder's Syndrome right now. Actually, it underwent schism-by-Founder's-Syndrome about two years ago, has accomplished exactly nothing since then or in the two years before, and the schismed group is having its own problems with the people who initiated the split making it all about them already. Right now, in fact, even though I'm technically still on the "leadership committee", I have stepped back far enough that pretty much my only involvement is being one of the few people who doesn't flee from the room when the people I know who haven't gotten out yet need somebody to vent to.

And this is a group that has decades of history, does things like institute large-scale economic change and help get presidents elected, and gets grants in the millions of dollars.

The best sign of long-term health for an organization is if the people who started it step down as soon as it's established and let it run on its own. Seriously. I truly believe that the only thing that stopped the American Revolution from going the way of the French one is that Washington quit.

Even if none of this discussion had happened, even if none of these problems had come out, even if everyone was entirely satisfied with their work, I would be suggesting that people vote the founders off the board just because they are the founders. Because if the org can't function without the founders, it isn't really functioning as an org at all. And if the founders can't serve the org without leading it, then they aren't really serving the org, either.

2. Early in the election Naomi Novik kept missing major election events because she was "too busy". She is currently "too busy" to moderate comments on an elected-related journal post. Why are we supposed to think she has the time to do a good job on the board if she can't even make it to an election chat, again? (I am almost starting to think, yes, let's put her on the board, she'd probably do great work there, instead let's ban her from touching the archive code for the entire 3-year term. That might acutally do more good.)

3. OH GOD I THINK I MAY HAVE JUST OFFERED TO SERVE A TERM ON THE CHURCH COUNCIL. God help us all, especially me.


ETA2: Okay, I officially hate the way the nominations process works. I cannot think of any reason it couldn't tell you whether any of your nominations were already in the system, and then give you a chance to change them, because, in fact, if you mess up the fandom name, it does tell you which of the characters you nominated are already in the system and then give you a chance to change them! But only if you misspell the fandom name. That, for the record, is a stupid way to do things.