Last night I dreamed that Monsigneur Bienvenu was elected Pope, and then he started implementing huge liberal reforms in the Church, which quickly resulted in massive and ongoing assassination attempts, so he had to go on the run through the United States, and he was moving between safehouses all over the country but none of them lasted more than a few days before the bad-guys-with-guns found him again, until he ended up in a beautifully kept and super-secure townhouse in Georgetown belonging to a former-child-hacker-turned-middle-aged-CIA-security-consultant where he actually got a chance to rest and think, and also start an epic platonic love affair with his host. And on further thought, I'm pretty sure said host was supposed to be Jean Valjean even though he was never ID'd in the dream, considering his criminal history and the fact that he had a sister who was constantly coming around asking for money, and he'd more-or-less adopted the pretty single mother and her eight-year-old daughter who lived next door, and there were a constant stream of other people coming through the kitchen asking for help or at least a place to rest awhile. Which was kind of a problem for someone who needed a top-secret safehouse, so he had to move on again, but then the dishy-and-snarky U.S. Marshal who was organizing the safehouses (presumably Javert??) figured out a way to let him come back without being in danger, but I woke up before I figured out how he did it.

For the record, I deeply approve of silver fox cypherpunk Valjean. You can ship him with the Marshal instead of Bienvenu if you want. :P And also, I need to stop listening to the news on NPR right before bed.

ANYWAY.

I am shortly going to spam you all under lock. Because I have written a thing. That is, I have written a "Guide To Tagging Your Stuff on AO3".

But it kind of got out of hand? So it's now split into three posts + a review exercise. And I figured given that it's become over-elaborate, and the tendency of AO3-related things to generate wild fancies, and the taggingness of tags, I'd post under lock and let you guys pick it apart first, and then after a week or two decide whether to unlock it & link it on Tumblr, or not.

If you're in my circle but I don't grant you access, and you'd like to be a first-reader on this, let me know and I'll add you to access.

(PS: I blame this on the fact that I have been reading Why's Poignant Guide To Ruby. That book has done nothing to disabuse me of the idea that people who think Ruby is the best of all programming languages are more than slightly off-kilter to consensus reality.)