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I set this story in cities around the world, many of which weren't in the USA, but which I'd travelled to: Bali, HCMC, Hong Kong, Mildura. There'll be sections of it in Italian cities where a young man with charm and charisma and the luck of the devil tries his wiles on a young woman who has no resistance - except the resistance to all gifts of Fae.
The character is American; she'll go 'home' at various points of the story - returning to visit her family, to protect them, to grieve with them, and finally to be healed among them. Not that the story is about that.
Currently I'm writing a scene that starts in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), and goes into a space which shouldn't exist.
I am actually getting a bit of creativity flowing again. Don't know how long it will last.
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I am encouraged by one or two influential people in the community pointing out that we cannot afford a leader of Australia who thinks that what is happening in America is acceptable, or a pattern that we should follow.
That said, I don't know how many people will believe it and/or vote otherwise.
But I don't need to work towards it everywhere, I just need to persuade my electorate. This might be easy, or it might be difficult. Mostly, it's persuading people that choosing something different might entail something better.
I don't know whether pointing out that, on paper, I tick all the boxes "a DEI Hire" will actually make any of them think about what Mister Potatohead says. It might. But a lot of them are perhaps just as likely to say "oh, but you're just being dramatic".
As awful as it is, what is happening in the USA might very well be something we can use to point out "well, it's not 'just drama' over there: it's actual, real people losing their jobs, their livelihoods, being 'cancelled' - ordinary people, who had the bad luck to work for the government or be born with the wrong colour skin or the wrong set of genitals.
But it seems pretty clear we're going to need more political players who aren't going to presume that Things Have To Be The Way They Have Been. Because billionaires are upending the board entirely, but the major centrist parties still seem to behave like they're playing chess.
I do think we need a few more Luigis. People whose politics matter less than their effect on politics.
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WFH today, because there's industrial strikes for transport workers, and I just didn't want to even try. So I have asked forgiveness rather than permission. Also: it turns out I do have access to some of the systems that I need for my work, so WFH is not an issue.
I could do two or three days in the office, but it would be nice to be home some days.
Do I go to the gym and run for a bit? Hockey starts up pretty shortly and I have done almost no prep this year.
The character is American; she'll go 'home' at various points of the story - returning to visit her family, to protect them, to grieve with them, and finally to be healed among them. Not that the story is about that.
Currently I'm writing a scene that starts in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), and goes into a space which shouldn't exist.
I am actually getting a bit of creativity flowing again. Don't know how long it will last.
--
I am encouraged by one or two influential people in the community pointing out that we cannot afford a leader of Australia who thinks that what is happening in America is acceptable, or a pattern that we should follow.
That said, I don't know how many people will believe it and/or vote otherwise.
But I don't need to work towards it everywhere, I just need to persuade my electorate. This might be easy, or it might be difficult. Mostly, it's persuading people that choosing something different might entail something better.
I don't know whether pointing out that, on paper, I tick all the boxes "a DEI Hire" will actually make any of them think about what Mister Potatohead says. It might. But a lot of them are perhaps just as likely to say "oh, but you're just being dramatic".
As awful as it is, what is happening in the USA might very well be something we can use to point out "well, it's not 'just drama' over there: it's actual, real people losing their jobs, their livelihoods, being 'cancelled' - ordinary people, who had the bad luck to work for the government or be born with the wrong colour skin or the wrong set of genitals.
But it seems pretty clear we're going to need more political players who aren't going to presume that Things Have To Be The Way They Have Been. Because billionaires are upending the board entirely, but the major centrist parties still seem to behave like they're playing chess.
I do think we need a few more Luigis. People whose politics matter less than their effect on politics.
--
WFH today, because there's industrial strikes for transport workers, and I just didn't want to even try. So I have asked forgiveness rather than permission. Also: it turns out I do have access to some of the systems that I need for my work, so WFH is not an issue.
I could do two or three days in the office, but it would be nice to be home some days.
Do I go to the gym and run for a bit? Hockey starts up pretty shortly and I have done almost no prep this year.