Somewhere Different Now

Wow, y'all. Children of Time winners have been announced, and my stories are among them! The Illyria series is runner-up for the AU category, and "Path of Needles" won for Rose Tyler. I am absolutely thrilled by this news, especially given the extraordinarily high quality of the other nominated fics. I knew people liked these stories, but this was unexpected, especially PoN's win in a category with so many brilliant fics.    I am off to go give my Oscar speech to the mirror or something like that.

Congratulations to all the winners!  I was pleased to see so many fics I adore on the list (and I'm happy that there will be another round in April to give another chance to some of the fabulous fics that didn't win this time).

I can't remember being this moved by anything having to do with the government since I was a small child. Even watching by myself on TV at home, the inauguration was powerful. Times are dark indeed, but the hope I feel is real and justified

Happy New President Day, y'all! We now have a president who understands nuance and ambiguity. We have a president who exhibits empathy and responsibility. We have a president who can give a damn good speech. We have a black president with a multiracial and international family. We have a president who is not George W. Bush.

*dance of joy*

While I'm dancing for joy, let me give an enormous thank you to the mysterious person who nominated "Path of Needles" for the CoT awards! My day was already good, but finding that notification in my inbox kicked the level of happiness up another few notches. Any more happy things and there could be spontaneous bursting into song around here. :D

I now bring you some further reassurance about the world from pundit kitchen:


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