queenshulamit:

The reason I posted that sketch (apart from it being funny) is that it caused me to have a very funny-in-retrospect anxiety dream.

I was reading a thing on Rob’s Kindle because amazon would not let customers from the UK buy it, and I somehow accidentally changed the font to jokerman font. In an attempt to change the font to a more sensible one, I pressed something that said “permanent font” (figuring this was a font less silly than jokerman) but what it did was make the jokerman font permanent, and there was no way to fix it. I contacted amazon customer services and they said there was no way I could reverse this.

At this point, Rob saw what I had done, said “you ruined my kindle” and broke up with me.

(Of course, Rob has reassured me that irl iodised salt is strong enough to withstand the jokerman font.)

In response to this, out of curiosity about what it would look like, I tried putting all of Floornight in Jokerman font.  It turns out it has pretty cool-looking brackets:

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I would not vote hpmor for a hugo. I guess I don’t really see it as a good “fan work” in the truest sense—celebrating the original. I would vote floornight for a hugo tho.

EY wants HPMOR to win Best Novel, not Best Fan Writer or Best Related Work, so that wouldn’t really be a relevant consideration.  (I’m not sure what the Hugo technicalities say about fanfic getting nominated for Best Novel, but it’s at least possible enough for EY to make the request he made in the aforelinked post)

In all seriousness, I don’t really think Floornight was built to sustain the kind of attention that it would get if it won any award.  Like, I don’t think it’s bad, exactly – it turned out better than I thought it was going to – but I wrote it all with a “who cares, just get words on the page and have fun” attitude, and the idea of that getting dissected by a thousand blog posts and thinkpieces is just bizarre.

But it would be (fun / horrible / many other things) to have to explain to a big audience exactly what my relationship to the rationalists is.  And what I think of HPMOR.  Etc.

(What would be legitimately cool is if one of those giant web serials like Worm or Homestuck got nominated, and a bunch of Olde Fans felt they had to read the whole damn thing in order to judge fairly.  Really, now that I think about it, Homestuck getting nominated for a Hugo would be a fascinating spectacle and I really hope it happens)

the darkest timeline

Yudkowsky clearly really wants HPMOR to win a Hugo, and given the success of the Puppies this is seeming more plausible.

Which means there might be a (so to speak) “Rationalist Puppies” block-voting slate next year.

And, as prophecyformula mentioned a while ago, one can easily imagine Floornight ending up on such a slate.  (Finished in 2015, was liked by various rationalists, is not a fanfic unlike a lot of stuff that gets popular among rationalists and having multiple fanfics on the slate might be too much)

And now every once in a while I start thinking about this absurd, hilarious, incredibly awkward possible future and trying to imagine what would happen and how I would respond.

momothefiddler:

Ratio chastises himself for the outburst, then chastises himself for chastising himself because chastising himself doesn’t actually accomplish anything.  This starts up an infinite series which Ratio decides to treat as geometric and thus summable, the infinite pile of successively diminishing rebukes adding up to a finite sense of self-loathing about twice as intense as the one he had felt a moment ago.

i from the beginning of the piece have been telling myself not to post every ratio quote i like because i would end up posting every ratio chapter but he really is a magnificent character

:D

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