Snowflake Day #3: the implicit lie in "if you build it, they will come"

"If you build it, they will come."

We've all heard it at some point. Many of us have given this wisdom to someone who said "there's nothing in the bit of fandom that I want to see grow!" and thought nothing of it.

As someone who's pretty much made a name for herself in fandom by writing the less-popular characters and pairings, I can tell you that while the basic premise is true, the implicit ongoing implications are a lie.

( what we've been told vs. what actually happens )

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Also for my fannish50 posts

Ukrainian Christmas and other things

Going to a Ukrainian Christmas tonight, hosted by a family friend who's lived here for decades, but has been making friends with Ukrainian refugees from the last year.

Must remember to take my sewing bag; apparently some of the refugees have been working together in a sewing group in the part of Sydney where many of them have settled.

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It's raining again, quite heavily, somewhat tiringly. It's supposed to be very wet today, then ease off tomorrow and be bright and hot and sunny on Monday. So I'm working today (or most of it) and taking Monday off at the beach. Or something. Somewhere.

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It may be cruel and mean and terrible, but I am really enjoying the memes coming out of Kevin McCarthy's inability to get himself elected speaker.

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I wonder if I'm too cold at night and that's why I'm not sleeping well enough to keep from being tired by midafternoon.