Behold the Power of the Internet...

Yesterday, I first read about Sean Tevis' bid for state representative in Kansas -- and his XKCD style story about his campaign via BoingBoing. At the time, he had about 1000 donations out of 3000 need.

Today when I check it, he had 2741 donors!

I think Kansas might be getting a new state representative real soon now...

Ficathon times two...

I signed up for another prompt at marveloustales -- "616 | Astonishing X-Men | Gen | Genderswap!", so yes, sanj, I'm going to do the 'woke up female' story. I think I even have a MacGuffin for it, if I don't get too badly jossed in the two months I have to work on it.

I've begun plotting for it, and I've found using male pronouns for the transformed character is necessary to keep him in character. I'll do a search and replace later, since I'm putting brackets around every pronoun that refers to him, but to keep his actions sounding like *him* they're needed for the moment. I don't know that any of the story is going to be from inside his head at *all*, either. So far everything I've got is from other characters. I might actually write Ororo this time round, which should be interesting. I'm not used to writing *wise* characters -- smart ones, yes, but Ororo is wise, which is different.

And I'm definitely going to write a queer-sex epilogue as a bonus, because while I will be telling a gen story that is mostly about how male privilege extends even to mutants, I kind of want to explore the sexual implications of it too.