20180730 Canine Problem
7/31 '18
Okay, I have a canine problem.
You all know that I love dogs way more than most humans probably should. It's kinda a thing. And it's fun or even cute most of the time, but...
Well, we've all had that experience where we're traveling and we see someone that we're just sure is Soandso from Suchandsuch. Only it's not. It's just someone who resembles that person. And they look enough like that person that you immediately felt a kind of bond with them (or animosity depending on how you feel about Miss or Mr. Soandso).
Well, I recently saw a tweet by Cherie Priest about an opinion her dog was displaying with their face.
I felt an immediate bond with the dog.
From a tweet.
Because (I eventually realized) it's features are a bit of an amalgam of several dogs I've known and been fond of over the years.
Yeah. I have a problem.
https://twitter.com/JasonKirell/status/1023369512069066753
Re: cat like Ernest Borgnine - I could absolutely see that. :)
...which is a long way to say "me too".
They moved from Chattanooga, TN to Seattle, her books became popular, she was Seattle's reigning Queen of Steampunk (she didn't like that title), then they wanted to buy a house so they moved back to Chattanooga, then things changed with Aric's job again, so now they're back in Seattle.
her books became popular enough that she has to protect herself from stalkers. so she is hard to get in touch with. BUT, someone with a name very similar to hers is a Jarnsaxa Rising supporter.
I figured she got notoriety and thus less approachable, and I was not close enough to keep up a regular chat relationship with her, so it's nice to hear about them!
When we did the Indiegogo campaign, our original budget was $3K. We needed $70 to hit $1K before the campaign ended, with something like 48 hours to go. Cherie has over 20K Twitter followers. Jill got Rodney Anonymous to tweet about it. I sent Cherie an email asking her to tweet about it. I said it was because we were so close to $1K, I wouldn’t ask her otherwise, etc. I begged in as dignified a manner as I could. By then, I didn’t care about making $3K, but if we made $1K, I could pay each actor $50 (instead of the $200 each that’s the going rate for this kind of work). She said, in a very nice way, “I get asked to tweet about this kind of thing literally all the time, and I have a general policy of saying no, because if you say yes once, you have to say it for everyone, BUT, in your case, it’s a horse of a different color.”
She tweeted in support of the podcast and the campaign
AND
donated the last $70.
BOOM.
Which is to say "Probably wouldn't be as big a deal now since I'm an old bastard."