Climate refugee burial plots + horse dream

First time I cried laughing the first time I tried to describe a dream to Wax the next day?

Last night I dreamed it had become really trendy to purchase burial plots in Alaska because climate change was going to make it so that was possibly the only 'safe' burial place by the time you die and people were buying them as like a vacation thing so my parents and sister and I and favorite aunt and uncle and their two daughters were taking a joint vacation (as we used to do once or twice per year when we were kids) for them to buy burial plots. ( Read more... )

popularity of the "not beta read" tag

There's always been a wide range of culture differences from fandom to fandom that could affect things like norms around betaing, WIPs, everything about headers.

But I've noticed that in a number of new (both current and not of particularly long standing) fandoms in the last couple of years it seems like the % of completed stories - even quite long ones that were not posted in multiple installments - that use a version of the "not beta read" tag specifically has spiked through the roof.

To be clear, I don't actually even mean just the prevalence of not bothering with a beta, it's just that that often used to be covered in an author's note of some kind, but putting it directly in the tags has been gaining steam. Maybe this is spurred by the popularity of the "No __ we die like men" meme a few years ago, which became extremely popular as a fandom-injoke-customizable no-beta tag. But it feels like I've also been seeing more tags that mean some variation of "not beta read" that don't include that meme.

I'm not really sure how to check my intuition, though - I mean how to gather the statistics to compare, or exactly what ones I should look at if I wanted to try to investigate it. So this could be an illusion. Anybody else got any impressions about it maybe?

(Personally, I dislike the rise in social acceptibility of posting without a beta, but if it has to happen, tagging the fic so it can at least be excluded from browsing is probably the best case scenario.)