Filk

[avevale_intelligencer]

Just posted this to Making Light, on the subject of the cheering Hugo results

(original here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTAh7OPNC20)

(except that's not the original version, since the song was written by Billy Bragg. Thanks to Tom Whitmore on ML for pointing this out to me.)

Fall asleep with the Hugos on
Wake with an ache, that's another Worldcon
Consider how my vote was spent
And do I approve how the ballot went
I asked an old pro for advice
He told me once, then he told me twice:
"Your life is full of choices made at random!"
He smacked me hard across the head
Handed me a card which read:
"Work like you were living in the early days of a better fandom." (x2)

"Count those votes again!" I cried.
The counters said "It's cut and dried.
The Puppy slates all got ignored
And finished up below 'No Award.'*
You gave them stick, you gave them hell,
And all the votes have gone really well.
They couldn't have gone better if we'd planned 'em!"
And where the filkers laughed and sang
Loud the call to action rang:
"Work like you were living in the early days of a better fandom." (x2)

"Take this lesson to your heart,"
She said, "and honour well our art.
If we would keep the Hugos free
The greatest threat is complacency.
We must frustrate their knavish tricks
And pass the rule of four and six,
Or else an easy victory we'll hand 'em.
Next year at MidAmericon
This great task we must carry on--
Work like you were living in the early days of a better fandom. (x2)
Living in the early days,
Living in the early days,
Living in the early days of a better fandom."

*Well, except for Guardians of the Galaxy, but that's nothing to worry about, I think.