Uh, so, about… me.
Since I got an ask about this – guys, I don’t ever look in the “nkjemisin” tag. I went away for a while but before that I was on Tumblr for years and I know how this place works (tho there have been some changes, I notice). I get that most of the folks in that tag are talking about my work, not to me. I will never interact with anyone in this tag unless they reach out to me first, so relax.
I do follow tags specific to my work, however – e.g. “great cities” or “the city we became” – in part because I love seeing fanart of my stuff (!), and because I otherwise often miss important media that happens (like say the interview I did with A Very Big-Name Magazine a few weeks back that got posted but nobody told me, sigh) and sometimes that’s the only way I can find out about it. But if that still causes anxiety… Look, y’all.
I don’t care. Like, forreal – I do not care what you’re saying about me or my work. There was a time back when I was a baby writer when I cared intensely about stuff like that, but years of racists ranting about how I’m The Doom of Science Fiction or whatever pretty much cured me of that urge a long time ago. Review away, bitch away, whatever. Even if I happen to see it, my reaction is likely to be, “Huh. Oh, hey, cat pics/something shiny!” and I guarantee I will forget about whatever I saw in about .024 seconds after that.
Now, this also covers if you’re actually trying to get my attention – tagging it with nkjemisin won’t work. You’ll need to send an ask, directly.
Re: fanart – I will always ask before I reblog it! I also get that not everybody wants the attention.
Now to go remember how to pin a post on here.
