Questions and Other Things

Trying to get the house ready for guests, but here's a few things:

* I have a short story  "Compulsory: A Murderbot Story" in Wired Magazine.  https://www.wired.com/story/future-of-work-compulsory-martha-wells/  

* I've also been doing new book lists/book rec posts again on my blog: https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/tag/book+rec 

Question answers:

Nell asked What holiday/annual celebrations do the Raksura honor? We are heading into our big end of the year events, which led me to wonder whether the Raksura have any. Because they have stories and written histories, they have a connection with their past. I expect that they share more with us humans than Earth's non-humans, who seem to live only in the present. But Raksura suspicions of other colonies and highly mannered codes of conduct would seem to make 'letting it all hang out' in yearly cross-clan gatherings really difficult.

I think I answered this before, but now I can't remember what I said. And I think there's a short holiday Raksura story somewhere in the Patreon, possibly in last December. I do think they have holidays, but probably centered around things like particularly good harvests. Or a queen has had a clutch so everyone's going to celebrate today.

Part of the big difference is that Raksura don't have the "work yourself to death or starve" situation that a lot of human cultures do. They don't have set hours, they work until they get what they want/need to do done, they trade jobs/chores off a lot, and the Arbora spend a lot of time on art projects which are all personal and voluntary. So they don't have rest day type holidays because they don't particularly need them. 

Holly asked  Are all Queens named for colors? And is it related to the color they are?

No, it's just very common. And no, they don't necessarily match the color they're named for. Some are named after older queens in their bloodline.