Aoife

The medieval fantasy zine is now accepting entries!

We DO NOT accept submissions that contain the following:
-Middle-English speech
-knights or knighthood
-romance
-religious persecution
-kings and royalty
-humanoid "races"
-monsters
-framing devices that include historians or books
-magic

Today in “AI is a scourge”: I’m in an embroidery group on Facebook, and it feels like every day brings a new person who says “I bought this pattern on Etsy but it didn’t come with instructions and I don’t understand how they got this effect”

Celebrating our national holiday by watching questionable German comedy (Dudes on Netflix) for questionable reasons (don't ask)

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look this is actually ... real? not sure that word means anything any more but apparently yes they are doing a garlic mayonnaise branded book because of *course* they are. I don't know why I ever thought they wouldn't.

www.hellmanns.com/us/en/craven...

Nein wirklich, das Antifa-"Bekennerschreiben" bei Indymedia zu München war ein Fake eines Trittbrettfahrers? Das ist ja ein Ding!

I just reached 5 days of learning on DataCamp 💪 Building up my regular learning habit.

I just reached 5 days of learning on DataCamp 💪 assets.datacamp.com/streaks/shar...

Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.

please i am begging whoever has my voodoo doll stop making it read the news

Photo of a missing slice of cheesecake that looks like a cheesecake hull floating in a deep blue ocean. The "ocean" is actually the blueberry topping on the large cheesecake that we don't see completely.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Hermes kommt teilweise echt spät 🥲 ich hatte da auch schon Leute die um 9 bei mir geklingelt haben

Pacific rim meme with newt and Hermann looking at a blackboard. Hermann says “in the beginning the worldcon controversies were spaced apart 24 weeks. Then 12, then 6, then every 2 weeks. In 4 days we could be seeing a worldcon controversy every 8 hours until they are coming every 4 minutes. We should witness a double event within seven days.”

Ciabatta bread was invented in the 80s, while Fast Food was the standard in Rome 2000 years ago, and Egypt had Fishnet Bodycon dresses 2000 years before that.

I'm reading a poem written in the 1820s in support of homosexual love, possibly by William Beckford. On the one hand this is a remarkable read. However, in a passage about the narrator fancying a serving-boy, the poet asks "Why for a menial did my entrails warm?" and I may never write romance again.

Over on Reddit someone is asking for science fiction for their precocious young reader and the people there are suggesting books that were old when that kid's grandparents were the same age as the kid, for fuck's sake if you didn't know any SF books from this millennium maybe sit this question out

BVG schmückt U-Bahnhof am Bundestag mit Regenbogen: Protest gegen Klöckner Am Bundestag weht zum CSD keine Regenbogenflagge mehr. Die Entscheidung stößt auf Kritik. Die BVG setzt hingegen ein Statement.

Ich liebe es. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #BVG #CSD

"Die Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) haben wenige Tage vor dem CSD die U-Bahnstation am Bundestag mit der Pride-Flagge geschmückt. „Wir haben umdekoriert“, teilte die BVG auf Instagram mit."

Serienmörder sein ist das einzige männliche Hobby über das sich Frauen gerne Podcasts anhören

Target: let’s split the baby. That way both sides will be happy hahahah good plan.

Today is Saturday, March 1917th, 2020

Er trägt einen lustigen Hut?

I sure love living in interesting times

150% TARIFFS ON ALL MEETINGS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL

Mann in SS Uniform guckt fragend. Darunter Text: "Are we the baddies?"

Meanwhile in den Redaktionsstuben deutscher Talkshows:

I am so jealous of this wellness experience you are going to have

Exactly. All very cozy things.

Oh yes. I know that book and it's cheerful cozy fantasy

#GNUTerryPratchett

All my knowledge about sailing ships comes from Age of Sail novels which I'm sure are still accurate today. So I'm sure you'll have a very exciting time

Re my previous skeet, Boundless (publisher previously known as Unbound) are today soliciting for pledges via email, so if you're on their mailing list, read this before giving them your money.

I'm taking bets on the launch list

--Novel about Men via the medium of football
--Novel about a blocked male author who runs a creative writing course and has an affair with a young female student
--Novel about a middle aged man whose kids no longer talk to him but it's his ex wife's fault