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In other news....

This

Very VERY much understand that, and share much of it. However, you existing is something that I at least consider celebration-worthy 🫂

Interfilk needs a new slogan!
Suggest the winning slogan for the new Interfilk website and you could win $500 to go to a filk friendly event of your choice. Ties will be decided by random drawing.
Contest closes Nov 15
Submit as often as you like to slogan@interfilk.org
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Photo of Andrea Hairston, who has a fabulous smile and radiates joy!

Capricon 46 is thrilled to announce our fourth and final Guest of Honor - Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social! More info about her can be found at capricon.org/guests-of-ho...

Every drop helps fill the bucket, right? Let’s do this, #Seattle! 🥫🫶

All I want is to live in a country where this story isn’t the 80th most alarming news story of the day

This week on FilkCast
Anne McCaffrey, Tania Opland & Mike Freeman, Jim Thorne, Carol Ferraro & Barisha Letterman, Random Fractions, Linda Melnick, Bill Sutton, Meg Davis, Dan The Bard, Ju Honisch & Katy Droege-Macdonald, Jordin Kare, Puzzlebox

Tiny Adds Up: Unshittification and The Pawshank Redemption | Catherynne M. Valente Get more from Catherynne M. Valente on Patreon

I am so flabbergasted & tearful & grateful & JUST REALLY EMOTIONAL over everything that’s happened around this so-special pup since this saga started on…good god, how was it only Wednesday morning?

That it has meant as much to so many of you fills me up to the brim.

www.patreon.com/posts/142111...

I am conscious? Again???

Thud

(Home....maybe more tomorrow?)

A spelling-corrected version of my previous illustration: Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

Here is a corrected version of it. It should have any and all typos taken care of - but feel free to point out any! I want this to be squared away before I make any prints! Thanks, #JewSky for your enthusiasm!

I started fairly similarly, but once I got to my gate at the airport there were FilkFam folk waiting to catch me. And more community members wandered by. And my seatmate has the most adorable little six month old 😊 So day is looking up even before getting to OVFF. Hope yours does soon too 💙🫂

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Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

Inflammation rescue

also good way to get money; many folk aren't thrilled, but still want their 'kickoffs' so already planning to buy two
(not with my budget, but hearing lots of others plan)

Right?!

I also like s1 Peggy for the performance, and both dresses for the banquet with a slight edge to the navy

Oh that's GORGEOUS!

Happy Diwali to those celebrating!

And awaaay we go!!! Our submission window for Issue 1 will open on the 1st of December and close again on the 31st of January 🚀

Got an alien egg of a story you'd like to see in print alongside our yet to be revealed commissioned authors? And get paid for the pleasure?!?

#sciencefiction #ireland

Champagne's good folk - please boost & help as you can

Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize Juried mini-grants for emerging comic artists interested in engaging with medieval culture.

SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here:
www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

Just a note to everyone out there who covers the team in any form

You are under zero obligation to participate in the club rehabbing his image

Keep. Fucking. QUIET about attending a protest. DO NOT sign up for it. Leave your phone OFF, buy things with CASH if you need to, use PUBLIC TRANSIT. BE SMART ABOUT THIS. The last thing you want is the government hunting you down because you got caught.

Single Game Tickets On Sale Now!

Tell a friend to tell a friend... SINGLE GAME TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW! 🗣️

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This Week On FilkCast - Pegasus Show #3
We will be playing the Best Classic Filk Song and Best Filk Song nominees. You can find all of the info at this link, oh, and you can vote, especially now that you've heard them all!

www.ovff.org/pegasus/2025...

Drew Struzan, Iconic Movie Poster Artist and Favorite of Spielberg and Lucas, Dies at 78 Struzan created some of the most memorable movie posters of all time in his own signature style.

Drew Struzan, Iconic Movie Poster Artist and Favorite of Spielberg and Lucas, Dies at 78

A photo a man standing in a library in front of some book shelves and wearing dark green Dublin2029 tshirt. He is smiling and looking at a book in his hand, which is titled “Best of Ireland”. He is a tall man with long loose brown hair, glasses, and a short grey beard. He is wearing a green short-sleeved tshirt with the Dublin2029 logo. The logo shows a figure poised to step into a new world in a large D written in old celtic style script. The blue and green reflects both Dublin's and Ireland's colours. Underneath the bid logo text is blue text reading "Dublin 2029, our crossroads lit by stories and stars".

Ready for the “Best of Ireland”? This #Dublin2029 t-shirt is well-prepared to visit its homeland and we can’t wait to welcome it back. Are you already rocking one? Send us a photo - we’d love to see it! (1/2)

Looking for a perfect spooky season read? Our ebook edition of @tanyahuff.bsky.social's SUMMON THE KEEPER is now available! awfulagent.com/ebooks/summo... Come for the love triangle, stay for the talking cat.