kalloway @kalloway@fedibird.com

hello fedi folk!

i have a plan.

i miss festivals. due to my health, covid, lack of money, and my location, i've been festival deprived for years, and i imagine that at least some of you feel the same way.

that's why i have made the eminently sensible decision to embark on a nebulous path to bring the kindling festival to life.🔥

it will be an entirely online festival, free to attend or on a sliding scale if we can't manage free. we'll have music and performances, craft demos (with advance lists of materials, so you can prepare and join in), cooking demos (same), recipes, workshops, talks, and whatever else we can think of. we'll also a have a curated showcase of artists and craftsfolk.

at the moment, i'm aiming for sometime in 2025.

and i need help! whether you want to participate, support us, or attend, please head over to our (newly created) discord server — kindling festival — to find out more.

(not that there's much to find out yet, but we'll get there. a website is currently under construction!)

thank you, please boost if you'd like to, maybe see you soon!

Mom sent me an Emmy pic to cheer me up, so I thought I’d share with my fedi friends for #caturday! Little sunbeam baby!

#cats #catsofmastodon

This story is WILD, and frankly kind of shocking.

(On a side note, this is the first time I can recall ever seeing actual deep journalism from IGN)

https://www.ign.com/articles/a-prominent-accessibility-advocate-worked-with-studios-and-inspired-change-but-she-never-actually-existed

#disability #accessibility #gaming

Aughost • Mild
#Aughost #ghost #coffee #cute

I’m hosting a Tokusatsu Ficathon over on my Dreamwidth Journal!

It’s welcome to all tokusatsu series and films. From Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Power Rangers, Ultraman, Kaiju, and even the most obscure Showa-Era toku out there you can think of.

This round will run from August 22nd to October 31st. There will be more rounds in the future too, more details to come on that when the time arrives.

Anon comments are on, so you aren’t required to have a DW account to prompt or fill. (Just note IP addresses are logged.) This event is 18+ only since it welcomes all ratings, so please only take part if you’re 18+.

More details on how this event works are over here: https://www.dreamwidth.org/captcha?returnto=https://linky.dreamwidth.org/172883.html

#Tokusatsu #KamenRider #SuperSentai #Ficathon #FandomEvent

@justafrog

hello internet!! i have a jewelry shop!! i specialize in fused glass and have been spending more time lately on experiments, so i have some stranger pieces available now. i also have some nice new stripey pendants. https://nora.jewelry/password

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/759418089037332480
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

Idk how many people on this instance are furries, but just in case passing along the info: #FurAffinity has been compromised, do not log in or even open the website until further notice. The only reliable source of information right now is their official discord server. Boosted a bunch of things about this if you wanna read more.

Probably relevant life and body positivity tip from a sewist, pattern drafter and seamstress:
The clothes are the problem. Please try to remember that you are not the wrong shape, size or dimensions. If the shirt doesn't button closed the shirt is too narrow, you're not too wide. If the dress sags at the back it's the dress pattern, not your ass. Absolutely nobody makes clothes that are Actually Your Size unless you custom order or make them yourself. Even then fitting is a skill and an art!

You're not the problem, the clothes are.

OK, looks like Philippine English already solved the “gender-neutral alternative to ‘sir’ and ‘madam’” problem

Supermoon Beyond the Temple of Poseidon

Image Credit: Alexandros Maragos

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240820.html #APOD

Dalit, Bahujan and Adivasi writers are INCREDIBLY underrepresented in English publishing, especially in science fiction / fantasy / weird fiction. Help us switch that up a little!

Back THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF (2 days left!)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blaft/anti-caste-speculative-fiction-by-blaft-publications

We don't have hard peer-reviewed data to back up these graphs. But if you know something about caste and Indian surnames, and if you thumb through a few Indian anthologies or catalogs from the average publisher, we think you'll find they're pretty accurate.

Romancing SaGa -Minstrel Song- Remastered Game Gets International Version Physically/Digitally

🔗 https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-08-19/romancing-saga-minstrel-song-remastered-game-gets-international-version-physically-digitally/.214497