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ArmadilloCon: Austin's convention for SFFH readers & writers!

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Austin's Annual SFF Community convention for readers & writers! More info here: www.armadillocon.org Sponsored by a nonprofit fan group (http://fact.org).

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Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 8mo ago

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

Bridget the cat infiltrates the 'Abbey Road' cover shoot and becomes THE definitive fifth Beatle.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 8mo ago

not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Inventing the Renaissance” is a history of histories of this (not so) golden age. Much of making history is simply adding new POVs to the braid as historians ask new & more diverse questions w/ each generation. I hope you’ll enjoy my effort to show the process at work! 25/25 https://buff.ly/4j6qkoS

The Vasari corridor bending around the Mannelli tower, whose tall stone edifice blocks its otherwise gentle descent. Last week my story about this building made it a celebration of resistance against conquerors, as the bend in the corridor shows the citizens of the city defying the tyrant who wanted to blast his corridor through the ancient tower that was the birthright of an old respected family, and was forced to go around, leaving this bend which has stood ever since as a symbol of resistance against the tyrant. From the inside, it's a super awkward narrow twisty space where you have to turn, and anyone with a walker or a scooter struggles to make the turns. Looks very different depending on your point of view, literally and figuratively!Bild
Jess Nevins@jessnevins.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Well, that only took a month. What began as a quick aside in an entry on the gazetteer for my Mesopotamian rpg metastasized into a 200pg, 103k words module that I'll sell as a separate product to the game. I should have finished the game first, of course.