Othercon 2025 is now over! Special thanks to everyone who attended, and to all of our volunteers. It was an amazing weekend! The server's member count peaked at 667 members, and we managed to raise $1085 USD for charity! #othercon #alterhuman

The server for Othercon 2025 is currently open and active! Come join in on the fun! Please note that the last chance to join the server will be tomorrow night. An invite link is currently listed on our website #alterhuman #othercon

Othercon's schedule for 2025 is now available! othercon.zohobackstage.com/Othercon2025... By default it is shown in EST, but can be changed near the top where it says "Date and time is shown in (UTC -05:00) America/New_York". #alterhuman #othercon

The results are in, and the winner to be this year's server mascot is the olm!

Attendees are now able to start queueing up for this year's server! Due to some new Discord features, joining is easy this year. Just head over to www.othercon.org and click "join server" towards the bottom of the page. Attendees can expect access starting August 7th #othercon #alterhuman

The 2025 mascot vote had long ended, but it ended with a tie! This poll won't be open for long (a day or two at most), so make sure to get your final vote in! forms.gle/CWxTHYhk9K7K... #othercon

We've been behind on sending out reminders this year. This led to some not knowing that forms were even open, or when they closed. To try and make up for this, all forms will remain open until the end of June. We're especially looking for people with timezones outside the US! #othercon #alterhuman

Fundraising for this year's convention has begun! gofund.me/27eefbee The goal is to raise enough to pay for the official site's webhosting this year #othercon

The 2025 mascot vote is here! This vote determines which weird and silly animal will be the server icon for the 2025 convention forms.gle/ihcRYBxRX72S... Poll closes March 30th #alterhuman

Othercon 2025 artist and panelist submission forms are open. Deadline is June 1st, 2025 for both. Artist Registration: forms.gle/VMrprcUtf1e2... Panelist Registration: forms.gle/NVrGbmj53CYx... #othercon #alterhuman

Special thanks to everyone that participated in Othercon 2024, we had a great convention this year! Our peak member count was 593 members, that's a lot, almost 40% more than last year! We were also able to raise a grand total of $605.93 USD for the charities! Congratulations gang! #alterhuman

All invites have been sent out, be sure to check your spam folders! If you registered and didn't get an invite email, please contact [email protected]!

Registration for Othercon 2024 closes soon! The form will officially close at 10pm EST (today, 8/8/2024). forms.gle/iFLn77n2UzKB... Remember: even if you previously made an account on othercon.org, you need to fill out the above form to get in! #alterhuman

If you're interested in attending Othercon this year, today is the last day to sign up! forms.gle/LG7s48sGnEeo... Invites have not been sent out yet, but it's currently being worked on! They are still estimated to go out sometime later today. #alterhuman

Voting for this year's movie lineup is now open! forms.gle/T8zhFmQPAqTz... There will be 4 winning selections.

Making a post introducing us for any newcomers! We're Othercon, a 3-day virtual convention for alterhumans (therians, otherhearted, otherkin, a loooooong list!) Registration is completely free, and open right now on our website! We're celebrating our 5th anniversary this year. #alterhuman

The schedule for Othercon 2024 is now available! othercon.zohobackstage.com/Othercon2024... #alterhuman

All acceptance emails for panelists and artists have been sent out! Please check your spam folders. If you applied and did not get an email, please reach out to [email protected]. This means you applied with an invalid email, and we could not reach you

www.othercon.org is back online, and attendee registration for 2024 is now open! Othercon is a 3-day virtual event for members of the alterhuman community. #othercon #alterhuman

Artist and panelist registration for Othercon 2024 is now open! Panelist registration: forms.gle/CKBqJ1SYa7CA... Artist registration: forms.gle/idbkFbb2oaKQ... #alterhuman (1/3)

Artist, Dealer, and Panelist applications will all open in May this year. There will also be a new type of presentation available to panelists: movie streamers! This takes the pressure of streaming off of staff so they can focus on moderating the con. Panelists will now be responsible for this.

Staff applications for Othercon 2024 are now open! forms.gle/qXuHLDnPktA1... Even if you were a staff member for previous years, please still apply through the form so we don't lose anyone's applications. The form will be closed and no longer accepting entries on May 1st. #alterhuman

19 days later and we've reached our funding goal! Once that processes, the hosting will be paid ASAP to ensure the website stays available. There's more info on the delayed staff application coming soon, along with news on the anniversary zine #alterhuman #othercon

The GoFundMe campaign is now available! www.gofundme.com/f/help-fund-... #alterhuman

The crowdfunding campaign for Othercon 2024's web hosting renewal will go up tomorrow! Things have been really busy, so we're a little behind on the first wave of announcements. Since the renewal deadline is coming up, there may be a temporary loss of service while the funding goal is being reached

The 2024 mascot vote is here! forms.gle/gzBnd6t1o8Z4... Vote for your favorite weird animal to be the server icon for Othercon 2024! #alterhuman

Othercon now has a Bluesky! Othercon is an annual virtual alterhuman convention, hosted on Discord on the 2nd weekend of August. www.othercon.org 2024 will be our 5th year running; great to be here! You can expect to see updates on this account.