Site Selection funds not only provide the voters with WSFS memberships to the 2028 Worldcon, they provide us with funding up front to make the best possible convention for all of you two years from now. We look forward to supporting a German Worldcon bid in the future. www.lacon.org/siteselection

We’d like to take this moment to advocate for those who aren’t able to go in person to LAcon V to support this year’s Worldcon by signing up for Virtual Memberships and participating remotely, and for all LAcon V members to vote in Site Selection. scifiinc99.regfox.com/membership

We’d like to thank Nuremberg in 2028 for running alongside us in the race to win the 2028 Worldcon. And while they’ve now stepped away from the race, we’re a better bid for having had the competition.

Today is one of those days where the fact that I removed an entire kitchen bag of trash from my kid’s bedroom means I am entitled to knitting until my edible kicks in.

My AMA is LIVE! Please come and ask questions! www.reddit.com/user/terrifa...

I’m doing an AMA tomorrow! You can find me at r/Fantasy, where I will happily answer your questions about fannish knitting, cross stitch, the Brisbane bid and what it’s like to work for @seananmcguire.bsky.social!

Over the next few weeks, you'll meet some of our splendid volunteers. Today, we're starting with (Hugo-nominated!) Terri Ash - @crewgrrl.bsky.social Location: Seattle, WA, soon to be Skokie IL Role: Committee member, outreach & policy and Fiber Crafts Czar Why Brisbane: Because eclipse & Australia!

So my bestie went to our new house (we’re moving, it’s a thing) to get the internet turned on. Shenanigans ensued. www.artistwrangling.com/fannish-musi...

Further corporate nonsense. Board Chair: “all right, it’s a motion to table.” Me, simultaneously with a recorded Board Member: “no, it’s a motion to refer it to committee.” Later Board Chair: “so it’s a motion to table.” Me: “NO IT’S NOT.”

In a full pivot from Hugo joy to corporate nonsense, please enjoy the following exchange taken verbatim from a nonprofit board meeting that I am transcribing. Board Chair: “do we have a motion to approve?” Board Secretary: “we do, but I don’t remember who did it.” Me: “it’s ok, I wrote it down.”

What’s all this fuss I keep hearing about the straight of whore moose??

Congratulations again to all the Hugo, Lodestar and Astounding Award finalists! It is a special pleasure to congratulate Terri Ash, who has been nominated for Best Fan Artist. Terri Ash is a yarn artist, an artist wrangler, and the North American Agent for #Brisbanein28 @crewgrrl.bsky.social

/me emerges from announcement brain scramble Hello new followers! Wow, there sure a lot of you. I’m sure most of you showed up via @laworldcon.bsky.social’s Finalist Starter Pack. I love having y’all in my virtual living room for my knitting, fandom hot takes and assorted sarcastic quips.

Literally yesterday I screamed at the top of my lungs “I’m a Hugo finalist and I can tell everyone now!!” I will be celebrating today with sushi and kokosh (think babka, but with less structural integrity), and mango sticky rice ice cream.

Remember the melting ice cream gif? I AM A HUGO FINALIST!!!!!!

Thank you @delafina777.bsky.social for talking about Midi Health on this app. It inspired me to make an appointment. My NP sent me for a comprehensive fasting blood panel, which no one had yet ordered.

While in Puerto Vallarta, I have invented a delightful cocktail that is kosher for Passover (if you can get the correct ingredients). Passion fruit purée (the one here comes with seeds, but they aren’t compulsory), gin and soda. It is delightful both poolside and as a nightcap.

Brassey is doing this cool serialized fiction release called GLASSBLADE that is high epic fantasy thru a modern noir lens and y’all should check it out and help spread the word.

חג כשר ושמח לכולם! 🫓

In today’s other rants, I should be in Mexico right now. We missed being able to check our bags and thus missed the flight. We are rebooked tomorrow and will hopefully arrive with enough lead time before Passover starts tomorrow night. At least I have a cat on my lap and a daybed to rest on.

Dear fans of authors’ works, Telling the author all of your personal pet peeves that appear in their writing would be better written in your own personal notebook of rage. If the author has anything resembling infrastructure, they’ll never see that email because someone else will get there first.

Today is the Trans Day of Visibility. I am very glad my many beloved trans friends and companions are visible, because my eyesight is bad enough without a bunch of invisible people cluttering up my living room.

IT ME. #NoContextForYou

Quick note for those doing #Hugo nominations - I am eligible for Best Fan Artist! Here is a link to my post: www.artistwrangling.com/fannish-musi...

Inspired by @bethrevis.bsky.social’s post on Threads looking for pre-assembled Doctor Who scarf kits, I present screenshots from the late, lamented ThinkGeek’s product page for their Tom Baker scarf. The person that wrote this either was a knitter, lived with one, or loved one very dearly.

Monster has two pre-Passover spirit days this week. Yesterday was “anything but a water bottle” and today is throwback Thursday. So I gave her a highish side pony. Monster: “my hair looks ridiculous.” Me: “bold of you to assume we didn’t all look ridiculous when this was stylish.”

This particular point is very important. It goes hand in hand with “I never liked it anyway.”

Hoop skirts only.

Can someone link me to a good list of Aussie/NZ speculative fiction authors? I promise I won’t use it for nefarious @brisbanein28.bsky.social purposes…

I am a former @warren.senate.gov constituent and I am deeply disappointed in her endorsement today.

A thing Warren constituents can do to support Jews today is call her and tell her that her Platner endorsement is disgusting.

It is officially the time of year where I complain that they supposedly changed the clocks for more light, yet it is persistently dark and rainy so I got jet lag for nothing. AKA March in Seattle.

This thread made me think about the things I do know about why packaging for certain foods is different in different countries. For example, Israeli dairy products are packaged in much smaller containers than their US/European counterparts by default because people didn’t always own fridges.

I hacked my dopamine receptors tonight. My office needed serious unfucking, so I turned on someone’s @tryquinnapp.bsky.social’s Body Doubling playlist and had someone tell me that I was a good girl in a delightfuly low voice for an hour.

This year’s π Day delectations. Six round raspberry hand pies that are acceptable to all authorities, an apple crumble that is questionably appropriate, and 5 raspberry turnovers made with the leftover puff pastry and filling.

I know that for most other people Israel is solely its evil current government and monstrous right wing and I can't get people to see anything else about the place, so I would instead ask that others remember that to Jews it is more than that, even if not to you.

Rabbis of Bluesky, I have a question. If one makes apple crumble in a round dish, are they יוצא* for Pi Day? *Pronounced yo-tzey, it is Hebrew shorthand for “have properly discharged one’s obligation.”

You know you’ve been too involved in convention running when the words “no corkage waiver” gives you the screaming mimis.

Apparently I read numbers amusingly? Monster needed someone to read her handwritten data out loud so she could enter it into her spreadsheet (we are learning that we need to not add extra steps). And when I did it, it set off rounds of giggles.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the first person picked from the audience in a Cirque de Soleil show is always a plant.

None of the above, I pretty much exclusively use fountain pens now.

Science fairs are the absolute worst thing in the world for kids with ADHD still working out their support needs. I said what I said.

Also

Purim menu: rosemary & onion focaccia, sour cherry & saffron focaccia, sticky lamb hamantaschen, giant charcuterie board, big green salad, smash roasted potatoes, and balsamic bacon sprouts. Dessert of marzipan sprinkle hamantaschen and apricot hamantaschen.

Conversations with bestie: Bestie: "I'm a משלוח מנות grinch. I hate having a completely random assortment of food that I did not choose dropped on me." Me (flat deadpan): "No one could ever tell that you're autistic, babe." Bestie: bursts out laughing Me: "It was sitting right there!"

It is clearly the time of year to 3D print tessellated hexagon cookie cutters so that I can more efficiently cut hamentaschen. I aspire to have one of those fancy metal rolling pin cutters with the hexagons on, but for now I have Husband Shaped Creature print me a new one every year.

anyway, we probably need to verify literally any science that’s ever been done by a man the science where men just stole women’s notes like Watson & Crick did to Rosalind Franklin is probably legit since a woman did it

Con men play on in group connections, news at 11!

Folks, I know you think you're being complimentary when you tell an author how devastatingly hurtful their work was - you're telling them they made an impact on you! When I see that email in the inbox, I have no idea what to do with it. The author may find it genuinely hurtful, they may be amused.