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3 days!

"Village Beacon" zine submissions open!

Deadline: October 1st, 2024

The goal of Village Beacon is to celebrate the alterhuman community and comraderie, where submissions can detail the positive experiences and sense of belonging found among other alterhumans through writing or visual art.

Submission specifications are:

Written submissions can have a word count between 300 and 7k words.

Artwork must be half-page (1530 x 990px) or full-page (1530 x 1980px) in .png or .pdf format. File size must be under 10 MB

No sexually explicit content

More than one submission is allowed

Please note that we reserve the right to reject any submissions that we feel does not fit the spirit of the zine. We're predicting rejections to be unlikely, but would rather mention this than not.

Release date: The zine will be made freely available on August 9th, to celebrate Othercon's 5th anniversary.

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Reminder that there is approximately 1 month left for this!

"Village Beacon" zine submissions open!

Deadline: October 1st, 2024

The goal of Village Beacon is to celebrate the alterhuman community and comraderie, where submissions can detail the positive experiences and sense of belonging found among other alterhumans through writing or visual art.

Submission specifications are:

Written submissions can have a word count between 300 and 7k words.

Artwork must be half-page (1530 x 990px) or full-page (1530 x 1980px) in .png or .pdf format. File size must be under 10 MB

No sexually explicit content

More than one submission is allowed

Please note that we reserve the right to reject any submissions that we feel does not fit the spirit of the zine. We're predicting rejections to be unlikely, but would rather mention this than not.

Release date: The zine will be made freely available on August 9th, to celebrate Othercon's 5th anniversary.

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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!

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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 admin@othercon.org!

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Last chance to register for Othercon 2024!

If you're interested in attending and haven't registered yet, now is your chance! The form will officially close at 10pm EST (today, 8/8/2024).

Invites are being sent out in two waves this year. Wave 1 already got theirs, but the 2nd wave will get their invites after registration officially closes. If you haven't gotten an email yet, then there is a high chance you are in wave 2. You are free to send in your registration again if you're afraid of being left out though.

Also as a reminder, even if you made an account on othercon.org previously, the only way to get an invite for this year is to fill out the above form! This is due to server issues. Hopefully next year it can be synced up again

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If you're interested in attending Othercon this year, today is the last day to sign up!

Invites have also not been sent out yet, but it's currently being worked on! They are still estimated to go out sometime later today.

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I got a friend to help me, but I wanted to double-check about the discord ID portion of the form: my discord profile (when viewed by another person) says "Originally known as [name]#[4 digit number]" -- is this the ID meant on the form?

It's not, no. The registration form links the following guide on how to properly find it:

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When will invites be sent out?

Starting tomorrow! (August 8th)

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With how registration was through a Google doc, how is the attendance link going to be received and should permissions for 18+ panels still be effective if we've attended previously?

The invite link will be one sent out to everyone through email this time, and 18+ perms are still effective if you've already gotten it!

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Movie voting is up!

There will be 4 winning selections at most.

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Making a post introducing us for any newcomers!

We're Othercon, a 3-day virtual convention for alterhumans (therians, otherhearted, otherkin, soulbonders, a loooooong list!)

Registration is completely free, and open right now on our website! We're celebrating our 5th anniversary this year. Attendee registration's last day is the 8th, which is very soon, so be sure to register if you're interested in attending!

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Our schedule for 2024 is now online!

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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 admin@othercon.org. This means you applied with an invalid email, and we could not reach you

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Hello! Could it be okay to ask for your official site to be put in your bio or a pinned post so it's easily available? Thank you so much!

A new pinned post has been added!

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Welcome to Othercon's official blog!

Links:

Website: https://www.othercon.org/

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/othercon.bsky.social

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh41yfT_5gG60YdqV-iWH3A

What is Othercon?

Othercon is the first ever annual 3-day virtual convention for members of the Otherkin, Therian, and general Alterhuman/Nonhuman community.

The purpose of this convention is to provide a space where people within (and outside) of the community can come together to socialize, educate, and entertain for a fun-filled weekend!

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Attendee Registration Opens

www.othercon.org is back online, and attendee registration for 2024 is now open!

If you are an artist or panelist and haven't heard from us yet, we will try to reach out to you between today and tomorrow.

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The deadline has been pushed back to October 1st to allow more time for submissions.

"Village Beacon" zine submissions open!

Deadline: October 1st, 2024

The goal of Village Beacon is to celebrate the alterhuman community and comraderie, where submissions can detail the positive experiences and sense of belonging found among other alterhumans through writing or visual art.

Submission specifications are:

Written submissions can have a word count between 300 and 7k words.

Artwork must be half-page (1530 x 990px) or full-page (1530 x 1980px) in .png or .pdf format. File size must be under 10 MB

No sexually explicit content

More than one submission is allowed

Please note that we reserve the right to reject any submissions that we feel does not fit the spirit of the zine. We're predicting rejections to be unlikely, but would rather mention this than not.

Release date: The zine will be made freely available on August 9th, to celebrate Othercon's 5th anniversary.