#Book of Wyrms

[bizarrobrain]

"Weatherworker" by Book of Wyrms - From "Occult New Age" (2021)

[charliejaneanders]

Just FYI… Folio Books (where you've been able to order signed copies of my books, and they ship all over the USA) is going out of business at the end of Feb. :(

I'm heartbroken.

But if you want to get a signed/personalized book by me from Folio, the last day to do so is Feb. 16.

[specialagentartemis]

tell me more about classic filk i know a few songs but never got deep into it

Heck YEAH

"Filk" is music (often but not always folk music-style, often but not always song parodies to the tune of famous pre-existing songs) about sci-fi, fantasy, and other fannish topics. Filk circles are popular events at science fiction conventions, and that's really where the genre started. The word "filk" actually arose from a typo in a convention program once, and people just rolled with it ever since!

Some of the most iconic albums in the filk world are the anthology albums "Minus Ten And Counting" (songs about space exploration and the real-life space program), "Carmen Miranda's Ghost" (songs about sci-fi space shenanigans and space ghosts), and "Finity's End: Songs of the Station Trade" (songs set in the world of CJ Cherryh's Alliance-Union novels, and my personal favorite. I've never read any of CJ Cherryh's books, but these songs paint such a vivid world.) "Space Heroes and Other Fools" is another big one, it's more hit-or-miss for me but it's iconic. Other really good and foundational ones are "Divine Intervention" by Julia Ecklar, "Avalon is Risen" by Leslie Fish, and "We Are Who We Are" by Vixy & Tony.

I lean more towards sci-fi and space than fantasy, but fantasy and paganism are huuuugely popular filk topics too.

Some of the most popular names to look into include Leslie Fish (intensely prolific, barely a fraction of her work is on any streaming or music service), Julia Ecklar (famous for her "ose," the filk-world word for sad songs - because they're "ose, more-ose, and even more-ose), Juanita Coulson, Kristoph Klover, Vic Tyler (who just recently died :( rest in peace), Duane Elms, Kathy Mar, Bob Kanefsky, Alexander James (trans, with lots of filk under his previous name as well), Vixy & Tony, and Seanan McGuire. (I like Seanan McGuire's filk music better than her books, hah.) Some other great ones include Cat Faber (most acapella), Astrisoni, The PDX Broadsides, Kari Maaren, and Sassafrass (also mostly acapella. Includes Ada Palmer). Heather Dale, Tom Lehrer, and Jonathan Coulton are kind of honorary filkers too haha.

The best place to get the ones from 80s and 90s cassettes are on the Internet Archive or Youtube; a few filkers who are more currently active have their stuff on Bandcamp.

And I'll leave you with a few of my Favorite Ever filk songs:

"Sam Jones" by CJ Cherryh and Leslie Fish

"Pushin' the Speed of Light" by Julia Ecklar and Anne Prather

"Chickasaw Mountain" by Leslie Fish

"Fire in the Sky" by Jordan Kare

"The Phoenix" by Julia Ecklar

"Freedom of the Snow" by Leslie Fish

"Burn it Down" by Vixy & Tony

"Hope Eyrie" by Leslie Fish, or this Minus Ten And Counting version

"Rocket Rider's Prayer" by Kristoph Klover, Ernie Mansfield, and Cecilia Eng

"Dawson's Christian" by Duane Elms, performed by Vic Tyler or Vixy & Tony

"Somebody Will" by Sassafrass

"Chances & Choices & Fortunes & Fates" by Astrisoni

... my tastes lean sentimental and ose but I swear there's a lot of very funny filk out there too

"Never Set the Cat on Fire" by Frank Hayes (a famous one)

"Banned From Argo" by Leslie Fish (an INFAMOUS one)

"Don't Push That Button" by Duane Elms and Larry Warner

"No More SF Cons" by Juanita Coulson

"One More Ose Song" by B. J. Willinger

everything Bob Kanefsky writes

[the-emerald-wyrm]

I’ve always been a Dragonology kid. When I was still pretty young I got my tonsils taken out and my mom’s friend got me the big Dragonology book to look through and play with while I was healing. Such a staple memory for me.

[pencildragons]

HOW DO I TELL HIM

[rainingriversofyou]

“The First Trial” - A Court Of Thorns And Roses

Artist: listening_stars_

[therealmsdarling]

❛ 𝖆𝖙 𝖉𝖗𝖎𝖋𝖙𝖒𝖆𝖗𝖐 𝖎𝖓 𝟏𝟑𝟓 𝖆𝖈, 𝖎𝖙 𝖍𝖆𝖙𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖉 𝖆 𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖉 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖜𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖜𝖞𝖗𝖒, 𝖜𝖍𝖎𝖙𝖊 𝖆𝖘 𝖆 𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖌𝖔𝖙. 𝖆𝖋𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖊 𝖆 𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖉𝖞 𝖈𝖍𝖚𝖓𝖐 𝖋𝖗𝖔𝖒 𝖞𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖌 𝖑𝖆𝖊𝖓𝖆'𝖘 𝖆𝖗𝖒, 𝖆𝖑𝖞𝖓 𝖔𝖆𝖐𝖊𝖓𝖋𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖍𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖊𝖉 𝖎𝖙 𝖙𝖔 𝖕𝖎𝖊𝖈𝖊𝖘. ❜

DRIFTMARK, 135 AC.

* ᵃʳᵗ ʳᵉᵠˢ ᵒᵖᵉⁿ. 𓊝.〃

baela showing the little one the dragon tapestries to make her calm down

𝒊 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒊 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒖𝒑𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎.

[xeneric-shrooms]

Light ancient? 👀

Possibly tomorrow ? 👀👀👀

[byrdierose]

I've got a new design on Threadless! And just in time for their Labor Day sale! $12 t-shirts and up to 40% off all other items!!!

https://byrdierose.threadless.com/collections/book-wyrm

Do you have a habit of devouring anything you read? Do you have a fiery passion for stories? Is your library card singed? You might just have a case of Book Wyrms! Feel fabulous feeding your fantastical desires with this fine fashion statement!

This design is a part of Threadless's Doodlecore challenge - you can vote for these designs here!

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[txttletale]

Thoughts on Duskmourne so far?

badass. the card literally called fomo gives me such intense secondhand embarassment that it hurts but every other card revealed has kicked ass

[bizarrobrain]

"Hollergoblin" by Book of Wyrms - From "Occult New Age" (2021)

[weheartstims]

follow up from the etienne bloons ask.. could you do a stimboard for his book wyrm skin with dragon scales and paper as well?

Book Wyrm Etienne (Bloons Tower Defense) with dragon scales and paper!

🐉|📃|🐉 📃|🐉|📃 🐉|📃|🐉

[charliejaneanders]

FLASH SALE! My writing advice book Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times By Making Up Stories is just $2.99 in all ebook formats (Kindle, Nook, Kobo, etc) for one day!

Your creativity can change the world — but it can also help protect you from the worst the world has to offer.

[randomperson1234sblog]

Caraxes ❤️‍🔥🩸🍷

Be prepared for the house of the dragon wallpapers in honour of season two coming out.

[the-emerald-wyrm]

“The Stardragons” by Bob Eggleton and John Grant

[pencildragons]

hyping myself up writing chapter 7 of glory be (codywan timetravel but sideways and back) by posting a snippet for you all :] have 500 words of cody being very autistic in his consideration of language <333 (i didnt even write him as autistic on purpose i just had a Realisation that he super super is. because i am projecting how i am autistic in my consideration of language)

“Hey, Cody,” Jon says. Cody, seated upright in his bed, turns towards her. Face white-and-gold and blank as ever, she holds one of the glowing things, a little slimmer than what he reads his holobooks on. The pain in his head is sharp and ugly, and it makes him feel sharp and ugly in places that there is no logical reason for such feelings to be. “Yes,” he acknowledges. Jon bobs her head to the side, flesh appendages flicking in brief amusement. No—they have a name. He read somewhere that they have a name. It is a thin word, fitting like a block of real-wood under the hands of his mind, tucking in beneath his chin and sitting comfortably around his glands. He knows the shape of it, the feel, but the word itself—escapes him. This makes him feel the sharp-ugly feeling in different ways, ways that are not pain. The name of them fits the same shape as cherry blossoms do—he read a holonovel about a cherry blossom gardener, and had found the idea so interesting that he borrowed an encyclopaedia all about the genus as soon as he had finished the series—but it does not reside in quite the same place. Still it evades him. (Stubbornly, the only thing that remains undeveloped is his command of speech. The alt-comm augment is difficult to use, and the amount of language it contains is overwhelming. Cody does not know where to start. And even though they are nearly healed and unburdened by bandages, his hands are clumsy and uncoordinated in a way that fills him with—an emotion. Anger, maybe. He is not certain. He is not certain. In his holobooks, hot, tense feelings are ascribed to anger. (He does not know yet if he likes ascribed. Master Vergu said it once, and it was a thin and papery word between his lips. He does not know. It is not as hideous as alright, but—it is still a disdainful word.) Cody does not feel hot and tense; instead, there is terrible pressure beneath his eyes and in the hollows beneath his cheekbones, curling down to swell resentfully in the soft pouches of the glands beneath his chin. He thinks it is anger. He does not know what else it could be.) Jon is silent in the way he has learnt means that it is his turn to speak, which means he did not hear what she said. The terrible pressure mixes with the sharp-ugliness, intensifies, takes a bitter edge. Xahx. (He thinks this word is something like fuck in his holobooks, but he has only ever heard Jon say it, and only twice at that, sharp and harsh and not meant for him to hear. Fuck is—boring, a character in a holobook would say, and he finds it a dull-round, thin-flat and shallow word, like a machine-pressed circle of metal. Xahx, punchy like the sharp, thick needle in the back of his hand that drip-feeds him analgesics, is much better.) He shifts, flicks the glowing thing containing his holobooks on and off again, bright, dark, bright, dark, and looks at Jon in a way that he hopes will convey his ignorance. The silence continues. It feels—thick. Awkward, if he was a holobook character.

(reblogs appreciated!)