#Nullus Anxietas

[oracle-of-moon]

IT'S ALIVE! \o/

Here's the art I had the pleasure to develop for Nullus Anxietas, the 9th Australian Discworld Convention! \o/

Some of you may remember that Igor design I posted a while ago? Very well, it was part of this bigger project that I'm happy to show today. (I just made the art. Text was later added by the event staff)

It was a great pleasure to participate and to be present at it in some way. I wish those who attend a really NICE event!

[karen-carlisle-off-the-artboard]

Nullus Anxietas 9 - Australian Discworld Convention Announcement

https://karenjcarlisle.com/2024/03/30/nullus-anxietas-9-australian-discworld-convention-announcement/

I’m a long-time attendee of our Aussie Discworld Conventions. They’re held every two years and alternate between Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney. 2024 is Adelaide’s turn. I booked as soon as tickets became available.

I came to Discworld by a different route than my Dearheart. He’d always loved the books, and we have all of them on our shelves. I first came to them via a chance meeting with Sir Terry at the 1999 World Con (Science Fiction) in Melbourne. We attended the event as part of our honeymoon.

Since then, I’ve learnt more about Sir Terry’s work and his ‘quirky omniscient narrator’ style via writing courses, after which I read some of his books. (Death is my favourite character. Writing his dialogue in ALL CAPS is genius at directing my internal narrator.)

I met Sir Terry again in Sydney 2011, at the last Australian Discworld Con he attended. To my shock, I’d won the ‘raffle’ for those booking early attendence, and got to sit with him at the gala dinner. What a conversation! He was an insightful and intelligent man, and I’m honoured to have met him personally – not once, but twice. So I suppose you could say I became a fan of the author and his writing before his Discworld characters.

I’ve been invited to be a Guest Author! So I was a bit surprised (and totally excited) to be asked to be one of this year’s guest authors for Nullus Anxietas 9. (Squee!) We’re still working out the details, but I thought I’ll tell all my patrons first! I’m definitely a judge for the Masquerade. It looks like I’m also doing an author talk (or workshop)- mostly likely on world building, aimed for those who write stories or create roleplaying worlds. I’ll be on an author panel (I’m just a tad excited about who may also be on the panel – shh… spoilers) and possibly hosting a Klatch (I’m more comfortable in smaller groups). I also hope to have my books available to purchase. If you’re a Pratchett fan, you can book your ticket HERE.

Patron Celebration Treat

To celebrate, I’m also inviting top-tier patrons (Adventurer Extraordinaires and Time Travellers) who are in Adelaide over/around 12-14th July to join me for lunch or dinner; my treat.

[thatonceandfutureprat]

“Rincewind (the Discworld's most inept wizard) has got himself into serious trouble this time. Not only must he face and flee the usual assortment of death-traps and dangers - but now he also has to deal with unwittingly breaking through the very fabric of time and space. Again.

Run Rincewind Run! was originally shot for Nullus Anxietas (the 2007 Australian Discworld Convention), and was utilised as part of the opening ceremony.”

in honour of Troll Bridge getting submitted to various film festivals worldwide after a whopping 15 years of production! Snowgum films also made Run Rincewind Run. 

[sator-the-wanderer]

I wonder if you´ve seen that Run Rincewind run short movie made for the Australian Discworld convention - and if you did, what did you think about Rincewind? :D

I watched the Nullus Anxietas (No Worries!) video and I’m in love with that Rincewind! The video is funny and at least Rincewind’s age is the correct one (for me) and not like in the other adaptation where he was an actual grandpa.

I heard the Snowgum Film is working on another short movie about the story “Troll Bridge” and it looks amazing!

Here’s a picture with Rincewind and the Creator:

I mean, look at them!

[eruvadhril]

I got to dance the Dark Morris at Nullus Anxietas 3, which was in April but also in Australia so it was appropriate for welcoming the winter. I still have the leg-straps with bells on; as I recall, Tania sewed them all by hand and spent hours plugging each individual bell with blu-tac to silence it.

I’m barefoot because I was wearing the corset and jeans under my actual costume. I just whipped off the robe and sandals for the purpose of performing the dance and put them back on again after we were done.

ah yes, May Day, the day I spend nostalgically listening to the old English folk songs I learned for morris dancing at the may day festival back in high school

y’know, a normal teen activity in the 2000s

[alovecraft]

I know what I want my next tattoo to be (granted, it'll be quite some time before I get one) I want Nullus Anxietas written on my arm so I can look at it when I need to be reminded: No Worries. And I'm a huge nerd so it'll crack me up when I need a chuckle.

[clarkiescrochet]

The Mail Has Moved, my new supply of dolls' eyes has arrived, and now Mr Lipwig has a head.

[redartifice]

Costume number 1 this year is Moist Von Lipwig! I did the hat for the last Discworld con I went to in 2012, but this year I decided to go the full ensemble. First step is making his waistcoat. Discworld fans will know he wears this suit to pretty much be centre of attention, and the fabric is certainly eyegrabbing. It's a gold brocade that's been tricky to work with (frays to nothingness easily) but I'm really pleased with the result. I learned how to make welt pockets, and they turned out pretty well. I also think I pattern matched the front pretty well. It doesn't photograph real well in my unit, hopefully once I've finished the lot I can get some shots in natural light Rather than make the pants, I decided to buy them off alixpress. They are certainly eye catching, and I don't want to imagine how they'll feel after wearing them at a con for a while, but they provide a good contrast to the waistcoat. I'm going to make a frock coat to go with it, which I'll match fabric wise to the pants as close as possible...maybe not as weirdly stretchy a material though.

[zendarenn]

Super behind in the #steotchalong after attending Nullus Anxietas VI in Adelaide and a case of tennis elbow. But today is quiet at work. #crossstitch #CarpeCoffeeMidland (at Carpe Coffee Midland)

[karen-carlisle-off-the-artboard]

What You Missed Out On Today

https://karenjcarlisle.com/2024/08/12/what-you-missed-out-on-today/

August Livechat Replay – with links (and closed captions)

LINKS MENTIONED in Livechat:

19th August – Temporal Textural Texts: A steampunk bookclub LINK: https://www.facebook.com/groups/temporaltextualtalks

Pratchat podcast episode recorded live at the event, now available at: LINK:https://pratchatpodcast.com/2024/08/08/pratchat79-unalive-from-uberwald

Uberwald Maskerade: VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/SZcuRpmvVPw

2026 Nullus Anxietas X, Sydney – https://ausdwcon.org/shop/product/supporting-membership-2026/

[eruvadhril]

Come ALIVE in Überwald!

Nullus Anxietas 9

The Australian Discworld Convention

Adelaide - 2024

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[discworldtour]

Unseen University was built out of stone -- so built out of stone that in fact there were many places where it was hard to tell where wild rock ended and domesticated stone began. It was hard to imagine what else you could build a university out of. If Rincewind had set out to list possible materials he wouldn’t have included corrugated iron sheets. In response to some sort of wizardly ancestral memory, though, the sheets around the gates had been quite expertly bent and hammered into the shape of a stone arch. Over it, burned into the thin metal, were the words: NULLUS ANXIETAS. “I shouldn’t be surprised, should I?” he said. “No worries.”

-- Nullus Anxietas | Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

[hugger-of-trees]

The amazing Martin Pearson explaining the Discworld at @naiv. With perhaps a little help from Eric Idle...

[sator-the-wanderer]

As promised, archchancellor Bill Rincewind will send his cousin a jumper that will never fit (and a package of Roo-beer).

And it seems even Scrappy wants to wish his mate a merry Hogswatch.

[fogsblue]

Run Rincewind Run! (by SnowgumFilms)