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This was a No.6 photoshoot that was taken with my Partner Syd (LittleRoseCosplays) at Alaska Comic Con with the help of our friend Seth. It was super cold out when we did this because it was late at night early February.
#anime#anime blog#cosplay blog#cosplay#cosplayer#no.6 anime#no.6#shion x nezumi#shion cosplay#nezumi#shion#nezumi cosplay#Alaska#Alaska comic con#photoshoot#my photos#photography#cosplay photoshoot#cosplay photography#cosplay friends#dailyanime#anime cosplay#snow#outside photography#snow photography#outside photoshoot
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Nobody cosplays in Texas…..I wonder WHY 🥵
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Tabling is very much out of my comfort zone, but I so appreciate everyone who stopped by to say hi and even took home some books! (I didn't end up bringing home any zines to add to my shop, but you can print your own at home for free with these PDFs!)
#alaska#juneau#comics camp#comic con#tabling#artists on tumblr#drawing game#librarian#travelogue#travel comic
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Headcanons: The Owl House
In no particular order:
Luz and Camila took Amity, Hunter, Gus and Willow to Comic Con dressed like characters from Cosmic Frontier. They actually got to meet the creator(s) of Cosmic Frontier, who were very bemused by Gus and Hunter asking a multitude of questions and Gus’ warning about the giraffes. Luz and Amity got to hang out with fans of The Good Witch Azura.
After the Collector installed the new portal door, Jacob Hopkins managed to get out of jail and attempted to sneak into the house. The last anyone heard from Jacob, he was trying to set up an online fundraiser to get home from Mars (when he really was sent to a place called Quinhagak, Alaska.)
Months after Belos fell, Alador and Odalia divorced. Odalia tried to revive their original arms business, but it fell flat. Amity, Edric and Emira never spoke to her again.
Masha learned the truth about Vee and the Demon Realm. In fact, they’re one of the first humans to attend Gus’ Human Student Exchange Program.
Some sketchy ex-Coven Heads (the Potions Head, Terra, & Adrian) and Kikimora attempted to take over the Boiling Isles and replace the vacancy left by Belos. This was quickly thwarted by the B.A.T.T.s C.A.T.T.s and the Hexside squad and a thorough investigation and trial took place. Unsurprisingly, Odalia was also implicated in the plot because of the subpar Abomotons that were used. The plotters and Odalia were banished from the Boiling Isles and sent to Titan Trapper Island to live out their sentence. Kikimora worked out a plea deal and that’s how she was found working with Matt Tholomule to rebuild Bonesborough.
Eda and her dad have a better relationship these days, to Gwendolyn’s delight. Dell and Gwendolyn have also doted on King and Hunter. In fact, Eda was the one who introduced Hunter to Dell after Luz mentioned that Hunter wanted to learn how to carve Palismen.
A delegation was sent to Titan Trapper Island, and Bill is no longer the leader there. Tarak was appointed as the new leader and he promised that he and his people will not to go after the last Titan (King). It also helped that The Collector was included in that delegation to seal the deal and promised to build a portal between the two islands if the Titan Trappers behaved...and changed their way of dressing and the name of their island.
Lilith unlocked her harpy form the same way Eda did: with cookies made by Hooty. However, it wasn’t as “smooth” as Eda’s transformation, but with the help from Eda, Gwendolyn, and Camila, she was able to take control of her transformations. Hooty was also temporarily banned from the kitchen. Right after she managed this, Lilith showed off her transformation in front of Flora.
Luz told Eda what Papa Titan told her, and Eda felt honored. Though Eda was a bit offended about the Titan questioning her homemade apple blood recipe.
The Therapy Coven had never been busy after the fall of Belos. Hunter and Raine in particular spent some time with them because of the shared trauma of possession by Belos.
Hunter elected to stay with Darius, though he's always welcome with the Nocedas back in the Human Realm, with the Parks, the Blights (minus Odalia), Eda, and the senior Clawthornes.
Willow introduced Hunter to her dads after Hunter finished gushing about sewing and wolves with Darius and Eberwolf.
Boscha peaked in high school.
The Bat Queen sensed that there was something about Hunter, and Hunter told her about Flapjack’s sacrifice. After that talk, Hunter also became welcome in The Bat Queen’s forest.
Luz and Amity got more “mundane, slice-of-life dates”, both in the human realm and the demon realm.
The Collector visits King from time to time, and the Hexside squad learned to relax around them and teach them about how to approach people and play other games.
There was an attempt to introduce Camila to the food in the Boiling Isles. Suffice to say, she was only able to eat griffin eggs like Luz, though she found the animals there quite fascinating.
Viney and Jerbo eventually became friends again, to Barkus’ relief. (Barkus knew they would become friends, it was a matter of when.)
Principal Bump officially retired as Principal the following year. That was not the end of his love of education because he spent the next year to reach out to Glandus and St. Epiderm about revising their curriculum and offering multiple magic tracks.
#the owl house#headcanons#luz noceda#amity blight#gus porter#willow park#hunter#edalyn clawthorne#lilith clawthorne#camila noceda#alador blight#darius deamonne#eberwolf#hieronymus bump#papa titan#the bat queen#dell clawthorne#gwendolyn clawthorne#odalia blight#edric blight#emira blight
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Are you still selling at cons?
Heck ya I do!! I've just been uhh. Real bad about posting my schedule. I'm so sorry about that ): Truth be told, my focus on my game, and new product that I should *really* post pictures of on here, take up a lot of my attention! And.... well I have a beautiful girlfriend right now that just. Gosh <3
BUT here is my schedule so far for the rest of the year!
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Tampa Bay Comic Con (July)
Ama Con (Amarillo Texas, August)
Las Cruces Comic Con (New Mexico, August)
Colorado Springs Comic Con (Colorado, August)
Saboten (Phoenix Arizona, September)
Senshi Con (Anchorage, Alaska, September)
Salt Lake Fan X (Utah, September)
Anime Banzai (Utah, October)
Con Nichiwa (Arizona, November)
LA Comic Con (California, December)
I'm on the waitlist for a few more shows, I'll try to be more proactive about posting my schedule!
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Upcoming Projects
- The Fix (Sci-fi)
as Ella
Premiering at the Chattanooga Film Festival
- Somnium (previously titled Alaska | Sci-fi Thriller)
as Dakota
Premiering at the Chattanooga Film Festival
- Silver Star (Crime Drama | Post-production)
as Franny
- Aaah! Roach! (Sci-fi | Post-production)
as Bree Johnson
- Untitled Film (Drama | Currently filming in Panama)
- Untitled Film (Pre-production | Filming in June)
- The Swallow (Horror | Pre-production | Filming in August)
as Ziggy
- Janus (Horror | Pre-production)
as Janus
- The December Cross (Drama | Pre-production)
- Unmuted | Docuseries (In Development)
Upcoming Conventions
- Des Moines Con in Iowa (May 31-June 2) | Tickets
- Madison Comic Expo in Wisconsin (Sept 14-15) | Tickets
- EpicCons in Georgia (October 20) | Tickets
Notable Previous Projects (and where to watch!)
- Greenhouse Academy (Drama | 24 episodes | 2017-2018)
as Brooke
available on Netflix
- Charlie Says (Crime Drama | 2018)
as Sharon Tate
available on Google Play, Amazon and Vudo
- The Village (Drama | 10 episodes | 2019)
as Katie Campbell
available on Prime Video
- Lady Driver (Sports Drama | 2020)
as Ellie Lansing
available on Netflix
- The Binge (Comedy | 2020)
as Lena
available on Hulu
- Monsters and Muses (Short | Thriller | 2020)
as Persephone
Grace also directed this short and can be watched here
- V for Vengeance (Action Horror | 2022)
as Scarlett
available on Paramount+, Prime Video, Vudu
- Stranger Things (Sci-fi Drama | 2022)
as Chrissy Cunningham
available on Netflix
- What Comes Around (Drama Thriller | 2022)
as Anna
available on AMC+
Social Media
Twitter
Instagram
Letterboxd
Twitch/Bluefille
In her spare time Grace streams on Twitch playing games such as Valorant, Dead by Daylight, Stardew Valley, etc. She also does chatting streams, painting streams, and more!
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Tom Welling, I hope you get to Alaska & Alaska Comic Con some day! I am once again excited to see you LIVE today, Sunday, February 04th, 2024 - 02-04-2024 - at 01PM PST for your Streamily Live Signing! If it goes through today, it's because it is already a very special day! Please save your LIVE STREAM! Love, Fatima - #TomWelling #Smallville
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Flying up north tomorrow to try and remember how to be a comics person who stands behind a table and yells excitedly about boats while selling comics about yelling excitedly about boats. Come see all us gremlin artists squinting and stammering and crawling back into the public eye like grubs from beneath a long-neglected log! It will be fun.
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🌸 If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your notifications, anonymously or not! Let's get to know the person behind the blog. 🌸 // @heygutlcss
i'm a russian minor and took 6 years of french in school. i love being able to incorporate these languages in threads, particularly with nat and astoria
i'm a cosplayer and one of my favorite memories was taking a picture with stan lee while dressed as peggy carter at emerald city comic con in seattle
i've been to 44 of the 50 states, mostly from the 3 cross-country roadtrips i've done (i'm only missing alaska, north dakota, minnesota, wisconsin, iowa, and indiana)
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the complete list of official state affirmations
arkansas: your next door neighbor is not planning on blowing up your house. he is a nice man who makes ziti and has NO interest in arson nor personal revenge.
alaska: the wolves are NOT gossiping behind your back about your truck decals. they appreciate a fine piece of machinery such as your gmc
california: you WILL be able to get your celery juice morning fix before work today. inflation has NOT risen its price to $11
delaware: the irs has NO interest in investigating you for an illegal importing business. the package at your doorstep labeled "bosnia" IS discreet and out of sight
florida: there are CERTAINLY enough parking spots available at the event you are attending. the city planners have SPECIFICALLY had this in mind when designing the map
hawaii: jimmy buffett is GUARANTEED to suffer a horrific accident in his remaining lifetime. he WILL suffer a tragic demise
illinois: your local grocery has NOT started putting eyeballs in your food. they have NO interest in doing such a thing
iowa: the makeup you got from the dollar store DOES look good and not tacky. the cheapest mascara WILL serve you well today
louisiana: the ghost of don pardo IS benign and friendly. he has NO interest in causing misfortune upon your property
maryland: you WILL one day be able to do anal. with enough lube and practice, it is a CERTAINTY and nothing to worry about
massachusetts: the position open as a 'professional accordion player' on indeed is NOT a scam. this IS the position you have been waiting for your entire life
minnesota: super mario 64 is just a video game and is in NO WAY a manifestation of your worst childhood nightmares. please get some solid rest
mississippi: you WILL impress your colleagues at the work karaoke party. "everybody knows" by leonard cohen is a SUPERB choice of song for this occasion
nevada: NOBODY knows about the time you peed yourself at comic con. it was discreet and you are the ONLY person that knows such a thing happened. and it's not even that big of a deal
new jersey: no, your mom did NOT call you on the 10 year anniversary of the night her house burnt down. she survived but passed away 4 years ago from unrelated causes.
new mexico: santa claus WILL bring you all the toys you wanted for christmas this year. you are NOT on his naughty list
new york: all the kids that bullied you for wanting to marry simon le bon from duran duran are IRRELEVANT now. you can plan your own fictional wedding with simon le bon from duran duran and there is NOTHING anyone can do to stop it
ohio: the giraffe that tried to kill you as an 8 year old is NOT the same one that just escaped the zoo. that is a different giraffe. the one that tried to kill you PERISHED 13 years ago in a boating accident
oregon: one day you WILL be able to vape your estrogen. the world's top scientists are working on it right now.
rhode island: you will NOT fall for another 'joe mama' joke. you know the rules now and your mind is as SHARP as a tack today
south dakota: this goth girl on tinder FOR SURE wants to have sexual intercourse with you. the invader zim hoodie is a GREAT choice of outfit for a first date
texas: everybody LOVED your noise show performance. the circuit bended childrens keyboard from goodwill you made did an AMAZING job
utah: all the other moms thought your casserole was DELICIOUS. they are NOT saying mean things to you behind your back because your husband made chocolate chip pancakes once. that alone does not make a man too fruity
washington: this costco is where a panic attack will NOT be had today. you WILL be able to get your bulk groceries and not cry in the store. in the car is fine enough
wisconsin: the exterminator you hired is NOT an ant in disguise. that is IMPOSSIBLE. he is also NOT a sex offender you checked the records before hiring him.
wyoming: that copy of infinite jest you have on the shelf will be FULLY read one day. you will get around to finishing it one day SOON
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Eeeee I pitched an idea to A Tribe Called Geek a couple days ago and they already got back to me inviting me to be a freelance writer with them!
I got to meet one of the founders, Johnnie Jae at the first Indigenous Comic Con in 2016 and idk I'm just so stoked at getting to work with them 😭 My undergrad independent study was on indigenous representation in video games (I even got grant money for it) and that's what I pitched.
I also was finally able to enroll with my tribes corporation (Alaska Natives do it very differently than the lower 48) and have new opportunities for further education, scholarships and whatnot 🥹
#ndn tumblr#ndn country#ndn#ndn tag#alaska native#a tribe called geek#johnnie jae#the brown ball of fury#indigenous representation
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Holidays 3.30
Holidays
Benediction de Los Animales (Blessing of the Animals; Mexico)
Check For Change In Every Coin Return You Pass Day
Demilitarization Day of Åland (Finland)
Festival of Reality Fabrication
Golf Course Day
Grass Is Always Browner on the Other Side of the Fence Day
Hairy Bitter Cress Day
"I Am In Control" Day
International Laundry Folding Day
Jeopardy Day
Land Day (Palestine)
Limited Liability Day
National Badminton Day [also 3.22]
National Becca Day
National Dining Car Day
National Doctors’ Day
National Fitness Recovery Day
National Julia Day
National Pencil Day
National Victoria Day
National Virtual Vacation Day
National Wendy Day
Newman Day (a.k.a. Newman's Day, 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.) [Kenyon College] (also 4.24 & Friday nearest 1.26)
School Day of Non-Violence and Peace (Spain)
Semana Santa begins (until 4.1; Nicaragua)
Shab e-Barat (Night of Records; Bangladesh)
Sicilian Vespers Day
Smoking Ban Day (NYC; 2003)
Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
Take A Walk In the Park Day
Torrents Day
Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day
World Bipolar Day
World Marbles Day
World Own Nothing Day
World Perspective Day
World TB-303 Appreciation Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Hot Chicken Day
National Hot Dog Day [also 3rd Wednesday of July & 9.10]
Turkey Neck Soup Day
World Idli Day (India; UK)
5th & Last Saturday in March
Brothers’ and Sisters’ Day [Last Saturday]
Earth Hour (turn off your lights for 1 hour @8:30 pm local time) [Last Saturday]
Global Sisterhood Day [Last Saturday]
Start That Book [Last Saturday]
Support Women Artists Now Day [Last Saturday]
World Day for the End of Fishing [Last Saturday]
Weekly Holidays beginning March 30 (Last Week)
NanoDays (Last Weekend in March - 1st Weekend in April) [thru 4.7]
Independence & Related Days
Alaska sold to the U.S. (by Russia; 1867)
15th Amendment Day (Effective; 1870)
Texas (Re-Admitted to the Union; 1870)
New Year’s Days
Iranian New Year [Continues 13 Days with bonfires, eggs & mirrors]
Festivals Beginning March 30, 2024
Brew Woo (Worcester, Massachusetts)
Edinburgh International Science Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland) [thru 4.14]
Elberta German Sausage Festival (Elberta, Alabama)
Great American Barbecue & Beer Festival (Chandler, Arizona)
Helen Trout Tournament (Helen, Georgia)
UniCon, a.k.a. Baltic Comic Con (Tallinn, Estonia) [thru 3.31]
Van Wert on Tap (Van Wert, Ohio)
Feast Days
Aequinoctium Vernum, Day 4 (Pagan)
Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (Christian; Saint)
Anna Sewell (Writerism)
Celebration of the Marriage of Inanna and Dumuzi (Mesopotamian; Day 10 of Akitu)
Dabucuri Mirtis, (Initiation Rites of the Young Men; to Jurupari, South American Guarani/Tupi God)
Dana Plato Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Day of Bau (Goddes of Healing; Mesopotamian, Sumerian)
Feast of Janus and Concordia (Ancient Rome)
Festival of Bast (Cat Goddess; Ancient Egypt)
Festival of Renenutet (Ancient Egyptian Harvest Festival)
Festival of Salus (Roman goddess of health, prosperity & public safety)
Francisco Goya (Artology)
Galen (Positivist; Saint)
John Climacus, the Scholastic (Christian; Saint)
Magha Puja Day (Buddhism)
Mamertinus of Auxerre (Christian; Saint)
Maria Restituta Kafka (Christian; Saint)
Nuin (Ash Tree; Celtic Book of Days)
Osburga (Christian; Saint & Virgin)
Pagerwesi (Festival to San Hyang Pramesti Guru, god of teachers and creator of the universe; Bali)
Paul Verlaine (Writerism)
Poke Things with a Pencil Day (Pastafarian)
Poke Things with a Stick Day (Pastafarian)
Quirinus of Neuss (Christian; Saint)
Ram Navami (Rama’s Birthday; Hinduism)
Regulus (or Rieul), Bishop of Sculls (Christian; Saint)
Sacred Union of the God and Goddess (Mesopotamia; Everyday Wicca)
Thomas Son Chasuhn, Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy (part of The Korean Martyrs)
Tola of Clonard (Christian; Saint)
Tom Sharpe (Writerism)
Vincent Van Gogh (Artology)
Zak (Muppetism)
Zozimus, Bishop of Syracuse (Christian; Saint)
Christian Liturgical Holidays
Saturday before Easter (a.k.a. ...
Black Saturday (Philippines)
Easter Saturday (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles)
Holy Saturday
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Lucky Day (Philippines) [37 of 71]
Prime Number Day: 89 [24 of 72]
Premieres
Alice in Wonderland or What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1966)
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, by E.H. Gombrich (Art Book; 1960)
Beauty Shoppe (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1936)
Beetlejuice (Film; 1988)
Bitches Brew, by Miles Davis (Album; 1970)
Blades of Glory (Film; 2007)
The Calico Dragon (Happy Harmonies Cartoon; 1935)
Candida, by George Bernard Shaw (Play; 1894)
Chariots of Fire (Film; 1981)
Everybody Wants Some! (Film; 2016)
The Eyes Have It (Disney Cartoon; 1945)
The Fairly OddParents (Animated TV Series; 2001)
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (Film; 1984)
Hippydrome Tiger (WB LT Cartoon; 1968)
I’m Mad (WB Animaniacs Cartoon; 1994)
It’s My Party, recorded by Lesley Gore (Song; 1963)
Jeopardy (TV game Show; 1964)
Justice League vs. the Fatal Five (WB Animated Film; 2019)
Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny (Novel; 1967)
The Lost City of Z (Film; 2016)
Meet the Robinsons (Animated Film; 2007)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York Art Museum; 1880)
Moon Knight (TV Series; 2022)
Old Mother Hubbard (ComiColor Cartoon; 1935)
Orphan Black (TV Series; 2013)
Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Dictionary; 1989)
Popeye for President (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1956)
Robinson Gruesome (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1959)
Romancing the Stone (Film; 1984)
Scrappily Married (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1945)
Sign o’ the Times, by Prince (Album; 1987)
Sinfonia da Requiem, by Benjamin Britten (Symphony; 1941)
Spitfire (Film; 1934)
Springtime for Thomas (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1946)
Spy Kids (Film; 2001)
The Story of Art, by E.H. Gombrich (History Book; 1950)
TableTop (Web Series; 2012)
Ten Pin Terrors (Heckle & Jeckle Cartoon; 1953)
Tom Thumb (Ub Iwerks ComiColor Cartoon; 1936)
Today’s Name Days
Amadeus, Dodo (Austria)
Amadeus, Bogoljub, Leonard, Zosim (Croatia)
Arnošt (Czech Republic)
Quirinus (Denmark)
Pille, Sibülle (Estonia)
Usko (Finland)
Amédée (France)
Amadeus, Diemut (Germany)
Zalán (Hungary)
Amedeo (Italy)
Ilgmaris, Ilgmars, Larisa, Nanija (Latvia)
Ferdinandas, Gvidonas, Meda, Rusnė, Virmantas (Lithuania)
Holger, Olga (Norway)
Amelia, Aniela, Częstobor, Jan, Kwiryn, Kwiryna (Poland)
Ioan (Romania)
Vieroslava (Slovakia)
Juan, Zósimo (Spain)
Holger, Holmfrid (Sweden)
Adin, Adon, Adonia, Adonis, Amada, Amadea, Amadeus (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 90 of 2024; 276 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 6 of week 13 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 14 of 28]
Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 21 (Gui-Si)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)
Hebrew: 20 Adair II 5784
Islamic: 20 Ramadan 1445
J Cal: 30 Green; Lastday [30 of 30]
Julian: 17 March 2024
Moon: 74%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 6 Archimedes (4th Month) [Avicenna]
Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 5 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 12 of 92)
Week: Last Week of March
Zodiac: Aries (Day 10 of 31)
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Holidays 3.30
Holidays
Benediction de Los Animales (Blessing of the Animals; Mexico)
Check For Change In Every Coin Return You Pass Day
Demilitarization Day of Åland (Finland)
Festival of Reality Fabrication
Golf Course Day
Grass Is Always Browner on the Other Side of the Fence Day
Hairy Bitter Cress Day
"I Am In Control" Day
International Laundry Folding Day
Jeopardy Day
Land Day (Palestine)
Limited Liability Day
National Badminton Day [also 3.22]
National Becca Day
National Dining Car Day
National Doctors’ Day
National Fitness Recovery Day
National Julia Day
National Pencil Day
National Victoria Day
National Virtual Vacation Day
National Wendy Day
Newman Day (a.k.a. Newman's Day, 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.) [Kenyon College] (also 4.24 & Friday nearest 1.26)
School Day of Non-Violence and Peace (Spain)
Semana Santa begins (until 4.1; Nicaragua)
Shab e-Barat (Night of Records; Bangladesh)
Sicilian Vespers Day
Smoking Ban Day (NYC; 2003)
Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
Take A Walk In the Park Day
Torrents Day
Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day
World Bipolar Day
World Marbles Day
World Own Nothing Day
World Perspective Day
World TB-303 Appreciation Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
National Hot Chicken Day
National Hot Dog Day [also 3rd Wednesday of July & 9.10]
Turkey Neck Soup Day
World Idli Day (India; UK)
5th & Last Saturday in March
Brothers’ and Sisters’ Day [Last Saturday]
Earth Hour (turn off your lights for 1 hour @8:30 pm local time) [Last Saturday]
Global Sisterhood Day [Last Saturday]
Start That Book [Last Saturday]
Support Women Artists Now Day [Last Saturday]
World Day for the End of Fishing [Last Saturday]
Weekly Holidays beginning March 30 (Last Week)
NanoDays (Last Weekend in March - 1st Weekend in April) [thru 4.7]
Independence & Related Days
Alaska sold to the U.S. (by Russia; 1867)
15th Amendment Day (Effective; 1870)
Texas (Re-Admitted to the Union; 1870)
New Year’s Days
Iranian New Year [Continues 13 Days with bonfires, eggs & mirrors]
Festivals Beginning March 30, 2024
Brew Woo (Worcester, Massachusetts)
Edinburgh International Science Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland) [thru 4.14]
Elberta German Sausage Festival (Elberta, Alabama)
Great American Barbecue & Beer Festival (Chandler, Arizona)
Helen Trout Tournament (Helen, Georgia)
UniCon, a.k.a. Baltic Comic Con (Tallinn, Estonia) [thru 3.31]
Van Wert on Tap (Van Wert, Ohio)
Feast Days
Aequinoctium Vernum, Day 4 (Pagan)
Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (Christian; Saint)
Anna Sewell (Writerism)
Celebration of the Marriage of Inanna and Dumuzi (Mesopotamian; Day 10 of Akitu)
Dabucuri Mirtis, (Initiation Rites of the Young Men; to Jurupari, South American Guarani/Tupi God)
Dana Plato Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Day of Bau (Goddes of Healing; Mesopotamian, Sumerian)
Feast of Janus and Concordia (Ancient Rome)
Festival of Bast (Cat Goddess; Ancient Egypt)
Festival of Renenutet (Ancient Egyptian Harvest Festival)
Festival of Salus (Roman goddess of health, prosperity & public safety)
Francisco Goya (Artology)
Galen (Positivist; Saint)
John Climacus, the Scholastic (Christian; Saint)
Magha Puja Day (Buddhism)
Mamertinus of Auxerre (Christian; Saint)
Maria Restituta Kafka (Christian; Saint)
Nuin (Ash Tree; Celtic Book of Days)
Osburga (Christian; Saint & Virgin)
Pagerwesi (Festival to San Hyang Pramesti Guru, god of teachers and creator of the universe; Bali)
Paul Verlaine (Writerism)
Poke Things with a Pencil Day (Pastafarian)
Poke Things with a Stick Day (Pastafarian)
Quirinus of Neuss (Christian; Saint)
Ram Navami (Rama’s Birthday; Hinduism)
Regulus (or Rieul), Bishop of Sculls (Christian; Saint)
Sacred Union of the God and Goddess (Mesopotamia; Everyday Wicca)
Thomas Son Chasuhn, Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy (part of The Korean Martyrs)
Tola of Clonard (Christian; Saint)
Tom Sharpe (Writerism)
Vincent Van Gogh (Artology)
Zak (Muppetism)
Zozimus, Bishop of Syracuse (Christian; Saint)
Christian Liturgical Holidays
Saturday before Easter (a.k.a. ...
Black Saturday (Philippines)
Easter Saturday (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles)
Holy Saturday
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Lucky Day (Philippines) [37 of 71]
Prime Number Day: 89 [24 of 72]
Premieres
Alice in Wonderland or What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1966)
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, by E.H. Gombrich (Art Book; 1960)
Beauty Shoppe (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1936)
Beetlejuice (Film; 1988)
Bitches Brew, by Miles Davis (Album; 1970)
Blades of Glory (Film; 2007)
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Candida, by George Bernard Shaw (Play; 1894)
Chariots of Fire (Film; 1981)
Everybody Wants Some! (Film; 2016)
The Eyes Have It (Disney Cartoon; 1945)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York Art Museum; 1880)
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Romancing the Stone (Film; 1984)
Scrappily Married (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1945)
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Spitfire (Film; 1934)
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Greg Bear, Class of 1968
Greg Bear, prize-winning sci-fi author and Comic-Con co-founder, dies at 71
His books included “Blood Music” and “Darwin’s Radio,” which helped establish him as a “hard” sci-writer who created plausible tales with the help of scientists
Greg Bear, the affable San Diego native who wrote such highly acclaimed and plausible science fiction novels as “Blood Music,” “Darwin’s Radio” and “Eon” and who helped create San Diego Comic-Con, died Saturday in Seattle. He was 71.
Bear passed away “following a stroke after complications during heart surgery,” according to the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association, or SFWA. He served as the group’s president from 1988 to 1990.
The news spread quickly on social media, leading to an outpouring of tributes from colleagues in the sci-fi community, including Encinitas author David Brin who, like Bear, won many of the field’s highest writing honors.
“Greg had the gift of being able to ask really good questions,” Brin told the Union-Tribune. “Like ‘What if nanotechnology was combined with the fantastic computational power that resides in each human cell’ and ‘What if urban populations found ways to make neighborhoods into many versions of paradise?’
“He was one of those writers who learned by questioning scientists over beer and never letting go,” he said. “They would draft their first chapters, circulate them to the experts, and iterate them to create a plausible world.”
Robert Sawyer, another top sci-fi author, said in an SFWA tribute “What I loved about his work was that it freely embraced the entire scope science fiction has to offer: from the far future (Anvil of Stars), through the present day (Quantico), to cavorting with creatures we know only from the distant past (Dinosaur Summer), he took us on a grand tour of his boundless imagination.”
Bear was so highly regarded that the estate of the late Issac Asimov authorized him to write a book that would extend Asimov’s famous Foundation series of stories, which involve the fall and rebirth of an enormous interstellar universe. The book, “Foundation and Chaos,” received positive reviews when it was published in 1998.
He had a deep sense of himself and the role of sci-fi writers, saying in one widely noted remark, “We’re not prophets. We’re not here to inform the rich people of the world on how to make more money, or to inform governments on how to direct themselves.
“We are here to allow you to dream your dreams and make them happen, and have your nightmares a little in advance so you can prevent them from happening.”
Bear — known to many for his deep, hearty laugh — was born in San Diego on Aug. 20, 1951, the son of Dale F. and Wilma M. Bear. His father was in the Navy, which meant the family moved a lot. Greg Bear lived, for varying periods of time, in Japan, the Philippines, Alaska, and other parts of the U.S. by age 12. In 1964, the family permanently settled in San Diego, where Bear attended Crawford High School. He later earned a bachelor of arts degree at San Diego State University.
Bear says in his biography that he started writing at age 7 or 8, finished his first story when he was 10, began sending stories to magazines in his early teens and published his first short story when he was 15.
His early interest in sci-fi was in high gear by the time he got to high school, where Bear and others thought about creating a film version of author Ray Bradbury’s short story, “A Sound of Thunder.”
Bear co-wrote a screenplay and was so passionate about it that he handed it to Bradbury after the legendary writer spoke at San Diego Auditorium in 1967.
The film did not get made, but it led to a long friendship.
“Bradbury taught us do not give up on what you love,” Bear told interviewer Jonathan Valdez during San Diego Comic Fest in late 2012.
“Love is what you must follow,” he continued. “Ignore everyone who tells you otherwise.”
That helped him tap into a passion that came, in part, from his father.
“My dad liked scary movies, and he took me to see things like ‘King Kong,’” Bear told the Union-Tribune in 2017.
“In the Philippines, I got to see ’20 Million Miles to Earth,’ which was a Ray Harryhausen movie. It had a monster from Venus that doubled in size every day. That thing came out of my bedroom wall that night and threatened to eat me. That confirmed my love of all things science fiction. That was pretty much it for me.”
Bear developed a reputation as a “hard” sci-fi writer, someone whose musings were based on known or emerging facts, rather than entirely on imagination or whimsy. He’d run ideas by scientists.
“The best example was the ‘Darwin’s Radio’ (series of) books, where I was looking at my own crackpot theories of biology and saying to myself, ‘You know, this stuff might be correct,’” he told the Union-Tribune.
“We were coming up on a time when we were going to be finding out more stuff about the genome,” he added, “and I thought it was time to write a rabble-rousing book that knows what it’s talking about and points scientists into areas they may not have been reading much about.”
The book series is about a rapid, unexpected and scary change in human evolution. It was published in 1999, less than a year before scientists released the first draft of the human genome.
Over the years, Bear won many Hugo and Nebula awards, establishing him as one of sci-fi’s best and busiest authors. The highlights include winning the Hugo for the novellette “Blood Music” and the short story “Tangents” and the Nebula for “Tangents,” the novel “Darwin’s Radio,” and the novella “Hardfought.”
Bear also broadened the field in other ways. In 1970, he helped launch the Golden State Comic Book Convention at the U.S. Grant Hotel in San Diego. His collaborators included a long list of locals, including such people as Mike Towry, Ken Krueger, Barry Alfonso, Shel Dorf and Richard Alf.
It wasn’t entirely obvious in the moment. But they were putting together an annual event that would become San Diego Comic-Con.
“All of these folks had one thing in common — they wanted to do a celebration of the arts — the arts we loved,” Bear told Valdez. “Of comic books, of science fiction, of fantasy, of movie-making, special effects and films, illustration.
“By all of us interacting, we kind of came up with this overall scheme to put a convention together. Kind of like putting a show on in a garage ... Now, it’s more than 130,000 people showing up.
The SFWA said that Bear is survived by his wife, Astrid and their two children, Chloe and Alexandra. *Reposted article from the UT by Gary Robbins of November 11, 2022
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