Apr 15
I one day wanna make a space fantasy TTRPG called Bubblegum Hyperdrive, just cause I love the name.
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I one day wanna make a space fantasy TTRPG called Bubblegum Hyperdrive, just cause I love the name.
Fav music genre: songs that exist solely to tell you about Some Supernatural Shit That Went Down This One Time
Such as:
The Maiden and the Selkie, about a girl who falls in love with a seal-lord
Riding With Private Malone, about a man who buys a haunted car
Dawson's Christian, about a ghostly space ship that defeats space pirates
Elven Harper, about a spinster who gets stolen by a handsome elf
Silver Ghost, about a spooky ghost train
The Witch of the Westmorland, about a knight who seeks the help of a centaur witch
Hallow's Eve, about a healer who gains a revenant lover on Halloween
Ghost Riders in the Sky, about a cowboy who sees
Karelia's Song, about a sorceress duchess who makes her lover and her husband change bodies
The Highwayman, about a highwayman and his lover who died a violent death and still meet as ghosts
Fairies Stole My Keys, about...fairies who stole the singer's keys
For vibes reasons I have excluded proper folk ballads and their adaptations (or I would absolutely have added my beloved Tam Lin, Hind Etin, and Herr Heinerich). But if any of you know more modern songs that fit this brief, please share them so I can add them to my playlist.
I wonder how much the usage statistics for online poetry dictionaries are being skewed by folks specifically looking for anapestic five-syllable words beginning with UN- and ending with -L.
You and me baby ain't nothing but lizards, so let's do it like they do it when warp fever has hit us
The Pegasus Committee and OVFF are proud to announce the Finalists for the 2025 Pegasus Awards!
Best Filk Song
Believe - Peter Alway
Future Me - Robert Beckwith
Helium Miner's Song - Heather Preston
My Dandelion Friend - Summer Russell
One Small Boat - Marilisa Valtazanou
Best Classic Filk Song
City of Doors - Dr. Mary Crowell
Crimson & Crystal - Cynthia McQuillin
Like Their Feet Have Wings - Gwen Knighton Raftery
Merry Meet - Steve Macdonald
Storm Dancing - Tom Smith
Best Performer
Barbership
The Blibbering Humdingers
Daniel Kelly
Lauren Oxford
Via Bella
Best Writer/Composer
Eric Distad
Maja 'Thesilée' Ilisch
Daniel Kelly
Kari Maaren
Griff the Filker
Best Hero Song
Dangerous Heroes - Michael Longcor
Do As Peggy Says - Erin Bellavia, Rand Bellavia, & Adam English
Jeanne Hachette - Mary Bertke
The Ones Who Walked Away - Beth Kinderman
Sam at the Green Dragon - Summer Russell
Best Villain Song
The Dark Man - Paul Kwinn
The Evil Eyeball - Sibylle Machat
Gabriel Gray's Song - Batya Wittemberg
Hellraiser - Tom Smith
Sympathy For Mr. Morden - Jeff Bohnhoff
The online ballot is now open, and available at
Congratulations to all- it's well deserved!!
Filk portrait. The linework and coloring was done with a tone brush in CSP I’m currently working on.
Another hollanov song! This one about that first long, nerve-wracking drive from the airport to the cottage.
If you enjoy it, please reblog! I'm hoping to write many more 🫶
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