#programming update

[weeklyfrogpod]

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[thedistantshoresproject]

the first programming update! here's a peek at the mc customization part.

many hours (really, many) have gone into this project behind the scenes, but the programming for the introduction and sprite transitions is done! the closet is now underway (full functionality, just extremely janky transitions haha)

[vidukon]

Programming Update

With the con just three months away, we’re preparing for a weekend jam-packed with vids, panels, activities and socialising! The full schedule will be released closer to the con, but we can now share some news about what you can expect to find in it. First of all, vidshows! Our vidshows for this year will be: 2013 Retrospective (such_heights) Antagonism (fray_adjacent) (This year's themed submission show following on from last year's Blorbo!) A Moment In The Sun (evewithanapple) Embodiment (frayadjacent) Eurovision (condnsdmlk) Festivids (findmeinthealps) How do you love? Like a fist, like a knife (nu_breed) In the spotlight (findmeinthealps) Kick Drum Beating in My Chest Again (FairestCat) Premieres (charloween) Vidders Choice (brokenmnemonic)

Look out soon for VJs calling for vid suggestions and possibly premieres. We’ll also have panels including: Anatomy of a Vid Aspects of Aspect Ratio Women Behind the Camera Year in Vidding A major update - this year we’re trying something new with the group vidding workshop! The workshop is a big part of the VidUKon experience, but our new hybrid format presents some additional challenges compared to a fully offline or fully online workshop. So this year, we’re taking the workshop back online, moving it to a pre-con challenge with a longer timeframe, and making some other changes that we hope will retain the chaotic spirit of the workshop while making both running it and participating in it a bit simpler. Watch this space for more detail soon. And finally, we’ve chosen a theme for this year’s vidder-submitted themed show! The theme is Antagonism. Whether it’s nemeses, enemies to lovers, villains or feuds, we want your vids all about hostility, rivalry, contention and opposition. More details coming soon on exactly how to submit. The deadline will be May 6. Premieres are particularly encouraged but back-catalogue vids are very welcome too. Here’s those deadlines again: May 1 - Vidder’s Choice submissions May 6 - Premieres submissions, Antagonism submissions, deadline for in-person registration May 25 - deadline for online registration if you would like a physical conbook or Premieres memory stick June 9-11 - con weekend!

[legalist217]

As promised: Hello, step behind the curtain.

I’ve been psyching up to write this for a fair bit here and it may end up saying, well, nothing.

May kicked my ass because of work.

June? I kicked my own ass.

(long post)

Longtime followers will know me to have once tagged posts “Sherlock bunny rambles.” There used to be frequent references to someone named Watson. That stopped in 2016. That’s when I started tagging breakup/rising above shit with “pointed.”

Only, that wasn’t me actually dealing with anything. I thought I was. I definitely thought I was. But, no. I would then go on to throw myself into a couple more relationships until at some point, I realized my self-worth had dried up completely. And that was a turning point. But it still wasn’t me dealing with things.

I’ve gone silent and let the queue do the posting periodically for the past year, maybe year and a half. Part of that comes from being genuinely busy and tumblr being a time sink. But I would be lying to you if I said it wasn’t because I’ve needed time to lick my wounds. And yet? That still wasn’t me dealing with it.

It’s only in the past month that my life has been sufficiently at peace, with a job both sufficiently stable and with good days off, for me to start examining what I’ve been running from for two years, and for three years before it.

I’ve been in therapy awhile, you guys. As an aside: if your first therapist doesn’t turn out to be a good fit? Don’t write off the entire profession. I did not see professional talky help from fall 2015 until fall 2017. This was because my trust in the person I had seen for counseling was irreparably damaged by something that happened early in 2016. But, and this is important, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try again. For your own sake, when you’ve healed enough from whatever caused the fracture: please try again.

I’m digressing. I know it.

So, I’ve been in therapy awhile. And been stable. So it’s the perfect time to actually deal with having been in a corrosive relationship that taints every moment of college. Because—it’s affecting too much. Too many pieces are traumatic. And. My memories of college. They’re. They’re fuzzy in so many places.

I have clear memories predating my brother. We are only three years apart. I hope you can see why being hazy about events that happened at most six years ago is completely horrifying.

So, therapy. I’m going every two weeks. I’m telling more people more specifics of what happened. It’s hurting less each time. I’m crying less each time.

What it is doing is draining me. Those dark circles are there no matter the sleep I get. I’m losing the energy to do much of anything after work. Which hurts, so much. I want to write more. I want to do more. I have exciting plans for a public-facing blog project that this post was going to tell you guys about, but this past week has made me realize that may have to wait until summer ends to launch. (I’m still excited for it, though, which I’m going to interpret as a good sign.)

My heart hurts often. The global landscape is not helping.

I’m not telling you this out of an expectation you’ll know how to help. I wouldn’t know what to do, lmao. But many of you have been here for most of that time. You would have seen me through all of this. And, well, part of how I’m ever going to heal is if I talk about it more. So here I am. Talking about it more. (A little more. I can’t really do details before or during work or I will burn out my energy/spoons/sanity points for the day.)

I’m glad you’re all still here. I’m probably going to be here more often in the EST evenings, too, because it doesn’t take that many sanity points to browse tumblr. And I’ve missed being here with you all.

And... don’t worry too much? I believe firmly I will be making it through this relatively fine. The only way is through. Gotta clean the festered wounds so they can heal and even though it hurts like hell—and oh does it—this will be a memory in due time. I am determined.

[weeklyfrogpod]

Hello froggy friends! We are taking the week off to croak, ribbit, swim, hop, etc. Please respect our privacy in this trying time .

[weeklyfrogpod]

FORTNITE!!

Ahem. This is to say: one fortnight hence, we will announce 2025's FROG OF THE YEAR! Mark your calendars for a very special episode January 19, 2026 👀🐸👑

[weeklyfrogpod]

Lo: something froggy this way comes! Watch this space for an important announcement next week yonder………….let me also just attach this image that may or may not be related…… 👀👁️👁️‍🗨️🫣

[weeklyfrogpod]

Happy Monday!! We're on hiatus through the end of the year, as you know, BUT

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