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Original post written by Ahmar Wolf

Here’s a new non-human fantasy novel written and illustrated by Academy Award-winning animator (Incredibles 2) and director (Piper) Alan Barillaro: “When Bunns is born with small but perfectly functional rabbit ears, the warren is abuzz with auguries. Surely such short ears spell bad luck for the community. Sheltered in her family’s burrow, Bunns listens to the rhythm of her mother’s heartbeat — Thump, thump, thump — a song of home and belonging. Her father explains that unlike a rabbit’s words or thumping feet, a heartsong cannot lie. But the unknown world of the meadow, the sounds and smells above, call to Bunns. When at last she’s ready to brave the staring and whispering of neighbors who fear her because she’s different, and the disapproving elders who threaten to banish her family, she finds a world beyond the warren where myths and riddles, magic voyages, and important new friends await. Can the ‘bad omen bunny’ follow her own heartsong to a destiny — a wish — meant just for her?” Bunns Rabbit is available now from Penguin Random House.

image c. 2025 Penguin Random House

Original post written by rodney

What this!?
A preview of a travel mug for TBO attendees! This can be yours by just registering in the early bird timeframe.
Early bird closes on January 24th, 2026

https://www.conspace.app/checkout/thebiggerone

Original post written by Ahmar Wolf

If you’re trying to book an #Anthrocon hotel room within our official block, you’ll need valid and paid registration to access our booking link! We’ll be pausing online registration Feb 20-24 to support our system.

https://www.anthrocon.org/registration/
https://www.anthrocon.org/hotel/

Original post written by Ahmar Wolf

Original post written by Ahmar Wolf

Original post written by Ahmar Wolf

The line for badge pickup at last year’s ANE on Thursday night. (Flayrah/Eberra Wolf)

Anthro New England will be capping the fursuit photo and has been in need of staffers to control lines. Announced the other night on a new page on their website, the convention said the photo will be capped to 800 fursuiters and be moved to Friday instead of the traditional Saturday. Throughout the past few weeks, the convention has also repeatedly asked for staffers, especially ones to work in line control.

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Original post written by EberraWolf

In its current incarnation, MonsterQuest defines “monsters” broadly, ranging from long-reported cryptic creatures like Bigfoot to alien encounters with UFO’s, and even supernatural beings like ghosts or jinn. The second episode of MonsterQuest’s season 5 was unified by all of these encounters being experienced and reported by military personnel.

The first installment of episode 2 took place in post-Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in 2003 where a marine went sweeping for explosives with a buddy in the sub-basement of Hussein’s palace. Behind a foreboding boiler room door, the marines encountered a 6′ tall, black figure that passed through him and his companion, and was described as feeling hateful. They felt a “new type of terror,” as if they had released something. A wooden sculpture seen later supposedly resembled what they had seen…

The second installment concerned the experiences of an American air traffic controller serving in Lakenheath, England in 2002. In the house where he lodged, books were stacked not by he or his wife’s hands in the center of a room. Stair and door sounds were heard in the dwelling, even when the couple was absent to visit the U.S. Fearful, the man’s wife took their baby to live elsewhere, leaving the controller living alone. A Bible was moved, the man felt a hand pressing him down in bed, heard doors banged in the nursery, and saw a figure in the doorway of the bathroom. Other airmen also saw spectral presences. It turned out that the housing had been constructed over an old Anglo-Saxon cemetery where 427 people were buried in a situation similar to that seen in the movie Poltergeist.

The third story drew from the 1980 experiences of an airman sent as a second lieutenant for survival training or “fear school” in remote sections of the Colville National Forest in in Washington, that state having had 700 sightings of Bigfoot going back to the 1920’s. The airmen were to head individually in different directions of the forest all lightly equipped, and basically survive the night there. After setting up a primitive camp, one airman wandered off exploring, falling asleep in a comfortable rotted tree stump to awaken after darkness to see eyes beholding him that were centered 7′ to 8′ above the ground. He found his way back to his camp but was pursued by the creature, and had a sleepless night as the presumed Bigfoot circled his camp, getting to within 2′ to 3′ of his shelter. Fortunately, the creature was gone by daylight, and the airman successfully rejoined his companions.

The fourth installment concerned previously classified information regarding a disc-shaped unidentified flying object seen in Franklin, Kentucky in January 1948. Several Mustang F-51D fighters from the Kentucky National Guard were sent to investigate, one flown by a decorated WWII vet, Captain Mantell, who at 15,000 feet reportedly saw a metallic object of tremendous size. He pushed his aircraft up to over 25,000 feet at which point the fighter nose-dived following a spiral pattern, broke apart, and crashed, killing the pilot. While there was wild speculation following the incident, Project Blue Book contended that the pilot passed out from lack of proper oxygen equipment at that high altitude, and died pursuing a Skyhook weather balloon, which he would not have known about…

Lastly, in 2003 in Iraq, the series reported that a USAF serviceman may have seen a Jinn in a shelter. He initially saw Iraqui soldiers who were seen as ghosts or residual energies when he then saw a muscular, 12′ tall figure with beady eyes that charged and passed through him before passing through a wall. A jinn (or djinn) is a supernatural being from Islamic and Arabic folklore that exists alongside humans and angels in a hidden, unseen world. They possess free will, can choose good or evil, and have abilities like shapeshifting and flight. Some are benevolent spirits while others are malevolent…

While monsters are defined broadly here, as the series tells us these servicemen “confronted an enemy beyond their understanding, and lived to tell the tale.”

Original post written by vulpesffb

Original post written by Ahmar Wolf