Arethinn aTinderel's Blog (30)

Announcing the fifth anniversary of Shining Hearth, a free online gathering of Elves, Fae, Sidhe, and adjacent folk! It will be held on March 21-23, 2025, the fourth weekend in March, on our Discord server. (If you are unfamiliar with Discord, we have a guide for newcomers here.) As always, we plan to have workshops and discussions,…

Announcing the fourth event for Shining Hearth, a free online gathering of Elves, Fae, Sidhe, and adjacent folk! It will be held on March 22-24, 2024 (the fourth weekend in March) on our Discord server. As always, we plan to have workshops and discussions, games and watch parties, music, and of course plenty of time just to hang out and chat. You can get all the details and sign up for our newsletter on our website: …

Announcing the third event for Shining Hearth, a free online gathering of Elves, Fae, Sidhe, and adjacent folk! It will be held on March 24-26, 2023 (the fourth weekend in March) on our Discord server. As always, we plan to have workshops and discussions, games, music, and of course plenty of time just to hang out and chat. You can get all the details and sign up for our newsletter on our website:…

Last month Tara asked if I would post about this here, and I was like, um, I already do? So I thought I should maybe make a new blog post that might be more visible, as well as being a little more updated as to the state of things.

The San Francisco Bay Otherkin Meetup moved online in March of 2020 and as of October 2021 we are still there. It's undetermined at this time when we might start meeting in person again, so a side effect of that is at least it's a lot easier for…

Announcing the second event for Shining Hearth, a free online gathering of Elves, Fae, Sidhe, and adjacent folk! It will be held March 18-20, 2022, on our Discord server. Like last year, we plan to have presentations and discussions, video watch-alongs and games, music, and of course plenty of time just to hang out and chat. You can get all the details and sign up for our newsletter at our…

What's Shining Hearth? It's a free online gathering for Elves, Fae, Sidhe, Tuatha De Danann, and similar folk, being held on Discord on Feburary 26th-28th.

We're up to about 35 people registered! If you'd like to join us but haven't signed up yet, fill out the form by February 23rd.

Invitations to the Discord server will be going out on February 25th to those who are registered. If you could use a little help getting…

An early version of the schedule of presentations at Shining Hearth is now available! Please note that it is still subject to change, and we are also still working on things like watch-alongs.

Registration is still ongoing and will be open through February 23. So far there are almost 30 people attending!

We have…

General registration for Shining Hearth is now open!

"Wait - what's Shining Hearth?" It's a free online gathering of Elves, Fae, Sidhe, Tuatha De Danann, and similar folk, being held on Discord on Feburary 26th-28th. You can find out more on our website, and sign up for our newsletter…

Presenter signups for Shining Hearth are still open at https://forms.gle/V3hYJnos9NLBNM8Y6. Honestly, we're really hoping there are people out there still brooding over their ideas, because so far we have zero form submissions (although we have received a few emails and other messages from people discussing ideas).

Maybe you're thinking "OMG, no way could I do that. I have no ideas and no one would want to listen to me anyway."…

Presenter signups are now open for Shining Hearth! We are looking for people to give talks, lead discussions, do rituals or meditations, all sorts of things. General information about what we hope to place on the schedule is available at https://www.shininghearth.net/schedule.html -- but don't feel strictly bound to only those ideas. The rule of thumb is, would it generally be of interest to the spectrum of…

Following on my previous message about the possibility of this event...

We are pleased to announce Shining Hearth, an online gathering of elves, fae, and adjacent folk!

The event will be held February 26-28, 2021, on a dedicated Discord server. Attendance is…

This past August, some therians and otherkin from Tumblr organized a free virtual convention called Othercon. It went off well, proving such a thing can be done, so my husband and I plus a couple of elven-faery friends wondered: could we do a similar online gather that was specifically intended for Elves-Sidhe-Tuatha-Fae?  

We are still in the very early planning stages, at this point just seeing if there is enough interest to make it work. If you are…

Something I keep meaning to go to One Of These Years, but which like Faerieworlds (whose online event I missed in August, whoops) is difficult logistically because of being a camping event not within reasonable driving distance from me. I assume their event this past June was cancelled (a shame for them, as it would have been the 20th anniversary). They have plans for July 2021, but in the meantime they will be holding an online event January 15-17, 2021:…

Ever since most everything went into lockdown back in March, we have been having our meetups online. (At this time there is no guess when we might be doing things in person again; many of us feel that would have to wait for an effective COVID-19 vaccine.) Our next meetup will be on Sunday, August 9th, 2 PM - 5 PM (Pacific time).

We hold our online meetups in a Jitsi…

kincafe on Tumblr is probing the idea of doing a virtual convention. It seems to have acquired the rather prosaic name "Othercon" -- but to be fair, they only floated the idea on the afternoon of June 4th in what seemed to me a kind of offhand way, and were surprised to see as much response as it got, so probably the name was also just come up with quickly so they had something to tag posts with.



See…

http://eristic.net/fey/sfbayotherkin/pcon.php

The SF Bay Otherkin Meetup will have our 9th annual special event at PantheaCon on Saturday, February 15th, 2020, from 5:00 - 10:00 PM. There will be music, snacks and drinks, books, a slideshow, Discord chats, buttons and badge ribbons, and our traditional game of Cards Against Humanity later in the evening.

No RSVP or fee is required for this event, but donations of a few…

Just some quotes I've collected lately...

It is said that the land of Faery is as near as breath. So it is. And as far away as a land beneath the waves or deep underground. That is true too. Faërie logic allows for this contradiction.

--Greg, "The Faery"

As through the hard rock go the branching silver veins; as into the solid land run the creeks and gulfs from the unresting…

This is a follow up to the Hearth Welcome piece I wrote about a year ago.

Now let the mythic flame be banked

And all you fair folk here be thanked

For your presence on this night

And blessed by gleams of glamourlight:

You Fae and Elves, you dragons strong

You angels of the heavens' throng

Fantastic beasts and folk of fur,

Souls of Nature green…

http://eristic.net/fey/sfbayotherkin/pcon.php

The SF Bay Otherkin Meetup will be having our 8th annual special event at PantheaCon on Saturday, February 16th, 2019, from 5:00 - 10:00 PM. There will be music, snacks and drinks, books, a pretty slideshow, Discord chats, buttons and badge ribbons, and our traditional game of Cards Against Humanity later in the evening.

PantheaCon is the largest indoor Pagan convention in…

(For those wondering what Discord is, it's basically the group chat platform all the kids are into these days. Vaguely like IRC in some respects, but not. See https://discordapp.com/. You can either download a client, or use it in a browser.)

A fae friend of mine on Tumblr (wait! come back! they're not that kind of tumblr-folk), after being dissatisfied with the Otherkin.net Discord and a fae-kin server run by Alynna, decided with…