There's a review of last year's exhibition of his work at London's Tate Modern here which contains a better introduction to the John Heartfield than I could provide. An interview with the artist's grandson, John J. Heartfield is here. John J. maintains the John Heartfield Internet Archive.

Enjoy!

StabbyCon starts January 31st

Hello, and get ready for our first Stabbycon! As we announced late last year, we’re excited to be launching our 2022 Stabbycon, which we hope will be a regular feature on r/fantasy. We realize this is taking place a little later than we had originally announced, but we wanted to make sure we could put on the best event possible.

Our vision for StabbyCon is to celebrate what makes r/Fantasy and the speculative media community so great, and to bring a diverse group of creators into the spotlight through a series of virtual panels, roundtables and AMAs. We hope you’ll enjoy the range of events we’ve got scheduled, and help give a warm r/Fantasy welcome to all of our StabbyCon participants.

Schedule

To accommodate various time zones, each event will start at a scheduled time but will run throughout the day to allow all of our panelists and as many of you as possible a chance to participate. Even if you miss the start of an event, we’d love as many people to drop in as possible.

We will also update this post through Stabbycon so that you can check back in on anything you may have missed. You can also browse the Stabbycon collection to see all of our events.

We’ll also be running daily social threads so you can drop in and chat about each of our events, or anything else SFF related. Our regularly scheduled posts will also continue as per normal throughout the StabbyCon period.

Panels

• Jan 31st, 4pm EST | 9pm GMT - Worldbuilding from the Real World with Krista D. Ball, R.B. Lemberg, Rowenna Miller and Tasha Suri
• Feb 1st, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT - Unusual Biology with RJ Barker, Sue Burke, Sascha Stronach and Cadwell Turnbull
• Feb 3rd, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT - Visible Cracks: Personal and Intergenerational Trauma with K.D. Edwards, Akwaeke Emezi, Tyler Hayes, Charlotte Kersten and Virginia McClain
• Feb 4th, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT - Roleplaying as a Storytelling Mechanism with Whitney “Strix” Beltrán, James Mendez Hodes, Yeonsoo Julian Kim, Sadie Lowry, Hannah Rose and B. Dave Walters
• Feb 5th, 12pm EST | 5pm GMT - LitRPG and Progression Fantasy with John Bierce, Bernie Anés Paz, Katrine Buch Mortensen, Sarah Lin and Tao Wong
• Feb 6th, 3pm EST | 8pm GMT - Epic Fantasy with Mike Brooks, J.T. Greathouse, Sam Hawke, And

Enjoy these standalones and new series coming in 2022!

Epic Fantasy

• The Starless Crown, James Rollins, Jan. 4
  • An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world.
• Servant Mage, Kate Elliot, Jan. 18
  • A group of rebel Monarchists free Fellion the light-mage from indentured servitude and take her on a journey to rescue trapped compatriots from an underground complex of mines.
• The Bladed Faith, David Dalglish, Apr. 22
  • A usurped prince prepares to take up the mantel of a deadly assassin and reclaim his kingdom, his people, and his slain gods.
• The Spear Cuts through Water, Simon Jimenez, May 3
  • A reluctant warrior goes on the run with an ancient goddess through a lush world full of wild magic, wondrous creatures, and hidden enemies.
• The Collarbound, Rebecca Zahabi, May 12
  • On the other side of the Shadowpass, rebellion is brewing. Looming high on the cliff is a fortress full of mages who offer protection, but also embody everything the rebellion is fighting against.
• Kagen the Damned, Jonathan Maberry, May 10
  • Kagen Vale is the captain of the place guard, charged with protection the royal children. But one night, Kagen is drugged and the entire imperial family is killed, leaving the empire in ruins.
• Flames of Mira, Clay Harmon, Jul. 5
  • People like Ig are born from life-threatening trials that bind chemical elements to the human body, forged in the boiling volcanoes and subterranean passages under Mira’s frozen lands.
• Into the Broken Lands, Tanya Huff, Aug. 2
  • To save their people, the Heirs of Marsan have no choice but to enter the Broken Lands, trusting their lives and the lives of everyone they protect to someone who shouldn't exist.
• The First Binding, RR Virdi, Aug. 16
  • I buried the village of Ampur under a mountain of ice and snow. Then I killed their god. I am legend. And I am a monster.
• Witch King, Martha Wells, Fall
  • (No blurb but I'm too excited not to include it)

Hello there!

This year, I'm doing a themed bingo square with trans or nonbinary characters in every book. As such, I've spent a lot of time (too much time) compiling books that fit for each square. I had originally intended to post this list after finishing my board with a write-up, but seeing as we are past halfway through the bingo year and I'm on track to finish pretty late, I’ve decided to put this up early so it can hopefully actually be helpful for people still looking to fill their boards.

Books are listed under each category they fit, but I didn’t always check for some of the harder ones (eg. first person, forest setting) if they fit something obvious (eg. published in 2021, cat squasher). Books are sourced from the recommendations thread, the focus thread, the queersff database, readsrainbow, various Goodreads lists, and various threads in other subreddits. Also, disclaimer, I haven't read all these, so categorizations may be inaccurate. Please let me know if you notice that this is the case, or if there are any books I should add or remove!

Without further ado, here's my list of 250+ books that qualify for the trans/NB character square plus at least one other square:

Five Short Stories

Behind the Sun, Above the Moon edited by Brooklyn Ray

Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories by Sandra McDonald

Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel by Julian K Jarboe

Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die edited by Dave Ring

Homesick: Stories by Nino Cipri

Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead

Love: Beyond Body, Space, and Time edited by Hope Nicholson

Maiden, Mother, and Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes edited by Gwen Benaway

Meanwhile, Elsewhere edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett

No Man of Woman Born by Ana Mardoll

Portland Diary: Short Stories 2016/2017 by Jamie Berrout

The Other Side: An Anthology of Queer Paranormal Romance edited by Melanie Gillman and Kori Michele Handwerker

Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers ed. by Ly

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

The nurse asked the rabbit, “what is your blood type?”

“I am probably a type O” said the rabbit.

The doctor says it terminal.

Mentos

(I will see myself out)