#filkhaven

[animatedamerican]

Explaining filk to a young person today... has anyone set up filk discord servers that you know of?

Yes, in fact! The filkhaven discord server has been active for quite some time, and is still getting new members. It's an excellent place to meet both newbies and people who have been in filk for decades, and to find all sorts of filk resources. It's also a place where people who have already known each other for ages hang out and chat and argue and swap recipes and terrible puns and ancient in-jokes, and welcome in anyone who feels like joining that.

[filkyeahfilk]

I gotta admit that I'm just using you to pass the message on to the rest of the filk community on tumblr. I noticed that due to the covid-19 situation, there was a virtual filk con earlier this summer. I'd like to suggest that there would be more virtual filk events (cons or even just small filk circle type things) in the future, too, even after the covid-situation has passed. As a broke younger generation nerd from a country where filk has never been a thing, getting into the filk community 1/3

2/3 and getting to know filkers, has been very hard to me, and I feel like if there were more virtual filk events, it would be easier to me at least to meet more filkers (even if I can't even write good poetry in English or any other language, let alone make music, I can't play any instrument, and my singing voice is about as good as a crow's,

3/3 so I know I don't really bring anything into the filk community to be honest), and I'd really like that! And I'm guessing I can't be the only one with this problem? Please tell me I'm not?

Hey Nony! I know filkers are already talking about the prospect of continuing to do online filk events after the pandemic has passed, precisely because of the wider participation they allow. Even those of us who regularly go to filk conventions have been enjoying the chance to see and hear people from farther off than we usually get to travel -- and for those who almost never get the chance at all, virtual events are that much more important. Personally I’m hoping that the virtual events do outlast the pandemic, and I suspect they will.

For now, there are definitely more events planned while the pandemic is still ongoing! Here’s some ways to find them:

Filkstreams.org is a repository of sorts for tracking upcoming virtual filk events, including concerts, conventions, and open circles. It’s not always comprehensive but people are working on that.

Friends of Filk is a Pacific Northwest filk organization that hosts monthly filk circles (now virtual for the duration of the pandemic), and their website hosts a very useful event calendar.

F Is For Filker is a Facebook group for filkers -- I’m not on Facebook so I don’t know very much about it, but it was recommended through ...

#filkhaven is a Discord server for the filk community, and an excellent place to meet filkers. The #schedules channel there is a place where people often post news about upcoming events.

Also, to address your parenthetical, for you and for anybody else reading this who’s wondering the same thing: please don’t feel like you need to “bring something” to the filk community in order to join it! The community exists for the people in it, not the other way around; if you want to be part of it, it doesn’t matter if (or how well) you sing or play or compose, you’re still welcome.

Hope to see you at some of the upcoming events!

[autographedcat]

Walrus Matilda

Walrus Matilda by Rob Wynne TTTO: “Waltzing Matilda” by Banjo Paterson

I am he as you are he, you are me and we are we See how they run like pigs from a gun See how they fly and take a look at how I cry Then go a-walrus matilda with me

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come Corporation t-shirt, stupid bloody day Man you’ve been a naughty boy, you have let your face grow long So come a-walrus matilda with me

I am the egg man, I am the egg man I am the Walrus, goo-goo-ca-choo And we are in the garden, waiting for the sun to come Who’ll come a-walrus matilda with me?

Mister City policemen, sitting in a pretty row See how they fly like Lucy in the sky See how they fly and take a look at how I cry Then come a-walrus matilda with me

Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye Pornographic priestess, crabalocker wife Boy you’ve been a naughty girl, you have let your knickers down So come a-walrus Matilda with me

I am the egg man, I am the egg man I am the Walrus, goo-goo-ca-choo And we are in the garden, tanning in the English rain Who’ll come a-walrus matilda with me?

I’m an expert texpert, I’m a choking smoker too Don’t you know the joker is laughing at you See how the pigs smile, take a look at how I cry Then come a-walrus matilda with me

Semolina Pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower Elementary penguin, hare krishna song Man you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe So come a-walrus matilda with me

I am the egg man, I am the egg man I am the Walrus, goo-goo-ca-choo Everybody’s got one, stick it up your jumper, love Who’ll come a-walrus matilda with me?

I am the egg man, I am the egg man I am the Walrus, goo-goo-ca-choo You can still hear Paul’s ghost, as he says to the carpenter Who’ll come a-walrus matilda with me?

A bit of silly mashup inspired by a conversation on #filkhaven this morning.

[animatedamerican]

I'm introducing a friend of mine to filk (she was complaining that too many songs are about romance and I seized my chance) - she wants songs about scholars/librarians/stoic characters and I can't think of any. Do you happen to have any recs? Thank you!

Hmmm. Nothing comes immediately to mind, largely because I am extremely wiped out today, but I suspect if I throw this out to my followers and consult people on the filk Discord server I'll get some good answers! Whereas if I just put this in my drafts folder, who knows if I'll ever get back to it.

Speaking of which: yes, #filkhaven is a Discord server for the filk community, and an excellent place to meet filkers! As a rule, whenever I get a question about filk recommendations that I can't answer adequately, they're my first go-to.

[animatedamerican]

Lilac and Steel!

(Btw, I’m Zorpisuttle in the Filkhaven discord, and Kelly on Zoom filks. I think we’ve been on the same Zoom filks a few times. I follow you for your filk content and general coolness!)

(from here)

WELL HI THERE :D and thank you!