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Bigolas Dickolas was NOMINATED and then DECLINED TO BE ON THE BALLOT for the best related works category of the 2024 Hugos.
(Full shortlist: https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/2024-hugo-award-finalists/)
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Marta García 🇪🇸
2024 World Indoor Championships (Glasgow)
#marta garcía#team spain#running#female athletes#runner#athletics#atletismo#track and field#glasgow 2024
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I have received the following communication from the Glasgow 2024 chair.
"As Chair of Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for Our Futures, I unreservedly apologise for the damage caused to nominees, finalists, the community, and the Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards.
Kat Jones has resigned with immediate effect as Hugo Administrator from Glasgow 2024 and has been removed from the Glasgow 2024 team across all mediums.
I acknowledge the deep grief and anger of the community and I share this distress.
I, and Glasgow 2024, do not know how any of the eligibility decisions for the Hugo, Lodestar and Astounding Awards held at the 2023 Chengdu World Science Fiction Convention were reached. We know no more than is already in the public domain.
At Glasgow 2024 we are taking the following steps to ensure transparency and to attempt to redress the grievous loss of trust in the administration of the Awards.
The steps we are committing to are:
1) When our final ballot is published by Glasgow 2024, in late March or early April 2024, we will also publish the reasons for any disqualifications of potential finalists, and any withdrawals of potential finalists from the ballot.
2) Full voting results, nominating statistics and voting statistics will be published immediately after the Awards ceremony on 11th August 2024.
3) The Hugo administration subcommittee will also publish a log explaining the decisions that they have made in interpreting the WSFS Constitution immediately after the Awards ceremony on 11th August 2024.
Glasgow 2024 will continue to address this matter as we go forward as a Worldcon.
Esther MacCallum-Stewart
Chair, Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for Our Futures. "
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FREE ONLINE EVENT! Peter S. Beagle in conversation with Catherynne M. Valente, 6pm UK Time, Wednesday 15th November!
This fab online event is in collaboration with Glasgow Worldcon 2024, and we're so excited for it!
And it's COMPLETELY FREE!
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The Hugo Awards
I gotta nominate some stuff by the end of the week, but it turns out that I haven't really consumed that much new fiction in 2023. What did I miss out on? Does anyone have good eligibility sheets?
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Sigh…
#willy wonka glasgow#willy wonka experience#willy wonka#wonka experience#glasgow#the unknown#unknown#evil chocolate maker that lives in the walls#my wife btw#the babygirl of 2024
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Just a super quick sketch of everyone's favorite Willy Wonka character: The Unknown
#Willy Wonka#Glasgow#Willy Wonka Glasgow#The Unknown#How is any of this even real#Just having the time of my life with all of this#Dashcon 2#charlie and the chocolate factory#2024 has officially peaked
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NEW TUMBLR SEXY MAN JUST DROPPED?!?!?
#time to make an oompa-sona#the unknown#willy wonka#the unknown willy wonka#willy wonka experience#glasgow#tumblr sexyman#tumblr sexy man 2024#glasgow willy wonka experience
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so… i met miles last night 😭😭
i’m still trying to formulate the words to express how special it was to meet him and how unbelievably lovely he was. i mean, i obviously already knew how lovely he is - but getting to experience it in person is truly something else altogether. he just absolutely radiates good vibes and warmth and truly feels like sunshine in human form ☀️ i also loved that because i tend to be on the quieter side in these situations (after telling him how amazing the show was my brain went pretty blank lol), he actually asked me questions about what songs i’d most enjoyed etc and really engaged with me and also gave me the LOVELIEST hug 🥹
if possible, meeting him has only made me adore and respect him even more than i already did (truly quite an impressive feat), and i just feel so unbelievably grateful to have got to witness the smile on his face when i told him how much i’d loved the show 💖
#sorry this is probably incoherent because i am still absolutely GIDDY 😭😭#also i’m going to share details/photos/videos of the show later because oh my godddddd#it was absolutely AMAZING 🤩#SO much happened#but i need a little more energy to sift through all my photos and also type up a remotely coherent version of events lol#aghhhhhhhh#AHHHHHHH#i have lost all capacity for words#i literally can’t remember the last time i was so ridiculously happy 🥹#miles kane#omb tour#mk glasgow 2024#my show#lulu posts
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Everyone’s gone UFO crazy. Maybe The X-Files should come back
Chrissy Iley
MARCH 2, 2024
Starring in a poignant new film adapted from his own novel, David Duchovny reveals the heartache of almost losing his daughter... and why his most famous show could yet return
No wonder David Duchovny has written, directed and stars in his latest movie Bucky F***ing Dent... it’s based on his own bestselling 2016 novel of the same name. Poignant and funny, it examines a father-son relationship via baseball, with X-Files star David playing Marty the dad, who’s dying of lung cancer, and Logan Marshall-Green from Spider-Man: Homecoming as his estranged son Ted.
The real Bucky Dent went down in history for scoring an unlikely home run for the New York Yankees in a 1978 tie-breaker against arch rivals the Boston Red Sox, and the film’s title is how generations of Boston fans have referred to him ever since, a metaphor for heartbreak. Set in that same year, the film follows struggling writer Ted as he moves back into his childhood home when he hears his father is dying, prompting a whirlwind of dark revelations from the past. Meanwhile, Boston fan Marty’s health dips whenever his beloved Red Sox lose, so New York fan Ted orchestrates the illusion of a Boston winning streak...
Marty has transferred his feelings for an old flame (the secret love of his life, not his wife) to the Red Sox. ‘The intensity of fandom has always puzzled me,’ says David. ‘It has to be a kind of sublimation. My father and I liked playing baseball; my best childhood memory is playing it with him and enjoying the simple communication you can have through a game, but we didn’t share the fandom thing.
‘Marty’s transposed his feelings for this woman to the Red Sox, and the movie is really about the idea of losing. In America there’s a sick addiction to winning and winners, but most of us have to lose every day. Suffering makes us human - it unites us all.’
There’s a moment in the film when Marty is talking about a chest infection that almost killed Ted as a child. Marty says he begged God or whoever to take his lungs instead and let Ted live. ‘One thing I’ve never told anyone is that when my daughter was nine months old she got really ill,’ reveals David. ‘Her mother [actress Tea Leoni] and I had to face the fact we might lose her and I remember feeling so devastated, I didn’t think I could love anything again if she died.’
His daughter West, now 24, has since become a successful actress who seems to have inherited her mother’s stunning blonde looks and her father’s charisma. ‘I think she has a greater passion for acting than either of her parents ever did,’ he says. They also have a son Kyd, 21, and David says the hardest moment of his life was telling them he and Tea were divorcing ten years ago, as his own parents had done when he was 12. ‘It was far worse telling them than actually experiencing it. When you’re a child you just try to get through it, you don’t feel responsible. As a parent I felt at least 50 per cent responsible.’
Tall and thin with good skin and an easy charm, David seems untouched by the ageing process, although this role is a huge shift from the Lotharios he usually plays, such as bed-hopping writer Hank in comedy-drama series Californication. Does getting older bother him? ‘Of course, and as an actor you have to think of the different roles you’ll be offered. When I was writing this script I was thinking I’d play Ted, the son. We tried to make it four or five years ago and I was still going to play Ted, but then when it came to doing it I realised it just wouldn’t work, so I thought I’d play Marty. And that was exciting because it was very different.’
Californication won two Emmys and a Golden Globe, but was notorious for its portrayal of LA’s seedier side. Does he think it could be made now? ‘Certainly they would insist on intimacy coaches, but I don’t think it would be made now, for the wrong reasons. There was a misunderstanding about what it was about. It was meant to be funny, and it was meant to be about family and love. But what everybody got excited about was not that,’ he says, referring to the furore over the sex scenes. ‘In my mind the show was misperceived.’
Another of David’s roles that would spark a row today was a transgender FBI agent in Twin Peaks in the early 90s, when almost no transgender women were on TV. Again it was groundbreaking. ‘But if you’re playing a murderer no one asks you, “Have you murdered people?”’ he says. ‘It was just being an actor.’
David is, of course, best known for The X-Files, in which he played UFO-obsessed FBI agent Mulder opposite Gillian Anderson’s sceptical Scully. The series finally bowed out in 2018 after 11 series, but could there ever be another? ‘Maybe - it might even be more current now,’ he says, referring to the recent release of top-secret UFO files in the US. ‘I’m not personally interested in UFOs so it doesn’t make it more exciting for me to revisit The X-Files. It was a role I played but I wasn’t passionate about the subject. Maybe I’m the only one who isn’t.’
There was a brouhaha at the time about the huge pay discrepancy between David and Gillian, and I wonder if it would be difficult for him to work with her again. ‘As far as I know, by the end there was no difference at all between us, but Hollywood salaries are very weird,’ he says. ‘I’m going to London soon and I’ll see Gillian because she lives there now. I saw her in the West End doing All About Eve and I enjoyed it. She wished me luck with Bucky too.’
In recent years David has explored his passion for music, releasing a couple of folk-rock albums. So does he see himself as an actor, a director or a musician? ‘All of them, I’m an artist,’ he says. ‘I can filter stuff through a song, a novel, a performance or through directing. There are all kinds of ways of being an artist. I write best about dramatic things. There’s a way to deal with suffering to create art.’
Bucky F***ing Dent, Glasgow Film Festival, Wednesday. Visit glasgowfilm.org
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discarded tree branches coalesce in a corner. well-pointed stone forms the backdrop Glasgow, January 2024
#original photographers#street photography#photographers on tumblr#liminal#new topographics#discarded tree branches coalesce in a corner. well-pointed stone forms the backdrop
Glasgow#January 2024#out_with
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And another cheer on this Dutch topteam female runners 🙌 🙌 🙌
4x400m Relay World Champion! 🥇
Watching your teammates win relay gold is STRESSFUL
📷 BSR Agency
#wic glasgow 2024#team nl#4x400m relay#athletes#world champion#lieke klaver#femke bol#cathelijn peeters#lisanne de witte#gold medal#golden girls#wicglasgow24
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Pia Skrzyszowska 🇵🇱
🥉 60 metres hurdles
2024 World Indoor Championships (Glasgow)
#pia skrzyszowska#team poland#hurdles#female athletes#athletic girls#muscle women#athletics#lekkoatletyka#track and field#glasgow 2024
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Glasgow 2024 Worldcon to sit on their hands and wait this out.
Sad to report that the chair of Glasgow 2024 has refused to enact the incapacity clause against Chengdu 2023. The defence is that the clause uses the word "current Worldcon", and since the Hugo Administration hid what they had done till now they have run out the clock and evaded action. They decline to state if they think Chengdu 2023 satisfied it's obligations to the WSFS. They instead suggest the issue should be brought up at the next Business Meeting. (Reminder, WSFS Business meetings only occur at Worldcons, require physical presence at the meeting, prior written notification of business to be conducted with a second signing the motion, and the Meetings are strictly conducted under Robert's Rule of Order with the WSFS Presiding Officer having complete control of the floor, and anything that is more substantive than a non-binding resolution means doing it all over again in a year's time to get it ratified.)
I have asked the chair of Glasgow 2024 and the WSFS Presiding officer of 2024 to clarify on what date Chengdu 2023 stopped being the Current Worldcon, and where this is defined in the WSFS. However, the last reply from the chair included the phrase "This correspondence is therefore closed." and that does not indicate I will receive a reply.
My reading of this is that it doesn't. And we are currently in a hazy hinterland where the WSFS constitution has not clearly defined what "the current Worldcon" means. So if they chose, they could enact the Incapacity Clause.
I think the "Current Worldcon" reading used to prevent enacting of the incapacity clause is a terrible precedent. It basically says "Just hide your failures, run out the clock, then nothing can be done and your decisions will stand." And it renders the Incapacity Clause a dead letter, if the Current Worldcon insists it will be able to perform it's duties, but then does not do so.
There seems to just be a sense of dead hands on the controls.
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I'm going to be tabling alongside @duskdragonxiii at ACME Comic Con Spring on March 9th and 10th! It's our first time in Comic Village rather than Artist Alley so come by and give us some support while we sit among the big publishers!
We'll still have our usual stock plus some new stuff!
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Another bucket list item checked. I’m so filled with gratitude, it’s almost overwhelming.
#dreams really do come true#world athletics#indoor world championships#glasgow#scotland#2024#personal#it me!
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