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kickstarter Kickstart this cool new comic of North American folktales by Indigenous artists Thom Dunn
happy mutants Cats of Tanglewood Forest: illustrated modern folktale from Charles de Lint and Charles Vess Cory Doctorow
mermaids A brief history of what we think mermaids might look like Thom Dunn
Nature I had a close encounter with a grizzly bear Séamus Bellamy
magic Iceland's powerful Elf Lobby wins fight to unearth Elfin Lady Stone buried by construction workers Xeni Jardin
reddit An unsettling metafiction told in paranoid Reddit comments Rob Beschizza
books The Singing Bones delves into the strange, dark and downright creepy world of fairy tales Wink
books Kate Milford's Greenglass House: lyrical, tense YA mystery Cory Doctorow
witches Earth Magic – photography of witches at play and at ritual Peter Bebergal
yanss New York City's Placebo Buttons and The Post Hoc Fallacy David McRaney
How to survive a Japanese monster attack Xeni Jardin
Art and Design Gary Baseman: "Walking Through Walls" Xeni Jardin
Do you know what this is? (Pretty sure it's not a Tribble) David Ng
Entertainment Neil Gaiman in the New Yorker Cory Doctorow