Lauren Ring

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worldcon hall C with an orange-and-white light leak beam superimposed in the middle
big white cat sleeping on a purple cat tree with light falling on him in celestial shapes from a star and moon cutout curtain
Book bingo adult summer reading 2025 sheet with all squares filled in except "Hope". Other squares include stickers and writers/editors of the following: Suggested by a Library Worker is Hijab Butch Blues, SAL Speaker is H of H Playbook, Grief is Blood Sweat Glitter, PNW Nature is Nature Obscura, Censorship is The Memory Police, Author from Another Continent is The Sunforge, Suggested by an Independent Bookseller is A Physical Eduation, Flower on the Cover is Death in Yellowstone, Intergenerational Friendship is FutureDyke, New-to-You Format is Pinky & Pepper Forever (Special Edition), Dystopia is Wool, Found Family is The Brief History of the Dead, Resistance is A Country of Ghosts, Humor is How Could You, Disability is Skin Tooth and Bone, Great Escapes is The WIll of the Many, Monsters is The Hollow Places, Read in Public is Nigerians in Space, BIPOC Historical Fiction is Last Night at the Telegraph Club, One Big Book is The Sun and the Void, Gender Bender is The Sapling Cage, and Buddy Read is Psycho Nymph Exile
photo of the hugo ceremony with captions "[Music Playing] [Singing]"
doodle of a bee labeled "short story"
No one writes about the bereaved frog spouse and abandoned tadpoles in fairy tales. THEY HAD MADE A LIFE TOGETHER THEY WERE MOVING FORWARD IT WAS WORKING SURE THE PAST WAS A HAZY KALEIDOSCOPE OF FACELESS GOLDEN TRESSES AND MELANCHOLY BUT WHAT WAS IN THE POND WAS SOLID AND GOOD AND THE MUD FELT RIGHT AND WHEN RAIN STIPPLED THE SURFACE OF THE WATER ABOVE THEM LIKE FLEETING CONSTELLATIONS THEY WERE NEAR TO SOMETHING LIKE HAPPINESS THE ONLY THING GOING THROUGH THEIR FROG BRAIN AS PINK WET FLESH AND A GRAVEYARD OF SMOOTH GHOSTLY TOMBSTONES LOOMED NEAR WAS "WAIT WAIT WAIT..."
photo of tv: "america is on fire" closed caption on live coverage of a bank of america on fire
"A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION" sign next to the label "1979" with a man smiling and relaxed. "A COMPUTER CAN BE MANAGEMENT", the same sign with letters crossed out, next to the label "2022" and the same man panicking