F&F Festive Fandoms, 2020-2021 Winter Issue

Fellowship & Fairydust

“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” – Tom Allen

This very issue entitled “Festive Fandoms” is only now getting out for mid-winter, even though it had originally been planned to be released for the Christmas season. However, all is not lost, for we consider this very much a “best of winter” issue, with some of our brightest articles, stories, and poems relating to the season, not just with fandoms, but through other expressions. We are especially thankful to Jo Sexton and Heidi Williams for their expeditious and stalwart work with graphics to diligently thread this issue together.

With this year of 2021 now underway, we are all very hopeful that it shall give way to new opportunities for all of us, and this issue may serve to bring us a little bit of cheer and optimism to see us through to new horizons.

Avellina Balestri, Editor-in-Chief & Wesley Hutchins, Managing Editor

 

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Table of Contents

05. The Snow Queen’s Lament – Mike Flynn

07. Christmas in Sherwood – Jo Sexton

10. A Purr-fect Christmas – Lila Tulip

17. Light from Heaven – Avellina Balestri

24. Did You Know at Christmas? – Mark Wilson

27. A Walk Through the Winter Stones – Raymond E. Lipinski

34. Sincerely, the White Witch – Hannah Skipper

35. The Turning of the World – Lawrence Hall

36. Brigid at Christmas Time – Kenneth McIntosh

41. I Want Adventure – Amanda Pizzolatto

42. Feasting and Fasting: Christmastide in Medieval England – T.J. Guile

48. The Traveling Troubadour’s Winter Collage

51. Legend of the Christmas Fae – Arian Niwl

52. Every Christmas Eve – BellatrixTheStar

54. The Eve Before the Feast – Naomi Mottram

55. The Lantern and the Lamb – Keren Dibbens-Wyatt

57. Father Christmas: The Curse is Broken – Dean Maxwell

63. The Present – Leah Fisher

67. Christmas 1836 – A Sweeney Todd Story – Shila Tozier

70. Reflections on Home Alone at 30 – Wesley Hutchins

74. Original Art – Mike Flynn

75. It’s a Wonderful Life: Defending Eucatastrophe – Edwin Woodruff Tait

78. Star Wars Trivia – Byrnwiga

79. Salaam, Maryam – Adeel Ahmed

89. The Islamic Perspective of The Virgin Mary and Jesus the Messiah – Syeda Kausar

91. Eternity Begun a Meditation of the Trinity – Sean Earner

98. Spot the Difference Answers

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