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Octothorpe 157: Moist or Shiny?

A picture of John, Alison and Claudia sitting behind the panel tables during the live recording. A thread from the convention Discord is being projected onto the screen behind them, with messages reading “Malcolm H: Song for Alison… Da Da Da”, “Roseanna: We’ve passed the discord comment count for the highest other item!! Best panel confirmed [rocket emoji]”, “Meg MacDonald: Teach us your wisdom”, “Frances Dowd: Drink drink drink your Heineken, oodles and oodles for everyone!”. Words have been added to the top reading “Octothorpe 157” and to the bottom reading ‘Live from Iridescence: “Best panel confirmed”’.
Photo by Simon Bubb.

John is gaming, Alison is a pirate, and Claudia is dancing.

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Octothorpe 156: Surprisingly Well-Adjusted Young Gentlemen

A black-and-white cartoon. John is behind a stack of games, saying “Games Room”; Alison is behind a stack of printers and paper, saying “Newsletter”; Liz is on a beach reading with sunglasses and a cocktail. In purple, the words “Octothorpe 156 Eastercon Planning:” appear at the top and “questioning our life choices” at the bottom.
Art by Alison Scott.

John has a headache, Alison has a cold, and Liz is fine, thanks for asking.

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Octothorpe 155: Ed! Ed! ED!

Three homunculi in jars with cork toppers who look reminiscent of John, Alison and Liz. Alison’s has a little stick with a moose head on it and a cup of coffee. The jars are on a shelf. The words “Octothorpe 155” appear at the top and “Small Podcasters” at the bottom.
Art by Alison Scott.

John is a bit rum, Alison is taking a drink, and Liz is buying beer.

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Octothorpe 154: At Least I’m Not Just Internet Shopping

Text reading “OCTOTHORPE 154* *See, it’s like this. This is the first day of 2026 that hasn’t been cold, or wet, or both, so instead of doing the Octothorpe cover I went for a nice walk. And bought no board games, but a jigsaw. And did the jigsaw. Sorry.” The text is on top of a photograph of a bridge and some trees underneath a blue sky.
Art by Alison Scott.

John is nominating board games, Alison should read more, and Liz bought two memberships.

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Octothorpe 153: Bowling Captain Kirk for a Duck

A picture of Alison with white hair, wearing a white dressing gown, and wielding a staff with a moose head. John and Liz flank her. She says “Behold! I am reborn as Alison the White!” John says “That’s a bit dramatic… it’s only a haircut” and Liz says “Pretty sure that’s a dressing gown… and are you standing on a box?” The words Octothorpe 153 are at the top.
Art by Alison Scott.

John is volunteering, Alison is saying “no”, and Liz read her first book!

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Octothorpe 152: Slap That Fish More

John’s head and shoulders appear behind a pinkish desk as if he is the puppeteer of Sooty and Sweep (Americans, ask your British friends). Sooty is pulling on Sweep’s ear. Text at the top reads “Octothorpe 152: John is preparing for the big dust-up”.
Art by Alison Scott.

John is summarising, Alison is eating, and it’s all Liz.

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Octothorpe 151: Only Ding-Dong for Good and Not for Evil

Three lions photographed on a safari in Kenya, with glasses photoshopped onto two of them to make them look very slightly more like John and Alison. The top has words reading “Octothorpe 151” and the bottom has words reading “Definitely not about the cricket”. It is unclear why, because John edited all the cricket out.
Photograph by Liz Batty.

John is trying, Alison is watching a video and Liz is humming.

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Octothorpe 150: I Would Describe Them As European

John doesn’t want to pass out, Alison is a wuss, but Liz doesn’t think it’s gratuitous.

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Octothorpe 149: Real-Time Toilet Monitoring

John is going to Smofcon, Alison has FOMO, and Liz is a horrible person.

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Octothorpe 147: What? What?! No!

A photograph of the mountains of Nepal with text overlaid, reading “Octothorpe 147 Official Octothorpe Nepal Identification Guide\* (\*apparently never gets old)\*\* (\*\* Liz might like to go to a comics con there)”.
Photo by Paul Weimer, text by Alison Scott

John is ready, Alison had forgotten, and Liz is surprised.