John would like more drawers, Alison uses the floor, and Liz is okay with shelves. Please email your letters of comment to [email protected] and tag @OctothorpeCast (on Twitter or on Mastodon) when you post about the show on social media. Content warnings this episode: COVID (chapter 4) Letters of comment Chris Garcia España Sheriff Joe Manganiello’s D&D series Esther MacCallum-Stewart Farah Mendlesohn Fran Dowd James Shields Andrew January’s GitHub issue Jonny Baddeley Raj Chengdu is a shower Sunny spells this week Fan Funds TAFF: Congratulations to Sandra Bond, who will visit Pemmi-Con EFF: Congratulations to Matylda Naczyńska, who will visit Konflikt Conversation Roughly half and half between COVID chat and not-COVID chat MUCH LIKE THE COVID RATES, BOOM [Alison doesn’t know I wrote that—John] No picks this week – what have y’all been into? Credits Cover art: “Carry On the Conversation” by Alison Scott Alt text: John, Alison and Liz have bottles of porter and wear pink T-shirts in the centre of the art, as various farcical figures surround them looking remarkably like convention attendees. “Carry On… the Conversation” is written in big friendly letters on the cover, above the words “An Octothorpe 83 production • John Coxon • Alison Scott • Liz Batty”. Theme music: “Fanfare for Space” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)