![]() For more examples of filk, there's also The Virtual Filksing, which bills itself as the oldest anthology of recorded filk music on the Internet. ![]() Check it out for some examples of particularly well-regarded filk. Filk-specific conventions do exist, the biggest being the Ohio Valley Filk Fest, which includes the annual Pegasus Awards for best filk songs. Most SF conventions nowadays have a room set aside for the filkers to sing in large bardic-style circles once the main panels end for the day - some even have concerts. (Oh, and in case it isn't apparent already, a lot of filk songs have puns. ![]() The angsty stuff is called "ose," as in, "it's ose, ose, and more-ose." Of course, like all things, especially fandom, there can be some overlap - there are terms such as "cheeri-ose," which is both cheery and depressing "sucr-ose," sweet and sugary and depressing, and "verb-ose," long and drawn out.and depressing.
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