We are a month away from Wyrd and Wonder 2025, dear adventurers! That means it’s time for a wee update!

First off, if you missed it here’s an earlier post explaining a bit about Wyrd and Wonder and introducing your hosts, for any newcomers.

Right, then! On to some updatey stuff.

We’ve got our annual prompts challenge!

1: Chart your course                                                                                                   17: Beach reads
2: It was a dark and stormy night                                                                               18: Lost at sea
3: Under the radar                                                                                                          19: Albatross
4: Davy Jones                                                                                                                  20: Tall ships
5: #MapMonday                                                                                                                  21: Kraken
6: The sea, the sea                                                                                                 22: Foreign climes
7: Sea serpents                                                                                                      23: Standalone isle
8: On the horizon                                                                                                     24: St Elmo’s fire
9: Fantastic voyages                                                                                            25: Sea dog peg leg
10: Bite-size islands                                                                                             26: Full fathom five
11: Shipwreck                                                                                                            27: Sea monsters
12: Deep ones                                                                                                                      28: Pirates
13: Beneath the waves                                                                                                   29: Deep dive
14: Watery women                                                                                                        30: Port town
15: Current read                                                                                                        31: Safe harbour
16: Ghost ships

We’ve got a bingo challenge!

Reef/Dead calm/Crow’s nest/Tentacles

Flukes/Tot of rum/Wild weather/Maroon

Safe harbour/Galley/Tall tales/Compass

Shanty/Boarding party/Wreck/X marks the spot

And we’ve got our Fantastic Fives prompts!

Davy Jones – favourite nautical myths and folklore

Shipwreck – nautical tropes you love to see

Lost at sea – sea voyages (intentional or accidental)

Seadog peg leg – Memorable captains and crew

Port town – Amazing places to visit

Any and all of these can be played on Instagram and/or Bluesky too! Just remember to tag us @wyrdandwonder so we can share your nerdy goodness!

But that’s not all! Check out our Discord server, OtherWorlds, for some fun buddy-reading channels, for discussion of (hopefully among other things) Robin Hobb’s Ship of Magic and Emma Newman’s upcoming May release, The Vengeance. If you’re not a member of our Discord group yet and you’d like to be, feel free to get in touch for an invite!

That’s still not all! Our official read-along this year will be Frances White’s Voyage of the Damned, and it’ll be hosted by Ariana over at The Book Nook! Look out for details there about the schedule.

… I think that’s all, haha! Don’t forget that you can still sign up if you’d like to be an official party member, and the master schedule is up now for all your record-keeping needs! And on that note, I shall leave you to plot your plots and plan your plans! See you in May.

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