Happy Saturday, S**t Snorkeling, and The State of All Things: October 2025 (Patreon)

Hello my loves.

💩🤿!!!!

IYKYK.

Here's the contents of the Althing this month.

• TOP HOUSEKEEPING/EVENTS! No Kings TODAY, tour is sold out except Minneapolis!

• THE BIG OL' LIFE N DEATH UPDATE

• PATREON CATCH-UP (what's been happening here on the Patreon this month...)

• LIVE SHOW CATCH-UP FOR THE MONTH

• UPCOMING PATRON RELEASES, SHOWS AND EVENTS

• COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD (notices from the global community)

• ART BEGETTING ART (art from the community, inspired by my/the dolls work)

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First first up!!!

WELCOME TO ALL THE NEW PATRONS!!!!

Hello! Hello! This is the ALTHING, the monthly round-up slash newsletter that I pull together for the community. This post is locked, for paid patrons only and it's where I come to nail down the plot. It changes in form and scope. Sometimes the team sends updates, sometimes we delve into upcoming projects, sometimes I write a long thing, sometimes I make a long video, sometimes I just jazz improv and point a camera at my mug while waiting for a fucking tetanus shot. Voila! Alex Knight (our mech queen in the UK) and Laura (our media-assistant-queen in Brooklyn) both helped me pull this one togehter.

IF YOU'RE NEW....take a second and introduce yourself in the comments! Where you from? How's your life??

I'm reading comments. And hopefully, so is everybody else. Get friend-y! ALSO: USE THE CHAT, in the APP, EVERYBODY!!! The Wide-Open chat is for all patrons, including the free tier, the Logical Family is for emotions and rants, the Ampersander Book Club is for the lit nerds, and the city chats are self-evident. Patreon is working hard on making these tools better; the more you use them, the more we can learn!

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Greetings from Boston, it's 5:30am as I write this intro; though the Althing has been in assemblage mode for a week now.

FIRST TOP HOUSEKEEPING: Who's going to the NO KINGS protest today (Oct 18)?? We are!! If you're IN AMERICA, and you want to find patrons to connect with, stick your city and the time yoyu're going in the comments here: who knows, you may be able to find a friend. ALL THE INFO: https://www.nokings.org/

Here are the protest posters we made with the kiddos last night. The typos are gold.

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NEXT TOP HOUSEKEEPING:

THE MASS. FRAMINGHAM (well, SOUTH OF FRAMINGHAM!), NORWOOD and CAMBRIDGE shows will be for sale SOON. KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE POSTS!

The Seattle, PDX and Brooklyn patron-only shows are ALL SOLD OUT/FULL UP! I'm so grateful to all of you for seizing the moment & coming, and if you missed tickets, please...know that I'll be back. PROMISE.

MINNEAPOLIS (this Monday, 10/20) still has a few last dozen tickets left, so if you're local, please feel free to spread the ticket link to non-patron locals, but please: keep the link off the open internet. I cannot wait to see you. This is gonna be good.

NORTHAMPTON, MA 11/1 @ 7pm show is SOLD OUT !!! BUT there’s a tiny handful of tickets left for the 9pm seating. Go get em. This should sell out by the end of the day.

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THE BIG OL' LIFE N DEATH UPDATE...

Well, hi there.

I'm working on a book, I'm working on my band, I'm working on being a mother, I'm working on being divorced, I'm working on running a house, I'm working on running a patreon, I'm working on being a good American Citizen, I'm working on the coming year, I'm working on....oh who am I kidding. I'm just a piece of fucking work.

You all keep me so so inspired. I'm so grateful to all of you for your help, your love, your support, your patronage.

I'm about to go on a week-long journey of business meetings, bestie-catch-up (guess who in Seattle!), this string of patron-only shows, book interviews, book research, and MORE. Things are wonky as usual but I'm in incredible spirits. I've been backed up with admin, office work, house work, bewitched and beleaguered, but my fighting spirit is LIT this week as I consider the poetry of my weird little life against the landscape of My Country and its dumpster fire.

I've been touch and go this past month...mothering, still gradually moving into my new house, corner by corner and box by box...barely posting to the patreon or doing lives (until this morning! Thank you to the 100 or so of you who came!) because I've been trying to get sleep, and my usual early-morning self has been craving extra hours. It's been hard to squeeze it all in, but I'm proud of my efforts.

I've been sending out little snippets of life to social media, but finding that the algorithms there really are bearing down. I've been working hard on organizing all of the upcoming gigs with the team (Michael has been a hero, dealing with literally hundreds of messages and guest spots and and and), and all the stuff that comes along with *waves hands at literally everything* 🐳.

Speaking of ART AND TH ALGORITHM, I'm most excited right now to announce that the big author event/interview I'm going to do on December 4th, in Cambridge, MA, is going to be the focus of the winter season. It'll include an afterparty in Harvard Square for patrons, so get READY and please save the date!

The bookstore and theater who are presenting the show truly have my back, and it's so fucking heartwarming to feel so...I dunno, supported, and loved. I am so deeply glad I came back to Boston, and between the local support from my friends and community, and the fact that we have some of the sanest people in American Government working around the clock here (MICHELLE WU! MAURA HEALY! ELIZABETH WARREN!...wait, is it a coincidence that they're all women?) I am just steeped in gratitude 24/7 that I'm able to live here.

I'm working behind the scenes on all the touring and writing and recording plans for next year.

It's a LOT.

So much got scuttled and needs to be hauled up and rebuilt, and it's sometimes fun and sometimes exhausting.

I feel like a beached whale sometimes. But a beached whale on fire.

What does that make me?

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A couple less urgent pieces of housekeeping:

I KNOW THIS IS ANNOYING BUT:

MAKE SURE YOU'RE ON allllll THE MAILING LISTS!

I know it may seem like overkill, but it helps to know that I can reach you if the patreon ever shits the bed. I haven't posted to my mailing list for a while because Whale, but touring, dates and exclusives are gearing up. The Dresden Dolls are a separate touring entity; for some dolls events and festivals. there will be tickets available ONLY to the mailing list, so I need you there.

JOIN BOTH.

Join the Amanda Palmer solo mailing list.

Join the Dresden Dolls mailing list.

I'm taking part in THIS movement called FALL OF FREEDOM, and I dont' want it

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STREAMING CATCH-UP

This month has been a great one for webchats, but also for spontaneous live sessions when I've had a second to gab and ask and share.

I've done a couple of spontaneous lives for the $15/month tier, but have archived them for ALL paid members...

Here's the first one, while I was in Dolls-show-preparation mode and taking questions.

Here's another from last week, where we talked a little more about how the Patreon itself is functioning and rolling along.

The one I did this morning was a real fun fucker. We did some tests with the AI-moderation and swore a lot.

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Meanwhile on the WEBCHAT side, last week we had our official FALL TIME CHECK IN of the Ampersander Book Club (but really, it was sort of just a general all-patron check in)

We went for about an hour, took some questions

If you missed it, you can catch up on the whole thing here:

https://www.crowdcast.io/c/8wb3sho8mxt1

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And... we tried something NEW AND EXCITING this month: a co-working webhang!

The idea came about during one of the above spontaneous lives: that we get together on a crowdcast and just... do our own working. But we're all there, cheering each other one, and maybe a liiiiittle chatting in between.

If you want to join the co-working afterwards (and just pretend we're all there in person!) you can still find the crowdcast here:

https://www.crowdcast.io/c/z898uyad0pyt

And if you want some fuzzy feelings, I put a post up afterwards, asking people to share what they got done, and I can confirm we did indeed GET SHIT DONE.

We'll do more of these. Stay tuned for dates.

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And we did a patron webchat on October 9th - you can watch it if you couldn't make it here....

https://www.crowdcast.io/c/0dhd22n97uqp

We had TWO SPONTANEOUS SPECIAL GUESTS!!!!

Rachel Jayson (my local friend, a patron, and a musician who also teaches at Lexington High School) happened to be stopping my to pick up a book I'd bought her...

And SHE TAUGHT US HOW TO DOUGIE.....

STORM LARGE happening to be in the house, so we had a hang with her...

Storm's band, PINK MARTINI, played in my hood last week and I joined them on stage at Cary Hall in Lexington and at the Shalin Liu in Rockport, MA. I wanted to write a whole post about it, and I still may, so I'll leave it at this CONGA LINE: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPyxzrJkYk4/

This is me in the hot dress, that's Jimmie Herrod in the middle, I'm blocking Tim Nishimoto's head, and that's Ari Shapiro on the far right. If you're a big NPR dork like I am, you'd have been proud.

.....and with Storm....so much love.

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And looking further ahead into the future...

NOVEMBER 6th at 11:11am EST - there'll be another speakeasy webchat for the $15 patrons.

NOVEMBER 23rd at 3pm EST - is our next AMPERSANDER BOOK CLUB. Here's a reminder of the books we'll be reading and chatting about:

• Lydi Conklin - Songs of No Provenance (FICTION)

• Molly Jong-Fast - How to Lose Your Mother (MEMOIR)

• Geraldine Brooks - Memorial Days (MEMOIR)

• We Will Not Cancel Us (And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice) - adrienne maree brown (ESSAYS)

DECEMBER 9th at 11:11am EST - will be (probably) our last $15 webchat for the year!

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UPCOMING PATREON PROJECTS, SHOWS AND EVENTS CATCH-UP

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THE ART IN THE MAIL tiers ($25+) are hopefully going to get some goodies just in time for the holidays, so if you were thinking of upping your tier, now's the time.

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We are slowly working on inter-GIFTING patronage and with god as my witness I hope we figure it out by the holidays. Bear with us.

It's possible right now, just not organized within our community:

https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/31344987943949-How-to-gift-memberships-to-other-fans

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The team is working on releasing the film of the UTOPIA/WOODSTOCK SHOW from August, which we documented just for patrons. If you missed the heartfelt local press review, it's here.

We're putting the finishing touches on that post and getting it ready for release, so you'll have a SHOW to watch if you're not able to make it to tour (which is, to be fair, like 99% of you).

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I have infinite documentaries, music videos and other collab projects that got caught in the belly of the whale.

They're all still alive. Just waiting.

The longer I'm in the whale, the stronger I get, and the more time the projects have to mull in the acid of the Whale Belly, the more ready I am. They're all mulling like....fine wines?

Let's leave this metaphor for a while.

Put it this way: when it's time to start releasing stuff, it's gonna be a whale bloodbath.

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Last month I got into THE WORLD a little more, starting with a little intimate patron-only hangout in LA. We talked, I took questions, I played songs, and we had some special guests join us.

It was a really remarkable affair.

I have never, ever felt so close to the community.

What we have built here is extraordinary.

Just extraordinary.

(photo by Laura Vogel)

There's a whole bunch of photos posted in the catch up post HERE if you wanna see more.

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And my little band, THE DRESDEN DOLLS, we HIT THE ROAD AGAIN.....

We played two shows only: in LA and St Pölten, Austria....

From LA...

(photo by Pixie Vision)

(photo by Pixie Vision)

And... special guest LINUS O'BRIEN, aka son of Richard O'Brien, creator of Rocky Horror. He joined us to sing Science Fiction Double Feature with us...

(photo by Pixie Vision)

And AUSTRIA.....my god.

We played to about 5,000 people.

(Photo by Laura Vogel)

(photos by Stefan Kuback)

Not enough time for all the rage, honestly.

This was our first time in Europe since 2018, and our first time in MAINLAND Europe since.... 2008? Jesus.

The people really came out for us....from ALL over Europe.

My heart. The show was on fire. We played some old, some new, some covers....and it just whet my appetite to get back to work in earnest.

I can't wait to get back out there on the stages of the world. The offers are coming in, but everything is weird 🐳. We're figuring it out. My team - especially the dolls touring crew - is just fucking incredible and unshakeable.

We got some video footage of both shows (LA and Vienna) and we're slowly going through it, deciding what to do with it.

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COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD

This section of the Althing is for YOU PATRONS - if there's anything you want to share, email us at patronhelp@amandapalmer.net and we'll do our best to include as many as we can in future Althings!

First up - I already shared this one, but in case you missed it, I just want to repost...

The ask is from my friend (and patron, and long-time art- AND mom- collaborator) Rachel Jayson, who's not only a long-know-by-me Boston-area musician (she's in two bands that have been long-time allies of The Dresden Dolls, Walter Sickert & The Army of Broke Toys, and Mali Sastri's band Jaggery).

She's totally trusted, but she's also breaking down barriers anew: she was the first EVER Black person (never mind the first queer woman of color) to be hired by the performing arts department in the whole school system in our traditionally quite-straight little town of Lexington, MA.

She basically needs to raise north of $25,000 in the name of kids making music...and she needs this not for her, but to help her orchestra students.

I went to this high school and I know that the income disparity between kids is vast. Some of these kids have super-rich parents. Some of these parents of super-talented music kids just...don't.

I asked Rachel to make a video JUST FOR THE PATREON to explain everything, so I'd urge you to watch it here:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/heartfelt-ask-of-140596606

And then, when you're all moved to donate, here's the link for the crowdfunder:

https://www.wetravel.com/c/guardian-travel-group-lexington-high-school-donation-page-b5467297-0a0c-4469-8ca9-32e77c9d1903

She's at $3,325.00 of about a $25,000 goal, and every little bit helps.

The patrons clearly brought in a good couple grand from the last post, I'm proud!

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And another call from an art-friend of mine: a member of my bestie Jason Webley's floating circus show FLOTSAM is currently crowdfunding for hospital fees after falling on the boat and breaking his wrist.

I think some of you may have SEEN the show and you may not have noticed this tragedy befell them at the end of the tour.

It was really sad and, well, the state of American health care is fucked. This artist needs a hand.

Please help out there if you can, I just donated.

HERE'S THE LINK TO THE GOFUNDME. It's at over $17k of a $35k goal.

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LASTLY.....

ART BEGETTING ART!!!!!

This section is highlighting artwork inspired by my work in all its various forms and iterations, including with the Dresden Dolls - if you have something to share, send it to us at art@amandapalmer.net!

This month I got tagged in a retro pixel-style portrait by @lesbianryanross on IG……

(ps lesbian ryan ross we've shouted you out so many times, ARE YOU HERE ON THE PATREON?!)

This gorg Evelyn Evelyn piece:

And this one, too.

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That's all for now my loves.

Tour next week, to heal our souls, I'll see a ton of you out there.

If you read this far, you get a cookie.

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xxx

AFP

------THE STUFF I SAY AT THE END OF THE POST---------

Some of this is a little outdated. I need to do some work on it. But:

1. If you are a patron and new to my work, don’t forget your patronage allows you access to ALL of my patreon releases to date. HERE is the link to download my latest big solo record, “There Will Be No Intermission”, and HERE is a link to download the PDF of the art/essay book that goes with it.

2. If you’re a patron reading this post via an email notification, please click through to comment on this post. at the very least, if you’ve read it, indicate that by using the heart symbol. that's always nice for me to see, so i know who's reading.

3. You can see All the Things I’ve made so far on patreon…though this page badly needs updating.

http://amandapalmer.net/things

4. FIND EACH OTHER! JOIN THE SHADOWBOX COMMUNITY FORUM, find your people, and discuss everything: https://forum.theshadowbox.net/

...AND USE THE CHAT IN THE MOBILE APP AND DESKTOP TO FIND PATRONS AT ALL HOURS!!! BE. IN. COMMUNITY!!! Answer strangers. They won't bite. We're all nice here.

5. New to my music and TOTALLY OVERWHELMED? TAKE A WALK THROUGH AMANDALANDA….we made a basic list of my greatest hits n stuff (at least up until a few years ago, this also desperately needs updating) on this lovely page: http://amandalanda.amandapalmer.net/

6. General AFP/patreon-related questions? See a troll or something weird? Broken link? Bad typo? Ask away, someone will answer: patronhelp@amandapalmer.net & management@amandapalmer.net