Beth Cook
@bethannacook.bsky.social
Writer. Order Muppet podcasting from my closet in Portland, OR. I write in order to scream into the Void (existential), usually while trapped under a Void (feline).
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Beth Cook
@bethannacook.bsky.social
· Jun 20
“Claw Machine” is out now! Thanks again to everyone who came out to our Friday the 13th launch party, to Up Up Books for hosting, and to Elle Mitchell for putting this awesome anthology together. Get your copy from Little Key Press! (🔗 in bi0)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
- The Wallflowers (Red Letter Days tour)
- Weird Al Yankovic
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra
- OG Hadestown with just Anaïs Mitchell and local PDX musicians
- Metric (Doomscroller tour)
- The Wallflowers (Red Letter Days tour)
- Weird Al Yankovic
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra
- OG Hadestown with just Anaïs Mitchell and local PDX musicians
- Metric (Doomscroller tour)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
- Seven Veno (my brother's band in high school)
- Harmony (my mom's quintet)
- Triplicity (my friend's mom's trio)
- Joe Larson (this old guy from my church)
- Big Girls Don’t Cry (my wife's quintet)
- Seven Veno (my brother's band in high school)
- Harmony (my mom's quintet)
- Triplicity (my friend's mom's trio)
- Joe Larson (this old guy from my church)
- Big Girls Don’t Cry (my wife's quintet)
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
Babymetal
Dethklok
Nekrogoblikon
Rhapsody of Fire
Ghost
Babymetal
Dethklok
Nekrogoblikon
Rhapsody of Fire
Ghost
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
- The Wallflowers (Red Letter Days tour)
- Weird Al Yankovic
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra
- OG Hadestown with just Anaïs Mitchell and local PDX musicians
- Metric (Doomscroller tour)
- The Wallflowers (Red Letter Days tour)
- Weird Al Yankovic
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra
- OG Hadestown with just Anaïs Mitchell and local PDX musicians
- Metric (Doomscroller tour)
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Manic Pixie Mother, Manic Pixie Maiden, Manic Pixie Crone
November 28, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Manic Pixie Mother, Manic Pixie Maiden, Manic Pixie Crone
Without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you
November 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Without downloading new pics, what is it like dating you
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If you want to support @hamishsteele.bsky.social as he and his show are currently under fire by bad actors, I recommend picking up his latest book Go-Man. I haven't had a chance to read my copy yet but the cover alone shows it's going to be a charming adventure
October 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If you want to support @hamishsteele.bsky.social as he and his show are currently under fire by bad actors, I recommend picking up his latest book Go-Man. I haven't had a chance to read my copy yet but the cover alone shows it's going to be a charming adventure
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Wow all the hours we spent in the writers room brainstorming how to appeal to fascist billionaires WASTED
September 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Wow all the hours we spent in the writers room brainstorming how to appeal to fascist billionaires WASTED
The #Zoombinis narrator just told me to turn off the computer and go outside. 🙃 Took me something like 25 years, but I finally saved all the lil guys! 🥹🎉
September 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The #Zoombinis narrator just told me to turn off the computer and go outside. 🙃 Took me something like 25 years, but I finally saved all the lil guys! 🥹🎉
We’re back! Season 3 promises some exciting future guests and many fruitful discussion to dig into.
FRAGGLE TALK: CLASSIC returns! In 'The Bells of Fraggle Rock', everyone wears winter coats and it's time for a holiday lesson.
Fraggle Talk: Classic – “The Bells of Fraggle Rock” - ToughPigs
Fraggle Talk is back, and it's time to learn a holiday lesson!
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September 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
We’re back! Season 3 promises some exciting future guests and many fruitful discussion to dig into.
If you couldn’t make it to the Claw Machine anthology launch party, don’t worry, we did a virtual reading tonight!
www.youtube.com/live/iBCtbHA...
www.youtube.com/live/iBCtbHA...
Vintage Books Live! Tries Out the Claw Machine
YouTube video by Vintage Books
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June 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
If you couldn’t make it to the Claw Machine anthology launch party, don’t worry, we did a virtual reading tonight!
www.youtube.com/live/iBCtbHA...
www.youtube.com/live/iBCtbHA...
Thank you so much, y’all—I was right, @geekgirlgrownup.bsky.social absolutely made me cry
And thats a wrap!!! Thanks so much to everyone who tuned in live! The replay is out now!!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipwj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipwj...
The 2025 Muppet Fan Hall of Fame Induction Ceromony
YouTube video by Tori Schmidt
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June 23, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Thank you so much, y’all—I was right, @geekgirlgrownup.bsky.social absolutely made me cry
“Claw Machine” is out now! Thanks again to everyone who came out to our Friday the 13th launch party, to Up Up Books for hosting, and to Elle Mitchell for putting this awesome anthology together. Get your copy from Little Key Press! (🔗 in bi0)
June 20, 2025 at 2:11 AM
“Claw Machine” is out now! Thanks again to everyone who came out to our Friday the 13th launch party, to Up Up Books for hosting, and to Elle Mitchell for putting this awesome anthology together. Get your copy from Little Key Press! (🔗 in bi0)
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ToughPigs' Pride Month fundraiser is back! Donate to good causes, win one-of-a-kind Muppet crafts and art! Plus lots of Pride Month features coming soon, and a livestream event on June 29th!
Happy Pride, Muppet fans!
www.toughpigs.com/pride-2025/
Happy Pride, Muppet fans!
www.toughpigs.com/pride-2025/
Introducing the ToughPigs Pride Month 2025 Charity Fundraiser! - ToughPigs
It's an important pride month, and we're here with special merch and an exciting giveaway!
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May 30, 2025 at 2:33 PM
ToughPigs' Pride Month fundraiser is back! Donate to good causes, win one-of-a-kind Muppet crafts and art! Plus lots of Pride Month features coming soon, and a livestream event on June 29th!
Happy Pride, Muppet fans!
www.toughpigs.com/pride-2025/
Happy Pride, Muppet fans!
www.toughpigs.com/pride-2025/
I’m so excited to be going back to Soak and to be camping with There U Glow (recently featured in Make Magazine)! We’re raising funds to support our work at this year’s festival, including structure & power for the camp, tools & supplies for teaching & sharing, not to mention hella cool swag!
April 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I’m so excited to be going back to Soak and to be camping with There U Glow (recently featured in Make Magazine)! We’re raising funds to support our work at this year’s festival, including structure & power for the camp, tools & supplies for teaching & sharing, not to mention hella cool swag!
Loved getting to review this new Jim Henson Presents comic! It makes me wish I’d gotten into comics as a kid.
This comic book features a Dark Crystal story, a Labyrinth story, and TWO new Storyteller tales! Here’s our review!
REVIEW: Jim Henson Presents #2 Comic Book - ToughPigs
This comic book features a Dark Crystal story, a Labyrinth story, and TWO new Storyteller tales! Here's our review!
www.toughpigs.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Loved getting to review this new Jim Henson Presents comic! It makes me wish I’d gotten into comics as a kid.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jus...
It’s here! I have a story in this anthology put together by my awesome friend @emitchellwrites.bsky.social, and the KS is now live! If you can’t buy the book or dark fic isn’t your jam (though I promise my story ends happily), even $1 is deeply appreciated.
It’s here! I have a story in this anthology put together by my awesome friend @emitchellwrites.bsky.social, and the KS is now live! If you can’t buy the book or dark fic isn’t your jam (though I promise my story ends happily), even $1 is deeply appreciated.
Claw Machine: The Anthology
16 speculative and dark stories, featuring claw machines, by 16 established and new authors.
www.kickstarter.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jus...
It’s here! I have a story in this anthology put together by my awesome friend @emitchellwrites.bsky.social, and the KS is now live! If you can’t buy the book or dark fic isn’t your jam (though I promise my story ends happily), even $1 is deeply appreciated.
It’s here! I have a story in this anthology put together by my awesome friend @emitchellwrites.bsky.social, and the KS is now live! If you can’t buy the book or dark fic isn’t your jam (though I promise my story ends happily), even $1 is deeply appreciated.
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Really proud of this one 🥰
Today on ToughPigs, the Fraggle Foodie returns with a new recipe for Boober's "Peace Soup"! Does it really taste good to mix four different types of soup, or is this culinary experiment best left as a metaphor? Read on!
www.toughpigs.com/peace-soup/
www.toughpigs.com/peace-soup/
The Fraggle Foodie: Peace Soup - ToughPigs
The Fraggle Foodie tries her hand at making Boober's multi-flavored soup!
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February 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Really proud of this one 🥰
Mimzy appreciation thread for our one year #gotchaversary. My snuggle buddy facehugger… (1/7)
January 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Mimzy appreciation thread for our one year #gotchaversary. My snuggle buddy facehugger… (1/7)
Finish last year’s Hero’s Journal and starting afresh (with glitter pens)
January 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Finish last year’s Hero’s Journal and starting afresh (with glitter pens)
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What if Meteora from The Christmas Toy had her own C-plot in Muppet Family Christmas? It might’ve looked a little… like… THIS! (Art by @tallgirlpetunia.bsky.social)
December 22, 2024 at 10:59 PM
What if Meteora from The Christmas Toy had her own C-plot in Muppet Family Christmas? It might’ve looked a little… like… THIS! (Art by @tallgirlpetunia.bsky.social)
December 25, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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At this time of year, folks often turn to the Muppets for comfort. But we'd like to propose something completely different: Let the Muppets help you embrace discomfort! Read on to see what we mean!
The Muppets Should Be Your Discomfort Watch - ToughPigs
It's that time of year again when we get cozy, put on a Muppet Christmas special, and... get to work?!
toughpigs.com
December 20, 2024 at 4:32 PM
At this time of year, folks often turn to the Muppets for comfort. But we'd like to propose something completely different: Let the Muppets help you embrace discomfort! Read on to see what we mean!
Last year I talked about this with @meryanroe.bsky.social and @durwoodclapper.bsky.social on Movin’ Right Along’s bonus episode about “John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together.”
Justice for the sad (read: original) version of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. h/t @bethannacook.bsky.social #TenMinuteTypography #Christmas #SongLyrics #UglySweater #GraphicDesign #Typography
December 19, 2024 at 4:14 AM
Last year I talked about this with @meryanroe.bsky.social and @durwoodclapper.bsky.social on Movin’ Right Along’s bonus episode about “John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together.”
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I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them
December 8, 2024 at 2:18 PM
I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them
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Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do;
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.
John Lennon, 10/9/40-12/8/80
It isn't hard to do;
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.
John Lennon, 10/9/40-12/8/80
December 8, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do;
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.
John Lennon, 10/9/40-12/8/80
It isn't hard to do;
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.
John Lennon, 10/9/40-12/8/80
This one’s heavy but also really damn good. I’m proud of the work we’re doing.
In our latest FRAGGLE TALK: CLASSIC podcast, we review “Fraggle Wars,” in which Mokey is captured and the World’s Oldest Fraggle declares war.
PLUS: Can Junior grow Atomic Sour Warheads? Background rock-carrying shenanigans. How many light bulbs? Mokey the wedding planner!
PLUS: Can Junior grow Atomic Sour Warheads? Background rock-carrying shenanigans. How many light bulbs? Mokey the wedding planner!
Fraggle Talk: Classic - "Fraggle Wars" - ToughPigs
In our latest FRAGGLE TALK: CLASSIC, we review episode 17 of season 2, “Fraggle Wars,” in which Mokey is captured and the World’s Oldest Fraggle declares war. PLUS: Dead rat king or clump of hair? Can...
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December 7, 2024 at 9:24 PM
This one’s heavy but also really damn good. I’m proud of the work we’re doing.