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tlkvikings · 4 months

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Thank you @windylizmt, so lovely of you to appreciate the work that @therealvikingstrash and I have put into the @vikingsbigbang and into @vikingsevents! It's always nice to be appreciated for something that is a lot of work.😊 And thank you too, @mercurygray, for your lovely positive vibe!

I'm echoing the sentiment of taking a step back, too, given my busy schedule and my shifting fandom focus right now. So 2024 will definitely be a break for us both in the events department here, but maybe/hopefully someone else will feel inspired to host an event for this fandom instead! I know there are plenty of folks still active, even when we're not around as much, and it'd be cool to see an event cooked up in a different kitchen than ours. 😂

This is a wonderful idea Merc! Shout out to @therealvikingstrash and the staff over at @vikingsevents for keeping the Vikings and Vikings: Valhalla fandom engaged with fandom everts. I know fandom events are a lot of work and I greatly appreciate all their hard work!

Fandom events are, indeed, a ton of work, and I know that @therealvikingstrash and all of her mods work really, really hard to make those as nice and approachable as they can be. I always appreciate that they follow a slightly different calendar (because of course) to spread that fun out throughout the year!

[post-christmas fandom positivity posting]

[submit yours here!]

#this has been a psa of sorts #and also just a lovely mention that I appreciate a lot! 💙

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tlkvikings · 5 months

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Winter Solstice

We are happy to announce the prompt list to our last Winter Solstice. It is scheduled for December 17th to December 23rd. As always, you are free to post after the event as well, it's usually a month until we post the round up, which means you don't have to rush.

Our Rules:

Please create something new that hasn't been posted before.

Tag us @vikingsevents and use the hashtag #snowyvikings

Make it visible within your post which prompt you used, so we'll know how to tag your creation. i.e.:"Entry for day 3, Moonlight" above a readmore if you use one, or below an artpiece.

Have fun!

#it's almost heeeere #so naturally spreading the word!

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tlkvikings · 5 months

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The Last Kingdom | 3.02

#ragnar ragnarsson

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tlkvikings · 6 months

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Vampire Ubbe and Banshee Margrethe for the occasion! Happy Halloween 🎃

#fun times!!#love the colors and vague-ishness of these

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tlkvikings · 6 months

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Thank you, @therealvikingstrash, for explaining exactly why stealing/reposting gifs is such an awful thing to do. For explaining why seeing your own hard work appear uncredited in someone else's posts and passed off as their own is so disheartening. For explaining why I block people from both my current and my past blog the second I see they have used my gifs in such a way.

I'm done asking people to credit me. I'm done asking people to remove my gif from their post. I'm done with the stealing and the glib "bUt I fOuNd iT oN gOoGLe"-excuses. If you don't know the source, don't use it. If you can't credit the gifmaker, don't use it. And if you're a part of the roleplaying community here on Tumblr, please consider making your own gifs instead of making your roleplaying my continuous problem when you keep reposting my gifs like they're yours.

They're not yours. They're mine. These gifs are my work. You need only look at the before-and-after to realize how much effort I put into making them look as good as they do. And I deserve credit for that just as much as your fave fic author deserves a fic rec and your fave fanartist deserves a shoutout. I'm not your content creator whose gifs are a free-for-all-zero-credit-needed situation. I'm not your content creator who gets slapped with a like (if at all) and is then okay with having their stuff stolen and passed off as someone else's work.

My work is not your content. I deserve to be credited when you use it. I deserve the reblogs (with tags that tell people this is from this show!) and I deserve to be seen as more than just your nifty gif slot machine.

@vikingwarrioraragnarsson No, they are not from google. Those gifs you used are from a friend of mine and other gif makers. Stop being a stealing cunt.

How mature to block me instead of apologizing for STEALING other peoples works. I am so sick of this stupid fucking RPC. Fuck off. Seriously. Get lost. You have no place in the Vikings Fandom and NO right to use other peoples art, gifs or ANYTHING.

#yeah got soapbox-y on main here for a sec #but this is a pandemic of people stealing my stuff and I'm so done #please consider I'm a human being too who does this for fun #and some of y'all ain't making it fun at all

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tlkvikings · 6 months

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Hey Everyone!

Thank you for filling out our Interest Sheet! Unfortunately, the responses we got are currently too small to consider doing another Big Bang so soon. We appreciate all responses that we did get though!

Because we don't wanna leave you empty-handed, we came to the conclusion that we might do something else entirely... if enough people are up for it! We know a few of you would love to stay active in the Vikings fandom and connect through an event. Will you help us one more time to make it happen?

Explanation for each option beneath the read more:

* Secret Santa: This means you will fill out a gift exchange on ao3. You'll have the option to say what you'd like to read, tell your squicks/triggers and what you love, as a guideline for the author. Our authors will tell us what they love to write, but also what they don't want to write. We will take all of this info into account as we pair readers with authors. You will be the reader of one fic created especially for you, and you'll also be the author of one fic you'll create for someone else! It's a lovely exchange between readers and authors for the holiday season.

** Zero Comment Challenge: This challenge has piqued our interest last year. We thought it would be a nice way of giving back to those who create for our fandom and may not have gotten a huge fandom response to their work. As one might instantly notice, the Vikings fandom is vast and there are lots of fics on AO3 that did not get any comments. Even those who've been there for years. We think it's a little sad that some authors never received a kind word for their work. It would be ideal to strike them off the list of "zero comment fic". It is important to note, that a proper comment for this challenge is one that is structured and longer than five sentences. This can be achieved by following a comment guideline we would post for you. A How To if you will. Also, the knowledge of making an author smile is such a reward! Spreading love is important.

*** Fic Bingo: This one's a bit like a collect 'em all. You will get a Bingo sheet with varying tropes and other fic characteristics listed. Every time you read a fic that fits an entry on the bingo sheet, you get to cross that entry out. You have to comment in some way for us to track it, i. e. reblogging with a comment in the tags also counts, or you comment on AO3. Obviously we will need to get the links to the fics you read (and where the comment will be visible to us) to check if you actually did read them. Hence why the comment or reblog is necessary.

To make both the Fic Bingo and the Zero Comment Challenge a little more interesting, there will be 3 prizes to be won. This is where artists and writers come in. For all three places you can get a reward of differing value.

3. Prize will be a art of any kind: edit, gif, moodboard, digital art of something the winner can prompt (i.e. specific theme or character it revolves around).

2. Prize is a ficlet of max. 1k words that the winner can prompt with explicit guidelines on what they want and/or not want

1. Prize will be a combination of a fic and art of any kind by two different creators that will come together and collaborate for the winner.

To make this happen, we will need artists and authors to sign up to be available- much like with the Big Bang. The prize doesn't have to be ready immediately and you will be given a generous time frame to finish. This also means that it's possible someone might not create in case the prompts given don't suit them.

#go add your votes folks!#do you want something cool to be organized in the Vikings fandom?#then this might be your cuppa

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tlkvikings · 7 months

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Hello everyone!

We aren't totally sure if there will be another Vikings Big Bang. But we'd like to know who might be interested in one!

We made a little questionnaire about a future Big Bang that we'd love for you to fill out for us. You can talk to us about how you'd like to participate and which time frame would work for you! We really want to let as many of you join as possible. So if you've got exams, a lot of work, maybe even a house move or renovation coming up in 2024 and you do want to join our Big Bang? Now's the time to let us know what would work best for you!

With this questionnaire we can see when the majority of you will be able to create 🥰 Thanks in advance for filling it out!

Please spread the word, Killy & Yume 💜

#spreading the word 💕#filling it out only takes a moment of your time!#and it's really helpful for us 😊#so pls do it if you have not already

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tlkvikings · 7 months

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