#mod Sav

[taleblr-zine]

Zine Artist/Writer Application

Hey folks! The Taleblr Zine applications are live! Artist/Writer/Merch Artist form can be found here. Applicants will be hearing back from us by October 25th about whether they made it in (though I don't expect to give many rejections!) The mod applications are also still live, which are important! Presently we only have two mods, and the zine may take a bit longer to coordinate without as many hands to help. Consider applying if you'd like the leadership experience! Super excited to see yalls' submissions!

Our FAQ: here! -Mod Sav

#fan zine #taleblr #venturiantale #vt #mod sav #p.i.e

[fendersfanatics]

https://www.takethis.org/2023/06/its-never-as-simple-as-just-a-game-queer-representation-in-games/

An excellent post about why representation in video games matters. It explains it perfectly. 💜

Let us exist in your fantasy realms! Xxx

#mod sav #fendersfanatics member #gay representation #queer representation #queers in fiction #poc representation #blog post #we matter #bisexual mod

[landgraabbed]

hector's night out in magic town

#p #ts2 #sims 2 #sav: bloom valley #y02sum #that was a short round! #i hadn't really put in cool vamp mods so he spent most of his time snork mimimimi-ing

[savannahsdeath]

my bsf (she has birthday tomorrow🤭) made this masterpiece so i decided to share it with you guys .

#sav rambles #reqs open #shes so talented right?? #no bc i actually believed its real like a mod or something for a sec. #what can i say #ellie williams #ellie williams tlou #ellie williams the last of us #ellie tlou #ellie the last of us

[organsoutsidelovinglydescribed]

Hi! I was curious what the policy is on OCs, if there is any. Like, can the OC be the central bit so long as it's set in trigun, or can I, say, have two copies of a story, one for an OC and one for a canon character (the canon one gets to be entered as part of the event but the OC one doesn't) type of deal?

Hi!

There was no previously established policy for OCs as we hadn't considered it, so thank you for asking.

Anything set within the Trigun universe is fair game, OCs included! Have fun!

#Mod Sav (@needle-noggins) here - i myself have a trigun OC i've written fic for! #so you are in good company!

[loviatarsluv]

I miss my original niamh save file but this one is so cunty I love her

#I had to remake her and restart bc some mods corrupted the sav #I’m very sad #but I get to experience the weave date again soooo #beggars choosers all that #oc: niamh #bg3 oc #bg3 #my screenshots #baldur's gate iii #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 edit #otis’ camera tools #reshade

[andreeds]

havent rimposted on here in a while. here's the base of my current save

i have ideology+biotech dlcs and im playing as a custom* race of cave dwellers whose ideology resolves around being cave dwellers. lights bad dark good eclipse is perfect their diet is entirely cave grown fungus with occasional meat from a raider** and everyone who isnt a raxdactyl and/or a caveist is fucking miserable here

#my post #*by custom i mean i made all starting pawns to have the same xenotype and saved it. not sure if thats a mod thing or not tho. oops #but sometimes i encounter other raxdactyls in the wild #**the irony is that i had a hen and a rooster but they didnt make it thru winter of the first year and now i cant find any roosters #so no easy meat for now #also acquired that highmate (the purple one) from a crashed pod event captured him converted to caveism recruited him #and paired him up with the other pawn whos also incapable of violence. they are already married and have a baby #you may ask how did i get steam geysers inside a cave that i fully dug out? and the answer is cheatingofc<-the dev tools are in the top of #for those who arent familiar with rimworld: nutrifungus grows in complete darkness and is usually hated by all ideologies #and highmates are biologically engineered perfect lovers who are always incapable of violence and will have a special bond with their partn #they are so rare tho! i dont think ive ever seen one in my other save thats like 30+ in game years #rimposting #oh also its cropped bc the rest of the map is just undug mountain. thanks to geological formations mod i have a perfect set up for this sav

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

BLOOD

BLOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!

#its just so silly. they deserve to bleed every day #'sav did you download the mod and boot it up just t' MIND YOUR BUSINESS!!!!!!! #for your information. im trying to find the quotes. for when they start to bleed blood. i need this for reasons #tw blood #i guess??

[unkownknowledge]

Trying to enjoy skyrim while the mods constantly fuck up for no reason is like those comic strip of someone trying to love a really angry cat.

#every time I finally get the savs how I want. something goes wrong #got mandalore armor from that mod? crash for no reason #got enough infinity and continuum stones from those other two mods? crash! then crash again after you removed the problem! #finally become thane of riften? mods that worked perfectly fine last playthrough DON'T FUCKING WORK AND THE GAME IS FUCKED NOW BECAUSE YOU #MESSED WITH THE LOAD ORDER #and because the broken mods now are follower based I can't test it immediately

[fans4wga]

WGA UPDATE: "Where We Are and Where We’re Going"

From WGA West on Youtube: WGA Negotiating Committee Co-Chair Chris Keyser gives an update one month into the Writers Guild strike.

Mod note: While this video is intended for WGA members, it's a great morale boost and affirmation that what we do as fans and audience members matters. Make your voice heard on social media. Studios are losing the PR battle right now, but strike fatigue may set in later on—fight it and keep up morale among yourself and your fandom communities!

Full transcript below the cut (1992 words)

“Where We Are And Where We’re Going” June 2, 2023

Fellow members of the WGA, East and West, thank you for giving me a few minutes to update you on where we are and where we're going. Our strike against the companies of the AMPTP is now in its fifth week. We have walked together on picket lines for a month. With the acknowledgment that there is no letting up until we ultimately achieve the contract we deserve and that we need to survive in this business, I will say, we should all take a minute to appreciate what we've accomplished. We have been highly effective in inflicting pain on the companies by withholding our work, by picketing itself, publicly demonstrating our resolve, our endurance, our sometimes even joyful commitment to a joyless task, by bringing to our side a coalition of labor that this town has not seen in generations, by disrupting production in concert with those union allies who honor our lines, and by informing investors and advertisers of those disruptions.

Our message has power because it's true. We believe in it because we know it's true. But that only goes so far. What has real power, what moves people, what will move this town one day, is our belief in each other. So thank you, all of you. All our picket site coordinators, all our incredible captains, every single member who has spoken with their feet as well as their voice, who has stuck with both the letter and the spirit of the strike rules. Thank you to Guild staff, who have gone above and beyond and then beyond that. Thank you to the other Guilds and unions: the Teamsters, IATSE, SAG-AFTRA, the Musicians, the Electrical Workers, the Plasterers, the Laborers, the DGA, and everyone else who have sent a message to the companies with their solidarity.

What have the companies been doing in the meantime? Well, they've been putting out heartfelt statements from their executives that they truly hope the strike can be resolved quickly for everyone's benefit, which is weird. They hope? Aren't these their companies? Don't know where to find us? We are, after all, right outside their gates. They claim they don't have time for us, that they're busy. That's a lie, it's just a lie. They could talk to us if they wanted to. This is their strategy, such as it is. The same old strategy. But it's not going to work. If Carol Lombardini thinks negotiating with the DGA while we're out on strike is some kind of trump card, she's gonna find out that her 2007/8 playbook doesn't belong in a negotiating room, it belongs in a museum. Any deal that puts this town back to work runs straight through the WGA, and there is no way around us. We wish the DGA the best in their negotiations. That goes for SAG-AFTRA as well.

We are, as I said before, infinitely grateful to all their members who have marched with us every day. We are rooting hard for them to exercise their power and achieve the contract they deserve. They are hurting just like we are. They are at risk just like we are. SAG-AFTRA's SAV vote should send shivers down the companies' spine.

The month of June will bring us all some answers. By the time it's over, the companies may find themselves embattled on more than one front, or we alone may be without a contract. And either way, we will fight on with this understanding: We are girded by an alliance with our sister guilds and unions, they give us strength, but we are strong enough. We have always been strong enough to get the deal we need using writer power alone. We were strong enough in 2007/8, we were strong enough during the agency campaign, we are strong enough now.

As David Goodman and I have said from the very beginning, the single thing that will determine whether we succeed or fail in this strike is our endurance, both physical and emotional. I have no doubt about that endurance. Writers' strength of character aside, the companies have made us strong. They have taught us, however painfully, to withstand months and months without work. Their abuse of us has made it untenable to rush back to jobs that may not even be there in a year or two in a career where even success is financially unsustainable. But even as we endure, there will be challenges, it will be painful. Uncertainty is painful. Is there any one of us who doesn't wake up feeling the weight of this every day? I don't think so. Having no income in a tenuous job market is painful, there's help for that, of course, through the Strike Fund and the Good and Welfare Fund and the Entertainment Community Fund, but none of that is the same as having a job, and everyone understands that.

We will need to steel ourselves against arguments whispered in our ears designed to weaken our resolve, to distrust each other. I'm gonna say them out loud again because it's better to talk about them than to ignore them. The first is that the Guild is just waiting for the AMPTP to decide when negotiations begin again. We are negotiating now. Every day, we are negotiating. We are making the only argument the companies can hear, the argument of power. We are withholding our work, disrupting productions, talking to Wall Street, to City Hall, Sacramento, and Washington D.C. We are bringing allies to our cause. This is the work. This is the leverage. It is the same in any strike, and it will take time. But if we believe the central truth of our cause, that it all starts with writing and that nothing happens without it, then we have to trust that truth and stay the course.

Related, of course, is the lie that the companies are impervious to all of this. Every day, the cost of not negotiating with us adds up. And it's not just from the shutdowns that get all the attention, it's the shows that will shoot until they run out of scripts and then stop dead, the shows that will finish shooting and grind to a halt in post, it's the fall broadcast season that day by day will begin to slip away. It's the pain that for others will come later but will come. Because subscribers don't pay for platforms with meager product and advertisers just don't pay for shows with meager audiences.

So all the silent CEOs lounging on their summer yachts, leaving it all to Carol and the AMPTP, will have some explaining to do once it becomes clear that we are not going anywhere. The parent companies of the broadcast networks as well as Sony will have to explain the strategy of risking those broadcast interests to the interests of tech companies who will still have products to air in the fall. They'll have to explain linking their fates to the fates of those same companies whose explicit intention is to eat them for breakfast, one at a time. They will have to explain their refusal to negotiate with us over business practices that are roughly in line with how they have done business for decades. Even those companies whose business is a half-and-half mix of streaming and linear programming, Disney, Comcast, NBCUniversal, and Paramount, but whose streaming businesses rely heavily on the content they make for network television, content that is about to dry up, will have to explain. Warner Discovery will have to explain why writers are a greater threat to them than Netflix and how, having dumped content and shut down development for the past year to pay for one man's merger, they intend to compete without scripted programming. Apple will have to explain how this little experiment in branding is working out for them and why, with their nearly $3 trillion in market capitalization, they refuse to even talk to writers over a $17 million ask a year. Why this company that became rich beyond measure from its creative brilliance refuses to allow writers just a fair share of ours.

As for Amazon, given the way they treat unions, maybe they think they don't have to explain anything. But this is a different town they're in now. Even Netflix, who alone among all these companies, has no other product but its programming and for whom subscription churn is a huge problem, whose quarterly results can be made or broken by the success of a single smash hit show, will have to explain. Because the hole in content is coming for them too. It may be coming later, but it's coming, and Wall Street will take note.

All of which is to say, hang on. We are doing what we set out to do, and it's having an impact even beyond the lives of writers. It began with every other Guild and union in this business who saw in our struggle a mirror of their own. What I'm telling you is that when you walk in circles in front of every studio in town, you are carrying with you a cause that is larger than just us and this business, though just us and this business would have been enough. We are marching for labor, and labor is watching us. We have, it turns out to our great fortune, something very precious. We have a strong union in a heavily unionized industry. We have what many workers in this country do not. If we succeed, we will make it easier, not easy, but easier, for others to succeed after us. If we falter, if we fail, if it is the companies' power that wins the day and not ours, then we will have failed for everyone. We will have made it harder for everyone.

And I mean that not as a burden but as a purpose. The signs we carry have messages written on them in invisible, visible ink, and all who labor can read them: that everyone who works has a right to be treated with dignity, that we are not diminished by the size of the company that employs us, that what we want is not just a gig, not just a job, but a career with a future and with promise, and that first among those promises is that if you do good work, you can make a life out of doing that thing. That technology driven only by unchecked capitalism and with no attention to its human costs and moral implications is a threat to us all. It must be controlled. It cannot be left only to those who would always rather make a dollar than a good decision. And that, as I have said before, the promise of this country belongs also to those who make something other than just money.

The companies think that time is weakening us, but they are wrong. It is making us stronger. Every day they refuse to negotiate, they bring us together at their gates to hear each other's stories, and in those stories to hear echoes of our own. They have reminded us every day of the thousands of other people for whom we are fighting and reminded us, too, that thousands of other people are fighting for us.

To paraphrase a line, we are now perhaps at the end of the beginning. No one knows how long this will take. The companies will have some say in that. What they will have no say in is how we behave along the way in our fortitude. But they will come to understand it, and they will pay it the respect it deserves in time.

On behalf of the leadership and the NegCom [Negotiating Committee], I thank you all again. We have marched with you every day. We are in awe of this membership. You give us strength. Union now. Union forever.

#wga #current events #hollywood #fans4wga #i stand with the wga #Youtube #wga strike #writers strike

[avatar-wtf-weekend]

2024: Meet the Mods

The HBIC: Sav

Favorite color? My favorite color is green! Basically any shade, but especially mint and forest 💚

Favorite rare pair? This is a tie between YuTen and Makonora for me <3

If you were a bird what would you be? I’d love to say I’d be a crow, because I too like shiny things, hold grudges, and never forget a face, but tbh I’m probably more like a penguin.

The Creative: Orange

Favorite color? Believe it or not, not orange.

Favorite rare pair? I think the worst thing I ever wrote was Wing Beifong/Yao (the half man, half tree from Avatar Wan's time). That was... something. Anyway obviously I love crack ships.

How would you hide a body? OH this is such a hard question. I live right next to a very deep, very dark, very cold body of water full of predators. I can walk to a marina and a hardware store. I lift weights. I know how to sail. How good is the marina's security? But then again, how predictable. This time of year the coyotes down the hill have puppies to feed.

The Cute One: Joy

Favorite color? yellow 💛☀️🌻

Favorite rare pair? Tough decision…maybe teoaang. But Jetkka? Azutara? Tyshot? As Bumi says, you’ve got to open your mind to the possibilities.

What super hero would you be? Probably Spider-Man because I’m a smart ass. But realistically, is there a superhero that just sleeps all the time? That’s me.

Stay tuned for prompt suggestions, opening on April 19th!

Picrew link

#meet the mods #avatar wtf weekend #avatarwtfweekend #atla rare pairs #tlok rare pair #atla #tlok #fandom event

[taleblr-zine]

The Taleblr Zine.

It doesn't exist.. *yet*. But that's exactly why I need your help!

In my (Mod Sav)'s poll on @pieisgay, I had some folks express interest in helping to mod/coordinate for the zine. The Mod Application is here! I only have one other mod right now, and we are in the very early planning stages. When Artist Applications are live, that will be posted out to this account!

#taleblr #venturiantale #fan zine #fanzine #mod sav

[atlararepairbigbang]

Meet the Mods!

We have an awesome team of mods working together to put on this event, so we figured we'd introduce ourselves as we prepare for sign ups to kick off on the 26th of March!

Sav, aka @badlucksav

Mod Sav here! My favorite ships are Irosami, Makonora, Makorra, YuTen, Zutara, Azutara, and JetLee, but I like any ship that makes my brain sparkle. I’ve been in fandom for almost 3 years, joining during the Renaissance initially as a ZK shipper but branching out into different ships and then into LoK as well. I’m a writer and sometimes artist, and occasional beta. A fun fact about me is that I wrote my longest fic (273k words) in just under six months.

Sooz, aka @it-is-sooz-again

Hi, I’m mod Sooz! I’ve been a part of the Avatar fandom since 2011, but only really started making fanart for it in the last couple of years. I’m a multishipper and rare pair fanatic, and can be sold on just about any ship that passes my way, but I have a soft spot for anything involving Jet or Ty Lee. Unsurprisingly, my favorite ship is JetLee. A fun fact about me is that all my headcanons are depressing 🙂 !

Orange, aka @orangepanic

Hello, I'm mod Orange. I'd never even heard of fandom until summer of 2020 when I suddenly needed a creative outlet to offset the fact I was locked inside my apartment and busted out 60k words of spiteful canon fix-it. My favorite ships are Irosami and complete and utter side character crack like Ursa/The Boulder, Lin Beifong/Lightning Bolt Zolt, June/Col. Mongke, Azula/Joo Dee, Baatar Beifong/Eska, and Viper/Jargala Omo. Fun fact: I've written nearly 25% of the Irosami tag on AO3.

Neva, aka @neva-borne

Hi, I'm mod Neva (pronounced knee-vah). I started writing for the fandom back in 2019, finishing my first fic a year later, though I've been a fan of ATLA since I was a kid. I kind of dove headfirst into fandom and running events. I'm an artist and writer, and I've dabbled in betaing through my event experience. My favorite ships are Zutara and Jursa, and I actually wrote the first ever Jursa fic on Ao3!

Crooked, aka @crookedmouth-mountainbones

Hello, I'm mod Crooked! I joined the ATLA fandom officially with the renaissance of 2020 but was first introduced to it back in college. I am a writer and beta reader in this fandom as well as others, and am your resident villain devotee. Rarepairs and crackships have always been my favourite, though I am -- to no one's surprise at this point -- partial to pairings involving Zhao. As for a fun fact, some of my non-fanfiction work has been published, which is cool, I guess, if you're into poetry.

And that's the team! We hope to see you soon!

#atla rare pair big bang #atla #avatar the last airbender #rare pair #aang #atla event #atla rare pair #azula #bolin #katara #zuko #jee #ursa #korra #the legend of korra #tlok #lok #legend of korra #rare pairs

[landgraabbed]

imogen's birthday party!

#p #ts2 #sims 2 #sav: bloom valley #y03sum #1. gwen and hectors friendship beloved #2. rosalia being surrounded by sims aggressively hula dancing is the price i pay for not getting the anti hula mods lmfao #3. i love imogen. love that she is in all ways but her eyes claire 2.0 #4. love all the dads in bloom valley constantly playing red hands (?) with their kids

[duran301]

Using this base

I have made this one

But I couldn’t stop their, this base is so cute, I decided to make some for @a-spoonful-o-generosity, @cadenceconfessions, @aerialaim and @whirlwindflux as well as their mods, @twila-bloggin and @asksugarrush, @askdrunktwilight AKA @silverwinghere, @ask-healthy-light and @ask-a-grumpy-melon.

I hope y’all like them, I will be posting them separately again with better quality for y’all.

#mlp #my little pony #brony #art #my art #not my base

[organsoutsidelovinglydescribed]

AO3 doesn't seem to allow me to post to your AO3 collection if I have already just submitted my work to the site. This is weird because I was pretty sure I was able to post to collections on another prompt-challenge's collection (Ace Trigun Week) just fine. I posted the work without going directly to the site-collection first and AO3 is either being weird for me or I'm hopeless to figure out some of their systems. Anyway, my ficlet collection is / will be here if you are able to add it: Cage of Bone, Prison of Flesh (I am Lost-Technology, posting from my main blog).

Hi! It is in our collection now. I'm not sure what happened with that, but I'm glad it's resolved! Might've just been a little AO3 bug. Let us know if you have any more issues!

-Mod Sav