#meet the moderators!

[hesperious-sands]

meet the moderators!

hello everyone, it's been a hot minute, but we're all hard at work, with check-in one starting in 4 days (as per my timezone)! but putting that aside, here are the mods! the individual posters for the mods will come out really soon, and the lineup for the artists and writers should too <3 i hope you guys see some familiar faces 👀👀🫶❤️❤️

head mod: @le-monchou! they (me) write for a ton of fandoms!

mod 1: @p-eleles! another writer who's cooking something fine :)

mod 2: @kestrius! an MCYT fan who's drawn a lot of cool things!

mod 3: @tinseltina! another artist (so everyone gets their due rep)

[froog-water]

glambonnie insane doodle dump,! im so totally normal you dont understand!! the silent hill tangent came about because i thought bon flirting with robbie the rabbit would be funny af.

also !! bonnie in a dress is inspired by sanydraws! idk if its okay to tag em :P

[manitapaleta]

the Li-Wilson family is the cutest, change my mind

(you cant)

[flickeringflame216]

blessings roll call!!!

[cozylittleartblog]

GRAAAHHH SORRY THIS IS SUDDEN BUT OH MY GOD I FINALLY FOUND YOU. IM THE BENREY THAT RAN UP TO YOUR BOOTH AR AMW THIS YEAR AND MY FRIEND BOUGHT ME LIKE ALMOST ALL YOUR VALVE STUFF, I LITERALLY CRIED WHEN I GOT BACK TO THEIR ROOM CAUSE LIKE DUDE. THAT MEANT EVERYTHING FOR ME, I WAS GENUINELY SO SO SO HAPPY TO SEE THE FANDOM IS STILL ALIVE AND IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR FANS IN THE WILD FOR YEARS. THE EXPERIENCE WAS ENLIGHTENING TO SAY THE LEAST AND IM SO SO JOYOUS ABOUT IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH !1!11! :•3

:D !!!! HI!!! I REMEMBER YOU!!! THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BY, I'M SO HAPPY IT WAS MEMORABLE FOR YOU!!

people who are so enthusiastic about the things i make and the fandoms i rep at my booth are THE #1 coolest part of the experience 🥺 i feel like convention artist alleys these days are mostly filled with the same 4 popular anime/mobile games and it's really hard to find less popular anime, let alone things like video games and webseries. you would not believe how many comments I got that people never see things like Team Fortress 2 or Portal in AAs, let alone stuff like Infinity Train or HLVRAI 😭 the people who recognize them are always SO excited and then I'M excited and we are BOTH excited and nerding out together. it's fantastic!!!

the hlvrai fandom is definitely still going strong! i still see a lot of fanart and community posts and my sales on my few hlvrai things on my etsy have Not slowed down lmao. i'm sure if covid didn't happen there would have been so many benry cosplayers in 2020. we were ROBBED </3 i've seen You and one benry cosplayer at ACEN last year and that was IT </3 </3 </3

[astromechs]

there was literally no narrative reason to give cassian a kyber crystal, specifically, in andor — except to parallel him with jyn, lmao. like, luthen could've used anything for "insurance", but the show's deliberate choice was a kyber crystal. this is the most explicit red string of fate storytelling i have ever seen in my life, and in this essay i will —

[minedaizine]

🌟MEET THE MODS 🌟

First up is our head mod @lordichamo - hosting this whole project, a concept artist with a love for zines, in charge of art and much more throughout the zine! 🦌

[amelikos]

I am already a big enjoyer of Friede and Amethio's rivalry and dynamics in general, so if Crave turns out to be Amethio's father, I feel like this knowledge would reframe their rivalry in very interesting ways and give additional readings and perspectives..

[batchedzine]

Meet the Mods!

Introducing our final batch of mods!

🍭Lychgate - @lychgate - Merchandise Mod

🎂 Renee - @reneeofthestars - Social Media Mod

Stay tuned for our Charity announcement, as well as our Contributor Lineup!

[shinobicyrus]

Listen. I'm not foolish enough to expect the Democratic nominee to proudly proclaim some socialist stance. That's just the state of American politics and its terminally myopic two-party system.

This need to appeal to the capital "M" Moderate, though? It's just the steady shift of Democratic policies further to the Right. It's how you get six Republicans speaking at the DNC, but not a single Palestinian-American speaker. It's how you get, for the first time in 12 years, no trans speakers at the DNC during a time when the GOP have put transphobia and anti-queer policies at the forefront of their platform.

Rather than dismiss or ignore the tired Socialist/Marxist/Communist accusations that Republicans fling at everyone to the left of fucking Sauron, Harris feels the need to tell people in an official public speech: "Look, I'm a capitalist."

This is a thing that no one asked or even thought about except for the most terminally online far-right trolls that weren't gonna vote for her anyway. Yet, she felt the need to reassure everyone she isn't some "radical." Whatever that means. This is how you have Harris promising to pass that failed bi-partisan immigration bill that Donald Trump sabotaged. Which, in case everyone forgot, would have been one of the toughest and harshest to date. Can't look weak against immigrants and asylum seekers!

This is how you have the Democratic Nominee for President promising to keep the US military the "strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world."

This is how you have the Democratic Nominee for President's economic policies compared to Mitt Goddamn Romney's.

Anyone remember the Romney's presidency? No, of course not, because he lost.

Will Harris defeat Trump in 2024? There's a good chance that she might win - or perhaps more accurately - that Trump will lose. I truly hope for this outcome.

But what about 2028? 2032? What about when someone less personally offensive than Trump but every bit as fascistic inevitably tops the GOP ticket? One a little more disciplined in speech, less prone to inane ramblings, and lacks dozens of indictments? How can the Democratic Party, ostensibly the "left wing" of American politics, supposed to stay competitive and distinguish themselves in a political arena when they're constantly ceding ground to the Right on immigration, military spending, the economy, guns; trying to hush controversial issues like "human rights for queer people," or "being a party to genocide" in a desperate attempt to appeal to some shrinking "moderate" demographic?

What do they have left, when all they can say is "well at least we're not weird like those guys"?

When NBC News of all organizations asked about the DNC's lack of trans speakers this year or the scaling back of discussions about queer rights, it was met only with silence:

"The DNC and the Harris campaign declined to comment."

Cool.

[glitterandmoondustofficial]

The way I see it is, as far as the negative opinions that are surrounding Veilguard, if the person would have made me miserable while I was working at GameStop, then their opinion isn’t valid.

Thanks for understanding my fool proof filtering system!

[crushedsweets]

What’s the worst that can happen if I host a magma and just drop the link here

[ask-indigo-park-swapped]

To the one behind the curtain:

I initially thought that this world was solely populated with anthropomorphic animals, but after seeing the Trader and Ruta, I've realized that's not the case.

What other sapient species live in this world?

<im flattered by the title. you can just use moderator pikachu or mod pika or something but i do like that title.>

<i wont say everything, but i will confirm that the existence of humans is still undecided, that sapient plants exist, and that ruta technically falls under the label of postmortem being. gods exist and also dont. make of that what you will.>

[originsrebirth]

thunder meets thunder .

closed starter for @sweepingthunder .

days upon days of the rumors , hearing about these rumors of these so called " belobog back alley " rumors , mysterious happenings , talk of ghost people and things that people question if they're real or not , the standard ghost story kind of thing . . . but this one had felt different to mei .

she wasn't one to believe in these ghost stories or these urban myths , they all were clearly stories to scare kids or some practical joke between friends turned into people getting scared and spinning into some elaborate story .

to her , this one had felt real , why ? she couldn't shake the feeling ever since she set foot in belobog that there was something strange going on . . . so this commission felt like it called to her directly .

once all the details got sorted out and she had heard she'd be meeting with a partner soon , she decided to take a quick leap ahead and get to a little bit of investigating before she was to meet up with them , see if she could find this specific fence and gaze from a distance , while still sticking somewhat close to the designated meeting area .

[kdotan]

thinking about ITWW small story tidbits and how s6-era Grian is considered like really old fashioned. man is fresh outta the void. he doesn’t know any of the new slang. he’s still calling terracotta “hardened clay.” he tries to fight a ghast one day and gets utterly obliterated because he tried blocking with his sword. he spent like a whole day trying to craft a enchanted golden apple until mumbo was like mate you can’t do that anymore.

[m00ngbin]

They are going to fuck up huge portions of the state parks in Florida I'm going to lose my mind

(link to petition protesting the GOI)

^That is an except from a PDF describing the details of the Great Outdoors Initiative (the thing the DEP announced) that I can't get the link to here, but IS linked in the petition site I put up there

Plans for a favorite park of mine ^^

Sorry I like really fail to see how a plan to increase tourism and build on acres of state park land will help aid conservation