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Meg Syv

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Meg Syverud (SIV-uh-rood) | Storyboards, Comics, Art Linktree: https://linktr.ee/MegSyv Art Only: @megsyvart.bsky.social Webcomic: daughterofthelilies.com Currently: Storyboard Artist @ Disney I'm your fun cranky early-internet aunt.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 2d ago

A statement from our union president on the amazing turnout of support for the Game Industry Hardship Fund itch.io bundle 🙏 👇 The bundle is live for 10 more days to support devs in need, but a long-term difference can be made by joining UVW-CWA directly. ✊ uvw-cwa.org itch.io/b/3802/game-...

A message from United Videogame Workers, a Code-CWA Union, part 1: A statement from Aurelia Augusta - President, UVW-CWA Local 9433:

The response to the Hardship Fund has been so awe-inspiring and so great that it's honestly made it difficult to write a statement because every time I look away, the total amount raised by the itch bundle leaps forward yet again and I find a few more tears of joy on my face.

A message from United Videogame Workers, a Code-CWA Union, part 2: As I'm writing this, we've just passed $97,000 that will go directly into the pockets of struggling game workers, raised at a truly incredible speed, in addition to the $25K already dispersed by UVW-CWA.

I want to start with a massive thanks to players who have bought the bundle, signal-boosted it, or otherwise supported this effort.

A message from United Videogame Workers, a Code-CWA Union, part 3: To our allies in the labour movement who have supported this effort, everyone in UVW-CWA continues to be awed by and thankful for your solidarity and ever proud to be standing up to fight for workers alongside you.

And to all game workers, I want to highlight that this is just small example of what's possible when we stand together as workers. Together in solidarity, we can make sure that this is far from just a one-off reprieve.

A message from United Videogame Workers, a Code-CWA Union, part 4: We can make an industry where workers don't have to choose between fighting for their rights and paying their bills.

It will take time, it will take winning the many fights to come, but I adamantly believe that one day we can make an industry and a world where we won't need a hardship fund.

Join us today in that fight at uvw-cwa.org.

In Solidarity,
Aurelia Augusta - President,
UVW-CWA Local 9433

Meg Syv @megsyv.bsky.social · 6d ago

Generally speaking, if someone gets away with exploiting labor and stealing wages, I'm of the opinion that those whose responsibility it was to protect those workers and enforce consequences who then choose to do nothing become complicit. The only thing the offender learns is how to be more careful.

paul reinwand @paulreinwand.bsky.social · 7d ago

Animation folks that are looking for work currently, or in the next few weeks, I have a lead on an Adult Animation/Action/Superhero show staffing up soon: BG Layout - mid level Blender knowledge needed Prop 2d FX Char Design Feel free to drop portfolio links below, and I will send them along to AD

Meg Syv @megsyv.bsky.social · last wk.

50,240 words. Yikes.

Meg Syv@megsyv.bsky.social · 2w ago

Obligatory "I'm alive," post.* *Scrivener wordcount not included.

Laser @lasersinger.bsky.social · 2w ago

How about some of these scrapped thumbs haha. Sometimes I end up liking them more than my cleans. Truly I can't pick a favorite character I enjoyed drawing.

Yokoboo @yokoboo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Comms still open! I don’t charge extra for FFXIV characters I love doing TTRPG characters And I give discounts for clients that give me samples of their desired poses (YCH’s to stick figures to photo ref, I take them all!) See below for past commissions and YokoWeaver.com for more of my work!

Yokoboo@yokoboo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

After three years, commissions are OPEN! Even if you can't afford to buy a comm, it really helps if you repost and let others in your social circles know. I also plan on twitch streaming again, so if you buy a comm, you can probably catch me stream/recording it! (unless asked not to, of course)

Meg Syv @megsyv.bsky.social · 2w ago

Obligatory "I'm alive," post.* *Scrivener wordcount not included.

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 4w ago

Kids need/deserve traumatic films. Films that show death or lasting consequences that aren't resolved almost instantly. Fear, anger, grief and frustration should be part of kids movies. Kids arent stupid, they feel big emotions just like adults, they deserve to see those experiences reflected back.

Meg Syv @megsyv.bsky.social · 4w ago

Wait till you guys see the one they did of Thistle!

BeraCerbera@beracerbera.bsky.social · 4w ago

Lyra 🦊 [ #furry #art #furryart ]

Petra Erika Nordlund @pepurika.bsky.social · last mo.

www.tigertigercomic.com/tiger-tiger/... it's the new page of Tigers!! Now is a great time to hop on this webcomic, because this is the last chapter of it!

Meg Syv @megsyv.bsky.social · last mo.

"This just looks like something I'd see on the Internet."

S R Jones @aegisimmemorial.bsky.social · last mo.

If you see this, please tell me the worst/most baffling bit of creative feedback you've ever recieved. Mine is still the time somebody told me my aliens had names that were too alien. Not that they were unpronounceable, just that they didn't sound enough like human names.

Toons @toonakan.bsky.social · last mo.

I couldn't resist drawing my lovely bunny Fable and their partner

Meg Syv@megsyv.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Draw your OTP like this.... please.... I love this good food....

Rincs ✦ Comms OPEN ✦@rincs.art · last mo.

It only took me a several months, but I finally drew this. My OC Robin (the one being hugged) and his Beau, Chase.

Two men are cuddling. One with dark skin and long hair is wrapped inside the other man's coat as he is wearing it.

Meg Syv@megsyv.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Draw your OTP like this.... please.... I love this good food....

United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · last mo.

Proud to announce our HARDSHIP FUND: uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun... If you've been recently laid off and need support, we got you.

Meg Syv @megsyv.bsky.social · last mo.

All of my Customer Satisfaction Surveys are worthless because everyone without exception gets full stars with the comment "give this person a raise."

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · last mo.

Omg there's a horseshoe crab flipping song!! It's so 90s PSA songey. What glorious propaganda!! 😭 😭

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · last mo.

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”

That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.

No Context Spider-Man @nocontextspiderman.bsky.social · last mo.

Panel from Spidey Super Stories #40 (1980)

Spider-Man is engulfed in a cloud of gas after being sprayed by a giant Bug Spray cannister.

Narrator: Meanwhile...
Spider-Man: *COUGH!* This is TERRIBLE!

Meg Syv @megsyv.bsky.social · last mo.

Y'all should go buy this book, it's absolutely gorgeous and such a love letter to all of us who worked on it. ❤️😭💙

United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · last mo.

Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!

Milo Neuman @miloneuman.bsky.social · last mo.

I very often will draw 5 or 6 terrible, hideous, incompetent studies from reference and then draw something great out of my head, using what I internalized from all those failures. That is the point. The whole entire point.

Meg Syv @megsyv.bsky.social · last mo.

Dont stress so much about your rate of improvement! One page full of "bad" drawings is priceless. An empty sheet of paper costs a cent. You'll always be trying to improve your draftsmanship, so celebrate your ability to see mistakes!

Katie Croonenberghs Art@kamakru.bsky.social · last mo.

Hey artists, let's share some helpful things in the community :) 🎨 What's one tip or trick you would give a new artist in your chosen medium? (Or just in general!)

Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · last mo.

Do not speak to me of "barriers to entry". Every act of creation is slicing out a thin sliver of light from the existential darkness of the human condition. You not being able to pick up a fucking pencil and risk failing does not even register.