#dragon age
Heavy Crown
The next (and hopefully last) rework of the tarot card for my Hawke. Markus Hawke is a humorous Rogue with a rather bitter progression. Some of his milestones include: Carver and Bethany died, no one romanced, sided with Templars, Anders executed, Viscount of Kirkwall.
I imagine Hawke to rule as Viscount in solitude and, because he has got no one left to make a stand against the growing Lyrium corruption within Kirkwall, he leaves the city to its fate by responding to Varric’s call for help. He then finds purpose (and love) with the Inquisition. He needed a break from saving people’s asses anyway…
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Oxygen
Wanted to try something new featuring my Inquisitor. Turns out water is quite difficult to visualize.
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How to sign up for Black Emporium!
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How to sign up for Black Emporium!
Yes sweet nuglets, it’s that time of year again: Time to sign up for Black Emporium!
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How to Guide||Requests on Ao3||Tagset||Nominations Spreadsheet||Request Database||Parent Collection (All Past Years)
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Signups end: July 17, 2021 @ 8:00PM EDT||Countdown
CHANGES THIS YEAR
- We now have a brand new Request Database this year! Unlike previous years where mods had to hand copy requests into a separate Google Doc, the Database will automatically populate who and what people are requesting. (Should come in handy when writing treats or looking for inspiration.)
A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO SIGN-UPS BELOW THE CUT:
Signal boost! Signups close TOMORROW, Saturday July 17th, at 8 pm EST. Please don’t hesitate to ask questions if you’ve got ‘em, we are happy to help.
We’ve got a couple pairings nominated where we have a couple questions:
For Female Inquisitor/Vivienne, we require the background of the Inquisitor as each is evaluated differently as far as it’s rarey-pairy ness. Please edit in the background of the inquisitor. (Note: Female Adaar/Vivienne is already in the tag set.)
For Lace Harding/Lavellan, we require the gender of the inquisitor. Please fix this nomination to clarify whether Lavellan is Male, Female, or Non-Binary.
Nominations for the Black Emporium are now live! Reach out and tell someone (namely: us) about your favorite rare-pairs (namely: any pairing under 300 complete fics on Ao3). You have twenty nominations to use. Pairings can be twosomes/threesomes/moresomes//etc. We believe in sharing the love.
How do you, in fact, become a true Fereldan buckaroo by nominating a rare pair or 20?
Go to the Dragon Age Rare Pair Tag Set and click Nominate (you have to be signed into Ao3 for the button to appear)
- Nominate your favorite pairings! Some pairings may autofill, some may not; if your pairing is so rare that it doesn’t exist yet, just type it in anyway and we’ll take care of the rest.
- When you’re done, hit Submitat the bottom of the page. Your pairings will be reviewed and accepted/rejected as soon as possible. After you’ve hit Submit you will not be able to go back and edit your nominations after we’ve reviewed them, though you will be able to go back and fill up your form until you’ve hit 20 pairings.
For the purposes of this challenge, the Dragon Age protagonists will be considered different characters based on their genderandsurname. This means that there are twenty-one Wardens, three Hawkesandtwelve Inquisitors to choose from. Please nominate your protagonist of preference with these two criteria in mind. So: Female Trevelyan/Male Cousland will be accepted as a nomination; Inquisitor/Warden will not. Likewise, Female Trevelyan/Cullen Rutherford would not be accepted, because it has more than 300 complete fics, but both Male Trevelyan/Cullen RutherfordandNonbinary Trevelyan/Cullen Rutherford would be.
If you have any specific class, appearance or personality preferences you are free to request them in your prompt during sign-ups.
We will also allow original characters, provided they obey the following rules:
a)The OC is listed in the relationship in such a way as to give someone freedom in how to write them (e.g. “Tentacle Monster” or “Original Templar Character” NOT: “my OC Gerald D'Vivir”) - a good rule of thumb here is whether the character can be summed up in 3 or fewer words; if it can, it is probably a good option. If it cannot, the OC is probably is too complex for this kind of exchange.
b) The OC is not listed in such a way that would, essentially, reflect the spirit of a canon character that is otherwise not permitted in a relationship. See again: “Modern Human Female Inquisitor/Cullen” is still ineligible, even if there are only 5 fics with that tag, because it is a variant of Female Trevelyan/Cullen.
We will also allow crossovers with other canons, provided there are less than 300 completed works with the pairing on Ao3.
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If you want to see what’s already been nominated, Mods A, K, and S, and our helpers are updating the nominations spreadsheet as fast as we can.
Hello! I have now read over a hundred Bull/Dorian fics and would love to share my favourites with y’all (I’ll probably make similar fic recs for other DA pairings eventually). Some of these are criminally under-kudos’d or lack comments, so if you can please leave the authors some! They definitely deserve it! Also this got pretty long so I’m putting most of it under a cut!
Ouroboros by maliwanhellfire (M, 8K)
“So, he claims to be a time traveller,” Cullen said, slowly and with obvious disbelief.
“Would anyone be able to tell me what day it is?” Dorian asked.
“He’s obviously a spy,” Cassandra replied.
“I hope it’s not the third,” Dorian muttered.
Dorian has been living through his own personal Groundhog Year and he’s finally decided to tell everybody. It doesn’t matter though, this run’s a wash anyway.
[this is literally my favourite Adoribull fic of all time. Like. I think about it constantly please please read it]
Unshakeable Bonds by Elthadriel (M, 7K)
When a spell convinces Bull that Dorian is a danger to the Inquisition, Krem is forced to try and keep Bull from killing Dorian until he can dispel the magic.
[if I’m in the mood for angst this is my go-to fic. I ADORE Krem protecting Dorian from Bull because Bull lovesDorian, and Krem would never let Bull destroy himself like that. It’s just. Yes. Yes to all of it]
O M'anam (and the rest of this series) by FoxNonny (T, 9K - series becomes E)
Mahanon wants nothing more than for the men he’s in love with to realize that he’s in love with them, and hopes that a long journey to the Hissing Wastes might help sort things out between them.
Getting thrown off a cliff was not part of his plan.
[okay so technically this one is Bull/Dorian/Inquisitor but GUYS ITS LITERALLY PERFECT ITS THE BEST DRAGON AGE SERIES IVE EVER READ IM OBSESSED WITH THE CHARACTER DYNAMICS I KNOW IM A SLUT FOR POLY BUT PLEASE READ THIS ONE - you won’t regret it]
