#dragon age zine interest check

[thraaaaaaaanduuuuuuuuiiiiiiiiil]

Do YOU have a Dragon Age OC that you just can't stop thinking about?

Do you want the entire rest of the Dragon Age fandom to not stop thinking about them too?

Or maybe you don't have an OC of your own but you absolutely LOVE having OC brain rot for all of the OCs who cross your dash every single day, and you just want to find EVEN MORE awesome Dragon Age OCs so you can continue having EVEN MORE Dragon Age OC brain rot every single day.

Heck, maybe both. This is a judgement-free zone. In any case, if this might be you, then consider responding to my... DRAGON AGE OC ZINE INTEREST CHECK

Is it fancy? No! Will the zine be? Probably! But the zine has to exist first for us to find out! If the thought of an entire zine filled with art and writing about Dragon Age OCs sounds like something that YOU might want to have in your life, or that YOU might want to be a part of, please fill out the interest check. And please share this post and the link around to your Dragon Age friends.

[companionszine]

The interest check for Wanderers of Thedas: A Dragon Age Companions Zine is now LIVE!

Fill it in here, and let us know what you want to see!

Feel free to share it with others! Here's the link: https://forms.gle/x6SN7T14e5q3gSWSA

@zine-scene @zinefeed

[daflowerzine]

Announcing the Dragon Age Flower Zine, designed to celebrate the world of Thedas through flowers and floriography. Come join us!

This unofficial project will tentatively feature ~30 artists and 10-12 writers, featuring characters and lore from all three games and canon media.

The interest check is open from Sept 15 2023 until Sept 30 2023.

Interest Check: [link]

Zine Guidelines: [link]

Twitter: [link]

[nova-dracomon]

Modern Draconity Zine | Interest Check

Draconity isn’t solely from ages past, but something that still burns bright in the modern age. This zine would be a collection of pieces created by nonhumans about what it means to be draconic in the present day (or even future). Both fiction and nonfiction pieces would be accepted. As long as what you have in mind fits the theme, it’ll probably be a-ok. Off the top of our head, we’re thinking of essays, short stories, poetry, mock advice columns, alternative covers, fictional advertisements, comics or recipes.

Also, this zine would impose no set definition on what is or isn’t “dragon enough.” If you feel like the label applies, we want to hear from you! Anonymous submissions would also be accepted.

If you'd be interested in either reading or submitting to this potential zine comment, reply, or add it in the tags!

[olderthannetfic]

Do you, or anyone actually, know where/when the '-bowl' sufix started being used in Fandom? Because I can't find any kind of origin, and surprisingly Fanlore doesn't have a article about it (as far as I checked maybe I didn't search well?). I just found and know that it's used for kinda old and relatively new fandoms, thanks to a two-year-old Reddit post.

For anyone who doesn't get/know about the '-bowl' sufix: is basically an All × One thing. For example, if you encounter 'Dekubowl' this means that Deku, the character, is shipped with everyone or that at least everyone else have a crush with Deku.

I can only think of the 'Super Bowl' (just as one comment in that Reddit post suggest) for its origin, but when we talk about Fandom culture we never know. It could have originated from anything no-related to the Super Bowl, LOL.

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Ooh, interesting. I've never heard of this in my life, and I have no idea what a -bowl suffix is supposed to mean, even if I guess it has to do with the super bowl.

It's not surprising Fanlore doesn't have this if it's coming from BNHA or somewhere similar. Fanlore is fantastic on the history of Western "Media Fandom", zines, K/S, etc. It's much weaker in areas that OTW early adopters haven't spent as much time in.

You should write the -bowl article yourself!

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I went into AO3's tag search and looked for 'bowl'. I found 1311 tags, 90 of them canonicals.

I'm seeing a ton of references to the Super Bowl, dust bowl AUs, pet play with pet food bowls, Dream in the fishbowl, unending uses like "I'm crying into my bowl of cereal as I write this", "bowl of honey nut feelios", "bowl of pornflakes", "me shaking the food bowl of sbi wilbur-centric angst: come get y'all's juice", etc., and plenty of references to YOI katusdon bowls. Lots of fandoms and episodes have 'bowl' in their titles.

Zeroing in on more related things, I'm seeing BNHA over and over and not much else...

EXCEPT!

Fruit bowls!

I see scattered references to "let's add him into that whole fruit bowl" and "the whole fruit bowl is here" and so on. Some of them are crack fic where everyone is a banana, but a lot of them seem to be a metaphor for "everything together".

Okay, I just spent far too much time trying to categorize tags. Out of the 'bowl' ones, about a third appear to be this kind of sense (counting by number of tags, not number of works).

Game of Thrones has a bunch, but they refer (as far as I know) to which characters will hypothetically kill each other and emerge victorious, not to group shipping.

Some tags I found, like 'edelbowl' sounded more like a group ship than an X/everyone. I also found a scattering of tags that were like 'all of them in a bowl together', which is probably related.

But mainly, what I found is that this is from BNHA and it's recent.

The other fandoms where I found it were:

Demon Slayer, Dr. STONE, Naruto, South Park, Fire Emblem, Genshin, HP, Lego Ninjago, My Next Life as a Villainess, She-Ra, Teen Wolf, Tower of God, VLD, A3! (Video Game), Assassination Classroom, Avatar, Batman, Black Clover - Tabata Yuki, Bleach, Blue Lock (Manga), BTS, Bungou Stray Dogs , Dangan Ronpa, Danny Phantom, Detective Conan, Dragon Age, Durarara!!, Fate/Grand Order, How to Train Your Dragon, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Kaiju No. 8 (Manga), LEGO Monkie Kid, Osomatsu-san, Ouran High School Host Club, Percy Jackson, SK8 the Infinity, Soul Eater, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., Toilet-bound Hanako-kun, Tokyo Revengers, Virtual Streamer Animated Characters, Warcraft, Xenoblade Chronicles 2

That's giving me a very distinctive picture of a fan who's probably in their 20s or 30s, mostly like anime and some video games, and is not the type that edits Fanlore.

There's nothing actually old here: it's recent anime and stuff that is still a megafandom, like Naruto.

I'm seeing a scattering of 'dekubowl' from 2017 and then other character tags taking off in like 2019. This is definitely a recent trend in terminology, at least on AO3.

[loveacrossthedaszine]

🐉 reblogs 💚

NOW ANNOUNCING

Love Across Thedas: an upcoming digital & free Dragon Age Romance Zine!

Interest check: May 12th!

“Join us as we carry the duty that cannot be forsworn.”

[thedragonagebigbang]

Hi! I'm sure this is not possible, but i got into the fandom a bit late and have been looking for DA events recently. I stumbled upon your page a bit late. Are you taking any additional writers for this event? Or have a sign up for pinch-hitters? I already have a longfic in progress (not posted) that I could use for the event (approx. 15k words currently and expanding.)

if not, appreciate your time and cant wait to see all the lovely things produced!

Thank you for your interest, and welcome back to the fandom!

Our deadlines are strict for this event, so writer sign ups are closed for 2024. However, we are happy to have pinch hitters on hand!

You can (optionally) join the discord to hang out with and cheer on the creators in the event, and take the @ potential pinch hitter role. If we need a pinch hit, we will ping people with that role for first dibs - but we will ALSO post pinch hit openings on this tumblr publicly, if you do not want to join the discord.

But wait... there may be more!

We would like to take this opportunity to point you in the direction of some other fan events and communities that will also have opportunities to write new fics and find inspiration.

Dragon Age has had consistently active exchanges, zines, and daily writing events/games for many years, and they might strike your fancy. There's practically an event for every ship, character, even country in Thedas, at this point, at every time of year.

Some of the mods of this event have been working on @dragonagefanevents as a way to steer people toward new events. You will be able to see what past events have run in the fandom, we will share new events as they come up, and you can estimate when annual events might recur throughout the year.

Thank you for checking us out!

Good luck with your own writing, and hopefully we may see you again next year. :)

Full Event Documents:Rules | Code of Conduct | Event Guidebook Important Highlights: Timeline | Writer Sign Ups Contact The Mods:ask | discord | email: thedragonagebigbang@gmail

[inquisimer]

mer's writing sideblog

fanfic writer | event mod | community over content creation 💜 be kind. be earnest. do it scared

I follow/like/send asks from my main blog @a-song-in-the-stillness!

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all prompt lists (#prompts)

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my fics by fandom (by ship under the cut⬇️)

Origins | Awakening | Dragon Age II | Inquisition | Dishonored

fandom events & exchanges

I'm part of the mod team for a number of fandom events and spaces! Ask me if you're interested in any of them - community is what you make of it 💜

Dragon Age Drunk Writing Circle (@dadrunkwriting)

A low-stakes, community focused weekly writing event on Tumblr! All are welcome, there are no barriers to entry, and we have a members-only Discord server. Check out our FAQ or send me a message to learn more!

The 2024 Dragon Age Big Bang (@thedragonagebigbang)

A longfic writing challenge - finish a 25k+ fic and an artist will create fanart inspired by your work. Collaboration period ongoing! About this Event | Timeline | Join Our Discord

Dragon Age Fan Events Compendium (@dragonagefanevents)

A repository of Dragon Age fan events! Follow for information about former & upcoming events, informational posts about types of events, and resources to start your own. If you're running an event or one is missing from our list, tag us in the promo post or submit it to our askbox to get it listed!

Dragon Age Annual (@dragonageannual)

‼️PRE-ORDERS OPEN OCTOBER 1ST!‼️ An unofficial charity calendar/zine featuring works from talented, volunteer Dragon Age fans - artists, writers, and more! 2025 fundraising for War Child UK.

Arlathan eXchange (@arlathanxchange)

A Dragon Age fanwork exchange that celebrates Elvhen characters! Runs annually from March - May. Check out the 2024 collection and Join our Discord for updates about next year!

Dragon Age Polyshipping Exchange (@dapolyshipping)

A Dragon Age fanwork exchange that celebrates healthy polyamory! Runs annually from September - November. 2024 Sign-ups open until Sep 22nd! Check out the post here or Join our Discord for more info!

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⬇️Under the Cut⬇️

Transformative Work and Blanket Use Statement | My OCs & World States | AO3 Series & Collections

Transformative Work and Blanket Use Statement

I welcome and permit creating most types of transformative works based on mine, as long as you give me a heads up and proper credit on the work. This includes, but is not limited to: podfics, fanart, fanfic in my world states, and fanfic based on the Mirrors to the Multiverse AU. For more details on my preferences/do not wants, see my exchange letter here. I do NOT give permission for my work to be copied, remixed, translated, or re-posted in any fashion on sites where I have not chosen to do so myself. I do NOT give permission for any part of my works to be fed into AI or machine learning tools under ANY circumstances. If I find out you have done this, I will block you on all platforms.

OCs, world states, and my fics by ship

world state: the ties we choose

Solona Amell - the Vanished

series: the half finished story

ships: Alistair/Amell, Amell & Anders

Mari Hawke - the Protector

series: tender like a bruise

ships: Hawke/Anders (rivalmance), Hawke & Varric, Hawke & Bethany

Neria Surana Lavellan - the Runner

series: our tainted history

ships: Lavellan/Cullen, Surana/Cullen, Amell & Surana & Anders, Lavellan & Lavellan

world state: nothing but my aching soul

Ariya Tabris - the Daughter

series: it was just red

ships: Tabris/Zevran, Tabris & Loghain, Tabris & Cyrion

Siobhan Hawke - the Viscountess

series: for the sake of our survival

ships: Hawke/Loghain, Hawke/Sebastian, Hawke & Carver

Andrew & Acacia Trevelyan - the Siblings

series: bite the hand that starves you

ships: Cullen/Trevelyan, Trevelyan & Trevelyan, Barris/Trevelyan

world state: the old life haunts the new

Sari Mahariel - the Ghost

series: the aftermath of something lethal

ships: Alistair/Mahariel, Mahariel/Tamlen

Ciel Andras - the Resolute

fic: sometimes it scratches like barbs

ships: Andras/Nathaniel Howe

Léan Hawke - the Idealist

series: now I am its liar

ships: Hawke/Anders (friendmance), Carver & Hawke

Irosyl Lavellan - the Devoted

series: the chance to be wrong

ships: Lavellan/Solas

incomplete world states & AUs

Nika Brosca - the Wrought

series: stay away but come closer

ships: Brosca & Rica, Brosca & Leske, Brosca & Zevran

Lief (Amell) Hawke - the Pretender

fic: coming soon

ships: Hawke/Fenris, Hawke & Anders, Hawke & Carver

Ember Cousland - the Avenger

series: they should have checked the ashes

ships: Cousland/Alistair, Cousland/Nathaniel Howe

Tabris Cousinverse

collection: Under the Vhenadahl

a collection of city elf OC crossover fics

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[horticulturalcephalopod]

hehe all the work for the dragon age flower zine is DONE

interest check will be up friday

[thedosianarchiveszine]

Are you missing Dragon Age? Interested in working on a zine dedicated to it? We haven’t cemented any particular focus or them for this zine, so any input would be a big help! We have some charities in mind, but you are more than welcome to suggest some to us to look into.

Some basic info of the zine:

Currently, all mods have no plans for a physical zine. Due to the current situation with Covid-19, we feel it would be ill advised to attempt one at this time. We may consider it at a later time.

Positions available:

This zine will be looking for around 40 - 50 artists to contribute illustrations and written works. As of right now, 10 slots will be set aside specifically for writers and have the possibility to grow in number, if demand is present.

Interested? Then if you could take a minute or two and fill out our interest check, we’d appreciate if you could share this post too! We’re hoping to make this a reoccurring zine and would like to dedicate the proceeds of our first issue to charity.

Interest Check Link

Application are set to open June 11, 2020! So if you are interested in applying follow this account! Twitter | FAQ | Ask  

@zineapps​ @zinefeed​ @fandomzines​ @zine-scene​

[companionszine]

We received 146 responses over the past month, and will be going ahead with the zine! Mod Peren (that's me) will need a little help, though—so if you want to be a mod, apply here! Now, onto the results.

GENERAL INTEREST

73% of you (that's 107 people) said that you'd be interested in purchasing this zine (shoutout to the person who said, "If there is any Zevran in it I will absolutely throw money at it." I appreciate you greatly) while 67% (98 people) expressed interest in contributing to the zine! The number of contributors accepted into the zine will ultimately depend on how many applicants we get, but I would say at least 30 people—both writers and artists.

CONTENT

All three games' companions will be featured in the zine (the Awakening DLC companions will absolutely show up if I have anything to say about it)! Apologies to our NPC lovers and comics fans, though. We see you, but this zine is centered around the companion characters. OCs will show up but will not be the focus of the zine.

We will have a digital and physical zine, and the digital zine will be free to download! As for merch, production will depend on whether any artists are interested in designing it.

Thank you for your interest in this project! The singular mod (me again) really appreciates the support that we've received from you. We hope this information gives you a better idea of what the zine will be! Applications will open on May 5th, so prep your portfolios and think up some content ideas!

[daflowerzine]

🌷2023 CALENDAR UPDATE🌷

Thank you for all the support on our interest check!

We received lots of questions so keep an eye out for some Q&A sessions coming soon~ 👀

Applications for the Dragon Age Flower Zine will open October 14. Mark your calendars! 📅🌼

[legend-markzine]

Greetings Dragon Age Community!

The interest check for the Dragon Age Avvar-themed Zine, Legend-Mark, is currently open!

This zine will be dedicated to seeing all our favorite Dragon Age characters living as/interacting with Avvar or expanding upon current Avvar lore!

If you think you are interested, please check the link below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGO2HJ-xs3jFuWLBvWP9io87aqCvZvBuVH29OtCdwjOFvFCg/viewform

Thank you for your interest in our project, we're eager to hear from you!

[exalted-dawn]

Hello Dragon Age community!

Putting out unofficial feelers for an Avvar-themed Dragon Age Charity Zine! ✨

If you think you might be interested, please check out form linked below!

[yimmygee]

Hi, all! 

@strawbearrymilk​, @asunnydisposish​ and I have recently been co-organizing  "The Keeper's Codex," a series-wide Dragon Age fairy tale/folklore/mythology AU zine. Our interest check is officially open and will close on August 31, so please fill it out and help us gauge support for this little labor of love!

🍃 INTEREST CHECK HERE 🍃

@fandomzines​ @zinefeed​ @zineapps​

[a-shakespearean-in-paris]

Hi! I found your Dragon Age fanfictions on Ao3 and love them and sometimes check your blog too but don't have tumblr. What is this whole controversy about being 30 and liking Cullen being wrong? I feel like I'm missing something. Anyway, I'm 32, married, expecting twins and never felt too old for Bioware games. WTF

Hi there, thank you for the support, it means a lot! And congrats! :D

Well, to make a long story somewhat short, recently a video circulated on tumblr from TikTok, one of those “what your favorite X says about you” videos that’s pretty common on the platform, if a bit overdone. This one was a “What your Favorite Dragon Age romance says about you.” Some jokes I’ll admit I found somewhat funny, others just made no sense. (Someone explain how liking Isabela gives you “mommy issues,” I still don’t get that.)

However, what was most egregious to many, myself included, was what this person said about Cullen romancers. According to this person, all Cullen fans are “thirty year old white moms” who are “creepy,” and “Cullen won’t save our failing marriage,” and we need to “go back to making our kids chicken nuggets.”

So, various bloggers broke down what was wrong with this, other than the fact that’s it’s just plain not correct about Cullen fans (Hi there everyone, in case you didn’t know, I’m very Polynesian and a huge Cullen fan, also not a mom yet, though I would like to be one someday. :) )But the breakdown of why these statements are problematic is as follows (under the cut for length):

1. The comments were ageist. The TikToker wielded “thirty year old white mom” like it’s some sort of insult.  There is literally nothing wrong with enjoying a game at thirty, literally nothing wrong with being a mom and enjoying a game. I have news for everyone: when you have kids your life or personality outside of being a Mom doesn’t end. To this end, the comments came across as gatekeep-y.

2. The comments were also misogynistic. A woman in the kitchen joke… in 2020. Not only that, but related to the above, it implies that women can’t have hobbies outside of being a mom when they turn a certain age, and do you see the same thing being said about men and their sports teams, or fantasy football? I don’t know why it’s viewed as cringey to be a part of fandom when you’re an adult woman but dudes can still collect their Star Wars memorabilia into their thirties and beyond. Especially when:

3. Dragon Age is rated mature, and it’s always had the M rating even when it was just Origins. This is a game for adult audiences. If you’re engaging with the media online, I am going to assume you’re an adult. Not only that, this is an eleven year old franchise. People who played the games in 2009 can still enjoy them even if some of them have had kids during this eleven year period.

4. Related to that: most, if not all the developers, I’d imagine, are probably over 30. Should they stop making the games for us and make their kids chicken nuggets instead? Is this why we don’t have DA4?!

5. Cullen’s exact age is unclear from canon, he was probably around 18 in Origins, but there’s no way he’s not under thirty come Inquisition. A thirty-year-old crushing on another thirty year old is creepy because…?

6. I haven’t seen others mention this, but it’s something I gathered. To me, the video subtly implied the TikToker’s view that women need to settle down by the time their thirty with kids, which is pretty heteronormative IMO. I’m just not here for that you’re thirty you need settle down BS. I’m 26 and I get crap for being single, which is a whole other pile of BS I won’t get into here. I would like to someday, but there is nothing wrong with being 30 or above and single with no kids. No one has to “settle down” if they don’t want to, there’s no age where you have to “grow up” and stop engaging with things you enjoy.

Being involved in a few different fandoms I don’t see all the discourse but I did happen to see this, and as I said earlier I do not think the person who made the video meant any real harm. I understand the intent was to joke, but people can harm others under the guise of “jokes” all the time. I can tell you in my life, people have “joked” with me about needing to put on a grass skirt and dance the hula, and not understood why I’ve been offended because they just meant to be funny. Casual racism isn’t funny and neither is casual misogyny or ageism.

It was also discouraging to see people on the tik toker’s video laughing at the Cullen joke for being true, as apparently we need to “find a better romance.” And this lead me to say something in a post which I’ll repeat here, as this video managed to trudge up the same old discourse I’ve seen periodically on tumblr about Cullen since I’ve been here in 2017, and mind you, I started writing/tumblr THREE YEARS after Inquisition’s release: that all his fans are boring, basic, idiot women who just like him because he’s traditionally handsome and we just ignore his flaws in favor of his looks, and also he’s just the basic white guy in a slew of “more interesting” romances. Heck, early in this blog’s creation, I could see discourse within Cullen fandom about the “right” way to portray him. (I won’t get into this right now though, it’s a whole other kettle of fish, and this is a pretty nuanced topic in an already nuanced topic.) Speaking for myself, I actually don’t gravitate towards pretty boys. Cullen won me over with his mature romance route. And I like his arc in Inquisition and think it’s a good redemption-esque arc considering this franchise has a lot of characters to develop— but that’s another story as well.

Anyway, I digress. To me the post was less about Cullen and more about “older women” in fandom and how to some find older women here creepy. (and I’m sorry but if you think 30 is “old” I have to laugh.) Also, I have a secret for you: “older” women built fandom spaces as we know it, and we owe a lot of debt to those who paved the way for us to enjoy content, from the early days of the Star Trek fandom, and even before with fan zines.

Fandom is for everyone, and can we stop trying to box people who like A, B or C into certain categories, because your choices in a fictional game don’t speak for who you are in real life.