#dragon age zine interest check

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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]

[gravegoldzine]

Grave Gold: A Mortalitasi Zine interest checks are open!

Grave Gold is a charitable project focused on the finest necromancers that the world of Dragon Age has to offer. Veilguard gave us a taste of Nevarran magic and introduced new necromantic heartthrobs - I'm talking about VORGOTH, of course - but we here at Grave Gold want even more.

With that in mind, we'll be welcoming mods, artists and writers aplenty to help create this project and celebrate everything about death magic in Dragon Age. But first, we want to hear what you lovely lot want from Grave Gold, so we can make sure we deliver the goods.

Our interest check survey is here, and any signal boosts would be very welcomed!

For more information, don't hesitate to contact the Grave Gold team here on tumblr or at gravegoldzine@gmail.com.

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[dragonagefanevents]

Dragon Age Fan Event Listings

The beauty of fan events is that they are run by fans.

Including you.

▸What are the types of fan events? - #education

▸Start a new event! - #how tos (volunteer to write for us!)

▸Ask Box - send us advice, or ask for it!

▸Blog Tag List

Below is a list of all Dragon Age fan-run events we can find. The links should bring you to the most recent iteration of the event. Where possible, the time period the event covers is listed next to the event.

Want to get an event listed? Check out the link and submit. Look here for multi-fandom events, or more events in general.

Event Masterlist - #compendium

Bangs

25k Big Bang (July - November)

10k Big Bang (March - April)

Dragon Age Reverse Bang

Exchanges

Arlathan Exchange (April - June)

DA Polyshipping (August - November)

Handers Exchange (March - May)

Templartations Exchange (March - May)

Black Emporium Rare Pair Exchange (June - September)

Platonic Ideal Gen Fic Exchange (December - February)

Smutquisition (January - March)

Theme Weeks/Months

Anders Week (Feb 3 - 9)

14 Days of Circle Mages (Feb)

Kink Memes

Dragon Age Kink Meme (Dreamwidth) | DAO | DA2 | DAI

Zines

Dragon Age Flower Zine (Processing Period)

Wanderers Zine (Creation Period)

Dragon Age OC Zine (Mod Apps Open)

Alistair Zine (Creation Period)

Faith: A Leliana Fanzine (Interest Check)

Grave Gold: A Mortalitasi Zine (Interest Check)

Special Events

Dragon Age Drunk Writing Circle

Dragon Age Annual (2025 Digital Orders Open)

Dragon Age Create-A-Thon

Reddit Weekly Dragon Age Writing Prompts

Unofficial Dragon Age Day (Dec 4)

Solavellan Day (April 11)

Past Events

Retired Bangs

DragonAgeBB (last: 2015; formerly on LJ and elsewhere)

Retired Exchanges

Demands of the Qun (Qunari)

A Paragon of Their Kind (DA Dwarves)

Solas Lovers

Hightown Funk (Varric/Hawke)

Retired Theme Weeks/Months

Autumn of Anders (Anders Appreciation Event)

Dalish Week

30 Days of Dorian (Dorian Appreciation Event)

Dragon Age Fan Week (2013)

City Elf Week (2024)

Cullen Appreciation Week (2019)

Cullen Week (2021)

14 Days of DA Lovers

Fenris Appreciation Month (2017)

Krem Week 2024

Leliana Week (2024)

Rylen Appreciation Week (2018)

Sera Appreciation Week (2019)

Sera Appreciation Week (2024)

Sub!Solas Week (2016)

Tranquil Week

Zevwarden Week

Past Zines

Adoribull Fairytales

Age of Romance Zine (Incomplete)

ApprovesGreatly (Incomplete)

Andoralis Zine

Arcana: A Dragon Age Zine

Arlathvhen Zine (Incomplete)

Beyond the Veil Zine (Zine)

Bring Down the Sky Bioware Fanzine

Dragon Age 2 10th Anniversary Zine (Zine)

Dragon Age Codex Zine & Myths and Legends Zine

Fortitudo Dorian Artbook

Good for Each Other (Adoribull Zine)

In Peace, Vigilance Zine

Insufficient Skill Fanzine

Legend Mark Zine

Lotus and Root OC Zine

Love Across Thedas Zine (Zine)

Na Via Lerno Victoria (Fenris Zine)

Patron of the Arts Zine

Rebel Hearts Handers Zine (Zine)

Road to the Imperium Zine

Solasmancy Zine

Sunlight (Anders Zine)

The Coming Storm Zine (Ukrainian Zine)

The Dragon Age Zine (Russian Zine)

The Keeper's Codex Fairy Tale Zine

The Unsung Dragon Age Zine

The Zevran Zine (incomplete)

Thedosian Archives (incomplete)

to be happy (FenHawke Zine)

Wicked Eyes: A Dragon Age Finery Zine

Year of the Mabari (Incomplete)

Other Past Events

Dragon Age Calendar 2018

Dragon Age Calendar 2021

For Fans by Fans - Fan Forge

[hyperions-light]

2024 Writing Roundup

Yeeeehaw it's writing roundup time! Thank you for the tag @uchidachi! <3

words posted: 41,838, plus miscellaneous amount of words on Tumblr

additional words written: uhhhh apprx 22,700, give or take. Probably give, bc I'm not counting any of the meta on here

fandoms: All published is for One Piece, almost everything unpublished is Dragon Age + there's some original something for Elden Ring (probably not going to clean that up tbh)

highest kudos: The Road(trip) to Hell is Paved With Questionable Decision Making at 103... which, yeah, it's the most accessible of them lol

highest hit one-shot: catalyst at 513-- pretty good, considering I only posted it at the end of October. Maybe cheating because it needs a sequel? But I haven't written it, so for now it remains an OS

new things I tried: I did two zines and three events (BB, Corazon Week and Fight)! They were fun, but I'll probably mostly focus on making my own stuff this next year. And I expect to mostly be hanging around the DA fandom, as opposed to OP

fic I spent the most time on: I doooon't know, but I think it was the ascent? High concept, difficult to write and wrangle into something resembling what I wanted. Good exercise, though.

fic I spent the least time on: I think it was resentment-- I do really love this one, actually, but I didn't spend too much time on it because it came together in like a day? Even the editing was quick.

favourite thing I wrote: Probably it deepens like a coastal shelf, which is an AU of someone else's fic lol, so very niche, but I loooove writing about terrible people and family drama. And I got to quote poetry. And make people cry <3

favourite thing(s) I read: I've really loved reading all of your fics that you all keep sending for BW fic comments Saturdays! And I enjoy hearing about everyone's Rooks, too <3 I don't feel it's fair to do 'best of' fics but I thought I'd pull a few that have lower interaction rates for various reasons; the BW fandom is soooo talented, though, my recommendation is to give whatever sounds interesting to you a shot!

pray for rain by mafalda_157 who I believe is @darethshirl on here? Elgar'nan/Solas, Mythal/Elgar'nan, dubcon + politics with especially strong character voices

Five, Seven, Five by theharellan, @queenaeducan Really beautiful and poetic Solas&Cadash!Inquisitor gen fic

The Memory of Her Scent by Vespaer, @vespaer77 Angsty Solavellan between games, gorgeously written

Mien'Harel by bodysnatch3r, @bodysnatch3r canon divergence Felassan/Solas, really stunning prose and well-realized world. Also recommend the Heistverse series, for any Hobbit enthusiasts!

(please don't take this as like... me not endorsing the other fics, I'm really enjoying reading everyone's <3 I just went off the top of my head + pulled stuff I think may have been somewhat overlooked. Also I am not even done with last week's set yet)

In every other fandom I peruse I am an Old Man Yaoi enjoyer, so I also will always recommend A Reflection of Starlight (reread) for Les Mis, and, for those of you interested in OP fic, the works of spaceliquid, ArgelTal (@chaoticargeltal-- they wrote this fic based on a prompt of mine & did an incredible job!), and Harmonica_Smile/Rescue_Remedy (@chromatic-lamina) who all write beautifully <3

writing goals for 2025: Need to finish that original thing I'm working on by... August?? I should check lol. And then I need to publish as much of this DA stuff as I can that's sitting in drafts lol... will the foursome be first?? unclear

new works: idk, Leth's thing I'm writing, probably some Lucanis&Bellara stuff, some Neve/Rook/Lucanis, and the Rook/Teia/Viago/Lucanis WT: speak of me in the language of reverence

tagging: I'm actually not sure if it's going to let me tag anyone else BUT @covertleathers, @thedissonantverses, @taashyvashedan, @chromatic-lamina, @wardensantoineandevka, @biowaredisasterbisexual, @mageofquandrix + anyone else who would like to do this!

[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!

[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

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mer's writing sideblog

fanfic writer | antivan crow simp and last flight fanatic | community over content creation 💜 be kind. be earnest. do it scared.

I follow/like/send asks from my main blog @isseya-apologist!

Dragon Age 4 spoiler tags:

#mer plays dav | #veilguard spoilers | #da4

send me a prompt request!

currently writing: Arlow de Riva/Lucanis | Arlow & Viago (& Teia)

my prompt post

all prompt lists - any are free game! (#prompts)

transformative work and blanket use statement

my works on ao3 | my works on tumblr

Origins | Awakening | DA II | Inquisition | Veilguard | 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. View the finished collection HERE!

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)

‼️DIGITAL PRE-ORDERS OPEN UNTIL JAN 31ST‼️ 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. Check out the 2024 collection and Join our Discord for updates about next year!

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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: veilguard

Arlow de Riva - the Crow

series: no matter how far

prompt series: hands scarred from murder

ships: Lucanis/de Riva, Viago & de Riva

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

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

City elf OC crossover fics!

top banner credit | divider I credit | divider II credit

[horticulturalcephalopod]

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

interest check will be up friday

[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! 📅🌼

[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​

[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.

[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!