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📝 Zine Writer: floricolous
floricolous is a writer who has been in the throes of Dragon Age brainrot for the last decade. Probably has a concerning amount of fondness for avocados, old men with magic, and cannibalism as a metaphor for everything.
🔗 @guacamolleee · ao3
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📝 Zine Writer: cravingcoconutredbull
cravingcoconutredbull is overjoyed to have the opportunity to connect with others who share her love for this franchise, one that has brought so many amazing people into her life that she's grateful to now call friends!
🔗 @cravingcoconutredbull · ao3
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📝 Zine Writer: beyondthesea
beyondthesea has been in and out of the Dragon Age fandom since 2017, after being hooked by Dragon Age 2. Her interest has been primarily in writing f/f rarepairs, but for this project she's really excited to explore the idea of location as a character.
🔗 @twilightoftheapprentice · ao3
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📝 Zine Writer: Ashura
Ashura crashed headlong into DA fandom in 2021 and never escaped. She remains stubbornly enamoured of Grey Wardens, griffons, and Ferelden, ships Hawke/Anders, and has thoughts about Elvhen linguistics that nobody asked for.
🔗 bluesky · ao3
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🎨 Zine Artist: Sage-Crown
Sage-Crown enjoys creating art and world-building with her writer husband. She fell in love with the Frostback Basin, the rich lore it gave us, and especially the Avvar who live there. He's excited to share that love in this year's zine!
🔗 @axes-and-elfroot · bluesky · website
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🎨 Zine Artist: RowanArtist
An artist and writer, Rowan rolled into the Dragon Age fandom with Inquisition, fell in love with the characters, then worked their way through the earlier games as well. With Veilguard, the hyperfixation returned full swing and hasn't left since.
🔗 @imrowanartist · bluesky · instagram
grilling my cheese #masturbation
I think at bare minimum all medical professionals need to make sure they are treating patients with more kindness and respect than grifters. if you go to a doctor and they treat you like shit, humiliate you, and send you home without any information on your body or access to treatment, then health-grifters' offers will start to feel more tempting by simply giving the most basic performance of taking you seriously and caring about your well-being. grifters should be condemned for manipulating and exploiting sick people, and doctors also play a role in whether grifts thrive or are successfully identified and rejected. genuine baseline human respect, and beginning a relationship with a patient by earning (rather than demanding) trust, goes a long way.
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🎨 Zine Artist: RedRune
Painting has been a life-long hobby for RedRune, and years later she's so happy to do it as a full-time job. She's an old-timer who discovered Dragon Age way back in 2011. Being part of DAA and celebrating her love for this franchise feels truly magical.
🔗 @ruxandralache · instagram · website
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🎨 Zine Artist: Pineflower Art
Pineflower Art's best friend got them into Dragon Age and the rabbit hole they've fallen into because of it has been one hell of a creative outburst! They've fallen in love with Thedas and are excited to explore its beauty.
🔗 @pineflowerart · bluesky · tiktok
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🎨 Zine Artist: paragonraptors
paragonraptors is a pro illustrator and terminal Dragon Age enthusiast. He has a scholarly interest in the impact imperialism and economics has on mage liberation, specifically pre-9:30 Kirkwall. He also really likes the characters and story and stuff.
🔗 @paragonraptors · bluesky · website
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🎨 Zine Artist: Mythrender
Myth makes maps and art for books and is mentally often somewhere in the depths of the Fade or the Necropolis halls.
🔗 instagram · @mythrender · website
Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.
At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.
At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.
“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.
The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.
I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.
I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.
I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht.
I’m not worth the cost of a watch.
i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.
i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.
as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.
disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.
at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.
i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.
i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.
we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.
Human relationships are not transactional but they are reciprocal, which I think many of you with your ‘i don’t owe anyone anything’ shtick are too happy to forget
Transactional: everything has to be exactly 50/50 all the time, pay me back for the £5 sandwich or buy me something worth exactly £5, I refuse to make an effort for you if there’s nothing in it for me
Reciprocal: you were there for me when I needed help, and I’m going to do the same for you, it doesn’t matter if one of us needs more or is capable of less, because the point is not equivalent exchange but mutual care
This bit for everyone who fears they are a burden to the friendship everytime they need the other person
The US is detransitioning prisoners and just announced that ICE can detain trans people on suspicion of visa fraud. The UK just banned all care for trans kids and is now conducting an "evidence review" into HRT for trans adults and now the biggest DIY HRT web resource just went down.
Trans people need to learn solidarity yesterday, we need to be ready to organise together and set aside anything that we need to in order to get our shit sorted out. Cis people need to take it seriously that the fascists are trying to completely extinguish transess from existence
One immediate step you can take if you're tech literate is try to personally back up as much DIY information from the internet as possible. We need to confront the fact that the internet is American dominated and primarily American-owned and in a larger sense owned and operated by capital primarily. For the informational resources of the internet to benefit human beings we have to deliberately make choices to structure it that way, and in the age of Palantir that largely means thinking about parallel informational infrastructure, setting up another internet or at least other communication systems.
If we want to preserve life saving information, information that aligns with reality over fascism information that is useful, beautiful and true to human beings and ugly and inconvenient to capital, first we have to make backups
practicing self care less out of self love and more for the sheer logical reasoning of it’d be kinda stupid of me to expect myself to be able to function without proper maintenance
“oh i don’t deserve rest and relaxation, i haven’t done enough, i haven’t earned it” and my car’s breaks don’t deserve break fluid because they aren’t breaking well enough to earn it. that’s what you sound like!!!!!
absolutely legendary fucking poster holy shit
