A Community Project to Celebrate a Year of r/OnlyFangsBG3
Hello to our lovely community of darlings, blood bags, and precious little Bhaal babes! As you may remember from last week, your hardworking mod team is in the process of putting together a little project to celebrate our one-year anniversary. We wanted to give ourselves a tiny head start (and, yes, maybe drum up some curiosity!) but we are now ready to announce thatā¦
# We Are Assembling an Astarion Coloring Book!
The community weāve assembled here is so incredibly talented in such an amazing variety of ways, and we thought this could be a fun way for our creative folks to get to come together and share that talent. ~~And. I mean, yes, *some* of us are slightly sad that we donāt have artistic skill but still want to make pretty pictures of the pretty vampire, *okay??*~~
We are currently looking for visual artists to help us by donating their original line art featuring Astarion, which other members of the sub can then color in whatever media they choose and share with all of us! **If you are willing, please send us your submission no later than September 23, 2024.**
While we are soliciting this art, we will be promoting a selection of charities that Neil publicly supports (more on those in a minute). No money will be going through us at any time, we will only be encouraging you all to donate to the charities directly. If you wish, you can then send us (redacted!!) receipts so that we can get a tally of how much the sub has raised and celebrate our community with some altruism. We wonāt be requiring anyone to donate in order to get access to the coloring book, just encouraging donations to those causes on his behalf. At the end of the event, our subās birthday (September 30), we will share how much we raised and release a link to the compiled coloring book.
Anyway. Thatās what weāre looking to accomplish!
* You are welcome to send us line art from an existing work, or create something new for the event. As long as the art is your own original work, youāre good to go.
* You may create line art by tracing or using filters on your own screenshots. If you use someone elseās screenshot, you must get their permission and credit them appropriately.
* No AI artwork will be accepted.
* Artwork must contain Astarion; otherwise, please feel free to chase your muse. NSFW is fine, solo, M/M, M/F, multiple, the whole tadpole crew, Batstarion, comic panels, whatever floats your boat.
* Feel free to submit as much as youād like! Depending on the volume of submissions, we may have to narrow things down a bit, but we will make sure that all contributors are represented in the final product.
* Include your name or handle in the bottom left corner. Those posting colored versions of these pages will be required to leave this legible (or rewritten elsewhere on the page) or they will be taken down.
* If you are not a frequent poster on the sub, we may do a bit of extra vetting to try to confirm that the work is your own. Please understand that this is us doing our due diligence to protect artistsā hard work and has nothing to do with you as an individual.
## How to Submit / File Info
If you would like to participate, you may submit your art in a few different ways. You can send an email to [email protected] with the attached image. Or you can send us a [modmail](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=r/OnlyFangsbg3) and include a link to your art on Tumblr, Twitter, Imgur, or other platform that your image is hosted on.
As for file types, please submit them as something lossless - so no crunchy jpegs or anything. Types such as PNG, TIFF, SVG (hell even BMP if you can find space to host it lmao) will do splendidly.
For size, we are hoping to stick to "standard letter" sizes - either US Letter (8.5x11 inches), or A4 (21.0x29.7cm). We figure those sizes make the most sense for a coloring book project!
## What Charities Can You Donate to?
Weāve picked two charities from a handful that were listed on Neilās Twitch channel that you can donate to. These two were picked just to narrow down the choices a bit for simplicityās sake, but if any of the other ones speak to you, we wonāt stop you from donating to them! The ones weāve selected are:
* [The Red Card](https://www.theredcard.org/) - āShow Racism the Red Card (SRtRC) is the UKās leading anti-racism educational charity.ā
* [Black Lives Matter](https://blacklivesmatter.com/) - āBlack Lives Matter Foundation is an abolition-centered foundation fighting institutional injustice and serving Black people globally.ā (US-based)
From Neilās Twitch page
> Please have a look at these charities- Be an ally. Do your bit.
> I am. My family are. We all can.
> Support, move, scream and keep the momentum to help even in small ways like this.
As stated earlier, thereās no requirement to donate to receive the completed coloring book at the end of the subās anniversary event; it just seems like a very nice way that we can show our support for Neil and our community! If you do donate, please send us a [modmail](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=r/OnlyFangsbg3) with your receipt (blur out any personal information, of course) showing the total you donated. We will tally these up through September 29 and announce the grand total we raised for these charities on September 30th.
## Using the Coloring Book Pages
Weād love it if you shared what you did with the coloring book with the community! Whether you print it out and paint it by hand, color it digitally, use colored pencils, or whatever else your heart comes up with, weād love to see! We will create a new flair for this purpose as we get closer to The Big Day.
That being said, be sure to credit the original artist! Any posts made with these images that fail to credit the original, or remove the artist's name/signature from the image, **will be removed**. Don't try to pass this off elsewhere as your original work.
Do you know any artists, either friends or via patreon discords, that might be interested in participating? Then please (politely, gently!) see if they want to join in!
* Send us line art by September 23
* Donate to charities and send us receipts by September 29
* We will release the full coloring book and the total we raised on September 30
* Share your beautiful pages, being sure to credit the original artists
Bonus Angel screenshot that I feel like has some meme potential