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if you spoke to lestat or louis about your pain, they would say, "your pain? what about MY pain?" but if you spoke about your pain to armand he would say "let me lobotomize you and you will never feel pain again." he has a solution-based mindset and we could all learn from him.
Jab-Jabs (Devils) as seen in the Carnivals of Trinidad & Tobago (left) and Grenada (right). Their bodies are covered with sugar-cane syrup or molasses mixed with soot and powdered coals.
One "Dragon Age: Inquisition" zine idea later, and somehow we've ended up with… this.
Welcome to Skyhold Press! A little corner of Thedas dedicated to celebrating Dragon Age Inquisition (for now) through community projects, creative events, and a healthy amount of collective brainworms.
I'm Bucky! (Also known as Maul of Shame around these parts.) I'm a French fan who saw Joséphine running the Inquisition and thought, "Yeah, I, too, could voluntarily become an overworked project coordinator!"
To be fair… I'm legally obligated to channel at least a little Orlesian energy.
So… "what is Skyhold Press" I hear you ask?
The simplest answer, without sounding too cheesy? It's a home.
Rather than creating a brand new account every time the Dragon Age brainworms convince me to organize something, I wanted one place where it could all live.
The current "Dragon Age: Inquisition Community Zine" (title to be determined) is our very first project, but I'd love for Skyhold Press to become a space for all sorts of community events in the future.
Things like zines, prompt events, gift exchanges, Secret Satyrs—… I mean Secret Santas, themed weeks, community challenges …and whatever other ideas the fandom collectively decides to throw at the War Table!
Does that sound ambitious? Yeah. Am I excited anyway? Also yeah.
What about moderators?
While I'll soon be opening moderator applications for the zine itself, I'd also love to build a small Skyhold Press team over time.
Not everyone wants to help organize a zine specifically, and that's completely okay!
Maybe your thing is running prompt weeks. Maybe you're amazing at social media. Maybe you enjoy Discord moderation. Maybe you secretly thrive inside spreadsheets (Joséphine, is that you?).
As Skyhold Press grows, I'd love to have a lovely group of people to help organize all kinds of future community events together.
Why "Dragon Age: Inquisition"?
For now, Skyhold Press is focused on "Dragon Age: Inquisition", simply because that's where this whole adventure started for my brainworms.
That said… I certainly wouldn't rule out venturing into Origins, Dragon Age II, The Veilguard, or even broader Dragon Age projects somewhere down the road. But, one step at a time! Let's survive our first operation before we start planning expeditions into the Deep Roads!
Current status!
The "Dragon Age: Inquisition Community Zine Interest Check" is still open for three more days!⚜️
If you'd like to help shape the project—or simply let me know you'd be interested in participating—I'd love to hear from you!
Interest Check:
Hi! I'm @Maul-of-Shame, though most people call me Bucky! If you've stumbled across this page, chances are you saw me enthusiastically shaki
The Discord is steadily taking shape, the Carrd is nearly ready to welcome visitors, and I've somehow already made tiny chibi Dragon Age emotes because apparently that's how I prioritize tasks.
What's coming next?
Over the next little while, you'll start seeing things like the Moderator applications popping up, the Carrd website, a project timeline, a FAQ, Contributor applications and more project updates!
I want to wait until the moderator team is assembled before finalizing a few things (like the timeline and last minute stuff for contributors apps!), so everyone has a chance to help shape the project together from the beginning!
Thank you, genuinely, for all the enthusiasm you've shown already!
When I first tossed the idea into the DAI tag, I never imagined so many people would get excited about creating something together. It's been incredibly heartwarming to watch this little idea grow into… well, an actual project!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
When they first came to the house, Wen Kexing broke almost every jug in it, looking for stores of food. Garlic-like dust, powdery ginger, rancid oil, the rice he brought with them. Herbs and greens he foraged before the snow set in. He tends to his leg with A-Xiang curled sideways on the floor next to him, her stomach full of meat. When he’s done as much as he can, he sits quietly in the cooling kitchen, contemplating the scraped rib cage that was too tall to fully submerge in the pot.
He doesn’t have arrows any more than he has fresh vegetables, and he can’t hunt up close with a broken leg. In the Valley Master’s home, they’d been eating rabbit and pheasant for weeks, just to suit the man’s taste: any game Wen Kexing might snare is already depleted.
When snow comes to the Valley, it stays for a long time. What he and A-Xiang have won’t be enough.
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Illustration by @isozyme 💚
(Also just as a heads up before anyone clicks into something they really don’t want to see, the illustration is of a pair of severed pigs feet. The fic itself is pretty rugged, as you might assume from the tags, but I know a visual hits different. Please also heed the tags tho)
i love the summer man went to a jersey club twerk party the dj sets were so good i ALMOST took a shot but it made me realize, if im feelin so good in this club rn i THINK i need a shot, then clearly i dont need the shot. the music is the shot lol. im gettin the hang of this sober party girl shit lol
On the northwest Belgian coast, there is a little known tradition: shrimp fishing on horseback. The activity consists of what its name describes: fishing shrimp on a horse. In the 15th century, shrimp fishing on horseback was still practised on the North Sea coasts in France, the Netherlands and even the South of England. This activity represented an extra revenue needed for the household. Nowadays there is only one place in which it is still ongoing: Oostduinkerke, a sub-municipality of the municipality of Koksijde.
The Dragon Age: Inquisition Community Zine Interest Check is officially OPEN!
After accidentally shaking the DAI tag like a bag of treats and seeing so many lovely people get excited, I figured... well... maybe we should actually do this???😭
If you've ever wanted to contribute to a community Dragon Age: Inquisition zine, that being through art, writing, poetry, comics, fake codex entries, or other creative works etc, this is your chance to help shape what the project could become!
The interest check will remain open until July 20th!
This is not an application yet! No pressure, no portfolio, no "please prove yourself before joining the Inquisition." This is simply a way to gauge interest, gather ideas, and make sure we're building something the community is excited about!
Okay so following the previous posts: Post 1, Post 2, Post 3 about it here, here is the official interest check form!
Hi! I'm @Maul-of-Shame, though most people call me Bucky! If you've stumbled across this page, chances are you saw me enthusiastically shaki
Some quick reminders:
- This is planned as a free digital community zine.
- Contributors will keep the rights to their own work.
- There may be an optional 18+ companion zine IF there's enough interest (completely separate from the main project).
- This project is strictly AI-free. We want to celebrate the creativity of real people and the love this community has for Dragon Age.
Since the original post, I've also been quietly working away behind the scenes:
the Carrd is coming together,
the Discord is slowly turning into Skyhold,
and I may or may not have spent far too long making tiny chibi DAI emotes because apparently that's where my priorities lie during exam week
Thank you all so much for the enthusiasm so far! Seeing everyone excited about the possibility of creating something together has genuinely made my week and I'm SO HAPPY there are so many DAI fans out there!!!
So... report to the War Table, answer the interest check, and let's see where this adventure takes us!
So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)
I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up
If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help
Don’t get scared, don’t get annoyed, follow the dog! If it had been an emergency situation, I could have vomited and choked, I could have hit my head, I could have had so many things happen to me. We’re going to update his training so if the first person doesn’t cooperate, he moves on, but seriously guys. If what’s-his-face could understand that lassie wanted him to go to the well, you can figure out that a dog in a vest proclaiming it a service dog wants you to follow him
Join us in celebrating our shared love for zines as we share in the creation of our own.
Sempiternal is a zine dedicated to all things liches, with art, stories and more by a talented group of creatives! The inaugural theme is bejewelled saints, bringing lavish beauty to our beloved liches.
If you love bejewelled figures, liches and all they behold, then please follow our digital zine to stay up to date on its creation and release!
[“The first time Leslie went in with those diseases, the doctors refused to treat. Once Leslie’ clothes came off, the doctors just left. It took Leslie a while to find a doctor that would actually treat a trans person. And by the time the disease was finally treated by some great doctors, it was really too late. Leslie’s immune system had been hit hard. Leslie was making these great speeches in front of thousands of people and having to be taken to bed immediately after the speech. Leslie was in really tough shape.
Last year and this year, Leslie was really ill. The doctor confined Leslie to a hospital bed with an IV. Then the struggle of CeCe McDonald broke out. Leslie immediately started corresponding with CeCe, and with the gay, lesbian, and trans movements, saying “This is our struggle. We cannot allow CeCe to go to prison. This is an attack on all of us.”
With the IV in her arm, Leslie got out of bed, and went to the court while it was in session, stood up, and made a speech. And then Leslie painted on a public wall, “Free CeCe McDonald,” and was put on trial for it. We know how ill Leslie was, because Leslie died from it, but that’s what happened — Leslie took the IVs out, went to the trial and made a public statement, was arrested, put in jail, and put on trial. It was not an individual act, to say, “I’m a nice person.” It was part of a movement, to make sure everybody was watching.
Leslie made sure that the movement knew what CeCe McDonald meant. It was a culmination of the struggle for trans equality, survival, and for the trans movement as a whole. As a black person, CeCe McDonald also represented an oppressed nation that is under attack. Everybody had to rally around the struggle.”]
Reflections on the life of Leslie Feinberg, the late radical activist and author of Stone Butch Blues.
