I wrote this very smutty and extremely rarepair het fic for a prompt @enigmalea posted about a million years ago (based on how long it took me to write) and now it's finished:
Les Cœurs Perdus (Dragon Age: Inquisition & Dragon Age: The Last Court; Cullen Rutherford/Marquise of Serault, rated E, more in tags)
Summary: Cullen expected to hate everyone at Halamshiral, but an encounter with the mercurial, mysterious Marquise of distant Serault proves difficult to forget. When they strike up a correspondence, it leads to feelings neither one can deny (and letters Cullen would really prefer to keep hidden). With the end of the world fast approaching, it doesn't seem like the time for a long-distance love affair - especially one that needs to survive magical mysteries, Orlesian politics, and Corypheus himself. But as he begins to find a freedom in the unconventional relationship, the Commander of the Inquisition begins to deal with the struggles of his past and a burgeoning hope for the future.
Come one, come all to this year's Handers Gift Exchange! For those new to the concept, a fandom gift exchange is an event in which participants create fanworks to give to one another, based off their prompts, preferences, and ships! Then giftees will leave comments on any gifts they receive and the love for Handers will be shared.
Schedule:
March 22 - April 5: Sign-ups
April 6 - 9: Matching & Assignments Sent Out
April 10 - June 7: Creation & Posting Period
With additional check-ins on May 1-3 and May 29-31. Participants may post any time during the creation period dates, not just at the end.
Sign Ups Begin March 22, 2026.
Rules, Guidelines, and FAQ under the cut:
Q. When will assignments go out, and when is my gift due?
A. Assignments will go out on or before April 9, 2026. You can post your gift any time during the creation period, but they absolutely must be posted by June 7, 2026.
Q. Will there be check-ins?
A. Yes. Mods will be checking in with participants the weekends of May 1-3 and May 29-31. If you are struggling to complete a gift or haven’t started by then we would strong encourage you to flag this to a mod so that we can arrange a pinch-hitter if necessary. We understand that life happens, so we won’t hold it against you if you need to drop out - we just want to be sure that your recipient still gets a gift!
Q. How do I share my gift?
A. All gifts should be posted on AO3 and on tumblr. Gifts should be posted to the 2026 Handers Gift Exchange collection on AO3 or Tumblr. Your recipient should be clearly tagged using AO3's gift function, or Tumblr posts should tag the recipient directly. Tumblr posts should also tag in the handers-time blog so that we can find it to reblog it.
Q. How big should my gift be?
A. Fanfic should reach a minimum word count of 1,000 words. Fanart should be at least a clean sketch or completed lineart, depending on how you view your artstyle.
Q. Is this an anonymous gift exchange?
A. No, but please do not tell your giftee until you have officially posted your gift. The reveal will occur the moment you post it!
Q. Are there any rules about commenting?
A. Yes. You must comment on any gift made for you. This should be a comment of at least 3 sentences in length.
Q. I have another question.
A. Please send an ask to the handers-time mods (either to @dismalzelenka, @un-shit-yourself, or @storybookhawke) and we’d be happy to help.
Dragon age origins is like…. You’re nineteen, new in town, and it’s your second day at pizza hut. You don’t even know how to work the register yet and you just watched your manager get carted off by the paramedics. You have no contact info for him, his next of kin, or corporate. The only other employee is the guy who’s been here for two weeks and is a bit of a doofus, and neither of you really know what you’re supposed to do now. You both desperately need this job though, and the doofus at least has a drivers license and *kiiinda* knows how to use the oven so you just. Shrug, and start taking orders and making pizzas and praying to god that the bills are on autopay.
And weirdly enough you’re really good at this: making pizzas and dealing with shitty customers and breaking up fights in the parking lot and pretending to be Duncan’s cousin on the phone so the utility company doesn’t cut off the power. But running a store is a lot of work for two dumb kids, so slowly you start accumulating a bunch of competent weirdos to help out, like the nun who left her convent because god told her to help you make pizzas, and the elderly school teacher who just survived a mass shooting, and the guy the papa johns down the street hired to run you over. And really there’s no way any of this should be working as well as it is - you’re absolutely committing fraud of some kind here - but you’ve managed to dodge the landlord every time he’s stopped by, and the health inspector never shows up to tell you to stop letting your dog hang out behind the counter and you’re all still kinda looking at each other and asking ‘are we allowed to just do this?’ before shrugging again and continuing to make pizzas, until somehow, through a series of unlikely technicalities, your doofus coworker ends up on the ballot for governor.
And after like five months of this the regional manager wanders in out of nowhere and you’re sure he’s about to chew your ass out for this mess, but it turns out he’s pretty chill and honestly kind of impressed with how you managed to keep the place up and running all on your own. So now you’re all thinking ‘thank god, there’s someone here who actually knows how to run a Pizza Hut’ only for him to get hit by a car two days later on the night of the Super Bowl.
Fic for MDZS Reverse Big Bang (@mdzsrbb)! The art is by @mumuqings and it's so incredibly stunning and I'm so glad to have got to write this for it! Sorry to still be locking fic (ai bots suck, set them on fire), so AO3 account needed.
Alright! Sorry for being so absent today! I was building a tool so you can all check your own names on demand.
I am asking that you not talk about it on Hugging Face. I'm sure word will get there eventually, but I'd like to avoid them accessing this as much as possible. Feel absolutely free to spread around Tumblr.
AO3 search tool is here! Use page 1 to search scraped fics by username. Use page 2 to search by work ID (which you'll need to do if you're looking for an anonymous work).
Or you can use this version, which is strongly recommended if you've published more than about 20 fics on the username you're searching.
If you're unsure which to use:
The first link is better if your entire username is a common word. For example, if you're username is just "bread" then you probably can't search yourself in the second link. The first version is way slower, so I recommend trying the second link first and using the first link as a backup option if the second fails.
The first link contains a page to search by work ID. This is good if you have an anonymous or orphaned fic, since that's not going to appear by searching your username.
The second link is better if you have a LOT of fics. It will give you a count of fics so you don't have to add them up. It will show the top 2,000 work results found.
If you have more than 2,000 published works, first off, I am jealous of your motivation. But second, that won't display right on the public version of the tools. You can send an ask or DM to have me do a custom search for you if you have more than 2,000 total works under 1 username.
You can also ask or DM if your entire username is a common word, because you're likely to get drowned out of the search results in that case. Try the tool first, but if it returns a lot of author results for your search, and YOUR name isn't in the results, ask me! There's a decent chance you're in there, but one of the tool's weak points is searching extremely common words.
In case this post breaches containment: this is a tool that only has access to the work IDs, titles, author names, chapter counts, and hit counts of the scraped fics for this most recent scrape discovered in April 2025. There is no other work data in this tool. This never had the content of your works loaded to it, only info to help you check if your works were scraped. If you need additional metadata, I can search my offline copy for you if you share a work ID number and tell me what data you're looking for. I will never search the full work text for anyone, but I can check things like word counts and tags.
Please come yell if the tool stops working, and I'll fix as fast as I can. Version 1 is slow as hell, but it does load eventually. Give it up to 10 minutes, and if it seems down after that, please alert me via ask! Anons are on if you're shy. Version 2 typically loads results within 1 minute and handles most users well.
On mobile, enable screen rotation and turn your phone sideways. It's a litttttle easier to use like that. It works better if you can use desktop.
Some FAQs below the cut:
"What do I need to do now?": At this time, the main place where this dataset was shared is disabled. As far as I'm aware, you don't need to do anything, but I'll update if I hear otherwise. If you're worried about getting scraped again, locking your fics to users only is NOT a guarantee, but it's a little extra protection. There are methods that can protect you more, but those will come at a cost of hiding your works from more potential readers as well.
"I don't want to know!": This tool is 100% optional. If you don't want to know, simply don't click the link. You are totally welcome to block me if it makes you feel more comfortable.
"Can I see the exact content they scraped?": Nope, not through me. I don't have the time to vet every single person to make sure they are who they say they are, and I don't want to risk giving a scraped copy of your fic to anyone else. If you really want to see this, you can find the info out there still and look it up yourself, but I can't be the one to do it for you.
"Are locked fics safe?": Not safe, but so far, it appears that locked fics were scraped less often than public fics. The only fics I haven't seen scraped as of right now are fics in unrevealed collections, which even logged-in users can't view without permission from the owner.
"My work wasn't a fic. It was an image/video/podfic.": You're safe! All the scrape got was stuff like the tags you used and your title and author name. The work content itself is a blank gap.
"It's slow.": Unfortunately, a 13 million row data dashboard is always going to be on the slow side. I think I've done everything I can to speed it up, but it may still take up to 10 minutes to load. It's faster if you can use desktop, but it should work on your phone too.
"My fic isn't there.": If it was published after March 15th, 2025, that was likely after all of the scraping took place. Otherwise, from what I can tell so far, the scraper's code just... wasn't very good, so most likely, your fic was missed by random chance. I am continuing to look for methods to reduce the chances of a work getting scraped anyway, and I will share on this blog if/when I find something that works.
Thanks to everyone who helped with the cost to host the tool! I appreciate you so so so much. As of this edit, I've received more donations than what I paid to make this tool so you do NOT need to keep sending money. (But I super appreciate everyone who did help fund this! I just wanna make sure we all know it's all paid for now.)
(Made some quick edits to the post on 04-May-2025 to update information a bit!)
Last fic of 2024 (or first of 2025)! Fic for Nu and @fandomtrumpshate 2024 went up yesterday my time. Post-canon Wangxian casefic with musical cultivation, a problem a long time in the making, and something only our heroes and their family can solve.
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From my upcoming mini-zine fic for this year's @dragonageannual! Our weary Orlesian scholar is very excited to have found a fragment of an ancient poem on Calenhad, but very frustrated with the state it was discovered in!
surprise art for the @mdzsbigbang and specifically @unseelieash! from chapter 7 of the amazing fic, Waves Return to the Shore, which you can read now on ao3!!! (you can also see the other piece of art i did over here!). seriously though the conversation in chapter 7 has me tearing up a bit every time i've read it, it's so good ;n; thank you ash for such a lovely fic!!
DirThenera is an elf-obsessed artist and writer who found Dragon Age during a rough period in her life and went full-on special interest in just a month. Dragon Age helped her rediscover her love of fanworks, as well as develop her artistic skills.
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I just want to say thank you to all the Chinese speakers and people of Chinese heritage in this fandom, who spend so much time and effort translating or explaining things for those of us who aren’t Chinese and/or don’t speak Chinese.
It enriches my experience of these shows so much, as well as giving me a much deeper appreciation for the beauty of Chinese speech and writing.
I know it’s a lot of work, and I really, really appreciate everything you do.
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