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I have too many ideas for Neve Week. Decisions…

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I didn’t know this blog existed until just now, and I am so happy to have seen this. 💕🦝

One of my good friends took THE FUNNIEST possible picture of a frequent visitor to his courtyard

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Thank you all for your patience as I dug out of real life insanity, worked on Harding Week, and prepped for Neve Week.

And some stuff we’ll be doing in the lead up to Neve Week. ;)

But I’m back! So sorry to folks whose tags I missed, I will be working to dig out but if I miss you, please know it’s not you, it’s me. <3

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And this was the moment I fell in love with her.

Beautiful gif set, OP!

Not the worst timing

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This week’s UpDAte!! Thanks @hyperions-light!

The Weekly UpDAte 6/24/2025

Ooooh, sorry, I forgot about the upDAte, yesterday! Was doing a bunch of workshop stuff, my bad.

Locally

Monday Rook Into Hour is up! There will be another one this Friday, June 27th!

WIP Wednesday Thursday will run on Thursday, June 26th!

@biowaredisasterbisexual's Sharing Sundays post went up two days ago, and submissions are open for the next one until Saturday, June 28th!

@becausedragonage has started a fun new game for Tuesdays! Reflection Ruesday rules here!

@pixiedurango is still running the Antivan Postal Service! Get a letter from your favorite Crows!

She has also started a new writing game this week where you can ask her Rook out!

@hedwigoprah has started a game called A Word With Friends, to play on Wednesdays! This week it is being hosted by @notyourmamasdeerbat ! Here it is!

@woundedsoul12 has started a game called Thursday Bangers, to play on Thursdays!

Greater Thedas

Ongoing/Repeating Events

thedasweekend runs weekly! [Instructions]

dadrunkwriting is also weekly, on Fridays! [Instructions]

Events in Preparatory Stages

Writer signups for The Dragon Age Big Bang (25k) are currently open, and will remain open until June 30th!

@datvcompanionweeks is asking for prompt submissions for Lucanis Week 2025! The survey will be open until July 1st!

Nominations for the Black Emporium Rarepair Exchange have opened, and will remain open until July 1st!

Date/Prompt Announcements

@datvcompanionweeks has announced the prompts and dates for Neve Week 2025! The event will be held from July 21st - 27th!

Currently Happening/Beginning This Week

daflowerzine's leftover sales are ongoing!

@rookappreciationweek is ongoing this week until June 28th!

Iron Bull Appreciation Month is running throughout the month!

Faith, a Leliana Zine, is hosting a game until the end of this month to feature works centering Leliana and themed to Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

And, of course if you want to know the full scope of everything happening in Thedas, dragonagefanevents is your one-stop shop (NOTE: They have been shadowbanned by Tumblr and are unable to be tagged/searched =( ), including instructions for hosting your own event!

Disclaimer that I'm not affiliated with most of these events-- just thought it could be useful for people around here to have everything on one place! (mentions are for ease of navigation-- no need to rb, and if you'd rather I not mention your event, please lmk!)

If YOU do something/are planning something and you would like to be added to the upDAte in future, please tag me! I do not use the main tags, so it is unlikely I will see your event otherwise.

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Luncanis Week! I know we’ve got Lucanis fans in the house, and we’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas!!

LUCANIS WEEK PROMPT SURVEY!

Lucanis' week is set for August, and we would love to have you join us! We’re opening a survey so that you can tell us what prompts you’d like to see for the event! The prompts will be posted the day after Neve's week ends, on July 27, 2025! If you have any ideas, please send them through the form! The survey will run until July 1st at midnight Pacific Standard Time. Look for the prompts after #neveweek2025 closes!

Make sure to check our Rules and FAQ, and feel free to send us an ask if you have any additional questions!

SO excited to see what you all come up with for #lucanisweek2025!

⟡ SURVEY IS HERE ⟡

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YOU ALL HAVE NO IDEA HOW UNHINGED I AM ABOUT TO BE!

I better get to writing. After all, we’ve got some stuff coming up!

The prompt list for Neve Week 2025 IS HERE.

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Thanks so much, everyone who participated, you all blew me away with your passion, your creativity, your talent, and your kindness!

I’d be hard pressed to pick favorites, so I won’t do that, but know that I am in awe of everyone’s writing, art, gif sets, and photography. You all are AMAZING!

Yesterday we wrapped up our third event of seven, Harding Week 2025! We loved seeing all of your amazing creations, and your love for our favorite Inquisition Scout! <3

If you enjoyed someone's work this week, we'd like to encourage you to reblog this post and tag them so that they know their work was appreciated! Please help us continue to spread the love in this community, and for all the beautiful pieces that were created this week!

And a reminder that we do take late submissions-- if you have something you'd like to contribute, please use the #hardingweek2025 tag or tag us @datvcompanionweeks, and we will be happy to reblog your submission!

Thank you all again for sharing your talents and your enthusiasm! We hope to see you next month for #NeveWeek2025 !

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And, of course, many many thanks to @hyperions-light!! They herd all of us cats, help with so much back office work, and also stream? Amazing! Thanks @theunsinkablesappho and @hyperions-light! This week was amazing!

Yesterday we wrapped up Harding Week 2025 on @datvcompanionweeks, and, as always, I want to extend a huge thank you to my fellow mods!

Firstly, I hope you will join me in extending a huge round of applause and thank you to @theunsinkablesappho, who ran Harding Week, commented on the many fanworks, and created the supporting posts-- not to mention contributing so much of her own amazing creations! Thank you so much for all of your hard work this week!

And thank you, as well, to @biowaredisasterbisexual, @mageofquandrix, @basedonconjecture, @flowersforthemachines, @thedissonantverses, and @grimrevolution for taking the helm of the blog at various points!

And thank you as well to @taashyvashedan and @ofcrowsanddragons for their support during this project <3

Thank you all so much! Congratulations!🍾🎉 Please take a break, and I will see you next month for #NeveWeek2025 !

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Neve Week 2025 Prompts!

We are happy to reveal the prompts for Neve Week 2025! We’d like to give a special thanks to everyone who participated in the survey and sent ideas and kind words our way. Here is the official prompt list:

Neve Week will run from Monday, July 21st through Sunday, July 27th. Don’t forget to get to @ us or use the #neveweek2025 hashtag so we can see and reblog your submissions!

Make sure to check out our rules and FAQ. Our inbox is open for any additional questions. Can’t wait to see you then, and we are all excited to see what you create!

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Night time/other timezones reblog!

Sharing Sundays - June 22nd

It’s that time, all! Thanks so much to everyone who submitted their work. It’s always an honor to help folks send what they made out into the world. You’re rockstars!

First, from @zennihilation, Trusted Assets! From the author: A case of mistaken identity forces Juan de Riva and Elek Tavor to fight off an ambush from the Chargers mercenary group.

Next up, by @bestboyargos, The Bit Before the Beginning, the first part of a Neverook fic featuring Rook Thorne. From the summary: There was a time when Rook was just Junior Warden Thorne. Then he blew up a building and some people took an exception to that.

And last, but certainly not least, from @datvcompanionweeks’ Harding Week 2025 which is in its final day, the Harding Week AO3 Collection! I suspect more will be added once the week ends, so this one is worth checking more than once.

And hey, why not check out Taash Week, Bellara Week, and Davrin Week too?

Thanks so much to everyone who shared this week, to everyone who contributed to Harding Week, and to @datvcompanionweeks!

Sharing Sundays submissions are always open, so feel free to send what you’ve made my way and I’ll share it!

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Harding Week 2025 - Ficlet Series

Now for DAY SEVEN of @datvcompanionweeks’ #hardingweek2025! I really liked what I worked on for WIP Wednesday for this week, so for the first time I have cleaned up my WIP Wednesday and am using it for Day Seven!

A shoutout to @theunsinkablesappho, @hyperions-light, and the entire @datvcompanionweeks team for putting this week on!

Day Seven: Free Day

Lace watched as Mercar — Rook, Varric had called him, allegedly for obvious reasons — finished setting up his tent in the little corner of the Arbor Wilds they’d claimed for themselves for the night as they traveled south. His movements were precise when they made or broke down camp, it was like watching Commander Cullen when the Inquisition had been at Haven. Tent poles just so, and flaps straightened.

Maybe he’d been a soldier? Or maybe he was just very neat, like Ma. Not in his behavior or anything. He was pretty informal, which was lucky since he was stuck with her and Varric now. Neat in specific ways. Hygiene. Dress. Tents, apparently.

Whatever the reason, odd tent-flap-precision aside, he’d taken to following her and Varric around as they looked for Solas pretty well. Made it look easy.

She was almost envious.

It hadn’t been easy, for her. The Inquisition had been one thing. At first, she hadn’t been far from home. That was part of what had made her such a good scout, despite being a teenager. Lace hadn’t known much, but she’d known the Ferelden Hinterlands and Redcliffe near as well as anyone really could. People had been impressed, given her more work and more important jobs, because of it.

It had been wonderful; finally, being a surface dwarf from the farm had made her good at something. And lots of people had thought so! Not just Ma.

Still, nice as it had sometimes felt, it had been kind of…well…terrifying too. She hadn’t felt as prepared and as knowledgeable as everyone had seemed to think. Sure, she could map areas out, learn them quickly, track well; anyone could learn to do that, though. And what if she made a mistake?!

This was the Inquisition! Leliana was counting on her, the Inquisitor was too. Maker, the, well, the Maker was counting on her! Andraste, even!

Lace had spent four years waiting for someone to realize she had no idea what she was doing and was a fraud. Sure, she was perfectly good at some stuff, but it was nothing very special. She was just…her. And being surrounded by people — special, titled, larger than life people — made it real easy to expect to be caught out as a pretender any day.

It was still kind of surprising to her she hadn’t been, really, but when the Inquisitor had dissolved the Inquisition she’d been sent home with pay without incident.

And then the Inquisitor had shown up at Ma’s door. Asked her if she’d do one last mission for him: help Varric track down Solas.

Saying yes to the Inquisition the first time had been easy, she’d been defending Ferelden and serving the Maker, and it had lured her away from home only inch by inch. A druffalo following tall grass. Agreeing to leave home again, this time to go even farther, was tougher meat to chew. If she’d been asked by anyone else, even Varric himself, she probably would have turned the job down.

Maybe that was why the Inquisitor had come himself? Maybe he’d known? He always seemed to just…know stuff.

Of course, Lace knew, that could have been just Leliana. So the mystery might not be much of one at all.

“Thanks for catching the food,” Rook said, startling her out of her thoughts as he started cooking a fish on the fire for them all. She’d offered to make supper for them, but he’d insisted. So, not wanting to be rude or make him feel excluded, she’d accepted with a smile.

Luckily, he was an okay cook, even if he was a slightly boring one.

“I was happy to,” she assured him, over the sound of the crackling hearth and popping oils from the fish skin. “Stomachs don’t stop just because we’re tracking down Solas, right?”

“Right,” he agreed easily, a friendly and open smile on his face. He always seemed comfortable, never awkward or nervous. At least so far, though it had only been a few weeks.

Some people were just lucky, she guessed.

Before the momentary silence could turn weird, she asked, “Do you like to cook?”

He chuckled, and waved his hand in a non-committal way. “Not exactly? I mean, I’m okay enough at it. We won’t die or anything.”

Rook grinned and Lace wondered if she should be worried.

“But it’s the least I can do,” he continued, flipping the fish over. “I’m no expert scout, and even less an expert on ancient Elven gods, so I figure I should contribute what I can.”

Lace could sympathize with that. She always felt that way. “Well, we appreciate it.” She smirked a little, “Varric said the next time I give him a ham-and-jam slam that he’s chucking me in the pond.”

She chuckled, shaking her head. “Not sure how he thinks he’d get away with that unstabbed.”

Rook laughed. “Noted. Don’t piss off Harding.”

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Afternoon/other timezones reblog!

Sharing Sundays - June 22nd

It’s that time, all! Thanks so much to everyone who submitted their work. It’s always an honor to help folks send what they made out into the world. You’re rockstars!

First, from @zennihilation, Trusted Assets! From the author: A case of mistaken identity forces Juan de Riva and Elek Tavor to fight off an ambush from the Chargers mercenary group.

Next up, by @bestboyargos, The Bit Before the Beginning, the first part of a Neverook fic featuring Rook Thorne. From the summary: There was a time when Rook was just Junior Warden Thorne. Then he blew up a building and some people took an exception to that.

And last, but certainly not least, from @datvcompanionweeks’ Harding Week 2025 which is in its final day, the Harding Week AO3 Collection! I suspect more will be added once the week ends, so this one is worth checking more than once.

And hey, why not check out Taash Week, Bellara Week, and Davrin Week too?

Thanks so much to everyone who shared this week, to everyone who contributed to Harding Week, and to @datvcompanionweeks!

Sharing Sundays submissions are always open, so feel free to send what you’ve made my way and I’ll share it!

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Finishing it out strong for Harding Week 2025!!

Welcome to Day 7 of Harding Week 2025

June 16, 2025 - June 22, 2025

Please tag anything you make for today (even if you finish it later) with #hardingweek2025 and tag us @datvcompanionweeks so that we can reblog your work

FAQ | Rules | Prompts

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Sharing Sundays - June 22nd

It’s that time, all! Thanks so much to everyone who submitted their work. It’s always an honor to help folks send what they made out into the world. You’re rockstars!

First, from @zennihilation, Trusted Assets! From the author: A case of mistaken identity forces Juan de Riva and Elek Tavor to fight off an ambush from the Chargers mercenary group.

Next up, by @bestboyargos, The Bit Before the Beginning, the first part of a Neverook fic featuring Rook Thorne. From the summary: There was a time when Rook was just Junior Warden Thorne. Then he blew up a building and some people took an exception to that.

And last, but certainly not least, from @datvcompanionweeks’ Harding Week 2025 which is in its final day, the Harding Week AO3 Collection! I suspect more will be added once the week ends, so this one is worth checking more than once.

And hey, why not check out Taash Week, Bellara Week, and Davrin Week too?

Thanks so much to everyone who shared this week, to everyone who contributed to Harding Week, and to @datvcompanionweeks!

Sharing Sundays submissions are always open, so feel free to send what you’ve made my way and I’ll share it!

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Harding Week 2025 - Ficlet Series

My contribution for @datvcompanionweeks #hardingweek2025 for Day Six! Rook and Harding on the farm. Chicken: 2, Rook: 1.

Day Six: Farming/Scouting

The way Harding had talked about growing up on a farm, it had sounded idyllic. Peaceful. But staying with Harding’s Ma, a few days respite as they traveled across Ferelden and back again in their search for Solas, felt closer to being in the Legions again than to any childhood stories about farm animals.

Part of that, Rook realized, was his own fault. Harding’s Ma had told him he was a guest, but he’d insisted on helping since she was kind enough to get them out of their tents for a few nights.

He probably should have given more thought to what farm work actually was before trying his hand at it. Badly, if the way Harding was snickering was any indication.

“What?” He asked, pausing to catch his breath. The chicken he’d been chasing, sensing her victory, had stopped and was happily picking away at field grass. Outside the fence. Which was the whole problem.

“You can’t chase a chicken, Rook. Or at least not like that,” Harding laughed, looking altogether too awake for how low the sun still was. She shook her head, turning back to the bucket she was filling with vegetable scraps from the night before to bring to the pig pen. “Catching a hen is about patience and, if necessary, bribery.

“Think of it like getting paperwork approved back in Tevinter,” she added with a smirk.

He sighed theatrically. “I can’t even call that slander, since it’s true.” Okay. Patience and bribery. Rook wasn’t sure exactly where patience played into things, but bribery he might be able to handle. He’d keep that in mind.

“So you grew up doing all this?” He asked, gesturing around them at the feed to be fed upon, wood to be chopped, and buckets of water to divvy up between animals.

“And more!” She said cheerfully. “Not alone, of course. Everyone pitched in. You learn a lot about your parents when you all have to wake up with the dawn and go to work together.”

Rook slowly stalked the chicken, who was still picking at the grass, and hopping a few feet further away every so often. It was on to him.

“Like what?”

Harding finished emptying her bowls of scraps, and smiled softly. Wistfully, almost. “Like Da couldn’t chop wood if it was that or freezing, and Ma gets testy if she thinks you think she’s going too slow. Da was more gentle than you’d guess; the animals all responded to him like he was their father too. Ma likes to garden, and will pawn off cleaning the pig pen on anyone unlucky enough to be nearby.”

Having smelled the pig pen, Rook didn’t blame Harding’s Ma for that one.

He took a few slow steps forward towards the chicken, who seemed to be distracted by something in the dirt.

“Do you miss it?” He wondered. Rook doubted he was cut out for life on a farm, but Harding seemed perfectly at home here. Which made sense, since she was, but was also a little jarring. He was used to seeing her fearlessly leading he and Varric through new places, identifying new dangers. The idea of her staying in one place, like this, was foreign.

Harding propped a fist on her hip, shifting her weight in that way she did when she was either thinking or about to tease him. Rook, feigning disinterest in the escaped hen, took another slow step closer.

“Maybe?” She finally said. “No. I mean yes!I—”

“It’s complicated?” Rook offered. He was close enough to realize the chicken was trying to wrench a worm out of the ground, and quickly wrapped his arms around her.

He was pretty sure those squawks were threats of violence in chicken, but he carried her back to the fenced in pen she’d escaped from despite them and firmly shut the gate. He’d be receiving a medal for bravery any day now; or be should be, because the hens all had murder in their eyes.

“I miss parts of it, I think,” Harding mused. She raised a hand to shield her eyes from the sun as she looked over the gently rolling hills just outside Redcliffe. “I miss spending time with family, of course.”

She fell into a contemplative silence while Rook tipped his own bucket of scraps over the fence, resulting in a chicken frenzy that would haunt him.

“I miss…the certainty,” Harding said, sounding almost surprised by the realization. “Don’t get me wrong, I like adventure, going new places, but…there’s something comforting about knowing what the next day will bring.”

Rook hummed in understanding. “We don’t get that very often,” he agreed.

She shook her head, laughing quietly, and turned back towards him as she dropped her hand. “Definitely not.”

Harding’s smile turned sly, and Rook had a momentary fear about what she might be about to ask him to do. “But I’m pretty confident about one thing that will happen tomorrow.”

He arched an eyebrow. “What’s that?”

“You’re going to forget not to chase a chicken again. And she’ll outsmart you again, too.”

“You wound me,” he gasped, exaggeratedly putting his hand to chest. He held the pose only a moment before breaking with a laugh. “But you’re probably right.”

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Two hours to submit!

Alright y’all, I’ve decided to throw this out here as a thing I’ll be doing:

FIC/ART SHARING SUNDAYS!

Newer to fandom, or just feel awkward advertising your creative works? I’m happy to help!

How does it work?

Throughout the week, you send me a link (AO3, tumblr, etc.) and a short blurb for something you made that you want blasted into the Wild West of whatever is happening on this blog. Each Sunday I will put all those links and blurbs into a single post labeled Sharing Sundays and do my part.

Deadline to get in each Sunday will be Saturday at 10:00 PM PST, so that I have time to get it all together. Only content limit is that it should be from the BioWare pantheon of games, though it needn’t be DA. I will accept all Baldur’s Gate stuff, including BG3, on the technicality that BG1 and BG2 were BioWare properties. Anything that is NSFW, or would merit an archive warning on AO3, needs to be labeled as such but is welcome.

Otherwise, send it all! And I’ll share it for you!

It’s free advertising!

Edit: feel free to DM me or send an ask with any questions!