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It's kind of incredible just how much the Country House Murder Mystery genre is, at its roots, a reaction to WWI and the social change that sprang from it.

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okay now I'm curious and I dunno if this is really such an archaic foreign thing to young people today or if I'm just out of touch

Please reblog, I'd love to see a lot of responses!

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fairytales which tell you to be both kind and clever fairytales that say to be kind is to be clever and to be clever is to be kind fairytales that say the cleverest thing you can ever do is choose kindness and that cruelty or thoughtlessness are always foolish but not kindness never kindness

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THE BLACK EMPORIUM EXCHANGE RETURNS FOR 2025!

Black Emporium is a rare pair exchange that encompasses everything Dragon Age – provided they have less than 300* completed works on Ao3. Whether you’ve been a fan since the beginning or got in to it via Veilguard– whether you write snappy dialogue or draw detailed scenery – we want YOU to participate!

*Except for Rook; see our post about how we're handling that!

2025 Schedule

All deadlines are as of 9 AM US Pacific / 12 PM US Eastern / 4 PM UTC+0.

Nominations: June 24 - July 1

Signups: July 1 - July 12

Assignments Go Out: When mods are done matching (probably sometime on July 13th)

Works Due: August 24

Works Revealed: August 31

Authors Revealed: September 7

Links

AO3:

AO3 Nominations Tagset

2025 Subcollection

Parent Collection (all past years)

Resources:

Participation Walkthrough Guide

FAQ

Fun Spreadsheets & Other Useful Tools:

Searchable Nominations Spreadsheet

Request Database

Treatless List

Official Links:

Tumblr: @black-emporium-exchange

Dreamwidth Mirror: black-emporium

Discord invite

Questions? Email us at blackemporiumexchange@gmail.com!

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god forbid a woman is a bit hungry

patreon | tip jar

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Mystery Inc. meet Holmes and Watson!

I am having a lot of fun with this Victorian Scooby Doo au!!

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thinking about how when you experience a lot of shame in your formative years (indirectly, directly, as abuse or just as an extant part of your environment) it becomes really difficult to be perceived by other people in general. the mere concept of someone watching me do anything, whether it's a totally normal activity or something unfamiliar of embarrassing, whether I'm working in an excel spreadsheet or being horny on main, it just makes my skin crawl and my brain turn to static because I cannot convince myself that it's okay to be seen and experienced. because to exist is to be ashamed and embarrassed of myself, whether I'm failing at something or not, because my instinctive reaction to anyone commenting on ANYTHING I'm doing is to crawl into a hole and die. it's such a bizarre and dehumanizing feeling to just not be able to exist without constantly thinking about how you are being Perceived. ceaseless watcher give me a god damn break.

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New tlt art! Yep!💀

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As , the United States, potentially heads into another forever war I can only think of this quote.

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god i wish he was romanceable

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‘unreliable narrator’ but it’s ’narrator is deeply in love with the person they are narrating’

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I hate how fandom has become "if you haven't created anything in this very specific time frame after the release of the show/movie, everyone will have moved on"

And call me old fashioned, but that's just not me. I sometimes take ages to create and publish. And I will love a show or movie for such a long time (years, babes, years) that I just can't relate to the fast consumerism that's going on.

Because, let's be real, it can get really lonely in a fandom if most have simply moved on to the next shiny thing. Is what's created less worth, just because it was created outside the hype? Why is it such a taboo for this new fandom generation to love an old or "late" fic or art?

It's so tiring and I'm too old for the 30-seconds-hype-tiktok-shit. Just tired. So, so tired.

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It seems like the older I get, the more irrationally angry casual censorship makes me. And it isn't just the "unalive" "grape" alleged filter-dodging vernacular, but the way normal words will be peppered with asterisks, or screenshots will have words like "gay" "hell" "fuck" etc either partially or entirely blurred. Who is this helping? What is the purpose of it, except to reinforce shame and elevate a flimsy perception of purity and safety, however those things manifest. It's so tiresome and I'm sick of it.

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In 1932, Anna May Wong was photographed by Carl Van Vechten, a prominent portrait photographer known for his striking black-and-white images of artists, performers, and cultural figures during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. These portraits of Wong are some of the most iconic ever taken of her.

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