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[bobwp]

Now this is one deep dive into the latest release of WordPress.

[thedragonagebigbang]

Big Bang Writer Requirements

Writers commit to producing a completed, new fanfiction PRIMARILY for the Dragon Age Media of at minimum 25,000 words. This work must be completed and posted to the AO3 collection by October 31, 2025. 

Total Writing Time: July 1 - October 31

Quick Links: ▸ What is This Event? ▸ Schedule ▸ Rules ▸ Code of Conduct ▸ Content Guidelines ▸ Writer Requirements ▸ Artist Requirements ▸ Answered Questions

Event Info: Full Guidebook & Rules | Artist Guide | Writer Guide Contact The Mods: ask | discord | email: thedragonagebig@gmail.com

All writer-specific deadlines, deliverables, guidelines, and more can be found in the WRITER GUIDE. Please bookmark this for your reference. The information below is abbreviated.

TIMELINE

All Deadlines are “by end of day” (EOD) in any timezone.

July 14: Nonzero Word Count Soft Check-In Due July 31: Pitches Due August 1-September 15: Interview Scheduling OR Questionnaire Submissions Window August 8: Writer 7500 Word Cut Off Due August 14: All Teams Formed & Connected September 15: Artist & Writer Check In Due October 31: All Works Due November 1: Tumblr Promos Begin, 1 team/day

There will be a 2025 DA Big Bang Google Calendar that you can add to your own calendar - link coming soon!

WORK REQUIREMENTS

Writers & Projects Start Anonymous: do not share your ideas publicly. You are not allowed to discuss your project outside of the SECRET writer-only chat in the discord. This is to make the artist pitch claims blind and fair.

Your Final Product: Writers commit to producing a completed, new fanfiction PRIMARILY for the Dragon Age Media of at minimum 25,000 words. This work must be completed and posted to the AO3 collection by October 31, 2025. Writers who fail to reach the minimum will not be included in the Bang Collection, nor advertised by the Bang. This is out of fairness to all writers undertaking this challenge.

Longfics can be anything you like, within our sparing content guidelines! They are not constrained by prompts, DNWs, etc. There is no maximum word count, no limit to the fandom(s) (in case of crossovers), and no restriction on max rating.

Written works must be new:

They cannot be rewrites of existing fanfictions, or compilations of existing fanfictions, or reposts of existing fanfictions, that have been posted on tumblr, AO3, FFN, Livejournal, Wordpress, or other platforms.

Written works must be primarily for the Dragon Age franchise, even for crossovers:

“Geralt of Rivia with Templar Abilities, but still in The Continent, and no Dragon Age characters appear” is probably skirting the line, but “Geralt of Rivia is sent into Thedas” or “Cullen Rutherford as a Witcher in an AU version of Thedas” are probably okay.

Written works must be at least 25,000 words, and complete, when posted:

Works must be uploaded to AO3

Works must be submitted to the 2025 Big Bang collection

Works must be completed (no new chapters or significant revisions to be added)

Writers agree to meeting minimum checkpoint progress, and clearly communicating progress (or lack thereof) to the moderators of the event. These are listed in the Timeline.

DELIVERABLES AND DUE DATES

Sign Ups: June 1-June 30

On the Google Form, open from June 1-June 30, Writers must provide:

▸ contact information ▸ a non-binding 1-5 sentence explanation of their fic idea ▸ an estimated length (25k+) ▸ an estimated Rating ▸ if you wish to be added to the secret writer discord channels

Soft Check-In: July 1-July 14

On the Google Form, open from July 1-July 14, Writers must provide a current, non-zero word count. Any non-zero word count received by July 14 will qualify you to submit a Pitch.

Writer Pitches: July 15-July 31

On the Google Form, open from July 15-July 31, writers will submit their project pitches for Artists to claim. The information will then be anonymized and posted to the DABB 2025 Pitch Collection for Artists to peruse and claim. The mod team will then finalize teams.

Cut-Off Check-In: July 14-August 8

This will be a Google Form. Even if the fic was requested by an artist, we will not match artists with a fic that has not met the minimum 7,500 words by August 8, 2025.

Team Collaboration: August 14-October 31

Upon matching, Writers and Artists will be connected over email. From there, Teams can decide what platform is best for their communication. Please keep in mind our privacy recommendation.

In the event that the event has more artists sign up than writers, all fics will enter a lottery for the chance to receive a second artist match (forming a Team of Three).

Writers must send the latest draft of their writing to their Artist partner(s). It can be any length (7500 words+), and in any condition, but the artist needs something to go off of for their part of the Bang. If an Artist does not receive a draft of the fic after 72 hours, the mods will investigate. If it is found that the Writer has not met target word counts, they will be disqualified from the event and banned from future participation.

Writers should be in regular, private contact with their Artist partner(s). Writers should provide as many written excerpts as the artist (reasonably) requests.

While your partnership is not necessarily anonymous, your work should not be shared/streamed publicly until the whole fic/art combo is posted on your reveal day!

Submissions: October 19-31

Writers must add their work to the AO3 Collection for the 2025 Dragon Age Big Bang when finished, AND, via a Google Form open October 19-31, ONE REPRESENTATIVE from each time must submit material for the Tumblr promo posts. Decide your team representative ahead of time! The full version AND a square crop of the art must be submitted by ONE REPRESENTATIVE OF YOUR TEAM for the final tumblr promotional post. Please read more about image submission, hosting, formatting, and cropping, here.

Event Info: Full Guidebook & Rules | Artist Guide | Writer Guide Contact The Mods: ask | discord | email: thedragonagebigbang@gmail.com All 2024 Work Posts | 2024 Wrap Up | 2024 AO3 Collection

[anarcho-animism]

Anarcho-Animist Manifesto

I have been nurturing and sitting on this for a long time – it was first penned in 2021 and revised every so often since then. I’ve not posted it sooner out of the desire to make sure it stood the test of time for myself. I wrote it at 23, and now I am 26 and a very different (and more well-read) person…but the core of this manifesto remains strong and something that I am proud of. So I’m releasing it into the big wide world. Any updates or edits to wording past this point will (hopefully) be just spelling and grammer. In Love & Rage, Wolverine. Originally posted on Wordpress. “Anarchy is a society being freely constituted without authorities or a governing body. It may also refer to a society or group of people that entirely rejects a set hierarchy.” Wikipedia entry on anarchy “Potentially, animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and perhaps even words—as animated and alive” Wikipedia entry on anarchism

Anarcho-animism is the intersection of spirituality and eco-anarchism. It seeks to protect the environment for the environment’s sake. It recognises the world as a living, breathing, system. It abhors the abuse and destruction profit incentives cause.

Animism is the belief that all things – all beings, plants, rocks, animals, rivers, weather systems, the whole world – is animated and alive with a living soul. From me, to you, to a barking dog, to a field mouse, to a bird, to a lizard, to an ant, to the ground beneath us and the plants that give us oxygen: it all has its own unique soul.

Even if the animist concept of all beings and entities having souls does not ring true, all beings and entities have inherent worth and should be treated with care, kindness and respect. Just because we do not understand the language of plants and other beings, does not mean that language somehow doesn’t exist.

It rejects the idea of humans as the centre and paramount of existence. It embraces all experiences of the world across the diverse family of beings as important.

Reject capitalism

Anarcho-animism rejects an unnatural hierarchy of governing bodies within animist practice.

Anarcho-animism rejects capitalism and the state as they are the architects of ecocide (defined as “unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts” – theecologist.org).

All power gained by capitalists, states and their puppets is power that they have gained unjustly. They have exploited and continue to exploit the world and its inhabitants.

Anarcho-animism and capitalist consumerism cannot coexist. Capitalist consumerism demands no end to consumption of resources, products and more that is draining the world only to make the select few richer. It is endangering the lives of living beings everywhere, forcing them to work and live under cruel conditions.

It rejects petrochemical companies who have a stranglehold on the energy sector. It embraces sustainable and accessible living for all people and animals, the world over. It embraces the collected differences and seeks to make an accessible world where all can live in freedom and togetherness.

It rejects all borders, states, nations and invisible lines that divide beings on earth and sections land away. Anarcho-animism demands total freedom of movement for ALL, free of the states and nations that fueled capitalism.

Embrace spirituality and animism

Spiritual practice should not be commercialised. Every being should be free to adopt the traditions of their kin and the traditions of those that share with them. It should not be dependent on mass market goods.

Anarcho-animism recognises humans as intrinsic to nature. It explicitly rejects the separation of human and non-human animals as distinct categories & the ideological elevation of humans over all other living beings.

Even though it can be hard to break hierarchical styles of thinking, it is something that can always be worked towards and is an admirable goal for all beings.

Anarcho-animism recognises that everything in the world has a spirit/soul/essential essence tied to it, that cannot be revoked or infringed upon by anything or anyone without deep disrespect.

As an extension, the world is an interdependent web of living things, the environment and the earth’s spirit.

It is anti-racist, anti-fascist and embraces marginalised beings

Nature is inherently a place of diversity.

Anarcho-animism is anti racist and anti-fascist. There is no room for volkish neo-nazis in anarcho-animism. There is no room for eco-fascism, and those ideologies must not be allowed to flourish for they bring unspeakable harm to the most marginalised beings.

Anarcho-animism welcomes and celebrates queer & trans people.

It demands for the world’s colonised land to be returned to indigenous people with no conditions attached.

It demands land back to the public of countries and nations who face increasingly little access to the wild. Take the land from landowners that seek to exploit it for profit, make it free, let all beings roam again. Destroy the state.

Anarcho-animism respects the right to roam of all communities and beings. It stands in solidarity with Gypsy, Roma & Traveller communities against anti-trespass laws.

Care for the environment

Anarcho-animism embraces politics such as rewilding & indigenous land stewardship. It seeks to restore balance to depleted habitats, to allow all to flourish again. It supports the reintroduction of predator species such as the wolves in Yellowstone and the lynx in europe.

Anarcho-animism seeks to stop monocultures of crops eating up the land and draining the water away. Food forests and alternate gardening techniques will help all thrive. It embraces foraging, food for free, folk knowledge of edible plants and mushrooms, and sustainable hunting to feed communities.

Care for fellow beings

It abhors the treatment of beings under industrial meat production. All beings on the earth deserve a good death in whatever form it may come in. The meat industry does not give this mercy after a life of humiliation. All beings have an inherent spirit that deserves dignity and respect.

It seeks to remove the conditions that force other beings into traumatising slaughterhouse work – migrant status, economic status and “unemployability”. No being was made to work, especially under traumatising and unethical conditions.

Anarcho-animism rejoices in the inherent creativity of all the beings of the earth, and in the community found in creative pursuits. In dreams that all beings share.

It celebrates all beings’ milestones in life, it celebrates the seasons and the world changing in time with them.

It looks to nature for the purest form of joy – that found in play. In freedom to play, and learn, and grow, unfettered by capitalism, crushing expectations and the threat of working or death.

Care for the community

It places emphasis on community care and ritualised practices to mark cycles, celebrations, and seasons.

It places emphasis on the joy that exists as part of living, in building community with others by sharing good food, stories, art, love and most of all, it emphasises the joy found in connection with the rest of the living world.

It is a moral obligation to our fellow beings to build a world accessible to those with neurodivergence, sensitivities, disabilities of all types, to the elderly and the young, and for all of it to be done well and to the best of our abilities.

It recognises the interdependence of humans and the environment. Care for self, others and nature are all radical acts of love. It seeks to repair harm by centering those most hurt, and those most in need of healing. It looks to transformative and restorative justice, and imagines a world without punitive justice. There are no cops in nature.

[sevenstorypublishing]

6 Types of Editing for Authors: Which One is Right for You?

6 Types of Editing for Authors: Which One is Right for You? Every writer needs an editor. Fiction authors, researchers, scholars, journalists, and more. It doesn’t matter the amount of experience someone has—we’re all human, and we all make mistakes. When it comes to writing a book, there are multiple stages of creation: outlining, researching, drafting, writing, editing, revision, proofing,…

[merc-with-the-m0uth]

Smash or pass?

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Smash.

[jscalzi]

Spice the Cat Appears to Have Very Certain Opinions About the Most Recent Chapter

Don’t give me that look, cat. I can always revise! And yes, that is the current work in progress behind Spice. It’s coming along nicely. You’ll see the whole thing in roughly one year. There will be other stuff before then, don’t worry. You’re not getting rid of me that easily. — JS

[flautistsandpeonies]

Hi! I really liked your CSSR & WCZ haunting fics! Do you post on AO3? I'd like to bookmark them so that they're easier to find. There's also a sad lack of fics featuring CSSR & WCZ on AO3 :(

Hello, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

While I am currently on A03, I've been trying to move off that site for a while now. I've created a Wordpress and recently created a SquidgeWorld. I've been revising my fics, and all that have will be posted on both those sites when completed. As of right now, Haunted is not one of them, but I'll make sure to message you when it is!

All my MDZS stuff will still be found under this username.

[talkwittk]

Ripped pages

Why revise what you was meant to let go of ? This project wasn’t a re edition of what u knew this is a  a new format what you don’t know . Constantly ripping , erasing what already was done . Once a chapter close a new one begins once a book is finished doesn’t mean there isn’t another in store. I hear it as my chest pounds as my mind race , I feel it , I can hear it , The end of this chapter…

[lovefrenchisbetter]

Prada Fall Winter 24 Review

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[funkymbtifiction]

Once Upon a Time: Captain Hook / Killian Jones [ESTP 7w8]

MBTI Type: ESTP Hook is aware of his environment and its potential to be useful. Hook enjoys taking advantage of situations and reading the intentions of his companions in their subtle mannerisms and behaviors. He finds it easy to get in synch with them, which makes him good at manipulation; Hook is an opportunist who can revise his plans on the fly, who gets a thrill out of a chance for action,…

[biblioklept]

Mass-market Monday | Philip K. Dick's Radio Free Albemuth

Radio Free Albemuth, 1985, Philip K. Dick. Avon Bard (1987). Cover art by Ron Walotsky. 212 pages. From Philip K. Dick’s posthumous (and likely never-fully revised) novel Radio Free Albemuth: The human being has an unfortunate tendency to wish to please. I was in effect exactly like those captured Americans: a prisoner of war. I had become that in November 1968 when F.F.F. got elected. So had we…

[lilithsaintcrow]

Good Problems To Have

Busy morning, even before I got halfway through coffee. Unload and reload the dishwasher, clear a few things from the inbox, send off the revised and ready-to-edit Sons of Ymre #3, cross off that particular item on the master to-do list… and now I get a chance to sit and think for a bit, while absorbing tepid caffeine. One of the things I love about working with small and indie publishers is how…

[starsandmargsabls]

Hi! Are you posting fics on AO3 or here on tumblr? Some of your Star Wars posts have me intrigued and I'd like to check out your writing if you have anything posted!

Hello! I'm in the process of moving away from A03, so it'll be a bit before I start posting SW fics. However, when I do they will be available here on Tumblr and my Wordpress (everything will be linked in posts). I've also recently requested an invite to SquidgeWorld.

While I have fics for two other fandoms, I'm currently revising them- they're not bad, I just know I can do better- so nothing is up to date unfortunately.😅 Thank you for your interest though!

[biblebloodhound]

Lessons From a Genealogy (Ruth 4:18-22)

By listing someone’s descendants in writing, it indicates an ongoing developing story which has happened, and continues to develop up to the present time, and even into the future.

Now these are the descendants of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron, Hezron of Ram, Ram of Amminadab, Amminadab of Nahshon, Nahshon of Salmon, Salmon of Boaz, Boaz of Obed, Obed of Jesse, and Jesse of David. (New Revised Standard Version) No, I didn’t make a mistake about what the verses are for today from the Revised Common Lectionary. Yes, the Old Testament lesson is a brief genealogy.…

[wpwebsitefix]

The Significance of Regular Maintenance for Your WordPress Site

WordPress stands as one of the leading content management platforms, driving millions of websites across the globe. Its flexibility, scalability, and ease of use make it a go-to platform for businesses, bloggers, and eCommerce stores. Much like a car needs routine maintenance to run smoothly, your WordPress site demands regular care to maintain peak performance, strong security, and a seamless user experience.

Why Regular Maintenance Matters

Improved Website Security

Frequent updates to the WordPress core, plugins, and themes safeguard your site against security risks. Neglecting updates can leave your site exposed to hackers, malware, and data breaches.

Enhanced Performance and Speed

A sluggish website can deter visitors and harm your visibility in search engine results Regular maintenance involves optimizing your site’s performance by clearing cache, minimizing scripts, and addressing server-related issues. These steps ensure a seamless and fast browsing experience for visitors.

Better SEO Rankings

Search engines like Google prioritize websites that are fast, secure, and free of errors. Maintenance activities such as fixing broken links, updating content, and optimizing images can improve your site's SEO, helping you rank higher in search results.

User Experience (UX) Improvement

Old themes, malfunctioning links, and sluggish pages can annoy visitors and increase bounce rates. Consistent upkeep guarantees your site remains user-friendly, with operational features, seamless navigation, and compelling content.

Key Aspects of WordPress Maintenance

WordPress consistently publishes updates to enhance performance and address security vulnerabilities. Maintaining up-to-date core, plugins, and themes is vital for reducing risks and ensuring flawless compatibility.

Backups: Your Safety Net

A dependable backup system allows you to swiftly recover your site in the event of accidental data loss, failed updates, or cyber threats. Implement regular backups to safeguard your information and reduce the chance of downtime."

Database Optimization

Over time, your WordPress database may gather clutter like spam comments, redundant post revisions, and obsolete records. Streamlining your database boosts site performance and frees up valuable storage space.

Security Checks

Use security plugins to monitor your site for malware, unauthorized logins, and other potential threats. Regular scans and firewall settings can safeguard your site from harmful attacks.

Broken Link Fixes

Broken links harm user experience and SEO. Conduct regular checks to identify and fix these issues, ensuring a smooth browsing journey for your visitors.

Content Review and Update

Consistently evaluate your content for relevance, correctness, and audience interaction.. Refreshing outdated blog posts or removing irrelevant information ensures your site remains current and beneficial to visitors."

Performance Testing

Test your site’s speed and responsiveness across different devices and browsers. Platforms like Google PageSpeed Insights or GTmetrix offer valuable insights to pinpoint opportunities for optimization.

Consequences of Skipping Maintenance

Failing to maintain your WordPress site can lead to serious repercussions:

Increased Downtime: Neglected sites are more prone to crashes, especially after updates.

Loss of Traffic and Revenue: Security breaches or slow loading times can deter visitors, affecting both traffic and sales.

SEO Penalties: Issues like broken links or outdated content can harm your search engine rankings.

Higher Repair Costs: Fixing a neglected site can be more expensive than regular upkeep.

DIY vs. Professional Maintenance

Tips for Regular WordPress Maintenance

Schedule weekly or monthly maintenance tasks.

Use reliable tools and plugins for backups, security, and performance optimization.

Monitor your site's uptime and analytics to identify potential issues early.

Optimize your WordPress site with image compression, responsive design, lazy loading, modern formats, and metadata cleanup. Get expert help at wpwebsitefix.com.

[whateveradjunct]

Spice the Cat Appears to Have Very Certain Opinions About the Most Recent Chapter

Don’t give me that look, cat. I can always revise! And yes, that is the current work in progress behind Spice. It’s coming along nicely. You’ll see the whole thing in roughly one year. There will be other stuff before then, don’t worry. You’re not getting rid of me that easily. — JS