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Sept 4, 2016 7:03:18 GMT tishina said:

Sept 4, 2016 2:22:29 GMT tishina said:

*whispers softly* More Malika x Varric... *alternately nudges chocolate and wine your direction as a bribe*

I can offer lots of screenshots of the experience for inspiration. Of course, most of them involve my various dwarves looking at furniture or with the camera aimed at anything except their faces (including walls above their head.) Here, have a conversation with Cassandra

:R2 unethically accepts all bribes eventho she knows she's continuing it anyway: Ooooh, well, if you insist! :innocent:

Actually, right now it's weird. I haven't written anything in three months and I already feel rusty. So I'm struggling a bit to make this drabble I have in mind interesting.

Altho, you know, Tish, it's really fascinating for me to think about the Inquisition world from her perspective, literally in some cases, and I think your screenshots have really helped me with that. I'm currently fascinated with Malika's subtle othering from the rest of the mostly human IQ.

Chairs. Tables. Even her fancy bedroom is designed with a human in mind. Human/elf height stair treads or ladder rungs with a dwarf's short legs. Windows. Reaching wall sconces or chandeliers to light or put them out. Fireplace mantles. Upper shelves. Sitting in the throne with your feet not touching the ground and feeling silly. Talking to IB while your eyes are at crotch level. Trying to see over the ramparts on fortified walls. Trying to get *out* of a human-deep bathtub (hint: take a stool or a friend.) Mounting and dismounting horses (unless you're a rogue and make it an acrobatic feat.)

I turned seating into a bit of a theme in Zheeva's story, where people don't notice that they don't have furniture appropriate for a dwarf. Generally she just made her own seating and people usually got the idea without her having to say anything. Perches on Adan's work bench; next time she visits, there's a tall chair and foot stool. Perches on crates in Cullen's office instead of the shorter chair he offered, next time she visits, another tall chair and foot stool. By post-Corypheus in Saying Goodbye, the chairs simply are almost everywhere she goes, which the other dwarves in the Inquisition probably appreciate when she isn't using them. But she still sits on the War Table sometimes, just to remind them she's a dwarf (and so she can show off her acrobatic skills because they might remember that she's aging otherwise.)

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The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion) Sept 4, 2016 22:10:14 GMT Chiantirose, R2s Muse, and 2 more like this

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Sept 4, 2016 4:06:45 GMT sarasa_cat said:

Sept 3, 2016 17:14:07 GMT Chiantirose said:

I've played DA:I so many times (I've done all romances, some more than once :whistle:

) I always tell myself I'll play it differently next time, like I never got the drunk Cassandra scene or punched Solas. Yet 99% of the time I'll side with the Templars (because honestly, it's just less work than to go with the Mages

) and get the Grey Wardens (you know, just in case). I usually don't even enter Emerald Graves, Forbidden Oasis, Hissing Wastes or Emprise du Lion. I skip the Deeproads DLC and the JoH and go straight to Trespasser. I have this path in my mind and every Inquisitor I play goes that path, except when i side with Mages then I have to go to Emerald Graves. My very first Inquisitor was about 90h, my second was already around 60h and now my playthroughs are usually about 40h. I don't explore anymore, I just get the camps, do quests that are fun, short or important then move on. First Val Royeaux trip is the worst, it reminds me of Mass Effect and when you get to Citadel the first time, because of all the little Codex Entries that are flying around there and after that I hate going to Western Approach and Exalted Plains.

There, I think it's official that I need a new game that can hold my attention longer than 5 minutes ....
...

You have your playthroughts down to 40hrs? *phhewwww*

After abandoning a few initial inquisitors 2 to 12 hours into the game, my first inquisitor took f.o.r.e.v.e.r. to make it to the end credits and that was without any of the DLCs. 110 hrs, and that was with the mages, doing Cullen's long Samson sidequest, a good bit of crafting, exploration of side areas, and a lot of wandering around lost and confused while trying to figure out the easiest way to build up 30 power. :hithead:

My second inquisitor is a not-yet-finish completionist game.

My third inquisitor appears to be moving through the game a little quicker because I know where things are, but I want to do fast story-based runs through the game so I can try out all of the romances. 40hrs for the main game plus Trespasser isn't bad. I just need to stop myself from pickup up all the shiny baubles and getting sidetracked for hours. :facepalm:

I have found it's easier to skip ahead pretty quickly now with the Golden Nug because high level gear can be crafted at lower levels. In one of my pt's I was able to level up fast by defeating dragons which gains a lot of xp -- especially if they're a higher level than you -- and not doing much else; other than important side quests, claim camps, seal rifts and capture Keeps. I ended up accidentally being over-leveled for the majority of the main quests (I hit 20 before even doing What Pride Has Wrought). Though I still have the urge to wander around maps and get distracted... I don't really like to skip ahead in games but with DAI there's so much to do, characters I need to (re)play, some parts really drag out and I still need to do Trespasser with all but one of my characters. :pinched:

I just plan to go back and finish things later because completing this game 100% before beating Corypheus tests my patience...

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It's just my opinion, though. There's really no need to go spreading it around.

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The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion) Sept 4, 2016 22:47:12 GMT R2s Muse and tishina like this

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Sept 4, 2016 7:03:18 GMT tishina said:

Since she hasn't answered, I'll butt in :ph34r:

... I think the Cullen x Hawke story was Fool's Errand, and the sequel that veered into Malika and Varric was The Trouble with Hawke. I wasn't really that into Hawke, but that story kind of sold me on the ship.

LOL Yeah, those are they. Thanks, Tish! Although my entire oeuvre is pretty much Cullen x Hawke, if you're interested, dragontartare . My two long fics (100k+ words) are Knight's Bloom (:covers the ears of her other stories: still my fave) and Fool's Errand, plus other shorter things. I've been writing Cullen for so long now . . . it's actually kind of a nice challenge to focus on Malika and Varric.

...snip...

I am going to check out some of your shorter stories

Sept 4, 2016 15:38:24 GMT tishina said:

:R2 unethically accepts all bribes eventho she knows she's continuing it anyway: Ooooh, well, if you insist! :innocent:

Actually, right now it's weird. I haven't written anything in three months and I already feel rusty. So I'm struggling a bit to make this drabble I have in mind interesting.

Altho, you know, Tish, it's really fascinating for me to think about the Inquisition world from her perspective, literally in some cases, and I think your screenshots have really helped me with that. I'm currently fascinated with Malika's subtle othering from the rest of the mostly human IQ.

Chairs. Tables. Even her fancy bedroom is designed with a human in mind. Human/elf height stair treads or ladder rungs with a dwarf's short legs. Windows. Reaching wall sconces or chandeliers to light or put them out. Fireplace mantles. Upper shelves. Sitting in the throne with your feet not touching the ground and feeling silly. Talking to IB while your eyes are at crotch level. Trying to see over the ramparts on fortified walls. Trying to get *out* of a human-deep bathtub (hint: take a stool or a friend.) Mounting and dismounting horses (unless you're a rogue and make it an acrobatic feat.)

I turned seating into a bit of a theme in Zheeva's story, where people don't notice that they don't have furniture appropriate for a dwarf. Generally she just made her own seating and people usually got the idea without her having to say anything. Perches on Adan's work bench; next time she visits, there's a tall chair and foot stool. Perches on crates in Cullen's office instead of the shorter chair he offered, next time she visits, another tall chair and foot stool. By post-Corypheus in Saying Goodbye, the chairs simply are almost everywhere she goes, which the other dwarves in the Inquisition probably appreciate when she isn't using them. But she still sits on the War Table sometimes, just to remind them she's a dwarf (and so she can show off her acrobatic skills because they might remember that she's aging otherwise.)

Hah! That's kind of adorable, actually. This is going to become part of my headcanon for my Cadash

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The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion) Sept 5, 2016 2:02:37 GMT dragontartare likes this

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Sept 4, 2016 22:47:12 GMT dragontartare said:

I am going to check out some of your shorter stories

Hee hee hee hee hee.

I hope you enjoy them, but it's OK if you don't!

Sept 4, 2016 15:38:24 GMT tishina said:

Chairs. Tables. Even her fancy bedroom is designed with a human in mind. Human/elf height stair treads or ladder rungs with a dwarf's short legs. Windows. Reaching wall sconces or chandeliers to light or put them out. Fireplace mantles. Upper shelves. Sitting in the throne with your feet not touching the ground and feeling silly. Talking to IB while your eyes are at crotch level. Trying to see over the ramparts on fortified walls. Trying to get *out* of a human-deep bathtub (hint: take a stool or a friend.) Mounting and dismounting horses (unless you're a rogue and make it an acrobatic feat.)

I turned seating into a bit of a theme in Zheeva's story, where people don't notice that they don't have furniture appropriate for a dwarf. Generally she just made her own seating and people usually got the idea without her having to say anything. Perches on Adan's work bench; next time she visits, there's a tall chair and foot stool. Perches on crates in Cullen's office instead of the shorter chair he offered, next time she visits, another tall chair and foot stool. By post-Corypheus in Saying Goodbye, the chairs simply are almost everywhere she goes, which the other dwarves in the Inquisition probably appreciate when she isn't using them. But she still sits on the War Table sometimes, just to remind them she's a dwarf (and so she can show off her acrobatic skills because they might remember that she's aging otherwise.)

Hah! That's kind of adorable, actually. This is going to become part of my headcanon for my Cadash

IKR?? Now I have to not think too hard about that . . . so I don't inadvertently steal it. :hithead:

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The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion) Sept 5, 2016 2:33:54 GMT R2s Muse likes this

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Post by tishina on Sept 5, 2016 2:33:54 GMT

Sept 5, 2016 2:02:37 GMT R2s Muse said:

Sept 4, 2016 22:47:12 GMT dragontartare said:

I am going to check out some of your shorter stories

Hee hee hee hee hee.

I hope you enjoy them, but it's OK if you don't!

Hah! That's kind of adorable, actually. This is going to become part of my headcanon for my Cadash

IKR?? Now I have to not think too hard about that . . . so I don't inadvertently steal it. :hithead:

Ah, go ahead! Though it might look a bit repetitive if Varric did it as a sign of affection, including cushions in her favorite color so he could see her sitting against it...

There are all sorts of variations to what obviously is a problem for every dwarf in Haven and Skyhold, and I wouldn't have listed that if I didn't mean to give you both ideas :whistle:

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The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion) Sept 5, 2016 5:40:45 GMT R2s Muse, SpiritVanguard, and 1 more like this

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Post by sarasa_cat on Sept 5, 2016 5:40:45 GMT

Sept 4, 2016 22:10:14 GMT SpiritVanguard said:

I have found it's easier to skip ahead pretty quickly now with the Golden Nug because high level gear can be crafted at lower levels. In one of my pt's I was able to level up fast by defeating dragons which gains a lot of xp -- especially if they're a higher level than you -- and not doing much else; other than important side quests, claim camps, seal rifts and capture Keeps. I ended up accidentally being over-leveled for the majority of the main quests (I hit 20 before even doing What Pride Has Wrought). Though I still have the urge to wander around maps and get distracted... I don't really like to skip ahead in games but with DAI there's so much to do, characters I need to (re)play, some parts really drag out and I still need to do Trespasser with all but one of my characters. :pinched:

I just plan to go back and finish things later because completing this game 100% before beating Corypheus tests my patience...

Oh, right: The Golden Nug and leveling up by defeating dragons. Good idea. Most of my DAI hours were before that patch was released. I need to take advantage of that with the faster story-based runs that I want to do. Claiming camps, capturing Keeps, and sealing as many rifts as possible have been my current strategy for moving quicker. And then I get distracted by other things on the map...

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The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion) Sept 5, 2016 5:47:25 GMT R2s Muse and tishina like this

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Post by sarasa_cat on Sept 5, 2016 5:47:25 GMT

Sept 4, 2016 15:38:24 GMT tishina said:

Chairs. Tables. Even her fancy bedroom is designed with a human in mind. Human/elf height stair treads or ladder rungs with a dwarf's short legs. Windows. Reaching wall sconces or chandeliers to light or put them out. Fireplace mantles. Upper shelves. Sitting in the throne with your feet not touching the ground and feeling silly. Talking to IB while your eyes are at crotch level. Trying to see over the ramparts on fortified walls. Trying to get *out* of a human-deep bathtub (hint: take a stool or a friend.) Mounting and dismounting horses (unless you're a rogue and make it an acrobatic feat.)

I turned seating into a bit of a theme in Zheeva's story, where people don't notice that they don't have furniture appropriate for a dwarf. Generally she just made her own seating and people usually got the idea without her having to say anything. Perches on Adan's work bench; next time she visits, there's a tall chair and foot stool. Perches on crates in Cullen's office instead of the shorter chair he offered, next time she visits, another tall chair and foot stool. By post-Corypheus in Saying Goodbye, the chairs simply are almost everywhere she goes, which the other dwarves in the Inquisition probably appreciate when she isn't using them. But she still sits on the War Table sometimes, just to remind them she's a dwarf (and so she can show off her acrobatic skills because they might remember that she's aging otherwise.)

This is great!

Your headcanon makes me want to create a dwarf inquisitor as inspiration for amusing short stories.

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The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion) Sept 6, 2016 10:46:15 GMT R2s Muse, neonmoth, and 1 more like this

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Post by sarasa_cat on Sept 6, 2016 10:46:15 GMT

Something that might be of interest: I just received a ridiculous number of invites for Imzy.com. Quite a few old school fandom types who mostly fanfic writers have started to set up shop over there. Within the last week a bunch of dragon age activity has started plus many hundreds of different fandom communities have popped up across many different fandoms. It seems like people who were originally from the LiveJournal fanfic days who ended up on tumblr have been jumping into boats and paddling for imzy, hoping for calmer waters of fannishness that is focused on making and sharing fanworks. I'm in the process of making a list of interesting communities for fanfic writers including communities focused on discussing writing.

Regarding DA stuff, so far there is a generic dragon age community. a dragon age slash comm, a dragon age femslash comm, various dragon age shipper comms, a solavellan comm, and quite a few panfandom prompt communities.

I recently started a Cullen (and Rutherford family) fanworks community that has fortnightly prompts plus other activities. If you want an imzy invite you can either message me here or get an invite via either the Cullen fanworks community - From Honnleath to Skyhold - or from my person blog - Sarasa Cat.

I believe Imzy plans to end its beta and open officially to the public in a month or so.

Anyhow. From what i have seen so far imzy complements rather than replaces the platforms people are using for fandom.

Forums such as this one: good for random chat, game discussion etc.
Tumblr: good for posting images and reblogging pretty graphics
Imzy: good for moderated communities dedicated to very specific fandom activities (e.g., daily panfandom short fic prompts, communities for specific ships, communities for discussing how to write fiction, etc.)

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The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion) Sept 6, 2016 11:27:48 GMT

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Post by R2s Muse on Sept 6, 2016 11:27:48 GMT

Something that might be of interest: I just received a ridiculous number of invites for Imzy.com. Quite a few old school fandom types who mostly fanfic writers have started to set up shop over there. Within the last week a bunch of dragon age activity has started plus many hundreds of different fandom communities have popped up across many different fandoms. It seems like people who were originally from the LiveJournal fanfic days who ended up on tumblr have been jumping into boats and paddling for imzy, hoping for calmer waters of fannishness that is focused on making and sharing fanworks. I'm in the process of making a list of interesting communities for fanfic writers including communities focused on discussing writing.

Regarding DA stuff, so far there is a generic dragon age community. a dragon age slash comm, a dragon age femslash comm, various dragon age shipper comms, a solavellan comm, and quite a few panfandom prompt communities.

I recently started a Cullen (and Rutherford family) fanworks community that has fortnightly prompts plus other activities. If you want an imzy invite you can either message me here or get an invite via either the Cullen fanworks community - From Honnleath to Skyhold - or from my person blog - Sarasa Cat.

I believe Imzy plans to end its beta and open officially to the public in a month or so.

Anyhow. From what i have seen so far imzy complements rather than replaces the platforms people are using for fandom.

Forums such as this one: good for random chat, game discussion etc.
Tumblr: good for posting images and reblogging pretty graphics
Imzy: good for moderated communities dedicated to very specific fandom activities (e.g., daily panfandom short fic prompts, communities for specific ships, communities for discussing how to write fiction, etc.)

I poked around imzy and franky couldn't figure out how it might be different than tumblr. How would one engage in a forum-like discussion there?

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Post by sarasa_cat on Sept 6, 2016 11:37:18 GMT

Sept 6, 2016 11:27:48 GMT R2s Muse said:

Something that might be of interest: I just received a ridiculous number of invites for Imzy.com. Quite a few old school fandom types who mostly fanfic writers have started to set up shop over there. Within the last week a bunch of dragon age activity has started plus many hundreds of different fandom communities have popped up across many different fandoms. It seems like people who were originally from the LiveJournal fanfic days who ended up on tumblr have been jumping into boats and paddling for imzy, hoping for calmer waters of fannishness that is focused on making and sharing fanworks. I'm in the process of making a list of interesting communities for fanfic writers including communities focused on discussing writing.

Regarding DA stuff, so far there is a generic dragon age community. a dragon age slash comm, a dragon age femslash comm, various dragon age shipper comms, a solavellan comm, and quite a few panfandom prompt communities.

I recently started a Cullen (and Rutherford family) fanworks community that has fortnightly prompts plus other activities. If you want an imzy invite you can either message me here or get an invite via either the Cullen fanworks community - From Honnleath to Skyhold - or from my person blog - Sarasa Cat.

I believe Imzy plans to end its beta and open officially to the public in a month or so.

Anyhow. From what i have seen so far imzy complements rather than replaces the platforms people are using for fandom.

Forums such as this one: good for random chat, game discussion etc.
Tumblr: good for posting images and reblogging pretty graphics
Imzy: good for moderated communities dedicated to very specific fandom activities (e.g., daily panfandom short fic prompts, communities for specific ships, communities for discussing how to write fiction, etc.)

I poked around imzy and franky couldn't figure out how it might be different than tumblr. How would one engage in a forum-like discussion there?

Imzy is more like LIveJournal recreated for the modern (post tumblr) age.

Communities are moderated and posts allow threaded comments underneath which are two things that are impossible on tumblr.

Also, communities keep topics compartmentalized so you don't have the kinds of issues that occur on free for all tumblr's tag wars/tag trolling.

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The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion) Sept 6, 2016 20:47:54 GMT

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Post by Artemis on Sept 6, 2016 20:47:54 GMT

a dragon age slash comm

YOU HAVE MY ATTENTION.

Because my (failed) experience at Tumblr has been that DA slash fans simply don't exist. Which is why I've felt so sad and alienated since almost all my pairings are slash

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Sept 6, 2016 20:47:54 GMT Artemis said:

a dragon age slash comm

YOU HAVE MY ATTENTION.

Because my (failed) experience at Tumblr has been that DA slash fans simply don't exist. Which is why I've felt so sad and alienated since almost all my pairings are slash

I feel your pain. Most of the slash writers I know across multiple fandoms have backed far away from tumblr and a few have deleted their AO3 accounts because of the close connection that tumblr fans have with AO3.

Right now slash and femslash writers appear to be the most active on imzy. I can send you an invite if you message me your email address. Alternatively, see if clicking on either of the two links I provided in the post above gets you in line for an invite (if so, I'll approve it on imzy's side as soon as it beeps my notifications).

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The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion) Sept 6, 2016 23:56:52 GMT

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Post by SpiritVanguard on Sept 6, 2016 23:56:52 GMT

I have to ask: what's up with tumblr?

I'm not a member and don't spend time there but I've seen a lot of slash/femslash fan art at least. Similar experience with AO3 though I haven't browsed all of DA much.

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The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion) Sept 7, 2016 3:27:50 GMT SpiritVanguard likes this

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Post by Artemis on Sept 7, 2016 3:27:50 GMT

Sept 6, 2016 23:56:52 GMT SpiritVanguard said:

I have to ask: what's up with tumblr?

I'm not a member and don't spend time there but I've seen a lot of slash/femslash fan art at least. Similar experience with AO3 though I haven't browsed all of DA much.

Really?? Unless you mean canonical m/m and f/f as opposed to actual slash? Because canonical m/m and f/f pairings are actually super popular. But actual slash and femslash is rarer than gold in this fandom.

Tumblr is pretty awesome but I find it wanting in the DA fandom. It's full of ACTUAL SJWs (not the MRA parody of the same); like there are people who will write six page rants about an artist who drew Fenris "too white" or something (and at first you might think, oh man that is a legitimate argument, how dare they! Then you click over to the artwork in question and it's like totally normal Fenris skin tone). God forbid you like the wrong character or pairing; you're a monster and should repent immediately lol

Other fandoms aren't exactly squeaky clean but it's easier to avoid the fusspots in those.

(I'm checking out Imzy and sadly the so-called slash group isn't really slash only and includes canon m/m like Adoribull. Boo.)

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Post by SpiritVanguard on Sept 7, 2016 4:12:46 GMT

Really?? Unless you mean canonical m/m and f/f as opposed to actual slash? Because canonical m/m and f/f pairings are actually super popular. But actual slash and femslash is rarer than gold in this fandom.

Tumblr is pretty awesome but I find it wanting in the DA fandom. It's full of ACTUAL SJWs (not the MRA parody of the same); like there are people who will write six page rants about an artist who drew Fenris "too white" or something (and at first you might think, oh man that is a legitimate argument, how dare they! Then you click over to the artwork in question and it's like totally normal Fenris skin tone). God forbid you like the wrong character or pairing; you're a monster and should repent immediately lol

Other fandoms aren't exactly squeaky clean but it's easier to avoid the fusspots in those.

(I'm checking out Imzy and sadly the so-called slash group isn't really slash only and includes canon m/m like Adoribull. Boo.)

Ah. I guess it is canonical as it's usually LI stuff I see (like with X/Hawke or the X/Inquisitor), but sometimes it's side parings. (Anders/Fenris seems to be popular within the general fandom.) I've not been on tumblr enough to judge. It didn't seem to feature many side parings but I figured that was because of the characters/people I was browsing. (And I would figure that my small taste in side parings might not be popular anyway.)

I was never interested in joining tumblr because I find it confusing and it's not really my thing. I've heard about its rather... extreme reputation but if I'm looking through it it's always fan art, or I just happen to be directed there. Spend too little time there to see much of its community.

Still haven't been in AO3 for much of DA at all either, only looked a little in DA2. (I fail at fan-browsing. :facepalm:

) But tumblr has an effect there?

Last Edit: Sept 7, 2016 5:49:39 GMT by SpiritVanguard

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The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion) Sept 7, 2016 5:24:37 GMT SpiritVanguard likes this

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Post by sarasa_cat on Sept 7, 2016 5:24:37 GMT

Slash: that is one of many terms in fandom that haven't been used consistently and older fans tend to use the term differently from some newer fans/fandoms. It used to be an umbrella term for all m/m ships but after canonical m/m ships showed up in media, different people and different fandoms define the term differently. :why:

(I'm checking out Imzy and sadly the so-called slash group isn't really slash only and includes canon m/m like Adoribull. Boo.)

A lot of DA fandom just began moving onto Imzy within the last two weeks. When I initially got my account there earlier in the summer was nothing but one very dead dragon age community, and then I didn't log in until just the other day when I heard of other DA fans creating communities there.

Hopefully once more people create accounts on Imzy, there will be enough critical mass for communities that focus on non-canonical pairings. **fingers crossed**

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The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion) Sept 7, 2016 5:43:17 GMT tishina, SpiritVanguard, and 1 more like this

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Sept 7, 2016 4:12:46 GMT SpiritVanguard said:

Ah. I guess it is canonical as it's usually LI stuff I see (like with X/Hawke or the X/Inquisitor), but sometimes it's side parings. (Anders/Fenris seems to be popular within the general fandom.) I've not been on tumblr enough to judge. It didn't seem to feature many side parings but I figured that was because of the characters/people I was browsing. (And I would figure that my small taste in side parings might not be popular anyway.)

I was never interested in joining tumblr because I find it confusing and it's not really my thing. I've heard about its rather... extreme reputation but if I'm looking through it it's always fan art, or I just happens to be directed there. Spend too little time there to see much of its community.

Still haven't been in AO3 for much of DA at all either, only looked a little in DA2. (I fail at fan-browsing. :facepalm:

) But tumblr has an effect there?

Tumblr *is* confusing. Most people find it too hard to use without installing unofficial 3rd party plugins (like xkit) and then, whenever the tumblr developers update something in their code, the unofficial 3rd party plugins break and tumblr becomes unusable again. It is really very miserably written software and next to impossible to carry on an actual conversation over there. So, tumblr is sort of mess as a platform even if you stay out of fandom and do nothing more than reblog artful photographs of pretty things.

Just like twitter, tumblr has a lot of problems with bullying and with groups of people ganging up on someone. If you have copious free time on your hands, this blog on tumblr tracks some of the well thought out discussions on what the bullying looks like and why tumblr's technology isn't really all that well suited to the kinds of needs that fandom has. Even thought it talks about different fandoms (mostly star wars fandom), it gives a hint to the connections between tumblr and AO3: lots of people cross link between the two place and some popular fandoms, including dragon age, have set up tumblr blogs that automatically announce new AO3 stories on tumblr.

All that said, if you keep to a quiet corner, keep your own posts out of contentious tumblr tags, and carefully select whom to follow, it is possible to use tumblr to collect and curate a collection of fanart, aesthetics/moodboard image sets, cosplay photos, and canon information posts. And, if someone succeeds at that, tumblr becomes this quiet zenlike experience where your dashboard is nothing but photos and art, and the people who like and reblog your stuff are pretty chill.

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The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion) Sept 7, 2016 6:37:36 GMT R2s Muse, BevH, and 3 more like this

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The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion) Sept 7, 2016 10:29:36 GMT Artemis likes this

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Post by Panda on Sept 7, 2016 10:29:36 GMT

Tumblr is mostly good for fanart and fun text post. It can be bit of minefield though, people get angry quite easily and there is not lot of space for different opinions and discussion.

In terms of slash, I wonder if it's not just popular within DA fandom. It's very popular within anime fandoms, but DA fans seems to really like canon pairings. In other hand DA has quite many canon m/m pairings when various animes really don't- there is fanservice etc, but nothing canon. So maybe that's some reason for lack of slash as well, it doesn't feel as needed.

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The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion) Sept 7, 2016 13:48:12 GMT Artemis likes this

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Post by tishina on Sept 7, 2016 13:48:12 GMT

Sept 6, 2016 23:56:52 GMT SpiritVanguard said:

I have to ask: what's up with tumblr?

I'm not a member and don't spend time there but I've seen a lot of slash/femslash fan art at least. Similar experience with AO3 though I haven't browsed all of DA much.

Really?? Unless you mean canonical m/m and f/f as opposed to actual slash? Because canonical m/m and f/f pairings are actually super popular. But actual slash and femslash is rarer than gold in this fandom.

Tumblr is pretty awesome but I find it wanting in the DA fandom. It's full of ACTUAL SJWs (not the MRA parody of the same); like there are people who will write six page rants about an artist who drew Fenris "too white" or something (and at first you might think, oh man that is a legitimate argument, how dare they! Then you click over to the artwork in question and it's like totally normal Fenris skin tone). God forbid you like the wrong character or pairing; you're a monster and should repent immediately lol

Other fandoms aren't exactly squeaky clean but it's easier to avoid the fusspots in those.

(I'm checking out Imzy and sadly the so-called slash group isn't really slash only and includes canon m/m like Adoribull. Boo.)

I guess I never realized. I follow Womenofthedas on Tumblr which is all women or w|w art, and a lot of it is femslash by the way you define it. Very few of the pairings are canon (I think she does require that one character be a regular NPC rather than all OCs.) She seems to occasionally get anon hate, which happens no matter what, but nothing worse than I see other places. I'm not really interested in moving on to yet another platform, though, at least not without a really powerful reason...

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The Old Guard (Ye Olde Cullen Thread v4.0 + gen discussion) Sept 7, 2016 15:03:16 GMT

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Post by Artemis on Sept 7, 2016 15:03:16 GMT

Sept 7, 2016 10:29:36 GMT Panda said:

Tumblr is mostly good for fanart and fun text post. It can be bit of minefield though, people get angry quite easily and there is not lot of space for different opinions and discussion.

In terms of slash, I wonder if it's not just popular within DA fandom. It's very popular within anime fandoms, but DA fans seems to really like canon pairings. In other hand DA has quite many canon m/m pairings when various animes really don't- there is fanservice etc, but nothing canon. So maybe that's some reason for lack of slash as well, it doesn't feel as needed.

I think you're right. It's not popular at all in DA fandom, but I'm obv. coming at this from an anime fan's perspective, where one may pick and choose one's pairings as though from a buffet :lol:

And it's true that there have been FIVE m/m pairings in DA alone, which is like... wow. I don't know of any other franchise PERIOD (unless it's a specifically gay-themed show like QAF) that has so many.

It just sucks when the characters you want to see fan art of the most are Alistair, Solas, and Cullen, and no one, repeat, no one, ships those *weep* (Okay, slight exageration. I think there are maybe three people who ship m!Solavellan and m!Cullavellan :lol:

) (Also one time i found an Alistair x m!Surana fan art and I almost cried it was so beautiful and perfect)

Sept 7, 2016 13:48:12 GMT tishina said: