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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 2h

Contributor preview: Fic by @giffca.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanfic #dredgegame

Contributor preview: raen
Handle for socials: giffca (bsky)
Pfp: a black cat wearing a purple cape with silver markings
Sample fic preview: The sound of movement in the water behind the Airman was quiet and easily drowned out by the sound of his brain being pulled in a dozen directions by every other thought already running through it, but some part of him was able to signal the alarm and he spun around to face it, barely able to catch a glimpse of a massive snake-like, slug-like creature as it retreated back into the shallow water. He stared at the murky water for a long moment, trying to match the little that he saw with any animal he knew of, but…
The Airman was already on high alert from the crash, but that thing made his hair stand on end.

The preview image is presented like a message in a cracked bottle, floating in the ocean.
At the bottom corner, in smaller font: Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 18h

Contributor preview: Art by @/rayenigma (tumblr)

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 2d

Contributor preview: Fic by @itsmoonpeaches.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanfic #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Peaches
Handle for socials: itsmoonpeaches (bsky, tumblr)
Pfp: Felix from Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Sample fic preview:
My Colleague suggested that we go to the Fishmonger for a second opinion, maybe even take notes on whether he has seen any aberrated fish, like the Cod, as of late. She was right to suggest this because the Fishmonger said that fishermen have started to sell him odd catches recently but that he did not know what to make of them.

“And you bought these fish?” I asked him.

He replied easily. “Of course. They look interesting enough to eat.”

Tonight, we dined on an unusual delicacy in the form of a new variety of aberrated P. colias that I did not have the fortune to catch myself. A three-headed cod, aptly named by my Colleague, the “Three-Headed Cod.”

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 2d

Contributor preview: Art by @pumpkinsouppe.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 3d

Contributor preview: Fic by @ocean-myth.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanfic #dredgegame

Contributor preview: OceanMyth
Handle for socials: ocean-myth (bsky), justoceanmyth (tumblr), OceanMyth (ao3)
Sample fic preview:
[A drenched and decayed fragment of parchment tumbles in the waves, stuck in an eddy. Spinning with the current. Caught and moving eternally without a destination.]

NATURALIST: You’ve chosen to start with me then, I suppose?

[The ink here has run–the name of the interviewer far too damaged to recover properly.]

TRANSCRIBER: Indeed.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 5d

Contributor preview: Merch (bookmarks) by @necromatador.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Merlin(necroMatador)
Handle for socials: necromatador (twitter/X, instagram, bsky)
Pfp: a deer-like creature with wings and the hind legs of a bird
Sample bookmark preview: Cropped artwork of a dark coloured eel with teeth in close up, swimming underwater with some air bubbles coming out of its mouth. The eel looks relatively normal until your eyes reach the middle section where dark blue blobs are bubbling and bulging out, ripping holes on its skin and fins. In the background you realize there's more of that disturbing body shape, stretching like mangrove roots.

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fire fist trace @traceyfanclub.bsky.social · Aug 13

still can’t believe i made that

hand embroidered scroll of the map of the underworld from the video game hades, with a nendoroid figure of zagreus held next to it

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 5d

Contributor preview: Fic by @kiwibrot.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanfic #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Kai
Handle for socials: kiwibrot (bsky), kiwibr0t (instagram)
Pfp: a person wearing underwear and a robot with a camera face
Sample preview: A chain secures the whale’s body to the docks. It’s a dark mass, yearning to sink into deeper waters. Preventing the whale from sinking is the first priority when whaling. What point would there be to the carnage if the victim just sank to the bottom of the sea? Its anthracite skin is wrinkled and scars reflect the last of the fading daylight in stark white. An old animal, judging by its massive size and the battle scars. It must have been hunted before. Some of the scars are human-made. He thinks he recognises one from his own harpoon, decades old. Stepping towards the posts, he only hears his own boots on the creaking wood, and a clank of the chains, as waves gently lap at the whale’s body, bobbing it up and down. No other soul is present. It’s just him and the whale.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 6d

Contributor preview: Art by @/jubjubmaz (tumblr)

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

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Crispy Pigeon @chrispypigeon.bsky.social · 7d

And a slightly brighter still cause Im always working too dark and even I cant see shiet 🤣

Crispy Pigeon @chrispypigeon.bsky.social · 7d

This is an animation I did a while ago and felt like sharing today - a little, statement-eating turtle hiding in #themagnusarchive

#art #animation #tma #fuckai

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 7d

Contributor preview: Fic by @hopestoryteller.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Hope
Handle for socials: HopeStoryteller (ao3, bsky), ofstormsandfire (tumblr)
Pfp: a red smilie face
Sample fic preview:

There is a beach in Stellar Basin.

Perhaps once it was more than just a beach, but whatever it once was—whatever else it once was—it certainly isn't that any longer. Nor has it been anything but a beach in Stellar Basin for a long time.

On that beach, there lives a Dog. He didn't always live on this particular beach, nor did he use to live alone. But it is the beach, the shallows, and finding food within those shallows that make up the life of the Dog now, and have for a long time.

The Dog could not say how long it has been, because—among other things—he is a dog, and does not have the equipment generally required for understandable speech, such as human vocal cords.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 8d

Contributor preview: Merch by @/hereforanepilogue (tumblr)

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Epilogue
Handle for socials: hereforanepilogue (tumblr)
Pfp: Black crow that is smiling with wings outstretched
Sample merch preview: Cropped coloring page of a sturgeon with a close up to the face, which looks derpy and cute. Other sturgeons can be seen swimming close by as well.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 10d

Contributor preview: Art by @zrllosyn.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Ennji
Handle for socials: zrllosyn (bsky, cara), zrllosyn-art (tumblr)
Pfp: partial view of a person's head with dark hair and eyes, a cat ear, and glasses
Sample art preview: One of the Unseeing Mother's small fish children peeking out and looking from behind a rock pillar in the water, its red eyes glowing and underbite showing sharp teeth. The Unseeing Mother's cropped fin frames the foreground.

The preview image is presented like a message in a cracked bottle floating in the ocean.
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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 11d

Contributor preview: Fic by Elasmosaurus

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Elasmosaurus
Handle for socials: Elasmosaurus (ao3)
Pfp: a shark drawn in a cheerful style, surrounded by bubbles
Sample fic preview:
It starts while her back is turned, as she attends to the crank. The sea’s closer somehow, the shifting shades of sunset muted. She shivers, hugging herself to keep warm. The next time she cranks the light and returns to her chair, the island to the east is partially obscured, and she realises: a sea fog! Of course! The weather had been perfect for it. She can see the vapour in the air now, eddies of fake cloud swirling playfully above the water.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 11d

Contributor preview: Fic by @chocomdwrites.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Choco
Handle for socials: chocomdwrites (bsky), chocomd (tumblr)
Pfp: Ashe Ubert from Fire Emblem: Three House
Sample fic preview:
Nighttime is filled with the sounds of waves rushing against the shore and nocturnal denizens splashing in the mangrove waters. Some of the creatures seem to find us a curious sight, and they certainly do not attempt to conceal their presence as they trail behind our vessel! If only we could catch a glimpse of them beyond the eddies they create in the water.

Most promising, however, are the sounds that carry on the wind. Sibilant whispers, voices in another tongue.

Waters rich in wildlife, and hints that point to the presence of other humans. Naysayers may make their arguments from afar, but putting boots on the ground is the only way to discern the truth.

Tomorrow, we embark on our first foray into the mangroves. The anticipation among our team is palpable.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 13d

Contributor preview: Fic by @/honeyedjuniper (twitter/x)

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Astrid
Handle for socials: honeyedjuniper (twitter/x), mangatamyg (carrd)
Pfp: a pale ray swimming against a dark background with white bubbles
Sample fic preview:
“You need some repairs? Or maybe to sell?”

Quickly, he turns to the sound of the voice. There’s something surprisingly soft about the tone, despite the fact the woman approaching him is covered in what he can only guess as fish parts and pieces. Her striped apron is stained with all sorts of things.

“I had heard about a Travelling Merchant who might have some information for me,” the Journalist says, nodding slightly as she greets him with a small smile. “I’m a journalist looking into the Gale Cliffs here. I’ve heard… some strange things have been happening.”

Immediately, her eyes widen. It’s not a fearful reaction, but clearly one of surprise.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 13d

Contributor preview: Art by @asterrestrial.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

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🔞Good Girl Elliotte🔞 @elliotte-draws.bsky.social · 21d

You might see several artists mad about the bluesky policy update banning non-con, even artists who do not make that kind of material, and wonder why it's such a problem. If that's you, here is a quick breakdown:

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 21d

An absolute mess. You have no reason to make consensual nonconsent a punishable offense. You're not protecting creative freedom, you're censoring it.

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Void🔞 | VGen @voiddebris.bsky.social · 20d

Do NOT believe the misinfo going around

There absolutely have been MASSIVE TOS updates

Most notably:

1) Specifying no FICTIONAL noncon
2) No "dangerous" kink
3) No DISCUSSING self harm, suicide, or substance abuse unless its "educational"

So what can we DO about it?

#SaveSpeech

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Multiple cropped screenshots showing portions of the bsky TOS before and now. Before: "iv. Encouraging self-harm or suicide
v. Depictions of excessive violence, gore, torture, dismemberment, or non-consensual sexual activity". Now: "ii. We do not allow sexual content involving non-consensual activity including synthetic, simulated, illustrated, or animated versions. iv. Do not create, share, or promote sexual content involving realistic risk of death or serious injury. i. Do not share content, methods, instructions, or promotion of self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, and extreme dieting practices.
ii. Do not share methods, instructions, depictions, or promotion of dangerous stunts or abuse of dangerous or controlled substances. 5. Protected Expression
B. Support, Recovery, and Mental Health:
i. Personal recovery experiences or survivor stories shared to promote healing and community support rather than encouraging harmful behavior.
ii. Sharing verified mental health resources, crisis prevention".

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 20d

DO NOT participate in #blueskyblackout2025

I'm nsfw artist and other nsfw artists are asking you to SHOUT! Bsky wants to censor us so the worst thing we can do is censor ourselves!

Publicly shame them, use the feedback button, and post about it using the tag #bskycensorship

Silence is compliance!

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · Sep 2

✨ZINE COVER REVEAL✨

An object bobs up from the depths. The glint of glass draws your eye; the whisper of secrets draws your hand. Furled within the bottle is a book with a weathered cover, torn to reveal eyes that watch in the night.

Eyes that watch you.

#dredge #dredgefanart #dredgefanzine

At the top of the graphic, in large font:
Messages in a Bottle
Cover Reveal

Left panel
Title: Front Cover
Image: A glass bottle contains a furl of paper inside and hovers over a fish-eye perspective of the Dredge world, with the ocean surrounding a circular center that depicts the lighthouse of the Marrows, the rocks of the Gale Cliffs, the tropical shores of Stellar Basin, the mangroves of the Twisted Strand, and the peaks of the Devil's Spine. A tentacle drapes along the upper right corner, and the spines of the Leviathan lurk in the lower left corner. Crossing the image are several "rips," with the ripped areas tinted in red and revealing crimson eyes that watch in the night.

Right panel
Title: Back Cover
Image: Same elements as the Front Cover, but the "normal" areas (tinted blue, no eyes) and "ripped" areas (tinted red, with eyes) are reversed

At the bottom, in small font:
Social media icons for bluesky and tumblr with the handle "@dredgefanzine"

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Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar.bsky.social · May 13

Trying out some blankets on my Etsy gyotaku shop, check out my "monster fish" design!
www.etsy.com/listing/4304...

#teamfish #monsterfish #gyotaku #fishkeeping

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Crispy Pigeon @chrispypigeon.bsky.social · Aug 30

Drew three fish for my mental health, you know, as a treat 🙈🙊🙉

#monsterfish #digitalart #noai #fuckai

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