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opalapparition.bsky.social
Another day, another bind! This is for my friend @alice-dead.bsky.social and her AMAZING fic for DABB, which you can read here:

archiveofourown.org/works/734616...

#DragonAge #Bookbinding #FanficBinding #Solas
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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syqkos.bsky.social
Today's break sketch, I love the medieval style so much 💔

Will finish it after work
Wip ink drawing of a stone slab with a knight fighting a dragon
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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tulipathy.bsky.social
#tulipgraphy :>
Photo: white paper sheets, wideways on a dark desk. Red ink calligraphy and casual handwriting is on both. The top reads: Speedball C-4 nib red ink from my desk’s catch all vial This is the smallest of the c-style nibs I bought in Vancouver. The lower reads: this is a Brause nib I bought from a little “vintage nib” tray at The Regional Assembly of Text jn Vancouver, BC. It feels quite delicate but it’s actually holding up to my heavy-handed drag quite well! And somehow its reservoir is really doing the damn thing, I think this might still be dip #1! Photo: close up of red, slightly glittering ink on white paper. It reads “This is” Photo: close up of red, slightly glittering ink on white paper. It reads “smallest”
November 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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syqkos.bsky.social
Started to make these little ink drawings when I'm taking a break from work (taking a break from drawing by drawing lol)
Ink drawing of a stone slab with gothic decorations and a woman and a skeleton drinking wine together
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
opalapparition.bsky.social
Here are some recent fan fiction brines I did for some friends! 😃 I have more than just these four pics, but I have learned SO MUCH recently and I am extremely proud of them

#DragonAge #Bookbinding #Fanficbinding
November 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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oh-that-guy.bsky.social
The Deceitfulness of Riches | Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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miss-machete.bsky.social
Let's talk about my favorite 'remake', The Thing (1982).

Haunting, horrifying, powerful. From cult classic to true modern classic, one of the scariest movies ever made.

Then there is The Thing from Another World (1951), which more closely follows the story 'Who Goes There?'
Who's seen them either?
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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postboxrose.bsky.social
my lovely husband took me to glyptoteket last saturday! here’s a little study
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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artvaris.bsky.social
More freehand stuff with a ballpoint pen
A ballpoint pen profile drawing of a long-haired character with pointy ears
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
opalapparition.bsky.social
It’s a LOTR Extended Edition Marathon kinda Saturday today, with Hobbit snacks & baking 🥧
a statue of a man with a beard is in front of a waterfall
ALT: a statue of a man with a beard is in front of a waterfall
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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blackwallmancer.bsky.social
✨Artists! Please show:

♡ the first piece you did in 2025
♡ your favourite piece of the year
♡ your most popular piece
♡ your most recent piece

Can you tell I love Dragon Age? :D
A crocheted Dread Wolf from Dragon Age: The Veilguard. He is grey with brushed fur (acrylic) yarn for his body and ears, fluffy/scraggly black yarn for his mane and tail, and has six(!) needle-felted green/blue eyes. His muzzle is scrunched a little and lightly brushed with chalk pastels to add depth. Wired legs and neck allow for light posing. He stands here on four legs on a white backdrop, facing to the right. A (freehanded!) crocheted Blackwall (Dragon Age Inquisition) amigurumi, standing outside in the early morning sunlight in front of the branches of a pine tree. His arms are at his sides (kind of in motion) as he looks up and into the camera. He is 18"/46cm tall. He's wearing his casual outfit—brown gambeson, dark brown boots and gloves—and each piece of his clothing is detailed. His gambeson has white X stitching on his right upper arm, a belt (with a buckle, belt holes, and a "leather" strap to keep the tail down), a collar, ties and clasps down the front, and beneath the gambeson, a metallic chain shirt (peeking out from the open part beneath his belt, and a lighter tunic showing just beneath the very bottom of the gambeson. His boots and gloves are belted, and each belt has buckles, belt holes, and most have the same "leather" strap to hold the tails down. His gloves also are gloves, not mittens, so each hand has five fingers and a thumb. His boots are flat and dark grey on the bottoms, so he can stand (with some support). A belt is cinched around his waist, and beneath it is red/brown padding with white trim. This belt has a round buckle (all the other buckles on his outfit are square). Additionally, the belt is overly large, as it is in game, and so it loops around itself and hangs a bit—visible in pictures I'll put in the replies. His face is highly detailed and sculpted, using multiple sculpting techniques. His nose is crooked and protrudes from his face, his hair, including beard and mustache, are brushed yarn (and then needle felted to shape his facial hair and brows). His eyes are needle felted as well, and chalk pastels were used to color and shade his face to the best of my ability. Small amounts of chalk pastels were also used on his hair to lighten parts of his beard and temples. And, in all of that, I only stabbed myself with the felting needle once! :D My crocheted Taash from Dragon Age: The Veilguard wearing Plumed Platemail armor. They are 9 inches (23 cm) tall, with wired arms and horns, needle-felted eyes and brows, a bead necklace (secured), and painted and embroidered details on their armor. The armor is mostly teal (for the “feathered” arms, shoulders, and chaps), with a mint-blue plate covering their chest. Their midriff is exposed, along with their arms around their elbows. Their gauntlets each have a trio of off-white bone spikes (firmed-up and shaped with Mod Podge) sticking out just below the elbows. Wrapping along each arm is red “rope” yarn, which winds between the spikes and up to the shoulders, where it doubles up to resemble straps. Their boots are dark grey, with light grey cuffs (embroidered with gold); around their ankles are red ties and a gold disc. Taash’s long, white hair is braided and tied back with a gold cuff near the top of the braid, and a red band at the bottom of the braid (both crocheted). Their hair is secured with two small elastic bands beneath the red crocheted tie. In Taash’s right ear are two small gold hoops and a gold disc (all yarn). Similar discs decorate Taash’s boots and belt, and hang from the ropes on their arm. A small gold stud is embroidered below Taash’s mouth, and a gold ring circles a small amount of hair at Taash’s widow’s peak. Taash’s right horn is green, with a thick gold cuff at the horn’s base, along with a thinner cuff near the middle-end of the horn. Their left horn is brown and features another thick cuff at the base, and a thin gold wrap near the end of the horn. I lost track of how long this took me to make, but I’d estimate between 30-40 hours. A small (7.5" tall) amigurumi of Cole Dragon age. He's wearing a large hat that hides a lot of his face, a patched, raggedy top with a quilted shoulder pad, a belt around his midsection, and dark trousers. He has a dagger in each hand. In this shot, I'm holding him in my hand in front of a white backdrop.
November 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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feladraws.bsky.social
Heya, still alive! Dropping a sketch of my big project. Cullen Rutherford ofc! #DragonAge #fanart
November 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
opalapparition.bsky.social
Reposing AGAIN because...

The final chapters of "A Crown of Laurels" are up on AO3!

archiveofourown.org/works/650778...

Thank you everyone that's been reading along on this tale, and I hope you enjoy!

#DragonAge #DAFanFriday #Solavellan #MedievalAU
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
opalapparition.bsky.social
You have NO IDEA how excited I have been about this!!! Thank you again so much for agreeing to make this for the end of Laurels!!!! ❤️👑
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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mightybean.bsky.social
me, buying christmas gifts for my friends and family this morning
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
opalapparition.bsky.social
Prepare for trouble… and make it double! Two gift binds completed for Kithsana and @manuzillust.bsky.social DABB works: We Have Always Lived At Skyhold!

Link to read and see the art! archiveofourown.org/works/73606281

#DragonAge #DAFanFriday #Solavellan #Bookbinding #FanfictionBinding #Skyhold
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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mightybean.bsky.social
how blackwall and solas be lookin at each other throughout the entirety of inquisition
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
opalapparition.bsky.social
And so, friends, "A Crown of Laurels" is finished!
Keep your eyes peeled for the last update tomorrow, 21Nov2025 11am EST/8am PST, with the final chapter and epilogue... and a suprise!🤭

Link if you need to catch up first: archiveofourown.org/works/650778...

#DragonAge #Solavellan #MedievalAU #AO3
November 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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cypheroftyr.bsky.social
Happy 11th birthday, #DragonAgeInquisition Show off those Inquisitors!!
A blueish background with green demon creatures pouring downward towards an armoured figure. They’re holding a flaming sword and reaching up with green energy surrounding the upraised hand, Silver text is centered at the top of the image: Dragon Age Inquisition
November 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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colinrichardsphoto.bsky.social
Today's theme for #birdoftheday is #staredown set by @robcrank68.bsky.social You can't get a more piercing glare than that of a Sparrowhawk. Male, taken in my garden in the Spring.🪶 #birdingwales #ukbirding #nature #ukwildlife #birdsofprey
November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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christinabindon.art
𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃:
①

My lovely friend @lovenug.bsky.social (Mimmi) and I were partnered in this year's Dragon Age Bing Bang (DABB) where she wrote an amazing fic, and I did the illustrations!
PLZ take a look, it's about Varric and his undying love for Hawke!
archiveofourown.org/works/726321...
title banner for 'parting words', mimmi's fic for dab which i did the illustrations for
November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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byjessicaelena.bsky.social
WE CAN DO IT!!

#art #illustration
A digital drawing with the text ”Keep going” in the middle, surrounded by little doodled items: flowers, cats, fruit, a fox, confetti, a bee, and a pencil.
November 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
opalapparition.bsky.social
Another day, another fan bind! Congratulations to my friends @crittadownunder.bsky.social & @maniplague.bsky.social for completing your works for the Dragon Age Big Bang 2025!

You can read “Hope Burns Eternal” here:

archiveofourown.org/works/725509...

#DragonAge #Fanficbinding #Bookbinding #AO3
November 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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crittadownunder.bsky.social
A series of shoutouts to follow! Starting with my beloved betas:
@dayntee.bsky.social @opalapparition.bsky.social @alice-dead.bsky.social @elynnism.bsky.social @tehluhlah.bsky.social
who helped me stay sane throughout the whole event, cheering me on just as loudly as I did them
November 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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crittadownunder.bsky.social
Dragon Age Big Bang 2025 was my very first fan event, and I can say with unwavering confidence it was the best thing I've ever done. I have improved my writing, made new friends, and made huge strides in my confidence, PLUS, I finally got a good excuse to write my beloved Athanise' backstory:
Hope Burns Eternal - Chapter 1 - CrittaDownUnder - Dragon Age - All Media Types [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 AM