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Hello! Since

twist_shimmy was kind enough to provide me with a code (thank you again, and here's hoping you don't come to regret it), I figured I should go ahead and do the intro post thing in an effort to not be such a creepy lurker. (The creepy part isn't a reference to lurkers in general, just to me.)

( Let's see if I can do this cut thing correctly... )

alias_sqbr

I am sqbr alias alias_sqbr, and since I tend to switch characters every fanwork or two am very glad to have another general DAO comm to post to. I'm an ex-mathematician from Australia with a short attention span, a soft spot for the underappreciated and an odd sense of humour.

I make art, comics and fic which tend to be humourous and gen-ish (everything here is fairly sfw). I was pondering whether or not to make an intro post then decided that this comm needs more stuff about the fine NPC ladies of Thedas, and they are the focus of many of my works.

My series (generally mixing prose and art):

Various attempts at romance in Dragon Age: Origins A somewhat fictionalised account of my characters' attempts to find love in the computer game Dragon Age: Origins and how it all went horribly wrong.

The further adventures of Rica and Martya Brosca Two dusters trying to make their way in the world. Rica&Anora and f!Brosca/Alistair plus incidental pairings.

The Urthemiel series Started out as cracktastic Zevran/m!Amell/Morrigan, ended up a slightly more serious exploration of what it would be like to bring up an Old God in human form.

The Morrigan and Leliana series Starts with the fairly humourous story of Morrigan and Leliana being attracted to each other despite themselves, ends with a fairytale-ish Urthemiel/Endrin Aeducan quest story. Of all my rare pairings, I think this last is the one I feel most confident noone else has written :D

Everything else:

All my Dragon Age art and comics at DeviantArt A variety of characters, pairings, genres etc.

All my Dragon Age fanfic at AO3 Includes some Sten/Shale, m!Cousland/Nathaniel, gen and drabbles.

My Fanfic.net account (has all but my drabbles)

jamzsquared

*waves*

I'm jamz, a long-time lurker of the LJ kmeme who is finally emerging from reclusive lurkdom to join in on all the fun. I'm a grad student in California, studying sociology and feminist studies, and attempting to churn out a MA thesis so I can move on to my dissertation. In my off-time, I scribble stories that cannot be read by children, but because I am a theory-head, I am likely to overthink my porn. I haven't written anything DA:O specific just yet, but I've had a few ideas swirling around that I've been dying to get onto paper, so I'm hopefully I can get into gear! It'll be a good break from the thesis, at any rate.

In no particular order, I am quite fond of cheese, shoes, fancy-girl cocktails, electronic music, and, of course, DA:O and video games in general. Excited to be here!

Edited to say thanks for all the warm welcomes! Glad to aboard!

Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Celine Dion powerballads. Yes, for real.

decantate

WHAT UP Y'ALL, it's me, deca, purveyor of steamy cockblocking and cloaca jokes and love. <3 This community already lured me in enough to make a boobs joke, so I am joining. As welcoming gifts (self-promotion, god I'm a whore, etc) I bring fics!

NAME: Vigilance
HOW DIRTY IS IT: T, so far, but it's ~*sensuous youngish!Duncan*~ so it makes up for it.
WHAT IS IT: Ferelden's wardens are not the only ones aware of the Blight. The story of the Orlesian wardens, from around the events of The Calling through Awakenings. Sidona Andras, Duncan, Riordan, etc etc.
HOW LONG IS IT: This has around 600 words and five years in it so far. WIP.

NAME: Blood Poison
HOW DIRTY IS IT: M. Various bits fly around in various parts. Wear eye-guards maybe.
WHAT IS IT: Dark heart-twangin' love between a Crow and a blood mage. Birth to death. When you condense things as much as I do, you can cover a lot of years.
HOW LONG IS IT: 44k, but complete.

NAME: Blood Ties
HOW DIRTY IS IT: M. Spot the cloaca. Haha, this is my joke.
WHAT IS IT: The consequences of Morrigan's ritual as seen through the eyes of Zevran and his children. Blood Poison's sequel.
HOW LONG IS IT: like 22k or something. WIP. Nearly done. IF MY CHARACTERS QUIT GIVING ME LIP THAT IS. Jerks.

That's it! Looking forward to reading your stuff! Keep writing and arting and modding, you fabulous artists!

Current Location: ORLAIS

amhran_comhrac

Hello there!

little_befu posted about this community over on LJ's

knickerweasels community, so here I am.

this is me, and this, and this.

I have fanfic. A LOT of fanfic.
Most is Anders/Amell.
My two ongoing stories are:

Title: Apostates of Amaranthine
Characters: f!Amell/Anders/cast of thousands
Rating: AO (magesmut!)
Word Count: longest DA fic in the world (or on ffnet at least). For serious. 370K and going
Summary: Maggie Amell thinks she's going to rebuild the Grey Wardens. The Chantry and Darkspawn have other ideas. Post-Awakenings, tons of OCs. Gallows humor/occasional or not so occasional smut/politics and religion like woah/blood and guts

Title: Blue Skies, Fresh Air, Freedom, and Darkspawn
Characters: f!Amell/Zevran
Rating: AO
Word Count: epic, 150k+
Summary: Before she was Warden Commander and Ferelden's favorite maleficar Maggie Amell was just a rebellious mage who happened to be in the right place at the right time. Sure, the whole Blight thing is horrible, but it still beats being stuck in the tower.
Gallows humor/occasional or not so occasional smut/blood and guts/Origins timeline

The first story I wrote with this character actually started with Awakenings. It's here. I also have a collection of one-shots written for various prompts here.

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Location: tropical Buffalo
Current Music: The Decemberists - The Tain

christmasinjuly

Heya everyone! It's Amasa Glajax from over on LJ...

elysium_fic was kind enough to point out this place's existence to me since I'd been kind of a hermit lately... and I wanted to be a part of the fun too, so here I am, and thanks for having me :) That's all- my username's just different here than on LJ so I guess I wanted to toss in a mild heads-up for anyone that might otherwise recognize me, lol. Looking forward to the fun. ;)

Current Music: M4 Pt2 (Faunts)

uglynoodles

Huh? Eh?
What do you want?

... Oh.
Right, hello, I'm on DevianTartlets, the only stuff I upload on that account is Dragon Age junk. I imagine I'll also spam the everloving fuck out of this community with whatever I happen to barf out of my tablet day to day.

OBSERVE:

Anyways you should totally get to know me because I'm basically the most awesome person on the planet and you'd enjoy ~~worshiping~~ uh, being e-buttbuddies with me.
I love to do art trades and support other artists. (Read: I bleed money unto them and that's why I have a shitty workstation.)

For those of you who do know of me, there are now TEN ENTIRE PAGES of Maker's Tea! Go check them out. Uh. Yeah. Back to seducing fictional men.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: Cheap Trick - I Must Be Dreamin'

dalishstorm

Um. Hey. I used to write over at the kmeme (Grumpy Theron/Cadryn Amell/a couple of others that don't get as much attention), but its left a sour taste in my mouth, so I'm probably going to chill over here (I realize it's nothing of the sort, but, hey, I'll take what I can get). I also write srs bzns fanfic and original fiction. And am a very private person, so that's about all the info I'm gonna give. Also, I love prompts. I hump them gleefully.

hinataakiama

Hello there, nice people of Thedas! =3

Since everyone else seems to be doing it, I'm going to go ahead and introduce myself, even though I've made a very small push to do stuff t the current time [Between beta-ing stuff and working, it's hard x.x~]]

My name is Stephanie, I am 19, and I got into Dragon Age oh. . .about a month or two after it came out. Had a horrid time with my PC version [Gogo making a Mage first, and doing Mage Tower!] But after making a Dalish I really fell in love with the game. I tend to write my M!Mahariel with Zevran, but I've also been toying around with Riordan/Duncan, F!Cousland/Alistair, Alistair/Zevran, and I have a Loghain/Maric, and Loghain/Cailan hiding somewhere on my harddrive.

I've been watching people around me play video games since I was a baby, and I started playiung MMORPGs almost as soon. I started in Ultima Online at around six, then played EverQuest around the time I was eight. From there I've played City of Heroes, City of Villains, World of Warcraft, EverQuest2, and a multitude of others, and planning to play more.

I've been writing almost as long as I've been playing games, but I've yet to post any of my works for DA:O, other than a half-finished fill over on the kmeme with Riordan and Duncan [which I may or may not finish], but I do have two/three works in the making =3

Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: Chu~ - f(x)

sorchar

So, since all the cool kids are doing it, I will, too. Name's Sorcha - I'm sorchar here and sorcha_r at LJ. Well, I'm sorchar there too, but that journal got hacked and I lost several years of posts, and had already started the new journal when I got that one back.

I started out playing Dragon Age on xBox a couple months ago, and when I got my spiffy new laptop I switched to PC, both for the mods (gay!Alistair FTW!) and so I don't have to wait for my son to get done with his turn on the xBox to be able to play. (This was about three weeks ago and I'm incredibly bitter that if I'd waited till next week, I could have gotten the Ultimate Edition with Awakenings and all the DLC. They Platinumed me!)

Anyway...I've been in fandom since the mid-90s under various names, been a fangirl since I was about 13, and been a geek all my life. Haven't written any solo fic in a long time, but I wrote a ton of stuff back when I was into wrestling. I've also written Harry Potter, Dracula: The Series, Deep Space Nine, X-Files, La Femme Nikita, Constantine (movieverse), Doctor Who, Torchwood, Bible (aka Jesus fandom), and, um...others I'm sure I'm forgetting.

Anyway. I live in Oregon with my husband and my teenage son. I work for a non-profit that aids people in poverty, doing IT support, HR support, fiscal support, and pretty much whatever else that needs doing that doesn't fall into anyone else's job description. Oh, and my car looks like a toaster.

Pleased to meet you all!

darkrose

Hi. I'm

darkrose on Dreamwidth, and

darkrosetiger on LiveJournal. I've been on DW since the beta, and playing DA for eight months, and I'm thrilled to bits at the idea of an active DA presence over here.

I'm 40, female, and living in Northern California with my wife,

telesilla, who plays DA, but doesn't write in the fandom....yet. We met seven years ago, on Fandom Wank when it was still on LJ. We got involved after she played Carrie-Ann Moss and Liam Neeson to my Jason Isaacs in the kinky celebrity RPG The Establishment on JournalFen. Those two facts tell you pretty much all you need to know about us. We have no children, for which you should all be grateful, but we do have two cats: Ogdred K. Weary and Alistair K. Theirin. (the K is for Kitteh).

In addition to DAO, which I'm currently running through with my F!Tabris for the third time, I'm currently playing City of Heroes/Villains, Aion, Sims 3, and Plants vs. Zombies. I played Baldur's Gate back in the day; it was my first online fandom. (I started writing fic to explain why my ass-kicking elven fighter would give Anomen the time of day.) My active fandoms in addition to Dragon Age at the moment are Stargate: Atlantis, Leverage, and RPF for various actors. Most of my fic is NSFW, and usually involves some variety of kink and exploration of sexual power dynamics.

My favorite NPC's are Alistair, Zevran, Nathaniel and yes, Loghain. (What? I was a Snape fan, too.) My favorite origin is the City Elf, because as a gamer of color, that's the closest I'm likely to come to seeing my experience reflected in a fantasy RPG. I have a lot of issues with the Bioware developers and writers, but I will give them credit for mostly getting it right when writing ethnic minority characters in the Dragon Age world.

My fic can be found on my DW under the fic: dragon age origins tag, or at

darkrose on AO3. I have serious ADD, which means I've got about six WIP fics in this fandom and only three completed. The finished ones are part of the Mad World story arc, also known as Whore!Alistair; I've also got a series going with my Tabris, and a Loghain/Female Mage Caron in Awakening.

I play Dragon Age on PC, and I've got a whole slew of active mods, including the Adoption mod. At some point, I'm going to play a mage Cousland with the Ser Gilmore mod.

I also have an unhealthy attachment to '70's and '80's music.

zillah975

Introductions all 'round, then? I'm zillah975 -- Rachel -- and I've been playing DA for, um, three months? I only have the PS3 version, because my laptops don't have sufficient graphics cards for the PC version and so far I've been able to talk myself out of buying a shiny new gaming desktop just to play one game that I already have on a console. Even though I really want some of those mods. I just...don't want them quite triple-digits worth.

I've finished Origins once and Awakenings once, and a few of the add-ons, and am now slowly working my way through all the origin stories. This has suddenly proved more difficult because between the origin stories and the downloadable stuff I've hit the character limit on my PS3. Oooops. So far I have enjoyed them all! but my favorite player character is my first one, a female City Elf rogue.

I've created no fanworks for this stuff at all, but am noodling around with some ideas. I'm also considering writing a Dragon Age apocalypse story for

apocabigbang. One thing that makes me a wee bit anxious about writing fic for this game, though, is the sheer volume of canon. I figure the tie-in novels probably aren't required canon, but I fear I'll accidentally write something that's contradicted by some bit of game canon that I just never got to in the game. Because man, there is a lot of game here.

Anyway! Mostly what I'm writing in these days is The Losers (*waves little banner for Clay/Roque* which is why I now always mistype "rogue" as roque" and have to re-type it), but if you're curious, you can find almost all my fic at my DW or AO3 fic accounts,

zillah_fic /

zillah975. (There's a lot of adults-only stuff there, as I write a fair amount of pr0n, but there's a fair bit of gen there, too, and some that falls sort of in between.)

So um. Hello! :)

cave_fatuam

Hi. -waves-
My name is Bef and I'm a chocoholic...
So, apparently I like bad jokes. -shrug-
I'm little_befu on livejournal, but I haven't really used that SN for anything since Jr. High, so a name change was more than due. It's Latin for "Beware the fool" by the by. It's also my deviantArt SN.
I live in the Southern United States, so please excuse any of my odd aphorisms, metaphors, or euphemisms that involve livestock or made-up words.
I'm three and twenty. (Read: Why did we stop saying numbers like this? Is it b/c it's too awesome?)
I don't have kids, but I do have enough brothers and sisters to have a basketball team with subs...it would be the shittiest team ever, but a team nonetheless. I do have a lovely boyfriend. You should feel bad for him though. He often walks into the apartment to me with my butt in the air and arms at weird angles, because no one else will model being smote for me. Although, sometimes he's helpful and makes Alistair faces for me.
Well, okay, so a few more tidbits about Beelzebef:

I love Spaghetti Westerns and Samurai movies.
I draw comics, b/c I only like writing dialogue. XD (I'm seriously resisting to the urge to just draw an infograph for this whole thing.)
I look like a pudgy faced Jane Eyre according to my friend Mo.
ZOMG! Bones is my other fandom love. So when things go wrong I secretly blame The Gormogon.
Don't tell anyone in SiB, but dammit, I like Anders more than Alistair. -ducks-
I just realized that Thedas totally equals THE Dragon AgeS. -face palm- I feel dumb, but I also feel like someone else was being lazy, and that makes me feel loads better. :

I think that's enough. I'm done. Ta da! -hand waggle-

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: Overly dramatic bg music from "Lie to Me"

onemorealtmer

On livejournal, I go by estaratshirai. Here it's...estaratshirai. Confusing, I know. Of course, here on Dreamwidth I envisioned it as a journal for religious musings, which naturally isn't happening; and meanwhile, the place where my actual writing is archived is on lj under onemorealtmer.

ANYway. Hi! I'm 40, married with a 16yo son. I first got into fanfic when our hostess

twist_shimmy posted an awkward phrase from an Oblivion fanfic to the lj comm weepingcock. I replied, "...There's Oblivion fanfic!?" and both a friendship and a booming career of writing fanfic erotica were born. I write Oblivion and Dragon Age. Well, and fairy tales every so often. It all serves to distract me from writing "real" works for money, which is fine, since my interest in doing nonfiction has dropped to almost nil and the learning curve for selling fiction versus nonfiction is too effortful for me to be bothered. Thank the Maker my husband's got tenure.

aroihkin

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sleepyowlet

This is sleepyowlet, also known as artsy_anon. I write, I draw, and I'm looking for a beta, because English isn't my first language - which makes me feel kinda insecure about my stuff.
I'm glad this community has hatched; the forced anonymity on the kmeme was a bit of a bother to me - if I put time, creativity and effort into something, I'd like to be credited for it. That's vain, I know. None the less, greetings to all the anons and non-anons here; I hope we will have lots of fun together for a long time. Cyber chocolate for twist_shimmy because she created this beautiful haven - and I know that I still owe you that picture. I'm on it, I swear I haven't forgotten.
Weeeell, I'm 29, I live in Germany (all on my lonesome, no wonder I write erotica *lol*), where I'm very much involved in Medieval reenactment - which helps a lot, if one tries to write about a quasi Medieval fantasy world. Yes, I know exactly what goes beneath a plate-armour ^^

Current Mood: ecstatic

ashstoner_021

I suppose I'll go ahead and introduce myself, since it seems to be the thing to do. Especially since I've commented here and there on some of you people's works. So... HELLO THAR!

Well, if you can't tell by the shiny name by the avatar, my name is Ashley. I'm 28 years young, although most of the time I have the maturity level of a 14-year-old boy. Ha. I live in rural central Iowa with my husband and better half. We've been together almost nine years now, but have been married almost four. We have a 5 year old Mittelspitz named Archie, who's my little baby. I tell everyone I don't need kids, I have a dog. XD

I've been in the Dragon Age fandom for a few months now... I can't quite remember exactly how long. I fell in love with all of the characters, but hold a special place in my heart for Alistair :3 My top favorite origins are Human Noble and City Elf, although I have yet to delve into fics/art with my Tabris.

I've posted a bit of my work over at SiB, and if it's wanted, I most certainly would be willing to post it here as well! ^_^ I adore the community that I've found so far, and will certainly continue to add to it as much as I can. I haven't had much time lately, though; I'm hoping after I finish a few more projects I will.

Before Dragon Age came along, my PC gaming involved World of Warcraft. I don't play as much as I used to, but I still dabble here and there. I'm also a long-time Zelda fanatic, and most of my creative works involve said fandom. Fics, drawings, comics, and even cosplay are involved. I digress though.

So... YEAH. That's me in a nutshell! NICE TO MEET YOU ALL! I look forward to seeing what everyone contributes :)

Current Mood: cheerful

scarylady

Ooo, do we all get to play. Maybe we can have little badges with our names on them, huh? Or folded bits of card for our desks like in infant or junior school when you get a new teacher.

Ok, I'll stop now.

Hiya, I'm Karen and I'm comparatively new to writing fictions. Everything I've ever read or watched, every game I've ever played has triggered ideas in my mind, but I tried writing about 25 years ago and gave up in disgust after one page because my dialogue was so goddawful.

Somewhere in the last 25 years of not practicing, I improved; so when Dragon Age got so far into my imagination that I couldn't resist any longer, I found that, actually, my writing's no longer so bad that it made me want to ritually sacrifice it at midnight and bury the remains on unhallowed ground.

I'm 45, married and I live in England. No kids; I cheerfully had myself removed from the genepool at the earliest opportunity. I've been a live-role-player for a good 15 years or more (hence the icon, that's me at an event), so character immersion comes quite naturally now.

I like to write complicated politics and character growth. These last couple of weeks, I've discovered a previously unrealised ability to write porn, provided it's not vanilla. At some point I hope to merge all three into one fic series. It'll have to be set in Antiva, naturally.

I don't have anything new to post to this comm right now; it's happened a bit fast for that, but I'm happy to post my porns that have only been on the kink meme if there are people who'd like to read them, and am also happy to link my fic chapters here, as they come out, if wanted.

elysium_fic

Well, since Lenna and Shimmy did it, I suppose I ought to as well.

Hello, my name is RCD-Anon.

Well, that's not really my name, of course. I am what is known as a sockpuppet. Some people here actually do know my real name, but for the most part, I'm trying to keep that super-sekrit.

Why? Well, see, a few months ago on the LJ kink-meme, a very inspired prompter put up a challenge I couldn't resist. Basically, it gave me the chance to write something that was at times so raunchy and perverse that I decided I would never associate it with my normal LJ handle, because that identity can be linked back to my actual RL persona.

At any rate, once sockpuppets became personae non gratis by virtue of an enforced-anonymity rule over at the LJ kink-meme, I decided it was time for me to move on and find another place to indulge my DAO obsession.

One of our lovely moderators here,

twist_shimmy is my beta-reader and I'm really hoping we can make this a thriving community. I don't have anything to share with the community just yet, but stay tuned, starting in November the new and improved version of my kink novel will be starting and I will be posting here as well as my own journal and elsewhere.

Let's see, what else? I'm in my 30s, married w/kid, spend far, far too much time writing erotica, and I've been playing DAO for, oh, 7-8 months now?

My favorite major character is (unsurprisingly) Alistair, while my favorite minor character is Duncan (he's just so badass and pragmatic!)

My favorite origin is Human Noble, and no, not because I want to be a pretty, pretty princess, but because there's just so much tragedy and betrayal and potential for angst in there that I find it extremely compelling. Plus, I love characters who are political movers and shakers and human noble really lets me dig elbow-deep into the politics.

lenna_nightrunner

Greetings, People of Thedas! I'm Lenna and I'll be your co-moderator for the foreseeable future.

I thought I'd introduce myself, since many of you already know or at least are familiar with this community's creator,

twist_shimmy . I'm comparatively new to the Dragon Age fandom, though I've been playing the game and beta'ing Shimmy's DA fics for months. I'm a faithful lurker on many DA communities on LiveJournal and am very excited that Shimmy has given me this chance to take a much larger role in the fandom.

As should be obvious from my journal, I've been almost exclusively active in the Harry Potter fandom until recently. I'm in the process of trying my hand at writing a few DA fics, the most promising of which at this point is the project I'm co-authoring with

twist_shimmy (Vir Lath Sa'vunin), which she mentioned in her "Coming Soon!" post. Shimmy and I are friends and cohorts in "real life," and have been betas for one another's work since we both entered our respective fandoms. Because we've learned so much and have had so much fun in the process, we hatched this hair-brained scheme to work on a project together as a writing and collaboration exercise. We both very much hope that you'll enjoy it once we unveil it.

My favorite Dragon Age party members are Alistair, Leliana, and Zevran. Of the remaining ones I think I like Sten best and Oghren least, but there really aren't any party members I hate. My favorite out-of-party characters are Tamlan, Bann Alfstana, Bann Teagan, and Shianni. My favorite race is the Dalish and my favorite class is rogue, with ranger being my favorite specialization. My notable PCs are a female Dalish ranger/duelist, a male City Elf champion, a female Human bard, and a male Dalish assassin. Clearly I need to try a mage!

I don't think there's much else to tell right now. Feel free to ask me any questions if there's something else you'd like to know about me or the community or anything else you think I might be able to answer. I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you and seeing how you express your love for Dragon Age!

Current Mood: excited
Current Location: papasan
Current Music: Strung Out - Firecracker

People of Thedas

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hi from another new kid!

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Pimping my fic... er, I mean introducing myself. Hello there!

intro!

what huh

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