Black Emporium

Congratulations, WolffyLuna! WolffyLuna is the second bingo in our cavalcade of commenting bingo winners, and as usual, WolffyLuna is hella impressive. Not only was WolffyLuna a Black Emporium all-star last year, with five different treats made, but this year they nearly matched their output (four treats!) while commenting up a storm. We're so happy WolffyLuna came back for a second year, and we're hoping next year, the third time will be the charm for all of Wolffy’s fans! 

 If you're a new or returning WolffyLuna fan - and we're sure you are, we know we are! - you can find their works on Ao3, where they have a wide variety of work, focusing not only on the complicated relationships between characters and language somehow artisanally flowing into delightful fluff (see Floriography [Josephine Montilyet/Cassandra Pentaghast]), or the deep comfort that comes with honest talks in an established relationship (see To Shine On All, [Leliana/Female Tabris]), or tracing the complications that bind characters when duty interferes with love (See Whiskey in a Jar, [Female Hawke/Aveline Vallen]).

Works that WolffyLuna produced this round are: 

Boop! [Male Adaar/Dorian Pavus, G]: Adaar leaned back in his chair, hands steepled, and smiled. “All’s fair in love and war, and chess is both.”

Bedtime[Female Adaar/Josephine Montilyet, G - Fanart]: Adaar and Josephine getting ready for bed.

Pine Needles and Poetry [Female Adaar/Cassandra Pentaghast, T]: Adaar got her breath under control, and held out her staff at Cassandra’s foot. “This isn’t my strong suit, but I can try—”


Warmth, like that from holding a candle next to skin, ran through her ankle. The heat faded, and with it, a portion of the pain. But only a portion.
Adaar looked up at her. “Better?”


“Somewhat.” Cassandra levered herself up, and tried to put weight on the ankle—and immediately collapsed.

“It could be better.” She admitted.

Cassandra injures her ankle fighting the Carta. Adaar helps.

A Successful Failure [Zevran Arainai/Tentacles, E, warning: consenticles]: After a failed mission, Zevran Arainai is bored and left alone with an equally bored tentacle creature.

Of course something ensues.

CLICK HERE TO READ AND/OR LOOK UPON THE WORKS, YE MIGHTIES, AND ENJOY!

Please remember that these are rare pairs for Dragon Age, and as such, they need some love! Please take time to comment on your gifts, and others in the collection as well!

If you would like a commenting bingo card to help seek out treasure, please let us know by sending us a private message here or replying in the comments below! We’ve compiled a bunch of tags, characters, settings, and prompts to help you find fic in the exchange you might have missed otherwise! If you win, we’ll give you a silly picture, a write-up, and a little bit of promotion! If you don’t win, well, tis for fun anyway. :) 

If you have a gift and there’s an issue with it: Please message us privately or email us at 

blackemporiumexchange@gmail.com so that we can take action on it decisively and with a minimum of fuss. 

Authors/Artists: Please remember to re-date your works so that they will not be revealed on page 6/7 of the Dragon Age tag. To do this, please edit your work and scroll down to “Set a different publication date” and set it for today. 

Happy reading and enjoy the collection!

Sweet nuglets and nugerinos, the deadline is fast approaching! The sky here at Skyhold has taken on a green tint, and we’re all anxiously awaiting the

As a reminder, assignments are due in one week at 10:00PM Eastern Standard  Time (Click here for a countdown!).

If this is sending panic bells off in your mind: remember, be cool be calm. If you need an extension or need to default, please reach out to us at our inbox here, on the post on DW (comments are screened so only mods and you can see any responses), or emailing us at blackemporiumexchange@gmail.com .

If you feel like you might need to make mroe edits after the 23rd, you can do so until fic goes live on  September 30, but remember that your fic must be roughly complete (defined as having a beginning, middle, and end) by the due date ( September 23).

If you’ve finished your fic or are just relishing the thought of writing some more rare pair works, then the following links might be of interest to you:

Write some Treats! - Thanks to discord member firebird, we have an amazing searchable request list! Please look up some requests, and remember to save a copy for yourself if you want to modify it! 

Discord - Want to chat about Dragon Age with fellow shippers caught in rare pair hell? Need someone to beta or help finding that awesome gif set you saw on tumblr a day ago and can’t find now? The Black Emporium discord is here to help!

We are almost at the finish line! Let’s go! We can do it!

• We will make a list of different be_tags for your blocklisting conveniences and link it on the sidebar.
• Rules Change: Mabari and other animals with real-life counterparts will be allowed in future exchanges, along with the ever popular Dragons/Iron Bull.
• We will do our best to ensure dates match on Ao3 and the Tumblr/Dreamwidth to prevent misinformation.

• All Nominations will be made in Dragon Age - All Media Types next year to avoid the wrath of Ao3. We are sorry we tried to get fancy. As usual with Ao3, the simplest approach is best.
• In order to ease sign-ups, we will be appointing more advisors in chat who can help people with questions in regards to sign-ups and exchange etiquette. We also have a FAQ page we update with common questions so be sure to hit that up. 
• 10 Nominations will be the new standard going forward.

• We will continue to make it clear that treats are not mandatory but make it clear they’re a stretch goal. You are only committing to one fanwork when you sign up. No one will judge you for not doing treats.
• We will change slightly how we publish the treatless in chat. The number of remaining treatless will be published in chat. The list of actual usernames will remain in the treatless spreadsheet, so people can pop over to look. We hope this will reduce anxiety.

• We will be retaining the one-week anonymous period for authors and artists. It's general exchange practice and is meant to provide a bit more time for treats to be written and comments to be given without having usernames attached.
• We will politely remind people to have realistic expectations about comments (especially day of reveals) and to be considerate of other people’s feelings when discussing comments on Discord.

• Bans can be overturned by reversing the banned behavior - eg if you were banned for non-commenting, you only need to comment on your fic; a ban for defaulting without notice can be overturned at any point by writing a treat for anyone in the exchange. 

• Infractions will be dealt with privately next year rather than alerting the whole community. While we want the channel to  be a place where people feel comfortable, we also reserve the right to delete messages that may cause grief to members of our community.

• We will definitely doing comment trophies next year, pure oversight on our part.
• Trophies are based on character tags, which may include background character(s) at the writer's/artist's discretion.

Good day sweet nuglets! We are pleased to report that the treatless list has been updated, with 3 nw names crossed off! Trophies have also been updated, with a couple new unlocks for humans and warriors! 

If you’ve finished your fic or art early or just need a bit of a palate cleanser, why not write a treat? =D As a reminder, treats do not need to be fic or art and can be less than 1,000 words. Rare pair day comes but once a year after all :D

For now, the following list are those who are still left treatless. Click the name to go to their sign-up on the sign-up doc!