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Nominations for the Black Emporium are live until July 3rd! Reach out and tell someone (namely: us) about your favorite rare-pairs (namely: any pairing under 300 complete fics on Ao3). You have twenty nominations to use. Pairings can be twosomes / threesomes / moresomes / etc. We believe in sharing the love.

How do you, in fact, become a true Fereldan buckaroo by nominating a rare pair or 20?

Go to the Dragon Age Rare Pair Tag Set and click Nominate (you have to be signed into Ao3 for the button to appear). For inspiration or to check if someone had the same idea as you, we have a Searchable Nominations Spreadsheet that we manually update.

For more information on this stage of the exchange and how best to format your nominations, please see below the cut.
Full Participation Walkthrough Guide || FAQ
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blackemporiummod

Thank you to those who fulfilled assignments, those who stepped up to pinch hit, those who created treats, and especially to those who were able to leave feedback on various works in the exchange.

If you haven’t yet, please visit the collection and leave some kudos/comments for our writers and artists.

We have always been impressed by how giving this community is; this year has been no exception! Thank you for warming the cockles of Xenon the Antiquarian’s heart — and believe us, that’s hard to do.

If you would like, please feel free to advertise your works on your social media accounts, redate works to today’s date on AO3, and/or make rec lists of works in the exchange you’ve enjoyed!

We hope to see you again next year!

blackemporiummod

CLAIMED!

Please reply to this post or send an email to blackemporiumexchange@gmail.com to claim. This pinch hit will be due at the same time as the regular assignments, September 3rd at 8 PM EDT, or ASAP after that.

Link to firebase: ~~https://autoao3app.firebaseapp.com/#/BlackEmporium2022/user/emocsibe~~

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blackemporiummod

Hello, fellow rare-pair enthusiasts! If you want to join us for this year’s exchange, time is running out. Sign-ups close at 8 PM EDT on July 16th, which is just about 48 hours away.

You can join the fun by signing up here. You can also find a summary of current requests and offers here and a list of nominated pairings here.

Want to sign up but have questions? Ask away, either in a comment here or in an ask on Tumblr.

blackemporiummod

Yes sweet nuglets, it’s that time of year again: Time to sign up for Black Emporium!

CLICK HERE TO SIGN-UP!

Helpful Links:

How to Guide || Requests on Ao3 || Tagset || Nominations Spreadsheet || Request Database || Parent Collection (All Past Years)

Signups end: July 16, 2022 @ 8:00PM EDT || Countdown

CHANGES THIS YEAR

RATINGS: For both offers and requests, you must select the Ao3 rating(s) that you are interested in creating/receiving. Please note you must be 18+ to offer/request Mature or Explicit level gifts.

TREATS: Located in the “Characters” field of your requests, you must decide whether you are opting-in to treats for your requested relationships. This field does not apply to your offers.

A more detailed explanation of the changes can be found here!

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acequeenking

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.

acequeenking

This is Artemis1000's first year coming to Black Emporium, but fans of Star Wars need no introduction to Artemis1000. This is Artemis1000's first year actually playing through the Dragon Age games, and the thoughtful approach she gives to her playthroughs are echoed through their carefully plotted and well-characterized fanfiction. Artemis1000 has a long tradition of commenting thoughtfully in exchanges and this BE was no exception. Congrats on the bingo, Artemis!

If you're a fan of Artemis' works, we advise you to keep a close watch on their profile as we're sure she'll be bringing up quality fiction. Those eager to sample some of Artemis' works should consider trying What We Are (Nathaniel Howe/Velanna, G), where UST becomes an art form, or perhaps Second Love (Leliana/Morrigan, T), which examines the conflict Leliana's prior relationship with Marjoline brings to her newest relationship.

Works Artemis1000 produced this year for BE are:

against all evidence to the contrary, not an essay on the care and feeding of templars [Lysette/Minaeve, T]: Knowing what she knew about her love for all creatures dangerous and widely feared, hindsight told Minaeve she really should have seen it coming. If she was going to fall in love at all, it figured she would fall for the people counterpart of a poisonous giant spider.

Knowing what she knew about herself, Minaeve still couldn’t explain how or when exactly she had fallen for Ser Lysette. Nor did she know what to do about Ser Lysette or her feelings for her, which was just her luck, really. She would have been better off sticking to giant spiders.

not far from you [Female Couslan/Anora Mac Tir, M]: Far less is known about our queen’s mysterious disappearance. For two years, Elissa Cousland vanished from Ferelden. There was many a lurid rumor about the circumstances of her death or betrayal, yet Queen Anora insisted that she was away on Warden business and would speak no more on the matter.

A Tale of Cautious Women [Anora Mac Tir/Vivienne, T]: Sentimentality is no way to make politics but every now and then the stars align just right to give you a chance at both.

Anora, Vivienne and the cautious discovery that love can be found where you least expect it.

acequeenking

All,

Works have been revealed! Please check out the works in this years collection - just because the anonymous period is over doesn't mean that the fun is done! Please give a hand to our amazing writers and artists in the 2019 collection!

People who have not commented on their assigned gifts will be getting an email reminding them there are works waiting for them within the next 24 hours. Please take the time to give people at least a quick thank you for writing for you if possible! (As a reminder, if there was a problem with a gift, please don't hesitate to reach out to the mods!)

I'm pleased to say we have had several bingo winners; they will be posted during the next week and a half or so, at a rate of one per day to try to avoid spamming the comm.

It's been a wonderful year, BE! And we can't wait til next year. <3

acequeenking

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!

keita52

CLAIMED!

Three awesome community members have picked up three of the post-deadline pinch hits posted yesterday. We have one remaining; #4. Check it out and let us know if you'd like to claim it!

Post-Deadline Pinch Hit #4: Anders/Dorian Pavus (Fanart, Fanfiction), Alistair/Zevran Arainai (Fanart, Fanfiction), Dagna/Sera (Fanart, Fanfiction), Isabela/Merrill (Dragon Age) (Fanart, Fanfiction), Lace Harding/Iron Bull (Fanart, Fanfiction), Dagna/Lace Harding/Sera (Fanart, Fanfiction)
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keita52

Now that we’re almost to the opening of the archive, it’s time to get your bingo hat on! That’s right, we’re doing bingo cards again this year!

Bingo cards come in two styles, commenting and creating:

- Commenting cards are 5x5 with a free space and will have different criteria based on the works in the collection. Your challenge is to read and comment on as many as you can to fill up the card, make other rare pair writers happy, and have the Maker smile upon you. (Note: Commenting Cards won’t be available until the archive is full since we do not know at this point what kinds of works will be in the archive, but you can certainly request one ahead of time!)

- Creating cards are 3x3 with a free space and have different prompts to be used as inspiration in creating fic or images. These prompts are always meant to be somewhat freeform, with and can be used with any character/pairing, though some are geared more toward one game than another (for example, a prompt such as "Kirkwall" would be in DAII).

Fills may be of any genre, style or rating, and you can request a card with prompts in several flavors: SFW, NSFW, Dragon Age Origins, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age Inquisition, writing, and art focused. You may also ask for multiple flavors, eg you can request a card that is "DA II, DAI, art" or "NSFW, SFW, DAO". You may also request to have a card without certain categories of prompts.

These bingo cards are non-binding and self-regulated; you can get a “Bingo” by making a line, four corners, etc; you can put multiple ideas in one fic or artwork as you please.

If you finish either of these cards, please let us know so we can post a congratulations post for you wherein we will make silly bad photoshop of your favorite character, write a blurb about how you're so awesome, and link to some of your fanworks. :D

If you want to play, all you need to do is send a request for a bingo card to our tumblr inbox or reply to this dreamwidth post (you do not need a Dreamwidth account to post!).

All we need to know is:
- What type you want
- Which “flavors” you would like potential prompts from

acequeenking

Hello chantry sisters and mage brothers! We have one pinch-hit available! Get it while it is fresh and hot. Please reply to this message on DW (Comments are screened) or send us a message on Tumblr with your Ao3 username to claim!

EDIT: CLAIMED!

Pinch Hit #1: Alistair/Female Brosca, Bhelen Aeducan/Rica Brosca, Blackwall/Female Cadash, Female Dovahkiin | Dragonborn/Cullen Rutherford, Male Dovahkiin | Dragonborn/Cassandra Pentaghast, Lace Harding/Bram Kenric

This pinch-hit will be due on September 23. See below for more details!

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acequeenking

Just as a PSA, Nominations will be closing tomorrow. Please get your nominations in tonight! CLICK ME TO GO TO THE TAGSET! Want to know what’s nominated? CLICK HERE FOR A SPREADSHEET!

We’ve received some nominations that require further information in order to add to the tag set.

If this is one of your nominations, please send us a message on Tumblr or comment on the Dreamwidth post (anon is on!) or send us an email at blackemporiumexchange@gmail.com. If we do not receive further information on these pairings, we will be forced to reject them by the time nominations close tomorrow at 10PM EDT.

Needs Further Clarification:

Isabela/Leliana/Female Warden: Which Background for Warden is preferred?
Female Inquisitor/Bram Kenric: What Background for Inquisitor is preferred?
Female Inquisitor/Threnn (Dragon Age): What Background for Inquisitor is preferred?
Female Hawke/Female Warden: Which Background for Warden is preferred?
Corypheus & Inquisitor (Dragon Age): What Background for Inquisitor is preferred?
Inquisitor/Vivienne: What Background and Gender for Inquisitor is preferred?
Anders/Female Warden (Dragon Age): Which Background for Warden is preferred?
Duncan/Male Warden: Which Background for Warden is preferred?
Duncan/Female Warden: Which Background for Warden is preferred?
Loghain Mac Tir/Female Warden: Which Background for Warden is preferred?
Delrin Barris/Mage Inquisitor: What gender for Inquisitor is preferred?
Ser Cauthrien/Original Character: What kind of Original Character does the Requester wish? (ex: Original Female Knight, Original Male Qunari, Original Female Assassins)
Sergeant Kylon (Dragon Age) Original Character(s): What kind of Original Character does the Requester wish? (ex: Original Female Knight, Original Male Qunari, Original Female Assassins)

acequeenking

In the first two days of nominations, there have been nearly 300 tagset nominations, our sweet nuglets! Would you like to nominate? The Nominations platform is HERE! Any rarepair is eligible, provided they have less than 300 completed works on Ao3!

We have some tagset nominations we would love to see in the tagset, but we need more information. If this is one of your nominations, please send us a message on Tumblr or comment on the Dreamwidth post (anon is on!) or send us an email at blackemporiumexchange@gmail.com.
Needs Further Clarification:

Isabela/Leliana/Female Warden: Which Background for Warden is preferred?
Female Inquisitor/Bram Kenric: What Background for Inquisitor is preferred?
Female Inquisitor/Threnn (Dragon Age): What Background for Inquisitor is preferred?
Corypheus & Inquisitor (Dragon Age): What Background for Inquisitor is preferred?
Inquisitor/Vivienne: What Background and Gender for Inquisitor is preferred?
Anders/Female Warden (Dragon Age): Which Background for Warden is preferred?
Loghain Mac Tir/Female Warden: Which Background for Warden is preferred?
Ser Cauthrien/Original Character: What kind of Original Character does the Requester wish? (ex: Original Female Knight, Original Male Qunari, Original Female Assassins)
Sergeant Kylon (Dragon Age) Original Character(s): What kind of Original Character does the Requester wish? (ex: Original Female Knight, Original Male Qunari, Original Female Assassins)

If we do not have further clarification, we will have to reject them, and no one here wants that. Please let us know ASAP on these nominations!

acequeenking

We had fun this year and hope you did too! Black Emporium will return in summer 2018, and we can't wait to see you back, sweet nuglets!

We've had a chance to collect some surveys on your experiences wiht the exchange, and based on them, we will be making a few changes, which I will list below:

General housekeeping/rules changes:

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.

As far as nominations/sign-ups:

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.

As far as pimping treats and treatless:

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.

As far as anonymous period +commenting:

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.

As far as non-commenting, defaulting, etc. resulting in bans:

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.

As far as rules violations:

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.

On trophies:

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.

acequeenking

The deadline gets nearer and nearer.

As a reminder, alll works must be in by Novembr 13th at 11:59PM EST. If you want to see how much time you have left, please check this handy countdown! You may continue to edit your works after that, but it should be complete, eg all fic should have a beginning/middle/end and all art should be in some stage of completeness - ie not having stick figure people, question marks for bodies, etc.

If you need an extension, please make sure to let us know via the mod email blackemporiumexchange@gmail.com or via a private message on Tumblr or Dreamwidth. If you have questions on how to post your work or need help, let us know. We are happy to work with people.

Below the cut is the treatless list. We have only knocked one name off the list today. The trophy list is currently being updated!

dawnstonedagger
DeCarabas
Floranna
DracoCustos
Dragonflies_and_Katydids
DragonRider1
Earlgreyer
Eissa
emmabeth
friendlywitch
GoddessTiera
GuileandGall
hibernate
hobbitdragon
Ilyasviel
iodhadh
JadisLeFeu
JustJasper
Kagura
katling
keita52
KestrelShrike
kmfillz
lady_libertine
LadyNorbert
love_coloured
Luffymarra
Mytha
nlans
ninaunn
Rhovanel
riverbanks
Sassydoilies
scoutdoesstuff
Shae_C
SoManyJacks
spookykingdomstarlight
sqbr
StarGazerGamer
Starla-Nell
Sumi
sunspot
systemdreams Tafka
tanwenmc
tempered_rose
thegreatandpowerfultoaster
Theneras
Wintertree
worstcommander
ValkyrieNeedsFood
xoxo666

acequeenking

We have two new pinch hits going up today. Please end a PM or mesesage to the mod account to confirm.

The couples are:

Pinch Hit #1: CLAIMED!

~~Alistair/Female Hawke, Alistair/Anders, Fanart, Fanfiction~~
~~Alistair/Cullen Rutherford, Alistair/Male Cousland, Fanart, Fanfiction~~
~~Alistair/Zevran Arainai, Cullen Rutherford/Male Hawke, Fanart, Fanfiction~~
~~Danarius/Fenris, Dorian Pavus/Fenris, Fanart, Fanfiction~~
~~Dorian Pavus/Male Hawke, Zevran Arainai/Fenris, Fanart, Fanfiction~~
~~Anders/Male Hawke/Cullen Rutherford, Iron Bull/Zevran Arainai, Fanart, Fanfiction~~
~~Iron Bull/Dorian Pavus/Cullen Rutherford, Alistair/Tentacles, Fanart, Fanfiction~~
~~Zevran Arainai/Tentacles, Zevran Arainai/Dorian Pavus, Fanart, Fanfiction~~

~~Pinch Hit #2:~~CLAIMED!

~~Leliana/Cassandra Pentaghast, Fanart, Fanfiction~~
~~Cassandra Pentaghast/Sera, Fanart, Fanfiction~~
~~Cassandra Pentaghast/Vivienne, Fanfiction~~
~~Female Hawke/Cassandra Pentaghast, Fanfiction~~
~~Female Hawke/Isabela/Aveline Vallen, Isabela/Aveline Vallen, Fanfiction~~
~~Cassandra Pentaghast/Aveline Vallen, Fanart, Fanfiction~~
~~Cassandra Pentaghast/Svarah Sun-Hair, Fanfiction~~

~~Please see full details below:~~

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acequeenking

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!

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acequeenking

Good day sweet nuglets! We are pleased to report that the treatless list has been updated! Trophies will be updated later tonight.

Right now, you awesome, awesome, incredibly awesome people have seen to it that 1/4 of our total participants has at least one treat! If you've finished your fic or art early or just need a bit of a palate cleanser, why not write a treat? =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!
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