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Anders Appreciation Week!

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A week of prompts to celebrate Anders Dragon Age!

Join us for Anders Week 2025 from the 3rd - 9th February!

Get ready, Anders fans - it’s time to celebrate our favorite apostate in all his messy, magical, and magnificent glory! Join us for a week-long event filled with creativity, love, and appreciation for everything Anders.

Our list of prompts:

Magic Monday: Healing / The Fade / Power Tender Tuesday: Cats / Love / Safety Wistful Wednesday: Dreams / Loss / Longing Throwback Thursday: Circle Days / Past Relationships / Grey Wardens Fugitive Friday: Apostate / On the Run / Freedom Salvation Saturday: The Clinic / Manifesto / Light in the Darkness Sacrifice Sunday: Justice / Martyrdom / Greater Good

Additional Ways to Join the Fun:

Share an art/fic rec list that fits the theme of the day! Share your Anders headcanons inspired by any of the prompts! Tag us in your Anders-related WIP Wednesday posts if you'd like us to share them!

Mark your calendars, spread the word, and get ready to let your muse run wild. We can’t wait to see what you create!

See below for our event guidelines.

Official schedule of the Dragon Age Big Bang 2025

Hello everyone! We're pleased to announce the schedule for the Dragon Age Big Bang 2025!

  • February 10, 2025 — author sign-ups begin
  • February 23, 2025 — author sign-ups close at 11:59PM EST (UTC -5)
  • February 24, 2025 — writing begins! Please don't start writing before this time — that's part of the challenge!
  • March 14, 2025 — Author snippets due by 11:59PM EDT (UTC -4)
  • March 17, 2025 — artist sign-ups begin
  • March 30, 2025 — artist sign-ups close at 11:59PM EDT (UTC -4)
  • April 3, 2025 — pairings will be sent out
  • April 10, 2025 — date all artists and authors should have contacted each other
  • May 11, 2025 — works should be completed
  • May 14, 2025 — posting begins!

I had no idea the community was doing an Anders week when I posted my last drawing, so I put some ✨real effort✨ into a second drawing. It was supposed to be for the “light in the darkness” prompt, but I ended up spending 8 hours on the details and missed that prompt’s day. Oh well. Got some great practice out of it :-)

The hanged man understands that his position is a sacrifice that he needed to make in order to progress forward [...] His upside down state can also symbolize the feeling of those that walk a spiritual path, for they see the world differently. Where there are others that do not understand the need to sacrifice, you see it differently.

Sacrifice Sunday: Justice / Martyrdom / Greater Good, for @andersweek2025

Ps. I'll use this post to thanks the organizers and mods of the event 🩵 this has been so fun, and I've loved to see all the works that people created!

Finally, and only after whining like a baby for almost an entire week, I posted my work for the Anders Week on ao3! Just in time for the last day of prompts (Justice/Martyrdom/Greater Good).

This is my first time writing for the DA fandom so huhhhh I'm sorry, I tried my best despite everything.

I might write more if I don't shy away, mostly because there are a lot of things I didn't have enough room to approach.

The final day of Anders Week! Sacrifice Sunday: Justice / Martyrdom / Greater Good @andersweek2025

I won't lie, I feel like this is the roughest of the prompts I worked with. Hopefully the idea comes across. Small trigger warning for some suicidal idealization, but I feel like that's expected with a prompt like this.

Ok so I don’t think I can do today either, for Anders Week art. Sorry yall. I am a bit burnt out art wise. I do think I’ll come back to this eventually, cause I just adore Anders. However, I will do this instead for the time being.

A fic recommendation, and that is the fic that his been influencing all of my artworks so far.

Accursed Ones, a fanfic series in which the hulk is in Anders perspective. To be clear, it is a heavy story with many possible triggers, especially later on. It is incredibly dark at times, I once cried for thirty chapters straight, at times it made me sick to my stomach, I had to put it down for a month to recover (these are all very high praise).

But the author shows an incredible understanding and love for the lore and depth of the Dragon Age setting, and a love for Anders, with all of his flaws. It also lets him be a blood mage, huge win!

It is truly one of the best fics I’ve ever read, possibly even the best.

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