"I don't know. Fly casual."

Bellara's Workspace Set - for TS4!

19 conversions from Veilguard

Multiple swatches for vibrancy; 2 rug sizes; full LODs

The chest is a bookshelf! because I find that more useful, but the desk is not a desk, just a display

Search "bellara" or "sbh" or even "elvhen" to find them

[download] - simfileshare [alt download] - mediafire

find my other dragon age sims conversions here+ TOU

item previews below the cut

Hello hello! Some of you have probably seen the info about the Claude-detecting AO3 skin. I find it useful, but the way it was shared didn't suit my needs, so I tied it in with the standard Reversi site skin to make a version that works better for me. I'm sharing it if you want to use it too!

As always, this is an optional tool. You don't have to use it if you don't like it. This is a site skin, so all it does is affect what AO3 looks like on your own account - it doesn't change what your readers see.

This skin looks like Reversi by default. On any fic where it detects a 100% clear snippet of Claude AI generated text, it will light the fic up bright red. Still readable if you wanna keep going, but now you know that fic contains bits of Claude AI.

It does NOT:

Detect other AI, only Claude!

Change anything for other people - just you.

Flag EVERY Claude-generated fic. If the poster took the time to clean up the writing even a little, it will not flag with this tool even if it was written entirely by Claude.

Have false positives. There is no reason for this to light up a fic unless some or all of it was copied and pasted directly from Claude.

Give you a reason to harass people, even if they made a shitty choice to use AI in their fic.

I did not write this CSS myself! The person who discovered/shared this provided a small snippet of code to use to do this, and I just stuck it onto Reversi so I could have a skin that still looks nice. I am choosing not to link directly to the creator's document because that document seems to double as a callout post for various writers, and I'm not big on that. If you really wanna see it, you'll find it with an easy Google search.

Correct! This is pulled straight from the original, just wrapped into my own doc with a quick set of instructions on setting up a site skin for anyone who doesn't know This can only flag what it sees on the currently active page. If the author used Claude in every chapter, it doesn't matter whether you view chapter by chapter or the entire work.

If the author used it for only one or a few chapters, anyone who uses chapter by chapter mode will only see this flag on the chapters where the HTML tags actively appear. For situations like this, using chapter by chapter mode just means you might read a couple chapters before you reach the point where this flags.

rest(er)

treat for @fadesense in this year's Viperquin exchange.

Black Emporium is a rare pair exchange that encompasses everything Dragon Age – provided they have less than 300* completed works on Ao3. Whether you’ve been a fan since the beginning or got in to it via Veilguard– whether you write snappy dialogue or draw detailed scenery – we want YOU to participate!

*Except for Rook; see our post about how we're handling that!

2026 Schedule

All deadlines are as of 9 AM US Pacific / 12 PM US Eastern / 4 PM UTC+0.

Nominations: June 30 - July 7

Signups: July 8 - July 18

Assignments Go Out: When mods are done matching (probably sometime on July 19th)

Works Due: August 30

Works Revealed: September 6

Authors Revealed: September 13

Links

AO3:

AO3 Nominations Tagset

2026 Subcollection

Parent Collection (all past years)

Resources:

Participation Walkthrough Guide

FAQ

Fun Spreadsheets & Other Useful Tools:

Searchable Nominations Spreadsheet

Request Database

Treatless List -- Coming Soon!

Official Links:

Tumblr: @black-emporium-exchange

Dreamwidth Mirror: black-emporium

Discord invite

This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving

The administration is trying to rewrite policy to outlaw use of grant funding for anything they consider "woke" and to put political appointees directly in charge of approving grants. This is very bad. Grants fund a lot of research and nonprofit work, and this is aimed at making it almost impossible for research that doesn't support the current administration's ideology to happen in this country.

In more detail, it changes a bunch of wording from suggestion to requirement; bans using grant funds for international collaborations with any countries that the administration considers suspect; and blanket prohibits anyone who has previously done work interpreted as "undermining public safety," "inconsistent with religious liberty," or "discredited" from receiving grants. It also bans all grant funding for projects affiliated with DEI "policies, principles, or practices," "gender ideology," and "transition".

These guidelines are known as the "Uniform Guidance." The Uniform Guidance previously outlined the principles that grant distribution should follow, but it allowed grant-awarding agencies like the NSF broad oversight to set their own policies, which typically involved boards of subject-matter experts who reviewed grant applications and decided which projects got money. This was a flawed system, but replacing subject-matter experts with political appointees and banning a ton of research subjects is not the move. The administration has been meddling with grants since Trump was elected, but this rewrite would change flexible guidance to inflexible regulations and codify previously scattered, ad-hoc grant cancellations and politically-motivated review practices into law.

Historically, the Uniform Guidelines have been applied primarily to research grants. The wording, however, is designed so it can apply to any government grant, including grants for nonprofits. Which means that grants for everything - food banks, medical clinics, really everything - could be subject to formal review by political appointees and cancelled for mentioning anything to do with gender or race, or for being associated with any person or organization with a history of work related to gender or race.

It's hard to say exactly how bad this would be if it goes into effect, but the range is somewhere between "functional ban on all research directly related to race and gender for the rest of this administration" and "functional ban on all research and nonprofit activity that isn't right-wing approved for the foreseeable future".

short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.