Celebrating women who love women in the Dragon Age franchise!
Welcome!
Welcome to the Dragon Age Femslash community on Imzy! I have no idea what to say here, so: tell me about yourself! What do you ship? How long have you been in Dragon Age fandom? Do you have any favorite fanworks/authors/artists?




oh jeeze, I've been into dragon age for years and I've never really actively done any community stuff so uh, hello! I played dragon age when I was about 12. Im nearly 20 now and this game series has taken over about half of my soul. but I generally dont have the time/energy/bravery to draw my ideas and stuff so I've mostly kept to just reblogging stuff on tumblr until like, now lol. Im probably a but fussier with my femslash; f!warden/morrigan, f!hawke/merrill (not really a shipper of the threeway between them and isabela) and sometimes cassandra/inquisitor (yeah, I don't rlly know much abt the npc femslash ships so I mostly just go for the main pc ships). I looove seeing people's personal works and OCs and how they characterize their own inquisitor (particularly if said ocs arent str8). but again hello! I really dont know what to expect here, but Im sure it'll be fun. :)
Oh man, so you kinda grew up with the series, huh? That's dope. Please don't be shy about drawing your ideas! The more the merrier! Maybe we could have some kind of Creativity Challenge here, so you wouldn't have to be alone...
yeah, It's kind of weird to be introduced to the series a tween girl and now be a young adult waiting for the 4th game of the series. A creativity challenge would be awesome on this thread. :) I'd love to share artworks and ideas with fellow nonhet women.
Hey y'all! This is great, thank you sunspeared!
If you know me you will know that I have a Cassandra obsession. It's only a SLIGHT problem. Really. I'm sure no one in this group can understand that. Ahem.
I am mostly up for f!Inq/Cassandra or pentilyet, but you know, I have read stories that have made Cassandra pairings I couldn't imagine plausible to me. And I love Hawke/Isabela. And Morrigan. Yes, more Morrigan! And Leliana. And Skinner/Dalish. And Sera/Dagna. And...
In reality, I guess I like it all.
I've been in the DA fandom since, oh, the beginning of 2015? For some reason I was thinking of fanfic, which I hadn't been following since a little after XWP ended, and I was playing DA2, and suddenly in my mind I said: Huh. I'll bet there's f!Hawke/Isabela fanfic out there. And went looking. And there was. I found AO3. And then I found Tumblr. And I've been having so much fun.
Faves... wow, too many, and I know I will forget some if I say off the top of my head. I'm going to start going back through my reading and listing my favourites to post here, I think.
You??? Cassandra obsession??? (Totally understandable.)
It took me the longest time to figure out what you meant by "XWP" and then I remembered, the mother of all Big Gay Shows, no shit, Sam. f!Hawke/Isabela was my gateway drug, too, I remember staying up waaay too late reading montparnasse's excellent fics.
I am OLD.
And yes, it was montparnasse and todistubtheuniverse who snagged me.
I remember watching an episode here and there when I was a very small. I've been trying to get through it on Netflix, I just made it through S1. It's so gay. Skybone (what should I call you, anyway)... it's so gay.
And it gets EVEN GAYER. As my partner says, it was an oasis in a very large desert. (The TPTB—the showrunners—knew about all the fans who shipped X/G and deliberately played to it.)
2015 was a good year for me as I got into both Dragon Age AND Xena belatedly. I wasn't fully aware before that I needed ass-kicking summersaulting warrior women and rogues/bards as much as I do - what a glorious, glorious ride it's been.
I really must go back and rewatch all the Xena. And admire Gabrielle's abs again, shallow lesbian that I am.
You really must - we all should, really. Rewatch it, that is. ;)
Hooray, a community for an interest near and dear to my heart!
I ship ALL THE LADIES, pretty much--Cassandra/Leliana, Morrigan/f!Warden, Isabela/pretty much everyone, Dagna/Sera, Merrill/Isabela/f!Hawke...the list goes on. I've been kicking around the DA fandom since its earliest days back in 2009. At one point, it was possible to read every single DA fic that was posted to ff.net and there were like fifteen of us actively writing there.
(I'm responsible for one of the monster early longfics. Heh.)
Oh man, you must have seen some shit... and you're another Cass/Leliana shipper! I love that pairing, the things they must have done together... chef kissing fingers gesture
I'm Jo, and I'm fashionably 49 years late to this thread. I'm contractually obligated by my moon sign in Libra to say I love all f/f ships equally because I'm just... that easy. (but Viv/Cass and Leliana/Josephine are my Real Secret favorites.)
I will never not be at least a little smug about stockholming you into shipping Leliana/Josephine
no. wait. stop. pls. u?? smug??? doubt it. no. nO ("an internet poem" by jo)
Dragging me like this... in my own HOUSE...
nowhere is safe!!
My pet ship is Dagna/Harding, which has like... nine fics in existence, one of which is my sadly neglected WIP. I end up reading mostly Pentilyet, because it gets written. I like Pentilyet a lot too! (I like Sera/Dagna, but like 90% of their tag is them as a background pairing to something I don't care about, so I don't really read it.)
(Oh, and I'm inconstancyisaconstant on tumblr, JadisLeFeu on twitter.)
I feel you on the lack of actual Dagna/Sera out there, when I was running Wintersend I was super stoked to see that it was one of the most, if not the actual most, requested pairing, and we got some pretty good fics out of that... have you read any good Dagna/Harding? I'm all ears for recs.
Honestly, the tag is miniscule, I just read through all of it. (Also, uh, I swear I'm going to post another chapter of Blossom eventually. coughs)
http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Dagna%2As%2ALace%20Harding/works
Aaaah, this is so great!!
I am on board for any and all femslash combinations in the DA fandom, as they are all pure and good. I mostly write (and get unabashedly mushy about) Cassandra/Josephine.
You know... I played Bioware games for yeeeeears, and it never occurred to me to seek out fandom for any of it until I started seeing a lot of DA:I stuff on my Tumblr dash before the game came out -- a lot of folks I followed in other femslash-y fandoms happen to also be Bioware/DA gamers. And as soon as I started seeing it, I was like... why did I not look for this sooner??
Anyway, hi, hello everyone. sunspeared, you are endlessly awesome, thank you for starting this thing.
My Cassandra Pentaghast problem is way out of hand, so I will read pretty much anything involving her. Recently I re-read and re-loved "All is to be dared" by Skybone (Cassandra/f!Inquisitor) and "Writing love all over" by Stonestrewn (Cassandra/Josephine) - as far as new fics go "Heart of the Matter" by hibernate (Cassandra/Vivienne) was a highlight - and it makes my day when spectre-tabris updates "Hit me double hard". I also tend to get ridiculously excited over Cassandra/Leliana fics. Basically I have too many feelings for a lot of excellent fics and HELLO.
P.S. I also re-read and re-loved "Flowers for the victor" recently, I hasten to add.
Just... kill me with adorable and hot Cassandra femslash please.
P.P.S. I am Mytha on ao3, where I attempted some Cassandra/f!Lavellan, too - but I never wrote fanfic before developing the aforementioned problem, so, uh... I am not worthy.
This is a little late, but oh man, haha, you are.... too kind, that sure is a fic I wrote. Welcome!
It is! An extremely, extremely, extremely adorable one. <3
Aw, thank you! That was an early one, at the time I never dreamed I would drop into such a Cassandra-centric hole.
The Cassandra-centric hole is delighted to have you, I am sure. XD
(As am I - to have you - in this Cassandra-centric hole. I will stop now.)
I am so excited this exists, you have no idea. Yay!
I am of course majorly a sucker for Pentilyet, but honestly I ship Cassandra, Josephine, and Leliana in basically any possible configuration almost as strongly. Also major weak spots for Isabela/Merrill, Dagna/Harding, Sera/Dagna, and Dalish/Skinner. But really, like someone else said, there are very few f/f Dragon Age ships that I wouldn't at least give a chance--sometimes the ones that don't necessarily make all that much sense from the get-go end up being my favorites. (I mean, I don't think Cassandra and Josephine exchange more than about three sentences in the whole game, and yet....)
I mean, occasionally they stand around the same table
And look great in the process.
My ot4 is Cassandra/Josephine/Leliana/War Table.
oh, to be a table.
Badge!!!
I think Pentilyet's only canon interactions are "hey here's our ambassador" and "no... no, I really don't need your help talking to your Pentaghast cousins... it's okay...... chill......" I love that it's one of those collective hallucinations that we've all agreed upon, that Cass is absolutely going to get swept off her feet by Princess Josephine.
They yell vaguely in one another's direction in the snow once! I think. Josie and Cullen do more of the yelling.
....yeah, I think that's about it. Collective hallucination is right. :D
Whereas you know who are practically the only dudeslash ships I care about, so many lady ships are the shit. Top faves would probably be Sera/Dagna, Dalish/Skinner and Cassandra/Vivienne.
Also of import: Isabela/Merrill, Morrigan/women, Josie/Cass, Josie/Leliana. P much any combo of main chars I can get behind!
And of course the PC-involving ships: Warden/Leliana, Hawke/Isabela and Cadash/Josie to name my faves.
Morrigan/women.... emotional fistclench. Justice for Morrigan and her obvious bisexuality
Hi! Origins was the first proper game I played since Super Mario 64, so I imprinted on it somewhat. Low-key shipped Morrigan/Leliana and Isabela/Aveline, but didn't get into the fandom until Inquisition.
There is a special place in my heart for Vivienne/anyone (f a v o r i t e), and maybe especially Viv/Cass. Leliana/Josie is lovely (MURDER KITTEN/SINNAMON ROLL), Isabela should bed every woman in Thedas, Leliana & Cass is the ultimate brOTP, and the idea of Sera/Dagna delights me. In general, I'm a sucker for rare pairs. I really just dig all the DA ladies, in all kinds of combinations!
I think ME was the first proper video game I ever played, but DA2 was the first video game I ever played and loved, high-five. Also! Leliana/Josie is the best.
Ah, I also just read Heart of the Matter, and as I said in comments on A03, you made a pairing I can't work my head around completely plausible. And the final chapter just sealed it. Beautifully done!
I'm not overly fond of Vivienne because in the games I have played she's always ended up using me because we differ politically, but I think she is disadvantaged in the game and therefore underappreciated, and deserves a lot more good, thoughtful fics.
Thank you!!!! My middle name is Self-Indulgent.
Maybe this is just me being weird, but I love the idea of Vivienne using the Inquisition to further her own agenda -- especially if she makes friends with the Inquisitor. Imagine the stone-cold practicality.
Hey, I'm new so I thought I'd introduce myself here! I was a long time Mass Effect fan so I finally picked up Dragon Age Origins a year or so before Dragon Age II came out, and I loved it, but I would say I wasn't really hooked until I met II's lovable characters, especially Isabela, Merrill, and Aveline. Inquisition reignited my love! I enjoy most f/f Dragon Age ships (I can't think of any I dislike!) but I especially love Adaar/Josephine, Inquisitor/Sera, Warden/Leliana, Hawke/Merrill, Merrill/Isabela, Sera/Dagna, and Mahariel/Merrill.
Josephine is my best lady, I love her so, so, so much! So I'm also up for pretty much any Josie ship, like Leliana/Josie or Harding/Josie.
Hello!! There is such precious little femslash out there for DA that I'm actually pretty excited to find this group (along with the slash group). My favorite femslash pairings are Morrigan x Warden (any race) and Cassandra x Inquisitor (any race). As for just regularly canonical f/f I ship Hawkebela 100% and can't imagine f!Hawke with anyone else!
Hello! Welcome! (I'm sorry, I'm in deadline hell right now, I have not been on Imzy at all.) I'm doing a Morrigan/f!Tabris playthrough right now, and it's kind of a trip to see all the dialogue that was meant for a male PC... and Hawkebela was my first ever DA ship! It may or may not have been the reason I picked up DA2 to begin with, and it was definitely the first pairing I went hunting for fic for.
I just loved Isabela so much. I played DA2 a million times, romancing Fenris each time with my male Hawke. But I kept thinking about Isabela, and what a wonderful friend she was to my Hawke. So I wanted to try making her my Hawke's girlfriend :p And woohoo! did I fall in love with that pairing! I love playing an aggressive femHawke for whatever reason; Izzy's good humor and lightheartedness plays off of her well. I've romanced her several times now <3
Hello! I'm super glad there is a community like this. If that wasn't obvious with my avatar, I LOVE Sera. I discovered Dragon Age with DA:I (got it for christmas) and I romanced her with my first inquisitor. +250 of playing later (and 3 inquisitors) she is still my ultimate fave and I won't stop drawing heart shaped cookies everywhere I can. I also read "Only A Song" by Auditory Cheesecakes not long ago, cried, and now I really like Leliana/Josie. If you have good fanfics about their time as bards I am all ears! Otherwise I actually don't have a fave ship, I just love Sera, Cassandra, Leliana and the ladies of Dragon Age in general. I love seeing them and seeing fanfics/fanart about them (I don't know very well DA2 characters since I only played DAO and DAI though). I drew Sera and Leliana and liked/reblogged a lot of posts from the DA community on tumblr, but I never actually talked to other fans so I'm glad to be here. Oh and I post my fanarts on ellie-ant.tumblr but I usually reblog things on super-owl.tumblr! (And sorry for my English, I'm French)
I would fight twenty men for Sera, I love her, she's great. And I've read a lot of Josie/Leliana, but not much set when they're bards; at best, fics where they've met when Josie is already an ambassador. I would kill for some, though...
Welcome! Some people hate DA2, some people love it. I think it has some serious problems and questionable narrative choices, but I still love it for the characters, and I have played through more than once (though after the first Merrill romance I can't seem to resist Isabela, no matter what I say I'm going to do...)
Thanks! Yeah, I saw serious hate towards DA2, but I also saw a lot of people saying Origins is better than Inquisition so to each their own I guess... I intend to play DAII as soon as I can! Merrill and Isabela really seem interesting and I'd like to know better the world of Dragon Age so I have to.
I am like way way way late to this thread, but I've just joined this site so please excuse my lateness :) I've only been playing DA (or gaming in general) for a few years, starting in..... 2014 I think? I ship pretty much any female DA character/PC pairings, Sera/Dagna, Leliana/Josie, and Merribela. I'm excited to see that Hit Me Double Hard by spectre-tabris was brought up here because I actually beta read for it! I also have my own fic going, under archertethras on ao3, that is Josie/Trevelyan and Sera/OC :)
I'm glad to see this thread exists and to see more femslash content!
Welcome to the community! It's slowed down a bit, but hopefully we'll get some action happening.
Hello my name is Amy Rose and I am forever salty that the bi Cassandra mod doesn't work any more.
Apparently I seem to ship a bit of a rarepair in Cassandra/Aveline but buff gay warrior moms just really does it for me. I'm also a sucker for Seradaar and my current Adaar, Mehr, is romancing Josephine and they are a pair of cinnamon rolls.
What.. that's a crime against humanity, even a mute romance is better than no gay Cassandra at all.
Anyway, welcome! I'm sure you'll find tons of company here with the Cass/Aveline, the more beefy ladies, the better.
Yep, the last patch broke it and it never got updated, or it just really hates me and doesn't want me to be happy. I flirted SO HARD and got NOWHERE (so my Adaar romanced Sera instead. Again.)
Agh, is the patch messing things up? I still have to play Trespasser in my last game where I romanced Cassandra... I hope that isn't totally messed up. :(
Cassandra/Aveline is great, wish there was more of it.
It seems to, I didn't even get the awkward "stop flirting with me" conversation base game throws at you eventually. I hope your game isn't messed up :(
I want there to be a Cassandra/Aveline fic in which Cassandra somehow catches on to the fact that Varric modeled her favourite fictional Knight Captain on her.
I would LOVE that. I would really, REALLY love that and I'd absolutely write it if I could do it justice
Me toooooo
I've been playing Origins on-and-off since 2012 but finally restarted it and powered through the entire trilogy last spring+summer when I was working long hours out of my bedroom/office and all my friends/everyone I knew in the city were off doing field work far away, haha. (Who needs friends when you have Ferelden/Kirkwall/Thedas to save?) While I really liked Leliana and Morrigan, Hawke/Isabela were definitely my fandom gateway drug as well. I've always been on the sidelines but decided I wanted to more active last winter, and started participating on Tumblr, AO3, etc.
I LOVE Leliana and Isabela, and ship them both with everyone. Which reminds me, I need to replay Origins so I can finally romance Leliana... Other than Hawkebela, my one of my favourite ship is Cassandra/Leliana/Josephine. I secretly love the idea of Isabela/Leliana as well.
Glad to see you here! It's impossible not to love Leliana and Isabela, as far as I'm concerned. Both separately and together. (I think there is enormous potential in seeing Leliana try to manipulate someone who truly Does Not Give A Shit For Your Games).
Yeah, I wish we could've seen more of Isabela and Leliana together in the games! I still need to get the DAII DLC with her and replay the game.
What a great place to end up in. Good to see y'all!
So, introduction-wise: I'm Skitch! I go by the same username on tumblr (Hinterlands on AO3) and ship, basically, All Conceivable Things. If there's a permutation of an f/f ship I haven't heard of, I'll probably be pretty down for it once introduced.
(Cass/f!Inq, Pentilyet, Merribela, and Sera/Dagna all occupy a special place in my heart, however.)
I've only been in the DA fandom for a little less than two years (basically a few months after Inquisition's release)--I'd heard of the games beforehand but felt a general apathy towards them until a few friends pushed me into playing Origins (and, subsequently, irretrievably into hell).
As for faves...well, really, there are too many to name, and many are my dear friends aside, so I'm a bit afraid of looking like an ass-kisser, lmao.
Same here, I honestly cannot think of any f/f ships that are a Hard Pass for me. There's some that are a "Well. You'll have to sell me on that, won't you.", but none that make me sit up and go NOPE.
[ass-kissingest voice imaginable] you're my favorite
no u
the icon choice is inspired btw
It's the same one I used for Wintersend this year, it feels appropriate to the DA femslash #ethos
Anyway let's be on topic, I have a lot of ships I like but one that ran away with my heart is Dalish/Skinner which is invented from zero actual interaction but is deeply precious to me. It is in fact What's For Dinner. I am glad that many of us are now serving Dinner to this hungry fandom.
It's like dudeslashers seizing on Any Two Guys, but to the next level. They have three lines each. We can do whatever we want... we are like unto gods.
[bangs two NPCs together like Barbies] I Am A Serious Artist
YESSSSS! I remember I first started seeing Dinner pics floating around tumblr (ass-kissing voice? D:) from your art, then I found Stonestrewn's Dinner fics and then I sort of tumbled over into sighing over this Very Good Ship. it brings me such joy
Hello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDZcqBgCS74
Epic response bro
Oh yeah, I should say hi. I'm Sol, and I've sorta been on the fringes of the DA fandom lol. I dip my toe in from time to time.
Anyway, I ship lots of DA ladies! Leliana/Warden, Isabela/Merrill, Isabela/Hawke, Isabela/EVERYONE (I have a slight Isabela problem. Ahem. I even have an Isabela/Cass ficlet started that I don't think I ever finished. I should do that), Cass/Leliana (with bonus Josie) or any configuration in there, Cass/Vivienne, Sera/Dagna, Sera/Isabela, Cass/f!Inq, too many to really list lol. There are more!
I also have a Cass/Leliana thing in the works that I really desperately want to finish. It's a "how they got together" type piece set when Leliana first joins Justinia's staff. Someone kick me and get me to finish it.
Hi! Welcome! Call me Sam!
I am extremely pumped at the idea of that fic. Leliana/Cass is, like, the ultimate "enemies (aka morally at odds but ultimately not so different) to friends to lovers" pairing for me, I cannot wait to see this fic when it's done.
Hi Sam!
Ty! It's good to hear other people are interested in the idea. This is definitely pulling on that whole concept, and I am hoping when I get it together that it's actually going to be a series of arguments (because this is how Cass deals with FEELING THINGS).
Is it possible NOT to have a slight Isabela problem?
I approve of the idea of Isabela/Cass and Cass/Leliana, so consider this a friendly kick!
Absolutely not possible unless one has a large Isabela problem! Those are the only two options.
And yay! Thanks for the kick :D
I crave your Leli/Cass fic idea! When you start out in DAI and you have those little tidbits of Leliana/Cassandra interaction and Cassandra worrying about Leliana making it to the forward camp safely and Leliana being relieved at seeing Cassandra again at the ruined temple - and it just made me need MORE.
Oh sweet Maker, those moments give me life. Also their snark at each other over the wartable feels like a couple comfortable with their snark.
"Yes, tactfully put, Cassandra."
Augh, YES! I am very sad they took those moments away from us after the Inquisition leaves Haven.
Oh, but I just remembered that Leliana continues with the snark as she tells the Inquisitor at some point "That is the last time we send Cassandra to interrogate." - probably after the cut scene with Varric has triggered.
I would love to see more Cass/Leliana, so I will cheer you on most heartily!
Me too!
I'm Fluchtsalat and I ship Hawke/Isabela to hell and back. I have a major Hawke problem, I just love her so much. I also ship Leliana/Cassandra, Leliana/Josephine and Josephine/Cassandra, or just the three of them. I just thought that Josephine/Harding would be cute. Could that be a thing?
There is certainly a bit of Harding dialogue where she tells the Inquisitor she got flowers from Josephine...