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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 12h

Contributor preview: Fic by @aerinfh.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanfic #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Viedai
Handle for socials: 7PhoenixAshes (ao3), AerinFH (twitter/x, bsky)
Pfp: drawing of a dragon breathing fire
Sample fic preview:
The Traveller was thrown into the sea. Screams from the other crew members surrounded her, but no matter which way she swam she could not find any of them. She treaded water, praying for daybreak. One by one, the cries of the crew fell silent, until at last the Traveller was alone in the dark and the swirling fog.

She didn’t know how long she floated in the emptiness. Minutes. Days. Centuries. Cold seeped into her bones. Her strength gave out. Finally, she slipped beneath the surface, her dream sinking with her.

I wanted to see the world, she thought as she drifted into the depths.

And down in the abyss, something heard her.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 1d

Contributor preview: Art by @/srrrokka (tumblr)

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Srrrokka
Handle for socials: Srrrokka (tumblr)
Pfp: Drawing of a red-and-yellow eye with a black pupil
Sample art preview: Cropped preview of a swirl showing different segments of the Dredge world, including a starry sky with aurora lights, a mangrove forest, and other locations.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 2d

Contributor preview: Art by @snowifer.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Snowifer
Handle for socials: snowifer (instagram, bsky), snowiferart (tumblr)
Pfp: chibi ocean sunfish
Sample art preview: Cropped preview of a chibi-style illustration of the Researcher sitting at the edge of the dock of the Research Outpost in Stellar Basin, recording her observations in a notepad. Beside her is a box of tools, and behind her is the tower. The foreground shows fish swimming in the water.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 3d

Contributor preview: Fic by @simply-sleepyhead (twitter/x)

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanfic #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Sleepy
Handle for socials: simply-sleepyhead (twitter/x)
Pfp: drawing of a delivery person riding a broomstick with a captain's hat and a messenger bag
Sample fic preview:
Undo the knot, run to the steering wheel, start the engine, go.

The ship darts away, leaving behind the Research Outpost and the writhing mass attacking. There’s a screech from an antenna tearing from the roof of her lab behind her. And for just a moment, a tentacle swings out towards the ship, its reach just short of the small boat, before returning to go after one of the machines that was recording currents in the Stellar Basin.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 4d

Contributor preview: Art by @ordinaryundead.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Ordinaryundead
Handle for socials: ordinaryundead (bsky, tumblr)
Pfp: a skull wearing sunglasses
Sample preview: Cropped artwork of the Lighthouse Keeper, looking fiercly determined, with a lantern in one hand and bionculars in the other. Background shows some stone cliff and trees, and the base of the light house visible. The lantern shines a coral-orange dramatic light to her figure.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 5d

Contributor preview: Art by @riwox.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Ric
Handle for socials: riwox (bsky) AmIsRic (ao3)
Pfp: A budgie, a mouse, and a tiny fox all snuggled up together
Sample art preview: Cropped artwork of a Mimic Crab with wooden looking claws devouring a live Twinned Eel, eating it from the middle. Black goo like blood dripping from its mouth and pooling in the sand.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 6d

Contributor preview: Fic by @giffca.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanfic #dredgegame

Contributor preview: raen
Handle for socials: giffca (bsky)
Pfp: a black cat wearing a purple cape with silver markings
Sample fic preview: The sound of movement in the water behind the Airman was quiet and easily drowned out by the sound of his brain being pulled in a dozen directions by every other thought already running through it, but some part of him was able to signal the alarm and he spun around to face it, barely able to catch a glimpse of a massive snake-like, slug-like creature as it retreated back into the shallow water. He stared at the murky water for a long moment, trying to match the little that he saw with any animal he knew of, but…
The Airman was already on high alert from the crash, but that thing made his hair stand on end.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 7d

Contributor preview: Art by @/rayenigma (tumblr)

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 8d

Contributor preview: Fic by @itsmoonpeaches.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanfic #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Peaches
Handle for socials: itsmoonpeaches (bsky, tumblr)
Pfp: Felix from Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Sample fic preview:
My Colleague suggested that we go to the Fishmonger for a second opinion, maybe even take notes on whether he has seen any aberrated fish, like the Cod, as of late. She was right to suggest this because the Fishmonger said that fishermen have started to sell him odd catches recently but that he did not know what to make of them.

“And you bought these fish?” I asked him.

He replied easily. “Of course. They look interesting enough to eat.”

Tonight, we dined on an unusual delicacy in the form of a new variety of aberrated P. colias that I did not have the fortune to catch myself. A three-headed cod, aptly named by my Colleague, the “Three-Headed Cod.”

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 9d

Contributor preview: Art by @pumpkinsouppe.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 10d

Contributor preview: Fic by @ocean-myth.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanfic #dredgegame

Contributor preview: OceanMyth
Handle for socials: ocean-myth (bsky), justoceanmyth (tumblr), OceanMyth (ao3)
Sample fic preview:
[A drenched and decayed fragment of parchment tumbles in the waves, stuck in an eddy. Spinning with the current. Caught and moving eternally without a destination.]

NATURALIST: You’ve chosen to start with me then, I suppose?

[The ink here has run–the name of the interviewer far too damaged to recover properly.]

TRANSCRIBER: Indeed.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 11d

Contributor preview: Merch (bookmarks) by @necromatador.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Merlin(necroMatador)
Handle for socials: necromatador (twitter/X, instagram, bsky)
Pfp: a deer-like creature with wings and the hind legs of a bird
Sample bookmark preview: Cropped artwork of a dark coloured eel with teeth in close up, swimming underwater with some air bubbles coming out of its mouth. The eel looks relatively normal until your eyes reach the middle section where dark blue blobs are bubbling and bulging out, ripping holes on its skin and fins. In the background you realize there's more of that disturbing body shape, stretching like mangrove roots.

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fire fist trace @traceyfanclub.bsky.social · Aug 13

still can’t believe i made that

hand embroidered scroll of the map of the underworld from the video game hades, with a nendoroid figure of zagreus held next to it

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 12d

Contributor preview: Fic by @kiwibrot.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanfic #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Kai
Handle for socials: kiwibrot (bsky), kiwibr0t (instagram)
Pfp: a person wearing underwear and a robot with a camera face
Sample preview: A chain secures the whale’s body to the docks. It’s a dark mass, yearning to sink into deeper waters. Preventing the whale from sinking is the first priority when whaling. What point would there be to the carnage if the victim just sank to the bottom of the sea? Its anthracite skin is wrinkled and scars reflect the last of the fading daylight in stark white. An old animal, judging by its massive size and the battle scars. It must have been hunted before. Some of the scars are human-made. He thinks he recognises one from his own harpoon, decades old. Stepping towards the posts, he only hears his own boots on the creaking wood, and a clank of the chains, as waves gently lap at the whale’s body, bobbing it up and down. No other soul is present. It’s just him and the whale.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 13d

Contributor preview: Art by @/jubjubmaz (tumblr)

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

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Crispy Pigeon @chrispypigeon.bsky.social · 14d

And a slightly brighter still cause Im always working too dark and even I cant see shiet 🤣

Crispy Pigeon @chrispypigeon.bsky.social · 14d

This is an animation I did a while ago and felt like sharing today - a little, statement-eating turtle hiding in #themagnusarchive

#art #animation #tma #fuckai

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 14d

Contributor preview: Fic by @hopestoryteller.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Hope
Handle for socials: HopeStoryteller (ao3, bsky), ofstormsandfire (tumblr)
Pfp: a red smilie face
Sample fic preview:

There is a beach in Stellar Basin.

Perhaps once it was more than just a beach, but whatever it once was—whatever else it once was—it certainly isn't that any longer. Nor has it been anything but a beach in Stellar Basin for a long time.

On that beach, there lives a Dog. He didn't always live on this particular beach, nor did he use to live alone. But it is the beach, the shallows, and finding food within those shallows that make up the life of the Dog now, and have for a long time.

The Dog could not say how long it has been, because—among other things—he is a dog, and does not have the equipment generally required for understandable speech, such as human vocal cords.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 15d

Contributor preview: Merch by @/hereforanepilogue (tumblr)

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Epilogue
Handle for socials: hereforanepilogue (tumblr)
Pfp: Black crow that is smiling with wings outstretched
Sample merch preview: Cropped coloring page of a sturgeon with a close up to the face, which looks derpy and cute. Other sturgeons can be seen swimming close by as well.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 16d

Contributor preview: Art by @zrllosyn.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Ennji
Handle for socials: zrllosyn (bsky, cara), zrllosyn-art (tumblr)
Pfp: partial view of a person's head with dark hair and eyes, a cat ear, and glasses
Sample art preview: One of the Unseeing Mother's small fish children peeking out and looking from behind a rock pillar in the water, its red eyes glowing and underbite showing sharp teeth. The Unseeing Mother's cropped fin frames the foreground.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 17d

Contributor preview: Fic by Elasmosaurus

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Elasmosaurus
Handle for socials: Elasmosaurus (ao3)
Pfp: a shark drawn in a cheerful style, surrounded by bubbles
Sample fic preview:
It starts while her back is turned, as she attends to the crank. The sea’s closer somehow, the shifting shades of sunset muted. She shivers, hugging herself to keep warm. The next time she cranks the light and returns to her chair, the island to the east is partially obscured, and she realises: a sea fog! Of course! The weather had been perfect for it. She can see the vapour in the air now, eddies of fake cloud swirling playfully above the water.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 18d

Contributor preview: Fic by @chocomdwrites.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Choco
Handle for socials: chocomdwrites (bsky), chocomd (tumblr)
Pfp: Ashe Ubert from Fire Emblem: Three House
Sample fic preview:
Nighttime is filled with the sounds of waves rushing against the shore and nocturnal denizens splashing in the mangrove waters. Some of the creatures seem to find us a curious sight, and they certainly do not attempt to conceal their presence as they trail behind our vessel! If only we could catch a glimpse of them beyond the eddies they create in the water.

Most promising, however, are the sounds that carry on the wind. Sibilant whispers, voices in another tongue.

Waters rich in wildlife, and hints that point to the presence of other humans. Naysayers may make their arguments from afar, but putting boots on the ground is the only way to discern the truth.

Tomorrow, we embark on our first foray into the mangroves. The anticipation among our team is palpable.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 19d

Contributor preview: Fic by @/honeyedjuniper (twitter/x)

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

Contributor preview: Astrid
Handle for socials: honeyedjuniper (twitter/x), mangatamyg (carrd)
Pfp: a pale ray swimming against a dark background with white bubbles
Sample fic preview:
“You need some repairs? Or maybe to sell?”

Quickly, he turns to the sound of the voice. There’s something surprisingly soft about the tone, despite the fact the woman approaching him is covered in what he can only guess as fish parts and pieces. Her striped apron is stained with all sorts of things.

“I had heard about a Travelling Merchant who might have some information for me,” the Journalist says, nodding slightly as she greets him with a small smile. “I’m a journalist looking into the Gale Cliffs here. I’ve heard… some strange things have been happening.”

Immediately, her eyes widen. It’s not a fearful reaction, but clearly one of surprise.

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Messages in a Bottle: A Dredge Fanzine 🌊 FORMATTING PHASE @dredgefanzine.bsky.social · 20d

Contributor preview: Art by @asterrestrial.bsky.social

#dredge #dredgfanzine #dredgefanart #dredgegame

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🔞Good Girl Elliotte🔞 @elliotte-draws.bsky.social · 28d

You might see several artists mad about the bluesky policy update banning non-con, even artists who do not make that kind of material, and wonder why it's such a problem. If that's you, here is a quick breakdown:

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