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Solavellan commission for allymack on Bluesky ^^

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I think putting Solas in a modern au would be really funny because imagine he's a professor at Rook's college, alright, and Rook thinks that he's annoying because he's one of those "no laptop, no cellphone, and no headphones" kind of professors. Rook is one of his best students and the two of them hate each other for it, especially because Solas has a notoriously difficult class.

But the minute they have an honest to god conversation, the lore that Solas drops on Rook is insane. Like "What do you mean you once threw a molotov cocktail at a police station and lit it on fire professor?" "What do you mean you doxxed mayoral candidate Elgar'nan to keep him from winning reelection, professor?" "What do you mean you're married to congresswoman Lavellan, professor!?"

Idk I just think the potential for unhinged modern au Solas is very good.

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ar lasa mala revas

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it's so over😔

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✨🐉🌈 it's pride month 🌈🐉✨

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something compelled me to make this

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LUCANIS + WINGS OUT Dragon Age: The Veilguard (2024)

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How Mythal treated Solas.

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'It's not too late to learn, Fenris'

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truly a feast for all of the senses

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Cottagecore Solavellan

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got hit by this banter between Taash and Lucanis while playing today and it's so goddamn funny (ofc it doesnt go exactly like this, but I had to adapt it to this iconic meme)

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I made a timeline summary of this today's article (linked here) about what went wrong in Veilguard and its production (in case you are curious but don't want to read the whole article, which I do recommend)

Pre-2017 Darrah and Mike Laidlaw were already talking about Joblin (DA4) but that was paused to focus on Mass effect: Andromeda in 2017

EA started to eye live service games so in October 2017 they decided that DA4 would become a live service game too (Mike Laidlaw disagreed). Laidlaw steps down from art director and is replaced by Matt Goldman

They start working on DA4 Live service (called in code Morrison) but the team is very small as most people are working on finishing Anthem

Goldman is the one who wanted a more lighthearted entry that would be more suitable for an online game, instead of the dark DA of the past

2019 Anthem flops

In 2020 Hudson (head of studio) and Darrah (head of franchise) resigne. Gary McKay announces that DA4 will be a single story game and not a live service one

This change is done without allowing any reset of the previous work or revision at all, but the team was only given 1 year and a half to transition back to a single player and told to aim for the a big market

The article stresses that many decisions were made with no time, thinking that only a year was left till release, so rushed decisions piled over other rushed decision

End of 2022 testing of DA4 has negative reactions (lack of choices and consequences, caused by the fact that the game was thought of as a multiplayer so no choices can impact the world)

2023 new internal team from Mass Effect was added, which caused conflict as apparently they started to exclude DA leaders from the meetings

It was the Mass Effect team that added the emotional finale but the article stresses that these changes only ended up increasing animosity as the DA team was told before that they had no resources or time for such story additions, but somehow because the Mass Effect team decided it, then it happened

Mass Effect team also remarked that Goldman's snarky tone felt dated and out of style so the dialogue rewrites started (which caused tonal inconsistencies)

Mass layoff at Bioware in Aug 2023 (I think. This date was added by me) demoralized the team even more

The first trailer for Veilguard in 2024 is not well received

The game comes out to mixed reviews, and ends up with half the players EA predicted

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Character Art

by VOLTA studio

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So… I know I don’t have much reach but as someone who was been in the DA fandom since Origins, who migrated from DeviantArt and LiveJournal, who loves this world and the characters, I feel like I need to do my part to try to keep this fandom from being a toxic fucking cesspool.

To the people who feel like they need to take down others who they feel are, for whatever reason, “bad people” I want you to know something…

You are not crusading for justice by doxxing random people on the internet.

You are not promoting your values by harassing random people on the internet.

You are NOT making the world a better, safer place by sending death threats to random people on the internet.

You think that you are doing a good thing. I promise you that you’re not.

All you are doing is poising the waters and making it miserable for everyone, including yourself.

Don’t like something? Don’t interact. Ignore and move on.

Because I think people forget that behind those fics and art and theories and gif sets are actual, real human beings and that your words and actions can have real consequences.

Ask yourself this: Do you really, in your heart of hearts, want someone to kill themselves?

And if you do, then I don’t know what to say other then you need to do some serious soul searching and get off the internet for a while.

Finally, if you are doing all this shit because you simply disagree with someone’s opinion over a video game… just stop. It’s not that serious. I know that being emotionally invested in something can make things seem personal but they’re not. I get those feelings too, but I promise you they’re not.

TLDR; don’t be a dick guys it’s not that hard.

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So… I know I don’t have much reach but as someone who was been in the DA fandom since Origins, who migrated from DeviantArt and LiveJournal, who loves this world and the characters, I feel like I need to do my part to try to keep this fandom from being a toxic fucking cesspool.

To the people who feel like they need to take down others who they feel are, for whatever reason, “bad people” I want you to know something…

You are not crusading for justice by doxxing random people on the internet.

You are not promoting your values by harassing random people on the internet.

You are NOT making the world a better, safer place by sending death threats to random people on the internet.

You think that you are doing a good thing. I promise you that you’re not.

All you are doing is poising the waters and making it miserable for everyone, including yourself.

Don’t like something? Don’t interact. Ignore and move on.

Because I think people forget that behind those fics and art and theories and gif sets are actual, real human beings and that your words and actions can have real consequences.

Ask yourself this: Do you really, in your heart of hearts, want someone to kill themselves?

And if you do, then I don’t know what to say other then you need to do some serious soul searching and get off the internet for a while.

Finally, if you are doing all this shit because you simply disagree with someone’s opinion over a video game… just stop. It’s not that serious. I know that being emotionally invested in something can make things seem personal but they’re not. I get those feelings too, but I promise you they’re not.

TLDR; don’t be a dick guys it’s not that hard.