Stinkylittletoad - Just A Little Guy (gn)

the heart yearns for ferelden

if there's one thing the breeding kink discourse taught me, it is that most of you aren't weird enough to handle solas. i'm taking him off your hands. solas dragon age is my character now and i decide that he's a freak. i decide that he's a slut and a freak and that he is capable of doing bad shit with bad intentions.

solas did drag a low approval inquisitor to the eluvian by the arm and shut it off to dismember them most traumatically. he did that shit and he was swinging his hips as he did so.

solas will sometimes bite into something particularly crunchy and think fondly of times he was in his dread wolf form eating animals bones and all while they were still alive. he might even have a lil smile about it.

solas is of the persuasion that everyone around him is inferior to him, that the lives of everyone who survived his error hold so little value that he's willing to sacrifice countless of them. he has a prejudiced and highly racist remark for every inquisitor be they elven, qunari, human, or dwarven. solas is a cunt.

and yeah, this is the same cunt who protected a random wanderer who fell asleep between the paws of his statue. yup the very same as the one who goes "that was a kind thing you did" with the softest voice in the world if his companion goes out of their way to spread some stranger's ashes where they would have wanted. same dude as the one who beelines to offer his aid to hurt refugees at the crossroads in da:i. and yes it's the same freak who loves dancing and gossip and tiny cakes and painting and who calms cole down from a panic attack. he is all of those things at once.

but give me warlord!solas. give me the solas who followed a man for twelve years to drive him to madness with laughter. give me the solas who carves vallaslin into the faces of his foes when he kills them. show me the solas who faced mythal for the first time after betraying and rebelling against her. the solas who saw the first dwarves crawl from the titans and perceived them as being beneath him, as being the severed arm of a once mighty hero, lying in a pool of blood, undirected, whatever skill at arms it had gone forever? zoom in. enhance. rotate. this solas is just as true as the caring, wise, sad solas.

i'm not saying he's evil, i'm just saying that he's not a good man. he isn't. treating him as one and excusing his failures and crimes as exclusively poorly executed but well-intended mauls him. he's such a complex, multidimensional character and i wish people would stop woobifying and sanitising him because it is such a waste!!!!! it's such a waste!!!!! let him be freaky!!!!!

“Cole is a spirit of compassion, and this world is too bleak to spurn compassion offered freely.”

And so he spurned him, because if anyone could help, it was Cole 😭

The words are from Gareth David Lloyd on Cameo ❤️

Solas, charcoal on paper 🎨

"Does it not count if it's only fade tongue?"™️

ed zitron, a tech beat reporter, wrote an article about a recent paper that came out from goldman-sachs calling AI, in nicer terms, a grift. it is a really interesting article; hearing criticism from people who are not ignorant of the tech and have no reason to mince words is refreshing. it also brings up points and asks the right questions:

if AI is going to be a trillion dollar investment, what trillion dollar problem is it solving?

what does it mean when people say that AI will "get better"? what does that look like and how would it even be achieved? the article makes a point to debunk talking points about how all tech is misunderstood at first by pointing out that the tech it gets compared to the most, the internet and smartphones, were both created over the course of decades with roadmaps and clear goals. AI does not have this.

the american power grid straight up cannot handle the load required to run AI because it has not been meaningfully developed in decades. how are they going to overcome this hurdle (they aren't)?

people who are losing their jobs to this tech aren't being "replaced". they're just getting a taste of how little their managers care about their craft and how little they think of their consumer base. ai is not capable of replacing humans and there's no indication they ever will because...

all of these models use the same training data so now they're all giving the same wrong answers in the same voice. without massive and i mean EXPONENTIALLY MASSIVE troves of data to work with, they are pretty much as a standstill for any innovation they're imagining in their heads

<Ir abelas,vhenan>

The original Emerald Knight. Definitely went in an unexpected direction, but it was a good excuse to have more practice with gradient maps. Btw, this isn't done in color and then a grey scale layer added on top, it's done completely in grey scale AND THEN colored with about 1000 different gradient map layers, as well as a some extra blending layers AND and overpaint layer. Also, totally unintentional, but with his hair pulled up like this is kind of gives me Koga from Inuyasha vibes? I'm trying to figure out prints. I've tried INprint, but the quality just isn't where I want it. Any tips?

Sneak peek at baby Solas

need to stand infront of a cold ocean for a while and yearn

— Red Dead Redemption —