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https://fenrelmercar.tumblr.com/ https://archiveofourown.org/users/irabelasvhenan/ Mostly doing game photography and writing fics. There will be NSFW photography of Veilguard dudes. Thread carefully (or not).👀

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Dread pup 🐺✨️ || Minors DNI 🚫 @fenrelmercar.bsky.social · 2h

C- same but on steroids. Made me wish to explore those complexities Veilguard added (if you think Veilguard took away from his character, that's on you)

Lucille Michaelis @topazcarbuncle.bsky.social · 4h

C- I still love him all the same

I still prefer inquisition solas, especially in looks, but veilguard didn't change how i felt about him. ngl, after a whole decade, i dont think anything could change my mind! <3

Autumn Witch @autumnwitch.bsky.social · 1d

Today's Dragon Age Poll: Did you opinion of Solas change after the release of DA-TV?

A - Yes for the better
B - Yes for the worse
C - Stayed about the same
D - Meh...

Dread pup 🐺✨️ || Minors DNI 🚫 @fenrelmercar.bsky.social · 22h

We fight every night for something
When the sun sets, we're both the same

#dreadrook #solrook #virtualphotography #veilguard

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Nateese @nateese.bsky.social · 1d

More young Solas!
#Solas #dreadwolf #dragonage #dragonagefanart #inktober #fenharel

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Dread pup 🐺✨️ || Minors DNI 🚫 @fenrelmercar.bsky.social · 1d

"I ABHOR THE USE OF AI"

Thedas Wolves @thedaswolves.bsky.social · 1d

Urgent message from the Wolf!

#blender #render #3d #solas #antiAI

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Dread pup 🐺✨️ || Minors DNI 🚫 @fenrelmercar.bsky.social · 1d

Veiltober Day 10: Taash

#veiltober #veiltober2025 #taash #dragonage #veilguard

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Ziana (Idunn) Wyvern @zianav.bsky.social · 4d

And my third contribution to Veiltober, or rather, a part of it.♥️ See all the pics on my Tumblr here: www.tumblr.com/idunnaldwir/...
#veiltober #veiltober2025 #elgar'nan #VP #veilguardscreenshots #dragonageveilguard

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Ziana (Idunn) Wyvern @zianav.bsky.social · 3d

Veiltober Day 8: Strife

#veiltober #veiltober2025 #strifedragonage #dragonageveilguard #dragonagephotomode #veilguard

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Mogwaei @mogwaei.bsky.social · 1d

me when everything else is going wrong but ONE thing goes right

but also, this is solas's fault
#dragonage

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Dread pup 🐺✨️ || Minors DNI 🚫 @fenrelmercar.bsky.social · 1d

They'll ask you how I was captured and freed
You can say I found love in between

#dreadrook #solrook #gamephotography #veilguard

(achieved using NPRook, Rook as Neve in Neve romance scene and Solas recreated as Rook)

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Dread pup 🐺✨️ || Minors DNI 🚫 @fenrelmercar.bsky.social · 1d

Justice for playing every possible angle to hide the terrible clipping and lips that do not line up (especially Rook's duck lips hovering somewhere around his neck. Or Rook's giraffe neck. You know, the beauty of using swaps)

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Dread pup 🐺✨️ || Minors DNI 🚫 @fenrelmercar.bsky.social · 1d

At this point I could just have a gallery wall of Solas x Rook pics called "the hand clips through the ear"

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Dread pup 🐺✨️ || Minors DNI 🚫 @fenrelmercar.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, that is even more frustrating when thinking of 3D artists, who do actually create renders of such quality! I could not imagine how they feel upon seeing such things being shared around. It is of course easier to speak about from point of VP, as that's where our experience with the content lies.

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Dread pup 🐺✨️ || Minors DNI 🚫 @fenrelmercar.bsky.social · 1d

In this case creator never stated that it was indeed renders when asked how it was achieved. No mods or swaps can help do things that are seen in said posts. I say it from my experience of using numerous mods in numerous situations, including the scenes they used.

Dread pup 🐺✨️ || Minors DNI 🚫 @fenrelmercar.bsky.social · 1d

Look at us, people who slave away at our PCs for hours trying to find new angles, better settings, collaborating with modders to deliver you new and better shots and tell us why you think a quick dopamine hit of AI slop is not harmful to VP art.

The scenes that are not in the game are *not there*.

arya 🌙 @virevas.bsky.social · 1d

Can we maybe not use AI for creating vp and gifs? I’m getting so tired of this nonsense…

Dread pup 🐺✨️ || Minors DNI 🚫 @fenrelmercar.bsky.social · 1d

So sick and tired of people posting gifs of scenes that do not exist and conveniently leaving out the magic touch that allowed them to achieve such shots (it's AI, the magical touch is AI) 🤮

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Dread pup 🐺✨️ || Minors DNI 🚫 @fenrelmercar.bsky.social · 2d

Veiltober Day 9: Varric Tethras

#veiltober #veiltober2025 #varrictethras #dragonage #veilguard

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Dread pup 🐺✨️ || Minors DNI 🚫 @fenrelmercar.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, I was already an hour into Oct 7th in my timezone 🤭

Dread pup 🐺✨️ || Minors DNI 🚫 @fenrelmercar.bsky.social · 4d

Veiltober Day 7: Elgar'nan

#veiltober #veiltober2025 #elgarnan #dragonage

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arya 🌙 @virevas.bsky.social · 15d

“When you see the old world restored…”
#Solas #DragonAge #DAFanFriday

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naomi @mimimaruuu.bsky.social · 7d

fanart for Death on the Enavuris by Virshiral (ao3)

#solas #dragonage

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Dread pup 🐺✨️ || Minors DNI 🚫 @fenrelmercar.bsky.social · 6d

Veiltober, Day 5: Harding

#veiltober #veiltober2025 #dragonage #laceharding #scoutharding

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Dread pup 🐺✨️ || Minors DNI 🚫 @fenrelmercar.bsky.social · 6d

(oh god did I post on tumblr but forgot to post here?? Yes)

Veiltober, day 4: Illario

#veiltober #veiltober2025 #dragonage #illariodellamorte

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❯❯❯❯ night city ghost k8 👻 @katerade.posts.fyi · 8d

Obviously I've ranted about this re: cyberpunk community but i was just reminded that I am at least, 99.9999% sure this has slowly leaked into da spaces, specifically solavellan over on tumblr. And it's really really really really gross and disingenuous

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VP will slowly become a lost art if we continue being blind to AI gifs that are circulating in certain circles. I have always said that, in general, video game photography is not fully understood nor appreciated, even though VP creators work enormously to achieve the pics you love and consume.

Consume, yes, because it all boils down to consumerism and the fact that an AI gif, or VP, will give you a quick fix and a scene, or angles you cannot achieve in-game. Maybe that quick fix and strong dose of dopamine is the problem on both sides, for the consumer and "creator" of an AI video or GIF. The "creator" chases the praise high and gets addicted to it, while the consumer has their fantasies fulfilled.

I will not delve into the issues AI presents, as they have been extensively discussed on Tumblr. Still, I will get into the utter disappointment and hopelessness I feel as a VP artist when I see 1000 notes on an AI gif, while the photos I take with great care and thought (and reshade tweaks, angles, mods, colorization, post processing, etc), get 100 at best, and over 500 on a good day.

I have a side blog I will link here one of these days, where I create quite a lot, and the time I put into every photo is precious, and yet I, too, could just whip up a very damaging AI program to do all of that for me in mere minutes. I have more dignity than that, not to mention my ego cannot take the backlash I would get if I did admit to AI usage. And yet, people who do not admit to their work being AI get hailed and paraded around like heroes. Rewarded not only for the usage of AI, but for their dishonesty as well.

Just a rant that I needed to get off my chest...

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Dread pup 🐺✨️ || Minors DNI 🚫 @fenrelmercar.bsky.social · 9d

Veiltober Day 2: Lucanis

(probably early, but it's Oct. 2nd for me already)

#veiltober #veiltober2025 #dragonage #lucanisdellamorte

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