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Aquaswan 🐉 @aquaswan.bsky.social · May 30
DREAMS DO COME TRUE!!! 💚💚💚
www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3...
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merciawintersage.bsky.social
#DAFanFriday 😏
Emmrich tries to keep it together on his Memorial Gardens date. A post by chartreuse wahoo reads "THEY LAUGHED AT ME FOR BRINGING TUMS TO THE CLUB GUESS WHAT NOW THEYRE ALL ASKING ME FOR F-CKING TUMS IN THE CLUB" A Dark Souls meme of Davrin with his shirt open that reads "Breasted Boobily" in pink, yellow and cyan font. Lucanis grimaces in the pantry with text above his head that reads "[internal screaming.]"
January 23, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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alderdoodle.bsky.social
Psst. Hey you. There's free stuff in my ko-fi library for you to use in your projects - even commercial ones.
Don't tell anyone I told you 🤫
ko-fi.com/alderdoodle/...
Page decor illustrations with a mining town theme. 6 colour cover illustrations on vintage bookbinding style. 30 colour illustrations of fantasy swords. Black and white page decor illustrations with a nature theme.
January 20, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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thirteenthdilemma.bsky.social
text: me after going through the extremes of every human emotion in the span of 2 hours pic: merrill (from dragon age 2) is slumping over and resting her head against her hands. she looks pensive
January 15, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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trickweekes.bsky.social
Anthem the game had fun gameplay and deserved a chance to get better with the Anthem Next team.

Anthem the project drove good people out of the company and put others in the hospital.
January 12, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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teturelira.bsky.social
i sometimes think back to like the ancient humans and how they managed to figure everything from scratch, sometimes doing things we would never think about to achieve their goals, they were so smart and capable and now humanity uses fucking ai to write them a grocery list
December 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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mahoukarp.com
For further context twitter added a button that allows users to generate ai images using existing art posts from artists. It removes glaze and it basically reskins the artwork by using the existing work as a base. Twitter is no longer a safe space for art
example of the new garbage twitter is doing by harishimasan
December 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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vabonezy.bsky.social
Coming together
A screenshot from the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition from the Wellspring Level of the Descent DLC. It features a mountain on which a platform has been constructed of stone. There are two rings of pillars around a central feature where a blue, glowing heart is cradled in the pillars. Veins of the same glowing blue reach above it as if sprouting from a stony aorta. A picture of a stone mountain constructed out of foam and painted in approximate realism. On top of it sits a plastic platform in miniature of the platform featured in the video game screen shot. The pillars, platform, paving stones, etc. are all unpainted as of yet. In the center sits a the lump prototype of the heart cast in clear uv resin. A picture of a stone mountain constructed out of foam and painted in approximate realism. On top of it sits a plastic platform in miniature of the platform featured in the video game screen shot. The pillars, platform, paving stones, etc. are all unpainted as of yet. In the center sits a the lump prototype of the heart cast in clear uv resin. A bright LED light in blue is mostly hidden by the platform--it lights everything in blue light with the central focus coming from the heart, as shown in the game's screen shot.
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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ratspit.bsky.social
all I want for Christmas is the assured downfall of generative AI
December 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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thesigularity.bsky.social
I’m seeing this in action. I’m seeing AI character designs from our clients get handed off to modelling. Blatant anatomy errors still there. They don’t even bother hiring someone to fix it before sending it off to a studio.
That was someone’s income. Ripped off by a machine that stole their work.
rj-palmer.com RJ Palmer @rj-palmer.com · Dec 17
The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.

This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
Swen Vincke @LarAtLarian Holy fuck guys we’re not "pushing hard" for or replacing concept artists with AI. We have a team of 72 artists of which 23 are concept artists and we are hiring more. The art they create is original and I’m very proud of what they do. I was asked explicitly about concept art and our use of Gen AI. I answered that we use it to explore things. I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art. The artists do that. And they are indeed world class artists. We use AI tools to explore references, just like we use google and art books. At the very early ideation stages we use it as a rough outline for composition which we replace with original concept art. There is no comparison. I talked about how we use ML here if you would like to know more: https://gamespot.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-dev-embraces-machine-learning-for-tasks-that-nobody-wants-to-do/1100-6531123/ We've hired creatives for their talent, not for their ability to do what a machine suggests, but they can experiment with these tools to make their lives easier.
December 17, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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solient.bsky.social
A team that isn't laid off immediately after release.
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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thedaswolves.bsky.social
Solavellan letter, animated with Solas voiceover is finished 🥰
I'm not crying you're crying💔 It was a pleasure doing this.

#Solas #solavellan #dragonage #veilguard #blender #animation
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
aquaswan.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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obsidianbone.bsky.social
TW: GORE/ DISMEMBERMENT

"What Have I Done?"

Solas attempts to open the veil using the damaged anchor; things go horribly wrong.

Ripped straight from one of the scenes of my unfinished/ unreleased fanfic.

Cropped version on the comments below.
Solas is seen lying on the ground, surrounded by broken eluvians. His right arm torn off just above the elbow. "The Rook" crouches behind him, using the cord of Solas' jaw bone necklace as a torniquet to stop the bleeding. Above them, fireballs fall from the sky. They both gaze up in terror at something unseen to the audience.
October 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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larkoneironaut.bsky.social
Dragon Age loving artists + writers are welcome to participate! (NO A/I!!!)
Arlathvhen is a meeting of the Dalish clans that occurs every ten years. Literally means “for love of the people“.
And for love of my creative DA moots, here’s the Arlathvhen Art Challenge!
#ArlathvhenArt 💜
Arlathvhen Art Challenge (by @LarkOneironaut) #ArlathvhenArt A relaxing experimental art challenge for everyone who‘s stressed out thinking about participating in those one-drawing-a-day challenges (the “-tober‘s for example). Don’t get burned out, play around with my prompts instead if you feel like it! You can use the provided color palette/adjectives/nation, or not, it’s up to you! Also, no deadlines, not even dates for orientation, you can always try this challenge, absolutely no pressure! This challenge is meant to inspire, maybe when you’re experiencing art block/writer‘s block, it isn’t meant to create content as fast as possible. 1. Atish‘an (Peace) - blood red/golden ochre/chestnut brown/bronze/ginger yellow - affectionate/adamant/arcadian - Arlathan Forest 2. Bellanaris (eternity) - athracite/teal/off-white/light gray/petrol blue - cerulean/lachrymose/luminous - Ferelden 3. Enasalin (victory) - light pink/pastel pink/light gray/pastel mint/ caldwell green - serpentine/ebullient/sanguine - Tevinter 4. Fen (wolf) - cinnamon brown/umbra/pastel green/sage green/evergeen - distinguished/sincere/ardent - Free Marches 5. Melana (time) - pistachio ice cream/pastel yellow/salmon/brownish red/espresso - nebulous/monotonous/palpable - Nevarra 6. Nehn (joy) - teal/dark teal/oxford blue/eggplant/Veilguard purple - indulgent/whimsical/brazen - Antiva 7. Somniari (dreamer) - dark mauve/mauve/pastel pink/off-white/mint blue - reflective/fastidious/alluring - Orlais 8. Sulevin (purpose) - olive green/sunflower yellow/peach/russet - intriguing/clairvoyant/naive - Anderfels 9. Elgara Vallas (“sun bleeds“ = sunset) - blood red/crimson/fire red/carrot/honey - reminiscent/candescent/fortuitous - Rivain 10. Arlathan - indigo/sweet lavender/Deep lavender/soft lavender/off-white - cryptic/illusive/euphoric - Elvhenan
October 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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chanafehs.bsky.social
The Divine herself, Lady Vivienne
{ #art #dragonage }
Study of Frédéric Soulacroix’s ‘Vanity’ as Vivienne from dragon age inquisition. She is sitting in a pastel blue satin dress posed with a glass of wine and a staff in the shape of a swan. She has warm rich brown skin and a shaved head. She is wearing a golden circlet and a matching gold necklace in the shape of the circle of magi.
September 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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ghildirthalen.bsky.social
Lrt- EA being bought out

Ok…..so I get Im related to a bunch of conspiracy theorists and dooms day preppers….. but uh download Dragon Age on your devices and turn off automatic updates because we live in Times™️ and I trust no one.
September 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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muirnara.bsky.social
What pisses me off A LOT about this possible EA Buyout is that if it IS going thru for 50 Billion, then Andrew Wilson is gonna walk out with a HUGE final pay check.

Meanwhile all the devs they destroyed and laid off?

The studios they bled out?

Zero.
September 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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vaguebiscuit.bsky.social
Well don't I feel stupid
A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star
September 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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autumnwitch.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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huxofmyheart.bsky.social
🍂 V E I L G U A R D 🍂

#VirtualPhotography #DATV #DragonAge #ArlathanForest #TheCrossroads #LandscapeVP
September 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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delaneyking.bsky.social
This. There are no ethical billionaires.
uffdada.bsky.social Uffdafuckingda @uffdada.bsky.social · Sep 23
If I had $1 billion I wouldn’t have $1 billion because I’d be making sure people were fully clothed, fed and housed.
September 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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haverdoodles.bsky.social
THANK YOU @westlywheatly.bsky.social FOR MY LIFE 😭🥺🧡 look at how cute he is!!! my little old man!!!!
September 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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ghildirthalen.bsky.social
im cranking out a solas “death to all tyrants” dragon age edit this weekend. Its self care.
September 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
aquaswan.bsky.social
boooooo! 👎
eurogamer.bsky.social Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · Sep 17
Mass Effect TV series casting calls leak, sparking speculation Male Shepard is canon

www.eurogamer.net/mass-effect-...
Close up of MaleShep, male soldier protagonist in sci-fi RPG Mass Effect
September 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM