Laerilin

Artist. Gamer. Wife. Person. she/her

[zieshabelle]

Late Night Lyrran

I scribbled out a quick little sketch of my favorite bunny boi, and while it has its flaws, I rather liked how it came out.

[mangakasanakajenw]

These picture generating prompters have no shame…..

[mistysblueboxstuff]

i wish all ai prompters a very go fuck yourselves

[epitome-of-an-openbook]

I feel like this is an unpopular opinion, but more people should read incomplete/unfinished/in-progress fanfics.

I've noticed this huge trend where creators on tiktok and tumblr who will be explaining how to use Archive Of Our Own to new users and they always say "and make sure to scroll down and click completed only" or how people will go out of their way to mention they only read completed fics 'because they were traumatized when they forgot to check the dates and didn't realize this fic hadn't been updated since 2012'.

The thing is - I think by not engaging with and/or actively avoiding writer's WIPs readers are potentially adding to the aggregate of abandoned works. Now this obviously isn't the case for all abandoned fics, anything from major life events, to loss of interest, to getting busy can be a reason for a fic getting abandoned - but at least on some level I just know that writers are quitting while they're ahead when they aren't garnering any response or feedback because reading WIPs has become unpopular. If you're worried about reading something that hasn't been updated since 2012 then you can use the date updated function to sort out old fics.

Anyways, support your favorite fanfic writers by engaging with their WIPs.

[mrsmungus]

Legit, getting a subscription on a fic I'd abandoned 10 years earlier spurred me into action to finish it (and write a sequel!)

[epitome-of-an-openbook]

#The journey of reading a fic while it's updating is part of the fun!

Yes exactly this! I love subscribing to fics forgetting about them a bit and then being pleasantly surprised when they update again and they show up in my inbox. It makes me feel like I'm a Charles Dickens fan living in 1830s London waiting patiently for his new chapter to be released via the daily paper.

[surreality51]

Fanfic writers be like: goddamnit, this idea is so fucking sad it’s making me cry just thinking about it. Let me write it down so I can inflict it on others.

[zieshabelle]

Accurate. I’m pretty sure I only write characters who are either in peak crisis or disgustingly in love. Or both. Mostly both.

[not-withoutyou]

battle couples has gotta be one of my favorite tropes though. The “you got me?” “Yeah, I got you.” The kiss for good luck. Fighting alongside each other for so long they know every strength and weakness. The dichotomy of being fucking terrifying to their enemies, but so soft with each other. When one is in danger and the other goes feral, protects them at any cost. When everything is over and done, it’s all “let me see where you’re hurt,” and washing off the dirt and blood.

[laerilin]

So many of my favorites are these...

[barbex]

Personal opinion time: The Fenris and Anders dynamic in DA2.

One common theme I've seen stated is that Anders is on a decline in his development, while Fenris' development is positive. Therefore they can't get along. Another post I saw recently stated that Anders is on a destructive path, while Fenris is not.

Since I'm still in my pretty little world where Anders and Fenris learn to get along, I'm adding my statement to this.

Anders and Fenris are on the same path but at different points.

They both start out with only caring for their personal freedom. Anders doesn't organize a mage revolt in the Circle, he runs. Fenris isn't fighting for other slaves, he runs.

Then Anders smuggles out individual mages from the Gallows in Kirkwall, shifting his focus from himself to mages in the Gallows. Fenris is still in his individual phase in Kirkwall, he doesn't even like to connect with other elves. But according to the comics, he spends his time after Kirkwall near the Tevinter border, attacking slavers and freeing slaves.

Anders, at some point, realized that his mage underground actions change nothing about the system. I think Fenris will get to that point too. No matter how many slavers he kills, it changes nothing about the system in Tevinter. He'll probably skips the step of trying to petition the powers that be for years with letters, like Anders did, because I can't see Fenris being patient enough for that. But he will realize that he has to do something bigger for actual change.

Change is always revolutionary. Oppressors don't give up their power without force. At some point, Fenris will have to decide if he wants real change for Tevinter. At some point, Fenris will have to cause his own explosion.

Viva la revolución!

[laerilin]

I really love this take!

[laerilin]

"Wrecking Ball" or "Fenris has a REALLY bad day"

Colored pencil sketch by me, illustration for a fic chapter.

(If you'd like to read the accompanying fic, it can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43121308 )

[ultravioletness]

I’ve been making gay knights (and ladies) collages on my phone at work

[prideknights]

Gorgeous!

[biracialalistair]

in case anyone needs to hear this after ffxiv took home 2 more awards and is currently the first thing you see when you open the Steam recap page for the game awards along with a big flashy “Buy Now” with a seemingly cheap $19.99 price tag…

DON’T DO IT.

steam will charge you out the wazoo and deny you the famous free trial (which really genuinely is that good), so DON’T let steam trick you out of unlimited play time up to level 60 and the award winning expac heavensward!!! instead go here:

https://freetrial.finalfantasyxiv.com/na/

and follow their instructions to get yourself set up with their own game client. i cannot stress enough, doing it this way gives you FREE play time until you finish heavensward which is hours upon hours of content.

[laerilin]

Bonus round: You can get even more extra free stuff if you use someone's "recruit a friend" code when you sign up too! (they also get points toward some fun vanity gear and things, so win/win!)

My code: AZSZ447Z

[laerilin]

"Control" or "Hawke is having a REALLY bad day"

Just practicing my watercolors with a little illustration for a recent DA2 fic chapter.... apparently everyone needed to see Hawke at her most broken today.

(If you want to read the story that this belongs to, it can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43121308 )

[sapphic-nature-witch]

Oh to dance together 🤍🖤

[scrollofgrease]

"Happy Fenris Friday!" I shout You pull me aside and quietly inform me that it's Sunday I hit upload regardless

[laerilin]

I've been back on the DA2 train pretty hard lately (can you say Dreadwolf hype?) and just remembered that I drew this Fenris portrait absolute ages ago, but I don't think I ever actually posted it.

So, anyway, here's a cute little Fenris sketch, and links to a couple of FenHawke fics I've been working on.

"The Cookening" (a wip series of shorts, highlighting the cooking skills -or lack thereof- of Hawke and her friends) https://archiveofourown.org/works/43116079

"Raised by Wolves" (a wip retelling of parts of the Hawke/Fenris romance, without diverging from canon, delving into some of the inner workings of what kept them apart for 3 years) https://archiveofourown.org/works/43121308

[azuremist]

Hey, do y’all remember how Tencent said they were developing faceID AI to identify people in riots, and then they suddenly created an AI art generator to turn your selfies into anime?

Do y’all remember that time that someone discovered facial recognition cameras couldn't see through Juggalo makeup, then Facebook had a fun “see what you'd look like with Juggalo makeup” thing, and then facial recognition cameras could suddenly see through Juggalo makeup?

Do y’all remember how, on Twitter, Elon started a tirade against artists who ask for credit when their art is reposted, and he suddenly he created one of the first big art AI programs?

Do y’all remember how AI destroyed the field of translation, despite the inferiority of the machine translations, because people didn’t care about the quality of the translations? They just wanted it done for free?

Do you know how companies will see a lot of money going into a New Tech Thing (like, say, AI art apps) and will jump to try and implement that New Tech Thing into their tech? For example, how it felt like every big company and celebrity had an NFT to sell?

Just wondering.

[kintheartist]

You whose heart would sing of anarchy

[girlcodedhamlet]

alright for the millionth time I'm seeing yet another author I admire talk about how they literally can barely afford to live & yet there are people openly admitting to pirating their books so, like

i guess it needs to be said again

pirating books is not the same as pirating your favourite Disney movie or whatever. book piracy kills author's incomes and can genuinely ruin someone's career

[daemonmatthias]

Textbooks and other research materials being paywalled by greedy fucking publishing houses who won't pay any of that money to the authors anyway? Pirate them.

Novel written by an author and published through a regular publishing house? BORROW FROM A LIBRARY or buy outright. Do not pirate. The sales/borrow numbers OUTRIGHT determines pay to the author, whether their next book gets greenlit or cancelled, etc.

[slashmarks]

Incidentally, this is a great example of why it is absolutely vital to defend human rights in all cases; the instant people work out which categories are publicly viewed as indefensible, they start figuring out how to fold other types of undesirables into those category.

Eg. Pornography criminalized? Great, information about birth control, sexual education, and writing by feminists and LGBTQ people are all pornography now.

Terrorism? Literally all activists are terrorists if you put a good enough spin on it! Easy.

And, of course, “sex offenders” includes teenagers who take nude selfies, sex workers of basically all kinds, LGB people in jurisdictions that criminalize gay sex, often trans people in ones that criminalize crossdressing…

[theaudientvoid]

“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”

[discodeerdiary]

I am unironically a scoundrels’ rights activist