#rebel rambles

[sereinreality]

The Petrova Line

[rebeltigera]

Any tips on how you color your work?

Errr you either new around here or you didn't see my chaotic rambles that very few can understand about art

Well

Maybe it's not a color tip

But if you are drawing on a pc on a screen tablet , make sure its screen settings are right . Sometimes those are too bright n too high in contrast to see what one's drawing

Another technical tip

If you do not own two monitors to check how your art looks on different settings , send it somewhere like for example discord to check if it looks right

An actual color tip I would give

Play with color a lot . Have a little fun . Like- whatever I would say about colors themselves, you can find those tips at basic Pinterest board. There's nothing innovative here.

If you find it difficult to find colors right away , play with grayscale . Sometimes it's hard for me to get myself to color stuff, I use sharp light n sharp shadows to get myself motivated to color it

Maybe give it an eventual glow

How can you color it later? Either do a new layer n paint over it or just make a new layer and set it on overlay

I recommend using lasso n bucket tool to fill inside of areas that you want to draw , make a new layer and clip it to that layer

That way u won't be getting out of edges.

Also

The way I am used to sort my layers is (read from bottom up)

>layers of colors (there's like 50 of them here)

>lineart (usually dark red set on multiple)

->maybe layers of colors ( like the details aka rings, face mask, something more detailed that I'm scared to mess up) (clipped)

-> base color (colors of the character) (clipped to gray)

>fundamental color (gray)

Also , don't be scared to give it a little sparkle

(soft brush in the color of the sharp light on other (normal) layer other than glow dodge /color dodge)

[lyriumrebel]

Solas who is told by Mythal she chose him for his wisdom and his counsel. Who tried to tell her what he saw coming and what should be done but she didn't listen. She asked for his wisdom and refused to heed him

Who found a modern elf that asked him questions, looked up to him for his knowledge and his counsel and sought him out for aid because she wanted his opinion.

Solas who felt so alone after seeing his people die out and fall to murder and slavery and oppression. Who struggled with his sense of what was right in a world that spat on the elves and no-one standing against it. Who followed his beliefs and in doing so took so much blame. Who saw those he believed in most become twisted by corruption.

Who found Lavellan who was thrust into the mantle of Inquisitor. Despite her fear and doubts she took the position and railed against the system. She fought for the elves, for the mages, and despite the judgemental eyes on her, she fought with gritted teeth for this world.

Solas who was so faithful he left the Fade and took corporeal form against his wishes because Mythal asked. Who has seen his name and his memory be taken against his best will as a curse and an omen of lies and deceit. Who has no control over how people see him and long ago gave up his agency of what he wanted to do in favour of what he thought she wanted him to do.

Who found Lavellan that stood back and let him lead their dance. Who never pushed him for contact or sex or kisses (except the first one because she needed some way to tell him she was very into him) because she sensed he needed his space. She wanted him to come to her in his own time.

Solas who struggled to see anything worth fighting for any more.

Lavellan who shone like the brightest spirit he thought he had forgotten

[hawke-from-kirkwall]

Solas. The Dread Wolf. He is an incredibly fascinating character to me. He has many names. His history is tangled and twisting with love, loyalty, pain, wisdom, betrayal, pride, power, fear, failure, regret- each part telling the story of a truly complex and nuanced person. In this Essay I will...

Something I find absolutely fascinating about Solas over the course of DAI and now DATV is that I feel you can see him struggle with the fact that at every turn his desperate belief that those around him are on some level not real people (a belief he holds on to with white knuckle fists because he knows he cannot complete his goal if he allows himself to see them as real) is challenged. Varric, Cole, Sera, Bull, Lavellan, or even an Inquisitor that's not Elvhen, Felessan, even to some extent Mythal, they directly challenge his view of them. He has to silence them or he won't be strong enough to continue his mission- he'd fail again. So he kills his closest friend, can't even look him in the eye when he does it, he breaks up with Lavellan (or distances himself from a friendly Inquisitor), and abandons the Inquisition without a word, even cuts himself off from Cole because Cole knew who he was and could reveal too much.

Solas cuts himself off from anyone and everything that could tear down his idea that they could be REAL, that they could deserve the same chance he and the other ancient elves had to live, or he knows he will abandon his work. He'd once again fail. And Solas fears he couldn't survive that.

So he forces himself to be detached, cold, calculating, deceptive, and strategic. He once again bears the mantle of Dread Wolf, once again the cost is never too high if it means the People are restored.

Solas fascinates me in his obstinate determination to not accept what he sees, and I believe he knows deep down, is true - his original plan succeeded, but the cost was great and that there is truly no way to reverse it. The world of Thedas, as it is now, completely changed from anything he ever wanted, is the result. But change is a part of life. It cannot be stopped. Fighting change or seeking to reverse change only serves to change things further and never in the way you had planned. Ultimately, Solas's plan was doomed from the start- he could succeed in pulling down the veil, he could "minimize the damage", but the world that would result from it would still not be the world he wants. It would still be subject to the thousand years of change it had gone through and would change further still at the abrupt return of magic and spirits to the world. He cannot predict the outcome and consequences that would be the aftermath of his success. And he doesn't want to! He cannot reconcile his failure so he pushes forward to erase what cannot be erased. It's futile. And I don't believe he is fully blind to it. I am certain he knows, even if he refuses to sit with it long enough to admit it.

Solas is a broken man who's so focused on his one failure that the cost of "repair" doesn't matter. HE has to fix it. HE has to sacrifice. HE has to go it alone. Else he might be persuaded to change his mind, to do the selfish thing and move on, when the ancient elvhen no longer have that chance.

So he holds tight to his bitter resolve only to be challenged again at every turn by Rook and their team, old allies and friends, those he had betrayed. Again.

His story is one of pain, loss, regret, failure, twisted purpose and the incredible power of a small seed of hope.

If you choose this end, Solas finally removes his blinders to see the light of hope in front of him. With or without Lavellan taking the journey with him, Solas finally sees what he'd been so forcefully shoving out of his view - it just takes one choice. One right decision to start a journey towards redemption. He cannot be absolved of guilt for his actions. He cannot change the past. But perhaps with time he can redeem his future.

[Me, typing this up at 10am on a Tuesday... like a normal person. Lol]

[523rdrebel]

I'm not gonna pretend I'm a poet, but I needed an outlet for my frustration at the consistent pervasive invasion of AI. The catalyst for this is that my work Gmail has email summaries and can write emails for you, and it pops up every time I'm writing an email.

So here's this.

Down with AI, A Lament

I don't want AI Summaries

A text message to read

An email to send

To a friend or a colleague

"Artificial Intelligence"

Now they're thinking for us

Destroying our minds

Because thinking is critical

"AI is the Future!"

Our media screams

"Education is trivial!

So fix your eyes to your screens."

You've one in your pocket

And one on your lap

Screens on the highway

"Come download our App!"

This AI helps you

To write your school work

This one creates

But it's art that is stolen

And this one decided that our lives are beholden

To those that would numb

Every mind just to soften the blow

Because AI is broken

A dark soulless void

Which seeks to devour each one of us whole

Creativity dies with cheers and applause

The Future is AI

The Future is empty

The Future is fake

The Future is HUMAN

[rebelwrites]

SUNDAY = WEDDING DRESS SHOPPING

On one hand I’m super excited AND IM TRYING ON WEDDING DRESSES

But I’m starting to get extremely nervous, I’ve always had a love hate relationship with my body and I’m worried I’m not going to find anything that makes me feel beautiful and confident 😭🥺

[rebelemilu]

who was going to tell me that the motorcycle flip in Captain America: Civil War was all sebastian? who was going to tell me? hmm

WHO WAS GOING TO TELL ME THAT THIS HAD NO CGI TO IT!?

[rebel-dreams-of-absolution]

*Dusts this blog off slightly* I have some thoughts

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