Dread Wolf Cult

trick weekes, on a public panel and then again on discord: erm actually ☝️we DID did have slavery depicted in veilguard. if you blathering simpletons wouldve just looked at the 10 seconds of the venatori using the narratively inconsequential elven npcs as furniture, during a quest that rushes you through the experience as fast as possible so you can hear two characters arguing that we actually wrote the quest to show, ermmmm, you would know. and anyway, we didnt even NEED to do that, because erm, OBVIOUSLY☝️every character in the game taking place in slavery city knows that slavery bad, so ermm, methinks theres no need to hammer it in when it takes screentime away from me and my friend's ocs going shopping. and also if youre going to write about dismantling the status quo, erm, methinks you should instead be thinking about the regular people that are free to go outside and complain about the price of buying bread, which is why i wrote it like that, i wanted to write about my - i mean regular peoples experiences, who are struggling too yknow, when they slip and fall on a pile of slave corpses rotting in the sun on their way home

My boy. I'm here.

"I do like a challenge," [Gaider] says. "So if, out of some weird alignment of the stars, somebody handed the Dragon Age franchise back to me and said, ‘Breathe the life back into this baby’, that'd be a tough one, but I think that'd be an interesting thing to do. To go back to the basics of what made Dragon Age appeal to so many people in the first place. And go somewhere dark and dangerous, and do things that will make people upset. I think that’s what I would want to do with it."

submitted by @weissruby; courtesy this post

Online, you can find quite a lot databases for photography in the public domain that you could use (always check their specific rules regarding commercial use), like Pixabay, Unsplash, or Pexels.

But, even a tad more charming, there are also hundreds of thousands of paintings in the public domain. If the artist has been dead for over 70 years, the image is (typically) in the public domain and can be used however you want it. This is not a new concept, big publishers like Penguin and the Oxford’s World Classics do the same!

When you use such images, always make sure that 1. the painting really is in the public domain (sometimes the art itself may be in the public domain, but not the photograph you are using!), and 2. that it is an appropriate image. Sometimes, an image may look innocent and fitting, but would actually cause irritation, like accidentally using a painting of siblings for a romance or using a controversial image for different reasons.

Some places you can find art in the public domain (always double check!): National Gallery of Art, Artvee, Public Domain Image Archive, and most websites of bigger museums.

I don't know Caitie, so I hope I'm reading this with more condescension than perhaps was intended, but this strikes me as an incredibly bad faith take. Nowhere in this thread or the one quoted do I see evidence that the person being spoken of made any claim that their fan project wasn't fanfic. Fix-its and rewrites are a perfectly common genre, and we can understand that's what this person is doing even if they haven't used the precise term.

More importantly, the level of toxic positivity I've seen in the DA fandom in the past 18 months is truly wild. A divisive installment of a beloved series doesn't necessarily kill its community. But treating people's enjoyment of that installment as some kind of purity test - either of their status as true fans, or of their moral character - absolutely will.

Part of fandom has always been accepting that people in your community will not enjoy the same things you do. Your favorite character, scene, game is going to be someone else's least favorite. And maybe they will rewrite it, or ignore it, or create something you don't like. That shouldn't have any bearing on your own enjoyment. And you also don't need to take to social media to put them on blast for it.