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[jawsisinmywc]

Here's another one for you guys: 

 

Dangit I just got home and wanted to post that. You beat me to it! And yeah yeah, I used effect wrong. I'm just gonna go ahead and blame it on the fact that I have lived in a non-English speaking country for too long. 

[Izzyl]

Dangit I just got home and wanted to post that. You beat me to it! And yeah yeah, I used effect wrong. I'm just gonna go ahead and blame it on the fact that I have lived in a non-English speaking country for too long. 

 

Oh shoot! It was you!!! So sorry!!! 

[jawsisinmywc]

Oh shoot! It was you!!! So sorry!!! 

Haha, no problem! It probably would have take me a while to figure out how to get a Tweet into a post here anyway. I am kind of social media incompetent.

[Maria13]

Okay.

So.

Mascara: Blackish eye-liner(?) that has the possibility of running. Which is bad. Except in some dramatic love-confessions in the middle of a thunderstorm in movies. I think.

Rouge: Apparently quite popular in MMOs. It...goes on cheeks?

Blush: Also goes on cheeks. Adds more color.

Eyeshadow colors the area around the eye itself, which can emphasize color? Like darkening it so that someone's blue eyes really pop?

Um, lip gloss is fairly self-explanatory, and something of a disaster on my Rogue Inquisitor.

I think I'm much more familiar with vallaslin and woad painting than I am with make-up. 

Educamate me.

 

I will admit not to a make-up fetish, but certainly to a skin cream fetish... 

[drake2511]

Solas tweets! YAS!

More flycam *melts*

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Hello eggie, how ya doinnn

[Izzyl]

Haha, no problem! It probably would have take me a while to figure out how to get a Tweet into a post here anyway. I am kind of social media incompetent.

 

Oh I just did a screenshot and posted it like a normal image 

[NightSymphony]

Solas' lips  *dreamy sigh* 

[Sable Rhapsody]

*sigh*

 

Feels, why are you sneaking into my current attempt at Solavellan smut?  You were supposed to stay out of this one 

[NightSymphony]

Some morning art

 

http://liliumsnow.de...ellan-510125655

 

http://sashajoe.devi...Solas-510155768

[Avejajed]

archiving newspapers sucks.

your daily psa.

[Sister Squish]

My sleepy-waking offering \o/ 

#greek geekery

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Arlathan as Ancient Greece: Why Xenophanes shook his fist angrily at the Gods in the Sky

 

It is often said that the origins of natural science may be found in ancient Greek philosophy because of a certain lack of coherence, as well as a lack of authority, in ancient Greek religion. 

 

Religion in Greece placed greater emphasis on festivals and rituals than on any systematic theology or canonical sets of required beliefs. Greeks always regarded the stories that supplied the intellectual components of their religion with a certain degree of flexibility and without absolute conviction. The myths themselves provided only very murky accounts (however colourful) of the origins of the world and humankind, and so the Greeks could hardly look to these stories for convincing answers.Overall, Greece was a pretty poetic place. 

 

"Rainbows are coloured clouds, and nothing more" answered Xenophanes grouchily, against the idea that they were blessings from the Gods. Homer's The Illiad teaches that Zeus keeps two jars; one full of blessings for each mortal, and one full of curses. We are all subject to his whims. 

 

Xenophanes didn't like that. 

 

Homer and Hesiod have attributed to the gods all

The actions that are a shame and a disgrace among human beings. Theft, adultery, and deceiving one another!

 

Greek students were expected to learn Homer's The Illiad and Odyssey in particular by heart. They gave an account of the origin of the gods and the cosmos. In which: 

 

> Chaos births both Gaia (the Earth) and Ouranos (heaven)

> Ouranos births Cronos (known as one of the Titans)

> Cronos kills his father, Ouranos 

> Cronos births Zeus 

> Zeus overthrows his father, Cronos, imprisoning him

 

Alternative translations can give differing accounts. Though, see a pattern here? The purpose of Greek education was known to be firstly and foremostly, to revere the gods. Secondly, to respect their parents. From these two premises it was the hope that thirdly, it would produce a well-regulated community.

 

But the gods did not respect their parents! In fact, they were violent beyond measure! And the heroes of our stories aspired to be them! Murderous, rage-filled, proud, vain, lustful and corrupt. Even the famed desire for honour, Xenophanes wrote, was an immoral, socially corrupting behaviour. 

 

Xenophanes was careful in his wording, however. He criticised not the existence of the Gods themselves, but the manner in which Greeks worshipped them. 

 

If cattle and horses and lions had hands,

Or could draw with such hands and create works, as humans do, 

Horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle

And each would make the gods' bodies in the same form as they had themselves.

 

No man knows or will ever 

Know about the gods and the other things I speak of;

For even if one happened to speak the whole truth,

He himself would not know it. All things are wrought with appearance.

 

Xenophanes critiques the way in which human beings conceive of their gods as images of themselves (anthropomorphism). He doubts that the true nature of divinity, whatever it is, is something any mortal can know.

Is being filled with rage really a vice? Or perhaps it is a virtue to a god? 

 

"Xenophanes used to say that it is just as impious to claim that the gods were born as it is to claim that they die; for in both cases it follows that there was a time the gods did not exist." - from Aristotle's Rhetoric

 

Suggesting a time when a god did not exist raises the possibility of that time coming about again. Surely immortality and divinity go hand-in-hand? Xenophanes continued on to conceptualise an "ideal type of God" for a society to worship - one god, who was wholly perfect and unchanging (monotheism. completely hypothetical, of course). 

 

The more cynical among us might say that philosophers like Xenophanes could only exist in a society wealthy and powerful enough to support the type of people who sit around thinking all day. That a curious spirit is largely economically driven. But most often, the quest for knowledge has been religiously driven. For many, there is no more powerful motivation than understanding the wonder that is the cosmos. 

 

Greece was one of few places in the Ancient world where this kind of spark and change in thinking happened. Perhaps the same can be said for Arlathan.

 

(In writing this I have learned that the word Titan comes from the Greek "Titenes", meaning "straining ones") Time for tea. 

[Oswin]

Haha, no problem! It probably would have take me a while to figure out how to get a Tweet into a post here anyway. I am kind of social media incompetent.

 

I've yet to figure this out. I usually wait for someone else to post whatever I find 

 

 

Hey Solas Thread! My new laptop just got shipped and I AM SUPER EXCITED!

My current laptop is 6 years old. It sounds like a rocket, the keyboard is broken and I have to run a troubleshooter to get it to connect to the internet. Aha. Gaming wise it can just about manage Morrowind.

So yeah, this is going to be AWESOME. Would be great to get back into PC gaming again as well. I am mostly a console gamer because that's where my gaming preferences are. But I miss The Sims   I'm not sure what this laptop will be like for gaming (it is a gaming laptop but not a high spec one because I'm too poor for that) but if it can manage DAI...Hmmm. Maybe a year down the line when it's cheaper and a whole lotta mods have happened (hair mods! HAAAAIR MODS!) I may pick it up on PC as well.

 

My Hawke madness from last night hasn't subsided either, because I didn't sleep well.

 

I've decided I would have loved it if Hawke (or the warden) could have stayed on as a companion after Here Lies The Abyss. I know a lot of people here were mad about CPU Hawke not being 'their' Hawke, but I feel like if they could have stuck around then maybe some more of the familiar Hawke would have shone through (although for me, my aggressive nonsensical Elyan Hawke was perfect in his DAI appearance).

Basically I just want Jared Hawke and Tristan Lavellan to Sass it out together. Then Elyan Hawke and Niamh Lavellan to go round threatening to gouge people's eyes out with a spoon.

 

Team Sass and Team Psycho! My two canon world states.

 

I've also realised I don't do variation too well when looking at my two canon world state player/romance race options

 

World State 1 - DAO: Elf x Human (Elf Mage HoF x Alistair)

                      - DA2: Human x Elf (Hawke x Fenris)

                      - DAI: Elf x Human  (Lavellan x Dorian)

 

World State 2 - DAO: Elf x Elf (Dalish HoF x Zevran)

                       - DA2: Human x Elf (Hawke x Fenris)

                       - DAI: Elf x Elf (Lavellan x Solas)

 

If Hawke could have been an elf then you'd better believe World State 2 would be my ELVEN GLORY world state.

 

Basically, yeah... Apparently I really like Elves, and sometimes pairing them with pretty male humans. I'M SO PREDICTABLE D;

 

I'm off to go silently walk around the Western Approach some more. Woe. Then it's time for Here Lies The Abyss. The level that only Solas enjoys 

[Siha]

Waterline and tightline?

Wing would be a little bit curving to a point beyond the outside edge of the eye, yes?

Basically it means that you should get up an hour earlier from now on. But on the bight side you will also always have a free seat next to you on the bus, while suspiciously stylish guys in clubs will offer you fancy little pills for free to your drink.

Unlessss you combine it with a dark coat and wild hair, which would pretty much make you the sleepless night's dream of teenage girls all around the globe:

 

 

(Based on my newest assumption that you are male. Else disregard all of the above and only get up an hour earlier.)

[CapricornSun]

Another Solas art in glasses.

 

Source: http://palegoat.tumb...u-seen-this-tho

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And here's another NSFW artwork for all you lovelies. 

 

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Source: http://www.deviantar...r-her-510094973

[drake2511]

I'm so sorry, this will be the last flycam shot of my Lavellan for the day, promise!

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Excuse while I fangirl over my new version of my canon girl. Bless the cinematic tool.

[nikki-tikki]

Basically, yeah... Apparently I really like Elves, and sometimes pairing them with pretty male humans. I'M SO PREDICTABLE D;

 

 

And this is why elves are the best:

 

 

 

 

Because Elven romances are the best romances....even when they break your heart.      

[flabbadence]

DUDES.

 

I just found a song, entitled "Solace", that fits Solavellan so well like what is this magic

 

https://soundcloud.c...ramorgan/solace

 

Lyrics:

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We push and we pull
And one of these days it’s all going to break
Tug of war, no one wins
But the wounds are rubbed raw and the rope’s wearing thin

And soon it won’t matter if you blame me
And soon it won’t matter if you weren’t here
Cause solace is all I need

So we give this a chance, but we always end up in this horrible dance
So we fight for the years, but the loss overwhelmed by these frustrated tears 
And I walk away feeling so lonely
 

Though you are gone by my side
I can’t seem to reach you across this divide
And solace is nowhere in sight
Solace is nowhere in sight

And though for once could it be easy
And oh, could you try to appease me

Soon it won’t matter if you love me
Soon it won’t matter if you heed
Cause you give what you want to
And not what I need
And you say that you’re here 

But I fear you mislead
And I wonder how much more a spirit can bleed
When solace is all that I need 
Solace is all that I need

And oh, for once could it be easy
And oh, could you try to appease me
Could you try

Cause soon it won’t matter that I love you
Soon I’ll let go of the line
So reach me before it is too far behind
And show me it’s solace we’ll find

We push and we pull
And one of these days, it’s all going to break

[nikki-tikki]

DUDES.

 

I just found a song, entitled "Solace", that fits Solavellan so well like what is this magic

 

https://soundcloud.c...ramorgan/solace

 

Lyrics:

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We push and we pull
And one of these days it’s all going to break
Tug of war, no one wins
But the wounds are rubbed raw and the rope’s wearing thin

And soon it won’t matter if you blame me
And soon it won’t matter if you weren’t here
Cause solace is all I need

So we give this a chance, but we always end up in this horrible dance
So we fight for the years, but the loss overwhelmed by these frustrated tears 
And I walk away feeling so lonely
 

Though you are gone by my side
I can’t seem to reach you across this divide
And solace is nowhere in sight
Solace is nowhere in sight

And though for once could it be easy
And oh, could you try to appease me

Soon it won’t matter if you love me
Soon it won’t matter if you heed
Cause you give what you want to
And not what I need
And you say that you’re here 

But I fear you mislead
And I wonder how much more a spirit can bleed
When solace is all that I need 
Solace is all that I need

And oh, for once could it be easy
And oh, could you try to appease me
Could you try

Cause soon it won’t matter that I love you
Soon I’ll let go of the line
So reach me before it is too far behind
And show me it’s solace we’ll find

We push and we pull
And one of these days, it’s all going to break

 

So perfect.....

 

 -sobs-

[flabbadence]

So perfect.....

 

 -sobs-

 

I'm just pretending she's singing Solas instead of solace, hahaha.

[nikki-tikki]

I'm just pretending she's singing Solas instead of solace, hahaha.

 

[almasy87]

Omg this song! 

T_T it's kinda perfect in all aspects XD

[Avejajed]

Come back from lunch expecting fun happy thread and everyone's on the floor sobbing

[Avejajed]

But don't worry my friends, I have a chart coming to cheer everyone up.

[flabbadence]

Come back from lunch expecting fun happy thread and everyone's on the floor sobbing

 

Solas does tend to have that effect.

[jellobell]

DUDES.

 

I just found a song, entitled "Solace", that fits Solavellan so well like what is this magic

 

https://soundcloud.c...ramorgan/solace

Cyra Morgan is great. She also has a song called Time that is an amazing Solavellan song.

 

https://soundcloud.c...an/time/s-feU76

 

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I remember that day

remember the way you held me

oh so sweetly

 

And I remember that night

just as the light was waning

the music playing

playing in my mind

 

The most beautiful song I've ever heard

with a light in your eyes colouring your words

 

Holding time

Time

 

We walked the cobblestone streets

our steps in time so perfectly

the click on the pavement a symphony

 

The most beautiful sound that my ears have found

steady beat of your heart lying in my arms

That small swish of your breath before you kiss me soundly

 

Holding time

Time

 

It's all embedded in my heart

If you could keep it in your pocket

Take me with you

I wouldn't have to miss you so much

I miss you so much

 

The most beautiful song I've ever heard

with a light in your eyes colouring your words

When you whisper 'I love you' oh I must concur

 

Wanting time

Time

 

I remember that day

remember the way you loved me

 

It's perfect for Lavellan remembering what happened at the Halamshiral Ball.