#rooklas

[deliriousreverie]

"Wolfkiller"

I swear this counts as solrook, my take on this ship and my canon is just...very hostile, they'll never get to be a couple but it's still very much homoerotic. Also this piece is red riding hood and big bad wolf inspired btw🙈

And uh someone please comeup with a proper ship tag or I'm just gonna keep using solrook

[durgeapologist]

Let's Talk About Ir Abelas, Da'ean

As some of you may know, I am vehemently against the dishonest use of AI in fandom and creative spaces. It has been brought to my attention by many, many people (and something I myself have thought on many times) that there is a DreadRook fic that is super popular and confirmed to be written at least partially with AI. I have the texts to prove it was written (at least) with the help of the Grammarly Rewrite generative feature.

Before I go any further, let it be known I was friends with this author; their use of rewrite features is something they told me and have told many other people who they have shared their fic with. It is not however, at the time of posting this, tagged or mentioned on their fic on AO3, in any capacity. I did in fact reach out to the author before making this post. They made absolutely no attempt to agree to state the use of Rewrite AI on their fic, nor be honest or upfront (in my opinion) about the possibility of their fic being complete generative AI. They denied the use of generative AI as a whole, though they did confirm (once again) use of the rewrite feature on Grammarly.

That all said: I do not feel comfortable letting this lie; since I have been asked by many people to make this, this post is simply for awareness.

You can form your own opinion, if you wish to. In fact, I encourage you to do such.

Aside from the, once again, high volume word output of around 352K words in less than 3 months (author says they had 10 chapters pre-written over "about a month" before they began posting; they are also on record saying they can write 5K-10K daily) from November until now, I have also said if you are familiar with AI services or peruse AI sites like ChatGPT, C.AI, J.AI, or any others similar to these, AI writing is very easy to pick out.

After some intense digging, research, and what I believe to be full confirmation via AI detection software used by professional publishers, there is a large and staggering possibility that the fic is almost entirely AI generated, bar some excerpts and paragraphs, here and there. I will post links below of the highly-resourced detection software that a few paragraphs and an entire chapter from this fic were plugged into; you are more than welcome to do with this information what you please.

I implore you to use critical thinking skills, and understand that when this many pieces in a work come back with such a high percentage of AI detected, that there is something going on. (There was a plethora of other AI detection softwares used that also corroborate these findings; I only find it useful to attach the most reputable source.)

Excerpts:

82% Likely Written by AI, 4% Plagiarism Match

98% Likely Written by AI, 2% Plagiarism Match

100% Likely Written by AI, 4% Plagiarism Match

Some excerpts do in fact come back as 100% likely written by human; however, this does not mean that the author was not using the Grammarly Paraphrase/Rewrite feature for these excerpts.

The Grammarly Paraphrase/Rewrite feature does not typically clock as AI generative text, and alongside the example below, many excerpts from other fics were take and put through this feature, and then fed back into the AI detection software. Every single one came back looking like this, within 2% of results:

So, in my opinion, and many others, this goes beyond the use of the simple paraphrase/rewrite feature on Grammarly.

Entire Chapter (Most Recent):

67% Likely Written by AI

As well, just for some variety, another detection software that also clocked plagiarism in the text:

15% Plagiarism Match

To make it clear that I am not simply 'jealous' of this author or 'angry' at their work for simply being a popular work in the fandom, here are some excerpts from other fanfics in this fandom and in other fandoms that were ran through the same exact same detection software, all coming back as 100% human written. (If you would like to run my fic through this software or any others, you are more than welcome to. I do not want to run the risk of OP post manipulation, so I did not include my own.)

The Wolf's Mantle

100% Likely Human Written, 2% Plagiarism Match

A Memory Called Desire

99% Likely Human Written

Brand Loyalty

100% Likely Human Written

Heart of The Sun

98% Likely Human Written

Whether you choose to use AI in your own fandom works is entirely at your own discretion. However, it is important to be transparent about such usage.

AI has many negative impacts for creatives across many mediums, including writers, artists, and voice actors.

If you use AI, it should be tagged as such, so that people who do not want to engage in AI works can avoid engaging with it if they wish to.

ALL LINKS AND PICTURES COURTESY OF: @spiritroses

[atimefordragons]

I think they should've kissed. Listen, I love Solavellan, I do, but my canon inquisitor is Trevelyan, and these two match freaks. Bitch to bitch communication, I love that insane shit.

[boomturkey]

Congratulations Dreadrook shippers. Made it to 100 hundred fics in under two months with nothing but a dream and a recognition of some vibes ™️

Proud of us

[5arcasmw]

i know this has been talked about before but I CANNOT stop thinking about solas saying "please, rook, I do not wish to fight you"

like???

this is a man who has constantly betrayed, injured, and even killed his closest friends and confidants over and over and over again for thousands of years. he killed (or tranquilized) his oldest friend and former general just because he said "hey maybe people deserve rights" and he practically killed one of the last remaining embers of the woman he used to love. the woman he used to be conpletely beholden to. the woman he literally BURNED OFF OF HIS FACE so he could have enough power to tear down the veil.

and yet

he still refuses to hurt rook, and only lays a hand on them out of pure desperation during the sacrifice/worst ending when he literally has no other choice.

AND EVEN IN THAT ENDING he could have just turned them to stone and plucked the dagger out of their hand like he did to their companions but he DIDNT

he wanted to see the old world restored with them. if rook wasn't there to see it too, then what was the point?

even if your rook has a primarily negative/hostile relationship with him HE STILL DOESN'T KILL THEM!! HE STILL WANTS THEM TO LIVE!!!

if it really came down to it, though, solas probably would have killed them in order to tear down the veil and "fix" his mistake, but i KNOW that rook's death would have been one of, if not his biggest regret.

idk... i just think it's really interesting how solas becomes so obsessed with rook in his own way, more than almost anyone else we've seen him interact with. he could have killed them at any time, turned them to stone as soon as elgar'nan was defeated, but he didn't. he wanted them to see the old world restored with him so badly that it inevitably lead to his downfall.

[humpi]

«We're forever»

[sautewonder]

ive made something quite alarming

[broodwoof]

there is So Much that compels me about solrook, but i think one of my favorite aspects is that rook sees the worst parts of solas

his regrets, of course, but also him. the way he behaves, the way he betrays them, and betrays them, and betrays them again-

like ofc the inky sees this too. but what they see of solas is so much gentler, barring the route where he hates them. and they know him for so much longer than rook does, see so many different sides to him, have him by their side in battle, rely on his wisdom

he betrays them, too. he's lied to them the whole time. he's manipulated them and the world. but i think it's somewhat easier for the inky to find something in him that is worth pursuing, to try and stop him without trying to destroy him

but rook? he shows his worst face to rook. he is cruel, dismissive, condescending. he's brutal. and at the same time, they're seeing under the armor, they're seeing the deepest regrets of a man who is fundamentally shaped by his regrets

i just think a rook who chooses him after all that - in whatever way - is so compelling

now, of course he's not just shitty to/around rook. they see moments of vulnerability, and he does work to help them. a rook who chooses certain dialogue options implies that they wanted to trust him and be trusted by him, that they valued the time they worked together, that they wanted to earn his respect

and as much as an inky pursuing him romantically after Everything would shock him, i think a rook pursuing him romantically would shock him even more. he wouldn't trust it. couldn't trust it. until he does, and he realizes that someone who saw the worst of him still chose him, not out of ignorance, not out of naivete, but because they saw something worthwhile in him despite everything

and that is profound

[opheliac]

hear my call

[vulprits]

my comfort enemies to friends to lovers to enemies to lovers to

[deliriousreverie]

The girls just can't stop fighting, I fear.

Also if anyone's wondering, yes I already know the ending and what kind of atrocities Solas did, still on my hateship/"I hate him with my entire being but can't help but feel like he's the only one that understands me" propaganda tho

[durgeapologist]

"You must know: I love you, Rook. Ar lath ma, ma'sule. Ar las'a."

Elven Translation: "I love you, my soul. I give you myself."

The translation is rough/partial because much of the available lexicon from the wiki doesn't have all the smaller, prefix/suffix Elven words' translations available, and I do not agree with use of the other popular reference material (iykyk)! My barbies, my say so!

This will not be the last DreadRook Cameo I commission, so best believe there will be more coming your way in the next few weeks!

Also: GDL is a DreadRook shipper confirmed! (Yes, he did say this unprompted and yes, my cameo was longer than these two small clips. But that is for me and the DreadRook server to freak out about :>)

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[atimefordragons]

she really said that, trust.

[darkurgetrash]

I couldn't utter my love when it counted. Ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now.

[frizzlelamb]

i'm gonna admit something about my early dreadrooking times.

when i first got to the solas memories i completely misunderstood what was happening and thought that it was rook reliving their past life.. and so when the reveal came that they were "playing" the spirit of disruption that died fighting for the revolution i thought: "omg, so rook is a reincarnation of one of solas's spirit soldiers!? and in this life they're kinda fighting for him against the gods again!!?"

of course things were cleared up eventually. but i'm admittedly a bit slow... but it does make a good AU headcanon i think!

here are some of my own dreadrook screenshots with said headcanon in mind, grabbed from my bsky since i posted these there first. much to think about!!

[humpi]

Wolf always took care of Ivy, even if they didn't get along well at first. In the beginning, Ivy didn't have a scar on her neck. But in the end I added it. I imagined how Ivy got it...((