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Pandoras Box Ch20

Post Rannoch and present.

Mid-programming a course for the relay, a series of abrupt and increasingly loud bangs grabbed Joker’s attention. Startled, he turned his chair towards the airlock, intending to make a snide comment about the cyborg’s lack of caution with his ship.

But the light on the airlock door flipped from green to red; laser barriers swiftly materialised into a grid pattern, and alarms for hull breach blared simultaneously across the cockpit and engineering.

He screamed for EDI.

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When people know you write…

So my brother knows I write, and what I write. He’s also a big ME fan (has been from the start) and is the reason I got into it in December 2022.

He told a friend of his about my Garrus stuff and the response was “your sister is doing Gods work” which obviously I could not accept that compliment as there is work out there so much better than mine.

My first recommendation was @zet-sway and in particular the Fuck Around And Find Out series, quickly followed by @angstyastro for the most delicious companion art work.

Just want to scream (in the best way) at both of you for the bisexual representation.

Anyhoo. Add your favourites below so I can send more over to her? Got to love indoctrinating newbies to smut.

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I love me a ripped FemShep 🤌🏻

She has a good point

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Maybe if he was a little less fuckable we wouldn’t be in this mess

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Eris

so much love for characters who are desperately unsure whether they’re a good person, a redeemable person, a person worth saving, but are absolutely certain that they’re a grade a hottie

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Thank you @nekoliule and everyone who got me to 50 reblogs!

Trying to make my blorbos kiss and make up but they are being dicks. Thane gonna tie you both the fuck up at this rate.

Wait.

What.

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I have Buffys scythe so I fancy my chances

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Pandoras Box

A snippet from the next chapter, exploring why Eris made a certain decision despite having the ability to broker peace.

“Am I not doing my job?”

She hurled the question into her silent, empty cabin; with choices and alternatives becoming ever scarcer each time she stepped off the ship, she felt drained, right down to her rotting roots.

Does this unit have a soul?

Even after they almost spaced her whilst Kaidan and Thane watched helplessly, she continued her attempts to negotiate peace and still they clung to a petty squabble from centuries past, refusing to give an inch.

They’d already taken a mile of mercy from her.

A word the Reapers had no concept of, and with the Quarians playing the same role as the Reapers, seeking to commit genocide, doing the very thing she fought to stop, they forced her to become them.

If she failed, everyone would die.

Everything Eris thought she knew about herself vanished in a cluster of seconds during which ignored Tali’s pleas for one last attempt and gave the nod to the Geth, allowing them to retaliate. slaughter the Quarians, crushing anyone in her way under the heel of her boot

She stood alone, gulping for air, asking the question

“Am I not doing my job?”

of nobody, again and again, shedding her layers of armour off in a frenzy, dropping pieces all over her floor.

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"i would kill for you" "i would die for you" okay but would you forgive me if i forgot something important for the 51204th time in a row even though i tried my best to remember

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SpecRecs TREAT

The glorious CrimsonShield75 wrote a Thane/RenFemShep/Kaidan three way and I am

Deceased

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Trying to make my blorbos kiss and make up but they are being dicks. Thane gonna tie you both the fuck up at this rate.

Wait.

What.

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Anonymous asked fuckyourwritinghabits:

i’m having a little trouble writing non-awkward or repetitive scenes with a character moving from one place to another, or even just around a room? i keep writing bland lines like ‘she walked down the hall and turned left’ or something. specifically i’m writing about a character exploring a place they’re new to while they’re looking for something.

Oh man, it took me awhile to deal with this too, and I still have to shake myself out of the habit. There are a few things you can look out for the next time you work on this kind of scene:

Skip details. “She could see the music box was on the dresser, by the window. She picked it up and opened it, but it made no sound.” The reader can tell that she walked across the room to reach the music box; you don’t have to fill in that blank. Alternatively, you can shorten ‘She walked down the hall and turned left’ to ‘she turned left at the end of the hall…’ You’ve covered the space without having to write it out.

Avoid ‘Then.’ ‘She picked up the music box, then she opened it, then she heard it made no sound, etc.’ My example is exaggerated, but 'then’ often becomes filler that hobbles our writing. We don’t perceive action in a series of 'thens.’ We see things far more fluidly, and you should try for that in your writing too.

Chop it up. 'The glass falls, breaks. The shards tinkle as they scatter, like music gone wrong.’ Cut out words, push things together. Try to get that flow. Try it out for yourself; drop a book, pick something up. What are you thinking when you’re doing it? If you were to narrate such a quick action, what would register as the most important info?

This is hard to get down right away, believe me, I know! But if you practice it, you’ll find your flow and stick to it. Good luck!

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Pandoras Box Ch19

His love reminded him that their paths would never have crossed if Eris hadn’t fallen for a human and then a Drell. Kaidan’s quiet, sharp, irritated intake of breath was followed by his neck and cheeks flushing as he huffed. “She stole mine, then yours and gave nothing in return.”

Lips and hot breath brushed against his ear as Thane briefly bent down to tut, then returned to making his tea whilst attempting to soothe. “Do you not remember how intensely she studied us all night after I relented and came for dinner on the Normandy? Or the glorious contented sounds she made curled up between us that morning, her fingers clutching each of us tighter with every slight shift we made?”

The blush deepened; the night he learned he didn’t know shit about fuck when it came to making his wife beg wasn’t something he would ever forget. Kaidan rubbed his chest, but the suffocating dark feeling was not easing, let alone leaving. “Do you have any theories at all?”

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Spectre Requisitions 2024

My first year taking part in this! The most delicious stories and artwork are available here for all the Rarepair lovers.

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Untestable Hypotheses

Or Eris Shepard, Butcher of Torfan, being dragged back into the fray.

The devastation happening on Eden Prime was far beyond any words — no trace of any Alliance soldiers or civilians. Jenkins died within minutes of their arrival. Anderson became increasingly unsympathetic to her with each second ticked by and again ordered her to get down there.

"You've had more than your pound of flesh from me," muttered Eris, staring at the floor and pacing the CIC.

He rolled his eyes. "It's Geth, Shepard. GETH! Beyond the veil! There's no blood to be spilt, just lives to be saved by shooting at machines!"

She shot back. "You know that for a fact, huh? That every Geth they shoot isn't a living creature that they're murdering?"

Now was not the time for a philosophical discussion. "They're shooting at our people!"

"Your people," she corrected, reminding him she was retired. She continued to pace, refusing to glance at the monitors. The situation deteriorated further when Alenko confirmed that only one soldier, Williams, remained from the team assigned to protect the colony.

Anderson turned to her again, bewildered at how someone with her skills could be so apathetic. "There are civilians down there!"

"Not anymore," she corrected again, pointing out that, as always, the Alliance was too fucking late to do anything.

Still, she shook her head.

He asked. "What the hell are you so afraid of?"

Not a damn thing, other than myself, she thought, but then -

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SAME THOUGH. As a newcomer (a little over a year) its welcoming AF too.

I don't say this enough, but the passion and creativity of the Mass Effect community, a fandom seventeen years old and with no new canon since 2017, astounds me on an almost daily basis. I love you guys. <3

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god I just. love ruthlessness as a character trait so much. sexy sexy sexy