#helila

[edgepunk]

🔥 bioware 🔥

I don't think this is a controversial opinion, but holy hell did the Mass Effect games not age well 💀 I honestly didn't enjoy MELE as much as I hoped I would given how much the political climate + my own views have changed over the years. Like I appreciate what they've done with the RPG and sci-fi genres but the military propaganda leaves a bad taste in my mouth. And I don't like Shepard as much as I used to, because almost everyone in the game is a Yes Man and kisses their ass and it gets annoying (please don't kill me) I like in other RPGs when characters don't kiss the ground I walk on, I like to be challenged by the characters and the narrative.

send me 🔥 + topic for a controversial opinion

#ask #helila

[saturdaynightsky]

YOU REALLY HAD TO ASK GARRUS

ARE U TRYIN TO KILL ME he is so hard to draw goddamn

#draw it coward 🔫 #helila #bethgibberish

[bragganhyl]

mossy moss 👀

Mossy moss - idk I'm thinking tax evation??? Maybe some light arson, idk

#replies and whatnot #i didn't have coffee in the morning idk how to communicate #helila #thaanks 😁

[sparatus]

2 and 99 for spotify!

hell yeah thank you!!

2. The Unkillable Soldier by Sabaton

99. Metal Is For Everyone by Freedom Call

send me a number 1-100 and i'll give you the corresponding song on my spotify wrapped

#press conference #helila

[ezrisdax-archive]

happy bday!! ✨🍰🎉🎆🍸

thank youuuu 💜💜💜💜

#replies in thirty minutes or they're free #helila #birthday blogging

[gaydelgard]

sunny d 👁👄👁

thank you that means a lot 🩵

#alexi talks #helila

[misseffect]

7 snippets, 7 mutuals

Thanks for the tag @otemporanerys!

Tagging a lot of people who have already been tagged: @diaphanouso @helila @dispatchwithlove @kalliesa @angry-jager @dwarrowdams @serendipitys-teapot

All of these are from my Mass Effect F1 AU: Flashpoints

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Singapore Shower

One moment Garrus is holding her by the arms, water rolling over his shoulders – there's a knotted look on his face; his mouth is moving but no sound is coming out, which is weird – and the next she's lying on her back on the shower room floor.

"Shepard? Hey – c'mon."

Garrus is kneeling beside her, pinching her arm gently, holding her legs in the air with his shoulder. She feels heavy, like her bones are full of syrup, and the thumping behind her eyes is keeping time with the fuzz crowding her vision.

"Shit."

"It's alright." He sounds further away than he should, and so does the water still beating down on his back. "You passed out for a second, that's all."

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Shepard Does An AMA

probinguranus6969 - Would you rather fight 20 duck-sized Jokers or 1 Joker-sized duck?

janeshepard54 - I know your reddit handle joker

probinguranus6969 - damn it

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FaceTime Antics

She fishes another biscuit out of the packet while Garrus props his phone up on the side and heaves his suitcase onto the bed. It’s a nice enough room from what little she can see: old-fashioned, like the rest of the place, but in a plush, cared-for sort of way.

“Oh, by the way–” Crunch. “–you don’t happen to know how the dark web works, do you?”

He unzips the case and flips the lid. “Not really. Why?”

“I got called up for drug testing at Paul Ricard and my sample went missing,” she says, chewing glumly. “Joker’s winding me up about it; thinks someone’s selling vials of my piss on the black market.”

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Normal Thoughts To Have About Your Bestie's Car

The second he starts to ask the car for more, everything changes. 

It feels familiar – in fundamentals, sure, in throttle and steering output – but there’s something else, too. It’s more pliable than the Hierarchy car, more predictable than anything Omega or Archangel could give him; it's unlike anything he’s even driven, but somehow he knows it. Like catching a familiar smell in a place you've never visited.

And then it hits him.

It's not the car. It's her.

He knows Shepard's driving style almost as well as his own – reactive and twitchy, nose-heavy, late-braking, all faith and guts – and this thing lives and breathes it. It takes everything he's got to give, the good and the bad, and amplifies it tenfold. It grins and says c’mon, I dare you.

It’s not just a car designed with her in mind. It’s like wearing her clothes.

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Not To Be Dramatic But I Would Die For Mr Blobby

Shepard rounds the corner into the kitchen to find Mr Blobby loitering by the back door like a pair of cow-coloured slippers.

“He’s in a time-out," Hannah calls through the open window, paintbrush in hand.

“Aww, Blob.”

Mr Blobby makes a mournful rrrr sound. There’s a dab of brown paint on the end of his tail.

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Shepard Has PTSD Probably

It's not a nightmare really. Sure, it wakes her up every few hours, sweaty and unrested, and when she closes her eyes again, it drops her right back where she left off, but it's not scary. She's not being hunted or chased. She's not standing at the front of class with no clothes on. Nobody's dying.

Shepard's driving a road car on suburban streets - shifting, nebulous streets; faintly European but also faintly not - and somewhere in the distance, there's a fire.

There's a fire and she has to reach it.

She can see a column of black smoke in the distance, catch the odd lick of orange between buildings, but every turn she takes feels wrong and by the time she doubles back, the smoke isn't where she thought it was. It's in her rearview mirror, or out to her left when it was on her right. Sometimes a fire engine blasts past her in the opposite direction, the wailing siren fading before she can follow.

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Everybody Hates Conrad

Mathematically Shepard could win the Championship as early as Japan, five races before the end of the season, and it shows. Media seems to come naturally to her in a way it never has to him, but still; he’s never seen her so relaxed this early in the year. Al’Jilani can’t draw her in with pointed questions about Anderson giving her an easy ride and she doesn’t even bother taking a bite out of Conrad Verner.

“Any comment on rekindling your relationship with Thane Krios?” he asks, his big square face expectant.

Shepard scratches under her chin. “Why am I always the last person to find out who I’m dating?”

There’s a ripple of laughter. Emily is checking her watch and people are starting to shuffle their belongings around.

“Are you going to answer the question?” Conrad calls, but by then there’s enough ambient noise for everyone to plausibly ignore him.

#my fic #flashpoints #realised the other week that Singapore Shower can't happen in Singapore bcs it's too late in the race calendar :') #so i'll have to give somewhere else a heatwave instead #mr blobby is my favourite npc

[dispatchwithlove]

First & Last Line Tag Game

Share the first and last line of a wip.

Thanks for tagging me @angry-jager @misseffect @westernlarch and @serendipitys-teapot ! I enjoyed the lines everyone shared, you’re all so talented!

These are from chapter 12 of In Your Arms (formerly titled The Boy). These won’t end up being the actual first and last lines of this chapter but they’re the first and last currently because I haven’t written the beginning and end yet.

First

Curled against the skycar door, chin buried into the crook of her arm and forehead pressed to the window, Jane looked like she wanted to crawl out of the skycar; she breathed out, and Garrus breathed in, and he wondered how tomorrow would be any better.

Last

“Garrus,” her sweet, soft voice saying his name made his heart swell, and then with a roll of humor, she added, “I’m pretty sure neither of us have been fully lucid for quite a while now.”

I’ve no idea who’s done this already, if you already have feel free to do it again @diaphanouso @kalliesa @dwarrowdams @wingsy-keeper-of-songs @literarypeachtea @dulcidyne @kirschewine @kesla @helila

#tag game #first and last lines #shakarian #garrus vakarian #jane shepard #shepard x garrus #garrus x shepard #shakarian fanfic #the cases of shepard and vakarian

[dorianpavus]

Tag 9 people you'd like to get to know!

I was tagged by @nyxwoven 💖

LAST SONG: probably any of the songs from six the musical (especially get down or no way) because they are just so!!! damn!!! catchy!!!! ever since i saw the show in person i’ve not been able to get them out of my head 😭😭😭 now i’ve just given up and am leaning into it haha. like this show made me understand the appeal of kpop 😂 aside from showtunes i’ve been listening to a lot of lizzo because i realized mostly listening to maudlin music was a bit self-fulfilling 🤷‍♀️

CURRENTLY WATCHING: season two of shadow and bone! i love jesper and nina and i want nothing but good things for them. 😭 and the actor playing kaz is so absurdly well cast that it’s like they pulled him right from the pages haha.

CURRENTLY READING: ... i mean... if i’m being honest... haikyuu fanfiction lmao. waiting on my nightstand is a reread of the folk of the air series and then probably some eva ibbotson romance novels because i rewatched the sound of music recently and it made me wanna reread them all!!! omg and i am SUPER EXCITED cause i finally found a copy of this bridge called my back (which was reprinted for the 40th anniversary) which i’ve been looking for for YEARSSSS but i do need to emotionally prepare myself for that one probably 🙏

CURRENT OBSESSION: bg3? bg3. can it be anything but bg3 it’s consuming my every waking moment lol. i am gnashing my teeth!!!! desperately craving any and all news and tidbits i can find. aside from that it’d probably be my actual dnd campaign(s) which have been stupidly fun! :’)

I’m tagging: @alistairweekend, @asolitaryrose, @helila, @lordzenos, @lady-tabris, @inquisitorlavcllan, @frospino, @zahra-hydris, and @aelyosos! also honestly i’d be really happy if any mutuals wanted to do this and tag me. 🥰😊

#honestly... i'm really not cool huh 😂😂 #nyxwoven #personal spam #ask meme #i'm sorry if anyone doesn't like being tagged in stuff but i too miss ye olden days when tumblr was more social 🙈

[commander-krios]

10 Songs 10 People

tagged by @korblez <3

Rules: Put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs that come up.

Thunderstorm by Rivals

Anarchy by Lilith Czar

HELL TO HAVE YOU by Our Last Night/Sam Tinnesz

Dead Weight by PVRIS

Conspiracy of Silence by The Swoons

Don't Save Me by Chxrlotte

Woke Up A Rebel by Reuben And The Dark

Brave by Zayde Wolf

DISAPPEAR by STARSET

Kiss Me by Rob Vischer

Tagging: @swaps55, @aroserinosman, @starknstarwars, @jbnonsensework, @tiredassmage, @helila, @fereldanwench, @alyssalenko, @mmigrainee and @eluvisen

#10 songs 10 people #things i'm tagged in #music

[mattressdemon]

i was tagged by @full---ofstarlight i pinched a nerve in my back or something i’ve been unable to do diddly squat i would like to do things again

Relationship status: Married 2.5 years now WHAT

Song stuck in my head: bro it’s been genghis khan for like 4 months now what the hell

Last song I listened to: well now it was genghis khan 😂 but before it was wolf moon by type o negative

Three favorite foods: you could asl me to eat sushi or perogies at literally any time. a good rare steak is probably in third.

Last thing I googled: i don’t use google but “sims 1 needs shower”

Dream trip: same i’d pick japan...

Anything I want: did u take ur meds today? do u need a sip of water?

tag @buddydollysims2 @efffluff @helila @teachingincolour @sarada-exe @tanaleth @girlstandstill @fairy-made @selchielesbian @falloutrebellion @leafbeetle @maritzestar @oxygenforthewicked @fields-of-rye @glitterizer @dalishruby @dreaminginstasis @cindysimblr @go-fornicate-yourself @sundogsam @apocryphaladagium @www98vikitoo @jurassic-parkour @chezzacheeze @cooljaycookies

feel free to ignore if you don’t want to do it!

#tags #full---ofstarlight

[edgepunk]

boldogat! 🥂

köszi

#ask #helila

[schniggles]

10 fandoms / 10 characters / 10 tags

@malatruse let’s gooooo

Grace Holloway — BioShock 2

Variks the Loyal — Destiny

The Knight — Hollow Knight

Garrus Vakarian — Mass Effect

The Drifter — Hyper Light Drifter

Zoe Avila — Ghostrunner

Breq — Imperial Radch

El Higgins — The Scholomance

Naru — Predator

Elliott Blue — Starling

@fox-fic-and-ink @liobits @devourer-of-acetone @peachdoxie @helila @hailedloco @shrineart @hirokiyuu @the-resurrection-3d @calamitycons

#Tag games #for once i’m actually answering one of these

[helila]

I forgot that your pfp was from a meme, and I saw the meme in the wild today and thought, "why did someone slap Helila's pfp over this random picture of two dudes kissing?"

that's pretty incredible :DD

[sparatus]

i just had to file a dmca takedown notice with amazon for somebody scraping broken mirror and slapping it into the kindle store, i’m a bit upset about it, hopefully this won’t impact my writing but we’ll see

#it's fucked up!!! it's fucked up #shoutout to both helila and potionsmaster for jumping to let me know immediately love you both #im gonna play cattails for a while and hopefully ill feel like writing again later but rn im kinda shook

[iheartgarrus]

WIP Ask Game

rules: post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it.

@kalliesa and @misseffect both tagged me!

Every Gun You Ever Held Went Off

Iris

Missed Opportunities

Garrus gets a tutor

Before the Relay

Reunion

Bath bomb

Clone fic

Depression fic

Jali part 2

Hannah/Victus (not another wip)

I could list all the files in my "odds and ends" folder too but we'd be here all day

I think a lot of people have already been hit with this but I will tagggg @stardatextoday @helila and @n0rmandysr1

#tag game