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#this is about Mass Effect specifically
milkywayes · 6 months
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just… thinking about the tragedy of shepard and garrus. their relationship evolves as we watch - from mentor and mentee, to trusted friends, to supportive partners. the field between them evens out. walls are broken down. thresholds are crossed. she goes from ‘the best humanity has to offer’ to disavowed shadow operative to the tip of the spear in a probably-unwinnable war. he goes from eager-to-prove-himself hotshot to disillusioned outlaw to what’s probably the second most important person in the hierarchy.
it’s such a long way to come. there’s so much to get through to end up where they are.
and both of them only really come into power once it’s already almost too late to do anything with it. everyone else is also facing extinction but these two feel the weight of all those lives so acutely because of the positions they’ve been given.
but if they’re in love. if they go through all of that and fall in love in the process. if they open their hearts while everything around them is literally about to end forever. if he’s the glue holding her together and she’s the only hope he can still believe in. then they’re building their partnership in a graveyard. they both know, this might be all they get. this is probably it. and everyone else - they have it bad, but there’s just a unique tragedy here with shepard and her love interest in that she will save the galaxy, but chances are, she cannot save herself and that means she also cannot save the one who loves her more than anyone else.
these two people working tirelessly to stave off the end of everything, the weight of the galaxy on their shoulders and only each other to lean against, and they’re the ones who pay the price to end the war. they come all this way only for her to give up everything, and for him lose the only guiding light he’s ever had - at best, for a time, and at worst, forever. he might put the plaque on the memorial wall or he might not, but either way their sacrifice is so fucking heavy.
he holds her together until the end and she’ll use it to shatter herself on the citadel. she’s his guiding light and it’ll go out when the path ahead of him is at its least clear, its most daunting.
the war is won, but they’re the ones who lose, and it makes me insane just to think about.
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i bring a sort of "this character who has no relation to judaism in canon whatsoever is jewish" vibe to every conversation i have
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vaguely-concerned · 1 year
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man playing a dragon age game as an abomination would rock so tremendously tho. you're a possessed person and you have to play as two characters making up one person and balance it out so one half of the equation doesn't swallow the other half. maybe you could choose what kind of spirit at the beginning of the game and it would count as your class basically. It Would Be Cool
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onedismay · 3 months
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2023 art summary. I finished more stuff than I thought I did! I also participated in a few fandom events this year, and those were all great experiences for me so yay.
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bloomfish · 1 month
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"I use sideblogs frequently" doesn't necessarily refer to using ALL your sideblogs frequently, but at least a few, as in generally being a Sideblog User. Also, I don't count "empty" sideblogs like ones reserving urls or anything like that, it has to be a sideblog with a specific purpose of its own, even if that purpose isn't being fulfilled.
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emmavakarian-theirin · 5 months
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[bursts back onto tumblr with a tin foil hat]
guys what if we're getting a remake
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breadedsinner · 1 year
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WIP Wednesday
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Shepard marched into Miranda’s office, the frame in hand. He held it up so that Ashley’s face would illuminate the black screen. “What is this?” he said, his voice stern and expecting, like a parent who found Fornax under their kid’s bedroom.
Miranda’s attention remained firmly on her monitor. His entrance did not cause so much as a raised eyebrow. “It’s a photo in a frame,” she answered flatly.
Shepard scoffed, lips flared. “Oh, she has jokes, does she?”
“She has work to do, as I imagine you do, Commander. I suggest we both get back to it.”
“Yeah? What kind of work, Miss Lawson? Does the Illusive Man not have enough information on my personal life to wave in front of my face? Does he need you to find a distant cousin or an old teacher to threaten if I don’t do exactly as he says?”  
Miranda clicked her teeth, and her monitor blinked off. “It was a welcoming gift, Commander, to make you feel at ease in this difficult time. That’s it.”
“With a photo of a random marine from the Normandy?”
Miranda shook her head. “Commander, don’t insult me. You and Lieutenant Williams were seen together.”
“She helped me on my mission to stop Saren, of course we were together at times.”
“No, after that.”
The hand that held up the photo in defiance fell, the frustrated creases melted into quiet terror.
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americankimchi · 2 years
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the ultimate wish fulfillment in video games: me being able to pay for everything for everybody and solve people’s problems without being concerned about personal ruination as a consequence
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veshialles · 5 months
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HAIII :3 happy N7 day! did you watch the new trailer for ME 4?
HIII!! YESS I SAW THE NEW ME5 TEASER AND AM STILL LOSING MY MIND OVER IT!!
I was also following some of the ARG buildup leading up to it, which leaves me even more obsessed. also, the Angara hidden in the latest poster?? and the Geth wearing a fancy robe??? what was all that about? I'm incredibly intrigued.
ALSO THE MUSIC SNIPPETS!! the signature Eden Prime clicking noise, that electronic twiddle building up to the drums reminds me of th combat and exploration tracks from MEA, and then finishing off with the theme from the Rachni Nest in ME3? what does it all mean??
like, I know Mike Gamble already confirmed years ago that this game was gonna be a tie-in sequel to all previous Mass Effect titles, but every snippet still tells me so little and so much that it makes my brain whirl lol. I'm very excited is what I'm trying to articulate eeeeeee
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sparatus · 8 months
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noah fence but nothing annoys me more than when i'm grumbling about a game mechanic that's a little annoying, not broken/unplayable just a bit of a nuisance to work with, and i get like 15 people "do you play on pc :) there's a mod for that :)"
i DO play on pc but genuinely. i cannot be fucking assed to mod. it's more work than i feel like putting in. if it's a game that's easy to mod like sdv or sims where i can just make a folder labeled "mods" throw shit in and call it good, then yeah fine, but anything more complicated than that where i need altogether new software that requires 500 tutorials and help threads i will actually bite you. not every fucking pc player mods their game. shut up shut up SHUT UPPPPPP
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death-rebirth-senshi · 10 months
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Shepard in the arena: I dedicate this next match to my boyfriend Steve!
Shepard: *completely wipes out*
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echthr0s · 5 months
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I think my thing for FFXIV has cooled a bit. a lot. like I think once the Ascian arc ended I started to lose the fervour I had for the story and honestly while I think Zero is a respectable character and she's quite likeable by my standards I didn't personally connect with her and I kind of found the Void arc to be. not as interesting as I'd expected (read: a bit goddamn tedious) (again -- decent stuff, just not personally engaging). so slogging through the patch content really was the last nail in the coffin
this probably means I'm secretly an Ascian and [insert that bird meme that's like "I am upset when not about me??"]. lmao
anyway this also dovetails neatly with the fact that I have been under the suspicion that Dayir and Ishan's role as Protagonists(tm) ends when Endsinger does. they've Done It. the destinies of the various Ancients that facilitated their existence are all fulfilled. it is time for rest. it is time for Dayir to explore this new, sharper, weirder, more complex person she's become. it is time for Ishan to truly learn to bury the lance and plant a garden over it -- literally as well as emotionally. they were never adventurers. they were always the Heart and Hound of Darkness. the heralds of a new age. and now that's all done with. so.
I think there could be other strange things that happen to them. there probably are. they won't just disappear off the face of the earth (they're still Scions, after all, too). but anything that happens to them won't be things that happen in the story of the game called Final Fantasy Fourteen, you see. they're like... when you play a sequel to a game and the player character of the first game is there again but as an NPC this time, possibly one who gives exposition and gear and ushers your fresh-faced PC on the road to new adventures. yknow? so assuming I will play Dawntrail (I mean. FFXIV is still one of my favourite games of all time, so obviously, but maybe not with the same brainwormy enthusiasm that I brought to ShB and EW), who is my new Protagonist? through whose eyes will I be looking at the world now?
much to think about etc
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greatprotector · 6 months
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“ that was quite the hand, but not for the game we are playing. ” 
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                             there's something to be said about how at ease shepard is even among the dangerous.    despite being in a place most would consider to be the lion's den, there's not an ounce of tension in her frame, green and blue eyes sweeping over the augment's figure with something almost akin of amusement. there are dozens of files on him littered about encrypted files in the alliance; unfortunately for them, she's got the best hacker in the galaxy on board, and isn't afraid to break rules if it means getting the edge.    
                          ❝    ———    khan, right?     ❞
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 as if she doesn't already know; and that shit - eating grin says it all. confident, perhaps, but not ignorantly so. there's crackles of biotic energy dancing across her skin, even while she's leveling him with her pistol.        ❝      you must have had a good nap if you're complimenting me already. i just wanted to talk, but if you'd rather dance? i'm game. and if i win, you listen. yeah?         ❞
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@paramounticebound sent for an inbox meme.
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flame2ashes · 8 months
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To me the term “FemShep” only applies to the default female Shepard. I respect every other Shepard too much to refer to them as FemShep or BroShep
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darthmarrsgf · 6 months
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thinking about her (jack mass effect)
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woodwyrm-with-moss · 6 months
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to whoever wrote the article about ranking the Mass Effect 3 romances from best to worst, how does it feel to be so fucking wrong???
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