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garrus being horrified to discover that hes only actually a rebel by turian standards and would be considered a “huge nerd” and “some kind of hall monitor” by all other cultures

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Sketch for @drawshyfantas

Just happy to draw shavik like a commission too :D

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i love garrus sm

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So I’m binge-playing Mass Effect for the first time.

I think Grunt would love Blåhaj

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Mass Effect Legendary Edition: ME2 (dev. Bioware)

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ive never done this in a mass effect playthrough before, but in the elias keeler mission i always either tell him to fuck off or ignore him completely. but you can tell him you're gonna buy the stimulant, run to the medbay and buy him a fucking DOWNER, and then drug him to bring him down from his high. and renegade shep says something so out of pocket, she like throttles him and tells him that she doesnt need druggies negotiating deals for earth. so fucking iconic. i never knew that was even an option in like 10 playthroughs. im crying. we just drugged a man and made him feel shame for it. and he like slumps away crying that we're alien loving scum. so funny.

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"We'll dig in here, kill anything that moves, buy you some time."

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Normalize leaving unhinged comments on ao3 fics you like. I'm tired of being the only one brave enough to write "I am chewing on this fic" in the comment section. Be weird. Authors will love you for it

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"Go out there and give them hell. You were born to do this."

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shoutout to girls trapped in the nightmare dimension

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Regular holiday themed ask, you mentioned once how the salarians would feel about finding out that humans eat Easter eggs after they find them, but how would the other aliens feel about it do you think? Easter and eating eggs I mean

Not very thrilled, I'd imagine. Neither are the krogans.

But hey! It is somewhat of an achievement to weird out both of these species at once.

"Why eggs? You could've picked a million other things. Why the eggs, human? Explain it to me, right now. And in all of your brilliance, you thought it's appropriate to present ME with a basket full of the things smothered in artificial dye and BOILED?"

Especially the hiding part, oh the hiding part of an egg hunt hits a nerve. Even calling it an egg hunt gives them the same queasy feeling in the stomach you'd get from hearing "baby hunt" or "infant hunt"

They understand that your species evolved from a hunter-gatherer tribe, it's just... hard to swallow sometimes. At least with the turians, it's an apex predator in front of your face, the sharp teeth are there front and centre. There is no hiding a turian, they look and act the cookie cutter part they'd expect from a species on an opposing nature.

But the humans are way too sneaky without even trying to. The soft, squishy surface and small teeth aren't helping at all. It's the facade of a docile friendly species that would never hurt a bug. They have seen your people run away from that on Earth bug, spider, on multiple occasions .

It's so easy to forget your predatory nature until you pull up with some holiday that makes their jaw drop to the floor. Like good on you for funnelling these evolutionary urges into stimulating activities... but does it make you look like sociopaths on the occasion.

Proteins are proteins, there is no shame in eating another species' eggs no matter how weird of a concept it seems to salarians. It's the pretend "hunt" part that they're fully shaming you for. You boiled these eggs, painted the shells—the thing that resembles safety and determines how healthy a hatchling will be—you painted on that with vibrant colours, then hid them around a garden for other members of your species to go... searching for them?

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"Let's see them try to stop a krogan airdrop."

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"I know a thing or two about killing Reapers."

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My art for my mass effect big Bang co-written fic. We I was trying to figure out what to write this year, all I knew was I wanted to draw a slightly more matured James Vega. And then @alchemist-after-dark stepped in to help me take it beyond a vague plotless idea. Basically I just wanted to draw this and the rest was a very happy coincidence hehe

Drawn in coloured pencil on mixed media paper.

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So Garrus says that his old C-Sec clearance didn't get him into the Citadel Archives, and he also brings up how it must hold "thousands of years of history" when you get inside. Is Garrus actually lowkey a history nerd? ����