#big ol post

[twisting-in-wonderland]

'Yuu!'

[fantasykiri5]

Guy who is Bonita ‼️

[wigglebox]

Destiel Pride - Day 11; Truth

[tetrameryxx]

A catalogue of Akkrazaran dog breeds, found inside of a reference bestiary

[gourmet-soda-pop]

get your smug ol smile outta the camera-!

[dellamortte]

thinking about lucanis’ little face when rook tells him that he is enough 🥺💜

[tarysande]

The best part about coming back to the source material after a looooong time is you sorta get a fresh look at canon in comparison to whatever the dominant strains of fanon have become. Or, in fact, whatever your own dominant strains of headcanon have become.

I mean, yes, Garrus “I’m not a good turian” Vakarian gets infinitely cooler (and more competent!) by pretty much every metric as the storyline progresses. He does. But fresh out of ME1 and into ME2 through his recruitment, I find myself genuinely amused by how thin the veneer of badass is over a pretty dominant core of straight-up nerd sprinkled with idealism mixed with self-doubt.

When you have Garrus in the squad all the time (and thus get all his ambient dialogue and remarks), you really pick up on the number of times he calls out bad behavior, unethical actions, cruelty, and rule-breaking, especially in ME1.

He’s not actually a hothead who can’t abide rules of any kind. In fact, most of the time he’s pretty pro-law-and-order, and he gets amusingly hall-monitorish when people are breaking rules he considers important and worth following.

Fundamentally, Garrus chafes when his sense of what is just is at odds with what the authorities do about that injustice (or what they stop him from doing). And I would hazard a guess that the reason his actions seem so intense or harsh or "of course we should have shot down that ship in the middle of the Citadel" is indicative not of his impatience but of the degree to which he thinks the authorities have failed to uphold that justice. We know he can be patient. He's a sniper. His whole modus operandi on Omega is precision kills without civilian casualty. But when that long fuse finally burns down, he goes from zero to shooting down ships in the middle of the Citadel in what looks (from the outside) like a heartbeat.

And yes, injured pride hastens the burning of that fuse; he doesn’t like losing. Or admitting defeat. Or failing.

Having just replayed his recruitment mission, a few things really stood out to me this time.

The merc bands really hate him--and they also reluctantly admire him (he's described as smart, resourceful, dangerous, idealistic, brave, slippery; they all agree they only way they managed to get this far is by isolating him and employing dirty tactics). I mean, there's literally a station-wide announcement that Omega can return to "business as usual" once Archangel is out of the picture because he was disrupting things so completely.

The way Garrus blames himself for the deaths of his squad is so freaking turian. Failure reflects on the leader who places his people in danger they can't handle, not the individual who fails. Heavy is the head that wears the crown. Yes, Sidonis betrayed him, but the person Garrus blames the most? Is himself. For trusting Sidonis in the first place. For raising Sidonis to a position where he had the means and opportunity to harm others--and the weakness of character to turn coat, to save his own hide, instead of dying to protect the others.

Garrus mentions more than once that he was trying to emulate Shepard. And his tone always implies that he knows he failed because Shepard would never have let a Sidonis into the fold. Again, he's blaming himself. Like a good turian. Yes, he wanted to avoid the red tape and bureaucracy of C-Sec, but his code--Archangel's code--certainly aligns with Paragon Shepard's morality (with a Garrus Vakarian twist).

And since it wouldn't be meta without adding a Tara's Headcanon Twist ... I've always wondered why "Archangel" when it's such a ... human concept. But this time, when I noticed how he spoke about Shepard's influence, and how quickly he brushes aside the name when she asks him about it, I wondered if it wasn't actually his way of honoring the mythology of the dead woman whose example he was trying to follow. Not that Shepard is a God he's worshiping, but ... there is something about the way he talks about her. Garrus doesn't make himself over in the image of a God, though; he's the soldier, the right hand, the avenging angel responsible for carrying out divine punishments suited and proportional to the crimes committed, the rules broken, the selfishness or cruelty of the perpetrator.

[magicalzebra]

[post-it-notes7]

he's never going to find out

[missholoska]

having to watch your mother flirt with a smiley trashbag...

truly, this is the worst possible ending.

(soriel week 2024 day 2: flower 🌻)

[jellydragons]

been watching a lot of hermitcraft recently and am happy to report that i am hopelessly endeared by these little goobers 💕 they’re like bugs to me

close ups under the cut!

gonna be real this was absolutely just me taking the opportunity to get my grubby lil mitts all up in their character designs lol i heart interpreting mc skins

[koumori-1999]

hes listening to what i've done on full volume

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

tired of not livin in my truth. soda would be enamored with hippies. that fucker would love a volksvan n to dick across the country with the dead heads n the cowboys. he would have taken his dumbass to Woodstock, smoked too much weed, kissed Steve on the mouth n then sworn the stuff off for good. (the weed. not the kissin Steve. he very much enjoys that.) he'd have the most busted up record player known to man. he'd wear flower crowns. he'd doesn't deserve to go to war n come back missin that part of him that fuckin glowed. sodapop curtis would have loved the hippies. n he would have hated that fuckin war for all he was worth.

[surreal-duck]

some business to take care of

[bunnymadeofstardust]

I draw too much, one day I'll reach the file limit and win tumblr

anyhow, enjoy my little doodles folks!!!

[whenastrofell]

Both Fugo and Mista's stands are designed to kill and not much else. Fugo repressed his anger to the point that it manifests as a monster that can kill you in seconds and Mista's is related to the event that barred him from ever being a normal person again.

Fugo obviously doesn't like his stand. He only brings it out when he really needs to- it's so deadly it almost has no practical use and he isn't even immune to its virus.

Mista doesn't hate his stand, but I think there had to be a moment where he thought about it- That moment defines him now; he's a killer.

I don't think they would talk about it, but I wonder how it would go if they did.