#bronzeagelove

[uglynicc]

4, 8 and 22 for the art asks please :)

4. Favorite thing to draw: when drawing traditionally, I LOVE drawing bumpy scaley creatures! Love getting all those little details in there. Digitally I like drawing faves and playing with lighting, especially with eyes.

8. Most fun and least fun parts of my process: most fun is def lines, I LOVE inking both digitally and traditionally. I also love adding light and highlights. Least fun is prob anything to do with backgrounds and adding shadows, just because I lose interest half way and end up half assing it...

22. What inspires you: I'm mostly a hobby fan artist, so just thinking about my faves inspires me to doodle them lol. When I do OC stuff, horror, ghost stories, and cryptids really get my brain going 👀

Thanks so much for sending these Q's!

[cat-identifier]

Hi Cat-ID :) I met this beautiful lady last week and I've been intrigued by her colouration ever since. Her nose and paw pads are brick red. She must be some kind of diluted, but I can't figure out what kind.... maybe lilac? Do you have an idea maybe?

- @bronzeagelove

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I'm also thinking a lilac tabby. Cinnamon is a very uncommon phenotype but chocolate is a little more common so it's the same with their dilutions. I don't see cats of this color very often so I'm not as used to identifying it!

[callista-curations]

Li (Lilihierax) for the character ask? :D

Oooh, cool not a character I was expecting to get, I don't have that many HCs for him unfortunately 😔

SEND ME A CHARACTER AND I’LL DO THIS

Sexuality Headcanon: either turiancoded bi or gay, not really sure on this one

Gender Headcanon: cis

A ship I have with said character: LiLo (Lilihierax/Lorik Qui'in)

I got introduced to it in a wonderful little fic called The Softer It Falls by @bronzeagelove that I highly recommend reading. I think they're a super sweet pairing and contrast really nicely to each other.

Comes with some really nice art from @heavenlyeros

A BROTP I have with said character: no clue

A NOTP I have with said character: none really I guess

A random headcanon: He just likes driving the snow plows

General Opinion over said character: we need more just a guy characters like him

[smehur]

Tag game

Thank you, @alphagravy, for tagging me! ❤️

Favorite color: Cerulean

Last Song:

Currently Reading:

Massive amounts of Harry Potter fanfiction

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by N. Stephenson (stalled)

Shogun by J. Clavell (decennial re-read, this time as audio-book)

Currently Watching:

Black Sails, season 2

Shogun (stalled, don't like the guy who plays Blackthorne)

Currently Playing: Hogwarts Legacy

Currently Craving: Better joints and executive function

Coffee or Tea?: Tea! Chamomile, cold, with no sugar and a dash of milk. Highly recommended!

Tagging: @ghostpeppercalamari @lqtraintracks @bronzeagelove @revnitel-the-allseeing-watcher and anyone else who'd like to play!

[not-great-not-terrible]

First off, a huge apology to @bronzeagelove and @masseffectholidaycheer for taking so long to post, I just had a baby so things have been hectic the past few weeks! I’m so sorry, thank you for being patient with me and for all the time you put into January Jubilation 💕

The sweet treats have been amazing, especially during this time, enjoyed by all. And it was really neat learning the significance of the bonbons!

I love the handmade N7 coasters that have already seen a good bit of use, both as coasters and whatever my toddler, Baby Dutch, has decided to use them as when she plays with them. Dutch also loves your letter with the cat sticker. She asked who’s it from and when I said Bronzie, she said “ooh that’s a pretty name, we should name the new baby that!” (Unfortunately Bronzie was usurped as her name of choice for the new baby a couple days later by Kiki after watching Kiki’s Delivery Service)

Thank you again so much and Happy Harbinger Holiday from my family to yours! 🖤🤍♥️

[squigglysquidd]

Fanfic Tagging Game

I was tagged by @wafflesrock16.

Thanks for the tag, love!

I tag @blueboxness, @mordinette, @bronzeagelove, @tarysande, @vorchagirl, and anyone I may have missed but would like to join!

[nerdierholler]

Getting to know you meme!

I was tagged by @agentnatesewell and @evilbunnyking Thank you, thank you!

Last Song: Just got out of the car so Enough by Toad the Wet Sprocket The mind is willing but the body resists/ The fight is over but the pain persists

Tell me when I have had enough/ I've had enough/ I've had enough

The day is short/ The task is great/ I am idle

Currently Watching: Really just catching up on my youtube from being out of town. Currently on the DVR it's just my usual ghost and home renovation shows. I'm bad about watching things with plots.

Currently Reading: Read the first couple of books from The Whispering Pines Mysteries while traveling. They were fine, not sure if I'll keep going or switch to something else now that I'm home again.

Current Obsession: The back of my mind is still riding the Wayhaven train. I also picked up Cyberpunk again before leaving. It seems to bother my shoulder less than other games, I'm not sure why.

Also tagging (if you want) @serenpedac, @bronzeagelove, @galtori, and @bisexual-kaidan-alenko

[lor-folsak]

@bronzeagelove

SilvanusXQuintus

[hardcore-like-eezo]

First 10 sentences tag game!

Rules: post the first sentences of your last ten fics.  If you haven’t written ten fics, share as many first-sentences as you have.

@natsora and @kesla both tagged me…awhile and a half ago, sorry!  Also thanks!!

Tagging @ferusaurelius, @lesbianically, @bronzeagelove, @berryshiara -- no obligations of course.

So rather than grab the first lines from my posted one-shots (of which there are not yet 10), I’m including ten lines from the last ten WIPs I’ve been working on.

Plus I’ve started treating my draft longfic A Brighter Flame as an anthology of short stories instead of obscenely long chapters.  Looking at it that way, that gives me plenty of starting lines to share.

First, my most recent drafts from A Brighter Flame:

1. Nowhere to Run: “Robyn watched Cambria from inside the gang house on Tenth Street, her eyes locked on the girl and her jaw clenched as she listened to Dante rant from the other side of the room.”

2. Tipping Point: “Jane held tight to the doorknob, easing the bedroom door back into its frame before gently releasing the antiquated mechanical latch.”

3. Hold Fast: “Hatfield couldn’t sleep.”

Then a couple short story WIPs:

4. The Ghost of You: “The lingering smell of smoke and dust greeted Garrus as he stepped into the Citadel Presidium.”

5. The Usual Suspect: “Detective Severan suppressed a gag as she surveyed the crime scene, her mandibles pressing together to hide the small retch at the back of her throat.”

And then some more from A Brighter Flame:

6. Fall Into the Deep Blue: “When Shepard closed her eyes, the hangar of the Normandy SR-2 sounded similar enough to the SR-1 to fool her senses.”

7. Something New to Fight For: “Wherever Ashley Williams was, if she had any sense of clairvoyance at all, Shepard was certain she was having a good laugh over finally being proven right.”

8. Love is a Battlefield: “Garrus slammed onto the floor chest-first, half a second from beaten and already bracing himself for the killing blow.”

9. Separate Ways: “The sheer risk the next mission posed reminded Shepard of Buhen, and the memory of Buhen rang with victory.”

10. Waiting for the World to End: “A gentle breeze without sensation toyed with Shepard’s hair while she sat on the park bench.”

[forlornmelody]

Pairing Playlist

tagged by @bronzeagelove thank you so much!!

and tagging @geneticgoo and @natsora, if you'd like to play.

So I have sooooo many songs on my JayRose playlist but here's some highlights:

My Strange Addiction by Billie Eilish

So Jason and Rose have a lot of cat and mouse potential, enemies to lovers, what have you. This song is the inspo for my fic Tit For Tat.

2. 100 Little Deaths by Lilith Czar

LISTEN. This is the perfect battle couple theme for them. Both have died and come back (Rose more than once.) Both know what it means to die alone, and they're gonna fight like heck to make sure that never happens again.

3. Make Me Fade by K.Flay

This is my mallverse theme for these nerds. They're both kinda fucked up, but they find comfort in each other. Even if they're terrified to admit it.

[katarrinskey]

Music Meme Tag

Got tagged by my dear @trucbiduleschouettes so I am more or less obligated to do it haha

Tag Game Rules: Shuffle your on repeat playlist and post the first 10 tracks, then tag up to 10 people.

Muse - Time Is Running Out

The Music Of The Night

Земфира - Знак Бесконечность (Sign of eternity)

Немного Нервно - Нет Ничего Кроме Любви (Nothing but love)

Loic Nottet - Wolves

Axel Rudi Pell - Don't Say Goodbye

Battlelore - The Great Gathering

Paramore - When It Rains

The Rasmus - Sail Away

Mary Lambert - Assembly Line

i'm tagging @callista-curations @korblez @sparatus @capt-biglou @ferusaurelius @bronzeagelove @kururusti @kamichka-spichka

[mapplestrudel]

Top 10 Favourite Movies

I got tagged by @einsesk! Thank you!!

Here are 10 of my comfort movies, sorted in no particular order:

Die Hard

Alien

My Neighbour Totoro

The Princess Bride

Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring

The Mummy

Drunken Master

Life of Brian

Fried Green Tomatos at the Whistle Stop Café

A Knight's Tale

I'm gonna tag (just for fun, no pressure!) @vodehan, @zooarchaeologyatdinner, @bronzeagelove, @waitinginthepen, @onequestofnonsense, @lunetta-suzie-jewel (untagable??), @leiyahime

[illusivesoul]

10 Happy Things

Was tagged by @alyssalenko Thank you :) I'll tag @bronzeagelove @tankbredgrunt @rosella-writes and @vanilkaplays Only if you feel like doing this, of course. Write 10 things that make you happy. 1. Going on walks 2. My dog 3. Dragon Age 4. Mass Effect 5. Writing 6. History 7. My best friend 8. Making gifs 9. Cooking 10. Watching movies

[pushelz]

Let‘s just say I was surprised… Happy crab day!

Thanks to bronzeagelove (https://bronzeagelove.tumblr.com/) for the gift.

[dr-ladybird]

Tagged by @moniesmonsters

Rules: Tag 9 people you want to get to know better/catch up with, and answer the questions below!

Last song: My playlist’s stopped on The Bonnie Ship the Diamond (Gaelic Storm version)

Three ships: Ooh, so for Mass Effect I’ll go with player character x Jaal. Not fussy about Ryder’s gender but preferably one of the more mature and sensible ones. 

Locked Tomb, sorry for being basic but Gideon x Harrow (in a “I hope they get their shit together and have a healthy relationship” way.)

Almost anything you can ship or might want to ship in Elden Ring is some flavour of crack, so I’m going to go completely off the wall and claim that Oleg and Margit had a discreet romantic relationship when they were coworkers. (And Oleg swears he caught the king eyeing him up a few times... he must just be that pretty, eh?)

Currently Reading: textbooks :( ok so fat cancers are divided into well differentiated/dedifferentiated aka normal/bad normal (MDM2 amplified), myxoid aka gooey/bad gooey (DDIT3 rearranged, usually with FUS), and pleomorphic aka really bad (multiple genes broken in multiple messy ways), and the gooey versions look far too much like myxofibrosarcoma and low grade fibromyxoid sarcoma (which are not the same thing)... you get the idea.

Last Movie: Hmm, I haven’t seen a movie in ages... probably the new Dune? That was brilliant, excellent acting and setting, I’m very pleased they were brave enough to go full political. My brother and his wife kept arguing over whether Timothee Chalumet or Oscar Isaacs was more attractive (me, I vote for Jason Momoa)

Craving: a coherent understanding of bone and muscle tumours

Tagging @pigeontheoneandonly @huggingtentacles @bronzeagelove @dr-jekyl @inquartata30 @miniature-space-hamster

[callista-curations]

I posted 7,366 times in 2022

That's 5,966 more posts than 2021!

55 posts created (1%)

7,311 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@thearchdemongreatlydisapproves

@hanarinhightown

@perpetualvelocity

@katarrinskey

@that-wildwolf

I tagged 3,524 of my posts in 2022

#garrus vakarian - 1,958 posts

#shakarian - 1,160 posts

#saren arterius - 343 posts

#writing inspo - 156 posts

#nihlus kryik - 151 posts

#traditional art - 125 posts

#tali'zorah - 116 posts

#vetra nyx - 115 posts

#thane krios - 97 posts

#urdnot wrex - 65 posts

Longest Tag: 106 characters

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

16 notes - Posted October 22, 2022

#4

His dick game is mindblowing but he's never in the mood

22 notes - Posted August 6, 2022

#3

Garrus is so cute I wanna ruin him (affectionate)

27 notes - Posted January 18, 2022

#2

New Year's fic recs (2021-2022)

It’s about time I put the curations part of my tumblr to work on the fanfics side of things, so here goes: A selection of my favourite fics (with turians) I read in the last half year or so.

Yes I am fashionably late, I was going to post this before new year...

The Primarch's Advisor by hardinginhightown

M, oneshot (9k words), Adrien Victus/Castis Vakarian

A rarepair you didn't know you needed in your life (why have one turian dilf in a fic if you can have two). Hard hitting and packed full of emotion, but also exploring a lot of backstory between them and their sons.

NoisyNoiverns' Kryterius collection

G, 13 oneshots and shortfics, Kryterius

A set of 13 Kryterius fics, mostly set in a no-reaper AU, spanning their long lives. Everything from light hearted joking about to the sweetest of fluff. I would particularly highlight “When the Lights Go Down”, also highly recommend checking out their Desolas/Abrudas pieces.

Observations upon waking by interventionsandlullabies

M, oneshot (4k words), Shakarian

Aptly tagged: “Read for free therapy.” A collection of snapshots told through Garrus’ eyes, from the soft to the sharp realities of the war. Fantastically written, intimate and personal.

Loyalty Mission: The Coldest of Hearts by Orionis

T, shortfic (38k words), Shakarian

Set in ME1, early on when they are first working together, this one won’t punch you in the gut with a few truckloads of emotion, though it is a very interesting study of Garrus’ character and Shepards struggles with him (and the rest of her crew).

Same Song, Different Verse by suddenlycomics

T, WIP (12k words), Femsep Garrus and Tali

An exciting AU where Shepard never joins the Alliance, Garrus is a Spectre, and they meet Tali on Earth.

The Softer It Falls by BronzeAgeLove

T, shortfic (10k words), Lorik Qui'in/Lilihierax

Complete with lovely illustrations by heavenlyeros. Gentle, slow, and introspective. Really wonderfully written all around, a gem of an introduction to a(nother) rarepair you didn't know you needed in your life.

Points of Contact by buskie

E, WIP longfic (32k words), Shakarian

A first contact AU fic where Shepard and a certain lost Turian fall in love, comes with plenty of seriousness, silliness, shenanigans, and some smut to top it off.

I'll See You Again by courtmartialed

M, WIP shortfic (5k words), Shakarian

Another First Contact story, this time in a Reincarnation AU. “The captain and lone survivor of that crew is Shepard, though her name is not Shepard yet. And the lone Turian, piloting the ramshackle dinghy that finds her ship, is Garrus.”

On Galaxy's Edge by DatSonyat

T, oneshot (1.5k words), Saren and Desolas

This piece still floors me every time, Saren being this soft just stops my heart mid beat, honestly it's something I've lately felt more and more need to indulge myself in. It's so slow but hits like a fully loaded train, all the emotion is expertly hidden just under the surface. Probably one of the best pieces of writing I've had the pleasure of reading, period.

See the full post

71 notes - Posted January 4, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Sports Mass Effect needs:

Krogan rugby

Biotic ice hockey (@whiskynorocks 's idea)

Biotic figure skating (listen, Saren would lowkey be good at this that's all I'm gonna say)

Biotic dance and acrobatics

Biotic rock climbing/mountaineering

Zero G ping pong

154 notes - Posted July 28, 2022

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