#do you like mass effect?

[housederiva]

From a grand total of 68,683 votes, 150 NPC's, and 90 polls, I present the winner of BioWare Blorbo Beatdown (2) as well as the top 3 blorbos from Dragon Age and Mass Effect!

If you want to see who got polled against who, check out the tag ‘BioWare Blorbo Beatdown’ on my blog ✨

[milkywayes]

GARRUS VAKARIAN: DATABASE IMAGE ACCESS. > PT. 1 : 2160, 2166, 2170. > all files backdated according to user preferences: (terran_coordinated.calendar).

[puppppppppy]

littlest furth shop

@laikascomet

[astorythatwritesitself]

yes good day hi I am being COMPLETELY normal don't look at the tags about this Valentine's YCH from @valkblue 😭

[garrus-appreciation]

THE HANDSHAKE THE FUCKING HANDSHAKE YOU GUYS THE HANDSHAKE THE HANDSH

[rawliverandcigarettes]

Thinking about Mass Effect, as you do, and how I'm kind of sad that the way it's been engraved in pop culture has more to do with the way internet reacted to it at the time than what the actual game is about. Yes sure, it's about romance (and not that much all things considered) and it's pulpy (but not solely because of hot lady aliens), but it's also intricate worldbuilding that touches on a lot of sharp ideas, and a complicated tug-of-war between a genuine and vulnerable belief in reconciliation and community VS post 9-11 US military propaganda and steadfast belief in heroic exceptionalism, and the melancholic yet energizing mood, and the daring narrative systems, and so so much more than the 'We'll Bang OKs" and the "There's No Shepard Without Vakarian" and the whole ME3 ending situation

It's all there, but I'm sad the impact of the series is often reduced to (what I think is) the least interesting parts of its sum

[vakarianshepard]

Mass Effect 2/3 + Shakarian kisses In a world full of wrong, you're the thing that's right

[madamedramatics]

If Garrus ever learns how to use a Nerf gun, Shepard is gonna have to spend an entire evening writing up a new rule for the Normandy on why Nerf guns will no longer be permitted on the ship.

The fine print will be a reminder that the crew of the Normandy are living beings, and not target practice, even if the three burst blast to Vega's head across the cargo bay was a sick ass shot. Word for word.

Fine print P.S: This is a general rule that isn't meant to single any humans, quarians, Krogan, Salarians, or synthetic intelligence on the ship out.

Fine print P.S.S: Please disregard all rumors of your Captain being present during an "all out Nerf Gun battle" in the Cargo Bay after a Nerf pellet hit me. I was not present in the battle and would appreciate such rumors of unprofessionalism being spread. I would never fire off 20 loads of Nerf rounds from a Nerf gattling gun into Garrus' side because he refused to stop shooting me in the butt with his stupid Nerf Gun although I asked him several times to stop or I'd let Javik ship him out of an airlock. It's important to keep the ship as gossip free as possible. Thank you for your cooperation and once again, this rule is not meant to single any non turians out.

[shepsfishtank]

once bitten and twice shy

female shepard / garrus vakarian • rated T • 5k words

Shepard needs someone to run back-up on a last minute mission; Garrus gets stuck with it. Too bad turians don't like the cold.

excerpt:

“Com — mander?” “Read you, Joker,” she says. “Damn it… okay. We’ll sit tight.” Garrus looks at the sensors again — EXTERIOR TEMPERATURE: -141.2°F | -96.2°C. “Still think we’re good?” She turns a withering look towards him.

📖 read on AO3

[transmasc-tabris]

People saying that Davrin and Lucianis are really mean to each other or that Neve is an angry bitch if you help Treviso or that Taash is mean for finding Emmrich weird... Wouldnt last an hour in the asylum where they raised me or whatever:

[cavesalamander]

Hey that one post you made in 2013 is almost at 10k notes

OH TRUST ME I AM WELL AWARE LMAO

My phone has been blowing up for this past week I swear kejfkebfbjdjdkfj

Way back 10 years ago when I said I'd do it, I was still in college and it had jumped to the 5 or 7k or so it was back then, I actually got started working on the damn thing because it looked like it was going to happen.

Then the notes dried up and I was like oh phew, I'm good, I'm fine, I won't have to.

BUT THEN.

This goddamn renaissance of notes has been orchestrated by @composeregg because I've just started playing Mass Effect for them and some other friends and of course my beloved Mako is right there, and I tell them about it.

And hey, what do you know, it turns out I actually do still have that canvas board I started painting it on?? It somehow survived college and like 5 moves.

So like, I guess if yall can do it, at least I won't have to start from scratch?

[kaes-art-blog]

This game has had a Mass Effect on my emotional state

[vaguely-concerned]

thinking about reyes vidal and the fact that if you turn down his offer of a drink in your first meeting with him, he just shrugs gamely and slams both drinks back himself before talking business. and crucially, magnificently, he still runs off leaving you with the bill at the end. hmngh. I miss him like one would air and sunlight

[sweatandwoe]

Love Garrus' negative traits

Love that he embodies everything negative we usually associate positively with renegade Shepard. Love how it doesn't fit him, how it fails him each time he tries. Love that he tries to blind himself into a world where there's only good or bad people (like a cop). Love that he decides Omega, the greyest of grey places, is a place full of bad people. "All I have to do is point my gun and shoot" but not for the people he's trying to save, the peope who call him "Archangel". Who were they again? Does he even recognize them when he's aiming for criminals on the station?

Love that Garrus is forced to confront seeing the world this way in a paragon route, that he's forced to see grey, address the grey. Realizing that everyone has something, a cause, a reason and that his brand of justice may not be just.

Love that Garrus hates the rules that surround him but he is in fact the reason C-Sec has so much red tape, to try and stop injustice among their forces. That Turians aren't meant to question but he does so much but about the wrong things; he's too blind by hate to understand what he's doing. Garrus wants to take care of people and protect people like a good turian however he thinks the best way to help is killing the "bad people". He believes in eye for an eye but hasn't heard the full quote, doesn't know "An eye for an eye will make the world blind". Mercy for one person he despised, who he hated, causes him to rethink his whole character and his previous actions.

I just love this level of tragedy and self-evaluation to a dorky, alien sniper

[edains]

Zaeed Massani's Armor Locker (LE2): Original release - Should've been canon edition

Zaeed Massani's Armor Locker (LE2)

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

MEET THE CREW OF THE NORMANDY SR-2 (2185)

Overseen by Admiral Steven Hackett, the undercover operations undertaken by the Normandy crew in 2185 are sponsored by the Alliance Shade program following Sophie Oliveira-Shepard's coup from Cerberus after her resurrection. The mission? Traverse the Terminus Systems. Collect intelligence on the thing that killed her in 2184. Save the galaxy by any means necessary. The only issue? The darker secrets lurking under the surface. Like the machinations and strings being pulled by someone behind the scenes that seem to keep dragging old crew members into new dangers. And the old enemies... wearing familiar faces. MIRA'S MORE CANON MASS EFFECT 2 AKA: The actual, canon crew of the Normandy SR-2. ;) Mass Effect 2: Legendary Edition (2021) Rendered: Blender Eevee