#ferus is a nerd

[ferusaurelius]

Convention, mostly. You can bend the rules of grammar by relying heavily on the foundational syntax of language, which is where both meaning and ambiguity tend to live within a text.

Sentences can be syntactically complete without punctuation (this is why unpunctuated poetry will still make sense to a reader).

From a grammatical standpoint, the use of the punctuation is to clarify where the spoken words begin and end, as well as to contrast them with any surrounding narrative action. These conventions are common in novels and journalistic media.

Articles to google in no particular order:

A history of the comma and other punctuation marks (pixartprinting.co.uk)

The mysterious origins of punctuation (BBC Culture)

Punctuation in English since 1600 (Britannica)

Punctuation and its particulars (James Longenbach; American Poetry Foundation)

The strange life of punctuation (Chiu Luu, JSTOR Daily, 2016)

The first half of the list is on the historical context that shaped punctuation, while the James Logenbach article focuses on the practical use of syntax and the influence and context of individual choices in poetry.

The JSTOR daily blog tackles why periods in text messages can seem aggressive.

Hope this helps!

Google. Please. I am trying to find out WHY English has dialogue followed by a dialogue tag end in a comma instead of a period. I am not looking up HOW to punctuate dialogue. I already know that. But I don’t know why it’s a rule. The most intuitive thing I can think of is that the dialogue itself might be a complete sentence but it isn’t truly a Complete Sentence if it’s followed by a dialogue tag (said and its friends), but WHY. WHY.

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[blackkatmagic]

any of your stories with Ferus in it makes me literally go feral. I want to sink my teeth into all of the stories throats and shake it about like a rabid dog like PLEASE they are so amazing

Ferus is so slept on I adore this killjoy nerd and his dramatic tendencies and his stuffiness. Also how much he infuriates Anakin just by existing and living his best gay life is delightful. I'm so happy that someone else enjoys him as much as I do. 💗

[ferusaurelius]

Day Two

For @the-wip-project #100DaysOfWriting challenge.

Prompt:  

For your current WIP: (do you have many WIPs? I have so many WIPs. So I mean current as of right this moment, the project you’re thinking about right now.) What motivates you to write this specific story? What makes this story special for you? Is there a special twist/trope/setting you want to explore? What got you started on this particular story?

I answered a bit of this in Day One but have some more meta for how and why I picked no-Reapers (and other tidbits and world details) for my “Air Needing Light” Mass Effect-based universe.

Ferus, why no-Reapers?

I immediately loved the world of Mass Effect and the whole visual phrasing of going off to retrieve an artifact where humanity was the galaxy’s quintessential new kid on the block. I thought that was great! And then Nihlus Kryik ended up dying in the prologue and we ended up with deep space eldritch horror monsters. Not sure if I should admit this, but that’s about the moment I went: oh, so it’s that kind of story.

I knew from that moment, early in my first playthrough of the first game, that I was going to just have to grin and bear it through the eldritch abominations being the big bad behind the scenes, whatever the game implied up front about Saren, the geth, and whatever else was going on in this universe.

It ended up feeling very flavor-of-the-week episodic with whatever villainous obstacle du jour we were going to encounter on each mission. In retrospect, I’m surprised I caught as much of the story as I did? I loved ME1 for the atmosphere and the background world, but I knew it wasn’t going to tell the stories I was most interested in.

The Reapers, in that sense, are just the primary plot element of ME1 that never worked for me.

While I can appreciate some excellent takes and rewrites in the fandom that have done great things with the Reapers, I wanted to go in a different direction.

Okay, so no-Reapers. What’s the central thesis of your plot?

I want to write something about the political tensions between the human Systems Alliance and the batarian Hegemony in the Skyllian Verge. That’s it, that’s the reason!

Batarians were criminally underutilized and ignored. Historically, they made contact with Citadel space 1000 years before the turians and 2000 years before humanity, and if you didn’t read the codex entries you’d never know it.

Wait, I thought Air Needing Light was about the First Contact War?

I’ve got roughly a trilogy planned. Every fic is designed to be standalone with some easter eggs present for anyone who reads all three.

There’s just enough background changes that I need to rewrite from the First Contact War, which gave me an opportunity to do something a little different with Saren’s character and throw him into a great political game. Nihlus also becomes a more central figure, as does his backstory. 

The first fic is setting up Saren’s military background. While there are allusions to later plot points which will crop up in this fic, you won’t have to read it if you just want to skip to the other two.

The second fic is setting up a very different galactic situation and environment before Eden Prime. The focus is on a few critical events in the Skyllian Verge and the motivations for Saren recruiting Nihlus to the Spectres. Batarians and Nihlus’s mercenary background play more of a role. This is going to be the ‘turian mercenary / batarian culture’ fic.

All of this setup then serves as the backdrop for the third fic, covering a very different Eden Prime and Normandy SR-1 crew. Assuming I get there? I’ll be happy if I just finish the first two. The third fic would be the icing on the cake. 

The third fic and outline breaks far enough from canon that I’d have to decide where to go after I finished it? So it’s just a different take on what I’d have liked to build into during ME1.

So what about all those one-shots? Got any more?

Funny story. I’ve got four one-shots in WIP. I think? Maybe more.

YOU WHAT.

Yeah, sorry, I’ve got a lot of ideas, I swear!

When are you posting next and what will it be?

Your guess is as good as mine. I’d like to think the next chapter(s) of Air Needing Light will finish up first, but if I have a really good day on a one-shot, that’ll get posted, instead. 

I have to roll with what I feel like working on, or the drafting and revising would never end.

I’ve been working on chapter (2+) of Air Needing Light for months at this point, but the bright side is that the rest of it shouldn’t be as complicated as I get over this hurdle. I’m also introducing the last primary member of the cast of characters! 

There’s a chance my next update for this story will be two or three chapters long...

[feruslands]

Vader's lousy humor.

The Last of the Jedi. Ferus serves as Palpatine's agent.

Darth Vader: - I'm waiting for your report. Ferus: - You can wait, but you won't get it. - You have forgotten your position in the Empire. But I'll remind you of that. I'll make a sex slave of you. - You have a rotten sense of humor, but I'm not afraid of your threats. - Really? Then let's check it out right now!

[bellassan]

@exitiumparit | closed starter

Right, so this is not the cleanest landing Ferus has ever performed. In his defense he was caught off guard - which is a stupid, sloppy lapse on his part, but he was anyway, and he doesn’t really have anyone to blame for that but himself - so he took a tumble off a rooftop. 

Because he was shoved.  

That’s where the Force comes in handy, though. And he managed to lengthen out the seconds he needed long enough to right himself and to come into a landing that ... okay, it’s not painful, but it’s not comfortable, and he grits his teeth in a bit of a wince before he stands.

Looks up. 

The person he was chasing can be seen in the distance like a silhouette against the off-black sky as they leap between another two buildings, and Ferus curses under his breath.

No way he’s going to catch up with them on the ground, he’s going to have to track them again, go back to his computers ...

Turning, he rolls his shoulders, and --

comes face to face with Jack Wright, who’s staring at him.

“Holy shit”, Jack says. 

Ferus grimaces. Looks behind himself - yeah, that’s like twenty stories, there’s no way Jack’s going to buy something stupid if he saw all of that, but shit, he doesn’t know what else to try or how much Jack saw, so he does it anyway.

“Uh, hi”, he says back. “Did I mention I do parkour?” 

[legendsliveon]

Ferus/Roan Week, Day 2: Bellassa

Music has always been an important part of Star Wars, and the majority of the movie characters have their own motifs. I’ve always thought it was unfortunate that the characters who are only in the books and comics never have motifs created for them. I’m a big classical music fan, and when I was first reading the Last of the Jedi books my youth symphony was playing Sibelius’ Symphony no. 2. and it got connected in my head. (March Slav got connected to Melida/Daan for similar reasons) I think that this symphony is fitting of Bellassa not only in sound, but also in its own real world history.

Jean Sibelius was a Finnish man living in a time of Russian occupation of his country that included sanctions on Finnish language and culture. He first composed Finlandia which was a protest against this Russian rule, and had to consistently change the title between performances to avoid censorship as the piece was meant to evoke the national Finnish struggle against Russian rule. Two years later, Sibelius composed his second symphony, and many connected this piece to the Finnish struggle for independence as well, and it was popularly dubbed “Symphony of Independence.”

The piece is beautiful, stirring, tumultuous, and a little melancholy. There are quiet moments, and triumphant, brash horns. The whole thing fits Bellassa, The Eleven, and Ferus and Roan very well in my mind. One very small section of it in the second movement from 16:26 – 17:14 I would consider a “love theme” for Ferus and Roan. [For those of you with sheet music, it starts 7 measures after “F,” right after the fermata.] It is a little shy, but beautiful, and all too fleeting before it gets swept away into the rest of the larger piece, which only makes it more fitting. At some point I plan to make a small arrangement of that theme to extend it a little from within the symphony. I plan to use the melody that is from 26:27 – 27:45 as the B part to the theme, but I didn’t get it done in time for this. 

[ferusaurelius]

Okay because I read some people going ?!?! in the tags, here’s an excerpt from the fandom wiki:

“At another time, Samara crossed paths with Nihlus Kryik after she witnessed him murder an unarmed civilian. She had no choice but to engage him. They fought for days on the planet, chasing each other in the wilderness. Eventually, Nihlus manipulated Samara by putting her in a situation where she had to let an innocent die or let him escape. Despite having lost to him, she was impressed that he had learned how to turn the Code against her and adapt.”

Video below:

Hey, something I haven’t seen in Nihlus lives AUs have is the fact that Samara and Nihlus fought against each other as she hunted him across a planet. Please consider ME2 squad mate Nihlus and Oath bound Samara just

[artistrybyarielle]

Me: *thinks about Ferus Olin watching over Leia on Alderaan*

Me: *smiles*

Me: *remembers that Ferus Olin is on Alderaan*

Me: *cries*

[lordplavis]

My dearest dearest mutuals,

most of you probably don't know that much about warhammer but that's OK. Because that's what you have me for. Me with my little brain with far to much warhammer lore living in there completely rent free.

So now I'm going to present to you my absolutely objective lore ignoring fanfic reality mini essay/info dump/rambling on....

The Perks of dating each Primach!

You didn't ask for this and you might not want to hear my opinion about this subject but sucks to be you it's your fault for associateing with me.

Let's begin!

Art by: @rowscara

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Top left:

Magnus the Red

Primach of the thousand son's legion

Perks :

-total nerd & bookworm

-will always tell you about the new thing he just learned very enthusiastically

-will use his psychic power to fulfil your wishes even before yourself know about it

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Top right:

Sanguinius

Primach of the blood angels legion

Perks:

-has angel wings

-is also technically a bit of a vampire

-oh did I mention he is a vampire with angel wings?

-he'll also probably be the only one comfortable with introducing you to his dad

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Bottom left:

Fulgrim

Primach of the emperors children legion

Perks:

-will help you do your makeup and will make it look perfect

-he's an artist who will paint you (and those paintings won't all be sfw)

-has a slightly unnerving amount of kinks

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Bottom right:

Lorgar Aurelian

Primarchs of the word bearers legion

Perks:

-is a cult leader

-will write semi religious fanfic about you

-after some time dating him people will start worshipping you because he has been secretly preaching a new religion with you as the messiah

Art by: @rowscara

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Top left:

Jaghatai Khan

Primach of the white scars legion

Perks:

-badass biker boy

-will do long motorcycle road trips with you

-will take you to the most romantic remote locations

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Top right:

Lion El' Johnson

Primarch of the dark angels legion

Perks:

-will be your knight in shining armour

-will make you feel like his precious princess (regardless of gender ofc.)

-will teach you swordfighting

-doesn't talk about his ex because he never had one so stop asking

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Bottom centre:

Corvus Corax

Primach of the raven guard legion

Perks:

-has entirely black eyes (how cool is that!?)

-has a pet raven because of course he has one

-takes you flying with his bad ass metal wings

Art by: @rowscara

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Top right:

Angron

Primach of the world eaters legion

Perks:

-will fight anyone who even just slightly threatens to harm you

-will help you take revenge on your enemies and hide all the bodies you two leave behind (there will be many)

-you will, from time to time, have difficulties sitting down and explaining how you got those scratch marks when you go to work the next morning

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Top left:

Vulkan

Primarch of the salamanders legion

Perks:

-gives the best hugs

-is really hot (like literally you won't need a blanket at night)

-extrovert who will adopt you into all his friend groups

-will always try to make you feel conformable especially in social situations

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Bottom centre:

Konrad Curze

Primarch of the night lords legion

Perks:

-is basically emo batman (do I need to say more?)

-definitely wears eyeliner and black nail polish

-will always take care of you if you have nightmares even if that means staying up all night

Art by: @rowscara

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Top left:

Ferus Manus

Primarch of the iron hands legion

Perks:

-will fix and improve every piece of tech you have

-can make you shiny cybernetics to replace your weak and failing flesh

-yes those do come with 'special attachments' and include 'massage functions'

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Top right:

Rogal Dorn

Primach of the imperial fists legion

Perks:

-master craftsman

-will build your dream house for you

-alway a calm and steadfast shoulder to lean on

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Bottom left & right:

Alpharius Omegon

Primach(s) of the alpha legion

Perks:

-twins (you either get both or none)

-this will be at least a thrupple but if you date them you're basically dating their whole legion

-will ask you if you want to do a threesome+ with the twins and as many of their lookalikes from the legion as you want.

Art by: @rowscara

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Top left:

Mortarion

Primach of the death guard legion

Perks:

-will lead a peasant uprising with you and slay the tyrant of the land

-will return to quiet farm life in a green valley somewhere with you after you're done

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Top right:

Leman Russ

Primarch of the space wolves legion

Perks:

-dog person

-will hunt for you bringing you only the best meat, furs and trophies

-loves headscratches

-great drinking buddy

-will bite you (affectionately)

-dog ears and 'good boy/girl' are not optional during sex

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Bottom left:

Route Guliman

Primarch if the ultra marines legion

Perks:

-will do your taxes and manage your finances & investments for you

-always reminds you and takes care of any appointments or important dates so you don't miss anything

-Family man

-will be the best dad possible for your children

Art by: @rowscara

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Top left:

Horus Lupercal

Primarch if the lunar wolves legion

Perks

-still has some of his old mob connections

-talks like a gangster even though he left that life behind him

-extremely charismatic and will get you nearly everything you want if you just let him talk to people long enough

-will plan to seduce you months or years before you know it to perfectly sweep you of your feet in just the right moment

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Bottom right:

Perturabo

Primarch of the iron warriors

Perks:

-granted he is a ruthless warlord but he will conquer you an empire

-always stays pragmatic and realistic

-will make your birthday a national holiday in your empire

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This was possibly one of the biggest wastes of my time as of today. Anyways have fun with my semi wholesome primarch headcanon and Reblog with who you would/wouldn't date.

[exitiumparit]

Gives Chyla a blueberry muffin

@tachiisms || give my muses objects || not accepting

She grins and catches the muffin--still in packing--from across the kitchen table.

“Thanks, Siri! Oo, my favorite,” she smiled, ripping open the plastic. “Only the best culinary fare in the house of Siri Tachi,” she teased, immediately taking off the wrapper to tear off the bottom half of the muffin. She always ate it upside down to save the yummy crumb top for last.

“Hey, feel special, sometimes I don’t get fed,” Ferus quipped. Siri only responded with tossing his muffin at the back of his head.

[ferusaurelius]

Gorgeous! We’re not gonna talk about my wine collection. -cough- I’m still working on getting the fridge I want, but my basement storage is pretty packed. I’m heavily invested in the 2018 and 2019 vintages of CA wine...

Everything but the red wine and duplicate bottles has a home now!

@ferusaurelius @pigeontheoneandonly @swaps55 and any other mutual whose into whiskey and/or cocktails.... when ya coming over to help me make some more shelf space? 🤔🤔🤔

Final shot plus a bonus pic of my glassware cabinet

[tachiisms]

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[blackkatmagic]

lmao Jaster declaring himself Ferus's research assistant! He's gotta plant those subliminal seeds early so he can absorb all the jedi lore possible

Jaster: Quick I need to take the least threatening posture possible

Jaster, to the clones: I self-identify as Nerd.

[ferusaurelius]

Day One

For @the-wip-project #100DaysOfWriting Challenge.

Prompt 001 - What keeps you writing? 

Other than not being able to stop myself, who knows.

Full disclosure, I love everything about the writing process. 

I’ve got a degree in English and I’ve been a professional freelance editor, as well as a tutor and a writing teacher. I wrote my undergrad thesis on revision.

But all of that is ancillary to the reason I write in the first place, or what keeps me going.

It never occurred to me that stopping (permanently) was an option. 

Writing is my primary mode of communication, a method of reasoning and polishing thoughts, and a record of experience. It’s a fundamental processing tool.

I learned to touch-type because it would make it easier for me to write without handwriting, and my handwriting is shit. At this point I type fast enough to draft at the speed of thought, even if I spend quite a bit of time outlining and revising.

Most days I just don’t have the energy to get through a draft. One of the reasons I switched careers was that I needed to take the pressure to make money off of my creative process, which is lengthy and wandering and abstracted.

I do other things for money now.

I gave myself the gift of time, and patience, and space.

Without that pressure bearing me down into the black void of doubt and self-criticism, I’m free to gather as much material as I like and to take my time mulling it over and enjoying the journey. 

The best thing I ever did for myself and my writing was forgive it for being what it needed to be.

-

Why Mass Effect, Ferus?

Blame FFXIV Shadowbringers. The game writing is fantastic and I found myself wishing that someone would go back to the Mass Effect universe and do for those characters what Natsuko Ishikawa accomplished for the Warrior of Light and the Scions. 

And then I thought -- why not me? Why don’t I try to do that.

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Why the “Air Needing Light” AU, and why Saren as the POV character?

The pandemic did a number on my emotions. I’d stopped writing outside of RP for a few years, and something in me just bubbled to the surface. This idea for a no-Reapers alternative universe, where galactic political intrigue and first contact with humanity are the focus, just wouldn’t let me sleep.

There’s an ME3 codex entry on turian Blackwatch that jokingly refers to rumors that Saren was a part of the organization, though “this was unlikely due to his youth.” And I thought: challenge accepted.

From a meta standpoint, then, it was about deciding how a turian biotic might reasonably avoid the cabals. 

To my mind, the answer to that question was that a mistake had been made in training or evaluation, and that Saren was allowed to continue in his chosen Blackwatch career path because he’d supposedly washed out of biotic training. A young turian with biotic potential that just never came to fruition.

Not that uncommon! Except that, whoops, he’s actually biotic and he figures this out during his first combat deployment with Blackwatch. On Shanxi. During the First Contact War. ;D

Please look forward to the next chapter(s)! I’m hard at work on them.

[feruslands]

This is another such concept of Ferus Olin.

The most pedantic student and just a nerd padawan.))

I really like that his skin is pale like that of aristocrats. Maybe he was an aristocrat by birth?..

Made in artbreeber+photoshop