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U ever start smth and ur like haha this is such a cute SKETCH and then it turns into a 10hr painting. Anyway heres astral plane viktor as ponyo's mother

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Something that really stuck with me while I was playing Mass Effect 2, and that I feel was so important to understanding the relationship between Shepard and Garrus, whether you romance him or not, is that Garrus is your only companion from ME1 who never moved on.

You died. The crew watched you die. Assumedly they grieved you, there was a funeral service, there were tears and all five stages of grief. Things were rough, but eventually life took on a shade of normalcy again.

Kaiden/Ashley got reassigned and continued their work for the alliance. Liara fights tooth and nail to get your body to Cerberus, but then it’s out of her hands and she becomes an information broker. Tali goes back to the Floatilla, like she was always supposed to. Wrex becomes a clan leader. And yes, they’re all fundamentally changed by their time on the Normandy, but no one seems as stuck as Garrus Vakarian.

Because he doesn’t go back to the Citadel. He doesn’t join the Turian Hierarchy. He ships himself off to Omega, one of the most dangerous places he could be, and makes a life out of pissing off the most dangerous people there. It’s kind of a suicide mission, especially after what happened with Sidonis. He kind of figures he’s going to die doing this, but what else can he do?

There is no normalcy for Garrus in a world without Shepard, and I think that’s why he’s always immediately ready to come back to the Normandy. The Normandy, and Shepard, are home for Garrus and that’s why I think romancing him feels like the natural conclusion for so many femme Sheps, because Shepard feels that way too.

Of all the companions, no one needs Shepard to live more than Garrus, and no one needs Garrus more than Shepard. They’re perfectly matched, as lovers, as friends, as soldiers, as whatever they are in your universe and when you’re that perfectly matched with someone, you never quite feel whole without them.

No Shepard without Vakarian.

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Karlach - Sun🧡 tarot card for @bg3tarotdeck I also have BlueSky now!

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Mike Laidlaw: "Look, I'm not a fancy CEO guy, but if someone said to me "the key to this successful single-player IP's success is to make it purely a multiplayer game. No, not a spin off: fundamentally change the DNA of what people loved about the core game" to me, I'd probably, like, quit that job or something. Just thinking out loud, of course. Who'd be silly enough to demand something like that? ...twice." [source thread]

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something had to be done

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like the way i feel about it is i don’t really care whether the writers of dragon age, like, liked anders or hated him as if he were a real person, but like— what is baffling to me is they clearly did not find him interesting. as writers. they introduced all of these themes that they just were not interested in, by accident, and don’t explore them because they didn’t care. and in any other story i can think of it wouldn’t be unintentional like that, you know, but all evidence points to it really was, it was just a convenient way to get the plot from point a to point b and suddenly they’re asking questions about what violence is and what social justice even is entirely by accident and then they drop it because they didn’t care do you know what i mean. do you know what i mean. the opposite of love isn’t hate it’s apathy

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You will (you should oughta) contact your representatives to call for immediate investigations into the activities of Elon Musk and Musk-associated "team members" in and outside of DOGE whose reckless actions and total disregard for the law and common sense are putting national security at risk in a way that directly threatens your and your representatives' personal safety:

Actions taken by Musk and those in Musk's orbit are creating vulnerabilities in federal computer systems that can and will be exploited;

Sensitive and classified information is already compromised;

Every minute Musk & co.'s actions continue unchecked, more vulnerabilities are opened as more unapproved, unreviewed protocols are introduced into more systems;

It is unclear what if any screening many of these people have;

Routine safety procedures are being bypassed;

Information systems used by members of Congress and their staff are at risk via improper access to and use of General Services Administration systems;

Their physical workplaces and all services they rely on that are managed through GSA are or soon will be rendered unsafe unless immediate action is taken;

China, Iran and Russia, already known for anti-US cyberattacks, in addition to hostile non-state actors, will exploit this and are no doubt already attempting to do so;

Vital infrastructure our federal government relies on to manage funds and resources and to coordinate and conduct virtually all its activities, including officials' confidential communications and emergency management, is at extreme risk;

This is obviously dangerous, and cannot continue.

Find your Senators and House Rep. and their contact info here.

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2018 tumblr post:

1: why do they call it a boner when theres no bone in it

2: there used to be

3: why does this sound so ominous

2025 tumblr post:

1: forward my shambling soldiers and slay without thinking. let blood flow into every crevice of this rotten land

2: yes my lady

3: yes my lady

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Leliana and warden Surana for the worms in my brain

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Year of the Snake 🐍 Happy Lunar New Year! 🌞

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FINALLY GOT SNOW

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spin this wheel to get a random d&d class. you are instantly transported into the d&d world and have to live as that class

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the sluttiest thing a man can do is join the grey wardens for a sense of purpose because he sees himself as a weapon to be sacrificed but then when it doesn't happen he has an existential crisis and also he has big brown sparkling eyes

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Rain from alien romulus