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Ymir is always off somewhere in Trost, and Historia wants to know why. One day, she stalk (follow) Ymir, discovering the reason why. However, weeks after her discovery, she will learn why she should have not prob Ymir's past so much.
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You know after all this time does anyone else get the distinct impression that much if not most of the hate that the Citadel Council gets from the general Mass Effect fandom is ENTIRELY due to ‘Airquotes Reapers’ getting meme’d into oblivion?
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i continue to be haunted by the reading discourse where a human being who claims to love reading declared with their own human mouth said, “if the author wanted me to read a prologue or an epilogue, then they should have put it in the book.”
my sibling in library, i ask, “WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT???”
I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it
studying cell biology and liking the asari is like the number one best combo of a serious headache.
how do you make babies with your nervous systems? how does the ardat yakshi disease work? how do you meld with someone? I NEED DETAILED STEPS
and everytime i think i just came up with the most genius headcanon i just realise halfway through that it's bullshit 😭
I've been thinking about the asari having sex (hear me out✋️✋️✋️) and I had this train of thought, which started from a silly headcanon that the asari would not enjoy penetrative sex, because why would they evolve to enjoy inserting anything in their vaginas. But then I realised... why would they evolve to enjoy any sort of physical touch in their private parts? And now as far as I know, we, real life humans, aren't sure if clitoris stimulation leading to female orgasms has much to do with reproduction or not, but I just think it would be interesting if the asari couldn't have orgasms from physical stimulation on their genitals at all.
Two things Liara tells us about asari sex in ME1:
"Mating is not quite the proper term, not as you understand it. Physical contact may or may not be involved, but it is not an essential element of the union." - Which means that they do in fact practise some form of physical contact during melding for the sake of fun/pleasure alone, but it's not biologically required for reproduction.
"Union with our own kind is no longer common. Not for the purposes of reproduction." - Which again just means that asari have sex with each other for fun in some way, the "fun part" being the melding and I'd assume the physical contact itself.
If we go by the logic of most people's interpretation of melding, especially in fanfiction, then connecting your nervous system with someone else in some way could mean feeling what the other person is feeling. But I imagine melding to be a very very complicated mental process for the asari, almost like how we humans can imagine an apple and rotate it and smash it and eat it in our imagination. The asari probably have great control over how much of their partner's mind they're exploring. And so I could imagine a form of asari sex that doesn't involve simply touching sensitive parts of the body, but much much more. Of course physical touch could play a huge role, but maybe things like thinking of nice things, focusing on and feeling each other's happiness and the two separate feelings combining and amplifying each other, and become this huge high for the two people involved, where they sort of just melt into each other, and it might as well feel orgasmic in a way. Just in a very different and not human like way.
On the other hand tho, when it comes to having sex with aliens and melding with aliens, I'm sure the asari enjoy feeling their partners' orgasms or learning how to help them achieve it as they also get pleasure from it themselves.
So overall, I don't think asari like being fingered, but I'm sure they have beautiful sex. 😌
i'll still probably stick to the watered down "they just don't like penetrative sex" and draw asari being eaten out tho........ but this is the objectively cooler head canon
I've been thinking about the asari having sex (hear me out✋️✋️✋️) and I had this train of thought, which started from a silly headcanon that the asari would not enjoy penetrative sex, because why would they evolve to enjoy inserting anything in their vaginas. But then I realised... why would they evolve to enjoy any sort of physical touch in their private parts? And now as far as I know, we, real life humans, aren't sure if clitoris stimulation leading to female orgasms has much to do with reproduction or not, but I just think it would be interesting if the asari couldn't have orgasms from physical stimulation on their genitals at all.
Two things Liara tells us about asari sex in ME1:
"Mating is not quite the proper term, not as you understand it. Physical contact may or may not be involved, but it is not an essential element of the union." - Which means that they do in fact practise some form of physical contact during melding for the sake of fun/pleasure alone, but it's not biologically required for reproduction.
"Union with our own kind is no longer common. Not for the purposes of reproduction." - Which again just means that asari have sex with each other for fun in some way, the "fun part" being the melding and I'd assume the physical contact itself.
If we go by the logic of most people's interpretation of melding, especially in fanfiction, then connecting your nervous system with someone else in some way could mean feeling what the other person is feeling. But I imagine melding to be a very very complicated mental process for the asari, almost like how we humans can imagine an apple and rotate it and smash it and eat it in our imagination. The asari probably have great control over how much of their partner's mind they're exploring. And so I could imagine a form of asari sex that doesn't involve simply touching sensitive parts of the body, but much much more. Of course physical touch could play a huge role, but maybe things like thinking of nice things, focusing on and feeling each other's happiness and the two separate feelings combining and amplifying each other, and become this huge high for the two people involved, where they sort of just melt into each other, and it might as well feel orgasmic in a way. Just in a very different and not human like way.
On the other hand tho, when it comes to having sex with aliens and melding with aliens, I'm sure the asari enjoy feeling their partners' orgasms or learning how to help them achieve it as they also get pleasure from it themselves.
So overall, I don't think asari like being fingered, but I'm sure they have beautiful sex. 😌
i'll still probably stick to the watered down "they just don't like penetrative sex" and draw asari being eaten out tho........ but this is the objectively cooler head canon
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Codex: Asari: Military Doctrine: "The asari military resembles a collection of tribal warrior bands with no national structure. Each community organizes its won unit as the locals see fit, and elect a leader to command them. Units from populous cities are large and well-equipped, while those from farm villages may be only a few women with small arms. There is no uniform; everyone wears what they like. The asari military is not an irregular militia, however; those who serve are full-time professionals."
...How do the asari ever win wars?
That may be a functional system for skirmishing, but it is not able to handle maintaining large swathes of space. How do those farm villages buy and man enough space ships to protect a planet? Or do the large cities handle it and are chill not having the farmers contribute?
Except colonies start relatively small. How do they survive long enough to become large enough to protect themselves?
This is a terrible system and I'm going to pretend it doesn't exist and each Asari Republic just has a heavily decentralized military that can nonetheless be pointed in the same direction when necessary.
(No wonder they needed the krogan and the turians so badly.)
I would assume that, like everything else, the Asari answer to needing more protection than they can muster locally is diplomacy. Make a deal with a bigger neighbor! Promise a portion of the next harvest in exchange for protecting the fields. Sweetheart deals on goods and materials if they include the factories and mines in their patrols. Expert service from professionals in exchange for weapons, armour, ships, and gear. Plus, given the lifespans involved, these deals could have terms lasting decades or centuries before significant payout is expected. Asari bring a whole new meaning to "long term investment".
"How do the asari ever win wars?"
That's the neat part, they don't!
More seriously, the lore is pretty emphatic that, while the centuries of practice and powerful Biotics make Asari strike teams unmatched at what they do, Asari military structure is categorically incapable of engaging in traditional warfare.
... so they built a system where they don't have to. Given the fractured nature of their military, it would follow that any internal threats were similarly fractured. Like for like, no problem. Once they galactic community started forming and they had to deal with different kinds of threats, ones that don't follow the same rules... they called on their new allies in the STG to supply them with intel, so their Huntresses could end the threat early, before anything bigger than a skirmish is a possibility. Diplomacy removes the need for centralized military organization. Which is great and all, until an Outside Context Problem shows up...
Enter the Rachni. Asari strike teams can't fight their way through the hives to assassinate the Queens. Salarian intelligence can't manipulate or isolate weak points. They're forced into large scale warfare, which means they're screwed...
Enter the Krogan. Asari diplomacy (backed by Salarian science) create a new solution, where they get someone else to do the heavy lifting so they don't have to. Which is great and all, until the Krogan figure out that Asari and Salarian forces can't stand up to them in open combat, so they just start taking whatever they want. They're forced into large scale warfare, which means they're screwed...
Enter the Turians. Asari diplomacy (backed by Salarian science) once again creates a new solution so that they don't have to learn how to fight wars themselves. And, learning from their mistakes with the Krogan, they trap the Turians in an authoritative structure, which they are culturally conditioned to obey unquestioningly. Everything's fine and dandy again... sure hope no new Outside Context Problems show u-*REAPER BWAAAAA*
Hyper specialization, it works great until it doesn't. Then you need to get lucky. Which leads to Survivorship Bias, encouraging continued hyper specialization. "It's worked so far, no reason to change", Status Quo Is God.
Plus, it's not like they are COMPLETELY unaware of the problems. Atheyta pointed out the shortcomings, and ways they could shore up their weaknesses. They just "laughed the blue off [her] ass" for it. Why fix what isn't broke? Oh no, the Reapers arrived and reminded us that it IS, in fact, broke! Just like with the Rachni and the Krogan and...
"This is a terrible system" No argument from me on that one. =P
Described like that I'm a lot more forgiving to it. I can see that functioning (and not functioning) to the current time in the Mass Effect universe.
I actually like the idea of the asari military relying heavily on diplomacy (as mentioned in a later post about that codex entry). It suits their role in Mass Effect well.
I just cannot see a completely decentralized military surviving on the galactic stage. Logistics on a single planet are bad enough - logistics in space is exponentially harder.
How are supplies (food, weapon, armor) distributed? Information? Assassination targets assigned?
You just can't do that in space on a village by village level, and enough diplomacy is going to eventually result in a de facto central authority.
I think if it had been on a planet by planet level I could roll with it. Something something each planet is a loose federation of organized units > multiple planets form a loose republic > the republics form the Asari Republic.
On paper each unit is an independent entity, in practice the contracts are so binding they form something bigger.
It looks like ME3 also retconned in a central authority: For the asari war assets it says 'they're coordinated by Asari High Command, a core leadership of commandos and politicians from numerous asari worlds'.
To make it fit with ME1 one can assume some very extensive contract work behind the scenes.
All of this just reinforces my idea that Aethyta became leader of the Asari Republics during the war effect.
Yeah, the ME1 canon doesn't hold up to your legitimate criticisms, which is why they heavily retconned it in ME3 ; the fact they have distinct fleets as War Assets is another indication that there's some centralization going on, but like, who footed the bill for the Destiny Ascension ? We're supposed to believe a single Republic paid for the biggest, most powerful ship in history (that isn't an eldritch mecha Cthulhu) when that ship is supposed to protect every Republic ?
I go with the following headcanons : every ground unit is distinct and decentralized (the Army/Marines) like the Codex says and all three games + the secondary canon emphasize, but the navy is the connective tissue, both by economic necessity and sheer pragmatism.
(And like. If we stick to ME1 canon. 3% of the Republics population at least is in their military in some capacity. That's huge.)
Mind you, this is also the same lore that said Asari, Salarians, and Turians have only dozens of dreadnoughts, yet with population in the trillions they should hundreds of thousands. The writers simply underestimate the gigantic scale of an interstellar state should be.
@johndhu asked me about asari bonding bracelets, and this idea just came to me, that the asari would use nerves or neurons as a symbol of love and connection, just like how we use hearts for the same thing, because of melding.
Instead of saying "i ♡ you" the asari just go "i ✴ you!"
And here are some nerve cell shaped bracelets✨️
I've been considering the contention that asari don't have gender.
Liara states that asari don't have a concept of male or female. At the same time, she explicitly says that asari have one gender - a "mono-gender."
Do you accept the premise that the categories and norms of gender are ultimately derived from differences between sexes?
Asari have one sex. While this is stated to be the case, some argue that this is technically false, because definitions of sex require multiple states; i.e., anisogamy, gonochorism, etc. (@crapeaucrapeau)
Within the paradigm of their one gender, could gendered or gender-like attitudes arise from the categories of asari gender, whatever they are? I consider these categories to be: Age, life stage (Maiden/Matron/Matriarch), seniority, parenthood, parentage, perception of the personal effects of parentage, profession, and general lived experience. Your results may vary. Asari gender could be expressed along these lines (rather than a familiar feminine/masculine binary). For example, gendered attitudes among the asari could be: Maiden behavior vs. Matriarch behavior; parent vs. childless; amateur vs. professional, etc.
Just trying to make sense of obvious contradictions and inconsistencies re: asari gender lore.
Unfortunately, not really about Asari/Mass Effect for monogender (😑) but one of my original race, Indrín. Which, they (and I) plunge into debate about their sex. That rather if they actually classified as a monosex (they classified themselves as semi-monosex) or not. Though if a (human) man says that they're actuality gonochorism, they will lynch him while dragging him through thr dirt.
This is a one-off but significant line from Liara. It indicates that asari are aware of how other species view them, are aware of other species' mating dynamics, perhaps other species' gender dynamics, etc. This was never in doubt, of course, but this bit of dialogue is evidence.
How different do you think asari sexuality was before asari met other species?
How different do you think asari sexuality is when asari court other asari?
How much do you think asari sexuality has been shaped by the process of seeking mates from other species?
Do you think asari feel pressured to imitate other species' mating strategies?
How much of what we see of asari self-sexualization do you think is imitative and/or performative? I'm not trying to be crass when I suggest there's much one can read into the practice of asari exotic dancing.
Logically, how much ought asari sexuality and mating differ, compared to species with multiple sexes?
Re that picture: I sorely want an asari character with feminist opinions and related dialogue. At the very least, I want an asari character who won't tolerate the sexist abuse other species inflict on asari.
Thanks to @queenpriapus2 for pointing out how much can be read into that line. Thanks to @peachyatelier for bringing their post to my attention.
I written a superficial and short paragraph about Asari sexuality. With Asari being the same sex, it sure be depended based on either prehistoric, socio-economic class, and just simply vibes. I don't believe it would be similar to snails and slugs, that both mates would rather fight to whom who be thr one be impregnated (unless they have a kink for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). I do like to think it initiates by dancing though: how thier partner lead or being lead, how synchronize they are, and rather how confident they are (they must have debat-like balls in their culture).
Though i dislike the idea ofan Asari feminist simply because it indicates that the Citadel Council, and galactic society itself, is patriarchal. And it also contradict with how powerful Asari are based on series lore (then again, the series also contradict it own lore too, but they because it mostly written with men not knowing how to write a matriarchal society too). I do believe that Asari will dislike unintentional sexualization by not jsut men, but other genders (canonically, there is at least dozens to almost hundreds species in the galaxy and I don't believe it all races are gonochoric). But i believe they will confront it via violence, not peacefully.
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So... Everyone seems to be choosing a species to draw babies. Idk, I can do salarians..?
*proceeds to draw ugly ass tadpole*
nevermind, I'll stick to nsfw
as requested — baby salarian
That baby reminds me of this alien from MIB 2.
