Hell Yeah Babey

It's my mass effect sideblog lol

[milkywayes]

they’re not clan markings they’re colony markings

[milkywayes]

me too. to quote a friend, it’s like painting your partner’s zip code on your face

i understand the thought process behind it but it seems a bit silly when considering what we know about markings in canon. i suppose you could make up a justification for it by saying that one part of a turian couple takes on the others’ allegiances — so also the markings — when formalizing their relationship… but honestly, I don’t even really see that happening.

[milkywayes]

another one floats to the surface (yeah)

[milkywayes]

garrus’ complexity is what’s so enticing about him. he’s smart and unflinching and frank about the realities of war and the sacrifices it demands, more so than any of the others, and it’s so refreshing. shepard doesn’t need anyone to play pretend with her. and at the same time he also makes clear that he doesn’t feel good about the conclusions he comes to. he doesn’t delight in it. he’s just not going to stick his head in the sand. and when they’re a couple, he supports her so tenderly and compassionately that any argument that he’s a cold-hearted bastard just dies in its infancy. he’s not an optimist, he doesn’t see the world with rose colored glasses, he struggles with what to do about the problems he sees in it, he makes impulsive and emotional decisions as well as detached and strategic ones—but he makes for a steadfast and loving companion. you know it’s about equality and respect when they realize they don’t have to fix each other but rather stand with each other.

[sanakaan]

i like Garrus a normal amount

[milkywayes]

there's downsides to ranking high in the hierarchy [prints]

[cbrcbbr]

nature has become so purified that i miss shakarian again

[raiderbirdy]

Commission: OC Valevius Optimatus

[ladiemars]

some mass effect doodlin’

[aceouttatime]

Deso Tevvitus, Citadel Special Tactics and Reconnaissance

Yet another First-Contact-War-era character of mine who has become a bit of a brainworm. Was this just an excuse to draw another turian? Why, no! Of course not!

Yes. Yes it was.

[milkywayes]

objective: interspecies communication. status: successful

[aceouttatime]

sketch i did for warm-up yesterday. turians are simply too fun to draw 😔

[stormcallart]

Garrus’ “bad turian” line has been stuck in my head so here’s Turian!Reaper casually leaning against a wall challenging that statement. I can’t stop drawing him now, it’s like I’m possessed!

[robogart]

Finished commission of Garrus for @amatusendura! 🥰💖✨

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*And as requested by the very VERY generous commissioner, this piece is also available to purchase for the public on my inprnt! Space Boyfriend Garrus 💖💕✨

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/robogart/space-boyfriend-garrus/

[gammaraydeath]

"is that a-ha" "what do you think"

[aceouttatime]

Waist? Snatched.

Anyways I'm still laughing about the spur holes in the pants. Enjoy one of the many outfits I'm working on. Some casual wear for today.

[milkywayes]

just woke up so i’m cranky but man once again i cannot overstate how much i hate synthesis ending

[milkywayes]

all through ME3 i thought i had the ending figured out, by the way. i did not, but i thought i did. i damn well wish i had. every time EDI consulted shepard about moral adjustments, love over self-preservation, there being more to organic life than reproduction - i thought for sure she was going to sacrifice herself at the end as long as I kept up the paragon dialogue. that shepard would teach her about the value of life, and then shepard would go into the crucible and plan to not come out, and EDI would join her there unexpectedly and say: ‘shepard, i understand now, and i can’t let you do this. i am so much more than i was before thanks in a large part to you, and i want you to live. get out of here and let me push the button. tell jeff that i am sorry but that this is the meaning that i choose for myself.’

EDI with her reaper code. EDI, treated with the utmost suspicion all throughout ME2. EDI, built as a tool but a person now, giving the biggest possible ‘fuck you’ to the man that had her built. choosing for herself what no synthetic has done before: to give her life for organics. to prove the reapers wrong.

it would have been heartbreaking, but it would have been good. she’d only do this if shepard treated her with respect and compassion. a tragedy, but a meaningful one.

instead we get synthesis, where shepard, the eternal scapegoat and lynchpin and atlas, does what she always does which is give herself up for a world that never valued her.

seeing all these first-time players choose it of their own volition because they’re understandably attached to EDI and the geth and the intelligence pushes it as the best option (ulterior motive much) is a special kind of torture because i get it, but also… be brave. there is no good way out of the war. each option is a tragedy in itself but only one of the options alters the very being of every living creature in the galaxy against their will - just because you felt bad for a friend and got throughly manipulated by the intelligence that created the whole problem in the first place

[gammaraydeath]

how would you feel with your finger on the trigger?