That's My Emotional Support Shepard

Southern girl. Legal bee by day, fanfic by night. MShenko, Shep x Shep crack addict. One of those weirdos with two middle names.

[blakelyohgee]

Master List

I'm trying to get back into creating after a crazy year, and I don't think I have one of these yet, so might as well.

My main OC page can be found here with pictures, mood boards, bios, etc for my current OCs. My retired OCs can be found here along with links to their stories. I primarily write mShenko and Shep/Shep. I'm a sucker for backstories and origin stories as I like to go outside of canon and explore the characters.

AO3

OCs

Beau Shepard - Earthborn/War Hero/Infiltrator/Paragade Dante Shepard - Earthborn/Butcher/Adept/Renegade Jake Shepard - Colonist/Sole Survivor/Vanguard/Paragade Ilse Schafer - Earthborn/War Hero/ANN Reporter/Paragon Mark Shepard - Earthborn/Butcher/Infiltrator/Renegon Caitlyn Shepard - Colonist/Butcher/Doctor/Paragon John Shepard - Colonist/Butcher/Adept/Renegade Nikolaj Shepard - Spacer/War Hero/Vanguard/Renegon Remi Corbin Shepard - Colonist/War Hero/Infiltrator/Renegade Séarlait Shepard - Colonist/Sole Survivor/Adept/Paragade Greyson Shepard - Colonist/Butcher/Adept/Paragade Lukas Shepard - Colonist/Butcher/Sentinel/Renegade Red Shepard - Earthborn/War Hero/Vanguard/Renegade

Recent Works

Blind Faith - mShep/mShep (Complete) John/Jake The Best Medicine - mShenko (Complete) Jake/Kaidan A Knock at the Door - mShenko (Complete) Mark/Kaidan Your Arms Feel Like Home - fShep/mShep (In Progress) Caitlyn/John Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler - mShenko poly (In Progress) Kaidan/Beau/Dante

[mallaidhsomo]

Masterpost

Part 2 of the Us Against the World series

Rating: E | Pairing: Kaidan Alenko/Ashley Williams | OC: Leo Shepard (Engineer/Earthborn/Sole Survivor) | Words: 12,484

Ashley and Kaidan's domestic bubble is burst. Ashley sees a ghost.

Chapter 1: My Soul is Saved

Chapter 2: Oh Simple Thing

Chapter 3: I'm in the Ruins too

Chapter 4: Meet Me on the Bridge

Chapter 5: Can You Hear Me

Chapter 6: Why do we Feel so Small

[daphrona]

Slow burn but it's written by an impatient person

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

This doesn't affect the speed of the developing relationship at all, but does make for a very passive aggressive narrator.

[sandersstudies]

“They looked into each other’s eyes for a long moment...again. Notably, they were not kissing.”

[killer-laurent]

Commissions for @blakelyohgee

[blakelyohgee]

My beautiful boys by @killer-laurent! I love them!!

Dante

Jax

Rhys

[geirahood]

I have commissions open...I'm in need of money to buy food, I have no food left in the house and my kitten has almost run out of food too, she has like for 4 more days,maybe...

Im also giving away a free portrait commission for any commission purchases I have available. (You can buy it directly through kofi link below)

Also I have my kofi donations open, if someone wants to help me out but can't commission me at this time, that help is also very much appreciated 💗! Reblogs are also much appreciated, Thank you very much!

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[geirahood]

Commissions open! I'm running out of groceries 😞

I'm offering a free portrait with all commission purchases 😊

[orcinus-veterinarius]

I can think of a really easy solution to this problem.

[talesfromtreatment]

If the cat is preferring to be at someone else's house when you let them outside.... I'd say that cat is definitely choosing them over you.

Someone at my work recently found a roughly 7 month old intact male cat who is extremely friendly and has been hanging around her house more and more and more. They live near an extremely busy road. They're going to contact the local shelter and see what they need to do legally, but when there was no microchip I looked this person in the eye and said "Please welcome your new cat." Provided they don't find owners, and I'm hoping to everything they *don't*, he is going to live out the rest of his life as an indoor-only cat.

[justalurkr]

Urban or suburban cats (i.e., those adjacent to busy roads) should exclusively be indoor cats. If you let your cat out in that environment, you're rolling the dice on more than it being hit by a car.

[naamahdarling]

And rural cats get eaten by coyotes and foxes and uncontrolled dogs and possibly birds of prey and possibly shot by kids or adults with rifles who hate cats and they get exposed to parasites and bring those home to you and they get exposed to diseases and spread them and they also kill a ton of wildlife...keep them indoors.

[andragoras--in--vanity-deactiva]

except to the prev comment, barn cats are a thing. theyre livestock guardian animals that work in tandem with guardian dogs, they need to see the vet regularly just like any other farm animal, but you need to realize they are not pets nor are they the same as "outdoor cats". theyre working animals and for the safety of the livestock and the sakenof rodent control, they CANNOT be indoor pets. they're taught how to behave and where to go.

people in rural areas that have cats typically theyre farm cats with a purose, but idk maybe you just live around really stupid people who think they can just leave an untrained cat outside and think itll be fine?? but otherwise, yes farm cats are the only cats who should be outdoors

[talesfromtreatment]

Barn cats, if they are not contained to the barn itself (at which point they are no longer outdoor cats), are extremely ineffective rodent control, often will not tackle rats at all, and can spread several diseases to livestock including toxo which is particularly deadly to sheep but can cause issues with all livestock, they also still hunt native wildlife including birds, lizards (both of whom help control insect populations), and snakes.

They also still get eaten by predators, get into fights with other cats, get injured by livestock, and get run over by cars and farm equipment.

They still wander into neighboring farms and can attack or even kill their animals.

Barn cats are not taught. They are not trained. They are feral, semi feral, or even human-raised cats that are brought in because their form of rodent control *doesn't* require training and direction from humans, unlike ratting terriers (extremely efficient and enthusiastic rodent extermination option).

[kedreeva]

Additionally, you know why a LOT of people have barn cats? Because people see a barn, people that do not live at the residence with said barn, and go "ah ha I can dump my cat here and they will just be a barn cat, which is fine." and then they dump their fucking cats at the barn, and the farmers, who did not ask for this but may not be up for killing your cat for you, choose to take care of them. It's that, or people feel bad that all the TNR places trap, neuter, and want to re-release ferals but rebranded as "barn cats" when in fact, they aren't barn cats they're just ferals that should have been trapped and euthanized. They're not suitable for domestic life, and feral life is absolute hell for cats with an expected lifespan of just 2-5 years for an animal that EASILY lives 15+ indoors, and their deaths are typically horrific- vehicular impacts, toxins, predators, starvation, etc etc etc.

I have a barn. It is not in ANY WAY suitable for cats. There is no hayloft to keep them warm, it's completely cement bottomed and full of birds and bird equipment. I will not be feeding or watering outdoor cats. I will not be taking them to the vet. And yet I get people who dump cats on my property thinking they can be barn cats. Several times a year! Some of them are friendly enough I can just go pick them up and drop them at a shelter which is what the other person should have done. But usually it's cats that "weren't suitable" for indoor life (read: someone was not willing to invest the time and money into making their house livable for a cat that didn't want to be bored witless and eat hard tack its entire life), that someone dumped thinking it would be better suited for farm life.

And why do they think this? because absolutely hot garbage opinions like this get spread around as a norm.

I'm sorry, and I wish I lived in a world where cats were both perfectly safe and could be trusted to only kill specific pests and nothing else and live perfect little indoor-outdoor or outdoor lives, but that's just NOT the case. Outdoor cats DO do a mass amount of harm and are at a HUGE risk of injury, illness, and death, and there's NO exceptions.

[blakelyohgee]

Adding to this, outdoor cats are contributing to the extinction of endangered species, especially protected birds. In the US alone, outdoor cats kill up to 4 billion birds and 22 billion mammals every year. They will kill over 2,000 different species of animals, including almost 350 species that are endangered or near extinction, and the extinction of 33 species worldwide is attributed to feline predation. Keep them inside. Source Source Source Source

[kimabutch]

One of my favourite questions for figuring out a character’s motivations is which qualities they most fear being assigned to them. Are they afraid (consciously or unconsciously) of being seen as stupid? Ungrateful? Weak? Incompetent? Lazy? Cowardly? Intimidating? Like they actually care? etc.

It’s such a fun way to explore into who they are, why they do what they do, what they don’t do out of fear, and how they might be affected by the events of the story. And I love when characters have negative motivations—trying to avoid something (in this case, being seen a particular way) as much as they’re trying to achieve a goal.

[charbroiledchicken-deactivated2]

"you're the writer, you control how the story goes" no not really. i wrote the first sentence and then my characters said "WE WILL TAKE IT FROM HERE" and promptly swerved into an electrical fence.

[biowareproblems]

[hwhwgwhnwnwbwbwg-deactivated202]

Jasmine Kaur

[theoriginalladya]

Happy N7 Day!

(gorgeous artwork by @xla-hainex)

I may or may not have something later in the day for N7 this year (depends on the work gods today), so for now, here's a story I did a three years ago for N7 Day.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[andorerso]

one of the worst things about writing is that sometimes it's really just one specific scene you want to write for an AU, but it doesn't hit as hard without the buildup

[meatdiaz]

do you ever think about how sometimes it just... takes one random message? and suddenly you find yourself with a best friend or in constant conversation with someone who lives on the other side of the world but is just as much of a freak as you are or maybe you find yourself in love with someone without a last name but with so much kindness and affection in their words and presence. crazy how life and love and friendship just happen

[swaps55]

There just...there will never be another character like Shepard for me.

It's a phenomenal thing to see how this singular person becomes so many things to so many different people, while still being the same character at their core. No one's Shepard is alike, but they have all shared the same burdens and struggles, gotten back up when no one else could, shouldered the hopes of an entire galaxy and gave everything of themselves.

Shepard is all of us, in a figurative way, but also in a literal one. Shepard can be anyone. You. Me. Just look at the art. Look at the stories. The screenshots. The gifs and videos. So many different people, all with the same N7 logo on their chest.

The Shepard Kaleidoscope is such a beautiful thing.

Shepard is everything.

[blakelyohgee]

Master List

I'm trying to get back into creating after a crazy year, and I don't think I have one of these yet, so might as well.

My main OC page can be found here with pictures, mood boards, bios, etc for my current OCs. My retired OCs can be found here along with links to their stories. I primarily write mShenko and Shep/Shep. I'm a sucker for backstories and origin stories as I like to go outside of canon and explore the characters.

AO3

OCs

Beau Shepard - Earthborn/War Hero/Infiltrator/Paragade Dante Shepard - Earthborn/Butcher/Adept/Renegade Jake Shepard - Colonist/Sole Survivor/Vanguard/Paragade Ilse Schafer - Earthborn/War Hero/ANN Reporter/Paragon Mark Shepard - Earthborn/Butcher/Infiltrator/Renegon Caitlyn Shepard - Colonist/Butcher/Doctor/Paragon John Shepard - Colonist/Butcher/Adept/Renegade Nikolaj Shepard - Spacer/War Hero/Vanguard/Renegon Remi Corbin Shepard - Colonist/War Hero/Infiltrator/Renegade Séarlait Shepard - Colonist/Sole Survivor/Adept/Paragade Greyson Shepard - Colonist/Butcher/Adept/Paragade Lukas Shepard - Colonist/Butcher/Sentinel/Renegade Red Shepard - Earthborn/War Hero/Vanguard/Renegade

Recent Works

Blind Faith - mShep/mShep (Complete) John/Jake The Best Medicine - mShenko (Complete) Jake/Kaidan A Knock at the Door - mShenko (Complete) Mark/Kaidan Your Arms Feel Like Home - fShep/mShep (In Progress) Caitlyn/John Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler - mShenko poly (In Progress) Kaidan/Beau/Dante

[blakelyohgee]

Reblogging for N7 Day. Red (by me), Jake (by @juleshawke), Searlait and Beau (both by @eluvisen)

[jshepardtsoni]

Send help. Is this Shepard? Please, let it be Shepard.

[blakelyohgee]

If they announced that Shepard was the protagonist, I would pre-order today.

[mallaidhsomo]

Happy N7 Day! Here are some of the amazing Commander Shepard portraits I've gotten from @eluvisen

From left to right and top to bottom: Asher, Beau, Unnamed FemShep, Sidney, Eric, Eric, Jamie, Leo, Quinn, Sid, Tessa.