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About Me

Cap (she/they) - Queer - Here to Have Fun

Fanfiction and (aspiring) novel writer, occasional artist, committed yapper

Main Fandoms: Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and BG3 You can find me on ao3 @ capnmarvl

College Professor & Social Psychologist - Research focus in secondary traumatization and compassion fatigue

Herder of 4 dumb cats (Aurora, Liliana, Silas, and Deacon) with my wife

Additional hobbies: Archery, weight lifting, playing dnd, asking farm animals to stop biting me, cosplaying, general crafting

Fic list, OC list, and some art under the cut

#intro post

Grading while pulling an all nighter is really just coming academically full circle back to when I pulled all nighters while in school

#usually because of my 7AM financial accounting class that I was the only person who attended every class #just me and my professor learning financial accounting at 7AM #I failed the final exam but given I was the only person who took the final exam he curved it and passed me #financial accounting was the bane of my existence

kragehund-est

problematic rage gap. one partner tries to bring nuance and understanding to a tough situation. the other wants to blow up the earth about it.

lexirosewrites

what they don’t tell you about being a writer is that returning to a long fic you haven’t touched in a while means rereading 50k words first because you don’t actually remember your own fics that well

#Rolling in my grave over how to raise your human because I forgot what happened both in it and also in Fostered Rivalry #Because I can maintain exactly one thought at a time

undeadoracle

Having now done all three of the boys' romances in veilguard, the difference between davrin and emmrich taking you on dates and giving you cute kisses and making sure you get along with their sons before working their way up to talking about more serious feelings really makes you realize how unhinged lucanis is. He spends the first 2/3 of the game being like don't look at me, don't touch me, don't acknowledge me. then after you literally go in his brain to find out what's going on with him and save him he's like. fine. ok. you're special to me. and that's it, he doesn't even kiss you. then you get to endgame and he's like btw I would kill god for you. let's have our first kiss, declaration of love, and full penetration in one night. something deeply wrong with him.

winterhartarts

Actually genuinely so demisexual & demiromantic of him ngl

#There’s a reason Lucanis is my favorite and it’s exactly this #Finding out he’s specifically supposed to be Demi-coded was like an ‘oh DUH’ moment #listen feelings are confusing and sometimes you just don’t know what to do with them

strawberisapphic

everyone has a ship thats just: theyre perfect. they hate each other. theyre married. they havent spoken in 15 years. they have date nights three times a week. theyre divorced. theyre pining, its unrequited. its requited. theyre starcrossed. theyre meant to be. theyre doomed by the narrative. they love each other. theyve never held hands. they wont stop making out at parties. they cant look each other in the eye

Last Line(s) Written

@blueclanmarkings you get this simply because I was in the middle of writing lol

Thomas keeps a journal and has opinions

6 Nightscape 15th42 Starmet isn’t the smallest town on Gossamer Lake, but it is certainly one of my least favorites. Sat right in the middle of farmland and little else, one can’t even really enjoy a view of the lake unless you want to travel to the far outskirts of town and deal with the porters and sailors who crawl about the tiny harbor. I’ve asked around before as to why the town is built offset from the lake and received mostly blank stares and one unbidden suggestion that if I so desperately wanted to see something wet they could help me. Gross. Best I can tell the town may have at one point been directly on the lake proper given some of the older buildings on the edge of the town center are built on three foot stilts. Avis and Ibbot, the two closest neighboring towns to the south, are also far newer than Starmet and were built directly at the water’s edge on either side of a small river that comes down from the mountains. Ibbot may be my least favorite of the Gossamer Lake towns. Not because Diane lives there. The whole town is full of weirdos. The town’s obsession with the mythos of the unnamed mountains leaves a lot to be desired. Namely because they think giant moles created them. I have it on good authority that giant moles 1) do not exist, and 2) would be incapable of creating mountains even if they did. Why Valiant insisted on Starmet as a drop point for the book is beyond me, but the next time I speak with her we will be having a proper conversation about parcel delivery and where are the most convenient drop points. She knows I hate to be this side of the Cosk River. Too close to Finere. Too close to home. I must simply hope that this book is worth the effort of traveling all the way here.

If anyone would like to play, please do

#LaDoMF #I'll get back to fanfic eventually #but! I'm working on a thing because Soup is a terrible influence 9said lovingly and with full admission that I'm worse)#and now I'm writing Thomas and Maple meeting from Thomas' perspective

minthara

Cullen. Do you need to ask?

#Very normal about Cullen

The later DA games really just don’t let you summon a whole wolf like DAO used to do they

#Any class that lets me summon a familiar is the class for me #Dao replay

gumy-shark

playing stupid games but im really bad at them so im not even winning the stupid prizes

kaylmao

shh don’t worry catholics aren’t real

thank god. i mean thank something else

What’s your Shepard "Wait! I can explain" moment?

That’s an extremely good question Mystery Friend!

Shep has zero qualms about physical affection with people, however, she’s well aware of social conventions and perceptions.

so she has 2 for sure

In FR, she’s trying to convince Garrus to go down to Noveria with her and climbs into his cot to irritate him and gets caught by Ash coming into the crew quarters. I never wrote it but there was definitely a ‘this is not what it looks like!!’ Conversation that happens later (it was exactly what it looks like).

Also, I gave her an apartment on the citadel long before she ever gets the one from Anderson, and I put a massive L-shaped couch in it and I think it’s not entirely unusual to find her passed out on it curled up with Varian, Tali, or Liara (pre-death) after a late night movie binge or some such and Garrus has just accepted he doesn’t get to cuddle with his girlfriend half the time. The first time though Shepard definitely tried a ‘this isn’t what it looks like’ and he was just like ‘this isn’t a recreation of every Saturday night from our childhood?’

there’s probably many other notable times simply because Shepard puts herself on the back foot semi-frequently with social interactions!

#Mystery friend asks #Anon asks #This one I had to think about haha

threshergirltail

Discord is a popular Tumblr extension where you can feel even weirder about never messaging your mutuals that you want to talk to

writingdose

being a writer is fun

candywafercutie

I played through ME1 and I'm at the beginning of ME2 and Garrus is horrifically charming no wonder the ONLY thing I knew about this game going in is that everyone romances him

I haven't seen Shepard flirt with anyone yet but I cannot imagine her doing anything typical of flirting. I feel like she'd sooner bring someone's dead rival to them like a cat

#Shepard dropping Harkins head onto Garrus’ console like ‘I got you gift :3’

which-ocs

Which OC ship?

#Thomas and Maple lmao #Thomas finds Maple asleep on a pile of books

pigeontheoneandonly

Weekly Shepard Poll

Every week I ask a basic question about your Shepard, vote and elaborate in the tags!

Note on this week's poll: I assume every Shepard does the requisite work to stay in shape. I'm asking about what they like to do, what they would still do even if they had a completely different job.

What is your Shepard's favorite form of exercise?

Running

Swimming

Lifting

Cycling

Some specific kind of workout/class (ex. crossfit, orangetheory)

Team sport

Outdoor activity (ex. hiking, skiing)

Creative pursuit (ex. dancing, gymnastics)

Yoga (or similar)

Something else (tell me in the tags!)

Secretly(?) hates exercise and considers it a necessary evil for their professio

Remaining time: 6 days 3 hours

#Biased - lifting #But also sparring and sort of group fitness I suppose

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