bug with a big ass

I'm M! they/them avatar by @retromochi

[cowpoke-m]

Hi I'm M, my previous url was alf-onse but since I changed my pfp it wasn't vibing anymore. I've been using the username cowpoke-m on several other sites now so I figured it was time to switch!

[cowpoke-m]

My Shepard as a ball joint doll inspired by the opening scene of Coraline and the song Doll Parts by Hole. Shepard being put back together during ME2 for other people's gain and benefit holds so much emotional weight that doesn't get touched on in the games and I think about it so much,,

[moonracoons]

Messy sketch of a photostrip.

I laughed so hard making the last panel, her face kills me hahaaaaa!

[moonracoons]

Post Lazarus Shep swapping stories with some of the SR2 companions and going, "i got this scar from a nasty mission" and touching the side of her face.

The companion looking confused and going "you dont have a scar there."

[shakarianminibang]

Title: Priorities

Rating: T

Word Count: 6,609

Summary:

A routine planetary mission to collect a few caches goes awry when the Hammerhead is shot down. Shepard finds herself falling back on her N7 training to get herself and Garrus through their unfortunate predicament, with more than a few bones to pick with Cerberus about their idea of "field-ready."

Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.

You can find the author here and the artist here!

[innoowl]

[cowpoke-m]

I went to a shibari performance last night and it was so beautiful,, the show was so gentle and lovingly put together and they encouraged the crowd to hang out and talk afterwards which really encouraged community building,, also I won a stained glass art piece in a raffle 😊

[g3sztenye]

shot through the heart 💘

[doechiisource]

DOECHII BET Awards 2026 | In DSquared2 SS06 RTW

[mounted-archer]

Cassidy Shepard Art Fight attack for @that-wildwolf !🫶

So many Shepards!

[shakarianminibang]

Title: The Stray

Rating: M

Word Count: 19,111

Summary:

A Shakarian AU about a disillusioned man, a mischievous cat, and the quietly guarded woman who becomes attached to them both. When recently demoted detective Garrus Vakarian moves into his new apartment on the Citadel, the last thing he expects is an intruder. A stray, to be exact. Mysterious, aloof, and more than a little bedraggled, his neighbor Shepard keeps odd hours and the rest of the world at arm's length. Thanks to her troublemaking cat, however, avoiding Garrus proves harder than she'd like. But earning the trust of a stray—human or otherwise—has never been easy. The closer he gets, the more he realizes there’s more to her than she lets on, and that beneath her battle scars lies a grief she's spent years trying to bury. At this rate, she may disappear from his life before he ever gets a real chance. Can he reach her before she slinks away into the shadows?

Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.

You can find the author here and the artist here!

[madmonksandmaenads]

I wish I could make white people(and not just white Americans) understand how diverse the pre-columbian Americas were. The history, religion, culture, politics was at least as complex as Europe's. There was the full gamut of religions, from monotheists to animists to ancestral religions. There were city building empires, village farmers, nomadic traders, and so many other ways to live. This is all just based on what we know, the fragments left behind and the stories of survivors of an apocalyptic plague. All this before the most extended campaign of genocide in history was waged in an attempt to wipe out those survivors.

Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.

Do you understand how much poorer our whole species is because of it? Can you imagine where art, religion, and science would be if we still had these vast bodies of knowledge? The stain of the colonial project will never be fully washed clean. We owe more than just the land to those we stole from. We owe them a whole future, a future that could have been brighter for all of us. If only greed and fear weren't allowed to rule this land.

[everydaylouie]

the beautiful game...

[drizzlesdoodles]

Alright, I hopped on the GTA Cover Girl trend. Commander Shep can pull it off just as well as anyone else <3

[nerd-enoug-h]

[nerd-enoug-h]

Happy Pride Month btw 💔

[cowpoke-m]

Ive really loved all the questions people are getting about their shepards and its reminded me that I need to put together a ref sheet for mine. I am working on the Shepard meme so I think that'll be my ref sheet tbh

[shakarianminibang]

Title: proof of life.

Rating: M

Word Count: 23,000

Summary:

You are: Commander Shepard (in name). You are: human (mostly). You are: real (enough). Commander Shepard storms back into the galaxy; Cerberus just keeps a closer eye on her than she thought. She finds herself a little more hyperaware of the moving pieces, the ones of her left to string back together. The ones that don’t seem to exist in the exact way she remembers, if she remembers correctly. Good thing Garrus is patient and good with puzzles.

Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.

You can find the author here and the artist here!