Learning to Write About Turians

Amateur ME fic writer trying to get to the level of decent. AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/dotflac. icon by @palavenmoons

[dotflacfile]

Hello and Welcome!

Doing another one of these since the first one was messy and incoherent lol.

I'm Dot or Flac depending on your preference. US residing fresh out of grad school.

Pronouns: he/him or they/them, either works!

Work in computers n other techy stuff.

Amateur writer and ME obsessive, musician, baker, geography trivia, and certified nerd.

Trying to do my best to meet new people and to be a better person, a lot of work ahead tho lol.

Feel free to ask any questions here or in the ask box and I'll do my best to answer them!

DMs are always open if you want to chat or just need to vent.

DNI if you're a minor.

Thanks for reading!

[dotflacfile]

Seven Sentence Sunday

Got about half an hour to spare over here, but I made it! Tagged by @chalkituptofate !

A snippet from the Chapter 5 of Everything In-Between

"Don't know, you can tell me at the bottom," said Ryder mischievously before jumping into the well.

"Wait!" Cora frantically yelled, reaching out in an attempt to grab him, even throwing a biotic field to pull him up, but instead she was pulled down with him. The field, thankfully, let them fall gracefully.

"Hey, you jerk! I wanted to be first!" Said Peebee before following them down.

Vetra looked at Liam, who just shrugged silently, then yelped as he tripped on a rock into the well.

Anyone that wants to join is welcome!

[dotflacfile]

Tagged by both @capnmarvl and @toboe-roll for this! Best I could do with my limited art skills 😂

your challenge, if you choose to accept it: recreate yourself in this picrew and put your name in this incorrect quote generator* for a quote

Dot: As someone who has a long history of not understanding anything, I feel confident in my ability to continue not knowing what is going on.

*No-pressure tagging @moonraccoons , @chalkituptofate , @garfbin , and @squigglysquidd !

[amikoroyaiart]

No Shepard without Vakarian

[cilantrhoes]

[shakarianminibang]

Title: Stretches for Mental Reach and Emotional Flexibility

Rating: E

Word Count: 7,267

Summary:

Jane and Garrus agreed to have sex. That's all it is, right? Well, they're not really sure. If only one of them could draw up the courage to ask. But maybe it's better this way. Less likely to interrupt the crew without any feelings. After all, it's not like the crew has been betting on when they'll get together, right? . . . Right?

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

You can find the author here and the artist here!

[frankiesoup]

Dead. Actually dead. This is incredible! GARFFF!!!!!!! And there's MERRY!!!!!

EVERYONE READ THIS!

[themaniacisinthemailbox]

my illustrations for @kayarenwick’s minibang fic Be Between Thee and Me!

Having the story take place within a series of emails, i had to include the in-game message terminal.

I learned a lot about working with color (and drawing aliens. And armor. And gun.) Very happy to have been a part of this year’s minibang :)

[writingdose]

being a writer is fun

[omegastation]

it's one thing to have preferences and explaining them but telling people they shouldn't like a character because they're "bad" or has done bad things feels like fandom policing and i don't like it. and i've seen some posts especially in our fandom about javik and they never sit right with me because the argument is somehow linked to the idea that he should have been good but he's not, and we can't like a character who's that bad if we're good ourselves

but javik not being "good" as people see it is why he's so interesting. he's from a different time with different rules, and that's the entire point! he's there so we can see how it was done before, and why this current cycle has a chance.

we wouldn't understand the importance of uniting very different and unique people if javik wasn't there to say that the prothean empire failed by forcing people under one people, one rule. and this epic failure happened despite the prothean believing themselves so superior to others!

we also get this lesson about idolizing previous civilizations and cultures as liara has to come to terms with the fact that the protheans aren't as wise and/or as benevolent as she wanted them to be. surely it's not that distant from irl where people tend to idolize empires from before, and learn almost nothing from history.

and it's not just on a larger scale that javik has a purpose in the story. he's also a character who believes there is no honor in war and who has lost everything. symbolically, he can be seen as a ghost, but also a great warning for shepard and their future.

so i find him genuinely important to the story. but even if he wasn't useful, why would we want all characters to be good? it would be boring. there's also a difference between liking a character, appreciating their presence in the story and approving what they do. They're three different things!

[mounted-archer]

"Why yes, Shepard, the inheritance arrived. How could you tell?"

[happy-capy-art]

My first attack on @semirampant-dwickery of our blorbos, Dwick and Lydia 💕💕💕

[luna-azzurra]

Instead of "Looked"!!

[numorena]

[sillyanonymousgoose]

Our beloved Garrus Vakarian

[dotflacfile]

Can I please have 10,11 & 12 for the ask game?

Sure thing soup! Thanks!

10. dream pet?

I would *love* to have a cat. Any kind really. But I can't, because I'm allergic to them. Can be around them for a while but if I sleep in an area with a lot of cats I'll wake up barely able to breathe unfortunately.

11. song you listened to in childhood?

As a kid I mainly listened to what my parents listened to. I do have a bit of an attachment to the old Party Rock Anthem song that seemed to play at every single party I went to as a kid. I did also grow up listening to movie soundtracks, so anything by John Williams brings a lot of happy childhood memories.

12. how do you show affection (this can be platonic or romantic)?

In-person? I like to give hugs, so long as the other person is ok with it. Otherwise I usually show affection in small gestures. I like taking my friends out for food and paying for them for example. For both virtual and real life friends, I try to remember things they say so I can get them to talk about their interests. Because I really enjoy hearing the people I care about ramble about what they like, passion is infectious :) That and I enjoy giving compliments specific to the individual.

[gemsbokk]

only recently i found out you could do that on therum...

day 14 — mako

[dotflacfile]

Everything In-Between - Chapter 4

The gang goes monolith hunting and meet some new faces in the process. Vetra and Liam butt heads.

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Relationships: Vetra Nyx/Male Ryder | Scott, Sidera Nyx & Vetra Nyx, Vetra Nyx & Male Ryder | Scott, Vetra Nyx & Jaal Ama Darav

Characters: Vetra Nyx, Sidera Nyx, Male Ryder | Scott, Jaal Ama Darav, Cora Harper, Liam Kosta, Peebee (Mass Effect), Lexi T'Perro, Suvi Anwar, Kallo Jath, Gil Brodie, SAM (Mass Effect), Nakmor Drack, Nakmor Kesh

Additional Tags: Action/Adventure, Action & Romance, Hurt/Comfort, Family Drama, Protective Siblings, Alien/Human Relationships, Slow Burn, Interspecies Romance, Interspecies Relationship(s), Friends to Lovers, Canon Rewrite, Tags May Change

Summary:

Vetra Nyx came to Andromeda with her sister to escape a life plagued with uncertainty, and certainly not to find love. Andromeda turned out to be more of the same. But perhaps some things would be different when a human with an AI in his head stumbles into her life.

A retelling/rewrite of Mass Effect: Andromeda (and beyond) from the perspective of Vetra Nyx.