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Justice for Jacob: Jacob Taylor Fix-It Week

From February 10-16, this blog is hosting Jacob Taylor Fix-It Week 2025 to encourage new posts and fanworks about Jacob Taylor!

Why a fix-it week instead of a general appreciation week? Because we all know his writing and storyline in canon are not great. That's where we as a fandom can step in to make things better for him!

Post about Jacob with the tag #JacobFixIt2025 during February 10-16 and we will reblog.

This does not have to be full on fanart, fanfiction, edits/gifsets, mods, etc (though these are of course beloved): even if it's a rec list of Jacob fanworks you like, bullet points of how you'd fix his storyline, or an "I think Jacob would look cool with locs" one liner post, you are welcome here.

Optional themes

You don't need to follow the themes nor post for every theme: these are just inspiration to get your brain going!

Day 1 - Feb 10: Dossier Anything you would change about Jacob's background before we meet him in 2, be it his general background or his Galaxy or Foundation storylines.

Day 2 - Feb 11: Suicide Mission 2 is the main place people meet and form opinions on Jacob. Turn things around for him in the 2 storyline.

Day 3 - Feb 12: Loyalty Mission Racist tropes ahoy. What alternate loyalty mission would you give him?

Day 4 - Feb 13: Wartime Jacob's writing does not fare much better in 3 than 2. Imagine a different approach to the Reaper War for him.

Day 5 - Feb 14: Ships It's Valentine's Day, let's treat the man! Fix a ship of his, launch a boat with someone new, or make him some friends.

Day 6 - Feb 15: Crossovers Bring out your Wakandan Jacobs, Pokémon gym leader Jacobs, Destiny Titan Jacobs, you name it. Andromeda crossovers can come too.

Day 7 - Feb 16: Free day!

Rules

Be positive: No character bashing (this doesn't mean you need to be all hearts and stars about his canon storyline, especially given that this is a fix-it event, but we can be critical of the writing without bashing characters)

Be cool: No bigotry of any kind against real people (warn for fictional bigotry) nor whitewashing

Be polite: Respect your fellow creators and different ships, put NSFW or long content under a cut, tag common triggers

Alternate submission

Since Tumblr tags can get wonky, feel free to also @ tag justice-for-jacob and/or submit a link to your post.

Timing

Mod is on the left of the international date line, meaning that you may see posts about the week starting before it is Feb 10 for you. Please don't feel rushed or think a themed post will be late ❤

Mod also works full time and has other time-intensive hobbies, so if you don't see your post reblogged, mod has probably either not seen your post yet or queued it.

#mass effect #jacob taylor #mass effect trilogy #mass effect legendary edition #mele #mass effect 2 #mass effect 3 #bioware #shaylor #thancob #what are his other ship names and i'll tag those

reallifedragonageelf

Still wondering how Lukas Kristjanson was kept at Bioware, a "progressive" company, after writing Jacob in ME2.

And I would argue that Bioware wasn't that progressive depending on how you judge them. I judge companies by how they straight black men, the most targeted group in the U.S. in multiple facets.

And when you judge "progressive" companies and media by that standard, you realize they all are pretty regressive and downright disrespectfully racist and problematic.

gammaraydeath

did anyone else interpret jacob's "btw we have an AI on the ship" as a sincere comment and not him being a jackass? i do have a problem with knowing when people are being shady especially if their tone of voice is nice but it just never seemed mean spirited to me. of course he knows how quarians feel about AI, but i guess i always just saw it as a sort of heads up. we have EDI, i'd rather you find out now than be surprised later, that sort of thing

amorphousturtle

Mean spirited? Nah. Super tone deaf, but not actually trying to upset Tali.

dragonflight203

Agreed. Jacob was attempting damage control that entire conversation.

He wanted Tali to know Edi was intentional instead of Tali figuring out Edi was an AI on her own and dealing with that fall out.

If Tali thought Edi had become an AI unintentionally she may have attempted to break Edi’s connections to the ship, like Adams did when he realized Edi was an AI.

Side note: Jacob’s also the one to mention Tali won’t be happy about Legion if you keep them. He’s not great at placating Tali, but he is paying attention and trying.

#me2

shoot-i-messed-up

wow absolutely SICK fanart dude!!!! ...hey why did u leave out the only black character on the cast?

medialogue

ME3 Citadel: Party Phase 1: Bar Group (Ambient)

Party Masterpost

(if Miranda was invited and Joker and EDI are together)

Miranda: But you have no plans after EDI? Someone more... human?

Joker: Uh, no? She's smart, she's funny, and she's into spaceships.

Miranda: You know what you want. I can respect that.

(if Miranda was invited and Joker and EDI are not together)

Joker: So we've thought about it, but a human and synthetic in love? It's just kind of weird.

Miranda: I admit, I was very curious to see what happened, but perhaps you're right.

Joker: Yeah, and if we ever broke up? Well, nobody wants an angry ex equipped with a Thanix cannon.

(if Shepard was not in a relationship with Jacob)

Joker: So, where'd you propose?

Jacob: I haven't yet.

Joker: Seriously?

Jacob: I want to do it right. Not on some backwater planet with some ring pumped out of a fabricator. My plan is: Shepard gets me and Brynn into the Council chambers, we do a picnic under the cherry blossoms, then comes the question.

(if Jacob is present)

Jacob: So Joker set you free, right? Do you ever get hassled for being a real-deal AI?

EDI: I am not programmed to make that kind of qualified judgement. My code is limited to information and simple interaction sequences.

Jacob: Hah! I asked directions from that bot on the way here.

Joker: So do you have infiltration software that lets you fake being drunk?

EDI: Yes, though it is rudimentary. The planned strategy was to avoid social situations where naturalism would come under scrutiny.

Joker: I wanna see it.

EDI: You are seeing it now.

Joker: Man, some Cerberus programmer phoned that one in.

Joker: Hey, when I was cleaning up the CIC, I found about 15,000 credits. Must've been the merc's payroll! EDI, we should figure out a way to slip you into the casino and put those credits to work. We could make millions!

EDI: Or we could turn it over to the Alliance war effort... or orphans.

Joker: Or that, too.

Joker: You know why Cerberus is going to lose? Demographics. You recruit a guy who's twenty and got no life, he'll work his ass off for the cause. But do you see any old people in Cerberus? Any families? No. There's no future in a terrorist group.

(if Jacob is in the group)

Jacob: And sure, they pay, but you ever bring up vacation time? There was a brick wall.

(if Miranda is also present, otherwise go to "So how about you")

Miranda: That reminds me, I heard you're going to be a father. Congratulations.

Jacob: Yeah, thanks. Be lying if I said I wasn't scared.

Miranda: You'll do great. You're a protector. That goes a long way.

Jacob: So how about you, Joker? How would you turn Cerberus around? [to 1]

(if Miranda is present, but no Jacob)

Miranda: And I'm certain you have a better plan, waiting in the woods. [to 1]

(if neither Miranda or Jacob are present)

EDI: What would you do if you controlled Cerberus?

[1]

Joker: I'd make Cerberus popular. Big propaganda campaign, like I was running for president. Fundraising dinners, shaking hands, kissing babes...

Miranda (if present): I think the expression you want is "kissing babies."

EDI (if Miranda isn't present): I believe the expression is "kissing babies."

Joker: I know what I said.

#3 #dialogue

ratbagjasper

It is important, as artists and as fans of media, to be able to recognise, portray, and appreciate POC features on characters (shock fucking horror). As artists, make it a part of your study to draw POC, to learn how to draw different features. Ranges of eyes, different facial structure, lips, noses, varieties of skin tones. This is obviously important for, you know, basic human decency, but it ties in with GenAI.

Machine learning and datasets have always been saturated with whiteness. The IT sector is overwhelmingly white and always has been. The models are training off a very white internet. GenAI skews white (and anime-style but we're not talking about that today).

So when it comes to GenAI and faking semirealism, it'll give you skewed results when it tries to represent characters that aren't white. It especially struggles with Black characters. So you, discerning reader, must be able to spot tells that a human, an artist, should be able to represent. Does that art look rendered to a high level, but Davrin's got a narrow nose and his palms are the wrong colour?

Hey. Don't bean soup me. You - critical thinker, you - know there are many more AI tells than just misrepresenting a character's features or skin tone. You know this. I'm holding your face in my hands you know this. Say it with me - alone, these tells don't guarantee AI.

What I'm saying is - if you go about your days on the internet comfortable believing that you don't have to put care and time into depicting POC, if you're happy to do that because all your OCs are white and why would you need to learn? First and lesser, you're gonna get fooled by AI. Secondly and more dire, you're gonna perpetuate this very pervasive attitude I've seen where "the art is there, the Black character is there, who cares if they don't look accurate, at least they're there" which is harmful. It's lazy. It's saying: "white characters are the only characters who deserve to be depicted accurately."

Look inward, look outward. Look at what you're supporting with your reblogs. Care more. Respect more.

Care more.

t4timekeeper

people of colour deserve to be able to enjoy fluff and escapism and transformative media and silly fandom stuff the same way that everyone else is allowed to, i think. there’s a lot of unexamined hostility toward anyone who isn’t white; sometimes it’s subtle, and sometimes it’s not. there needs to be far more love and support for poc, and far less defensiveness and tolerance regarding racism in spaces like these.

medialogue

ME3 Citadel: Party Phase 1: Bar Group

Party Masterpost

Depending on who is invited, Joker, EDI, Miranda, and Jacob hang around the bar.

Joker: You know, I miss the days when Cerberus was just hilariously incompetent.

(if Jacob and Miranda were invited)

Joker: You know, when you two ran things.

Jacob: Excuse me?

Miranda: The only thing I was in charge of was the Lazarus Project, which, you will note, was very successful. [to 1]

(if only Jacob was invited)

Joker: You know, when Jacob was in charge.

Jacob: Excuse me?

EDI: What specific time period are you referring to, Jeff? [to 1]

(if only Miranda was invited)

Joker: You know, back when Miranda here was in charge.

Miranda: The only thing I was in charge of was the Lazarus Project, which, you will note, was very successful. [to 1]

(if neither Jacob or Miranda were invited)

EDI: What specific time period are you referring to, Jeff? [to 1]

[1]

Joker: "Hey, Commander, this is Cerberus. We were studying some rachni, and they got loose and killed all our guys. Can you take care of that?"

Joker (if Overlord in ME2 was completed): "It's one system over from where we hooked some guy up to the geth... who then got loose and killed all our guys."

Shepard: They did rack up quite a body count. And at least, back then, it was usually their own bodies.

(if Jacob was invited)

Jacob: We knew some cells were bad, but the Alliance and the Council weren't doing anything, and we were doing good work.

Kasumi (if invited): And crunches. Lots of crunches.

Shepard: Hey! Not okay, Kasumi!

Miranda (if invited): But we did bring Commander Shepard back.

EDI (if Miranda wasn't invited): True. However, Cerberus did successfully revive Shepard from an near-death state. [to 2]

(if Jacob wasn't invited but Miranda was)

Miranda: But we did bring Commander Shepard back. [to 2]

(if Miranda nor Jacob were invited)

EDI: True. However, Cerberus did successfully revive Shepard from an near-death state. [to 2]

[2]

Shepard: And after taking down the Collectors, I cut ties with Cerberus, got loose... and started killing all their guys.

Joker: For which we thank you.

EDI: Jeff, do you remember that I am also a Cerberus project?

Jeff: Aw, crap.

#3 #dialogue

r41nyd4ysworld

Why is it that when racism occurs in fandom spaces, in independent media, that y’all keep calling people weird for reacting strongly to it? Y’all really think you’re doing something when you pull that dingy “there’s real world problems to deal with” excuse out your ass just to shut up people rightfully wanting justice and feeling comfortable with their media.

It was real when y’all dressed up in cosplays, and made fan art, and went to conventions, and got to interact with your faves through their social platforms…but suddenly when bigotry is involved, it’s not that big of a deal.

Let me rephrase what y’all are trying to say: POC don’t get to have fandom. We don’t get to have media. That part of the real world is something we’re not allowed to touch. It’s the one space that discrimination and prejudice will always thrive, because you refuse to acknowledge the layers of racism for what they are.

I think people should be just as critical of fandom spaces and their bigotry as they would the real world. You should treat these scandals of people saying slurs, of outright refusing to hire POC for certain roles, and whatever the fuck else these companies decide to facilitate and be complicit in as hate crimes, as segregation, as RACISM. You should see these behaviors and patterns of behavior as indicative of something in the real world, because we all exist in the real world, and these things don’t leave us just because we put on a quirky username.

clericofshadows

JACOB TAYLOR'S ARMORY MASS EFFECT 2

#2 #le #gifsets #modded

welcometothejianghu

Small Fandom Summer 2026!

For the fourth year in a row now, it's time for Small Fandom Summer! Join me for Small Fandom Summer! It's real easy to play:

Make a fanwork for something that has fewer than 1000 English-language works on AO3

Post it to AO3

And then you've done it! You've made a thing and you've diversified the fandom ecosystem! You're basically a hero.

Q: The fandom I want to create for has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but the specific pairing I want to write for has fewer than that. Does that count? A: Yes! Q: What if it has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but, like, just barely? A: Okay! Q: What if it actually has a lot more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but it still feels small? A: Sure! Q: What if I don't want to post it to AO3? What if I don't even have an AO3 account? Can I post it somewhere else? A: Wherever! Q: What if-- A: Just do a thing, friend. Make a thing. Share the thing. This is not meant to be restrictive; this is meant to be inspirational. Create the fanworks you want to see in the world. Make a stranger happy by appealing to their niche interests. Bring joy.

And if you want to give yourself some silly little Steam-like achievement badges to commemorate your accomplishments, well, you're in luck! I've made a bunch of them right here! You can grab the ones that apply to your work and paste them wherever you like and feel good about what you've done. Here's a few of my favorites:

So you see? This is meant to be silly and fun.

There's nowhere to sign up. There's nothing to commit to. There's zero pressure. You just do it if you do it, and don't if you don't. But if you do want to play (yay!), tag your stuff with #small fandom summer so we can all swoop in and appreciate everyone else's efforts.

Here's to creativity!

welcometothejianghu

Since some people have asked: There's now a Small Fandom Summer 2026 AO3 Collection! You can post your stuff right here! It's completely open and unmoderated, so if you think something goes there, well, go on and add it! Hopefully by the end of the summer, we'll have a nice little collection of stuff there.

And since some other people have asked: There's no start date for this, nor is this an end date. "Summer" in this context is an extremely arbitrary unit of measurement. I'm starting now because my personal summer runs from about mid-May to mid-August. Yours may vary.

I'm thrilled so many people have seemed excited about this! I hope it inspires the creation of a whole bunch of good stuff!

#all jacob ships are eligible for this :)#panfandom event boost