Oh Grey Warden, what have you done?

Merrill could preform blood magic on me any day of the week * Come join me for random dragon age and Bg3 thoughts * any pronouns * 25 * queer * All my writing is here on Ao3: @notebooksandlaptops

[notebooks-and-laptops]

As I got into digital drawing, I knew I'd have to make a piece of art based on my OG lesbian crush, Tara from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Her once more with feeling outfit is so iconic, I hope I did it some justice here <3

Pose reference by Elizabeth Sonrel

[wardencommandershepard]

It's so funny how at the end of ME1 they do that little fakeout like "oh no! Shepard didn't make it! They got crushed under all this debris! Haha, just kidding they're fine 🙂"

Then you start ME2 and immediately Shepard dies

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round One, Bracket 3

Ashley Williams (Mass Effect) vs. Kennedy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Ashley Williams

Kennedy

Remaining time: 6 days 2 hours

Propaganda below the cut:

Kennedy:

hated for Not Being Tara and being ~soooo aggressive~ pursuing willow when at the end of the day she's simply a different woman! and the horrible killing off of tara wasn't kennedy's fault

she's confident as hell

Ashley Williams:

Double standard: Mass Effect is a series about many alien species working together, and therefore the topic of xenophobia and space racism are getting brought up a lot. Such beloved male character as Garrus and Wrex get a pass for their instances of bigotry (towards salarians, for example), and Shepard calling one species "stupid jellyfishes" is a favorite fandom meme. Meanwhile Ashley makes a few distasteful remarks of the same genre and not only does that get her branded as the "space racist" of the cast, but also causes a lot of people to gleefully proclaimed that they killed her off in their playthrough like that's a good and deserved thing. Of course, the real reason is because Ash is a woman who is also a soldier who does not take your (main character's) crap, which automatically makes everything she has to say and every flaw she displays a million times more condemning and death-worthy than whatever the favorite fandom blorbos do.

Ashley is a soldier whose loyalty is to her people and her duty first. Military glorification aside ('cause that is the entirety of Mass Effect), that is the most noble type of a soldier to be. She does not sell out her principles, even for Shepard, and she's risking her life for her convictions multiple times throughout the series. She also goes off on a radical pro-human rally at the Citadel and is genuinely horrified by the sentiment of them all, and it takes her less than one game to become genuinely worried for Liara after the latter's mother dies. Her flawed perception of aliens is a point for character growth - which a lot of aforementioned characters do not do, by the way. She's a strong, responsible older sister and as older sisters often do she carries the weight of their family "curse", ready to heroically give her own life to cleanse it. Questionable, yes, but does give her certain honor, if not a ticket to therapy. Her readiness to point a gun to anyone in the name of protection, including Shepard or another member of the crew, like Wrex, is a point of admiration (again, as long as we operate within the series' premise of "Alliance soldiers good"), not contempt.

[lorain90]

Practices. Some doodles were done months apart, and my style has changed.

[snail-drop]

hey we saw you throwing down coin from across the tavern and we really dig how quickly you want to be rid of it

[lokri-art]

[elainuar]

"At last, I am free. I am a ruined vessel of sorrow and regret, but I am free."

[sketchupnfries]

More rolling Grace and Rocky sketches since I wanted to sketch out some more. Also I realized that I haven't drawn some of the pebbles on Erid, so here ya go!

[melonsharks]

Heck, if he wanted to do open-heart surgery on me, I’d probably let him.

[basilistic]

Trick of the light

I'm using an old laptop while mine is at repairs and the colors are atrocious let's just hope these look good

[paper-mache-stars]

been thinking about grace and adrian being alike

[corrodedparadox]

Warmup with some new brushes

[glowbeam]

adrian: obviously grace and rocky have a deep bond that i can't really fully understand from being alone in space saving the universe

grace: obviously rocky and adrian have a deep bond that i can't really fully understand from being married for almost two centuries

rocky: hello eriddit. i (302M) have two mates (337X) (40M) who are both brilliant scientists. i love them both very much and was very excited when they started courting each other. however WIBTA if i thought they were too close? like i'm no slouch or anything, i'm an engineer, but you get these two talking about origin of life research and it starts going WAY over my carapace —

[galacticsabc]

Grace Rocky Save Stars

[idiot-mushroom]

my friend wanted me to make this

[nikoisme]

sketch

[pineappical]

thinking about statues of Grace being built all around Erid years after his passing so he can continue to watch over Eridians as they sleep