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hey friends. i remembered that owlcatober is a thing and came to grab the prompt list and figured i should do some sort of ~update~

turns out the two month covid spell from the beginning of the year triggered a slew of newer, more exciting health issues (including that i'm an ✨autoimmune disease girlie✨ now) and most days hobbies have to be rationed so i can like. continue to function as a human being.

i have a lot of pent up creativity and i'm hoping owlcatober will help kickstart some writing again. i want to start sharing writing again, i just don't know how active i'll actually be here outside of posting fic.

#brooke rambles #gonna pin a post for the first time ever #i know i'm not the first person in fandom to deal with chronic health issues #and i'm incredibly lucky bc i work from home so even with everything my finances are still stable #it would be a different story with a commute + office to deal with #tbh the hardest part is having to cut back on hobbies and the things that bring me joy #once i get past the next round of testing i've gotta go back to my therapist lmao #bc i've worked too hard to be happy! i'm not giving it up now!#there's also some Very Intense family drama that i won't get into details about but uh.#tl;dr a rare liver disease is wrecking one side of the family. and my brother has been fully disowned #bc he and his wife have stolen a whoooole lot of money from basically the whole family through lies and scams

#hey siri how do you politely tell someone 'fuck off and don't ever contact me again'#bc if i'm not polite/careful about it then it'll upset my brother #the stress she already puts him through is going to kill him #that is not hyperbole. his health is shit. he's admitted to being burned out and exhausted. i'd bet real money he's also depressed and #traumatized as hell even if he'd never admit to it. the stress is physically affecting ME atp so i can only imagine how he feels #also when the fuck did tumblr shorten tag character limits lmao #(sry to rant and bounce again but i'm stressed and tired from a. work and b. moving)#(and then she had the audacity to text me shit about 'not having a diagnosis')#(like!! bitch i have three!! just bc i don't get all holier-than-thou about them on insta doesn't mean they don't exist!! fuck off!!)#(god if she tags me in another facebook post i'm going to commit cyberbullying)#the gaslighting saga continues #brooke rambles

drizzlesdoodles

When you tell the ladies to suit up, sometimes they take it in a different direction. I love all the ladies of Mass Effect

#stop i'm already gay.png #mass effect #q

buddie-romance

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

omegastation

I'll take the opportunity, as I am once again replaying ME2, to say how much I love Jacob and Miranda. I see so many vids and posts saying people just want to be rid of them at the start of ME2 and meanwhile I'm like... But they're really fascinating! And I'm so happy they're there! Sure I will rush to see the old crew back and I miss them, but that doesn't mean Miranda and Jacob don't add something really great to the Mass Effect universe.

Love how Jacob handles Shepard when they wake up: honest but gentle. I also love how he salutes Shepard:

The respect is there from the beginning, and even the Illusive Man is like "oh yeah that man does NOT trust me lmao" and it says a lot about how Jacob is a "what you see is what you get" type. It's honestly reassuring as Shepard wakes up disoriented in a Cerberus facility and needs someone like Jacob to help them.

2. Miranda is obviously one of my favorite characters (have you seen my icon that I haven't changed in more than ten years lol) so I obviously appreciate her in all her glory.

One of my favorite moments is when she said "I got here as soon as I could. Probably a little too soon, if you ask Wilson." and she looks at his corpse because she just shot him. Damn.

But I also find that Miranda can say one thing, and it sounds like she's judging, when in reality she's stating facts.

When Shepard insists on looking for survivors, she tells Shepard: Don't you get it? The only one worth saving is you. Everyone else is expendable.

It's possible to believe at this stage she thinks people are expendable and that she doesn't care at all. But when Shepard tries much later to thank her for the Lazarus Project, she replies:

"I just hope it was worth it. A lot of people lost their lives on that station."

Which to me, indicates that she does care about people losing their lives. And it's the first thing she wants to mention to Shepard too. People dying, and not "Oh thank you I did the impossible, I raised you from the dead, no biggie".

I find that ME2 is a lot about breaking and rebuilding, and both Jacob and Miranda have their own process there. Miranda perhaps more than Jacob, because while I don't want to start a cult member discussion here, I think it takes a lot to see reality for what it is and find strength to leave and save yourself. ME2 is truly a journey I love for them both.

#mass effect #miranda lawson #jacob taylor #q

sry for such a mean vent post, as penance pls accept my newest boy

his name is julian, he's a shadow dragon, and true to my word as soon as there was a multi romance mod i created him for the Most Sexy And Competent Throuple In Thedas (aka rook x lucanis x neve, ignore all the issues and trauma pls, nothing to see here, they're all perfectly well adjusted adults with no problems at all no siree not here)

he's part of the keaton surana -> tbd hawke?? -> magnus trevelyan worldstate, and it's been very fun to consider keaton and morrigan traveling around arlathan together investigating Cool Magic Shit, while magnus and dorian are on opposite ends of the continent, writing increasingly sappy and/or horny letters to each other in between visits.

#his run got interrupted by the cyberpunk hyperfocus but i'm back on my dragon age bullshit so #i also accidentally clicked the wrong thing and made dorian archon 😬 so magnus has to deal with that now i guess #julian mercar tag #ot3: julian/lucanis/neve #brooke plays dragon age #playthrough: julian #brooke does vp #god this game sure is pretty though huh

ohhhhhh boy

gently, lovingly trying to (once again) help my brother see that he's being abused and manipulated, only for him to try and gain some sympathy by telling me that his miserable gaslighting cumstain of a wife has told him that she really needs him and their marriage/his """support"" is the only thing keeping her from committing suicide

like. my dude.

maybe it's because he didn't have an overly dramatic emo teen phase so he doesn't recognize it but that's textbook emotional manipulation my guy!! maybe if she wasn't a chronic manipulative gaslighting piece of shit i'd have a little sympathy buuuuut god help me when he said that i just wanted to say "good, let her"

#the gaslighting saga continues #(there a nice horrible tag for this fucking disaster)#i promise i WILL refill the queue at some point but for now i just gotta vent sry #thank you tumblr for being the one (1) social media where i can post terrible shit like this #and also not worry that she'll seee it #also! we've officially hit four whole entire months since i've been trying to convince him to come visit family!#and his nightmare of a wife won't allow him!#three different family members have spent extended time in the hospital! one has died! the other two have had major surgeries!#one is also desperately waiting on a transplant list!#and his wife! won't! let! him! visit!!!!!!!#on the one hand i don't like being this bitter of a person but on the other hand #if she thinks she can win at this petty stubborn bullshit. good luck.#i am nothing if not spiteful and i will aggressively love and support my brother until she's out of his life for good #(if any of this seems mean out of context the tl;dr of the situation is that 1. she's a fucking abusive monster and 2. she's isolated him #from all of his friends and family and convinced him they hate him. all while ruining him financially emotionally and mentally)#(she deserves every ounce of my hatred and then some)#brooke rambles

kaidansalenkos-remade

Kaidan + Iconic Lines (pt. 2)

#what a dork (affectionate) i love him #mass effect #kaidan alenko #politest little space nerd #q

blighted-elf

Avowed - Kai Romance 1/?

#avowed #q

jackabbot

okay enough of the doom and gloom. this is a post of appreciation for all the amazing people who reblog fanart and gifsets with funny and sweet comments in the tags and have been doing so for years, even for fandoms they aren't in just to support creators. you guys are genuinely the best and the reason we're all still here on this godforsaken website <333

podcastwizard

scenes with reunited lovers desperately embracing, kissing, touching each other almost as if they can't believe they're actually with each other, here, in the flesh after everything has kept them apart and they're afraid if they let go they'll lose each other again. put that shit in an iv drip i need it in my VEINS