Otempora

Olivia. 30-something. She/her (cis). Mainly Mass Effect. Better to reign in Shakarian hell, etc. Profile pic by @emedeme. Banner pic by @oonaluna-art. AO3: Otempora

[otemporanerys]

Otempora’s Fic Masterpost

Hello all! I’m sure a lot of you are here because you’ve read something I wrote, and I thought it was high time it was all collected somewhere!

Unless labelled otherwise, assume Mass Effect, assume Shakarian. Everything linked here is to my AO3.

True Blue (Active)

Rewrite of Playing the Long Game, my childhood friends-to-lovers Shakarian AU. Having lots of fun with this one, very angsty. True Blue

Species Swap (Active)

An AU where most (not all) canon Alliance characters are Hierarchy turians, and Garrus and his family are humans. Come for the worldbuilding, stay for the height difference.

Cultural Exchange | Interregnum | Life Behind Enemy Lines 

Burn, Shepard, Burn (On Hiatus)

A Witcher fusion AU, humans only. Shepard’s a rogueishly handsome witcher, Garrus is the runaway lordling she keeps running into. The most sexually frustrated slow burn.

Mainline continuity: At the Mercy of Strangers | Of Monsters and Men | Trial By Fire | Lost Lamb | Small Problems

Backstory/prequels: Bitter Harvest (Anderson POV)

AUs of the AU: Long Shot | Bedside Manner | In the Bleak Midwinter

Paragon Loves Renegade (On Hiatus)

Canon divergence set during ME2, undercover-as-lovers turns into secret dating. Nothing but good times.

Mixing Business with Pleasure | Reasons to Be Together

Playing the Long Game (Complete)

Canon divergent, childhood friends AU. Lowkey my favourite.

Mainline continuity: Playing the Long Game | Telling Tales of Revisionist History

AU of the AU: Rookies

Oneshots/Standalones

Turning Us Into Fire: AU where Shepard and crew ran to Omega to become mercenaries after Aratoht. Slow burn, high-octane angst. Probably not gonna be updated (sorry).

First Contact Protocol: Baby’s first First Contact War AU, Garrus and Shepard are stranded on the same desert planet and have to work together. Enemies-to-friends-to-lovers. Highkey my favourite.

Any Port in a Storm: Garrus/Miranda. Set before the suicide mission in ME2. Smutty.

Diamond in the Rough: fShep/Zaeed. Set during ME3. Shepard is sleeping with Zaeed and no, she doesn’t know why, either. Smutty.

Priceless: Kasumi Goto/Rolan Quarn. They fuck on a pile of money and that’s all you need to know.

Friend of a Friend: Kaidan/Garrus. Set after ME2, Shepard has died. Reliably informed I’ve converted many a person to the ship.

A House is Not a Home: Tali/Kal’Reegar. Post-war, shameless flangst.

Obstacles: Garrus & Solana gen, set between ME2 and ME3.

If you’re really interested in any of my older, non-ME fic, my Livejournal is available upon request, although I can’t in good conscience recommend any of it.

[tipsytern]

was discussing tumblr habits w somebody in a mutual discord server last night and they were so gobsmacked i like to ideally have 100+ posts in my queue at any given time 😭 how many do y’all have in your queue if you use it??

[astriiformes]

Inspired by my walking past a home built in 1754 in my new neighborhood, which isn't even the oldest building in the city. As someone born and raised in the Western US (where we do have some very old buildings, contrary to popular belief, just not in the middle of most cities), it made me curious!

When was the oldest extant building you can reasonably walk to from your home built?

20th century

19th century

18th century

17th century

16th century

15th century

14th century

13th century

12th century

11th century

10th century or before

Voting ended onAug 7

(Use your judgement for definitions of "extant," it doesn't have to be used for its original purpose but my intention is a building that could theoretically still be used, not just the remnants of one.)

[waackery]

I already missed out on the Garrus hype

(I was 10 years old)

[maskysgirlfriendmoved-deactivat]

yall gotta be nicer about m/f  bc sometimes u guys like the blandest gay sutff ive ever seen in my life

[maskysgirlfriendmoved-deactivat]

gonna add onto this you all gotta stop acting like m/f is just cishet when bisexual people exist and straight trans people exist.

[maskysgirlfriendmoved-deactivat]

last add on alot of m/f ships of poc or white/poc ship are constantly downplayed for bland white m/m or f/f ships

[majorpepperidge]

#also sometimes u guys r just fuckig misogynist. abt the women in m/f ships. sorry

[so-you-read-the-usernames]

Female characters who are the sole voice of reason <<<<<<< Female characters who think of themselves as the sole voice of reason but who are actually just as insane as those around them

[apollos-boyfriend]

something they don’t tell you about being autistic is that every character you write WILL end up autistic/autistic-coded whether you like it or not

[avelera]

I’m a big fan of reenactment archaeology. I think there’s a lot to be said for recreating a scenario to better understand decisions made in generations past. Usually there’s an inherent logic to them.

Which is to say, that now that I have a baby of my own, I understand so much better the common cultural practice in which unmarried women wear their hair loose and uncovered, while married women have their hair covered and/or bound back.

I doubt it was just for modesty, oh no. No, my friends, I see now that the reason for this common practice of mothers binding back their hair is because there is nothing, I mean nothing, a baby love more than YANKING EVERY STRAND OF HAIR THAT COMES WITHIN GRABBING DISTANCE OF THEIR STICKY, SWEATY, AND IMPOSSIBLY STRONG LITTLE HANDS.

[bethanydelleman]

It is necessary for my postpartum depression study for the moms to have their hair down (due to our science hats) and the second they put their hair down YANK

[gammaraydeath]

them...

[otemporanerys]

treated myself to some Lawkarian, thanks so much to @emedeme for taking the commission! Please check out their art 💖

[whaile]

late summer / early fall thoughts

[byjove]

I love asking people how their parents met. You always get an interesting reply. My best friend’s parents met on the relatively new internet in 1999. My other friend’s parents met at Burger King when one was the manager and the other was a regular customer. My parents met at the beach because they were neighbors in their rental houses, mom was on a church trip and dad was getting blackout drunk every night with his friends next door.

Tell me how your parents met in the tags.

[chestercopperpotz]

[queenoftheworldisdead]

[matrixdragon]

HEY.

[classic-cevans]

Rude

[honetii]

My roommate and I finished riverdale like a week ago and as we were watching it there were a bunch of lines that made us lose our shit so once we finished the show they went back and compiled every single one of them into this absurd 7 minute long video. I feel like y'all would enjoy this over here.

[satorugojowidow]

Which of the three remaining european countries in the World Cup colonized your country?

Spain

France

England

Voting ended onJul 20

[vyvilha]

i think i don't really vibe with most other fans of my favorite male characters is because they usually depict them too much of a man, and i am not interested in men, i am interested in The Character. and i am not saying that they should depict them as women, or nonbinary, or should depict them as feminine, no, not at all. but there's like, you know, you can depict a male character as The Character, and you can depict them as The Man. do you get me? like, i go to the fandom looking for art and fics, and it's just, regardless of his actual characterization, it's all just fantasizing about some kind of an abstract dominant patriarch, wearing my favorite character's face. it may be the most totally-wouldnt-have-normal-relationships (and sometimes even would-literally-abuse-you) kind of guy, and you join a dedicated space for his fans, and all they talk about is how they want to marry and start a tradcore 50s style nuclear family with him. it can be a guy who's arrogance and attempts of domination are explicitly shown to be a facade that hide the fact that he's actually kind of a massive pathetic wet loser, and you go to his fics, and they're all depicting him as a caricaturish daddy dom. at this point it's like, do you even like the character at all, or do you just like The Man, and project this man onto whatever character you find visually attractive? and these people kind of, really really poison actual discussion of the character, who is kind of a fucked up evil person (i only like *those* types, so im talking about them) because they see analysis of the actual character as an attack on their fantasized daddy dom husband, who is actually isn't The Character at all, and is simply a face of the day for The Man