Pigeon the One and Only

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[pigeontheoneandonly]

Fanfic Masterpost

Link to my AO3

Shenko Long Fics:

Mass Effect: Discovery (ME1 novelization, complete) Mass Effect: Labyrinth (ME2 novelization, in progress) The Wanderers (ME/DA Crossover, in progress)

Shenko Ficlets & One-Shots:

Nathaly Shepard: Dancing | Drunk | Kiss | Whale | Poker | Crazy | No One Is Ever Ready | Crossroads | Work Night | The Woman He Remembered | Routine | Lemongrass | Provocation | Listen | Breaking Ranks | Digital | crutch attract chase

Ben Shepard: Loss | Meeting | Mako | First Kiss | Bunkmates | Waiting Room | Just One More Before We Go

Other F!Shenko: Home |  Hot Chocolate | After Mars | A Measure of Devotion | Flotsam | exit criteria

Other M!Shenko: Once More, With Feeling

Shaynor Series:

Jane Shepard: Never Marry a Soldier | Domesticity | Jane’s Fall | Swimming | Back Home

Other Shaynor: Worth It

Mass Effect Gen Ficlets & One-Shots:

Kaidan Alenko: Fireflies | A Shade of Yellow (Liara friendship) | A Cold Day in October

Nathaly Shepard: One Way Out | Sunday Morning (set in Citadelsushi's Western AU)

Other: Flirting (M!Shepley) | Eternal (A Thorian Origin Story) | A Long-Forgotten Complication (Chakwas/Hannah Shepard) | Science | Regret (Jonathan Shepard) | Sometimes We Get What We Deserve (Jack Nought) | Storm Warning (David Anderson)

2020 N7 Prompt Challenge Collected Fics

Dragon Age Ficlets:

Daeroavain Tabris: Serendipity | The Birthday | Older and Wiser Freeze (Crossover ficlet) In Dreams (F!Hawke/Sebastian Vael)

Headcanon & Misc Posts:

Solar System Holdouts | Mass Effect Languages | Writing Advice | Writing Military Culture | Turian Sex & Reproduction | Rethinking Virmire | Soulmate AU Culture | Ash Positivity | Writing Resources | Pacing Advice | Directed Energy Weapons | Comparing Kaidan and Anders | Who signed the Systems Alliance charter?

Trick or Treat 2022

BG3: A Happy Feast

Bad Poetry: Burning Iron | grief is not sanitary

Random Stuff Side Blog: @randomactsofpigeon Dragon Age Side Blog: @pigeonage

[peachyatelier]

Liara and her relationship with her spots throughout her life - they will always remind her of her mom

[mamong-deactivated20150407]

[diipd2p]

I’ve prepared a short story and hope to share more of it with everyone when I get the chance. It has a few different versions, and I’ve been trying to stop myself from letting it drift into melancholy or sadness, so I think it still needs more refinement. The story centers on a deeper, more intimate exchange between them. I feel it should have a sense of warmth (or no , even if the dialogue is sharp. Still too sharp for me now…

They’re both a bit stubborn, which I think suits the story well.

these are just small ideas and rough drafts , I simply want to take time and push it little by little.

and the little guy is my new sign （me myself portrait… it’s just so cute

[pigeontheoneandonly]

Doing some research for the fic and came across the statement "who doesn't love a nap date?" And you know what. So true. Who doesn't love a nap date.

[pigeontheoneandonly]

Maybe my most controversial fanfic writer take is that fanfic authors should be able to sell their fic for money. Not because I think it's a good idea in the current legal climate, or because I personally want to do so, or even the legal/customary hypocrisy of fanart being sold for money, but because up until the last century or so, stories were communal property which we were all entitled to retell and reshape. The stance that a story is something a person can fundamentally own is unhealthy.

[spacevixen2024]

I'm in my Mass Effect 1 era, I'm writing a Kaidan and Faith piece for the time between defeating Saren and Alchera.

It's fluffy, it's angst filled. Please don't hate me 😭😭😭🫦

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

Carl Sagan at the Very Large Array by Daniel Owens

[tempestrune]

a bit late, but something for shepard's birthday. happy -128th to the future 2x savior of the galaxy

[atanertheartist]

🦐 reaper invasion🦐

[st-just]

A character trait/dynamic that I'm endlessly compelled by is someone dealing with (or, like, failing to) being the child of people who were too busy being good people to have the time and attention to be good parents. This can be anywhere from 'was a public defender who gave a shit working 60 hour weeks with basically no vacations' to 'left their family behind to join the revolution/war effort and is now a universally beloved martyr-hero who saved/remade the world with their final breath' on the groundedness spectrum. The important thing is a viscerally felt but confused and ugly mess of longing, resentment, and guilt about feeling the resentment.

[sandersstudies]

EVERYBODY post your struggle/lazy/easy/low spoons go-to meals so when we all struggle next we can explore the notes.

Flavored brats/sausages with cheese or fruit etc can be delicious air-fried and plain, and wrapped in a paper towel and eaten by hand without dirtying plates and cutlery. (If you’re up to it, add buns/side/toppings to your ability level.)

[omegastation]

jack types like this she'd never dare to use commas or capital letters and her emojis are all 👿🤬😡

I think she'll be the type to add those emojis after saying something sweet or doing a service to someone

'yes 😠 coming to pick you up stop worrying 🤬' type of texts

But I would love her to grow into more 😐 and then 😈 and one day 😎

[tempestrune]

happy friday

[spacevixen2024]

Again, thank you to those letting me using their Shepard's or Pairings.

I have given myself an hour time limit as I know I'll either tweak and tweak and go insane. Plus, at least you know it's not AI 🤣🤣🤣

My Kaidan Corn picture took me almost 7 hours 😭

Enjoy @liminally-challenged can you guess which fic I took inspiration from?

It was a beautiful image you painted.

[hopepunk-priest]

I knoooow its an unpopular opinion but I do actually think EDI and the geth dying in the destroy ending is necessary. So much of that game is about ruthless calculus. Who and what do you sacrifice in order to save as many people as possible? What do you save when you know you can't save everything? How do you shoulder that guilt? You save the entire galaxy. You secure a future free from a cycle more ancient than the entire lifetime of your planet. You do what no one has ever done before. You don't get to walk away from that with everything in tact. You have to lose something. And if you get the "perfect" ending, you then have to live with that. You have to build something out of those ashes.

[pigeontheoneandonly]

I don't actually disagree with this take. My objection is if the narrative wants to go this direction, it has to go all the way, and it's simply unwilling to do that. All the technology of daily life in mass effect with few exceptions derives from reaper technology.

You want to put into the narrative that destroy eliminates all reaper tech? Fine. But you can't selectively say "just this bit". You have to accept the relay network never works again. It's not repairable. You have to accept mass starvation of quarians and turians stranded on Earth (and probably others, since a lot of agriculture vehicles probably no longer work). You have to accept all human technology being dropped back to before the paradigm leap of the discovery of the Mars archives, and it's probably worse for the other species, who broke into reaper tech far earlier. You have to accept that advanced medical implants stop working. On and on.

I'm not ok with a narrative that is essentially "everything's fine but whoops your friends die because there have to be consequences". Consistency matters.

[sillyanonymousgoose]

Little comic of my girl Rhiley, desperately missing Thane, the night cycle before the final battle.