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Master Fic Post

Master post of fic and some Mass Effect meta from the Way Back Times of Headcanon Wednesday. I’ve starred what I think is the best of the best. Hope you enjoy!

Sam Shepard Meta Tag | The Yang Gang Meta Tag | World building & biotic headcanons | LE Screenshots | Opus Fanart

Sam Shepard/Kaidan Alenko

Cantata – set pre-ME1. Long fic, complete

Concerto – Virmire. Novella, complete

*Sonata – set post ME1, pre-ME2. Long fic, complete.

Fugue – set post Alchera, pre-ME2. Long fic, complete.

Mezzo – set during ME2. Long fic, in progress.

Sam/Kaidan one shots & ficlets

Sam/Kaidan AU First Kisses

Sam/Kaidan kiss prompts

Campfire | Snow/Life or Death | *In the shower/sad | Missing the other in the snow | *Longing for someone in the street | kisses meant to distract the other person from whatever they were intently doing | *routine kisses where the other person presents their cheek/forehead for the hello/goodbye kiss without even looking up from what they’re doing |starting with a kiss meant to be gentle, ending up in passion |

Sam/Kaidan, wordless ways to say “I love you” prompts

Folding their clean laundry and putting it away | Letting them warm their cold hands under your shirt | Staying up half the night to finish a game | *Holding their hand while they’re shaking | Sharing a soft smile across a crowded room | *Getting them a coffee just the way they like it | Mending an item of their clothing that was ripped |

Sam/Kaidan Winter Prompts

* Hot Chocolate | Caught in a Snowstorm | Sledding | Drunk Snowman | Santa Baby

Ensemble Fics

*Exordium – ME 1 novelization, mshiara. Complete.

*Noel | Wishes

mShenko

Reflex |*Celestial Navigation (Explicit) | Better Angels (incomplete) Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 | Holy Night | *Plans

mShenko drabbles/prompts

Shenko

mShiara

Ashley & Kaidan

Coffee | Reparations | Instead | Are You Fucking Kidding Me | The Sangria Problem (background mshenko (Sam Shepard)

Gen/Friendship/Shepard Backstory

Miscellaneous

Headcanons

#fic master post #wow there was more then i remembered when i started going through my fic tag #it was a pleasure to rediscover a few of these

catchymemes

aegor-bamfsteel

The elephant is making those chirps because they’re excited at the noise the drum makes. Some zoos give their elephants drums or horns to play with if they noticed they like making noise/“are musically inclined”. Shanthi of the Smithsonian Zoo became an internet sensation for her compositions on the harmonica:

elephantaday

Day 783 of reblogging videos of elephants.

Oh my goodness, the happy elephant chirps. I was dying from the level of cuteness.

#elephants #fluffy!#queue continuum

sometiktoksarevalid

sugarcoatednightshade

Holy shit

monchursouls

How could I NOT reblog this? It’s AMAZING!!!

#music #1950s eminem #holy cats #this SLAPS #queue continuum

mjalti

david-goldrock

Smart woman next to an unbelievable achievement is a picture niche that will never get old

awnerd

Then you’re gonna love this photo of Annie Jump Canon.

Working at Harvard in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s as a “Computer”, Annie Jump Cannon cataloged stars using their spectra from photographic plates, in an effort to understand the mysteries and peculiarities of stellar spectra.

This was hard, detailed, nuanced work. By 1889, three years into her work, she had classified over 1,000 stars. By 1913, she could classify 200 stars an hour. She could classify three stars a minute, just by sight. Using a magnifying glass, she could classify stars down to 9th magnitude, 16 times fainter than the human eye can see. And she did this all with exceptional accuracy.

Over the course of her career, she personally classified more than 350,000 stars, accounting for a mind-boggling 98% of all contemporary stellar spectra classifications, a feat that wouldn’t be bested until the 1990’s with automated digital sky surveys.

Cannon used these classifications to develop the Harvard spectral classification system (O–B–A–F–G–K–M), organizing stars by surface temperature and physical properties.

It is hard to overstate just how foundational her work was to modern astronomy and astrophysics. Her classifications have enabled more than a century of breakthroughs in stellar structure and evolution, including the understanding of how stars change over time and how temperature, luminosity, and composition are related. The system underpins the Hertzsprung–Russell (HR) diagram, one of the most important tools in astrophysics, and remains embedded in modern research, from stellar population studies to galaxy evolution.

The immense scale of her work was itself a massive contribution to astronomy. For comparison, before Cannon, star catalogs contained between 600 and 4,000 stars. Her work single-handedly proved that large-scale stellar classification was both feasible and scientifically valuable. She helped establish systematic star catalogs as a core method of modern astronomy and laid the groundwork for astrophysical research on stellar structure, evolution, and populations that continues today.

#women in history #queue continuum

sometiktoksarevalid

purlturtle

ansixilus

You're right and you should say it.

#oh my god #queue continuum

swaps55

I'm very deep in a geyser gazing hole and have been desperately seeking out the internet spaces where the geyser gazers nerd out and share their deep lore. I cannot tell you how frustrated I have been when I search for information on Beehive Geyser and the internet gives me a one paragraph answer on where to find it, and that it has an indicator.

No. I do not want the casual info from the park sign. I want the deep lore. I want the autistic college student who has spent hours staring at the web cam and makes trips to YNP just to sit and watch this one geyser. I want the person who has been meticulously tracking the data and drawing conclusions on behavioral patterns and impacts on eruption cycles who will talk at me for an hour without taking a breath.

I finally found these people yesterday, so last night I watched videos documenting the behavioral patterns of Beehive in 2024, a history of Giant Geyser, a deep dive into the complex eruption cycles of the Sawmill Geyser Group, and boy oh boy am I flying high.

In the queue for tonight is a deep dive into the Fountain Geyser Group and an analysis of Opal Pool and I am making popcorn.

frothlad

Swaps, have you considered that you are the autistic college student (former) you're searching for?

swaps55

Okay, so it's possible that over the past couple of months I joined a geyser association, exchanged emails with their newsletter editor and association board and am pitching ideas they seem very excited about. And I might have offered to help them execute those ideas and mocked up a proof of concept.

So.

#which could mean nothing #Adventures with Swaps

dogtoks

latchofficial

coldpapernightmare

hey, that dogs whole job is to point at birds, and it is indeed pointing at a bird

What more do you want?

#fluffy!#we don't deserve dogs #HIS TAIL #queue continuum

lord-of-frodo-baggins

dkafterdark

they're taking the hobbits!

swaps55

Ahahaha, I've seen this photo on the wall of the helicopter company that took it. For context, the filming location for south of Rivendell - where Boromir sword fights with Merry and Pippin and the crebain fly over - is located in a very remote area of Kahurangi National Park called Mount Olympus, and is only accessible by helicopter.

It's about a 30 minute flight from the town of Nelson. The story they told us when we went out there, was that the pilot would have a little fun with the flights. This photo was taken after one of those flights, and the look on the hobbit's faces tells you pretty much exactly how each of them felt about it. XD

#lotr #middle earth #aotearoa new zealand #mount olympus was the most stunning location we visited #it required no imagination - it looks exactly like it did in the film #absolutely incredible #and that photo was so funny #and it was the first of about 916381387 times a tour guide told everyone how afraid sean bean was of helicopters #queue continuum

gay-irl

judgejudyofficial

yeah u freaks up north look and sound exactly like this when u pretend that us southern queers are perfectly complicit in our own eradication - for the heinous crime of not living in a liberal population center.

hoshikostar

glitterygolem

I keep this image on hand for whenever I see similar sentiments.

#yelling louder for the assholes in the back

lgbt-tiktoks

Description: [A video of a woman riding a galloping horse bareback while holding a large rainbow flag.]

Happy Pride!

Shepard, showing him a picture of a baby bird: This you?

Garrus: ...

Garrus: It... I think it is, actually, where did you get that?

you know the framed photo of the LI in shepard's cabin

#mass effect #mass effect art #shakarian #garrus vakarian #this is canon #to me #queue continuum

daenystheedreamer

if you could delete a trope from fandom completely What would it be

found family

enemies to lovers

hurt/comfort

post-canon fix it, ending what ending

fake dating

soulmate au

only one bed

fluff

angst

ot3

modern au

other au - royalty, college, cafe, florist

Remaining time: 3 days 10 hours

tired of favourite trope What is your most HATED trope. no omegaverse cos it would sweep

#modern au #and the other aus #College or Regency or florist or whatever #I read Sci Fi fanfic for the Sci Fi #I don't get taking the Sci Fi characters away from the Sci Fi #It's fine that it exists #I just don't read it

michellechang

that one diva with the dandelion crayon collection got crayola to permanently bring it back

casismybestfriend

#crayola #dandelion #good for her #awwwww #queue continuum

honeyscomet

"theyll hate you for this" "but theyll be alive" is THE juiciest thing to me

honeyscomet

i will ensure you stay alive above all else. even if what i do to make it happen is horrendous. even if it violates all your wishes or moral principles. even if you can never look at me the same way again, even if you hate me for it. because at least if you hate me it means youre alive

#just sam and kaidan things #queue continuum

cooking-with-hailstones

Listen if the study of ancient humans doesn’t make you at least a little bit emotional idk what to say.

I started crying today at the museum because they had reconstructed the shoes of Otzi the iceman.

Either he or someone he knew who cared about him made these shoes out of grass and bear skin and twine and he was wearing them when he died over five thousand years ago.

And a Czech researcher and his students did reconstructions of these shoes and wore them to the same place where he died to test them out and they were like yep! These shoes are really cozy and comfy and didn’t give us blisters while hiking!

Is that not just the coolest shit ever????