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gif ask challenge: @camalyng asked: wilenko + overlay/blending

[chloefraazer]

Aerti unchau, ashkaidan stargate, and chlodine fake date pls!

aerti unchau is in fact an aerith/tifa uncharted au I came up with with @edains like four years ago (haha what is time...) in this au tifa worked with barret to steal artifacts and return them to their rightful land but I as putting her more in the elena type role of uncharted and then aerith showed up as the last survivor from a place that had been ransacked years ago looking for the team to get her things back, so really less uncharted more generic but it started as an uncharted idea

"I can't really see you firing a gun." Tifa said, her voice low. "I can, Tseng taught me." Aerith laughed, her giggling echoing in the quiet van. She put a hand over her mouth and whispers an apology to Barret who grunted and went back to sleep."Not that I love doing it." Aerith said in a stage whisper to Tifa, leaning in across the way to talk to her. "Oh." Tifa replied, taken aback. "Is it...were you..." She faltered with her words and trying to find the right thing to say. Aerith smiled at her but for once it didn't meet her eyes. "It wasn't by choice. But! I can still take people in a fight." She winked at Tifa. "And I'm willing to fight for my peoples things. They've been gone for too long." "We'll get them back," Tifa promised, hoping beyond everything she could keep that promise, "And then we'll make Cloud carry them all back for us." Aerith giggled again and this time her smile was genuine. "The perfect pack mule."

ashkaidan stargate is also what it says on the lid where they're on a stargate team with shep as the leader and the rest of the me1 squad, and then me2 squad was it's own group, and me3 squad. legion was like a replicator style machine in this universe and tali was from the race that built the replicators but I never got around to writing that point in the story I just really liked it.

Ashley was fairly certain she could time how long the gate took to dial a planet to a T in her head. She'd seen it well over a hundred times but when the last connection was made and the gate whooshed open with a brilliant flash of blue and white it always made the breath catch in her throat. She shifted slightly, trying to get rid of some of excitement and nervous energy that always came with the start of a mission and traveling to a new world. The M.A.L.P. had shown them that this world would be covered in ice and snow though it shouldn't have been given the planets location to the sun. Kaidan nudged her as Shepard did one last inventory check before they left. "You sure you ready for this one Gunnery? If it gets to cold let me know, I've got a trick or two to keep war." Kaidan teased. Ashley rolled her eyes. "It doesn't get that cold up in Vancouver LT, don't act like you're the expert here. Just make sure your mom packed your sweater." She shot back and began walking up the plank to the gate on Shepard's signal. "That was one time." She heard Kaidan mutter behind her and tried to stiffle a laugh. She wasn't laughing by the time the cold hit her face, instantly making her eyes water. She scrambled to put on the glasses she should have before entering the gate. "Sure you don't need help?" Kaidan asked, his voice coming in her ear over the comms. Whatever response she was going to come up with was killed when Shepard held up her hand to signal for them to cut the chatter. "We're not alone, team."

chlodine fake dating is again what is says on the tin, these two start dating mostly to troll nate and sam and whoops it's real

Sam stared down at their joined hands and then back up at Nadine and Chloe. "No." He said. "Oh yes." Nadine gave him a sharp grin in reply. Chloe tried not to laugh at Sam's face of utter incredulity. "Something wrong Sam?" Chloe asked, as casual as she could. "You don't get more of a cut for being a couple." Sam finally huffed, crossing his arms. "Now hang on, that wasn't on the table. But it could be." Chloe let go of Nadine's hand and shook off the sudden chill as smoothly as possibly. "Let's talk number." Nadine turned her face, dropping her head onto Chloe's shoulder and making it look like she was either telling her sweet nothings or how to get a larger cut of the loot to Sam. In reality Chloe could feel more than hear Nadine's muffled laughter.

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@camalyng replied to your post “you were ordained by the minister and turned a...”:

Those look like summer rolls to me - are they fried?

​not fried! tbh I don't know the difference between spring and summer rolls - the recipe I used called them spring rolls, but it could very well have been wrong.

[cobaltswriting]

@camalyng

Hello there, reasonable person!

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by 'clear' but that it might just be that Ashley is noting what she sees. She hangs out in the same area as Garrus and Wrex, and shares the same strength in combat that they bring. Garrus also brings tech and Wrex also brings biotics, but Ashley is just straight out combat strength, according to the stats when you're putting together a team.

I also vaguely remember her saying something to do with Liara, which showed a little jealousy. She just doesn't seem to have much fondness for aliens and of course the "I'm not racist" line, which always raises a few red flags.

I'm also just gonna put a few comments here...

Ashley: With all due respect, Commander, should they really have full access to the ship?

Ashley: I’m not sure I’d call the Council races ‘allies’…

Ashley: I can't tell the aliens from the animals.

You can definitely see why people would think Ashley's racist.

And the thing is, you can't necessarily tell if that's changed by the time of Mass Effect 2. She still works for the alliance, is on a human settlement, and doesn't join up. Pretty much just chews you out for being dead for 2 years and not contacting her during that time and refuses to join you since you're working with/for Cerberus.

I can also see why she wouldn't say much about Tali specifically. Tali keeps quiet and usually stays in engineering, I wouldn't be surprised if Ashley forgets Tali exists at times.

I guess I must have missed that side quest. To be fair, by the time I was getting to the end game I was getting... a bit tired of the first Mass Effect game. I did a few side quests but I didn't explore the galaxy all that much.

And yeah, tolerance isn't her main thing. I actually had to reload my save to save Wrex, because I was hoping if I kept talking to him, we'd get to a point where Shepherd would say 'look, we'll download any data Saren has that points towards a genophage cure while we're infiltrating' and Ashley decided that just shooting him would be the best idea. So I had to reload and just calm Wrex down directly. Luckily it is fairly easy to do if you went and got his family armour back for him.

Appearance wise, it was fairly obvious to me. The hairstyle change, and the pronounced lips just struck me as something that was fairly out of place with the straightforward soldier we knew in Mass Effect 1.

This could be put down to her simply employing a different style because we were on Earth, so she wasn't fighting any wars, but then we get to the mission on Mars... She could have easily tied her hair back, keep it out of the way, but no. She got some armour, yes, but... I dunno. She also just didn't seem quite as straight forward as she was in Mass Effect 1 and 2.

I dunno how else to put it. It just hardly feels like Ashley at all to me.

[sartorialadventure]

As I scrolled down your Aconav post, I got so excited because I thought you were posting Pasifika or Māori fashion. I feel like you and your followers would enjoy their prints!

We probably would! Do you know of any Pasifika or Māori designers we could check out?

ACONAV employs Acoma Pueblo designs in their clothing. Here are some examples of Acoma Pueblo pottery--you can really see the influence on the clothes!

[omegastation]

camalyng replied to your post “Re: more romances in the remaster. Did you know there were lines…”

Closed canon buddies 😂

[ezrisdax-archive]

Nobody died.

I could shoot someone if it'd make you feel better.

Nah, I'm good.

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characters forced to take on a name from a predecessor post... got me thinkin of clone Shep now

send me a ☕️ and a topic and i’ll talk about how i feel about it

rhrfgjkdhk there's a reason I'm tumblr user ezrisdax here and rcdimusprime on my other blog because I relate too much to characters suddenly forced into a legacy/name from a predecessor and living with it.

but like it's tragic!! it's just the whole ghost haunting you thing and even worse if you didn't know the person properly and also somehow kinda do? And absolutely for clone Shep in that regard the previous person is put on this unreachable pedestal that you're always aiming for. And if you try to live up to them in some way then you're told you can't and if you don't try at all you're told you're wasting the name. (I'm forever haunted by Garak saying Jadzia was 'vital and alive. she owned herself' to Ezri okay, you just know clone Shep hearing that would have them rampaging)

it's always a no win scenario for characters like that. clone Shep was doomed from the beginning for several reasons and that's just one of them. Even if they'd got the Normandy off the ground somehow you know they'd tear themself apart still trying to live up to Shepard regardless; people would tell them they seem different and that little remark would drive them to do dangerous things in an attempt to prove they were the better Shepard.

also there's just the identity aspect: who are you if you're trying to live up to someone else's ideals? What line do you draw between them and yourself and how far will you go to push that to others. There's this one line in dark matter when a character finds out they're a copy of someone else "I don't know how to put it into words but her existence somehow diminishes me. I'm a lesser version of someone else. A diluted imperfect facsimile." which I think really sums up the struggle for these types of characters and how they view themselves.

And that's not even getting into how fandom perceives said characters because hoo boy they'll always be the replacement for a better character in their eyes. And sometimes that's valid! And the reason the character was changed in the first place is unfair (*cough*jadzia*cough*) but man is it hard for that character to win any place in fandom eyes too.