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[keriweird]

For those of you interested in my process, here's my James Vega/Male Shepard Clone piece "Dead and Buried" by @ginbiscuit for Mass Effect Big Bang 2025.

I partnered with the lovely ginbiscuit and had a great time working with some more extreme lighting than I usually do. I'll post the fic link and art in a standalone post as well.

Created in gouache and coloured pencil on 140lb cold press watercolour paper. I forgot to take progress photos of James, oops, hehe. Ah well.

(the fic link will go live at some point sept28/25)

[mebigbang]

ALERT ALERT! Mass Effect Big Bang: 2024 author sign ups are going to go live!

Hey there, Commanders and Pathfinders. We've been in an information blackout as admins have been dealing with Real Life Fuckwittery, and for that we apologize. That being said, the Big Bang is still going to happen! Mark your omni-tools:

It's a bit short notice, but we didn't want to overlap with holiday plans for posting.

If you didn't see the discord post, we do have two themes/prompts you can use as a launch pad, but you definitely don't have to follow them if you don't want to; they're simply there to sparks some ideas.

theme/prompt 1: Incorporate a trade you either wish you had, or you might have studied for when young but never finished. (example: I personally wanted to me a mortician, and started to study for that - but never finished because - well, life happened - ironic really. So I could write a story about a mortician in any setting my little brain could conjure up.)

theme/prompt 2: We all have that story we sorta wish we had written a sequel or a prequel to - so this prompt is for you. Write a sequel to a story you wrote at least one year ago. If it is not in the mass effect universe, you can do a crossover if you want to - all bets off really. (example: I wrote a mebb entry like 7 years ago, and I did start on a sequel but never finished that sequel - perhaps this is the opportunity I need to do that.

Please remember we have a twitter and a facebook, which you can follow and check for info and updates. The official wordpress post is here, as well.

We'll (big) bang, okay?

[deepspacestarling]

MEBB Artist sign up.

Welcome to the Artist sign up of the MEBB 2025. For those who have not done this before: Below the cut are 11 stories, you must select 2 sto

There are 5 stories left. =) just waiting for you

[th3morrigan]

My entry to this year’s reverse Mass Effect Big Bang, now with links! I am still amazed that two of my fave authors picked my art to write for, and they did an absolutely brilliant job.  Please check out their work and leave them some love as well! (They’re both heavy on the angst as requested so have some tissues ready.)

Leave A Light On by @ellebeedarling

Shepard has gathered every resource he can; he’s recruited every ally. Everything comes down to this final battle, and he knows in his heart that this may be the last night he ever gets to spend in Kaidan Alenko’s arms.

Blink Of an Eye by @maxrev

War looms on the horizon and Shepard finds himself thinking about the changes in his life and how they’ve come about. Finally, good things are happening to him and now, he might very well lose them all. Kaidan helps him put things into perspective and along the way, Shepard realizes the most important thing of all.

And here is a second piece I did, which was inspired by the drafts elle and max sent during the course of their writing. 

Lastly, I would like to give a shout out to Azzy @mebigbang for making all this happen.  You are awesome! 

Don’t forget to check out the mebb master post here to see the other amazing artwork and fic. 

[gratuacuun]

Art for @estalfaed‘s story [I fled your memory] for Mass Effect Big Bang 2017

Drawing this was a lot more fun than I thought. It’s been a while since I last drew any Mass Effect armor. Though I bitched about it all the way through, I really enjoyed it. I remember the first time I landed on Habitat 7. The first thing that impressed me was the lighting of that level. Something about it was just so overwhelming and dreamlike, it stuck in my head. Combined with the hostile natural of just about everything there, it was a great foundation to create an artwork. 

[sunshine-ita]

I’M STILL AAAALLLLLIIIIVVVVEEEE!

Yes, I know, I’ve been QUITE quiet lately. RL shit, and writing like crazy to enter @mebigbang. Which I managed to do! Woot! Thanks to the fandom community for their support and to @nightmarestudio606 and @threewhiskeylunch who I bothered like crazy for 2 weeks.

Now, time to edit and write Part II of the story - which doesn’t have a title yet. And I can’t say more. Total secrecy is asked from the authors entering MEBB! (Had to split the story in two to stay sane; Part I is for the exchange, Part II will be released at the same time, but out of MEBB.)

Voilà some ships & stations screenshots, in the meantime. Never enough screenshots :)

[biotics-and-headshots]

Goal: finish the next 4 chapters of Voiceless Whispers, which will put the story at the beginning of Mass Effect 2. Use that cushion to work on Tess’s AU story in an attempt to write it from start to finish for the MEBB.

[keriweird]

For those interested, here's my process for my Panam/Miranda Lawson piece for Mass Effect Big Bang 2025.

I partnered with @masweird and really enjoyed drawing these two bombshells. I actually forgot he was doing MEBB and I picked this fic because I got excited about the characters involved. Then we got matched and I was like "oh yeah, that tracks it's him that wrote it." See the separate post for fic link and art since I have to wait for the AO3 link to go live.

Created with gouache and coloured pencils on 140lb cold press watercolour paper. Colour corrected digitally cus my scanner is heavy handed and my phone camera is crap.