#ryan shepard

[pricknim]

sketch dump that i never got to finish because of my exams

[ryan-shepard-writes]

Crowlyn is simultaneously the most badass character in this book AND the easiest to pick on, due to his sheer levels of arrogance and capacity for drama.

Crow, my beloved and most cherished inevitable downfall.

~

[korkro]

(boring) facts about Rye because i’m thinking about him a lot lately

the first instrument he learned was violin, and it’s still his favorite, but he also plays a lot of piano, guitar, and bass. he can play drums when needed, is a countertenor

speaks fluent Spanish because of his (maternal) grandma, who is from Spain (he’s born in New York) met his two best friends (besides Cal lol) in junior high. they’re twins, James and Amanda

emo culture gets a revival beginning in 2160 and the three of them go hard in high school

starts having mental health issues around 15, his cousin that he was extremely close to died suddenly, acts out and does a lot of reckless stuff. friends just think he’s ‘cool’ but his parents put him in therapy not long after 

he and the twins start playing music together and start a terrible cover band when they’re 14, form a more serious band at 16

play their first ‘real’ show at a party and think this is something they can pursue, Ryan starts writing songs while James works on art for them and Amanda works on riffs, take on a more punk sound initially

at the start of his senior year, he gets (yet another) boyfriend who convinces him to move to Chicago with him when they graduate because that’s where he wants to go to college. Rye gets a job and starts saving up because he knows his parents won’t approve. James and Amanda don’t like it either but he plays it off because ‘shuttle rides barely take any time. it’ll be like i never even left’

they move to Chicago and Rye quickly hates it, he realizes everyone was right. he keeps working on his music, he’s medicated and still in therapy and learning to cope better what makes him and his bf split is that Rye decides he wants to enlist in the Alliance, his mom was enlisted but retired when he was a child. it takes some time after but he realizes he’s not actually all that interested in relationships or sex

everyone is shocked by his Alliance decision but he’s been thinking about it for a while. his mom secretly always hoped that he’d want to join but even she was like ‘are you sure??’ James and Amanda feel kind of betrayed because they had plans to work on their music together and none of them particularly liked the military. by the time they’re 19, they’ve gained some recognition in the New York scene. they come to accept it though, they have their band still but the twins form a duo Rye enlists at 19 and puts his all into it, ultimately happy with his decision. when he’s 23, he gets injured so they transfer him to a new facility that he can work at and heal properly before he gets sent on missions again this Alliance building is in Mexicali where he’ll end up meeting a certain teenager in the Reds named Cal...

[nightclimes]

female awesome meme: [2/5] heroes (who saved the world galaxy)

Commander Jane Shepard (Mass Effect)

[r-shepard]

Maybe one day we’ll get the chance to just lie under the stars. Just lie there, wrapped up in each other’s arms, but tonight’s one last reminder that’s just hope and wishful thinking. We have hope, but how far will that get us?

[ryan-shepard-writes]

A̸ ̸n̸e̴w̷ ̴c̷h̶a̴p̸t̶e̸r̷ ̶h̵a̷s̷ ̸b̸e̶e̶n̴ ̵u̶p̸l̷o̴a̵d̶e̴d̴.̸

̴C̴a̵n̸ ̶t̴h̵e̶y̷ ̷b̴e̷ ̵s̴a̸v̷e̴d̵?̸

Fate's Crystal Majesty

A Chronicle of The Forgotten Lands

[ryan-shepard-writes]

Instead of sleeping like a normie my brain refused to do anything until I wrote out the MOST soft love scene it could come up with about rain. Thoughts?

[ryan-shepard-writes]

Why does Lilly make such a big deal out of soap??? Of all things, why do her people have a SOAP shortage?

Allow me to answer your question with another question:

How big and advanced would a space ship have to be to house and sustain hundreds or thousands of people for several generations, as well as every single thing they may need to survive- including food, water, oxygen, fitness equipment, entertainment, soap, and literally anything else they could need?

The humans that Lilly descended from arrived on their current planet on what is known as a Generational Ship- an as-of-yet theoretical craft that would be built to carry several generations worth of people to a new planet. One of the biggest problems with such a ship has always been the storage and amount of supplies that would be necessary; it would be nearly impossible to account for every hiccup, every illness, every mistake. Inevitably supplies will run out. You'll start to come up short on something. The backups of your backups will run out. The supplies you brought to make more soap will run out. After hundreds of years of travel, how many supplies do you think those humans would have left? Furthermore, there's never a guarantee that if they finally reach their destination, that this new planet will have the means to replenish those supplies. This new planet won't have a pile of soap waiting for them.

The humans here on earth have had literal millions of years to create and perfect soap, and it's something we're STILL working on. Our soap is far from the perfect pinnacle of soap-iness. It took us our entire existence to get to where we are now in terms of soap technology... so now imagine that you have to reinvent soap. Out of materials that you never knew existed. You've just landed on a new planet, and your food, water, and soap reserves are basically nonexistent, and now you have to figure out how to deal with that. You have a matter of days to do what took your entire race millions of years of evolution to figure out. You have a matter of days to figure out what parts of this planet are safe to touch, and what parts will melt your skin off.

Now imagine what other things Lilly's had to go without, and how her society must have been built to accommodate that type of life.

Welcome to the existential horror of long-term space travel. Don't lose your soap.