#solas-you-nerd

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solas-you-nerd replied to your post: i made peach ice cream today and it turned out...

ooomg peach ice cream sounds so gOOOD

i came out w like a gallon and a quart and i wanna send some to like everybody to gloat but i HIGHLY doubt ice cream will survive July Postal Service

[venatohru]

Moon and Meteor for Tasha Shepard?

Shepard Ask Meme

Moon - Did your Shepard have any dreams as a child? (dream job, plans for future etc)

Oh boy...I mean she used to be in a gang back during her time on Earth, and most of her plans for the future revolved around various illegal schemes (often involving bootleg Thessian ‘haute couture’) before she joined up with the Alliance. If she’d had more opportunities as a teen, she could have become an excellent seamstress. But she did always want to go into space, so things worked out!

Meteor - Does your Shepard have any quirks, strange mannerisms, annoying habits, or other defining characteristics? 

She has a nervous habit. It’s not extremely noticeable, but sometimes she makes a movement you’d normally associate with someone flicking their hair...but Tasha’s hair is too short to really get in the way. If anyone notices they tend to just find it perplexing rather than strange or annoying.

[chupacabrasmustdie]

solas-you-nerd a réagi à votre billet “Carrington work musings – I do love that “everybody hates Carrington”...”

I mean, he has every right to be brusque - the Survivor has gone through NONE of the vetting process and suddenly has full access to the last vestiges of the Railroad. He's still trying to keep the RR from falling apart and here comes in this Nobody like they matter, meanwhile almost everyone Carrington has lived, sweated, and bled with have just died in a violent attack.

right? It IS funny that you can get him to confide in you about Desdemona and RR rules by blowing smoke up his ass (he IS human after all! Gaspshock!) but he's not *wrong*

[sorrelchestnut]

macgyvertape replied to your post “solas-you-nerd replied to your post “macgyvertape replied to your...”

I have even more feelings now than when I first read the fic. It’s too early for the feels I have

I’m... sorry? (I’m not sorry, that’s an absolute lie.  I am cackling in triumph.)

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I love this peek into her POV, too - from X6's I was so sure that she was absolutely sure about her stance, I didn't even doubt it (which speaks to her and to the writing). Meanwhile she's calculating her odds. I do think it's odd that X6 doesn't go hostile on a non-Institute ending, considering the game does nothing with him post-game and the RR will still go ballistic if you bring him to HQ after the Institute is gone.

Sole is not great at admitting to anything less than perfect confidence at the best of times, and this was not the moment to let herself falter.  And it did help that she absolutely believed everything she was saying - she didn’t come to this decision on a whim, and she’s had a lot of time to figure out what she wanted to say.  But he surprised her by essentially setting himself up to get sent to recomm, and she was put on the spot with none of the careful lead-up she wanted to do.  She wasn’t ready.  And she had to project absolute and uncompromising faith that it was going to work, but inside she figured probably about fifty-fifty odds that one of them wasn’t going to end up dead.  She was pretty sure she’d won by the time she got him to say “or,” but she definitely laid awake all night with a shotgun in one hand and a grenade in the other, waiting for him to come for her.  When he met her the next morning, it was probably one of the purest moments of triumph of her entire life.

I genuinely can’t figure if they just didn’t code for X6 regarding the Railroad ending properly or if it was meant to be like that - and if it was a error, which direction was the error?  Was he supposed to be cool with you and not hostile to the RR, or was he supposed to go nuclear and try to murder your face off as a traitor?  And if it was intentional, what the hell were they trying to say there?  That he was cool with you ending his life’s work as long as it was for synths?  Does he care about synths rights now?  I find that dubious, at best.  Is he cool with the Railroad but like, they’re not cool with him?  They have all lost, like,a lot of people to coursers.  A lot.  It’s possible X6 himself was one of the coursers that took the Switchboard.  Maybe there’s a grudge.

[mylittlechimera-archive]

Do you feel like drawing Carrington? Our fav RR grump with the nice ties :o

This is how Deacon doodles him. As we can see, Dee is a spy of many talents.

[radiationgroove]

"I don't want this" for Adeline? :3

“What the fuck, Ad? What the fuck are you trying to tell me?”

Far Harbor seemed so long ago now, the Island and the people who lived among the Fog a distant memory. The heartache, the loss of the Mariner, was far more open of a wound. Returning home to the Commonwealth, to the State House, to Hancock? She spilled her broken heart on the floor only to be met with narrowed eyes and…disgust? Despair? Ad found the emotion hard to read on Hancock’s ruined face.

The double doors closed behind Fahrenheit. Adeline’s ears rang with the squeak of the hinges.

“Can we just…can we sit down, John?” She motioned to the center of the room, the sheer vastness between them. He didn’t move. Once seated herself, Adeline clutched her legs to her chest, hugged her knees tight.

“Let me get this straight. You left with Valentine to find a runaway, took off to the ass-end of the world, and stayed there for months after that girl was home because you fell in love with someone else? And then, Sweet Adeline,” her beloved nickname fell from his lips and a shiver ran down her spine, “you only come back here after she dies. I find out that Valentine and Deacon both knew from day fucking one!” A ceramic vase (willow, a pattern she’d loved since she was a girl), shattered against the wall just past her head. A framed picture on that same wall crashed to the floor, glass skittering under the furniture. “Am I missing anything? Any more good news?”

If Adeline’s mouth hadn’t gone dry from his first syllable, she would have responded. Instead, she simply shook her head. Her voice cracked. For the first time since waking up in the Vault, she was afraid. “That’s it.”

The ghoul mayor of Goodneighbor didn’t look at her. It rang heavy in her ears, his silence, stillness. This Hancock was far more terrifying than any outburst could make him; he stewed in his rage, let it simmer, and even from clear across the room it was palpable.

“Say something?”

Nothing.

“John, please? I don’t…I don’t want this.”

“I want you out. Get your shit outta the State House and clear out of Goodneighbor. Before I do something I’m gonna regret, Adeline.”

The pit of Adeline’s stomach dropped to the soles of her feet. The fragments of her life cut deep.

“Get. Out.”

Quietly, the Mariner mumbled in her sleep, shifted closer to her. Adeline makes the decision then and there, at two in the morning with the Mariner snoring against her bicep. Upon her arrival to the Commonwealth, she won’t breathe a word of this to Hancock.

More four word prompts here.

[aeternapancake]

solas-you-nerd replied to your post: rinasai replied to your post “rinasai replied to...

imo Dez’s shortcoming is her idealism, not ignoring her subordinates. She’s trying to keep a ship full of holes from sinking. Her relationship with Carrington is normal pragmatic/idealistic friction. Carrington is just as short with her as she with him. They’ve been working together for a decade, it could just be how they communicate.

The fact that she has managed to keep that ship going is altogether impressive to me but yes she is very idealistic. And I’m sure Carrington plays a big role in that as well and that she does take what he says into account (why else would she consider him her second?) just not as much as Carrington would like her to.

[lilithhawthorne]

solas-you-nerd replied to your post “Every time a man finds out that I like a piece of culture that he does...”

Almost every time my nerdery gets recognized by a guy it's to gatekeep (unless they're calling me Commander Shepard as I wear my N7 hoodie, which is an acceptable response). By a woman it's to discuss this thing we both like. Its a marked difference.

If someone doesn’t call you Commander Shepard while you’re wearing anything N7 related, they must lay their gaming console or PC on a pyre.

Isn’t that interesting? How insistent some men are at keeping women out? When I find out a man likes the same thing I do, my first thought is: “Do I even want to let them know I’m into it, too? Do I have 3 hours? Have I had a snack recently? Am I ready for this?”