In what world is tall muscular man not conventionally attractive

We've all been down here too long. I truly think there's a chunk of tumblr's population that can no longer survive sunlight.

women will say “hear me out” and show u a photo of pyramid head and then tumblr users will go “this is a perfectly normal man and an ice cold take”

I know I’m really late to this fandom, but Mordin singing Gilbert and Sullivan in Mass Effect 2 is one of the best things in any video game ever.

I just finished Priority: Tuchanka so let me say that Mordin singing Gilbert and Sullivan in Mass Effect 3 is one of the worst things in any video game ever.

Mass Effect heritage post

Gods clone-shep breaks my fucking heart. The fandom and the DLC itself treats them as a joke but they are so fucking tragic. Brookes was the real villain and she doesn’t get enough hate.

When we meet clone-shep they’re only six months old. They look like an adult, talk like an adult, they have the faculties of an adult, the thought processes of an adult, but no memories of their own, no life experience to teach them morals. They have the life experience of an infant.

From the moment they wake up they’re told they were just a bag of organs for the person you’re a copy of. They have nothing, own nothing, not even their face is theirs. But Brookes is whispering in their ear, feeding this new naive mind hatred and anger and jealousy. And Clone-Shep follows it, because like an infant they’ll follow and trust the first guiding voice they hear. No one has Clone-Shep’s back except Brookes, Brookes only wants to help them be stronger, Brookes knows what best, Brookes is giving them a purpose. If they follow Brookes they can be happy.

Clone-Shep truly doesn’t know any better. That’s not me making excuses or infantilize them, they truly don’t know, without memories they can’t know.

And the “why you and not me!” line? Soul crushing. Clone-Shep is hurting so fucking much and just want to have a purpose, just wants to belong.

the cw pr department might be the only people in the world who are good at their job. look at how effectively they utilized girlpower to make the enduring image of destiel shippers as fucking crazy fujoshis making stuff up in their head. they put two DIFFERENT love confessions in there they put he's in love dot dot dot with humanity in there they put love overcoming brainwashing in there . you guys remember castiel heaven plastered with shirtless dean? and still the overall reaction to november 5th twenty twenty was "THEM TWO STRAIGHT BOYS FROM SUPERNATURAL?" and other some such that agreed it was the most heterosexual sexless television show that never even alluded to them having feelings for each other. genuinely truly cia level propaganda and effectiveness. what if the singleminded determination, foul souls, and budget behind the public campaign on war on drugs instead turned to shows that they play on the treadmill at the gym. if they used their powers for good we could well and truly make republicans cringe in this country for good. i would never have to see a reagan '84 shirt again. but instead they will continue to use them for evil. not sure what they will turn to now that long form television is dead but i'm sure it will increase the net amount of evil in the world

IN 2013. misha collins tweeted. You're not crazy. this was in direct response to how the ceo of the cw had spent all night telling destiel shippers on twitter that they were crazy. ten years ago. this is in the show that says the word destiel out loud several times in an episode btw. FOUR YEARS LATER. they paid people to sit in a room and watch supernatural and then they said. destiel. thoughts? would you give us walking around money if cas was gay? if dean was gay? if cas and dean were gay together?. TWO YEARS AFTER THAT.. cas says on live television dean winchester im in love with you and want to fuck you in the ass. and people not familiar with her game (supernatural) said Wait i thought thtese guys were straight lol .. your web weavers. your poetry posters. all disparaged destiels for hoodwinking THEMSELVES. remember when you strted watching supernatural again in august of 202 0 because we were in the middle of coronavirus. and you said. i bet theres no desitel in here. i bet iwas a silly teenager who got caught in up in the 2012 fervor and tidal wave of the tent pole blonde/brunette yaoi. and then you hit season 4. and go. waita minute. i have resason to believe there is destiel in my television show and it was not purely a product of my fevered teenage mind. they're THAT good. and they are out there. and unemployed. stay safe

"ACAB applies to Garrus"

I've heard this independently 3-4 times over the past week, and it strikes me as such an odd thing to say. Not because it isn't true--we know Garrus wasn't above working a suspect over if he thought it would make them talk. Like, he wasn't just a cop, he was kind of a dirty one. Not in the same way as someone like Harkin, but definitely in the "you better hope his hunch doesn't lead him to you or you're getting beaten with a rubber hose until you tell him what he wants to hear" kind of way. Which is arguably just as bad, if not worse.

No, the reason it's such an odd thing to say is that ACAB honestly applies to about half of the characters in the visible universe of Mass Effect. It's a very "save us, military industrial complex," sort of narrative in many respects--up to and including the part where all the politicians and diplomats basically have "beta cuck," or "dick dastardly's understudy," tattooed on their forehead with very few exceptions.

That's just something you have to accept if you want to enjoy the series. It's a star war, not an insightful commentary on power structures and the abuse of the people therein.

If you want to evaluate it as one, then there are quite a few bigger fish in this particular pond. The Citadel Council alone is one of the most abusable legislative mechanisms conceivable, and admission to their ranks is predicated solely on approval by the current Council. The council whose individual votes would be weakened by adding another member. Not to mention that the idea of an individual speaking for their entire species is bananas on its face.

And not to put too fine a point on it, but Shepard is a fed. Like, a "clandestine intervention and special operations" kind of fed. ACAB absolutely applies to them too.

The Point™: The Mass Effect universe was created solely to facilitate a role playing game in which the player had more narrative freedom than was typical of AAA titles at the time. If you apply any degree of knowledge regarding sociology or political science, the thing falls apart faster than the M-44 Hammerhead. Basically anybody who has spent more than five minutes thinking about it could tell you that. Anybody can also tell you that if the game mirrored an effective and equitable political process, there probably wouldn't be much call to splatter some faceless space pirate against a wall with your dark energy mind powers. If you want to be all cinemasins about it, that's your call, but I don't think you would make a very good action game going about it that way.

I'm not trying to say that you're wrong if you don't like Garrus. It's a matter of opinion, first and foremost. There are valid reasons to dislike him. Like his elevator conversations, for example. But it's more than a little disingenuous to pretend he is uniquely or egregiously problematic in his abuse of power while we control Commander Shepard--the literal avatar of abusing their power with little to no consequences.

Happy Birthday Commander Shepard!🤍❤️🤍

I can't do that post that's like "why did you start following prev" bc I truly do not remember why I started following any of you guys. It's probably just because we were brothers in a past life

see 0 note flop posts aren't that bad when they're personal but 0 note fandom posts feel literally so bad. like if you don't wanna play toys with me anymore just say that. i'll pack up my super cool awesome things and go and i'll sit on the other side of the playground by myself and i won't even look at you. fuck

Mizora 🔥

Our fandom forbearers did NOT suffer through Anne Rice, strikethrough, and other bullshit for fucking ACOTAR and Harry Potter fans to fucking ruin it for all of us by selling fanfiction. I am not losing novel length yaoi epics because some of you don't know how to act in fannish spaces and yes I do blame the booktokification of fanfic but I also blame those of you that treat fandom like content to consume and not a community to engage with.

"Attempting to impose order over chaos is futile. Nature is, by its very nature, chaotic."

Javik (let's face it, he wouldn't really keep this thought to himself) I don't always do a portrait of Javik only to splash some shitpost text over it at the end, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Made in procreate.

Were you devastated by the Mass Effect Trilogy or are you normal

me: I have GOT to get weirder!

also me when I do get weirder: *visibly shaking* I'm going to be killed with hammers by everyone for being a freak.

Having angst about Shep right now, But I’m thinking of the Shep who was born and raised on Mindoir, never knew the choking smog and crowded, sprawling megalopolises of earth. Whose version of home looks very different to what the other humans on her crew call home.

Parents were farmers. She was going to be a farmer. Maybe a water filtration operator. Maybe both. Until Mindoir was raided and razed to the ground. It’s people killed and stolen. Help came eventually, but too late. The Alliance was there, her family was gone.

So of course she joins, what else is there for her here?

For years she fights, she kills, she protects(?)(furthers the Systems Alliance agenda?).

She dies.

Is brought back. What’s left of Mindoir uses her likeness on their colonial seal. She hates it, but doesn’t tell anyone.

Now she watches countless colonies just like hers be snuffed out in an instance. Friends and comrades tell her “people are strong, they’ll rebuild”, she tells them “they rebuilt Mindoir. It wasn't the same." the body is strong. places are rebuilt. people too. the mind? the mind’s never the same.

She’s not sure they understand.

Now she stands over a war table trying to convince the galaxy to help save Earth. Save Earth, save the galaxy. Save a planet she’s never stepped foot on except for (military bases. jail.). But its mother earth.

Fighting for it feels the same as fighting for Palaven, for Rannoch. She cares about them all in specific ways, but the only land she feels loyal to is under rubble, lightyears away, soaked with her family’s blood.