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Les Vampires: Episode 2 – “The Ring That Kills” (1915) dir. Louis Feuillade

"Sounds like you found some humanity, EDI. Is it worth defending?"

"To the death."

I would love to see Grunt wearing a t-shirt with this phrase on it

drell diaspora meta <3

as told by me! a mixed diasporic chindo (chinese-indonesian) :)

preface: bioware failed to flesh out Drell culture and heritage to my satisfaction so I wrote this meta for both my personal reference and because I wanted to represent Thane and Drell as people who suffer from a history that invokes parallels between real world colonization/imperialism, as well as portray his personal conflict with this accurately because it's very painful and I think gets naturally overlooked by people who lack this background!

Contents:

1. The Family Unit

Size: They're small by necessity: as in there is no room on Kahje to support. This is a bit of a complicated topic. Drell families are likely to lose their children to the Compact giving them incentive to have more than one or two but it’s probably very expensive to provide for them. I can see a lot of cultural tension here. There are pressures in either direction. There's a lot of sadness too. It makes every child extremely precious.

Values: Independence is an important quality-- but not to a fault! Because family units can be taken apart at any time, being able to take care of yourself is a survival skill. In addition, spiritedness is a closely held value-- To make up for the loss of large family trees and ability to be in close quarters (due to the constant coming and going of family members) it becomes very important to showcase your passion-- whether to each other or about any matter of things in life. Overall, spiritedness is most important! caring and wanting to improve upon yourself as well as self-discipline and hard work.

Carrying on: The ability to be vulnerable is not as important as the ability to show that you care, which can come from action or words, but usually, this means vulnerability and passion go hand in hand. Finally, homecoming is very important. Everyone is so scattered all over the galaxy, time together is time that counts. Bonding circles (An old tradition) have become “Bonds,” a colloquial name for annual family gatherings.

Read on Under The Cut <3

of course you have a military rank and a plastic crack addiction

Aria T’Loak doodle after the last one I did was a year ago

Tried something new with this! My kickass gal, Ceifia Be’sashi: tactical fashion designer, model, and girlfriend of @straypurplebread’s turian, Spectre, Nex Galius.

I then left it messy for artistic reasons and Definitely not because I am Lazy and have the attention span of a gnat on caffeine.

Fun fact: this was my first time drawing an asari! How had I not done that yet?

Oh! And here’s a WIP shot I took (i May Have Forgotten to flip the canvas back whoops)

Quarians are creeping their way into my color exercises and I am okay with that.

starlight happy N7 day!!!!!!!!!

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I had this lady in my head for a while now so here she is. Her name is Undra and she's a busy mom of one tiny krogan bean.

Didn’t finish this in time for mass effect day but it was about time for my every 2 year redraw!