History Buff/Miniature Enthusiast,He/Him mid 20's

Been swamped with other course work but I finally cleaned up that rough animatic for my final exhibition!

We Have Always Been Here is based on the heartfelt love letter of American WWII veteran Brian Keith, this poignant moving storyboard imaginatively brings to life his relationship with a comrade known only as “Dave”. The animatic sheds light on the relevance and impact of forgotten LGBTQ+ history during this current wave of political hostility.

I've run into a few homophobic episodes in WW2 memoirs. Men in the 1940s were as bigoted as you'd expect, yet through shared misery and hardship Tenney observed a simple truth.

"...I realized they were just like me in every way but one..."

Sissy injures her foot, can't walk very much, decides to spend Saturday with her foot up so it can rest and heal

Bro-in-law decides he wants to cook French toast for dinner, which would require a shopping trip

Sissy reminds him her foot is injured and she's physically not up to walking around a supermarket

Bro-in-law, who has a driver's license and access to their shared funds, decides he does not want to go buy the things he need to make French toast.

I ask if I can come with them the next day, to visit the craft store; Sissy agrees enthusiastically, but clarifies she might not be able to come inside.

Sunday, Sissy's foot is not better at all, but we all agreed to shopping so she gets ready to go (I was ready 2 hours ago bc I got excited)

Bro-in-law says he no longer wants to go.

Sissy is still limping, btw, because she's still injured. she still drives me to the craft store and wanders the whole place with me before we hit up the grocery store. she even pays for my shit when my card fucks up.

bro-in-law slept the whole time we were gone. (he naps every fucking day and yet insists he has insomnia.)

And it's not even N7 themed 😔

Bonus:

Traynor: "You know, my lab studied the rachni. Long-distance communication with no time-lag, the ability to control workers..."

Communication is a major problem in ME3. The Reapers are destroying all means to do so, limiting the ability of this cycle to coordinate.

The rachni circumvent that!

This cycle could assign a rachni worker to every ship on the fleet. Boom, instant communication through the queen.

If the geth survive, they could do something similar. I think the geth do rely on comm buoys so they're more limited than the rachni, but they're fast. In particular, the geth would be major boon in coordinating forces in field deployments.

A rapidly changing battle field?

No problem for the geth. Or the rachni.

A small contribution of happiness for Mass Effect Appreciation Week.

Shepard and Liara sharing a quiet moment together on Shore Leave.

torture getting reliable information out of people

knocking someone out to harmlessly incapacitate them for like an hour

jumping into water from staggering heights and surviving the fall completely intact

calling the police to deescalate a situation

rafting your way off a desert island

correctly profiling total strangers based on vibes

effectively operating every computer by typing and nothing else

ripping an IV out of your arm without consequences

OKAY!! so. i am doing a comic based off that zaeed post bc nat here encouraged me. HOWEVER it was a one-off post and not something i was really considering deeply or as canon for ro. buuuut i do think it fits in nicely so i'll keep it.

so. the first to find out are mordin and chakwas. they're medical doctors and these two have medical questions. so they find out directly from the horse's mouth - but mordin has been on the field with those two and did have his suspicions. body language typical of human and turian courtship, respectively. interest apparent. the next is the illusive man, when footage from the normandy is reviewed. EDI automatically flags anything of interest before offship security teams review it - one such flagged item was a moment in the main battery, where ro kisses garrus for the first time. this footage was obviously immediately sent up to the top. the illusive man brings it to miranda's attention, who brings it to kelly's attention. kasumi finds out by being kasumi. other crew members will surely follow in time.

zaeed catches them at a moment where they have seemingly forgotten that not only is the ship bugged, but that there are windows looking down into the hangar bay. it was a late hour. it's not like anyone makes a habit of looking out windows anyway. the punchline to the comic i'm making is that nobody will believe him anyway - just another one of zaeed's tall tales.

the biggest blabbermouths on the ship are him, kasumi, and EDI. out of the three, kasumi is the most likely to be believed. if the information is let slip, it's through her. but i don't think it's even necessary to have her do so. enough missions have gone by that most have seen the commander and vakarian attached at the hip. she's always going in and out of the battery, he goes on nearly every mission, they share music and meals, he goes up to her quarters. they've both been happier, somehow. it's a small ship. try as they might to keep things secret and between themselves, people will notice things, and people will talk. but they keep it professional enough that people who don't spend a lot of time around them, such as the engineers, are unsure. i can see gabby insisting that it's so obvious that those two are together, while ken argues that it couldn't possibly be true. tali on the other side of the engine is trying very hard not to laugh.