50% art, 50% busy romancing Bioware characters

Refuge.

rocky may be the size of an earth dog but he is 168 kilos and strong as hell whereas grace is a wet paper bag. one of these two is being carried by the other and it is not the one you think

grace go far.

be nice to the goddamn baristas

sarcasm

bait and switch

does anyone remember them

Not A Sound

Wow, I only found out about Mass Effect little more than two years ago, but avoided it like the plague since I didn’t want any spoilers. This summer I finally played the Shepard trilogy, and fell so completely in love with everything. To then find out that the fandom is very much alive and active has been such a joy! So here is my own contribution to my first N7 day, a sketch of our love Garrus in a slutty little top, as well as some silly doodles of how I imagine turians can retract their heads like a turtle, lol

With the rise of AI and the well known epidemic of AI companies scraping Ao3 for training data most authors on Ao3 have locked down their fics to logged in users only. This is unfortunate for authors and readers. As an author I've noticed a steep drop in readership on fics restricted to logged in users and when recommending fics to my friends I've noticed that the folks without an account can't find the fics. The logged in users only toggle, not only keeps people without an account from reading a fic, but also from seeing its listing at all. More than 50% of fics I come across have this setting turned on. So, you should get an AO3 account. I know this seems daunting and unfair because it's an invite only system but, you can invite yourself through the homepage if you don't already have one, and in the past few years I've never heard of someone who requested an invitation through this method, not getting one. And for those of you who are hesitant because you don't write, that's okay. It's not weird at all to click on a commenter username and find that they have 0 works and 10,000 bookmarks. It might take a week for the invitation to actually show up, but I can almost guarantee you will get one, just keep an eye on your email. It's free to join and donations are optional. You'll have more to read if you have an account and maybe give your favorite author the chance to protect their work from AI without a loss of readership and feedback.

Additionally, for people posting links to archive-locked fics (their own or others): please consider putting a note when you post the link that the fic is archive-locked. There's two reasons for this: 1) people not super familiar with how AO3 works might just assume the link is broken, including people who have accounts but just aren't logged in, and 2) when opening a link in a mobile app (such as tumblr or discord), the link will open in the app's browser where the user won't be logged in, and this causes a bunch of annoying problems. It's nice to know I need to take three extra seconds to open the link in my browser instead of using the app default because otherwise I'll waste those three seconds being annoyed instead and probably not read the fic.