#the normandy only'

[milkywayes]

dress blues

#mass effect #commander shepard #Garrus Vakarian #shakarian #Shepard x garrus #femshep #video games #bioware #mass effect fanart #digital art #illustration #artists on tumblr #HI. hello. power couple time #she's not short he's just humongous #also he's got more medals than the normandy one but: #1) turians don't display these on their uniforms generally 2) this is the only one he cares about #and they're matching! #milkyart

[c-rowlesdraws]

“But, right now... I have this.”

Tali and Shepard catch the sunset on Rannoch. 🌅

#mass effect #tali'zorah vas normandy #mass effect tali #commander shepard #mass effect fanart #my art #this is a special moment for tali #not only is she standing on her long-lost homeworld but she's feeling unfiltered sunlight for the first time in her whole life #go gurl get that vitamin D #this is my personal redesign of her face because i like the more alien-looking concept of her #*concept art of her #and the canon in-game photo of her was a big letdown #those of u who have been with me since I discovered mass effect in 2021 know this

[shelyue99]

How Webster described Nix in Parachute Infantry, I can totally hear Ron Livingston speak those lines in my head.

Nixon gave instructions for D-Day:

Maps and diagrams hung from the rear wall. Our instructor, the S-2 captain, watched us come in and look around. Yale men, his face seemed to say as he stared at us dully with a studied air of unshaven indifference, must remain poised and blasé in the presence of the unwashed. When the last man had ducked in, the guard secured the door flap and the captain started to talk.

"I have something here," he said,

"that may interest you: a sort of field problem... These are sandtables, one for the big picture and one our own size. You've seen other sandtables before at other airfields before other jumps, but these are different.”

"We're jumping behind the enemy lines on the peninsula of Normandy. Don't look blank. Surely you've heard of Normandy? It's a large peninsula on the coast of central France about a hundred miles southeast of here." He stepped to the back wall, unrolled a map of southern England and central France, and taking a pointer, indicated Normandy.

…

"There are two beaches: Utah, here, and Omaha, here. We drop behind Utah. The 4th Division is supposed to pass through us on D-Day.”

"If they take the beach.”

"The 82nd's jumping up here around St. Mere Eglise, and the British 6th Airborne Division will go in ahead of their infantry here. But let's not worry about those people. We'll have enough worries of our own."

Glancing disdainfully at his wristwatch, the captain ended his monologue and looked around the tent, dull-eyed and absolutely uninterested.

Final briefing before the jump:

D-Day was scheduled for tomorrow. It blew icy fumes of fear in our faces as we gathered in the S-2 tent for the final briefing.

"At ease, men," the captain snapped, all indifference gone from his voice and attitude. "I have something important to tell you that you may already know: We're leaving tonight. This is final.”

…

"We jump at one o'clock. As I told you before, we'll assemble in an orchard near Hébert, pronounced Ayb-are. If you're lost and run across a Frenchman, ask the way to Hébert, not Herbert, as I've heard some of you pronounce it. If you've studied your maps and listened to your officers, you'll know that Hébert isn't even a town. It's a couple of houses and a crossroads surrounded by apple orchards. The Germans have planted antiairborne poles and mines in most of the other jumpfields in our sector, but as far as we know, our fields and orchards are clear. I guess they didn't think we'd be crazy enough to jump near orchards, but they don't know how crazy we are. If we were sane, we wouldn't be here.”

#lewis nixon #david webster #band of brothers #sarcastic Nix #Nix assumed everyone heard of Normandy #he probably was the only well-travelled person there

[drrav3nb]

KING CANUTE and QUEEN EMMA in VIKINGS: VALHALLA | SEASON TWO

#vikings valhalla spoilers #vikings: valhalla spoilers #i'm happy with the scenes we got #but damn only two episodes worth? #i was expecting a whole season worth of content! #why did it take canute so long to show up? #plus I'm a bit worried that emma's obession with finding out godwin is lying is gonna come between them #and i don't want that #i thought that canute brought him into his family because both him and emma were scheming together #but he was really being genuine about it #anyway #i really loved the scenes we got #hope we get more next season #canute x emma #queen emma #king canute #emma of normandy #vikings: valhalla #vikings valhalla #history vikings #vikings #king cnut #cnut the great #bradley freegard #laura berlin

[psychicism]

started mass effect the other day and i wish you could trans the gener of your imported shep between games...... this is lucrezia "luz" shepard and she loves her fishies. her favorite video game is katamari

#she loves doing her hair too always finds an opportunity to touch up her roots #fuel 10000 credits probes 30000 credits box bleach 15000 credits fish food 200000 credits upgrades 750 credits #someone good at the economy please budget this my normandy crew is dying #i think im tagging this as #femshep #mass effect #commander shepard #my art #im only halfway thru me2 no spoilies please mwah #this has been simmering in my mind but she looks like laios dunmeshi pre-transition... i havent even read that yet

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF PRIORITY: MARS (PART 2)

Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, Maj. Kaidan Alenko, Lt. James Vega, and Dr. Liara T'Soni With: The Illusive Man and Dr. Eva Coré Your vision is pathetically limited. You were a tool- an agent with a singular purpose. And despite our differences? You were relatively successful. But like the rest of the relics in this place, your time is over. Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

#mira makes gifs ✨ #shenko #james vega #kaidan alenko #sophie shepard #liara t’soni #the illusive man #eva core #mass effect #mass effect 3 #me3 #mass effect legendary edition #dailygaming #ITS PART 2 BABY! I COULDNT GIF PEAK SHENKO CONTENT AND NOT MAKE HER A 2-PARTER YALL #these are my favorite bisexuals on the citadel i had to give mars a double feature ✨ #‘the person i followed to hell and back the person i loved- are you in there somewhere?’ we cried. for real like this line THIS LINE #the first time i played ME3 it crushed me into a thousand pieces and it still does tbf #but like i also forgot how many good lines TIM has in this first mission until i was collecting footage while i was playing #like his lines go HARD (not javik ashes of a trillion dead souls hard but still) #also i may hate him but he looks fine as fuck in those new PV suits i will not lie #also im ngl the way femshep carries kaidan after he gets his head smashed against the side of the cruiser sends me every time i cannot #like sometimes you just have to carry your boyfriend like he's a sack of potatoes over your shoulder when he's bleeding to death! #like come on girl CARRY HIM BRIDAL STYLE or DONT CARRY HIM AT ALL #but on a serious note the way shep looks at kaidan back on the normandy? when he's in the med bay? #the way they just are so lost in him being injured?? in the possibility of him dying?? the panic in their eyes?? #the way they only get brought back to reality when liara starts shouting?? chef's kiss tbh #bioware VS canon may be poo but the end of priority mars will always be famous to me #thanks for reading two gif sets worth of rants if you stayed for both!!! #i hope you have a good day!! 🥹✨

[catalinemorosetheblog]

Started Playing Mass Effect 1 a little while ago and...

Me (playing relatively blind): So I know there's romance in this game, but I doubt there's gay romance since it's from 2007, so who should I date. Garrius seems cool (did not know he was unromancable in this game), and Kaiden has some interesting backstory going for him.

Liara T'Soni: *exists*

Me:

Me: ✨WOMEN✨

#mass effect #liara t'soni #shepard x liara #sometimes you just have moments that affirm you are gay and mine is a lovely blue lady #me: (after looking some things up) why are there only two romance options per gender and there's a chance of one dying? #liara criticisms are fair but #I've had liara for a day and a half but if anything happened to her I would blow up the Normandy and then myself #meme reference: check #seriously a fairly canonical bisexual romance who are has lesbian coded parents in 2007 is extremely impressive #morose talks

[axolotlelle]

i managed to raid the free merch closet before leaving let’s goooo

#normandy figurine got #original dai crew shirt got #i already got some nug plushies from it but yipeee #they make us pay for other merch so it’s only fair

[solient]

Some older fan art of my favorite nervous gal Tali'Zorah! Sexy AND sweet! 👩‍🔧💜

#solientart #mass effect #tali'zorah #tali'zora vas normandy #pinup #chibi #deer #trans artist #artists on tumblr #fanart #art #purple #purple is good #I've only played the first two

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

A lot of my collecting of WWII stuff was inspired by Medal of Honor: Frontline. I was playing it one day the summer I had my first job and I wondered while playing how hard it would be to find a helmet from WWII.

After acquiring said helmet, I set about putting together the uniform of this little knockoff G.I. Joe I had bought when I was a freshman in High School, dubbed "pocket Jimmy Patterson"

Pocket Jimmy Patterson there is a Sergeant in the 101st and was sold as a D-Day soldier but he's actually dressed for Market Garden.

I landed on paratroopers in part because of pocket Jimmy Patterson, and in part because I like airplanes. From there, I went with the 101st over the 82nd because I already thought they had the best patch, I liked the playing card insignia painted on the side of the helmet, the number 101 is aesthetically pleasing, and I didn't know about any other airborne units.

I mean,

Come on.

(the 101st is the one on the left, and the 82nd on the right, if you didn't already know)

I say all that because if you know anything about WWII collecting and especially re-enacting you know that elite units are dramatically over-represented and for the U.S. nobody more than the 101st, and this can be blamed almost exclusively on Band of Brothers, a show I had not even seen when I landed on the 101st.

How bad is it?

Well, by way of illustration, as a stress response to the final stages of my dissertation I've been retreating into buying WWII paratrooper stuff again, and I was questioning whether I hadn't better go with another unit this time. I had a great great uncle killed in the Philippines in WWII who was in the 11th Airborne so that's an obvious candidate, but of course if you want to stick to Europe and fighting Nazis your options are the 82nd, 101st, or 17th. Of those, the 17th only really got into the war in 1945 and if you want to do Normandy, as some 90% of re-enactments do, then you're between the 82nd and the 101st.

The 82nd has a much longer history than the 101st and, objectively, and I mean this with all implied asterisks and am speaking as though I were a twelve year old who does not know better, the 82nd is cooler, the inferior number/patch notwithstanding.

So I was on a website that is well-regarded for selling WWII militaria and they have a section for patches and I was doing some comparison of original WWII-era divisional patches. The cheapest 101st Airborne patch from WWII this guy has for sale is $175, most of them hovering closer to $300, and some in the $600 range.

11th, 17th, and 82nd patches are in the $50 range.

When I still did re-enacting as the 101st, I remember talking to some of the guys who were disappointed with the rather low "authenticity" standards of our unit (always something of a joke when a considerable number of G.I. re-enactors are in their 40s-60s and dramatically overweight), especially considering that the 101st Airborne are one of the most cartoonishly over-documented units in WWII, for whom reproductions of everything are widely available, and so there's really no excuse not to have your uniform and equipment more or less 100% correct.

Sure enough, trying to do a little research into the 82nd to see what that pool would be like, the resources are shockingly slim. The 101st had two combat jumps in WWII, Normandy and Holland. The 82nd jumped into Sicily, Salerno, Normandy, southern France, and Holland. They have a much longer combat record and are, comparatively speaking, almost totally neglected by idiots like me who are into WWII.

Even as I say all this

I am having a hard time severing the internal connection to 101

#wwii #ww2 #re-enacting #my militaria #you know #I never actually pieced together the full Pocket Jimmy Patterson uniform #I never got that M8 scabbard #never got the wire cutters #never got a Thompson #and I never got that shoulder bag #the rest of the stuff I did acquire #at this moment the only stuff on him that I have is the 1911 the helmet the scarf the belt the flag brassard the 1911 mag pouch and #ironically perhaps #that M8 scabbard #I think if I focused on the 82nd I'd try to do the 505th because there's a picture of a guy from the 505th with an M1903A4 before Italy #also they had a rampant lion (panther?) painted on the side of the helmet for Italy #not for Normandy I don't think #the 509 are also cool but they're an independent regiment

[passiveaggressiveturkeys]

Not BioWare adding in emotionally charged goodbyes with your LI during the final run but it being only available for the LI’s who were on the SR1 and have already mourned Shepard once

#mass effect #mass effect 3 #me3 #commander shepard #kaidan alenko #ashley williams #liara t'soni #garrus vakarian #tali'zorah #tali’zorah vas normandy #like literally look this these #these are the only romancable squad mates in me3 and it’s pretty much the me1 squad #like yes only half were LIs in me1 but the ones who weren’t were still close friends of shepard who would’ve been hit hard by their death

[nostalgia-tblr]

#yeah it would have been very convenient for his brother robert #but - oh no! - it was also convenient for his other brother who immediately set off for the treasury and then a hasty coronation #(robert had fucked off on the first crusade that's why he wasn't in the right place at the right time) #(he later ends up imprisoned by his bro in a castle where he learns welsh and writes some poems) #(say what you will about henry 1st he was at least VERY good at getting things from his older brothers) #okay it might have been an actual genuine hunting accident but i only read about dead monarchs for THE DRAMA let me have this #i always enjoy when a history book gets to this point and you find out if the author thinks it was an accident or an “accident” #the normans are french vikings and i've yet to come across one whose name is actually norman #idk if that name existed then but *I* would have named at least one son 'Norman of Normandy' just for giggles #btw every famous woman of this era is called Matilda. all of them. there's battles between competing English queens called Matilda. #i have yet to come across any explanation of why this is. i assume there's an OG Matilda who's famous maybe? possibly a saint? #(there *is* one called Edith too... but then she changes her name to Matilda) (no really) (and it's her husband's mother's name) #idk how you're supposed to write Norman Monarchy Femslash when all the women have the same name #what if i want to read about Queen Matilda's epic forbidden love for her husband's arch-enemy Queen Matilda? eh? eh? EH??? #i should probably come up with a tag for my history-related nonsense i wouldn't want people to find it who seek Sensible Thoughts #history fandom #(there that'll do for a tag)

[deanwinchesterpregnant]

NO NOT EILEEN oh i fucking HATE it here i hate the BMOL so much get them OUT of this show

#hate their stupid ass mass effect normandy-type bunker omg get out of my americana show #23 spn liveblog #12x21 #they killed mick the only one i liked

[softspeirs]

gang, i think the easy co guys did their first jump out of a real C47 yesterday (or the day before)!

#why am i still so scared for them lmao #i've been following the currahee to normandy instagram but they only have a few vague posts

[blvd-sys]

your boyfriend just like mikey way. the war took him

Just like Mikey Way…. He would’ve loved this ask

#rei.txt #asks #HAPPY ANNUAL ‘WERE PRETENDING OLLI DIED AGAIN’ #good god…. Just like Mikey Way…. Only this time it was homosexuality and not the shores of Normandy #20 YEARS APART….

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF ATTICAN TRAVERSE: KROGAN TEAM

Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, Lt. James Vega, EDI, and Urdnot Grunt With: Urdnot Wrex, Dr. Mordin Solus, Primarch Adrien Victus and The Rachni Queen I don't need luck- I have ammo. Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

#mira makes gifs ✨ #sophie shepard #james vega #EDI #urdnot grunt #urdnot wrex #mass effect #mass effect 3 #me3 #mass effect legendary edition #dailygaming #i finally finished gif’ing traverse and this set is cursed is all i will say :) #i don’t know why this one was such a pain in the ass but compressing them was a massive chore for some reason #and my dumb ass realized as i was assembling i set the frame hold wrong for like 4 of them so i had to go back and redo a few of them 🙃 #the thing that pissed me off most is that there’s usually a nice planet shot with a normandy fly in to make a header from #and traverse just doesn’t fucking get one for some reason?? so ig we get rachni queen header #i’m so sorry but this is like my least favorite mission in the game 😭 #like i do like grunt but this mission is just meh on all fronts to me at least #like the decision from ME1 to spare or destroy the rachni queen is so fucking cool?? and it has 0 consequences in ME3 LMAO #not to mention that half of this mission is just standing around with a flame thrower burning down webs lol #the only cool thing i’ll say is i ADORE the Aliens™️/xenomorph vibes that the mission has!! that is so cool the first time around #the cutscenes are alright but there’s really only some towards the front end and the back end? so you miss so much of the middle #which makes it hard to connect what’s going on to make a best of: set lol #grunt has some nice scenes if you have him here and the rachni queen quotes are cool #the enemies are also kind of interesting in concept? i just wish the rachni decision from ME1 had more weight here #james and EDI have a few nice lines towards the front in the shuttle but there’s not a ton of great dialogue like grissom has tbh #idk this mission is just okay to me i guess? like the ardat-yakshi sanctuary with samara is much more interesting to me #i feel like this one needed longer to cook and the rachni deserved more weight in the mission based on your decision in ME1 #james and EDI looked cute like always!! and soph ate it up in cleric’s guardian armors for shepard (which continues to be gorgeous ❤️‍🔥✨) #idk seeing grunt and playing fashion dress up was the best part of this mission besides the wrex cameo at the end lmao