Not to mention, they aren’t just fine. Thousands of people have post covid complications, including immune system resets that cause them to get sick in other ways, long covid symptoms like fatigue, memory loss, organ damage, and a ton of other things we don’t fully understand yet,

And even if they personally got lucky and got a mild case of covid or two, there’s every chance that they passed it on to other people and killed or harmed other people.

My dad was vaccinated and ended up with such severe heart damage anyway that they couldn’t do a minimally invasive surgery but had to crack that dude open like a pistachio. And that was WITH the vaccine. If he hadn’t been vaccinated he would, quite frankly, be dead now.

It’s like those dipshits who always say “well we survived the plague without vaccines too” because…we didn’t. We didn’t survive the plague. So many people died that it couldn’t keep spreading. Norway lost 60% of its population and still hasn’t reached pre plague levels again.

Fucking ignorant fools are the reason so many people died who didn’t have to.

it’s 2015 now and thursday still needs a meme, here’s another attempt to contribute. it’s thursday and it’s a new year and as always i’m here to help. thanks

The Good Place (2016-2020)
Derek (S02E07)

“our son made it through the war to come of age, let’s fucken party! rsvp only if you’re a little bitch who’s NOT coming. all y'all not dead of alcohol poisoning by morning (lmao losers) get dunkt on”

edit: fascinating! the tags are full of two types of people. 1) people who think this is a joke and 2) catholics who fully admit to a bit of cheeky cultural alcoholism just nodding and saying “uh huh”

writing goals for 2026 ✨

to write

A weighted blanket is not enough, I need to be panini pressed

I had a vision

Every attempt to like, “explain tradwives” or whatever (or basically “explain” the presence of conservative, far-right, alt-right, and otherwise reactionary women) always seems so focused on finding one single thing to blame it on (“they’re disillusioned with girlboss feminism having gone too far” and “actually they just wanna do bdsm” being the two worst ones imo) and yet no one seems to have come to the conclusion that women are fully autonomous individual people equally capable of being religious fundamentalists, White supremacists, nationalists of all kinds, and, yes, misogynists for mostly the exact same reasons men are

I think it’s always worth remembering that women often use the currents of misogyny to shore up their personal power at the expense of other marginalized women. This isn’t specific to women: you see it in all kinds of marginalized groups, some people always care more about personal status than solidarity in any group. But it’s incredibly evident when you take the time to look at enforcers of misogynistic ideas, because you will always find plenty of women in their ranks.

Kurofai screenshot redraw (from the Tsubasa Shunraiki OVA) I did last year uwu

Words can’t describe how much I miss and love them

Elephants have hearts of gold….

This just makes me wanna cry!!!!

Damn, dogs were right all along. Sitting in the middle of the floor in everyone’s way when people are trying to do things all around you is fucking lit. I can see everything that everyone is doing.

forgive me father for i have opened a notification and read the message within to make the red dot go away and then forgot to reply for a month . it will happen again

i work as an actor at a haunted house and this little girl who was dressed as a cat came through she saw me and was like “no thank you please dont get closer i am already scared” and i was like alright i appreciate the good manners ill back off. so her dad picks her up and starts going down the rest of my dark hall and i just hear her yell “everybody wait! i dropped my ears” so i find them and give them to her dad and she goes “thank you but i hope i never see you again goodbye” and waved over her dads shoulder. i waved back and she gave me a thumbs up. honestly this kid has a lot of guts and props for being so polite when shes terrified i hope she gets a lot of candy this year

this is the funniest line delivery ever oh my god

New theory: The child Shepard sees the entire third game has been the Catalyst the entire time. Because the Reapers, and it, can’t indoctrinate an iron will like Shepard’s, they tried to subtly manipulate them through sending an image they figured would steer them towards what they wanted them to do

That’s also why nothing the Catalyst says is to be believed when it comes to the endings.

The only ending with a true drawback according to the Catalyst is Destroy.

It wants you to choose Synthesis, which would prove it right and fulfill its mission.

TIM was already indoctrinated but the Catalyst let him keep the idea of Control so that’s also a good solution for the Catalyst.

But Destroy is the only ending where it clearly outlines a negative. And it is the central intelligence that controls all Reapers. It’s clearly trying to steer you away from that.

Use the kid to subtly instill hopelessness and despair in Shepard, then outline what’s good about all solutions except the one with the most clear ending for the Reapers themselves

So yeah, I don’t believe a word this dipshit says. And I don’t think that kid ever existed in the first place.

Also, considering Joker isn’t really all that shook considering the love of his life was just supposedly destroyed (even though her name is up there with the others), I maintain that the Crucible destroying all synthetic life is BS anyway

It’s funny, many people I’ve talked to over the years disliked the push through no man’s land at the end of 3, but it’s one of my personal favorites

The constant comm chatter from your allies who know they probably won’t make it but keep moving anyway, the feeling of a desperate last push, the backdrop of a decimated London

I dunno, I love it.

Today I learned that Femshep is canonically 5'3 or 1.60m tall while Garrus is at about 7’ or 2.13m and that’s fucking delicious

while the mental image is really funny, there is no actual canon femshep height!

the ‘canon’ garrus height is derived from the height of a statue, for example. for consistency’s sake, if i look at my canon femshep statue (link) and calculate her actual height from it, she would be 1.82m (very tall!)

point being you can headcanon whatever suits you best :)

The heights were calculated by the scale figures, and considering those are consistent with the heights in the character keys, it’s canon enough

Today I learned that Femshep is canonically 5'3 or 1.60m tall while Garrus is at about 7’ or 2.13m and that’s fucking delicious

i’m literally begging people to relearn how to use earbuds and headphones. i don’t wanna hear your fucking tiktok while im waiting for my flight.

100% this.

Also, no the fuck they’re not. $6 at the gas station will get you headphones good enough to not bother the shit out of everyone else who has to occupy the same public space as you.

favorite mass effect moments - grunt's wild ride

grunt is so special

Shepard: Truth

Tali: How many hours of sleep have you gotten this week?

Shepard: Dare

Garrus: I dare you to sleep

Shepard: I don’t like this game

ME1 Garrus: Yes ma'am, whatever you say ma'am, tell me what to do and I’ll do it ma'am! Want me to kill that guy? Because I’ll do it, ma'am!

ME2 Garrus: If I don’t snark about something in the next 10 seconds I might die. I might also not but I can’t take that risk.

ME3 Garrus: My snark is a weapon…to make my girlfriend smile cuz she deserves the world and the world doesn’t deserve her!

EDI: If Shepard chooses Destroy, the geth and I just won’t die

EDI: RIP to the Reapers but we’re different

*pulls out stick and starts beating a dead horse*

The crucible sends out a pulse that disables all synthetic life, that allegedly includes EDI and the Geth. But contrary to the Reapers neither EDI nor the Geth are actually confined to their bodies.

The Reapers are controlled by the Catalyst, which is destroyed or replaced no matter the ending. But aside from that they’re fully independent units, which is why they’re so dangerous. You can’t just find the main server and blow it sky high, cuz they don’t have that.

But that’s also why EDI and the Geth are, in a way, superior to them.

EDI is only using the android so she can go into combat with you, her true form is the Normandy. And the geth are Software, not Hardware. To quote Tali, they can upload themselves into anything with enough processing power. That includes the Quarians environmental suits. So the Geth and EDI aren’t actually physical beings, they’re code.

And I don’t see how the pulse would wipe out code if it’s targeted to synthetic lifeforms because that would wipe out not just AIs but VIs everywhere to and THAT would throw the galaxy into even more chaos. Medical VIs? Financial VIs? Code wise, they’d be close enough to a young AI that they would get destroyed as well but from the slide show the galaxy seems to be doing well for itself, all things considered.

If the geth store backups of themselves away before the final battle, which they would since they’re wicked smart now with Reaper code in them, they should be fine. Build them new bodies or not, the server with them on should be fine. Body or no body, they’re still alive.

And EDI would simply lose her connection to her body, the Normandy is still fully functional and that’s where her processor is. And in the ending with enough war assets, the Normandy is back to being space worthy pretty fast, I doubt they’d be able to unhook all of the systems from a fried AI that quickly to make it fly right. Hell, EDI is in control of life support.

And the Quarians are seen in a sprawling metropolis that would’ve taken them decades or longer to build without Geth help.

What I’m saying, EDI is back in the Normandy and the Geth are now hitching rides in Quarian environmental suits.

That is all. I reject the endings.

Sooooo, Shepard had a clone right? Knowing how much Cerberus likes to go above and beyond, there’s a high chance that there’s more than one. And the one we meet was comatose until needed, which she never was…so what if there’s a whole bunch of clones in various stages of growth that just got frozen after Shepard went rogue

And after the war Miranda decides to see if she can find the rest and uncovers a whole storage of clones. Most of them are dead, either due to complications during development or because of cryo getting interrupted during the war

But one is still alive and asleep, so Miranda tells Shepard, who has only recently been released from the hospital, and takes her there so she can decide what to do with the clone herself.

Of course Garrus is there too cuz he’s not letting Shepard out of sight until he’s 100% sure she’s not gonna get herself blown up again

Tali, Liara, Joker and EDI obviously can’t be dissuade from joining either - EDI makes a compelling argument about having to test her new body that is actually complete bullshit, she’s just curious - and James and Cortez just tag along because everyone else is going and it’s about clones and the have Experience.

Javik comes too, cuz he’s bored and Liara made vague comments about there maybe being Cerberus agents to fight, and Kaidan has a Bad Feeling about all these knuckleheads being in one room together so he comes along to keep the peace. That’s a lie actually, he’s just happy to be here.

Samara somehow shows up too, though no one actually contacted her cuz no one knew how. She just heard “Shepard” and “Cerberus” and decided “that could be trouble” and here she is

Grunt would have loved to go but Wrex tells him if he can’t go then Grunt can’t either cuz that would be unfair.

Jack has the kids to take care of and Jacob has his kid to take care of, so they’re not able to come but promise help should there be some Cerberus agents that need blowing up.

Zaeed just sends a photo of himself at the pool titled “I’m fucking retired”.

So Miranda ends up having to fly a huge group of people to that lab she found, which she grumbles about but she’s not fooling anyone anymore.

As it turns out the facility is completely abandoned and powered down, except for the emergency power in the lab that’s supposed to keep the clones alive. They check the whole place before they descend into the basement, looking for the one pod still active that Miranda found

They move past a bunch of pods with clones ranging from young girls to women the same age as Shepard and it’s both fascinating and horrifying at the same time.

Shepard for her part seems to take it pretty well though she does stick close to Garrus who slings an arm around her shoulders to steady her. Tali links arms with her and Shepard gives her a small smile.

The active pod is in the far back and, at first glance, looks empty. Liara immediately grabs the data pad sitting beside it and flips through the many charts and notes on it, frowning in thought.

She mumbles something about “no growth hormones administered”, gasps a small “oh” and holds the pad out a little so Miranda can read along with her as EDI starts typing on the console attached to the pod itself

“Oh!” she says after a moment, as if to echo Liara. Joker steps up next to her, trying to make sense of what she’s looking at.

“What? How evil is it gonna be?”

EDI doesn’t answer but turns to Shepard, a strange sparkle in her eyes that wasn’t there when she first got a body. She looks both delighted and amazed. “Shall I open it?”

Shepard looks at the pod, worries her lower lip for a moment. Garrus squeezes her gently, Tali hugs her arm closer. The rest of their group closes rank around her, steadying her with their presence.

They’re all here for her, no matter what. So she nods.

“Do it.”

There’s a low hissing sound and a blast of cold air, fog rolls out of the pod as the lid slides open slowly. For some reason Miranda and Liara look almost giddy, though Liara has to keep pushing Javik’s hand down because he keeps trying to aim his gun.

James is standing on his tip toes to see into the pod before its even fully open and almost falls over when a very unexpected sound suddenly echoes through the room.

It’s a crying voice. A baby’s crying voice.

Samara immediately bolts forward, the instincts of a mother taking over, and she bends down into the pod and emerges with what’s indeed a baby.

“Holy shit!” James looks flabbergasted.

“Holy shit…” Cortez doesn’t look any better.

“Holy shit, indeed!” Somehow Kasumi is here too.

Samara rocks the little girl in her arms, scrutinizes her closely and smiles.

“Yes, I feel a strong resemblance to you,” she says, gracefully moving to a completely stunned Shepard.

If you’ve never seen a galactic hero speechless, suddenly confront them with a baby clone of themself and that should do the trick.

The baby of course doesn’t know that, she’s just screaming, probably cold and scared and disoriented. She’s squirming in Samara’s arms, oblivious to Liara, Miranda, Tali, Kaidan and - surprisingly - EDI who are crowding around Samara to catch a glimpse, cooing already

Samara doesn’t even try calming the little girl down, she has other ideas. Before Shepard can refuse Samara deposits the baby into her arms, adjusts her grip and then steps back, an almost mischievous tilt to her serene smile.

The baby calms immediately, big eyes the same color as Shepard’s blinking up at a face that will he hers one day.

Shepard is motionless, looking like someone just slapped her with a frying pan…until the baby suddenly starts squealing in delight.

The unease melts from Shepard’s face, a slightly confused but warm smile replacing it, and she gently shifts the baby closer to her chest, speaking to her quietly.

Little feet kick with delight, small hands reach out to grab at her face, and careful, scarred fingers brush plump baby cheeks and Samara watches with obvious satisfaction as her friends crowd around Shepard to continue cooing at the little girl now laughing happily

Shepard doesn’t see it, focused on the baby as she is, but James just bursts into tears at the adorable picture while Cortez tries to console him without looking away. .

Joker is sniffing a little bit too but instead of staying in the background he loudly says “brittle bones coming through” and pushes to the front of the group. The baby immediately steals his cap. He is delighted. EDI is delighted that he is delighted.

Javik pretends very hard not to be mesmerized by the first human baby he’s ever seen. He’s failing miserably, much to Kaidan’s amusement.

Garrus sticks to the sidelines, arms crossed over his chest, a thoughtful expression on his face. He remembers London, the half joking half serious conversation about adopting kids after the war is finished.

He’d shelved the thought in favor of focusing on recuperating, fixing what the war had destroyed, and building up Shepard who had to wrestle with severe injuries, PTSD and survivor’s guilt without the distraction of a galactic war to keep her from realizing how much she was suffering.

But…it had been months, life was slowly returning to some semblance of normalcy - as much as was possible after the heavy losses - and Shepard was getting better. Therapy was going well. She would never be fully free of what she’d been through, but she was determined to get better and Hackett had arranged for the best help in the galaxy.

She was getting better. And restless. She had started spending more time with the orphans, playing with them, teaching them.

She’d always loved children. And Garrus had been very serious about starting a family with her, not so much about the cross species babies that biologically wouldn’t happen.

But here was a baby that Shepard already had a connection with, a baby that she obviously already adored. He hadn’t seen her smile like that in a long time. It was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen.

Yes. This could be good.

He feels Samara sidle up beside him, smiling knowingly. “You should suggest it,” she says.

Garrus nods, shoots her a smile. “Yeah, I think I will.”

Just remembered another reason the crucible wouldn’t destroy EDI and the geth. They may both have Reaper code in the but they aren’t Reaper constructs, unlike husks.

The Crucible is literally designed to use the Catalyst, and by extension the Citadel, and turn the Reapers’ own energy against them

You could say the Crucible creates an energy pulse that overloads the Reapers’ internal systems. Like a really big EMP, but using an external power to generate it. And that external power is 100% Reaper.

And the Reapers are extremely unique constructs, there’s nothing even remotely like them in the entire galaxy. Hell, they aren’t even really machines in the traditional sense cuz they’re created with organic material. The Crucible would use that unique energy to precisely target that exact energy signature because everything else wouldn’t be compatible.

EDI and the geth may be damaged by an energy pulse that strong but they wouldn’t be destroyed by it. A few fried circuits, not enough to completely erase their personalities. Like the mass relays, damaged but not unsalvageable.