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Tagged by @ferindencadash

PICK WHICH PROMPT YOU PREFER FROM EACH PAIR:

coffee shop or flower girl | au or fix-it | enemies to lovers or childhood friends | angst or fluff | love at first sight or pining | modern au or historical au | break up & make up or proposal & wedding | get together or established relationship | soulmates (but thinking it's unrequited lol) or unrequited | fake dating or secret dating | obvious pining or domestic fluff | hurt/comfort or crack | meet the parents or meet cute

Tagging @threewhiskeylunch @alchemist-after-dark @shadoedseptmbr @mtreebeardiles

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👑 for Johnny? Because he's such a prince. To me. 🥺

👑 OC dressed as royalty

Managed to slap together a quick paint for this one. Thanks so much for the ask/prompt ☺️ ran out of time before bed for the fur but you get the idea. Pouty prince Johnny obviously just got told "no."

For the OC ask game:

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❌ for Johnny please!

❌ an outfit your OC would NEVER wear

Took me a long time to attempt this and all I could muster was a lazy digital sketch, sorry. But it gets the point across I suppose hehe.

First of all, Johnny abhors jeans of any kind (too restrictive). Worse: they've got extra barriers to removing them. Heck nah. He's gonna pout about it. Add flats/toms that he can't even run in on top of that and he'll be barefoot in an instant.

From the following OC ask game:

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Sketchy comm for the lovely @prrp 💛

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there’s an educational trivia game at the citadel on the exhibits on different planets called “Dog or Not?” that shows pictures of various four legged mammals and asks if they’re a breed of dog.

it was mainly for kids to learn about the diversity of earth’s flora and fauna but it became popular with adult aliens too and had to be shut down after almost causing no less than three diplomatic incidents.

they brought it to the nexus and it’s caused two more so far

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No context toddler quote of the day:

"I don't like city cars. I don't like babies or science."

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Alliance most lethal weapon - Avery “puppy eyes” Shepard

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if u see this, PLEASE put in the tags what you’re having for dinner tonight! i am curious! thank u!

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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OC Outfit Doodle Asks

Send one of the following symbols and one of my OC’s names and I’ll doodle:

👀 OC in their typical underwear 💤 OC in their sleep attire 🔞 OC in something sexy 🏄 OC in what they would wear to the beach/pool 👔 OC in what they would wear to a formal event (such as a wedding) ☠ OC in what they would wear to a funeral 👖 OC in what they would wear to a casual event (such as a birthday party) 👑 OC dressed as royalty 🚪 OC in what they wear when lounging around at home 💕 OC in what they would wear on a first date ❌ OC in something they would absolutely never wear 🎃 OC in a costume they’d wear for Halloween 🎄 OC in an ugly Christmas sweater 🚓 OC in a prison uniform 🚲 OC in athletic gear  🐰 OC in a kigurumi of their favourite animal ❄ OC in what they’d wear on a very cold day 🔥 OC in what they’d wear on a very hot day 👕 OC in a T-shirt with something stupid printed on it (think Zazzle) 🎭 OC in another OC’s typical attire 📦 OC wearing something that isn’t clothes (such as a fig leaf, a barrel, etc.) 👻 OC in a really bad disguise 📷 OC in a stereotypical tourist getup 🙎 OC in something embarrassing 👗 OC in something from the 50’s 💀 OC in goth/emo/scene attire 💃 OC in some radical 90’s clothes 🌁 OC in a hoodie 🌋 OC in camping or adventuring gear ♠️ OC in their armor (or in some sort of fantasy armor if not applicable to their story) 🎨 OC in a cartoon character’s outfit  🏨 OC in a maid outfit 🏥 OC in a nurse uniform 🐑 OC in farmer wear 👍 OC in a crop top

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well you heard the man

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Long hair pirate maji might be my woman

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https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/23521

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Fornax Exchange!

When nominating, please fill in “Mass Effect – All Media Types” in the fandom box

As this is a smut-oriented exchange, only / nominations will be accepted; we will not be accepting any & nominations. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask the mods via our inbox or on our discord!

Please see a how-to guide to nominating and commonly asked questions below:

HOW TO NOMINATE:

1) Go to the AO3 Tagset Page for Fornax 2024 while logged into AO3. A tagset is what most AO3 fan exchanges use to determine what relationships or other criteria are used for an exchange.

If a pairing is not nominated, it will not be able to be used for sign-ups  

If you don’t have an AO3 account, contact the mods, we’ll be happy to help you get one with an invite link!

2) Click "Nominate"

3) Fill out the Nominations Sheet

For fandom, please use “Mass Effect - All Media Types”. We only use Mass Effect - All Media Types because it gives us the highest chance of getting that sweet, sweet Mass Effect content in there regardless of potentially sticky couples (for example: crossovers between a book and a game, or between the Mass Effect Trilogy and Andromeda, or crossovers between other media and Mass Effect) and because AO3 frankly doesn’t like it when we have couples wandering through different fandoms in the tagset

4) Submit your Nominations! Just click the button on the bottom, and you should be off off and away!

COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

How many things can I nominate?

15 relationships — so choose carefully what you’d like to see and write. That covers both Andromeda and Trilogy, all the novels, comics, etc.

Can I nominate, even if I’m not sure I’ll sign up or don’t plan on signing up?

Of course! Nominating isn’t a binding process — you’re only voting for what you’d like to see. You don’t have to sign up after nominating things — in fact, nominations are anonymous, so we can’t tell what you’ve nominated.

Are there any special rules/restrictions on what I can/can’t nominate?

Everything is eligible as long as one part of the relationship is a Mass Effect character. Please remember to be specific in your nominations; for example, when nominating Shepard, please indicate whether it's male Shepard, female Shepard, or NB Shepard. Male Shepard/Kaidan Alenko, Female Shepard/Kaidan Alenko, and NB Shepard/Kaidan Alenko will count as three distinct relationships

Can I nominate transgender or nonbinary Shepards/Ryders?

Yes! All Shepards and Ryders are welcome. For Nonbinary Shepards/Ryders, please nominate them under Nonbinary Shepard/Ryder. For transgender Shepards/Ryders, please nominate them under the preferred gender presentation and when you sign up for the exchange, please put in your sign-up that you would like that version of the character to be considered trans.

(Please note that if you only want a trans version of a character, to write in a DNW (Do Not Want) in your request for the cis version of the character; otherwise, you will be interpreted as open to both cis and trans “Female Shepard/Ryder” or “Male Shepard/Ryder”.)

Can I nominate Original Characters?

Yes - ish. We allow original characters who are defined enough to give the person who matches on the original character something to go on, but not so much so they have to do an exhaustive amount of research on a fanon character. For example:

Allowable OC nominations:

Female Asari Spectre/Female Cerberus Agent - both these roles are defined in terms of what category of pairing they want (f/f), and the two roles give someone an idea of who these people are without being excessively limiting.

Not-so-allowable:

Communications Officer/Male Original Character: both of these are too vague. We’re not sure whether this person wants a male, female, nonbinary, or other gender for the Communication’s Officer; Male Original Character is so nebulously defined that we’re not sure just who that might be.

Female Shepard/Batarian(s) - We don’t know who these batarians are, or how many of them there are. “Five Male Batarian Pilots” tells us a lot more.

Male Shepard/Legion/Lia Forsithe (My OC) - While we encourage you to add details about your Shepards or other OCs, it’s very hard to write for original characters someone else has formed. Please nominate your OC in more generic terms (ex Male Shepard/Legion/Female Original Dragonborn Fantasy Character).  You can add in names and descriptions in optional details in your sign up, but this way the writer or artist has more wiggle room for what will suit their fic or art, and you have more options of matching more people since you aren’t limited to one interpretation of a concept.

A good rule of thumb is if you can sum up an OC in more than one and less than five non-name nouns, it’s probably a valid nomination.

Can I nominate crossovers?

Yes! Crossovers between different Mass Effect properties are welcome, as are crossovers between other fandoms! Just please, if the character you’re crossing over doesn’t hail from a Mass Effect canon, add in the canon next to the character name, eg “Darth Vader (Star Wars)/Garrus Vakarian.”

What if I have more than 15 to nominate???

We will allow people to request a couple extra nominations if they need the space; it’s a big, big universe after all. If you have exhausted your sign-up, please PM us or talk to us on the discord about adding in extra pairings. In order to keep things fair for everyone and not have one person’s pairings dominating the space, please limit your extra requests to no more than 5.

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Krem week day 5 — Respite / Fight

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EVERYONE(!) I’m blazing this post because at this pace we might barely hit 1,000,000 signatures—or just fall short. PLEASE reblog this post, no matter where you are from, so we can reach as many EU citizens as possible and end this horrible practice!

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🥺🥺🥺 guys lookit my poor melancholy baby. 🥺🥺🥺

I asked @daggertongue for a more melancholy Johnny moment instead of the sunflower/sunshine/golden retriever self he usually presents to the world. Hot damn was it ever delivered. Johnny has these occasional dissociative episodes when no one's watching where he genuinely questions if he really exists in the same galaxy everyone else does. It's a quiet existential crisis he's had since his late childhood and pre-ME2 certainly did not help.

Thanks so much for capturing my OC Shepard 💖

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