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ROGUE ONE NOVEL EDITS → Bodhi reached for the comm controls again and bit his lip. Baze and Chirrut were out there, probably shooting and getting shot at along with all the rebel soldiers. Cassian and Jyn and K-2 were inside the Citadel by now. If everything went well, even if everything went perfectly, not everyone would make it back alive. 
They weren’t his friends. They hadn’t gone drinking with Bodhi after his crush on Bamayar had rejected him, or helped him reassemble his astromech after he’d stupidly taken the droid apart on a dare. But they had saved him from Saw Gerrera, believed him when Saw and his people hadn’t. They’d never once put him in cuffs. They’d needed him on Eadu and never once pretended they hadn’t. 
They wanted to stop the Death Star. 
They didn’t deserve to be hurt.
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laelior · 1 day
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ROGUE ONE
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Igniting the Fire
Chapter 4
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Pairing: f!Shepard/Kaidan Alenko
Rating: T
Chapter Length: 3.1K
Summary:
After defeating Saren, Shepard and Kaidan are left with a big decision about the trajectory of their relationship. With the regs looming over their heads, it’s time to consider what they want. What better way to figure that out than some shore leave?
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More than a week into their vacation, and Kaidan and Shepard were starting to run out of ways to spend their time. They may have considered all the groceries they would need for an entire month alone, but they hadn’t thought of things like activities to bring along with them. Hell, even a deck of cards could have gone a long way. They could only go on so many early morning runs before the sun became scorching. And as much as they may have been in something of a lustful phase of this relationship, there were too many hours in a day to occupy with that alone. As much as he was enjoying that aspect, it wasn’t all there was. He was desperate for the moments they would talk and laugh, and that’s what he wanted more of.
This is where Admiral Ahern’s storage had proven to be a lot more helpful than they initially realised. Not only did it provide an activity in and of itself to clean it out, but they had found a few treasures in there to put to use. And today, they just so happened to stumble on Ahern’s collection of paint supplies.
Kaidan couldn’t remember the last time he planned to do anything like this. He must have been a young kid before BAaT. Jump Zero stole his education away from the arts and turned it into war. It was almost enough to make him bitter to think about the things he’d missed out on, but he wouldn’t let that memory rob him of this experience with Jane.
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laelior · 2 days
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So. The Pillars of Creation are in the Eagle Nebula, which is of course a system you can visit in Mass Effect. But I have seen theories that the Pillars actually no longer exist. We just can't see their destruction yet, because they're 7,000 light years away and the light that would show it to us hasn't reached us yet.
Which now has me doing a lot of thinking about what humanity sees in their night sky on Earth verses the reality that's available with FTL and relays.
Imagine being a quarian who could look at an alien sky and still see a Rannoch that was theirs?
Imagine being someone who had loved ones in the Bahak System, looking through an alien telescope and seeing it still unbroken and whole?
Survivors of a reaper cycle could flee to the other side of the galaxy and look back to a time where reapers didn't exist.
It's gone forever. You can still see it in the sky.
I'm going to go lie down for a while.
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laelior · 3 days
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PSA: You already know (or should know) not to look directly at an eclipse without protective lenses. Any lenses or viewers should meet ISO 12312-2 standards. With an annular eclipse coming up in October 2023, and a total eclipse in April 2024, there are going to be counterfeit eclipse glasses showing up on Amazon, eBay, etc. that will say they're ISO certified but there's no realistic way to verify the claim.
The American Astronomical Society has put together a list of reputable manufacturers of eclipse glasses that meet the ISO standards. Check there before buying.
Don't get blinded by the light!
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laelior · 3 days
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I don’t get how in fantasy fiction, the women who actually enjoy sewing/embroidering are always painted as the weak, boring, and anti-feminist characters 
Sewing and embroidery take skill, patience, and artistic talent and it was also the ultimate way to ignore the annoying men in your life in past centuries 
If you didn’t feel like talking to a man, you just “took up your sewing” and he’d have to leave you alone, especially if he needed that shirt mended
Women also got together all the time to sew, weave, embroider but also talk, gossip, assist each other’s work, and enjoy each other’s company in peace 
The skill the female character has doesn’t have to be sword-fighting for her to be strong, because there’s strength and power in any skill she has 
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laelior · 3 days
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MASS EFFECT 3: LEGENDARY EDITION (2021) dev. Bioware
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laelior · 5 days
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I was 31 when I decided to start doing martial arts again and started over in a new discipline as a white belt.
I am 41 now.
And black belt is just the beginning.
It's never too late to start something new.
Who has two thumbs and a black belt? This bitch.
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laelior · 5 days
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Who has two thumbs and a black belt? This bitch.
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laelior · 9 days
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you are personally and directly hit by a bus¹ and isekai-ed, via resurrection, into the body of the main character your most recent WIP
reblog and tell me: on a scale of 1–10, how screwed are you right now?
¹ this is, transparently, a plot device, so if you are about to tell me "joke's on you, I never leave my fifteenth floor apartment!" then you may rest assured it will have tremendous comedic value when the bus is launched into the sky and crashes through your apartment wall to flatten you anyway
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laelior · 9 days
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Igniting the Fire
Chapter 3
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Pairing: f!Shepard/Kaidan Alenko
Rating: T
Chapter Length: 3K
Summary:
After defeating Saren, Shepard and Kaidan are left with a big decision about the trajectory of their relationship. With the regs looming over their heads, it’s time to consider what they want. What better way to figure that out than some shore leave?
Read the full chapter on AO3
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As Jane walked back into the prefab, she still felt a lingering chill from outside despite wearing her N7 hoodie. As scorching as the days were, the evenings cooled off dramatically. She paused quickly to look back out the window, checking on Kaidan’s progress on their plans for the evening. Night had already fallen over them, and the stars were out and sparkling in the sky, casting him in a dark glow, but she could clearly see he was hard at work.
As much as this trip was meant to be for fun and to relax and to get to know each other more, somehow, today ended up being all about chores. Since this was her home now, she figured she might as well start trying to make it her own and a month alone together on a planet with not much else to do granted them a lot of time for that, along with relaxing.
They ended up spending most of the day cleaning out the storage space beneath the prefab. As much stuff that Ahern had left behind in the apartment itself, there was probably an equal amount of stuff crammed into storage. They worked through the entire space, sorting all of his belongings into things she wanted to keep or move up to the house or things she wanted to donate or throw away. There was so much to look through that it made the day pass by far more quickly than she ever expected it to, and it had completely gotten away from them.
There just so happened to be a nice patio set amidst the plethora of other belongings down there and Kaidan was setting up the lounge chairs at this very moment. Not only that, but there was some firewood piled in the back corner. As the night was setting in and she realised they hadn’t eaten dinner yet, she proposed the idea of a meal by the fire under the stars. It would be just like camping, but with the benefit of returning to their own bed whenever they wanted to retire for the evening. The best of both worlds as far as she was concerned.
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laelior · 9 days
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yes & no by natalie wee
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laelior · 10 days
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Reblogging for the April 8 eclipse.
PSA: You already know (or should know) not to look directly at an eclipse without protective lenses. Any lenses or viewers should meet ISO 12312-2 standards. With an annular eclipse coming up in October 2023, and a total eclipse in April 2024, there are going to be counterfeit eclipse glasses showing up on Amazon, eBay, etc. that will say they're ISO certified but there's no realistic way to verify the claim.
The American Astronomical Society has put together a list of reputable manufacturers of eclipse glasses that meet the ISO standards. Check there before buying.
Don't get blinded by the light!
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laelior · 10 days
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Devil on your shoulder
(feat. @dandenbo's Ashford)
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laelior · 11 days
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Hello everyone, the US Senate is conducting a survey to get the opinions of people on issues such as a ceasefire in Palestine, America funding Israel’s weapons, and the TikTok ban. Please share and take the survey, let your voices be heard. (Non Americans can participate )
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