#Shenko Shuffle

[flame2ashes]

It's self-indulgent hours

[ravenqueen89]

You looking at me Me looking at you We could've had it all A world of our own I never thought we could be Pistols at dawn

Seinabo Sey, Pistols at Dawn

[halesshepardn7]

Dancing with Kaidan is my favorite!!

Mass Effect Legendary Edition (17/?)

🕺💃

[nothisis-ridiculous]

5!

The song is I Don't Wanna Know- New Found Glory. I'm glad I got this song, it's only Shenko list anyway.

Some post ME1 fluff~

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The wisps of his black curls fluttered gracefully against his forehead with the gentle gust of his snoring. The human radiator turned in the cot; the amber eyes fought to stay open.

"You know, a picture would last longer," Kaidan mumbled as he swiped the remnants of sleep from his eyes.

Mary snickered, "that's rich coming from you."

"Shepard," he begged, voice still ragged from sleep, "when will you let me live that down?"

"You stared, and it was cute… Alenko."

Kaidan's eyes rolled, "the awkward ways we meet."

She returned with a smile, pulling a blanket of red hair over her shoulder. Kaidan shuffled from the cot, taking his place behind her running his hands down her almost bare back, stopping just before the mark. Instead, his lips pressed into her shoulder, traveling to the nook of her neck, inching upwards until…

"Kay," Mary whined, it was a not now, despite how much she might crave him.

"Mary?" he breathed from his grin.

"Next time we make it to the Citadel," her voice faded, this is where the Commander struggled with bravery. She would fight a Reaper without hesitation, but acting on her feelings? Now that was a tricky feat.

But Kaidan was patient, always so patient, his lips ghosting down to her shoulder. Only when the timer had reached past her point of chickening out did he interject, "we should?"

It didn't mean he was going to let her out of it. The Commander squirming was a novelty and he would have a little fun with it.

She huffed loudly, "the picture thing got me thinking, well more than the picture thing…," oh, she was rambling, "but related to that, and another conversation. But mostly, having something like a picture from you for…"

"Yeah, the picture in the wallet thing doesn't work without a wallet," he smiled up at her, "or for that matter, when is the last time you saw an actual photograph?"

"All this tech certainly makes things less… romantic," she agreed, glancing away to some fascinating albeit barren corner of the room.

"So, you plan on keeping me around?"

Mary held up her hands, lining up the corners of her thumbs and pointer-fingers to a spot above her monitor, "the extremely gross PDA picture will hang riiiiight there!"

Kaidan's eyebrow raised, his arms tightening around her, "I know we've been avoiding fraternization charges, and the crew has kept things quiet… but a picture on the wall, Shepard?"

She dropped her arms, running her hands along the flesh of his arms, the pliable strength of his muscles grounding her to the moment, "I wasn't going to do it without you, but I want to come clean. To do this thing for real if… because… if you want this to be a thing to start with…"

If possible, she was pulled in tighter, the skin-to-skin contact lighting the biotic energy that tangled beneath their skin, "I told you already, Mar, I don't take this sort of thing lightly."

"Me either," why couldn't she look at him? There was so much more she wanted to say, to do in this moment. But she was stuck, the words weighing heavy in her mouth, sludged up by all the fears and a strangely burning sensation that emanated from her mark—the biggest reminder of why she did not fall into this sort of thing. Love was dangerous, compelling, exciting, even longed for… but to say it? To act on it? Foolish. Mary had already learned that lesson.

What was she doing here?

"So," Kaidan countered gently to the thoughts in her head, "we go to the Citadel to find something for us. Then talk to Alliance brass?"

"Yeah, that would do."

"And after?"

"I don't want to know," Mary corrected herself, "I mean hopefully, us… somewhat together."

He smirked, burying his nose into the crook of her neck, "I guess we'll test how much the Alliance believes us about the Reapers."

"Yeah, sure. We'll be separated in five minutes."

Kaidan laughed into her neck, breath tickling her skin with a wave of goosebumps, "relax, Mary, we'll work something out. You're resourceful."

"There you go, charming the pants off of me."

"Does it count if they were already off," he murmured, lips moving to claim her mouth, hands grasping at her hips desperately.

"Brace for evasive maneuvers!" Joker screamed over the ship's intercom.

[ghostxofxartemis]

Fandom meme asks: A, O, P

Thank you for asking my dear friend! 

A: Your current OTP(s)/OT3/OTX(s)

Hmm the obvious choices and others that I can think at the top of my head right now. I’m sure there’s more. 

Shepley

MShenko

F!Shenko

But I also like:

Miranda/Jack

Lawenko

Shep/Kaidan/James

Shep/Kaidan/Cortez

Willenko (I wasn’t a fan of Willenko until a few of my favorite authors wrote some, now I’m into it. (Ashley is mine! xD) 

O. Choose a Song at random, which ship or character does it remind you of?

Okay, ngl it took a few shuffles for my brain to start warming up the hamster wheel. 

But when it fell on Winds of Change by Vance Joy it reminded me of Axel in my current (M!Shenko pairing) one shot-fic that I started writing. He’s one of my few  Shepards who actually retire post-war (John’s aiming his M-98 Widow at me right now lol, he has not retired *snorts*) and he’s alone at home while Kaidan is off on duty. Axel, feeling a bit lonely, is waiting for him to come home, and it just reminded me of that. 

P. Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas). 

Oh you! I should hate you right now but making me think of other AU makes me adore you! 

I have several in mind. 

1. Modern Police AU for Shepley most likely (mentioned in the BBB server with Chimerarts actually, will eventually be doing this - I just need to experience the cadet training first hand… relatively soon...I believe?) 

In my head John would already be a police officer, providing for his wife and two kids. Becoming a police officer is also Ashley’s dream but she put that dream on hold to raise their two children up until they start school. When the children are both in school, that’s when she goes for training and starts her career. (Ashley in his case would be me (minus the children because I don’t have any- but I did put my dream on hold of an ex who could have been considered a child because it sure felt I was raising him at times). 

It would be a spin on the post-war family I’ve made for them. 

So they still would have Alexandra as their daughter and Kaidan as their son (Kaidan would be named after John’s work partner that died in the line of fire… maybe protecting a family?) 

Well this got developed further in the last 2 mins than it did last week or the week before when I talked to Chimerarts about this lol.

2. Maybe a Van Helsing AU (Like the show on Netflix - have you seen it? It’s amazing!) 

And seriously, being back on the Fallout 4 binge again, that could be really cool as well. 

3. And then there was a Tutor one mentioned in the BBB server once more.  But I don’t think this one will be made. Who knows though.

Oh Maxrev...what have you done?!! You’ve created a MONSTER! LOL! 

[ooachilliaoo]

Music

Tagged by my very best friend in the whole wide world @faith-less-one– Who I feel certain requested that I do this with my ME/Shenko playlist but that’s not in her OG post? Did I dream it? Or did we just discuss it?

Anyway, that’s what I’ve done.

Rules: You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to! Put you favourite playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs then tag 10 people.

Songs!

Call Me Sir – Train

Shouldn’t be a Good in Goodbye – Jason Walker

Baby Outlaw – Elle King

Starships – Nicki Minaj

Yesterday Was Hard On All Of Us – Fink

Superhero’s – The Script

High Hopes – Panic! At the Disco

Glitter & Gold – Barns Courtney

Wicked Ones – Dorothy

Here’s to Us – Halestorm

 I’ll Tag:  @faith-less-one , @everkings , @eisschirmchen @hawkeykirsah , @poweredbycoffeeandwine, @serioussamiam, @ljandersen, @alyssalenko @natsora 

[jeevesthefinalboss]

So this came on my shuffled music while scrolling the Shenko tag and when I say I was sucker punched. Those first lines literally walked into my house and punched me

[oolathurman]

❤️ for the swtor prompt list (whoever you feel like writing)

swtor prompt list: ❤ OC’s first time working with a force-sensitive

... y’know, it’s only after i got this and stared at my character list, did I realize how few non-force-sensitives i have. :’) 

anyway!

“Kriffin’ hate the Mand’alor,” Shenko growled as they shuffled into their armor, one frustrating piece at a time. “Never wanted to deal with this, and yet, where are we?” More shuffling and the clanking of beskar’gam and then a terrific yell as the jet pack fell on armored toes, followed by a long string of curses in a language the Sith in the next tent couldn’t understand. Xal - not mando, but a gun for hire - made his way over to help the zeltron with their armor.

“Don’t get it, what’s wrong with the current Mandalore?” he asked, knowing full well they were more angry at the Sith in the next tent.

“Current one doesn’t have a kriffin’ spine, is what,” they spat as the two made their way out of the tent to line up before the Sith they had to now work for. And of course, the Sith took their time to make their grand entrance, as Shenko continued to explain. “That, and they have this... weird, unsettling thing they got going for them. Doesn’t make me wanna stick around. Did you know they can choke you to death without laying a finger on you?” they continued to whisper, even up until the Sith made their way out of the tent.

As they made their silent way out and Malgus - the one who was apparently giving the orders around here - made his way to stand before the Mandalorians and guns-for-hire and die-hard Imperials alike, Xal couldn’t help but realize that his fingers and toes and everything was feeling oddly and eerily cold. 

Malgus, pale, paler than any human should have been, with strange yellow eyes and skin that sagged and some kriffed up face mask thing, was a large man. Xal would have guessed Malgus was even taller than he was, and that was saying something. He definitely looked bigger. He definitely had the presence. And he was definitely looking his way.

It was only then that Xal realized how absolutely silent everyone had gotten. It was more than the usual silence that came with respecting a commanding officer, it was just. Silent. He couldn’t hear his breathing, or anyone else’s, he couldn’t hear anyone shuffling their feet and everything was still. 

He suddenly remembered Shenko’s story about how Sith could choke you to death without laying a finger on you, how Sith had these weird laser swords that were red and they could throw them and call them back as that laser made its way through tens of bodies, and stories from others where they could literally kill you with a look, or how they could shoot lighting from their fingers, or make the ground quake, or how they could be a hundred feet away and if you blink they were suddenly in front of you surrounded by the red light from their laser swords and that’d be the last thing you’d see. 

He remembered stories about how they were unkillable, because they could deflect blaster fire with those laser swords.He remembered the stories of how a flick of the wrist could mean someone was thrown against a pillar, or someone’s neck could snap, or how some could even see into the future or bring you back from the dead but you wouldn’t be alive then, cuz all you’d be is this walking husk that obeyed orders and couldn’t think for itself. 

And it made him want to run.

[schizoid-freak]

10 Songs

I was tagged by the lovely @bardofheartdive to put my songs on shuffle and list the first 10 songs. So I’m doing this with my Shenko playlist.

“Stay With You” - The Goo Goo Dolls

“Incredible” - Céline Dion, Ne-Yo

“Like I Can” - Sam Smith

“Love Me Like You Do” - Ellie Goulding

“Bright” - Echosmith

“September” - Daughtry

“Treat You Better” - Shawn Mendes

“Make Me Wanna Die” - The Pretty Reckless

“Love At First Sight” - Kylie Minogue

“Jet Pack Blues” - Fall Out Boy

I’ll tag @the-open-future, @badwolf626, @guileandgall, @slothssassin, and @ilyasvieltrevelyanshepard. But only if you haven’t done this before and if you want to play :)

[orangeflavoryawp]

Shenko - “For Lovers”

Prompt fic from my forever Shenko-whisperer @tlcinbflo, who requested the first flirtations between my Francesca (Franky) Shepard and Kaidan Alenko.  If T asks, T receives.  Hope you love it, hon. <3

For Lovers

“Franky Shepard had the kind of smile that seemed always on the verge of laughter, but the kind you couldn’t share in public.  She had a smile for lovers.”  -  Shepard and Kaidan – sore muscles, tender hearts.

Can be read here: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12442884/1/For-Lovers

And here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/10596090

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"It'll be fun, Shepard. Knocking a few heads and putting baddies away. Blowing off some steam. Flexing those righteous Spectre muscles. It'll be fun," Shepard growled mockingly, a dark chuckle falling from her lips. "That krogan will be the death of me," she vowed, shaking her head. She stopped, pushing against the ceiling panel above her. It didn't give. Frowning, Shepard looked down to Kaidan beneath her as she rested along his shoulders. "A little to the left, Alenko."

Kaidan gripped her thighs against his cheeks and stepped left, his back already aching from the full weight of his commander sitting on his shoulders. "Remind me never to trust Wrex when he uses the words 'fun' and 'fortified' in the same sentence ever again," he grunted, managing a short chuckle after the words.

It wasn't the first pirate stronghold they'd stormed. And certainly not the first time Wrex had charged off on his own, shotgun blazing, gruff yet maniacal laughter echoing through the halls. But it was the first stronghold Shepard had ever been trapped in. She and Kaidan had made it through the second lower level of the bunker when the failsafes were tripped and the place went on lockdown. Wrex was trapped in the basement level, though the word 'trapped' was probably an overstatement when he had already blown a hole through the pirate leader's stomach and any other unlucky souls confined to the room were just as quickly and brutally dispatched.

With little cover and an over-abundance of enemies trapped on their own level, Shepard had barely managed to put down the last pirate in the room before Kaidan's barrier fell, his amp threatening to short out with the heated throbbing at the base of his skull. So now, with an impatient, seven hundred pound krogan one floor below, the main console keeping the lockdown activated one floor above, and a flagging biotic without even enough juice to Lift the ceiling panels, it was up to some good old fashioned soldiering on Shepard's part to get them out.

And this was how she ended up sitting atop Kaidan Alenko's shoulders in the stark red light of a pirate bunker.

Shepard smirked. Maybe it was about time she got back to the basics anyway. Too much tech and flare would dull anyone out.

Shepard pressed against the next panel, meeting the same resistance. She sighed, her smirk dipping back into a mild frown. "There's an entrance to the ducts here somewhere. I can hear the airflow. I just can't fucking pin it." She thumped a fist on the panel two times. No give.

Kaidan shuffled below her. "Maybe we should have devised a better strategy before you got up there."

Shepard glanced down, her frown slipping from her face easily. "Don't tell me you're getting tired."

"You're not exactly light, Shepard."

Her brows rose slightly with that one, amused, and when he looked up with the sudden and subtle veil of terror at the realization of what he said, she couldn't help the snort of laughter that left her.

"Armor," he defended quickly, stepping forward without instruction for her to test the next panel. "Your armor's not exactly light."

"And your cover-ups aren't exactly believable." She returned to her work with a laugh.

Kaidan grumbled something distantly apologetic and mortified, but he had already dropped his glance, and Shepard's own laugh had drowned out anything he might have had to say.

He thought maybe that was best anyway.

Another resonant thud above him alerted him to yet another fixed panel, and he moved farther left in response.

"You know, Alenko, it's not so bad."

"Hmm?"

Shepard ran her fingers along the panel above her, testing. "At least with the damping field, we don't have Wrex growling through the radio to 'get a move on it' anymore."

Kaidan chuckled, steadying her swiftly when she leaned just a bit too forward.

Thumping her fist into another panel, Shepard released a low bark of a laugh. "Not that we couldn't hear him through the fucking floor anyway. The guy's got lungs the size of Sovereign's balls."

Kaidan actually guffawed then, his shoulders shaking with the action, and then the laugh turned quickly and comically into a half-choked grunt of pain.

Shepard braced against the ceiling, her grin blinding even through the jostle. "Whoa there, cowboy."

Kaidan winced through his laugh. "Jesus, Shepard, hurry the hell up."

"You can't tell me you don't enjoy this."

"Not as much as you seem to be."

"Just think of it as a new workout routine. I'm planning to introduce it to the marines." She winked cheekily.

"I don't know any marine who's up for a workout routine that chafes their cheeks," he answered, stretching the sore muscles of his neck and having little room to maneuver between her armored thighs. He grimaced at the motion.

"It couldn't be me making you uncomfortable, could it?" she mocked, bravely squeezing her thighs, just slightly, barely enough for him to consider it purposeful.

He tilted his head back just enough to glance up at her as he raised one brow, stepping forward again and watching her push against the next panel. "Of course not, Commander. What could I ever find uncomfortable about this situation?" He chanced a smirk up at her.

She flashed him a quick grin before returning to her work. "Oh come now, Lieutenant. I'm sure you've had your head between many a woman's thighs before," she teased.

"None of whom could have killed me with said thighs, Shepard," he shot back with the slightest bit of awkward desperation.

She let out a single bark of laughter, genuine and vibrant.

Kaidan's hands curled unconsciously tighter around her thighs, his throat tightening. He pressed his lips together and stilled.

She just sounded so free.

"Not that I couldn't kill you in less extravagant ways, Alenko, but you do give a woman pause," she laughed, her face turned toward the panels.

Even still, through the lightly dulled red of generator lights, he could see her beaming. That wide stretch of her almost-thick lips, invariably lopsided, with a clear glimpse of those almost-too-noticeable front teeth. Not a pretty smile by classic standards. Not a sly twist of lips or dimple-marked grin.

Franky Shepard had the kind of smile that seemed always on the verge of laughter, but the kind you couldn't share in public.

She had a smile for lovers.

Kaidan blinked down at the floor, swallowing thickly.

There was a hollow thunk above his head.

"Ah," Shepard happily gasped, stilling in her perch on Kaidan's shoulders.

They both raised their eyes to the ceiling, expectant.

Shepard knocked an armored fist against the panel once more. There was an answering dull echo.

"Oh thank God," Shepard breathed, slamming her palm straight up into the panel and dislodging it from the framework, pushing it back and into the duct. "Shit, my cooch is so sore."

Kaidan's eyes widened momentarily, and then he was hiding his laughter in her thigh.

Shepard reached up and braced her hands along the duct, hoisting herself up. She paused with her elbows holding her weight, looking around the dimensions of the duct, one foot balanced on Kaidan's shoulder for support. "Looks like there's enough room to maneuver. I can pull you up from here." She pulled herself the rest of the way up, bending and bracing her stomach along the edge of the open duct so she could raise her legs up and crawl forward the rest of the way.

From down below, Kaidan watched her shimmy into the tube and then disappear. There was a round of reverberating thuds, and then she was turned around, peeking back out the opening, arms lowered toward him. "Let's go, boyscout."

Kaidan peered up at her, at the frizzy bun of brown hair at the top of her head, the wide, expectant eyes, her freckled, russet skin. She quirked a brow down at him, opening and closing her palms in a 'come on' motion.

"Ready?" she asked, arms wide.

Kaidan released a low breath, the soft lilt of a smile pulling at his lips. He reached for her.

They clasped arms, and Shepard braced herself against the walls of the duct, nodding down at him. He jumped.

"Oh fuck!" Shepard grunted with the effort of hauling him up, her brow furrowed in exertion. "How goddamn heavy are you?"

Kaidan heaved upward, trying to bend his elbows to the edge of the duct. "Armor," he groaned in defense again.

This time Shepard's smile peeked through her wince. "Gotta cut back on that bacon and beer, LT." She shuffled backwards slowly, her arms quaking with the weight of him.

"It's to cushion my fall when you inevitably drop me!" He glanced down a moment, slowly clambering upward.

"Fuck you, Alenko," Shepard gasped with painful laughter, her eyes shutting as she gave one last, single pull.

Kaidan hooked his elbows over the edge of the duct, took a sharp, instant breath, and then heaved upward. Shepard released his arms to reach over around his back, gripping his ammo belt and hauling him the rest of the way in.

"These guns held up Elysium, you know," she preened breathlessly, one trembling arm curled upward in a show of muscle. The sweat was already beading across her brow. "You're chump change compared."

Kaidan sprawled along the floor of the duct, his feet dangling through the opening. He pressed his sweaty cheek against the cool metal beneath and sighed in relief. "How silly of me to doubt you," he panted.

Shepard leaned back along the duct wall, one hand wiping over her brow. "Ha! Tell that to your fancy biotics." She closed her eyes and dropped her head back, her chest heaving slightly. She threw a finger gun his way, a tired side-smile gracing her lips. "I can take you any day of the week, Lieutenant."

Kaidan raised his cheek from the cool duct floor and glanced up at her. She hadn't opened her eyes. She sat there breathing, her legs spread open as much as possible in the cramped space, back against the duct wall at a slightly hunched angle. She wore an open-lipped smile, victorious and self-satisfied. She was sweating, the slanted shadow of red light from the generators in the room below breaking against her jaw, her chest, her knee.

She was all blunted angles and toothy grins.

All coarseness and earnestness.

All heart-hammerings.

She opened her eyes to look at him.

Kaidan's lips tipped into a smile of their own accord. "You certainly can," he agreed softly.

They sat there breathing heavily, smiling at each other, taking the cool duct air into their lungs and feeling their muscles slowly unbunch.

Shepard slapped her knee in a surge of sudden motivation. "Alright, enough lounging. We've got a krogan to rescue."

Kaidan chuckled, finally pushing up from his position along the floor. Suddenly, the pinch of biotic nerves at the base of his head, and the throbbing ache along his shoulders, and the tight flare of exhaustion brewing in his lungs – it was all inconsequential.

Because the weight of far more had already begun to nestle itself in the unreachable grooves of his heart.

Unreachable, but for one woman.

"Right behind you," he answered.

Franky Shepard had a smile for lovers.

[flame2ashes]

A new mod dropped and I turned off helmets on Mars again for the screenshots

[zombolouge]

RULES: you can tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to. Put your music on shuffle, and list the first 10 songs and tag 10 people.

I was tagged by the delightful @veilsofmist THANK YOU AND I LOVE YOU <3

I’m using my catch-all playlist on Spotify for this, which I use for pretty much all songs I like, or my “favorites”. (It’s like 35 hours and at least 50 percent Rush and Pink Floyd)(It’s called “My Jammy Jams” BECAUSE I’M VERY COOL OKAY?)(My Spotify account should be illegal I’m sorry).

1. Jacob’s Ladder - Rush

2. The Thin Ice - Pink Floyd

3. Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 - Pink Floyd

4. Father Time - FM

5. Serenade - the Galavant Season 2 Soundtrack

6. Clockwork Angels - Rush

7. The Night Comes Down - Queen

8. Energized - Def Leppard

9. Point of Know Return - Kansas

10. Non-Stop - Hamilton Soundtrack

Hey, that was a pretty decent shuffle. I appreciate the Galavant soundtrack stopping by for a shoutout. Can y’all tell what type of music I like? XD I swear I was born in the wrong musical era, though I am thankful to exist at the same time as Hamilton (Lin-Manuel is one of my heroes). 

SO WHAT DOES MY LOVE OF THESE SONGS SAY ABOUT ME, TUMBLR? DIVINE MY SOUL BY MY MUSICAL AFFECTIONS. 

Okay, I’m going to tag @illneverrecover @celeste-draws @maggie-the-red-vane-trevelyan @effloresensemn @yatorivevo @m0th3rw4r @kyoulove @kmandergirl @wesnest @shenko although if you hate being tagged in things feel free to ignore it, and if you LOVE being tagged in things then just tell everyone that I tagged you and I WILL BACK YOU UP ALL THE WAY. 

[holagubler]

music tag

music tag! I was tagged the laaaaaavely @cmbabe

Rules: You can tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to. Put your music on shuffle and list the ten first songs, then tag ten people.

1. My Shot - Hamilton 2. Burning Love - Elvis Presley 3. Luna - Bombay Bicycle Club 4. Piano Man - Billy Joel 5. Undercover Martyn - Two Door Cinema Club 6. Dancing Queen - Mamma Mia 7. Ask - The Smiths 8. She’s a Rainbow - Rolling Stones 9. Us - Regina Spektor 10. Vivienne - Sundara Karma

This list actually describes me as a human being.

I shall be tagging - @smolrolls @my-mind-is-shutter-island @shenko @fvcksamara @fvckkiera @crimindsaspe @ytxpotterxteen @reidbyers @tinyelfperson @lolspencerreid

[flame2ashes]

I decided to be self-indulgent tonight

[flame2ashes]

MShenko with Sheploo. To me

[flame2ashes]

Meet Me in the Stars