#TELL HIM ASHLEY!!!

[obiroguewan]

Mass Effect Legendary Edition - Mass Effect 1

"We are all soldiers by trade. If your people are not prepared to face such a risk, would you really want them by your side?" - Captain Kirrahe

[tectoniccyborg]

Newest drawing!! I will never not draw Ashley where I can

[yashley]

but if I think about how much vax loved and admired pike, how her light and her goodness and her herness inspired in vax a passion he wanted for his own life, if I think about how caleb knew yasha in the pit of her regret and guilt and loneliness and chose to share that deep vulnerability of his own pain with her, for her, if I think about how fiercely orym looks to fearne, looks to fearne, keeps her the closest out of all his friends so much that even in the embrace of his lost loves, orym needed to come back to fearne as she cradled him, sobbing for how much she needed him to be her guidepost, her heart, that pike was a thousand percent ready to face down the goddess of death if it meant vax's safety, that yasha stood stalwart in caleb's wellbeing and let him in the darkest room of herself, that fearne's entire stability is rooted on orym's presence because orym is all she has left that she loves as completely as she would dare, man I just don't know

[thepettymachine]

Ashley and Michael went to the fall festival with Donnie to pick pumpkins.

Michael feels a threatening presence nearby...

[frankiebirdsedits]

icons of the team in 6x10 - what happens at home...

[erogeist]

Lighting your partner's cigarette with your own is extremely romantic and extremely hot

Just a very quick sketch before bed, a redraw of a panel from Black Lagoon

[cowboyshit]

No no absolutely not I refuse to believe Matthew Jackson shaved his beard mid show no way 😭

like…. bestie we’ve been had. he fucking GOT US 🤡😭

[hexedwinchester]

6'5" perspective

of course, I know Jared is super tall. 6'5" in comparison to 6' sounds tall (sound being the keyword)

IRL, the tallest person I've met has been 6'1" max. And I'm like.. "Jared's gotta be slightly taller than that." Imagine my shocker when during renovations I measured my wardrobe which came out to be 6'5" and I'm standing there, looking up at it, thinking "holy shit Jared is as tall as my wardrobe!" I'm crying, send help!!! 😵😵😵😵😭😭😭😭

[bipanicoverthegravessiblings]

If Ashley's children traveled back in time and met their future parents, what would their reaction be? Why do I feel like Ashley would be quite "sassy" with Gabriel about this revelation?

So much confusion initially- Gabriel’s doing the math and nothing is adding up

“But- I can’t even- how???”

“Demon.”

“Yeah thanks for that by the way mom—“

“….ohhhhhhhhh.”

After- explaining the entire situation, Gabriel would be excitedly asking his kids questions while- also struggling to be a dad as well. Ashley’s vibing- was pretty shocked she ended up having kids, but it’s some reassurance to her that Gabe stuck around long enough for them to even happen. She’d probably ask Lilith if she’s a good mom, or at least a better one than hers.

After the kids head back to their time (I’m thinking the good ol’ reliable demon magic is how), there’s just this quiet awkwardness and then—

“….soooo….three kids?”

“Are we really that surprised?”

“Not really….totally unrelated note, but would it be cool if I summoned the demon super quick?”

[sapphire-weapon]

Hi, I just wanna share that I ship Ashley and Leon since the original RE, and I ship them even more now more than ever. I just wanted to say that I’m glad that I saw your blog. You defend them from hate comments. I could never do that. All I do is hide the fact that I ship them because people online (and IRL) can really be mean when I say that they have a good potential together.

I just think that their relationship can be wholesome and built on trust. It is without ill intention and born out of care & adoration. Which I think are the some of the foundations of having a healthy relationship, that’s why I love the idea of them together. I know this may be cliche to say this, but I think they can complete each other in some ways.

Is it wrong to want a potentially healthy relationship for Leon? I don’t get why people hate on the idea of it so much. I mean people can not ship it, and that’s fine. I just don’t get it when others start attacking because I mention that I ship them. It’s like I feel like I’m about to get executed whenever I say that they have a chemistry together 😆

Also, I apologize for talking so much about them. I just have no one to talk to when it comes to them. I just wanna share it to someone.

Lastly, I wanna say that you make deep analysis on not just their relationship and dynamics, but also on other lores on the RE franchise which I enjoy reading. It really gives a lot of new perspectives & insights on a lot of things that I don’t notice when I play the game. Thank you for this, really!

aw, anon

I also went through a period of very many years where I wouldn't say out loud that I shipped Leon and Ashley, because there was a stretch of a very long time in fandom where you got tarred and feathered if you dared have a Leon ship that wasn't Cleon or Aeon. Even shipping him with Chris was considered taboo back in the day (and, wouldn't you know, I do that, too).

And I was scared that people wouldn't take my (completely unrelated, mind you!!) meta seriously if they knew I shipped Leon/Ashley, so I just kept quiet about it. I even tried to pass it off, for a while, that I had no RE ships at all. It was just easier to say that than be dodgy about it.

It was actually kind of funny. For a while, a not-insignificant portion of the fandom went to me, specifically, for all of their Leon things, and I just had to kind of laugh at how ridiculous it was that these same people would've just stopped agreeing with anything I said about him -- things that they agreed with and had been relying on for their own interpretations -- if they'd known I shipped him with Ashley. It's all very, very stupid.

But now I'm in my 30s and I don't give a fucking shit anymore. I don't care about being an authority on canon anymore. I'm happy to be a reference if someone needs it, but I don't care about being the central hub of information. I don't need to try to make people feel impartially about me anymore.

But, authority or not, I'm still a story analyst at heart before anything else. I look at Leon's character first and then think about any possible ships second. And, yeah. After analyzing him for so long, I've noticed that Ashley brings out a side of him that isn't shown at any other point -- and it's in a positive way that's absent when she's gone. So, naturally and logically, in my head, it stands to reason that there's something to that.

Some people seem to be under the impression that Leon's character arc lives and dies by Ada's involvement, and boy is that just not the case. There's a lot of different moving parts when it comes to Leon's character arc, but he's primarily defined by the striking lack of agency he has, despite being one of the main characters of the series. Ada perpetuates and exacerbates that helplessness, but it would still exist without her. In Leon's own words: "nothing ever changes" and THAT is what's at the center of his character arc.

But even beyond that, Leon is a character who needs to be needed; it's something that's shown over and over and over and over again. So, as much as people like the idea of a "partners" type ship (like Chris/Jill) and so they ship him with Claire -- or as much as people like the whole cat-and-mouse will-they-won't-they thing that Leon has going on with Ada -- neither Claire nor Ada need Leon, so it would never really work in the long-term.

And as much as Leon doesn't want Ashley to need him... he still needs her to. Because he doesn't realize that Ashley can both need him emotionally because that's what romance is you fucking stupid idiot, Leon -- and also be her own independent person living her life to the fullest at the same time.

And you know what? I like queen/knight ships, and that's exactly what Leon and Ashley are. So I just embrace it.

This isn't to discount other people's tastes or ship preferences. Ship whatever the hell yall want. But Leon/Ashley has always existed, will always exist, and it's just as valid as any other ship. Thankfully, the remake seems to have made it more "acceptable" -- which really just tells me that the only reason why we Leon/Ashley folks were blacklisted for so long is because the vast majority of the fandom was just bad at RE4 and took out their impotent gamer rage on Ashley, as though it was her fault they sucked at the game. (If you got annoyed at Ashley screaming for help in OG -- or in remake, even -- it's because you let her get grabbed. It's player error.)

Just sayin.

[thewingedwolf]

casuals love a white man who has to be a comp beast bc he is absolute shit at the social game aspect bc production loves giving those dudes an underdog edit for some insane reason so i understand why frank won afp but i don’t understand WHY they are so obsessed with giving mediocre dudes these sorts of edits!

[bellamyblakru]

bro the way merlin’s go-to way to show the people he loves how magic can be beautiful is with fire manipulation,,, im unwell.

[emometalhead]

Me to my dad: You update me about the football, and I'll update you about Taylor Swift. We both win.

[loverboydotcom]

huge day for the lover boy handwritten draft: the first of many george michael mentions (the second one is literally in a couple of pages from now)

[taylorshope]

I like to think that (at least after the events of the game) Mike and Ash have a sort of big brother/little sister relationship

[cowboyshit]

I love deleting stupid replies left on my gifsets. truly one of tumblrs greatest features