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kyliafanfiction · 3 months

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I'm always baffled by people who critize Mass Effect, of all things, as being like, super stereotyping about the various species, because...

That's the exact opposite of the experience I got? Like, with the possible exception of Mordin Solus (and even he is more nuanced), every alien crewmate you get in the Trilogy - and I'm pretty sure in Andromeda, though I never got around to finishing that and I really should one of these days - to one extent or another does not represent the stereotypes of their species. Usually the exact opposite.

Which, given the limited amount of space and time the game actually has to show us all this, is a pretty clear indication by them that 'the stereotypes are just that' - i.e. stereotypes, not categorically accurate.

Wrex and Grunt certainly have some conventionally seen Krogan traits, but neither of them are simple thuggy brutes who kill for the sake of it or anything close. They're both complicated, nuanced people who are capable of being farsighted, who run the exact opposite as Krogan are seen as by many non-Krogan.

Liara is a Doctor when most Asari her age are 'supposed' to be running around dancing and mercing and having wild sex. She's shy, and if not a virgin in ME1, damn close. She's a huge intorvert in a species that's stereotyped the exact opposite.

Likewise, Samara is a tightly controlled, zealous warrior with no real sense of diplomacy, against a species that is usually cast as loose, lax, sometimes flippant and irreverent (the Goddess is not actually that commonly worshipped by Asari anymore) and certainly more interested in subtlety and going along to get along (remember that Cop who had the issue with Samara and was like 'this isn't Asari space and she's a wrecking ball' or whatever).

Garrus explicitly says he's 'a bad Turian', and he repeatedly shows that he runs counter to those typical 'Turians are all militaristic and hiercharcical and follow orders and like rules and systems'

Tali is the first Quarian in 300 years to make friends with a Geth and she seems to be actively xenophilic (I don't mean in a sexual sense, though that too, but more in a 'she likes outside culture stuff a lot' which appears to run a bit counter to the insularity of Quarian culture).

And these are just the big picture examples - we see in other ways, at smaller times, Krogan and Asari and Turians and Quarians and Volus and even Salarians (though I do think they get a bit of a short end here) that don't match up to the stereotypes we're given in the codexes.

Batarians - yeah, there's not much there. They got shafted on this front all around, I'll admit.

Far from being some horribly racist, stereotyping game, I'd argue that one of the great things about Mass Effect is that it spends just about as much time undermining the stereotypes as it does establishing them, overall - it's not perfect, not by any stretch, but still.

Some people just want to be angry about shit, I swear.

#Mass Effect #Mass Effect Trilogy #Mass Effect Aliens #Stereotyping in Fiction #Racism In Fiction #Or at least topics that abut against that

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naiitiel · 2 years

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their stupid tiny little alien waist????

#mass effect #mass effect trilogy #mass effect andromeda #me #mea #mass effect 2 #mass effect 3 #mass effect aliens #turian #turian mass effect #salarian #salarian mass effect #bioware #mass effect legendary edition

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shiftingtomasseffect · 2 years

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I would pay for a book of the weirdest Mass Effect alien sayings

Wrex used “don’t piss in my ear and tell me its raining” i googled it no results so it seems to be a krogan saying

i wanna see more alien idoms

#mass effect #mass effect aliens #krogan #wrex #humans are weird

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thehollowprince · 4 months

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... and why?

Edit: It's my own fault for not clarifying, but the reason Post Earth is in quotation marks doesn't denote the future, but a scifi setting where humanity from Earth branches outward.

#i'm curious as to what people's preference is #and star wars doesn't count because that's fantasy #star trek #mass effect #dune #alien #avatar #babylon 5 #battlestar galactica #stargate #foundation #the expanse

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milkywayes · 3 months

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objective: interspecies communication. status: successful

#mass effect #shakarian #commander shepard #garrus vakarian #Shepard x garrus #femshep #mass effect fanart #video games #art #alien #illustration #artists on tumblr #I almost called this blue is the warmest color LMFAO #ive never drawn them kissing before can you believe it? rectified now #I'll leave the logistics up to you... maybe she's on a really tall box. maybe she's got her legs wrapped around his waist :-)#milkyart

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xplore-the-unknwn · 1 year

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You’re on a mission and you hear some crunching noises from your six. 😭

#GARRUS the big cat coded alien #Very new to the fandom of Mass Effect and he has already my heart 😂#Garrus #Garrus Vakarian #Mass effect #legendary edition

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margariemargarita · 3 months

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DOSSIER: ARCHANGEL

#loml #perfect alien boyfriend #why he so sexy in this scene fr fr #garrus #garrus vakarian #me2 #mass effect #mass effect 2 #gifs #video games #meedit #vgedit #gamingedit #videogameedit #*edits: mine #dailygaming #1k

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c-rowlesdraws · 10 months

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/blows off a cassette hand-labeled "headcanon Tali" and slams it into the tape deck

if the boy quarians at least get to have those cool bundles of cables coming out of the backs of their helmets, surely the girl quarians have something similar under the hoods they wear. The way I draw Tali and her people might be stubbornly different from canon in some ways, but I can believe it's not too far off.

#mass effect #mass effect fanart #quarians #tali'zorah #tali mass effect #tali'zorah vas normandy #my art #this is my one song that I play ALL the time but I'll never stop being disappointed in the quarians just.. looking like humans under there #come onnnn bioware they have cybernetic implants in their bodies?? And sterile suits they can't survive outside?? AND they're aliens?#they deserve to look a little interesting or unsettling bioware come onnn

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deep-space-lines · 4 months

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I am inflicting, or perhaps bestowing, upon you: Garrus as various unnecessarily sexualized references that come up if you look up refs of women with guns :)

(( @milkywayes i know we’ve like almost never interacted but the silly comment i left on your post would Not leave my brain. I need to show u what you inspired ))

#you’re welcome or i’m sorry #look at that high waisted man! he has feminine hips #top 10 birthday gifts for your alien boyfriend who you aren’t even sure celebrates birthdays: big gun.#turians look all big and intimidating until you draw one and have to figure out how to make them not look like they’re going OWO #why did i put so much effort into this #mass effect #my art #mass effect art #mass effect fanart #artists on tumblr #garrus vakarian #he’s so hard to draw but so much FUN to draw. this man is shaped

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feyspeaker · 6 months

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starlight happy N7 day!!!!!!!!!

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#liara t'soni #liara #mass effect #mass effect liara #bioware #gaming #n7 day #liara tsoni #asari #mass effect asari #alien #fanart

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t-annuki · 2 months

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Garrus bb

#fan art #art #alien fucker #alienart #garrus vakarian #mass effect garrus #mass effect

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shittybundaskenyer · 4 months

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stranded enemy soldiers during the first contact war au has me in a chokehold. rest is on ao3 because it's a bit spicy :))

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catsharky · 1 year

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An interim comic! Rewinding to the first time my Shep met Garrus while I work on the next part. I'm halfway done the planning stage, but I needed to take a break and do something 'simpler' for a bit (this doesn't have BGs so it counts in my mind ok).

For anyone who doesn't know it, the song in Shepard's head

Also as a heads up, while I generally try to keep Shepard's appearance vague in any comic where I can get away with it, I'll be tagging any comics where she's definitively my Shepard with #SharkyShepard.

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