Mass Effect was an Xbox 360 exclusive, released near Thanksgiving 2007 with comparatively minimal pomp and circumstance, bolstered by a single piece of downloadable content, then an additional one more than a year later. Compare that to the transmedia blitz that was last year's megablockbuster Mass Effect 3. Marvel at how much has changed in the last half-decade.

And here we still are, debating Red Vs Blue Vs Green and with no sight of a theoretical "Mass Effect 4" on the horizon, we the fans are keeping Shepard, Garrus, Tali and all our other friends alive in our fan art and literature. Thank you, all of you, for continuing to share your love for Mass Effect and please keep sharing your awesome art.

Here are some highlights from our Featured Folder and works from our favorite deviantART artists:

For The Eye:
   

     


For The Heart:
     

   


For The Mind:
PRECIOUS
Disclaimer: Mass Effect and its characters belong to EA/BioWare

Post ME3 Traynor/Femshep ficlet with lots of fluff, some smut, drama and humor.

You might think I just copied the extended cut dialogue at the start of this story but it's worth reading since I added some content to it and it's important to an aspect of the story.

Huge thanks goes to GracefulDemon for beta-reading, support, help, input and rap over my knuckles whenever I deserved it ;)  *hug*

                                                                                                    Precious

She sat down beside a moribund Anderson clutching to his bleeding stomach an   Loco: John Shepard x James Vega
Loco

That was me alright, crazy.

The risks I took, the gambles I'd made. It was a wonder anyone even followed my orders anymore.

Everyone had to be a little crazy in this war by now though; I wasn't the only one you could call insane anymore.

No, I was loco because of him.

That tense hazel stare, the steady and even look of his eyes.

The taut thickness of his muscles, how they flexed and tightened beneath the plates of his armor.

The way he proudly wore the scars on his face to mask the one's beneath his skin.

It wasn't completely out of the blue to find him attractive.

It was loco that I wanted him and no one else.

I wanted to feel   Flashes - Part V
A Coffee and a Chat

I am a soldier. Death is not unfamiliar to me. Same as loss. Loss is a part of life, we encounter it several times until we turn to a loss to someone else. It starts with a pet, usually. Then goes on with the grand-parents, followed eventually by parents. If you choose the same profession as me, loss becomes a more severe part of your existence.

I have seen people die in battle. Soldiers, comrades, some of them friends. One of them the person...

Soldiers. That's what we are. One could say you should get accustomed to seeing people die, because that is what happens to us. It is a sacrifice we have to make for keeping oth


For The Cosplayers:
     


For The LoLz:
     


Aannnnddd, here is some bonus eye-candy from Luciano "Kall Me Kaidan" Costa volunteering at a Car Wash for charity:

[You're Welcome]



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