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the world is burning i got worms in my brain ✨
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kate @thychesters.bsky.social · Sep 3
triptych. (1/3)

🌗 12k | e
🌗 #shakarian | me2-centric | in-between moments | slow burn (kinda) | eventual smut
🌗 ao3.org/works/70260741
screenshot of a summary of a mass effect fanfiction on archive of our own. text says Shepard smiles but something about it feels off, like she’s tired but no amount of sleep will help. The scars crisscrossing her cheek betray that, and it makes his own sting. The look on her face is gentle, something reserved just for the low lighting of the late hours. A trill she can’t hear vibrates in his chest. It’s good to have her back, even if there’s still a dissonance lingering because he spent the last two years mourning her and coming to terms with that, only for her to come blasting back into his life, as is her style. “I missed you, Garrus,” she says. “That's so weird to say; I feel like it’s only been a few weeks, but… It’s like I went to sleep for a while and when I woke up everything was different.” “Yeah,” he mutters. “Guess that’s taking some getting used to.” Shepard must relearn her place in a galaxy that spent two years moving on and living without her; Garrus finds there are three women he must relearn: the Commander, Shepard, and Jane.
thychesters.bsky.social
#wipwednesday! shepard's going through it and sometimes when the weight of the entire galaxy is resting on your shoulders and you're two seconds from losing it you just need some good ol' fashioned floor time. some #shakarian moral support
February 4, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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thychesters.bsky.social
body tender.

🚀 4.6k | e

🚀 #shakarian | me3 | presidium date | officially getting together
🚀 ao3.org/works/78566276
screenshot of a summary of a mass effect fan fiction on archive of our own. text says body tender. thychesters. summary: He’s been thinking of her since the last (second last, really) time they parted ways on the Citadel, his bag slung over his shoulder as they stood at the dock. She’d told him to take care of himself, just as she had the first last time, but then she’d stepped forward and wrapped her arms around him. The hug had been too warm to be friendly, her body molding to his, and Garrus had dropped an arm around her waist and tucked his face into her temple. She’d kissed his cheek, and he spent a week wishing he’d kissed her back. He’s been thinking about her since she came to see him in the battery, where she held his hand and kissed him and told him she thought about him. That she missed him. He’s been thinking about her since he followed her up to her cabin and the view of her backlit by the aquarium was burned into his memory. And Shepard laughs in a way that’s warm and with her eyes and is one of his favorites, and when she tilts her head says to her they already were. She tells him she loves him. the presidium date, and the moments after.
January 30, 2026 at 3:37 AM
thychesters.bsky.social
body tender.

🚀 4.6k | e

🚀 #shakarian | me3 | presidium date | officially getting together
🚀 ao3.org/works/78566276
screenshot of a summary of a mass effect fan fiction on archive of our own. text says body tender. thychesters. summary: He’s been thinking of her since the last (second last, really) time they parted ways on the Citadel, his bag slung over his shoulder as they stood at the dock. She’d told him to take care of himself, just as she had the first last time, but then she’d stepped forward and wrapped her arms around him. The hug had been too warm to be friendly, her body molding to his, and Garrus had dropped an arm around her waist and tucked his face into her temple. She’d kissed his cheek, and he spent a week wishing he’d kissed her back. He’s been thinking about her since she came to see him in the battery, where she held his hand and kissed him and told him she thought about him. That she missed him. He’s been thinking about her since he followed her up to her cabin and the view of her backlit by the aquarium was burned into his memory. And Shepard laughs in a way that’s warm and with her eyes and is one of his favorites, and when she tilts her head says to her they already were. She tells him she loves him. the presidium date, and the moments after.
January 30, 2026 at 3:37 AM
thychesters.bsky.social
#wipwednesday! used car lots HATE #shakarian; rental places have them on a list. right next to the employee of the month at cision motors there's a picture of these two with a note NOT to rent to shepard or garrus if they're together. the attendant by the docks is giving them a weird look
January 28, 2026 at 9:24 PM
thychesters.bsky.social
oops, forgot last week's #wipwednesday! getting into some of the background of a different shepard (spacer) than i usually write (earthborn). grief working its way into one of my fics? oh of course. with #shakarian? sure
January 28, 2026 at 9:20 PM
thychesters.bsky.social
being on my shakarian bs is just oscillating between writing angst and smut. yeah there’s some grief but then they’re gonna fuck about it!
January 12, 2026 at 4:33 PM
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feyspeaker.bsky.social
my universe 🪐✨
(mini print for print club)
#MassEffect #Shakarian #Garrus #Femshep
December 31, 2025 at 5:49 AM
thychesters.bsky.social
like real people do.

🎇 9k | e
🎇 #shakarian | me3 | established relationship | post-citadel party
🎇 ao3.org/works/77385441
screenshot of a summary of a mass effect fanfiction on archive of our own. text says like real people do. thychesters. summary: As she steps away to grab another drink she turns to find herself stepping into the circle of his arm. Garrus leans toward her, under the guise of reaching over the bar for his own glass, and Shepard lets out a breath against the side of his neck. She can feel fingers trailing along her thigh, following the hem of her dress without quite slipping beneath it. Since their date on the Presidium he’s held himself with more surety around her and where they stand. Emboldened, she tilts to press her shoulder into him, mindful of the murmurings coming from the kitchen as the party winds down. Shepard tilts her head, brushing her lips across his mandible, and then pulls back as Traynor stumbles up to the bar with a grin over her shoulder to Liara before startling at the sudden start-stop snore that is Zaeed asleep on the couch. His hand tugs her back into the solid curve of his keel, subvocal rumbling against her shoulder. “So much for fifteen minutes,” she says. “I doubt anyone’s going to notice.” the citadel party ends with a bang. so does the morning after.
January 9, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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feyspeaker.bsky.social
"It'd be an awfully empty galaxy without you."
#MassEffect #Garrus #Femshep
December 28, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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rstevens.bsky.social
someone should invent a chore that is done permanently once you do the chore
December 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
thychesters.bsky.social
using my PTO powers for good with two weeks left in the year: four day weekend this week babyyyy
December 20, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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feyspeaker.bsky.social
where are my Shakarian girlies at 🥺
WIP for print club this month
#masseffect #garrus #femshep
December 18, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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melonteee.bsky.social
The Strawhats: yay we saved the island let's party!
Franky:
November 29, 2025 at 5:03 AM
thychesters.bsky.social
#wipwednesday! off on the ol' post-me3 angst pain train with #shakarian. something about the intimacy of being a person again and being seen at your most vulnerable, in giving them the power to hurt you and trusting that they won't. so garrus washes her hair.
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
thychesters.bsky.social
#wipwednesday! back to #shakarian and the party rockers on the citadel. this bit was originally supposed to be like two lines to serve as a transition and yet here we are. 'garrus doesn't get handsy' meanwhile there's the live drunk javik reaction when he watches shepard grab at him
November 19, 2025 at 11:31 PM
thychesters.bsky.social
#wipwednesday! coming in swinging with more #shakarian and toying with the post-citadel dlc some. the party's dying down and a few people are sneaking off
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 AM
thychesters.bsky.social
the space between.

🌟 2k | t
🌟 #shakarian | me3 | established relationship | domesticity
🌟 ao3.org/works/73836886
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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noeliacortes.bsky.social
Happy N7 Day to all the Mass Effect lovers!! 🚀

#N7Day #masseffect #shepard #femshep #garrus #garrusvakarian #shakarian
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
thychesters.bsky.social
#wipwednesday! yeehaw happy wednesday #shakarian here we go again. bet you can't guess what this one is about (sure you can). they get to be a little domestic because why not
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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mev0934.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
thychesters.bsky.social
dear diary, i’m beginning to think those weren’t bear attacks

hoa hoa hoa 🍂
image of woman dressed as charlie swan for halloween. she’s flashing a peace sign and has a stern look on her face along with a fake mustache
November 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
thychesters.bsky.social
a steady, sure thing.

🪐 8k | e
🪐 #shakarian | me3 post-menae reunion
🪐 ao3.org/works/73466216
November 1, 2025 at 3:59 AM
thychesters.bsky.social
#wipwednesday! more #shakarian in the me3 reunion; turns out there are a lot more emotions than they thought this would entail
October 31, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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unfunpleasures.bsky.social
fanfiction is free, yes, but so are kudos and comments! life is an expensive, depressing slog sometimes; leave a little digital trinket in exchange for the word food people offer you.
October 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
thychesters.bsky.social
if my wipwednesday looks like it's two days late because i forgot to post it here yeah
October 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM