OK, Shepard has not actually been born yet as Shep’s big day is April 11, 2154, but who is counting! Today is the day that the commander will be born so let’s celebrate!!!
Shepard cosplay by Yume Cosplay. Outstanding!
Luscious fantasy art image titled “Worry” by Chinese artist Wei Fan.
My people have married me
In a far corner of Earth:
Sent me away to a strange land,
To the king of the Wu-Sun.
A tent is my house,
Of felt are my walls;
Raw flesh my food
With Mare’s milk to drink.
Always thinking of my country.
Would I were a yellow stork
And could fly to my old home!
~The Lament Of Xi Chun – Poetry Of A Chinese Princess, 110 B.C.E, Translated by Arthur Waley
Outstanding Maleficent Cosplay by professional cosplayer Laura Jansen from Germany.
The evil queens are the princesses that were never saved.
~Maleficent
Shep and Garrus fanart by Swedish artist Sathynae.
Shepard: So when should I book the room?
Garrus: I’d wait if you’re okay with it. Disrupt the crew as little as possible… and take that last chance to find some calm just before the storm. You know me. I always like to savor the last shot before popping the heat sink. [pause] Wait. That metaphor just went somewhere horrible.
~Overheard in Normandy SR-2 during Romance: Garrus
It’s Friday people, yay! Don’t forget to clean your face after feeding!
Image by Ahmed Rubat from Saudi Arabia
Vampires did this all the time, you remember. It was normal for them, it was their own unique take on resource conservation. They could have taught your kind a few things about restraint, if that absurd aversion to right-angles hadn’t done them in at the dawn of civilization. Maybe they still can. They’re back now, after all— raised from the grave with the voodoo of paleogenetics, stitched together from junk genes and fossil marrow steeped in the blood of sociopaths and high-functioning autistics. One of them commands this very mission. A handful of his genes live on in your own body so it too can rise from the dead, here at the edge of interstellar space. Nobody gets past Jupiter without becoming part vampire. ~ Peter Watts, Blindsight