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[personal profile] sinesofinsanity
Fandom: Mass Effect (spoilers up to ME2 only)
Characters/Pairings:  EDI/Jeff "Joker" Moreau Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian
Rating:  Gen
Length:  6860 words
Creator Links:  skogr on AO3
Theme: In Spaaaaace, Interspecies pairing (Human/Alien, Human/AI), Disability (brittle bone disease), robots androids & AI, 

Summary: Join Cerberus, see the galaxy, turn your alien colleagues into xenophiles. That one wasn't on the recruitment posters.

Reccer's Notes: Joker's perspective on ME2, with particular focus on his ongoing mission to find out who Garrus's secret human girlfriend is. I love the character interactions in this one. It starts out fairly fluff and fun with Joker's typical banter and EDI's pointed snark, and then takes a dive into some of the more heavy and emotional beats from the game. Joker is such a neat character, it's great to see him fleshed out a bit, and EDI's development into someone who cares for the organic beings in her life peeks through in really sweet ways. 

Fanwork Links: Not All It's Cracked Up To Be
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[personal profile] beatrice_otter
Fandom: multifandom, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, Alien 3, Alien Resurrection, Almost Human, Battlestar Galactica, Ghost in the Shell, Halo 4, Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect 3, Persona 4: Arena, Prometheus, Portal 2, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Terminator 2, Terminator Salvation
Characters/Pairings:
Rating: teen
Length: 4:34
Creator Links: [personal profile] caramarie 
Theme: Robots and AIs, small fandoms

Summary: Artificial intelligences: they are unlike us, but that doesn't mean we have to be at war.

Reccer's Notes: Really great vid about life and what it means to be an AI. The song is great, and the clip choice is excellent.

Fanwork Links: If A Machine
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[personal profile] imogeneherdman
Fandom: Mass Effect
Characters/Pairings: Female Sheppard/Garrus Vakarian, James Vega
Rating: NC-17
Length: 4k
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] fourthage
Theme: Interspecies Stories, Interspecies Pairings, Outsider POV

Summary: Shepard and Garrus reconnect after Menae and James is an accidental witness. The sex he's good with, it's what comes after that makes him uncomfortable.

Reccer's Notes: So this is pwp but it's SO MUCH MORE. Everyone's characterization is bang on, and I love the feels (I said feels someone send me back to 2013) and everythiiiing.

Fanwork Links: The Perks of Working Late
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[personal profile] imogeneherdman
Fandom: Mass Effect
Characters/Pairings: Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian, Wrex
Rating: PG-13
Length: 2k
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] fourthage
Theme: Interspecies Stories, Interspecies Pairings

Summary: Shepard and Garrus's try for a baby doesn't work out as planned. Wrex knows a thing or two about that.

Reccer's Notes: Somber but satisfying.

Fanwork Links: Krogan Sympathy
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[personal profile] imogeneherdman
Fandom: Mass Effect
Characters/Pairings: Female Shepard/Javik
Rating: R
Length: ~11k
Creator Links: Anonymous Author
Theme: Interspecies Stories, Interspecies Pairings

Summary: “Do Protheans kiss, Javik?” she asked, moving a little closer, “Or are you evolved beyond such primitive displays of emo-mphh!”

Reccer's Notes: Javik's such a jerk but you like him anyway, especially in this fic. Contains cranky alien boyfriend and miscommunication, whoops! 

Fanwork Links: Do Protheans Kiss? @ ME Kink Meme, or a PDF here for ease of reading
imogeneherdman: (mass effect: legion)
[personal profile] imogeneherdman
Fandom: Mass Effect
Characters/Pairings: Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian
Rating: Mature
Length: 36k
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] servantofclio
Theme: Time Loops, Established Relationship with Plot, Interspecies Pairing, Fix It

Summary: Shepard finds herself reliving the last few years, from finding the beacon on Eden Prime to the battle for Earth. Again, and again, and again. How much can she change? How much should she change?

Reccer's Notes: Look at those themes, look at them. You know you wanna read it ;D

Fanwork Links: Variations on a Theme, with Tank and Gunfire
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[personal profile] imogeneherdman
Fandom: Mass Effect
Characters/Pairings: Hannah Shepard/Sparatus
Rating: NC-17
Length: 38k
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] NothingTame
Theme: Enemies Working Together, Interspecies Pairings, Enemies to Lovers

Summary: Hannah Shepard and Turian Councilor Sparatus have a history that stretches back decades into the First Contact War. Behind Commander Shepard's life and trials, her mother follows her own path into fate and love and the strains of both.

Reccer's Notes: <3

Fanwork Links: The Translation in Blood
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[personal profile] imogeneherdman
Fandom: Mass Effect
Characters/Pairings: Female Commander Shepard/Garrus Vakarian
Rating: PG-13
Length: 2,600 words
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] Feynite
Theme: Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Interspecies Pairings

Summary: The words on Shepard’s forearm are…not in English.

Reccer's Notes: Soulmates in spaaaace.

Fanwork Links: Marked Introductions
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[personal profile] mareel
Fandom: Mass Effect
Characters/Pairings: Kaidan Alenko/male Shepard, Kahlee Sanders/David Anderson
Rating: Not rated, but call it G
Length: 4292
Creator Links: Bagog (AO3)
Theme: Comfortfic, futurefic

Summary: Commander Shepard's first mission when he wakes up: a special delivery to return some forgotten items.

Reccer's Notes: This takes place post-canon, after the 'Destroy' ending for ME3. It was one of the first stories I read in this fandom and I still go back to reread it. It's pretty much become headcanon for me, it feels that right. I love Shepard pushing his physical limits to offer comfort to Kahlee, and seeing the two of them comforting each other as they share their memories and their grief. The final scene between Kaidan and Shepard is deftly drawn and beautiful, sketching a relationship balanced between gentleness and strength.

Fanwork Links: Someone's Waiting on AO3
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[personal profile] dimestore_romeo
Fandom: Mass Effect
Characters/Pairings: Female Shepard/Garrus Vakarian/Tali'Zorah nar Rayya
Rating: Explicit
Length: 18,664 words
Creator Links: madamebadger
Theme: Threesomes

Summary: In every life, you have to make trade-offs. Shepard has always been at peace with what she's given up to be who and what she is, mostly because she's focused her attention on everything but her own personal life. Even her dearest friends know that she will always, to some degree, hold them at arm's length.

But the war has a way of burning everyone down to their most essential selves, and in the end even Shepard can't help seeing, finally, what she wants, what she needs--and what she may have lost.

Reccer's Notes: A very sweet, satisfying and longing look at at how Shepard manages to find the happiness that she's always wanted, and the complicated path to getting there. Really, really lovely.

Fanwork Links: nights, by the light of whatever would burn on AO3.

gorgeousnerd: Christina Hendricks, smiling, with shoulder-length red hair and a black strapless dress. (Christina Hendricks.)
[personal profile] gorgeousnerd
Fandom: Mass Effect
Characters/Pairings: FemShep/Liara T'Soni
Rating: Probably not safe for work, but nothing explicit.
Creator Links: [deviantart.com profile] flauschtraut
Theme: Femslash, female characters

Summary: No official summary, but the title does a pretty good job.

Reccer's Notes: This artist has a lot of great pieces with these two (both shippy and platonic), and this one is probably my favorite, if I have to pick. The detail and quiet intimacy is wonderful.

Fanwork Links: Shepard and Liara in the bed

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