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[CrazyGreggy]

Yeah, I've read all of marshall's stuff, same with lightspeaker, pmc and a couple of others, was the person who linked to celticknotgirl's other fic a few pages back.

Still pinning *some* hope on the EC, but the well-written fic makes the wait bearable. Liara's Visit hits hard, no doubt about that. Even after 4 or 5 readthroughs, I tear up.

/manlytears

[TheMarshal]

Thank you guys for the high praise! I actually loathe Synthesis, but I've gotten a slew of responses that like my interpretation of it. Maybe once Returned is done I'll see if there are any other authors who'd like to use the idea.

And I'm hoping to have a 5th chapter out by this weekend.  I've had papers and midterms to deal with this past week, so writing's taken a back seat.

Modifié par TheMarshal, 01 mai 2012 - 05:07 .

[rubynorman]

Yeah. Reading fanfics and browsing fanarts are the two things make my life after seeing ME3's ending bearable. I used to think that if my Shep died and Liara had her child , it would be ok for me. But after reading Liara's visit.... T.T ... I don't know.
I'm writting a oneshot about Liara and Shep 's date with help from Moreeman. I hope it will turn out ok. But everyday I can only come up with 3 lines for the story @.@ it will take a while to finish this.

[Aristobulus500]

What bugs me is everyone is following in the ending's footsteps and writing a bunch of depressing, sad fanfics. Depressing is bad enough, but then these fanfics actually lend credibility to the terrible ending, which it doesn't deserve! It doesn't deserve you actually acknowledging it and trying to continue the story from it!

[Tyrannosaurus Rex]

Aristobulus500 wrote...

What bugs me is everyone is following in the ending's footsteps and writing a bunch of depressing, sad fanfics. Depressing is bad enough, but then these fanfics actually lend credibility to the terrible ending, which it doesn't deserve! It doesn't deserve you actually acknowledging it and trying to continue the story from it!

So what do you propose people do?

[TheMarshal]

Aristobulus500 wrote...

What bugs me is everyone is following in the ending's footsteps and writing a bunch of depressing, sad fanfics. Depressing is bad enough, but then these fanfics actually lend credibility to the terrible ending, which it doesn't deserve! It doesn't deserve you actually acknowledging it and trying to continue the story from it!

I honestly couldn't help it.  I put this in an author's note at the end of the first chapter, but I had been talking with jtav a few days before I reached the ending (when I had just discovered what was in store for me) and she mentioned the messianic parallels with Synthesis.  She said they had given her Good Friday, and all she had to do was write Easter.  The idea of a rebirth of some sort was very appealing, despite everything else, and this story sprang forth almost fully formed in my head.

I still consider it AU because of how strongly I dislike the endings, but I still wanted to explore it.

And the whole thing isn't gonna be depressing!  Just...  most of it.  

[lillitheris]

Hey now, I'm writing a little thing that'll be at least mostly yay. I've never really written before but I have a decent template to work with and still within the context of the game ending (see the ending thread in my signature) so maybe it'll turn out OK.

Unfortunately no Liara in the first chapter, but maybe the second…

Modifié par lillitheris, 01 mai 2012 - 05:44 .

[Dude on Fire]

@Aristobulus500
If I ever made a fanfic (which I probably won't [can't write worth crap]) I'd probably make my entirely own ending. That kind of ending that you sort of think about now and then but never really develop because it sounds unrealistic and cliché. Well, screw cliché, I just want - no I need Shepard to KILL EVERY SINGLE REAPER and have another really beau- scratch that, SEVERAL more really beautiful moments with Liara.

In other news, I finished playing Dead Space 2 yesteday. Without giving away any spoilers I have to say that the conclusion to this installment is absolutely breathtaking. Even though I know there's a third game coming, I now see that there is FULL potential in any game, in even the most hopeless situations, to have a satisfying ending. It would have been REALLY easy for BioWare to simply let us destroy the Reapers - no strings attached, if they felt they didn't have the time to create what they wanted from the start.

[The Lightspeaker]

Yuqi wrote...

Another by neeh (Its a bit NSFW)
http://neehs.deviant...again-299181131

...I'll be in my bunk.

CrazyGreggy wrote...

Yeah, I've read all of marshall's
stuff, same with lightspeaker, pmc and a couple of others, was the
person who linked to celticknotgirl's other fic a few pages back.

I'll have some more up to dissolve your mind into soon. It's just REALLY tricky to do ME2 properly.

[Arcataye]

frudi wrote...

His Returned actually made me think that Synthesis ending could maybe somehow be made acceptable . Seriously though, everything in Returned, from the mystery surrounding synthesis and Alice's return, to the overwhelming emotions displayed in the latest (4th) chapter, has so far been an amazing read. I can't wait for new chapters...

Yeah, the story has been more than amazing so far. Gives a whole other meaning to synthesis. It's so mysterious and... yeah.
I wonder how she came back alive. I wonder if she ever finds back to her love.

Aristobulus500 wrote...

What bugs me is everyone is following in the ending's footsteps and writing a bunch of depressing, sad fanfics. Depressing is bad enough, but then these fanfics actually lend credibility to the terrible ending, which it doesn't deserve! It doesn't deserve you actually acknowledging it and trying to continue the story from it!

I somehow like them. I can't even remember the last time I felt actual happiness, so the sad stories work for me.
But yeah, I get your point. I haven't seen any ending fanfics that completely rewrote the end, never even mentioning the child or those three choices.

TheMarshal wrote...
And the whole thing isn't gonna be depressing!  Just...  most of it.  

Don't worry, atleast I love it. Could make the reunion / ending? more powerful.

Modifié par Arcataye, 01 mai 2012 - 06:09 .

[Tyranniac]

Arcataye wrote...

Aristobulus500 wrote...

What bugs me is everyone is following in the ending's footsteps and writing a bunch of depressing, sad fanfics. Depressing is bad enough, but then these fanfics actually lend credibility to the terrible ending, which it doesn't deserve! It doesn't deserve you actually acknowledging it and trying to continue the story from it!

I somehow like them. I can't even remember the last time I felt actual happiness, so the sad stories work for me.
But yeah, I get your point. I haven't seen any ending fanfics that completely rewrote the end, never even mentioning the child or those three choices.

Oh, so mine doesn't count anymore? I know you read it! 

[The Lightspeaker]

Arcataye wrote...

I somehow like them. I can't even remember the last time I felt actual happiness, so the sad stories work for me.
But yeah, I get your point. I haven't seen any ending fanfics that completely rewrote the end, never even mentioning the child or those three choices.

Actually been considering giving it a shot myself.

Although I've also been considering a crossover fanfic to "fix" the current ending. I'll keep that a surprise in case I decide to do it but its likely to be quite silly.

[MidnightRaith]

Gah, I want to write a ME fic so badly. But I need to apologize to my followers, update my other fics in order of interest, review fics I need to review, finish ME1 and actually start on ME2&3.... Blah.... When I start to even think about it, I just don't want to do it. It's so hard to get back into writing after the RL Monster donkey kicks you in the face.

[Arcataye]

Tyranniac wrote...
Oh, so mine doesn't count anymore? I know you read it! 

I recall it had something to do with them. I'm sorry.
I do my reading at night when I'm sleepy but don't care to sleep so maybe I'm mixing up stories as I've read too many already.
-
Backlog of ten fanfics with more than 15 chapters, eight with less than 10 chapters. Too bad I have no mobile device other than my cellphone and it's screen is way too small for reading...

Modifié par Arcataye, 01 mai 2012 - 06:36 .

[Akernis]

The Lightspeaker wrote...

Arcataye wrote...

I somehow like them. I can't even remember the last time I felt actual happiness, so the sad stories work for me.
But yeah, I get your point. I haven't seen any ending fanfics that completely rewrote the end, never even mentioning the child or those three choices.

Actually been considering giving it a shot myself.

That is was I am trying as well, keeping if tweaking the part up to and incuding TIM and then change everything after that .

[DarkCloudd]

Finished my NG+ playthrough on my cannon Femshep and I have to say it was just as depressing as it was the last time. Shame on me I know but I'm gonna hold out hope for the EC and hope it will fix what's wrong with it. Oh well back to ME1 to finish my Insanity playthrough and then I plan on starting a different Shep prolly Adept this time, Liaramancer of course, and playing through the entire trilogy just to keep me occupied.

On the Fanfic side some of the ending stories out there aren't all depressing. Synthesis by Sy Itha is pretty good so far. I wish the author would post another update but beggers can't be choosers. I'm sure there are others out there that are good too just havn't found them yet.

[Aristobulus500]

Arcataye wrote...
I somehow like them. I can't even remember the last time I felt actual happiness, so the sad stories work for me.
But yeah, I get your point. I haven't seen any ending fanfics that completely rewrote the end, never even mentioning the child or those three choices.

Exactly. There's no reason to even pay lip service to that garbage, any more than you would some fanfic a 12 year old wrote and uploaded to fanfiction.net

You're writing an entire fanfic here, use that freedom! Have a little imagination! You have the freedom to completely rewrite the ending to something not terrible, use it.

I hate all these sad, depressing fanfics because that's not Mass Effect. Mass Effect is a space opera, not a ****ing classical tragedy. I don't turn on Star Wars so I can be brought to tears and I didn't get invested in ME so I could watch everything crumble to dust either. There's nothing wrong with sad moments - things like Mordin dying on Tuchanka are very powerful - but the entire thing should not be a tragedy.

And a few fanfics here and there trying to be different and testing out a tragedy would be okay, but it's becoming a cliche. Every fanfic writer everywhere is writing ME tragedies! And how can they not? If you try to write with that ending in mind, there is no way to do anything else.

But there's no reason to keep that ending. There's a freedom there to just completely ignore it, and then you don't HAVE to write a depressing tragedy.

[TheMarshal]

Oh yeah, I don't plan on ever acknowledging the endings again once Returned has wrapped. I'll either return to writing fluffy post-ME3 stories where the defeat of the Reapers is hand-waved away or maybe pick up Observer and give that story another go.  No need to dwell on the endings, but for now they're still fresh in our minds and, well, the fics reflect that.

Modifié par TheMarshal, 01 mai 2012 - 07:07 .

[Akernis]

Aristobulus500 wrote...
I hate all these sad, depressing fanfics because that's not Mass Effect. Mass Effect is a space opera, not a ****ing classical tragedy. I don't turn on Star Wars so I can be brought to tears and I didn't get invested in ME so I could watch everything crumble to dust either. There's nothing wrong with sad moments - things like Mordin dying on Tuchanka are very powerful - but the entire thing should not be a tragedy.

And a few fanfics here and there trying to be different and testing out a tragedy would be okay, but it's becoming a cliche. Every fanfic writer everywhere is writing ME tragedies! And how can they not? If you try to write with that ending in mind, there is no way to do anything else.

But there's no reason to keep that ending. There's a freedom there to just completely ignore it, and then you don't HAVE to write a depressing tragedy.

Thats a little hash isn't it?

I really dislike sad endings and grealty enjoy happy ones, as long as they fit with the story. But while there are tragidies being written there are also several writers that create some really great work.

Modifié par Akernis, 01 mai 2012 - 07:13 .

[Akernis]

TheMarshal wrote...

Oh yeah, I don't plan on ever acknowledging the endings again once Returned has wrapped. I'll either return to writing fluffy post-ME3 stories where the defeat of the Reapers is hand-waved away or maybe pick up Observer and give that story another go.  No need to dwell on the endings, but for now they're still fresh in our minds and, well, the fics reflect that.

Nice ot hear, looking foreward to more of your work.
 

[Tyranniac]

Arcataye wrote...

Tyranniac wrote...
Oh, so mine doesn't count anymore? I know you read it! 

I recall it had something to do with them. I'm sorry.
I do my reading at night when I'm sleepy but don't care to sleep so maybe I'm mixing up stories as I've read too many already.

Lies! Lies! I cut everything after Anderson's death in my fanfic. You're probably mixing it up. *pat*

[WaterWar]

Not all fanfics are sad ones. I personally enjoy reading Here at the end of all Thing every time I complete ME3 or when I'm in the mood. It has a sad tone to it for the first two chapters but then twist to a more satisfying ending in the last chapter. Very well writen.
There are also a couple of other good fanfics that aren't all sad og gritty. 

I also like fanfics that build on the existing ending because then I can read the fanfics after I complete ME3. This way the ending doesn't seem as bad as it actually is. I can therefore keep the appeal of the game up for a longer period of time.

Arcataye wrote...

WaterWar wrote...

Does anyone have a new link to the liara kiss.gif? The dropbox link is broken because of too many visits.
Thanks in advance

44mb, LikissHD.gif?
19mb, LiKisscloseup.gif? (screensaver for the laughs)
You're welcome.
I hope Neeh won't mind sharing the love.

Thank you very much! 

EDIT: Spelling.

Modifié par WaterWar, 01 mai 2012 - 08:00 .

[Robhuzz]

The Lightspeaker wrote...

Yuqi wrote...

Another by neeh (Its a bit NSFW)
http://neehs.deviant...again-299181131

...I'll be in my bunk.

Haven't been in this thread for a few days and now the first thing I see when I come back is this yummy picture.

Never change Liara T'Soni fan thread.... :innocent:

ETA: What are the odds... TOP pic as well. Erm...*looks around*



Here you go!

Modifié par Robhuzz, 01 mai 2012 - 08:37 .

[TheMarshal]

While even I'm getting tired of seeing the N7 design emblazoned on everything from bikinis to baby clothes, I cannot resist a baby asari! :3