spicyobsession:

I need the “Shepard gets matching blue colony markings with Garrus” fics to stop please. Cease and desist. I roll my eyes every time I see a prompt/fill in the kinkmeme for that.

Uh you guys do know that those colony markings don’t just mean “oh hi this is where I’m from.” They’re not license plates, for Christ’s sakes. Shepards don’t just get a matching set.

The colony markings are leftovers from a long, brutal civil war (THE UNIFICATION WAR), ages before the First Contact War, ages before humans even flew to the moon. From the wiki: “When war finally broke out, the Hierarchy maintained strict diplomacy and refused to get involved. After several years of fighting, less than a dozen factions remained and the Hierarchy finally intervened. By that time, the chieftains were too weak to resist; they were forced to put an end to fighting and renew their allegiance to the Hierarchy. Though peace was restored, it took several decades for animosity between colonists to fade completely. To this day, most turians still wear the facial markings of their home colonies.”

The markings—they have CONTEXT. HISTORY. MEANING. None of which have ANYTHING to do with humans, but you have all this fic of shepard going “teehee let me just APPROPRIATE something of Garrus’ species and slap it on my face without any idea of its implications.” APPROPRIATION. YEAH I SAID IT.

RUDE SHIT YALL. RUDE AS FUCK. Do any of you who prompt/fill that realize the real-world implications!? Don’t you think you’d look RIDICULOUS and TACKY wearing something that doesn’t belong to your culture, let alone your own species???

$50 says those prompters/fillers are white girls. I’m serious. As lemuffinmistress says: you’ve basically reduced Shepard to a “carefree white girl wearing Native American headdresses” because she wanted to match her Native American boyfriend and/or feel like part of the family. There are better ways of doing that, trust.

Damn blissfully ignorant bitches, grumblegrumble