LegallyLaina
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Reflections on the Razor's Edge by LegallyLaina
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect: Andromeda
23 Oct 2023
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“Colonel?”
She turns and faces him, ready to defend her actions if necessary. But instead, he salutes, and the rest of the men follow suit.
“Godspeed, ma'am.”
She smiles, returning the salute.
She releases the pressure seal on the latch.
She opens it.
A fairly heavily AU (pre-)Reaper War fic where the asari made contact with humanity in the late 21st century, after a classified military spaceflight test goes awry. But it's really a story about CPTSD, self-acceptance, and breaking down the walls we put up between ourselves and others to keep us safe and hidden. And also smut.
A lot of the trans/dysphoria stuff comes from my own experiences as a trans woman. Writing about it is kind of cathartic for me. Also there's a transmasc asari.
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- Part 1 of Miraverse
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Yup, I went super AU with this one. It's another “the asari make first contact with humans first” fic but this time set in the 1950s, and technically a prequel to Reflections on the Razor's Edge. It'll be somewhat of a slow burn at first, but there will definitely be a steamy romance between Col. Jane Shepard and Liara T'Soni (despite the almost immediate thirst aplenty between them, who am I kidding, they're soul mates). I was sort of inspired by another Mass Effect fic on AO3 by drabbles (https://archiveofourown.org/works/23786239) that was based on the movie Arrival (2016) and it was really just super brilliant, but appears to have been sadly discontinued. I guess I wanted to retell it, and put my own spin and interpretation on it.
Some of the asari language terms, and also certain references to asari culture and biology, are derived from the amazing work of alephthirteen, another author here.
Also, again since this is very heavily AU, in this telling and at this point in history, women have long been equal in the structure of the US military and so we will be seeing some high-ranking female officers like Jane Shepard. Other than that, not much is changed in the culture of the 1950s.
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- Part 2 of Miraverse
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i have loved you for a billion (light) years by LegallyLaina
Fandoms: Original Work, Astronomy - Fandom
20 Jun 2023
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literally inspired by a tumblr meme
You dance across this great vastness, the all-pervading void that, like an ocean, separates and yet binds all things: the inexorable vibrational dance of eternity. Swirling, dancing thoughts made into light, into form. This one inescapable reality connects us, connects all things, yet of all things in all the ceaseless dance of creation, it is you I have loved the most.
or,
just a couple of galaxies being palaxies
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Ceasefire by LegallyLaina for HerPronounsAreFemSlash
Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types
19 Apr 2023
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Shortly after humanity's first contact with the asari, a trans woman has a first contact experience of her own.
Takes place circa Earth year 2065. Two years after a savage civil war that had raged on in America for over two decades finally ended. Eighty six years before the events of Reflections on the Razor's Edge.
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- Part 10 of Miraverse
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Aiana knows exactly how Mira likes to be touched.
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- Part 9 of Miraverse
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Miraverse by LegallyLaina
Fandom: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect: Andromeda
23 Oct 2023
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The year is 2151. In an alternate universe where the asari made first contact with humanity in 2063 (or 1952, depending on your point of view), this is the saga of two star-crossed lovers, Mira Singh, human pilot and operative for the Alliance, and Aiana T'Seda, asari commando and engineer in the Alliance. Secrets, lies, conspiracies, and black ops galore!
Also, here is art of Mira and Aiana I commissioned from the lovely witchtrix on tumblr!
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Valkyries by LegallyLaina
Fandom: Carmilla (Web Series), Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Stargate SG-1
22 Jan 2023
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The story of Commander Beverly Shepard, a Project Valkyrie veteran, and Dr. Liara T'Soni - Shepard's own Valkyrie, an angel of the battlefield. A story of covert operations and clandestine secrets; but also of galactic diplomacy, bonds between individuals and across species that are forged through combat and sacrifice, and above all, love. For love will have its sacrifices. As well, certain of events surrounding Shepard and Liara, and those happenings that enabled them to one day meet, shall be elaborated upon.
Mass Effect AU; somewhat canon compliant even though certain events will play out differently, and some entries will contain crossovers with other series. Also, much of the asari lore is significantly derived from the fanon lore of Daia's Asari Wiki and that developed by fellow AO3 author alephthirteen, though there are many aspects that are of my own invention as well.
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Don't You Want Me by make_it_gay_cowards
Fandoms: Political RPF, Political RPF - US 21st c., Kamala Harris - Fandom
05 Nov 2024
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“What will you do?” I asked, curious, and wanting to run scenarios in my head before she did whatever it was that was brewing behind her intense brown eyes.
“I’m the Vice President, I’ll do whatever I have to do. Whatever is in my power. We have to stop this.”
Valerie, an experienced and no-nonsense political staffer, knew that working for Vice President Kamala Harris was going to be different from any of her prior positions, but she didn't anticipate how the woman behind the title would disrupt everything she thought she knew about the world. And herself.
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16 Sep 2024
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When Carmilla barrels into Laura's life, will they get along? Or will something surface that neither of them wanted to catch a breath?
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21 Jan 2024
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They stay that way for a long time, Catra’s face tucked into Adora’s shoulder, Adora gently cradling Catra’s head. Adora is careful not to hug Catra too hard or make her feel restrained, anticipating the moment that Catra will start to pull away — but Catra doesn’t. She hangs on so tightly it hurts, her claws digging through Adora’s jacket and into her back, latching into her like she did when she was a kitten and didn’t know how much her claws could hurt. Adora tries not to wince, tries not to move a single muscle, worried that if she does the spell will break and Catra will struggle away, appalled at having shown weakness.
But Catra doesn’t let go. And so neither does Adora.
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Bookmarked by LegallyLaina
26 Dec 2023
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The year is 1699. Mircalla is the freshly-titled Countess of Karnstein. Her father is gone. She’s… free. Why, then, does it seem like something is missing from her life?
(OR: an AU in which carm never became a vampire but laura lives in 1698.)
Bookmarked by LegallyLaina
04 Nov 2023
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Cassandra Shepard and Samantha Traynor have to pause a night of love-making due to Cassandra suffering from a bad night of dysphoria. Samantha makes a bet with her girlfriend- If Cassandra finally gets the gender surgery she's wanted but put off for ages, she can have Samantha's surname. (And if she doesn't, Samantha gets to take Cassandra's)
Around months later, the newly married Samantha and Cassandra Traynor go to bed after their wedding party, ready to consummate their marriage.
Bookmarked by LegallyLaina
04 Nov 2023