Now that I've had time to cool down and rationalize what exactly happened (or didn't happen) in the endings, I can post some of my thoughts on the matter. I'm sure many of you have already heard of these conclusions or come to them yourselves, but this is just me brainstorming...

PLOT HOLES/MYSTERIES

>What are the Keepers?
-Living antennae for the Reapers?
-Indifference to human corpses? (one is seen fiddling with the bodies in the final hallway)
-There was a "Keeper Twenty" in the Shadow Broker's video logs... What about that one?
>Was the ending a dream sequence?
-Moments like the Illusive Man shooting himself in the same manner as Saren and the Catalyst appearing in the form Shepard recognizes as failure hint to the fact that the final moments were too personal to be a reality.
-The typical paragon/renegade choices were seemingly reversed in colour at the end, as if to try to fool Shepard into choosing indoctrination over destruction... Was Shepard being indoctrinated the whole time?
-The boy's projection seemed to break its unfeeling facade and show displeasure when Shepard chose to destroy the Reapers... Was he simply a Reaper trying to get into Shepard's head by using a personal image?
-The blue choice (commonly seen as paragon) followed in the Illusive Man's path of choices, leading to indoctrination, while the red choice (commonly seen as renegade) showed your dear friend Anderson destroying the reapers... Why is your enemy showing paragon and your ally showing renegade? In the "perfect" ending, the green choice (supposedly Shepard's "own choice of action") leads more or less to the indoctrination of all life in the galaxy [supposedly] without the nasty mutations we commonly see... Blue - indoctrination. Green - indoctrination. Red - destruction.
>Were the Reapers in control the whole time?
-If most information is to be believed, destroying a relay results in the fallout and destruction of an entire system... If all endings lead to the destruction of the relays, did Shepard effectively destroy the galaxy for the Reapers anyway?

PONDERINGS/POINTS OF INTEREST

>In a good playthrough, Shepard ends up with pretty much all races in the galaxy in the Sol system, fighting against the Reapers... If the relays were somehow destroyed in a "harmless" manner, this means all life in the galaxy is confined to a single system, one not supporting the necessary rations and habitation for all of it. Even if races tried to leave, they would either run out of fuel or become lost in space due to the relays (now defunct) being the only means of communication and (supposedly) galactic mapping... Once the races die off in the Sol system, the following "cleanup" would be catastrophic.
>The sloppy failure to find closure in the endings was supposedly a direct result of the prior script leak as some sort of [immature] vengeful backlash... Confirmation, anyone?
>Anyone romance Tali? ...Anyone notice the horrible stock photo in Shepard's cabin?

Any further brainstormings can stem from here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.p.....MV/MassEffect3

Also, this guy will be remembered forever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=467pmIX-oZo

So, minus the Five Stages of Grief, I still have some faith that Bioware will make amends to the fans (their true source of income) with some DLC... Even though it's going to be overpriced, if things are to be believed. It's still my personal opinion that being led on through an entire universe, breaking the fourth wall as a series base rule and forging seemingly legit relationships via your own choices, and saving races... Only to have our hearts broken by having no choice in your efforts... Is a bit cruel. Though if this is all a demonstration of "this is why we can't have nice things" in result of the leaked script, I will call out the decision-makers of the franchise on being immature and self-destructive on the matter. If that's the case, I'll have lost all faith in the franchise.

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On a more personal note, I'm still open for commissions. It's taking an uncomfortable amount of time for my previous job to get back with me and another college loan comes out this month... When it does, I'll have less than $100 in my account to sustain me. That's the only money I have, so I'm going to list my revised prices again for people to see.

(All my work is digital)

Sketches/lines (full body or otherwise) - $20
Flat colour - $30
Shaded - $40

Add a background - $15
Add another character - +$10
Make explicit - +$5

Rules: I don't do extreme fetishes (vore, scat, etc.), species makes no difference to me (feral or otherwise, I can manage), I'm open to a limited amount of trades, and as of right now I will only take money through the mail... Risky, I know, but some personal complications have closed me off to Paypal for the moment. Solid cash, checks, money orders, it's all good, so long as you put it in an envelope you can't see through under light or include a paper note to disguise the contents if you're unsure.

So there you go. My commission pricelist, hopefully to relieve some of the stress I'm under living with these... People. Sad part is, with all that's going on and things that are going to happen in the near future, I have no choice but to stay with them... As much as I'm not going to enjoy this, and most of you can feel free to rage and scoff at me, but it's become a matter of survival. If you want warnings, note me or something. I'm not going to make this journal into one of those.