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Anybody else just tired and bored with themself or is it just me and Bruce Springsteen

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The problem with having an OCxOC or OCxCanon ship is that if you want to consume new content of them. You gotta make it yourself

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sorry i didn't reply to your message i died

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after dreams

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A devastating and confusing thing about the Fallout setting, when you explore the pre-war aspects, is what the creators think about pre-war America. In the first games we only get hints of the pre-war world, but they seem to be some sort of wild fascist nation invading Canada. In Fallout 1, the first thing we're introduced to of the pre-war society is seeing a soldier shoot civilians and laughing.

Now, for the first 2 games and New Vegas we don't really know much. What we know is that there's a fascist military group known as the enclave who were a sort of US deep state even before the war, and that the government teamed up with corporate interests to preform vaguely MKULTRA-ish experiments with the Vaults. Basically, the government was an extreme version of the 50s American jingoism and McCarthyism.

This is well and dandy, I guess issues come up more when we get to the later games, especially 4, where it seems like none of this extreme plotting and societal civil unrest which would exist is seen. The society as presented in 4 also seems quite progressive, gay people are featured in the opening, and none of the baggage of say, civil rights not existing are included. Now on a baseline, I don't want settings to be more conservative, homophobic and sexist etc., but it becomes a very confusing setting when it's displayed both as this jingoist extreme thing with fascist tendencies aswell as a progressive place where everyone is seemingly equal. If you're focusing on the 50s as your setting, and American nationalism in the 50s, then you can't have McCarthyism spoofs and anti-communism as a societal paranoia norm while also general equality is the norm without misunderstanding why McCarthyism and nationalist jingoism is bad. A massive harm done in anti-communist paranoia is how it degrades and vilifies any progressive movements (women's rights, civil rights, homosexuality) as being morally un-American and therefore connected to communism. To ignore this just makes any critique of MacCarthyism and jingoism weird!

Basically, pre-war America in Fallout 4 becomes this both sides thing where America is both pure and equal and white fences in every instance that we see as the player (the intro), while also supposedly being this dystopic MacCarthyist hellscape that's broadcasting gladly about their war crimes in Canada, and wants to root out communism. I guess the only fix for this issue without getting into the fine print like they had to do is just not to focus too much on the pre-war world.

#fallout tv #fallout #yeah i'm sorry but it was really kind of jarring in the show #bethesda make up your mind about what direction you're going with this impossible challenge #hell. they even set the new plague up as an allusion to the HIV/AIDs crisis- it's heavily implied that it's seen the same way

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in another life for this meme?

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"Wish I could have met ya in anotha life." Sweetjane says lying on Mercy's bed in the ghoul's apartment.

"Why is that, mi corazon?" she says, carefully brushing her hair in front of the mirror.

"Because I would've liked ta have know who you were 'fore you were a ghoul."

Mercy's hand paused where it was. "No, you wouldn't. You know what they say about wishes. That you should be careful with them." SHe crosses the room to give Sweetjane a kiss before being pulled down into the bed with her.

#ship: mercy x sweetjane #hi it's 10pm and i am still Thinking about this one

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Height gap romance except the shorter one is frequently depicted in situations where they are contextually taller. The taller one sitting while the shorter one looms over them. Both of them lying in bed with the taller one’s head pressed to the shorter one’s chest. The shorter one straddling the taller one’s lap and leaning down for a kiss. The taller one on their knees as the shorter one tilts their head up. Please, it makes me go feral

#help i keep drawing reedmercy shit like this #i think i've drawn them like. maybe 4 times where reed's visibly taller than mercy #granted i havent posted a lot of my ocxoc shit since it's literally just me playing barbies lmao #but at least half the art i've drawn of them mercy looks taller than reed. 6'' height difference? i don't know her

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in my head the star wars equivalent of tswift is some human woman named tay’lor spiff or something and her stans are losing their minds over theories that she’s secretly a jedi singing about the horrors of war, even though she’s from a neutral system that hasn’t seen so much as a moral panic in 50 years

#this is canon as far as i'm aware #star wars

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i may not be gods strongest warrior but there is all sorts of bullshit that he makes me deal with and i hndle it not very well usually

#me

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MAXIMUS FALLOUT (2024— ) S01E03, "The Head"

#those last two gifs. god. #im sorry but i want to see him go OFF on the BOS so badly you don't even understand #PLEASE let that man have a revenge era or something. i'm on my knees begging #i love max and his actor is doing his absolute best and it shows. he just has this great energy and i love him #as much as i criticize this show- max has my entire heart #fallout #fallout tv #maximus fallout

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I love you Black lesbians. love you Native and Indigenous lesbians. many kisses for my Hispanic and Latino lesbians. lots of love for every Asian lesbian out there. i love every lesbian poc you're all amazing and deserve to be acknowledged this lesbian week of visibility<3

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a man and his dog,,,

#i'm not even joking if they did this i'd have a whole fucking breakdown over it lmao #also: ghoul dog!!!!! ghoul dog ghoul dog ghoul dog ghoul dog ghoul dog ghoul dog #this type of shit just explodes my brain #fallout #fallout tv

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#yeah #also y'all mind if i just. #deltacore

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im extremely devout but nobody can figure out what im worshipping

#mercycore

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we should be getting iced coffee and going to creepy and musty antique stores together why must we be separated by our screens…

#queue

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need my dick sucked so bad but i have this stupid ass vagina

#damn. sorry y'all i need this in the oc shitposting tag #reedcore