#rep this city

[fantastic-nonsense]

Kaz 🤝 Nikolai: two men who can't back down from a challenge and have dead older brothers, larger-than-life reputations, and girlfriends who're cooler than them

#kaz brekker #nikolai lantsov #six of crows #nikolai duology #grishaverse #inej ghafa #zoya nazyalensky #zoyalai #kanej #continuing to rep the 'kaz and nikolai are narrative foils' agenda #thinking about that bit in rule of wolves where zoya was like #'or maybe kaz was like nikolai: a boy with an unquiet mind...a man in need of perpetual challenge' #otp: on the seas and in the city

[nikethestatue]

Bryce and Hunt

Art: tangerine.eileen

#love this so much #bryce quinlan #hunt and bryce #hunt athalar #Quinlar #SJM books #crescent city #probably the closest rep of me and my BF I've ever seen #that's legit how we look

[oodlenoodleroodle]

(translation in alt)

#suomeksi #suomitumppu #suomipaskaa #politiikka #in finnish #nazi tw #edited: i wrote the wrong name in the alt text. it is henriksson not andersson (andersson is the rep from my city hence the confusion)

[bambiraptorx]

watching tmnt 2003 is so wild honestly. a guy shows up from another dimension to fight leo and not only does everyone more or less roll with it, splinter knows exactly what's going on somehow

#bambi's rambling #tmnt 2003 #also 2003 splinter is just fantastic #i know that rise splinter usually gets the 'breaking away from the traditional serious sensei' rep #but in this ep 03 splinter was like 'my kids want to do an ice cream run in a currently gang infested city' #'so i'm going with them to get a milkshake obviously'

[4ft10tvlandfangirl]

From Dr. Mohammed Ayman's stories Nasser Hospital lost power and a 10 year little girl died in intensive care as a result.

Nasser is still besieged and IOF snipers are still terrorising anyone that moves in the complex. In Khan Younis. While Rafah is being bombed to the south. Earlier today people were leaving Rafah city but going where I don't know because nowhere is safe. Deir al-Balah is still being bombed. North Gaza is still being attacked and starved. The entire strip is under attack in multiple ways.

This is ethnic cleansing and genocide funded and fully supported by the US, UK and other western powers. I know there's a sense of hopelessness about it all but we must be steadfast in calling for an end to these crimes and genocide.

#do what you can #dont stop talking about palestine #gaza #gaza city #deir al balah #khan younis #rafah #nasser hospital #current events #protest #boycott #email your reps #palestine #free palestine #end the genocide #end israels genocide #ceasefire now #free palestine until its backwards

[swiftsocial1989]

TAYVIS at the Sydney Zoo! 🫶🏻🥲🥺♥️

#taylor swift #taylornation #swifties #kansas city chiefs #1989 taylor's version #travis kelce #kc chiefs #rep tv #tayvis #the eras tour #sydney australia #sydney ttpd #ttpd

[megafreeman]

I see people constantly talk about symbolism of Saints' color choice, but something I never see people discuss is the in-universe reasons? How Saints are actually using the same color as the local sports team in Stilwater, Stilwater Sharks, and how essentially Saints are just some kids wearing their favorite sports team's jersey?

#saints row #and Stilwater Sharks are canonicslly dogshit iirc #so imagine how Steelport Saints feel about finding out they're really just repping some random sports team from a smaller city #sr

[yusuke-of-valla]

Problematic Ace Rep Tournament Round 1, Match 1

Note: the definition of "problematic" and "rep" is up to you. Propoganda under the cut:

Rex:

For starters he is canonically ace as stated by the author Despite being the protagonist, Rex is very problematic being basically a grape with identity issues yet he managed to throw a whole city, if not the world, into chaos but hey at least he appeared on TV ! Chizuru: She canonically doesn’t get horny and is jealous of another character for being loud about her love so I believe she’s aroace. As for being problematic, she egged on a twenty year old man to start dating a seventeen year old girl (tbf they were being blackmailed but you still shouldn’t do that).

#problematic ace rep tournamnet #rex kellman #city of blank #chizuru mizuhara #rent-a-girlfriend #tumblr poll #asexual #this is all in good fun

[zestyrat]

Their relationship is so underrated I love them 🩵

#lgbtq #queer representation #queer rep in media #gay ships #zestyrat #big city greens

[dykedvonte]

The Khans - My Introspective

I don't like the Military and I don't support a lot of the actions the NCR does to the Mojave in New Vegas but in terms of the Khans I feel like the fandom infantilizes or diminishes the fact that they are or at least one of the most violent raider groups in the Mojave.

What happened at Bitter Springs was a tragedy, innocent lives were lost and the fact that the NCR swept it under the rug and continued to hunt down Khans that are truly trying to back down and resettle is horrendous, but there is a history to the NCR's aggression towards them.

The Khans first appear in Fallout 1, the main faction of raiders in the game besides the mentioned Vipers (who don't actually appear if I remember correctly). They came from Vault 15 along with the members that would form rival groups; The Vipers, The Jackals, and Shady Sands. They are a very large and foreboding raiding party, known for burning towns and encampments they attack and taking survivors as their slaves or slaves to sell. They are a big reason why the Jackals and Vipers are actually so small in New Vegas, they wiped them out.

Their main targets where Shady Sands and Junker town, the former of the two would be what became The New California Republic. This explains a big part of their animosity towards the Khans, only furthered by the fact the Khans kidnapped Tandi as a young girl, the girl that would go to offically found the NCR out of Shady Sands. When the dweller saved her and killed much of the Khans, this allowed the NCR to develop into what it currently is as they no longer needed to focus on fighting off constant raids.

When the Khans became the New Khans in Fallout 2, they barely resembled the Khans as they were led by Darion, Garl Death-Hand's son (former leader of the Khans). They were smaller and refortified vault 15, still planning to take down the NCR (at this time nowhere near as imperialist as they are in FNV) as mostly a revenge/power ploy. They manipulate The Squat, a group of y'know squatters, that lived in the upper levels, promising and lying about repairing the vault and offering them ransacked caravan resources if they kept the NCR away. Being their only life line The Squat had no choice. Still the chosen one got rid of them and they left New California for the untapped Mojave.

The Great Khans, the most current iteration, continued in the path as the original Khans, regrouping and gaining information from the Followers who hoped they'd use their new medical knowledge to heal themselves. They gained more members and a substantial part of Vegas territory before they were run out by the three families. They were pushed to Bitter Springs where they first and foremost continued to pick off and attack NCR settlements, most of which consisted of caravans, towns, and camps as they saw them as easy like in their old days. It was the killing of four influential Republic members (non-military) that brought on Bitter Springs.

Bitter Springs was the result of years of hatred and animosity and likely the goal to send a final message to the Khans. It does not excuse the fact that innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered with few survivors. It does not excuse the fact that the NCR has yet to make amends for this and continues to try and persecute the Khans even in moments of surrender.

This post is not to defend what happened but to give a quick rundown of the Khan's history and their history with the NCR. It's to remind people that the NCR is not just their military power but an actual group/settlement of people that were also attacked indiscriminately by the Khans. It's to point out that the Khans were not a band of indigenous people (no matter the comparisons) driven from their homes but raiders who fed into the brutal cultures of the west coast wasteland and were in turn treated to the same things.

My frustration comes from the fact that FNV has so many comparisons to indigenous struggles but the groups it chooses are not comparable at all. Their oppression hinges on not being familiar with their past, which explains why they have the reputation they do in canon. The "tribes" are often not even groups of minorities or have goals/desires out of acquisitions of power and I feel like it is important to both acknowledge that this is bad indigenous rep because it is not supposed to be. It is supposed to be a comparison of the in-game groups and how they all do the same things and justify it in their own fucked up ways, some better at it than others.

FNV of all the Fallout games (in light of it being heavily Western based) distastefully uses indigenous imagery and theming for groups that are sad mimicries of American indigenous cultures at best and outright offensive at worst.

#this is also to say the NCR is barely different but they imply New California is a city and safe and that once the NCR military leaves #they will properly try to settle and revitalize the area unlike the goals of almost every other group #the issues arise from the tensions of the hoover dam battles the legion and the corrupt leaders chosen in what is a terse time #but the khans are interesting to me and I like the named khans we have in FNV but they are treated to be almost innocent at points due to #all the Ls they keep taking despite admitting to their raider roots and being PROUD #they partnered with the Legion and before i hear they didnt know they were slavers at a point too and likely didnt care if they believed it #would not affec their own. the Mojave is an unforgivnig place and sometimes you make unforgivable alliances since they alienated all their #other options through their continued and consistent behaviors #like i could go on how bad the native rep is but I would not use any of the tribes cause they barely count the only difference from the NCR #is they organize themself differtently like id use the tribes in Honest Hearts cause holy shit is it bad and racist like at least the Mojav #tribes are just white dickheads brutalizing each other and not the characatures of native people the Sorrows Dead Horse and White legs are #like yikes I hated playing white savior the dlc #this is also semi personal because i dont see a lot of POC people in the fandom talking about the Khans and so I dont know if the proper #perspectives can be added because just because something can represent a culture or group doesn't mean it does or that it was the primary #thing they were trying to get across #like feel free to ask and talk to me more about it cause grrr #fallout #fallout new vegas #the great khans #the khans #new california republic #the ncr #fallout 1 #fallout 2 #papa khan

[hussyknee]

If you aren't reading KJ Charles's books I sincerely do not know what you're doing with your life.

#kj charles #the first sins of the cities book is still the only dud in her whole body of work #well as much as i've gotten through anyway #i've finished: #the society of gentlemen #the charm of magpies #(lord lucien crane should be the breakout character of a much bigger and deeper franchise. i fucking love him) #the lillywhite boys #(holy plot twists batman! DELICIOUS! SO CLEVER!) #i've also finished #an unnatural vice #which was awesome #and now halfway through #an unsuitable heir #also goddamn engrossing #next onto the will darling adventures and the art of fortune hunting series #i think she might be better than alexis hall but honestly they're too different to compare #except for his one attempt at historical romance which was absolute cringe #i just think that if you're going to write a historical romance for trans people you should actually care about the genre first #kj charles's prequel novella to the lillywhite boys was soo much better historical trans rep #and asexual rep too #i wonder whether she's written anything else trans-centric #she should because her trans side characters are so well done #so are her queer characters of colour. so unself-conscious #historical romance #queer fiction #book recs #book recommendations #knee of huss #mlm romance

[disco-tic-wonderland]

Oh no… If Harry fails the red encyclopedia check on Kimball, and simply comes up with ‘Hey aren’t Seolites all good at pinball?’

Oh man. So. That stereotype is likely why a junior officer Kim was put on the pinball squad in the first place.

It’s crazy how much racism is presented in fridge logic form. It hits so hard. The shit this man puts up with every day of his life. I just wanna hug him.

Fun fact: look up Seolite in fayde. I’ve been breaking my own heart all morning lol. I was trying to figure out if there were inconsistencies in Kim’s telling of his own background. I keep getting a Feeling about it. He says his grandparents are from Seol, but that both his parents are half Seolite, also his father wasn’t in the picture, but *also* that his parents were killed in the revolution…so he didn’t know his mother either? And he says he’s only a quarter Seolite, but with two half parents, is that correct? In his position, I think I’d tell half-truths as well, or whatever I needed to say to get racists off my ass. It is canon that Kim messes with racists by playing into stereotypes, and bless him for it because he’s so damn funny about it.

#there’s one instance where fascist Harry says something racist and Kim looks at him quote Almost Sadly #and I Almost Cried #disco elysium #kim kitsuragi #disco elysium meta #also the Very Interesting line from Shivers begging Harry to make it right after the failed authority check in the church #makes me think that not just Harry but literally their partnership is what’s going to be instrumental in keeping revachol alive #also a Very Very Interesting line where Harry still tries to tell a furious hurt Kim that he spoke to the city #and if your rep is higher #kim doesn’t just dismiss it as crazy talk but INSISTS upon hearing it #which is #INCH RESTING #Mr Rationalité is taking your hunch about the end of the world seriously for a moment #this gAME #I am obSessED

[thenighttrain]

1989 is and will always be a beach album btw, just the whole happy carefree vibes, going to the coast with friends to escape everything else, not taking love too seriously and having fun instead, 1989'S JOB IS LITERALLY BEACH

#vs rep is absolutely a city album i'm glad taylor agrees

[starstrike]

Some memes I've made for my city of mist campaign, Here's What You Mist, which you can listen to here:

City of mist is a ttrpg where you play as everyday people posessed with the power of a story- a Mythos. We explore some rough themes, so mind the trigger warnings! You'll find action, community building, characters recovering from abuse, a coming of age story, metareferential esoterica, claymation, a nonbinary slow burn romance, political machinations, and much more inside.

In order:

Teesh, she/her: Parkour streamer, Mythos of Fujin

Kaz, they/them: Mafia courier and street racer, Mythos of the headless horseman

Agave, they/them: Mafia family member and rave dj, Mythos of Dionysus

All character art here was commissioned from an artist of the book, Ario Murti.

#ttrpg podcast #ttrpg character #city of mist #here's what you mist #please check it out 🥺 #podcast #dnd podcast #<- it isn't but i am stealing that tag for clout <3 #ttrpg art #its funny that kaz is in all three of these cropped images #it just worked out that way #i play kaz btw #we also have ace and disability rep if thats a plus for you. #also our first recording wasnt actually going to a podcast so us talking about it being a podcast in e1 is a bit. #Also we truly do improve as time goes on give us a chance <3 #Spotify #heres what you mist #hwym #ren rambles

[swording]

need everyone to know that eddies has like the best burgers in sudbury so when they show up there in shoresy my partner and i screamed and then went for dinner

#alx.txt #shoresy #half the fun of watching the show is the sudbury rep honestly makes me giddy to see our city get som love

[swiftsocial1989]

TAYVIS after the @Chiefs SUPERBOWL WIN♥️

#TaylorSwiftSuperBowl #taylorswift  #superbowl  #chiefs  #traviskelce #kelce #tayvis #tavis #swiftie #swift #SuperBowl 

@taylorswift @taylornation

#taylor swift #taylornation #swifties #kansas city chiefs #1989 taylor's version #travis kelce #brittany mahomes #kc chiefs #rep tv #superbowl