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calder · 6 months

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Released in 2010, Obsidian Entertainment's Fallout: New Vegas actively concerns itself with the realities of gay existence, and is widely recognized as a noteworthy work of queer science fiction. New Vegas extensively examines social attitudes towards homosexuality among the game's major factions, and primarily conveys this lore through gay and bisexual characters describing their own experiences. It also allowed the player to mechanically set the Courier's sexual orientation. By taking both available perks, the player character can be bisexual. By choosing neither, the player can opt out of seeing flirtatious dialogue options.

Uniquely, Fallout: New Vegas explores homosexuality in the context of wasteland societies, and touches upon related issues. The core theme of New Vegas is that the desire to recreate the past is driven by irrational nostalgia, and any endeavor to manifest past glory is dangerous and doomed. The social issue of homophobia is used as a demonstrative example. The resurrection of corporate and military power structures presents new avenues for Old World problems such as institutional homophobia to reemerge. One of the many issues that divide the New California Republic and Caesar's Legion is the latter's open persecution of gay people. The NCR is described as tolerant and even accepting of same-sex relationships, though acceptance tends to fall off the further one moves away from the developed, urbanized core of New California. In recent years, the Republic's rapid economic transformation has led to an unforeseen erosion of the humanitarian ideals which it was founded to serve. In practice, to recreate America was to take on its shortcomings and its sins. As subsistence scavenging has dried up, the people of the NCR increasingly turn to wage labor, entrepreneurial venture, or military enlistment to keep their families fed. Meanwhile, their government enacts morally corrosive imperialism (narrative verbiage), their dominion expanding indefinitely as their infrastructure crumbles from within. This has led to a profit-based imperial monoculture which must conquer, consume, and coerce to perpetuate. As personal politics and service labor grow in importance, people find themselves more inclined to present as "normal" in the interest of financial stability and political expedience. A loading screen visualizes this culture of artificial social normalcy: the portrait of President Aradesh on the NCR 5$ bill neglects to depict his unibrow, earring, and facial scarification, overall portraying the once-chieftain so cleanly-cut as to be unrecognizable at first glance. He also appears to be wearing a collared shirt or suit as opposed to the robe he wore in Fallout.

In the Legion, Caesar has mandated that every legionnaire take a wife and produce children, citing high infant mortality rates and the constant need for soldiers, and going as far as instituting child quotas. He treats human beings as a resource to be exploited for war. Ostensibly in this aim homosexuality has been declared a capital offense punishable by death. Historically, routine demonstrations of violence towards women and gay people are a deliberate feature of fascist societies, the only logical cultural conclusion of a government devoted entirely to war and control. In Forlorn Hope letter 9, an NCR soldier wrote wrote the following to his boyfriend:

Dearest Andrew, Writing this seems pretty morbid, but tomorrow we march into the no man's land between our camp and Nelson, which is crawling with Legion. The Major insisted I write this damn "if you get this, I'm dead" letter so here it is. What a crock. I have the luck of the devil and your love on my side, so I'll be home soon. Keep the porch light on for me. We'll party in New Vegas when I get back. I love you. —Devin

Devin believed he would prevail over the Legion because his love would keep him safe. He was found dying or dead on the battlefield, the letter was found on his body. In a post-release patch, the injured soldiers were removed from the battlefield for performance reasons, and never re-implemented. Driven largely in reaction to the Legion's hyper-masculine posturing and misogyny, rumors persist across the Mojave that gay male relationships are not only common within the Legion, but condoned. These rumors are repeated commonly in NCR society. A closeted NCR Major mentions that the Legion is "a little more... forgiving" about close male "friendships," speaking in a hushed tone to avoid suspicion. At the same outpost, the player can encounter Cass, a bisexual civilian woman. She may flirt with a male Courier, who may imply they are gay, prompting her to imply gay men are more common in the Legion. Even as gay men fight and die in the name of love under his command, NCR General Oliver may remark to Courier Six at the Second Battle of Hoover Dam: "If you think after all that's happened, I'm going to grab my ankles and take it like the Legion..."

This writing pertains to institutionalized homophobia which manifests in practice though power structures and social interactions without being written into law. Simply put, in his derogatory remark, the general expresses to his army that military surrender is gay, much like their gay enemy. From the brevity and bluntness of this remark, it's clear that this sentiment is already well understood among his ranks. Logically, to project strength in the eyes of such a leader, one might also project homophobia by scrutinizing and harassing one's peers and subordinates. In this atmosphere, the expression of homophobia is not only normalized, but materially incentivized. For the ambitious, it becomes a tool, and a way of casting shame upon rivals. For the closeted, homophobia becomes a survival tactic, hoping to throw scrutiny off oneself. This is why Major Knight is immediately frightened when a male Courier flirts with him. He is so profoundly alienated that he romanticizes life as a gay man under the Legion. The Legion punish homosexuality with death, and yet Knight characterizes them as more "forgiving" than the NCR. Through these apparently disparate events, the audience can trace how a distorted perception of gay people emerges among insecure men in a military environment, and subsequently becomes ingrained in the corresponding civilian culture. At the 188 Trading Post, a lesbian from the Brotherhood of Steel named Veronica also wryly remarks that she believes legionaries have gay sex about as often as straight sex. She also notes that this only applies to men, as women have no rights whatsoever in Legion society. In this aside, she conveys a pre-existing frustration with lesbophobic social norms. Veronica also mentions that the people of her bunker would rather she remain on the surface. The Mojave Brotherhood of Steel has no official policy prohibiting homosexuality, but an implicit attitude among its dominant members that their limited numbers require everyone to have children to avoid extinction. Numerically, this may seem logical on the surface, given their reluctance to recruit outsiders. However, given their tiny population, this is an ineffective countermeasure, as they do not have nearly enough members to maintain genetic diversity for more than a few generations. This approach is not universally supported by all family units within the Brotherhood, but every individual is ultimately at the mercy of the elder. Veronica was in a lesbian relationship, but they were quietly separated by Elder Elijah, due to the dominant culture of enforcing heterosexual pairing among their population.

Caesar's law has not ended homosexuality within his domain. Despite the obvious risks, some legionaries have continued to pursue relationships behind closed doors, especially given their access to slaves. So long as members complete their societal obligations and fulfill the child quotas, they are able to pursue romance with other men in secret. Homosexual relationships in the faction are noted as being relatively equal compared to the average Legion husband and wife, in a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" sort of open secret policy. Gay legionaries must always make sure to keep their activities hidden. A centurion was once almost caught fraternizing with the teenage boy he had chosen to tend his tent. Despite previous "romantic" intentions, he quickly resolved to dispose of the slave to dispel suspicion. Had they been caught together, the centurion would have been charged with homosexuality and sentenced to death. This story is only known because the enslaved young man, Jimmy, managed to escape execution. Further illustrating the cruelty intrinsic to Legion governance, it's stated that homosexuality was the crime, and not the rape of a young slave; in fact, it seems Jimmy was forced to contribute to the child quota despite being a gay teenager, and the experience left him traumatized. He has resolved to never have sex with another woman, as the very notion triggers memories which fill him with disgust, and (in his own words) makes him feel like a slave all over again. The Strip is indifferent to gay people, viewing them as another opportunity to make caps. Both the Gomorrah and the Atomic Wrangler are interested in maximizing profits, and their prostitution services cater to clients regardless of their orientation. The openly gay Jimmy works at nearby Casa Madrid, but there is some tension among his peers due to his co-worker Maude's blatant homophobia. She supposes he's "okay, for one of those," and if propositioned by a female Courier, Maude will direct them to Sweetie for such "perverted" services. Pretty Sarah must regularly intervene to keep the peace among her staff.

The Followers of the Apocalypse, well-read punks who seek to embody healing through anarchistic values, are not concerned with gender. Most are openly and casually sexually active. Upon meeting Courier Six, Arcade Gannon offhandedly makes his gayness known, unprompted. The audience must face the fact that Arcade's apprehension of the Legion is far from abstract; under Legion law, he would be put to death. One possible ending gives further insight into Caesar's hypocrisy: should the player sell Arcade into slavery and leave Caesar alive, he will keep Arcade as a personal physician and philosophical advisor. They intellectually spar at length, and Caesar grows singularly fond of him. Accordingly, Arcade imitates the historic suicide of Cato the Younger by disemboweling himself. The Legion's remaining medics attempted to save his life, but none were Arcade's equal. Caesar understood his doctor's final gesture of contempt, and mourned him for months.

New Vegas ventures further into themes of healing from the trauma of sexual violence, from the perspective of a lesbian character. Corporal Betsy, an NCR sharpshooter, is a rape survivor, and suffers with PTSD from the incident. Her unprocessed trauma has manifested as a maladaptive tendency to aggressively and explicitly proposition the women she encounters, in an effort to reassert a sense of control. This defensive hypersexual impulse has negatively impacted her ability to connect with other women. A male superior officer notes that her behavior is inappropriate for anyone of her stature, but abstains from disciplining her out of sincere concern for her mental health. The Courier can help her begin to recognize these problems, and convince her to seek treatment from Doctor Usanagi at the New Vegas medical clinic, which proves helpful to her as she processes and heals from her trauma.

In Old World Blues, the Think Tank are five floating brains in jars who express themselves by waving robotic arms bearing screens depicting facial features. Before the War, they were federal scientists who committed crimes against humanity in the name of weapons development. Each is stuck in some sort of neuro-bionic feedback loop which prevents them from moving forward with their projects, mentally binding them to their central laboratory. Walking through their homes at Higgs Village, it's clear each was deeply neurotic before they were transformed into floating brains. Now without bodies, they attempt to maintain the illusion that they are exempt from sexuality as purely mental beings, but each displays obvious interest in the human form. They have codified this shaming with the term "formography." Most of the men are obsessively defensive over their complete disinterest in penises, which they talk about constantly. However, the shameless Dr. Dala shows overwhelming interest in observing and recording any and all human functions. Already androgynous in her pre-War life, Dala has taken to self-identifying as a "gender neutral entity" (though she is not known to use they/them pronouns). Regardless of the Courier's gender, they may coquettishly scratch themselves, clear their throat, and stretch in front of Dala until her biomed gel decoagulates. Dr. 8 also responds positively to graphic masturbation advice from Couriers of either gender. The X-8 research facility is ostensibly a massive immersive shrine to Doctor Borous's hatred of Richie "Ball-Lover" Marcus, a long-dead child who bullied Borous centuries ago. He also clings to his resentment of one Betsy Bright, who refused to attend a dance with him, supposedly so she could "go smoke with RICHIE MARCUS." Clearly arrested in development, Borous has literally built a temple to the fantasy of torturing his adolescent romantic rival and feeding him to dogs. His frozen, static characterization of the jock Richie Marcus as a "pinko-commie" who "likes balls" reflects the shallowness, pettiness, and overall misanthropy underlying his patriotic identity. It remains apparent throughout Old World Blues that the Think Tank are all chronically sexually repressed, which is inseparable from the values of the violent and judgmental pre-War culture which created them. With time and isolation, this ingrained repression has manifested as various intense and deranged psychosexual behaviors, including rage-fueled homophobia, voyeurism, and the obsessive performance of puritanical pretense.

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“Although I’ve been out for a very long time, I made a conscious effort to be out with relation to this project, as I wanted to be visible as a lesbian in the game industry. New Vegas itself is, I think, one of (if not the) best games out there in how we treat homosexuality – and all of that is very intentional.”

“If my work on FNV, if my being out has helped even one gay person, then I have succeeded.” — Tess “Obsidian’s Gay Cowgirl” Treadwell

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written (with help from other editors) for fallout.fandom.com/wiki/LGBT_representation_in_the_Fallout_series criticism welcome

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mmonetsims · 9 months

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SIMS BINGO !

by kiara

this is a remaster of a challenge i had on my previous account (that one is still circling around thanks to some talented simmers <3) i wanted to try a new angle at it though, thanks to @birdietrait & @wildmelon's challenges!

the gist of the challenge is to get bingo and create a sim with whatever choices you got. you can do this vertically, horizontally, and in a criss-cross pattern! as long as you have five choices honestly, it's fine. at the moment there are no other rules!

i would love to see the creations you guys make with these so if you make one, please either tag me or use the tag #simsbingomm in the post.

(also if there aren't enough options in this one i definitely don't mind making a ver. 2!)

below are the written out version of the bingo choices.

row one: long hair, flower patterned clothing, cool skin tone, small eyeshape, no eyebrows

row two: business casual clothing, wing accessories, vitiligo skin detail, multi-colored hair, high cheekbones

row three: nose piercing, warm skin tone, FREE SPACE, ponytail hairstyle, swim wear

row four: oval face shape, streetwear clothing, hair/hat accessory, fantasy skintone, red hair

row five: neutral skintone, big ears, preppy clothing, unibrow, big earrings

#sims 4 #ts4 #sims 4 cas #ts4 cas #show us your sims #sims 4 challenge #ts4 challenge #cas challenge #simsbingomm #mmonetsims

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stargazingcarol · 3 months

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curious to know how me and Tumblr are the same. These all describe ME. Love to see what you guys think! 🪐🪐🪐🪐

#hyper specific poll #tumblr polls #lola makes polls #specific poll #i always wanted to make one of these!!!!

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just-miru · 11 months

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we love picrews that have an unibrow option wooooo!!

here's some silly tags (no pressure!) @coffeeandconfusion @phangowithnomango @invaderan @melancholic-fabler @wholeroastpotion @wondergeek and whoever wanna join!! :DD

#it is i #favourite #picrew

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picrewdealer · 1 year

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So' Portrait Creator by Sosolenoo

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natduskfall · 11 months

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So... the character creator

I have some thoughts I wanna scream into the eather.

I was looking forward to the update, not only because our old characters look so out of place in the game now, but because I was excited to have more choices and representation. And I'm glad SSO is taking this step, because It is needed. They need to have more detailed, complex models with better animations.

So far I like the choice of hairstyles, faces, and eyebrows. I like that they included roman noses, and unibrows. I wish they would give us the option to match and mix individual features, such as more eye variants, more nose variants, more lip variants. I also have one eyecolor I would like to see added, and that is light grey with brown around the pupil. It is a prominent color in my family.

Now we get to the negatives. I don't like the proportion of the models. I suppose they chose these stylized, dumpy proportions, because it was hard to include proportions for different ages, plus variate those with the bodytypes. As an adult player, I'm really not a fan of how child-like the new models look. SSO does have stylized characters, with the big facial features (especially the eyes), but at least some of the other characters have realistic adult and adolescent proportions. The head of the character seems a tad too big. The legs appear to be too short.

The idle animation and pose are off too. The elbows are bent close to the body, and the hands stick out. That position doesn't look like arms naturally hanging at a person's sides, but they look like the character is holding them at that angle consciously. The femurs are at an odd agle too, with the knees bent in a way that looks like it takes some physical effort to maintain that stance.

About the body variety... I do wish there were sliders for the body size, breast size, buttock size. It is strange to me too that SSO tries to not have the characters have breasts, unless they're obese. I am glad we got a muscular body, and I am happy about obese people being included.

As an obese person, I do see some things I don't like. Firstly, the proportions of the bodies combined with the biggest body type makes my character look... strange. Obese people also walk slightly differently, and hold their arms more apart from their bodies, because of the extra bulk. The biggest bodytype in SSO has the arms clipping into the characters. Exclusive animation tweaks for the limb placement would solve that, but I doubt SSO will do that.

Another thing I don't like about the obese bodies is the fit of the outfits. Not only are the textures streatched oddly, but the cuts themselves do not fit the bodies. For example, as an obese person I tend to wear loose fitted men's shirts to hide my belly area. Most of my tops reach my crotch. None of the tops in the demo have such long tops.

I also doubt that there will be facial expressions. Most SSO characters have one long talking animation they go through on repeat. MC doesn't usually have any talking animations, because there is almost no dialogue from them.

In conclusion, I feel bittersweet about the update. It is a big change for sure, and it will take some getting used to. But it was necessary. I truly hope SSO listens to player feedback, and tweaks and adds to the characters overtime. I also hope all of the clothes we already own will fit. I dread the possibility of clothes having to be retrofitted. But in a way, I like these new models. Especially the faces. The old face of my character creeps me out. But I am also excited for the future.

#sso #ssoblr #text post #sso character update #character update

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heroineimages · 2 years

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Make-your-own masks

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D30659981/

So among other things, I keep hoping Hero Forge will drop more interesting mask designs, both partial- and full-face masks. It wasn’t until a couple days ago that I figured out I can kind of create my own mask designs using the featureless face option. For Revan up above, I gave her a unibrow for the visor and added tattoo designs from the decals page.

Building on this, I created a Nobushi design incorporating eye-shadow paint for the eyes with random decals that seemed similar to some of the in-game designs. Not 100% happy with either design, but I’m calling them wins for now.

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D30671823/

#Hero Forge #Star Wars #Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic #Darth Revan #For Honor #Nobushi #minis #miniatures

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demonicintegrity · 2 years

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I really think at some point minecraft does need to update their villager design because of the antisemetism that went into designing it.

I think the only reason they haven’t is because the minecraft villager look is distinct enough that they more or less consider it part of the branding. Because it’s not just any villager, it’s a minecraft villager. For young kids who don’t know what being antisemitic means, that big nose and unibrow is what makes it minecraft villager, not what makes it problematic.

Again, still problematic as hell. But I’m guessing that’s why they’ve hung onto it for so long. They’re kinda hoping it’s transcend that esp Notch is no longer apart of the team. It hasnt. Esp since they keep trying to use that design in golems.

I also think it would do them some good to just have variety of villager designs outside of their clothes. I get it’d be a coding new thing but if they’re coding in new mobs almost every year, they can overhaul the villagers. (And illagers and witches too.)

I’m not Jewish so obviously take my suggestion with tablespoons of salt; but I think having a randomizer for villager appearances in the nose, eyes, eyebrows, and potentially skin color and hair while we’re at it, would help a ton. The biggest thing would to get them to stop all looking the same and thus all stop looking like a stereotype. Even if there were only two or three options for each, it would start diversifying them.

And it feels like something that shouldn’t be hard to code into the game. The entire game is randomization what’s one more at this rate?

#minecraft #absolutely tell me to stay in my lane if I need to. this is just my suggestion since it’s a talking point rn #minecraft villager

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hauntthebodies · 2 years

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Talking of ROs and if stories. I saw the post you reblogged regarding more flawed ROs and it made me think what more of in if stories would you like to see more of in terms of ROs and MCs and even genre? I personally would like to see more normal looking ROs rather than the entire cast all looking like supermodels. Like gimme my chubby 5'2 enby ro please. Idk I just wish there was more diversity in terms of apperance rather than all the ROs looking like they just walked out of a Magazine. It would be nice to see some more body and disability representation too because most ROs are either cis, able bodied or thin/lean or a body builder physique. I would love to see just an average looking ro idk. I would love to hear your opinion as well as your followers. I would also love to see more slice of life since there isn't a lot. This is all in good faith, Im not hating on anyones stories or characters I'm just talking about what I've noticed in general. 😅💗

I agree!! No human is perfect and I think that should be reflected in what we read/write/consume! As someone with disabilities I want to see others with disabilities being written in a way that isn’t defined as a detriment.

Mason is a type one diabetic, just like myself. Charlie is deaf in one ear due to an illness she got as a child, Carson suffers from hypersexuality and sensory issues, Avery is bipolar and Sloan has a severe anxiety disorder. Aman was diagnosed with PTSD after MC’s death. None of these things define these characters, but they are a part of who they are. None of these are physical “flaws” but you get the idea. This is just a small part of them as it is, I haven’t really divulged everything about them.

All of them, to me, are not just characters but people. With their own insecurities, their own flaws, their own motives, they are their own people. I think a lot of the time when writing an IF, there’s an underlying expectation that the characters and romantic options are supposed to cater to the main character, to simply add to their own story, and I think that also follows with them having to be picture perfect with flawless hair, straight teeth and an award winning smile.

But god that is so fucking boring to me. Why would I want that? Even though they are fictional, it is such an unrealistic expectation that all of the characters are to be perfect, with nothing “ugly” to them.

I don’t like viewing any features as bad ones, especially physical ones. I want to see characters with crooked teeth, those who walk with a limp in their step, unibrows and other things considered unsightly in society. I want to read about characters that have psychosis but aren’t villainized. Rarely have I seen IFs with romantic options that have prosthetics.

I don’t want to read about perfect characters, I want someone who could be real, fully tangible and flawed.

#ask #anon #I feel like I’ve worded this poorly but I’m at work #interactive fiction

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