#Fallout (book)

[scramratz]

I made a zine out of a book I found on the side of the road!

[abesetacringe]

absolutely normal about the new lore drop

[iknowwhereiare]

Nick Valentine in... A LEGONARY IN VEGAS!

When Nick and his pre-war partner are invited to New Vegas by the one and only Lady LeFar, they find themselves compelled to find the Legion Assassin targeting the new head of Vegas...at a cost.

(fake cover for a crossover between my fnv and fallout 4 ocs)

[atomicjellyb3an]

The main reason the minecraft movie will inevitably flop is bc the general rule of thumb is that if you want the best video game adaptation, you need to cast Ella Purnell in it as a lead

Bc i genuinely think Arcane and Fallout probably are two of the best video game adaptations

[agnesandhilda]

watched conclave last night and then read the wikipedia entry for the book and now I'm wondering about the category ten shitstorm that a publicly intersex pope would cause

[syckubota]

bits and bobs from last month i hadn't shared here yet.

[iceagebaby]

obsessed with @mudpuddless king halt au, ive been thinking a lot

crowley is in denyal, he is just hibernian RIGHT?

i also have some skeches of halt in regal clothing, but im not a fan of them, and i cant find accurate irish royal clothing to use as reference, what i drew was just making it up as i go

[fixyourwritinghabits]

If there's one take-away I want to make clear about ruining your career by pettily review-bombing other writers, it's that traditional publishing is not a competition you can win. You have no control over how well your sales do versus someone else's sales. No amount self-promotion, hard work, and social media is going to guarantee a viral tweet, a Booktok sensation, or rave reviews. Those are beyond your control.

In this, your fellow authors are not your rivals, but your peers. If you are not super rich or well-connected, you will be reliant on connections you have to communities that know and trust you, and this is far more important than anything you do on your own. The publishing world is quite small, and these relationships will be a boon in building your future opportunities as well as helping other writers. The industry, in fact, relies on selling books with similar themes at the same time, because they know readers who like one Greek-inspired fantasy will likely pick up another one. That's how publishing trends work!

Publishing is never going to be free from drama or interpersonal-driven conflict. Review-bombing is going to continue, driven by political or ideological agendas. But treating what should be a professional career as some sort of winner-takes-all Squid Game is going to blow up in your face the moment you're caught out, and it will ruin your career before it even begins.

[cakbanedraws]

How to survive in the post apocalypse, Get a cowboy as your mentor

[inkstainedforever]

The Fallout by EveryThursday

This is my 3rd time binding this fic and i think this is my favorite edition so far!

Typeset by ladybobbitt

Art used with permission by lazy_dragon_art and wvx_pic.

The cover and endcards are printed on 48lb photo paper and then laminated with soft touch

[endivinity]

WOUGH okay so the premise all started because of the way I play FO4 on survival which is about as long and arduous as this post. it's ALL in settlement building and most of my mods reflect this. I play that shit like minecraft. I'll chuck some screenshots at the end

the more you think about it, the less plausible it is for a soldier or a lawyer respectively to have ANY idea about the fine tuning of crafting a fusion generator or a water purifier, let alone know how to construct a pre-broken window pane. None of the wood is useable - there's no amount of fantasy that can make me believe a whole bed can be constructed out of two pencils and a pack of cigarettes. Realistically - the resources need to come from somewhere. I've also read critiques about how the commonwealth hasn't progressed for two centuries (which, part of this is because of how Bethesda handles the Fallout franchise vs the established societies in 1 and 2. for the record i LOATHED 3 and am very firmly a new vegas bitch). They're still living in Diamond City surrounded by piles of trash and the rest of the NPC settlements are canonically wiped out or basically considered the dregs (Goodneighbor, the Children of Atom, charitably the Atom Cats; Quincy and University Point, etc). They live off scavenging for trash and components that are somehow still lying around untouched. Most of this is because the game wants you to use this cool mechanic they've introduced and to feel like you're rebuilding the wasteland with your bare hands, and you get your pick of a huge scope of lands to build on, and the appearance of actual civilisation suffers for it. Nobody lives there. Realistically, you're going to build up one or two really good settlements and the rest are barebones or empty.

Jake (probably has a longer name. it's never mentioned) is a civil engineer who has combat training and survival know-how for funsies and by the cusp of the great war her department had enough downsizing that she was taking on the work of coworkers who had been "let go" (executed for thought crimes), so she knows some stuff about blueprinting things other than major city infrastructure, at least enough to delegate or make suggestions. She also stirred the pot and got higher-ups very angry at her and was punitively assigned to marriage and domesticity in Sanctuary Hills. Most importantly, she's not related to the family that have the kid. Nate gets shot and Nora suffocates in cryo.

She enters a world that perplexes her specifically because nothing has progressed for two hundred years, but through very very careful investigation she finds out that something or someone is actively interfering with any attempts to settle and develop. There's an intensive spying network going on and she has to figure out what's safe, who's safe, how the raider groups are able to be raiding year-round without dying of starvation because they're certainly not farming, how to build and manage and educate her new settlements without tripping the local spy network, how to set up trade convoys for lumber and concrete without tripping the local spy network OR instigating the raider gangs that systematically wiped out the convoys in the first place, and how to source parts for this goddamn water purifier schematic while not dying to super-radstorms or a really big wild hog. She customarily fights with a knife (Throatslicer); she's proficient at sniping and occasionally uses a plasma sniper or a gauss rifle.

Deacon is her story companion because of the 'friend' RR sign above the vault. Guy's been spying from the get-go. But because Jake's super paranoid and realistically, he has no way of knowing who you are because you aren't stupid and bald and wearing a pair of signature sunglasses, he loses her the moment she ditches the vault suit at the Abernathys'; half of his part of the story is trying to find out what happened to her, why the institute was involved in the vault at all (and increasingly wild theories about how she's a synth plant), and who this weirdass woman is who's suddenly taking over the trade routes, and talk of new settlements that's kept so hush-hush he can't even crack the secrets with his super believable caravan hand outfit.

Eventually Jake realizes she's in way over her head trying to manage settlements and hunts down the Railroad to ask for help, which... they're very downsized. They're basically a skeleton crew. I have no idea how they suddenly have all those heavies at the battle of bunker hill or the castle or whatever the fuck. So they can't and/or won't help her, and it comes down to Deacon to make an executive decision over what he thinks is going to be longterm better for the wasteland and the synth populations, and when weighing up the options between this cool lady who never shows her face and creeps around spiderman-style to sever a gunner's spinal cord and wants to crack the Institute wide open, or being trapped in a crypt with Carrington and successfully exfiltrating one synth every three months, the decision is obvious

and since you made it this far here's some shots of builds I've worked on. My main base at Egret Tours; Sanctuary Hills after I removed all the shitass housing for funsies; Murkwater Construction with incredibly poor navmeshing; my other main at Dalton Farm. yes my save file hates me

[gehennnas]

Mojave Adventure Books Vol 1

[rad-roche]

[acidstrike]

look i know us arcade gannon enjoyers are all for that man being in situations but consider:

arcade all cozy and warm in bed with his blankies and pillows and he’s safe and not miserable at all

[muraae]

→vaultghoul moodboard(s): the phantom of the opera

‘if i am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. if i am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.’

it begins on the night of the gala. ballerina and aspiring singer lucy maclean finds her taking center stage when the prima donna has fallen ill. she is a sensation over night and ensares the hearts of half the city, none more so than a strange creature who calls himself her teacher. a mysterious disfigured composer who haunts the halls of the opera house.

[syckubota]

My approximation of what MacCready's Lucy looked like, plus a more grown Duncan. More about my interpretation of Lucy below the cut.

I know it was not the writers' intention to have Lucy be the same Lucy from Little Lamplight, but the story feels more complete and believable that way to me :) Those two got along like two peas in a pod. They were definitely sittin' inna tree.

I based her appearance off both Lamplight Lucy and the generic "basic hero" sprite that was used to represent her in the Fallout Shelter Online mobile game.

I like to think she generally matched his energy, only she was a little more emotionally mature than him. I think she also would have been more no-nonsense than he was, and not very interested in sci-fi stuff or comics. But, she would've been quite bookish, and knowledgeable in all sorts of things she could source from prewar media. I think she would've had a particularly sharp memory, and pick things up quickly--thus how she managed to become the resident medic so early on. Maybe she's a STEM buff, and more of a "hammer and nails" kind of person than MacCready.

To give context to the little quip she was making above, I have a running theory that Lucy actually lied about making MacCready the "wooden" toy soldier (or "solider" as it's spelt). My main idea of what actually happened is that she found out that MacCready was a mercenary one way or another, but didn't tell him she knew, because she either:

1.) felt that she should let him come to her with the truth on his own terms

2.) thought it was a perfect opportunity to lie back

3.) or maybe was planning to, but y'know... she died before she could get a word in.

The reason why I think Lucy hadn't made the toy soldier, is because of this specific terminal entry that can be found in Fallout 4, at the Coast Guard pier.

This had triggered my suspicion, because it confirms that the fact that the "wooden" toy soldier is able to be scrapped for ceramic isn't an error. Isn't it odd that this toy soldier was supposedly hand-carved out of wood, but is made of ceramic? Isn't it odd, that there is proof that before the war, other non-wood toy soldiers existed, and that there were more than one?

Upon further inspection, I did find it strange how smooth and radially the toy soldier had been carved. It appears to have been turned, rather than whittled. It would be deeply unusual for Lucy to have to have access to a wood-turning workshop of pre-war, industrial caliber in the wasteland. And, it would have been very difficult for Lucy to have been able to produce something so exact and symmetrical without the proper equipment and extreme time/dedication to do so.

Furthermore, if you observe the paint job, it almost appears stenciled on, or perhaps painted with a very fine brush. Mind you, this is a small figurine. It also uses various colors (or stains?), and shows an apocalyptic amount of weathering and fading on its body. It's hard to believe that this is new painting, done in the wasteland. It must be pre-war work.

I also think Lucy didn't have to be in on some silly snarky 'revenge' thing, passing this pre-war thing as her own work, although that's my main interpretation. She could've also been completely clueless about MacCready lying to her. That, however, implies she was trying to impress him. I think this interpretation's equally cute though, because it means they liked each other so much, they both felt the need to try and look good in front of each other...

Although I don't think this was meant to be read into so deeply, I think it adds a nice touch to their story. MacCready obviously agonizes over the fact that he lied to Lucy and never came clean to her, but knowing that she might've been lying to him too, either aware of his lie or not, sort of feels bittersweet.