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We are nordic people, yeah, but it is only 60 f in the middle of the summer for a whole month. Im so tired of cold, im in hoodie and warm socks all the time (and its raining every day). Whats wrong with this world... Thanks god and my father in law, we have a fireplace here. But I just want my tan and a couple of cold beers (its so cold i dont even want beer!).

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for the fanfic WIP ask game!

the rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how non descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have wips.

Since I'm not a writer, but a fanartist, all my works are inside procreate and are called the same "untitled illustration". And now I have only one wip, where tired Ed smokes (as usual). All others just studies.

No pressure tags @gardening--tools @capcollector @typosandtea @datura-tea

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Arbutus draped in Spanish moss

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Murphy belongs to wonderful @typosandtea, please check her page

I'm really proud of this one!

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С днем рождения! Стиль ультракайф ❤️❤️❤️

It’s my birthday!

You can share this post if you want 🎂

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Well, our government banned cloudflare, so I can’t use artfight.

Made a full body simple reference for Loaf for upcoming Art Fight. Link to my profile, add me 😉

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Jeremy for @thewastelandlosers. Super proud of this one, really love how it came out. Jeremy is my muse, I will definitely draw him again

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Low quality brahmins in the style of cave paintings I drew while on a train

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more misc arisbeth stuff from the backlog

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some fallout ghoul girls

Bobbi & Daisy from 4, Tulip from 3, and Beatrix from NV

i luv them ghouls…

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Falloutober day 1 - Okey Dokey

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i finished fo4 on my birthday 2 days ago- which was before i got drunk and the nick romance escapade began, mind you- and i got super emotional afterwards.

i enjoyed it! it had its flaws but i had a lot of fun and finally getting to play it after years of wanting to was totally worth the wait

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i love the theory that fallout didn't just stagnate in the 1950s, it returned to it. not just out of nostalgia, but desperation.

as the world fell apart, oil drying up, war time anxiety piling on and trust eroding, the government needed something familiar to sell.

and what better tool for control than the most sanitized, era of “american values” they could find?

aesthetics of nationalism, conformity, mccarthyist paranoia, all dressed up in chrome and smiles. it wasn't a freeze in culture, it was a calculated reversion.

the mythologization of a golden past becomes the scaffolding for fascist ideology. not because that past was ever real, but because it can be weaponized

myth, dressed up as memory.

in fallout's case, that myth is the 1950s. not the messy, violent, contradictory 50s that actually existed, but a state-manufactured fantasy of chrome smiles, and "american values." a world where conformity is virtue, fear is patriotism, and war is just another product.

because when people are scared, you don't give them answers:

you give them slogans. mascots. marching tunes.

you roll out project brainstorm, an actual pre-war initiative, and start pushing "covert and overt messages of extreme patriotism" into every corner of pop culture. comics. toys. music. sports.

whatever it takes to wrap the war machine in a smile.

prewar's retrofuturism isn't just for the vibes. it's state-sanctioned denial. it was a tight wrap around a dying empire, and the more things fell apart, the more they clung to that futile image.

like if they smiled big enough and said “apple pie” enough times, the oil crisis and global collapse would just blink away while the world burns behind it.

it's the same old rot, lacquered in vintage.

a country that chose the past over the future, and got exactly what it asked for.

not progress. not reform. just reruns of a dream that never existed.

and then it ended, the only way it could end:

with a country so in love with its own mythos it pressed the button waving a flag in one hand and a nuka-cola in the other.

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Does your Courier have strong opinions about the Dinky Plushies or the toy rockets?

She actually keeps one Dinky The T Rex souvenir throughout her journey. Since losing her memories, she now tries to collect as much memorabilia as she could.

She has fond memories with Dinky. 😊

The toy rockets might spill so they have to stay.

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Repeat after me: I draw so good. Not everything needs to be a banger. I'm not a content machine I'm a person who makes art and art takes time. Inspiration comes in waves and when it recedes that's when I should let myself rest