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My current character on Fallout 4. Her name is Adora. Going for like a mad max mercenary type with a heart of gold. OG fans probably know who I'm gonna romance 😜 just looking for cooler gear. Forgot how rough it is starting out lol Can't wait to meet my boo!

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Thank you video game gods for shining upon us Fallout 4 fans and blessing us with a huge update with free new content for a game that's almost a decade old. Fallout fans are eating well these days!

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Kindly reminding my fellow bisexuals the existence of this Japanese slang where we use the word for a two-sword fencer for bisexuality

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So stoked I finally got to wear my new jacket! I've only been out for about a year now and this is my first baby step into, idk, presenting more? Maybe I'm being silly but I would like to become more easily identifiable as a queer man. Anyway, please enjoy me stylin' on them hoes

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Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn't have to be a walk during which you'll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but "steal" some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959

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I'm so glad that y'all are so into Monkey Man and the badass hijra priestess army, but friendly reminder that hijra are NOT trans women. Hijra are their own distinct gender; trans women are women. India has both :)

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I'm sorry but did y'all see Maximus' face during the bridge crossing scene? And his VOICE, when he FIRMLY insists they're unarmed? I know we love him because he's a pathetic puppy dog for most of the show but that scene right there whoof! I like mean, grizzled Maximus. It's a rare showing, but Maximus is a survivor for a reason, and seeing him handle that dangerous situation was straight up SEXY. My man's got dimensions

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Shout out to the year 2005 for producing this iconic song about wanting to fuck older women so they can teach us how to properly fuck. Brown boys were never the same after that.

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I see you and I love you

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Today has been AMAZING. I crushed an interview today for a job that has better hours and more than double the pay! Plus I got a bunch more adulting stuff accomplished today and made lot's of phone calls (those always suck) and now I'm just smoking some good bud, rewatching Fallout on prime, and about to eat some Mexican food! I needed a win kind of day!

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OP said it best!

Regardless of my feelings about the BoS as a whole in the Fallout series, Maximus as a character exceeded all my expectations.

Maximus, honestly, to me, was the most nuanced and best acted character in the series. His situations were fantastical and yet the way he reacted to it all was so grounded. He was like a prestige drama character in a series full of cartoons. Don't get me wrong, I like the cartoons. Fallout leans heavily into parody and it's totally on brand. But Maximus' entire emotional arc was so understated and I really appreciated it.

He isn't a very vocal OR excessively emotive character because he knows being vulnerable hurts him. He shapes himself to that idealized memory of the knight in the armor even as he doesn't seem to really understand or care for the beliefs behind the armor. He's failing his classes as an aspirant. When talking of the BoS beliefs, he throws in a "or whatever". That part of it doesn't matter to him. The armor IS his belief system.

His whole story is about the cycle of violence and toxicity. The bullies who beat him. The abuse he endures. He wants power so that he can escape it but once he gets that chance he's doomed to perpetuate it, because that power is coming from the system. It's tainted. Deep down he doesn't want revenge, he doesn't even want power for power's sake, he wants safety. And he wants to be the hero from his memory, he wants the strength to save himself from this cycle.

And yet, he just keeps making he wrong choices. Over and over and over. He can't get out of it.

And then Lucy throws him a lifeline. And it takes someone from outside of the cycle to break through. And then he makes the choice to do the right thing even though it means making himself weaker, making himself less safe. He chooses to do the right thing for the first time in the show. And it means finally letting go of his dream, the armor.

And he sees a light at the end of the tunnel. He thinks his reward is going to be Vault 33, he's going to be safe and happy with someone who cares about him and makes him feel like a real, good person.

And by the end of the series, he's trapped in the cycle again.

There is just something so delicious about someone getting everything they wanted at the start and being miserable about it. There's something so REAL about wanting to be something but every instinct makes you sabotage yourself every step of the way.

And the thing is, he had all of these little moments of genuineness, selfishness, pettiness, virtue, I genuinely didn't know what he was going to do for most of the show. I thought he might turn on Lucy at some point. I honestly, truly thought he had sabotaged Dane even though Dane was his only friend. He is so morally hard to pin down because he's so full of life's little hypocrisies. His ideals and his feelings are in conflict so much and he doesn't have to look anguished for you to understand that. You just see it in his resigned stares, in his hesitance and his ultimate actions.

I just... I really loved Maximus. Bravo to Aaron Moten.

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WITHOUT A DOUBT 😍😍😍

The gangs bi

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Look, I'm a thirsty freak too. Coop and Lucy ships are fun for me to ingest and come up with! And y'all are fucking hilarious with the thirst! But come on y'all let's be serious. THIS RIGHT HERE. How can you not root for these kids? LOOK AT THEIR EYES. And what the show builds on from this glance is well written and acted and just downright adorable. They are endgame, I'm telling you, just let it happen and it will be beautiful.

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🥹 Major Danse vibes btw, who is one of the best romances in Fallout 4. Shhhh just let it happen.

Excuse me? He asked for no pickles!

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Sorry non-Fallout followers, I am still stuck in this hole.

When Lucy and Maximus first met and she was in awe of him while he was enthralled by the way she looked at him, I thought it would be sort of an unhealthy schoolyard crush thing where they're idealizing each other and they were going to have that shattered at some point. And I was fine with that, I was waiting for the other shoe to drop BUT-

Then him admitting the truth to Lucy that he's NOT that guy and she sees him vulnerable and she reacts to it in a completely emotionally mature way??? She accepts him and still wants to be with him and offer him her home???

Honestly I think I've been poisoned by cheap romance arcs that the fact that they were instantly into each other I just assumed there would then have to be some BS fight or betrayal, not two people who kinda had a different idea about each other and from there developed into a deeper understanding.

And there's just something about Lucy and her whole golden rule philosophy, here is this man who made her feel safe when nobody else did, who showed her kindness when nobody else did, and when she sees he's not a big strong knight but just a scared traumatized liar, all she wants is to make him feel safe.

I just aaaaaah I love it.