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Rats rats rats!! 🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀💛

Inspired by the designs of Juliette (@/cy-lindric)

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its important to do this every time a museum or school thinks this is a good idea

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Orestes Pursued by the Furies by John Singer Sargent

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izutsumiiiiiiii. kitby

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Carnelian stamp seal featuring a kitty, Minoan, 1900-1600 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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it’s kind of crazy that both fallout new Vegas and fallout 4 have the same driving force for the first half of the narrative (find the guy who wronged you and make him pay) but Benny is so much more memorable and narratively interesting than Kellogg.

It’s a matter of a strong character foil versus a weak one, in my opinion.

Benny and the courier are very much alike. They are both ambitious people who are willing to do anything possible to stack the odds in their favour. Honestly, Benny and the courier are the same card, reversed.

The Sole Survivor and Kellogg are also intended to be character foils. The game tries to convince us of this with the scenes in Kellogg’s mind, where we see that he ‘isn’t so different’ from our protagonist after all. But we don’t know anything about Kellogg other than his backstory. How can he parallel the protagonist if we don’t know which traits he has? Which traits the two of them share?

(As a side note, I wish Fallout 4 had touched way more on the ‘Man/Woman Out of Time’ thing. The protagonist being frozen in the past + Kellogg being functionally immortal would’ve been really cool to explore! Especially in the context of grief!)

In the end, I think the reason Benny is a more powerful character foil is that he doesn’t disappear from the world when you kill him. The chairmen can mourn him, House will comment on it, and even NPCs across the Mojave will talk about Benny’s death!

In Kellogg’s case, the protagonist is basically the only person who knows he even existed! Once he’s dead HE’s DEAD! He disappears completely from the narrative! As soon as you leave fort Hagen, the game doesn’t bother looking back.

that’s why Benny is a more haunting force for new Vegas; particularly an independent courier. You are Benny’s legacy because you are what he leaves behind whether he likes it or not. People remember him as the couriers victim. Meanwhile, nobody remembers Kellogg at all. The memory of who Kellogg was dies with you, and you can choose to forget him.

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the authors note of all time

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Hm.

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fog of war in the grocery store

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ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

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Thanks for the tag!! It's fun to do one :)

Cadaver Synod. The big one, I've been researching this historical event for a personal project, trying to figure *why* it happened. (CW: if you're going to look this one up, it involves a corpse, so be warned!)

Anglo-Asante diplomacy in the 19th century. Did this research for my masters' thesis. Kind of forgot a lot though :(

Discworld <3

Warhammer. Another big one, the whole gothic-feudalism-futurism aesthetic means that it's occupied a place in my brain since early my early teens. I recently got back into it, starting a new army and reading the Horus Heresy series.

Elden Ring and basically FromSoft games in general. Their aesthetics are so great. Elden Ring is probably the first open world game since Skyrim that I completed.

List 5 topics you can talk on for an hour without preparing any material

tagged by @mortalfollies :)

1. RPDR controversies, both controversial queens + edit/riggory controversies

2. recent developments in our knowledge of the migration and breeding or the European Eel (a. anguilla) and how unspecialized tagging systems are affecting our ability to get usable data

3. Euripides’ treatment of gender and motherhood in his plays, specifically in Medea and Electra, and how it contrasts ancient athenian social ideals.

4. Just general student affairs shit, especially the need for more robust transfer student programming in colleges and the need to move towards accessible (including sensory friendly ) programming options

5. Riverdale, apparently.

tagging: @justconstantly @myladyvesta @tsunamiscale @pathos-logical @cyber-feline

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More Thistle! On a flight to Japan gave me plenty of time to flesh out another sketch ✌️