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Brass nails and why I have them.

Ever since last night I’ve been getting a lot of questions about my brass fingernails. First of all. NO, they are not prosthesis. i have them for a specific reason.

Here’s what they look like:

another view 

HERE’s is the reason:

I bite my nails all the time. constantly, idly, without thinking.

If you’re like me, and love giving back scratches, then having no nails is a problem:

Here’s how chose to fix this problem:

Shoot bullet, collect casing.

cut bullet.

The bullets have a taper inside. we will want the broader side of the taper to be outward on our nails, and the thinner side against the rear of the nail so there is no jutting up of material when they are glued on. Here’s what that taper looks like, one cylinder is flipped over to show how thick it is at the base:

clip, bend, and trim into a nail shape:

sand for a fine (BUT NOT CUTTING SHARP) edge on the front and smooth edges.

Glue with Krazy glue, it’s the best.

it’ll dry quick. NOW TRY BACK SCRATCHES. LOOK AT THIS DIFFERENCE.

Amazing. the nails will stay on for about a week at a time before working themselves loose, when that happens just scrape the glue off and reapply.

Unless you happen to have reached into the closet and snagged it on your shelves and broke the nail off on your pinky cuz holy god that hurt. reapply anyways.

Also these work as screwdrivers, knives and various other multi-tools at the tip of your finger, so that’s pretty rad. I don’t know how odd i should feel about having done this, but i must say; it’s handy as hell and really fun to have nails again.

OH, also you can shine them with “brasso” or something but screw that, I’ve tried that and they get mirror bright and really annoyingly shiny. not my thing.

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One of my favorite early Wyll interactions is when he says “we’re standing here with nothing but the clothes on our backs and the worms in our heads” and you can respond with “we can beat her, if we put our worms together.” It’s so silly

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FIRST step to enjoying any media is getting attached to the character whose suicidal tendencies are the most obvious

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i truly cannot tell if you're some kind of lesbian or gay man or cis guy or bisexual or a straight woman or a furry or some fucked up combination but i do know you're a cunt

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I think my OCs need some romantic piece too <3

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AARON MOTEN as Maximus FALLOUT — 1.02 "The Target"

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i think u should always give characters more body hair just because. its good for the health its good for the everything

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first i spin my fidget

then i steal your girl

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What do you think the Bootriders were especially good at? Probably exploring considering their name, but it’s fun to think about what Swank and Tommy were good at pre-House :)

Scouting!!! Very similar to exploring but with slight differences.

The Boot-Riders to me weren’t really about getting a lay of the land and more so gathering things they needed for the rather large tribe. We know they are one of the bigger tribes and the idea that they’d be thoroughly searching and picking through ruins leads to a lot of issues with headcount and not having someone watching their backs.

I like to think the Boot-Riders were nomadic in the sense they followed caravans, gecko packs and watched out for scavenging grounds more than actively looked for a fight. They were great at combat but I’d say they were very defensive in their fighting style rather than offensive. I don’t really have a reason for this other than Tommy and Swank having lower endurance compared to Benny. Though I also believe they were very melee based in their fighting style seeing as Benny’s tagged skills are melee and unarmed implying it was a big aspect of their culture. He also mentions that they decided who led next through challenged knife fights so….

Tommy and Swank tagged skills are in guns energy weapons and only melee but that also makes sense if they stayed farther away from fighting in favor of watches. It’s insignificant really but I like to think that Boot-Riders would pair scouts out to go look for viable areas before they chose a direction and a strong Boot-Rider would accompany those patrols for just in case there was a bigger threat.

Tommy and Swank notably are higher in agility thank Benny, only by one really but I think it’s like the perfect example for my idea of the patrols. Benny is the “support” being stronger, more durable but less agile than Swank and Tommy who would have theoretically been searching and scouting a potential picking/hunting ground.

Interestingly Tommy is like really good with energy weapons more so than Swank and I like to think he was really good at clearing out areas for the Boot-Riders to pick over. Kinda like laser quick draw. I think on a more social level he knew a lot of Boot-Rider history and was kinda well, a historian. I don’t think Boot-Riders particularly valued music but he would def embellish their roots through campfire songs like the Singer from All Roads. Of course, once they became the Chairmen that stopped but he still remembers those old songs.

Swank is harder for me cause, well, House wasn’t wrong when he said Swank was “unimaginative”. He’s like the Boot-Rider equivalent to an accountant. I can imagine he’s so good at managing the casino floor because he was used to keeping track of supplies, missing Riders and other such organizational things for the Boot-Riders. It wasn’t just his job but he was probably pretty good at it amongst the members who had the responsibility. It’s being but Swank seems like a mundane dude outside of the rat pack, tribal wasteland stuff. Like he drinks a plain black coffee to me and likes it.

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We can finally post our works for fallout zine !

So here’s my little pastoral scene from Jacobstown 🐏🌲

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mojaveexpress.com/careers

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thinking of moz and ulysses and their very artistic kids, who are all focused on their respective art practices in a way that their parents couldn't have been, before the kids came. ree has her sculptures, elias has his music and radios, and hani has her comedy routines. the kids often brainstorm together to collaborate on stuff!

tho i think moz and ulysses, while encouraging their children's artistic expressions, would find creative outlets too. for moz that would be learning to play percussion instruments + pottery and for ulysses it'd be writing poetry, maybe even some visual art because of his penchant for graffiti?

just... now that moz and ulysses are somewhere far from violence, somewhere calmer and more domestic, they finally have the time to take up more creative pursuits, to explore and express themselves :)

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i just wanted to say i love moz & ulysses ! i love how romantic and hot their dynamic is while still being true to ulysses's character + the themes of the dlc

thank you!!! i was wondering whether ive been straying a bit too much from canon ulysses characterization + dlc themes or if things are getting a little too self-indulgent here haha so this is a super nice and encouraging message to get! :) thank you so much 💖

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I can tell we watch a few too many cooking shows at home, because my eight year old told me "the ginger isn't really coming through in this salmon". In his defense, he was right, but at the time I didn't appreciate it.

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some of moz's hairstyles through the years!!