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some small moments between the two

alacrity is actually really good at card games, like scary good. she and charon played as a team while he was still working for ahzrukhal to milk all the caps they could from local caravaners and merchants. the stipulation was the house took half the pot but it was still good caps and despite not admitting it, charon looked forward to it every week.

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note to self: i don't need to reply to every addition on my ulysses posts, especially if it's annoying. i don't! i can simply ignore it and live my life!!

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woo artfight! I plan on participating as much as I can this year :) see you there! 🌟

my artfight account is: here

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I’d risk it all for you yet I still don’t love you

Been rattling this sketch around in my Procreate trying to decide if I like it enough to finish. In the end I liked Bennys sweet face.

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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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Lovely postcards to send to your loved one when he gets captured by legionaries after betraying you a second time ♡

Different gradient versions under the cut

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its a great excuse to hold hands so whateves

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Theresa Treadwell was a producer and writer who worked at Obsidian Entertainment on Fallout: New Vegas. When asked about her work on the game, she spoke about making a "conscious effort" regarding LGBT content and her perspective as a lesbian in relation to the project. She stated that Fallout: New Vegas is "one of best games out there" in the treatment of homosexuality, adding that it was an intentional decision.

We certainly didn’t intend for New Vegas to change anyone’s outlook on life, but if it did so for the better, then we’re happy for them – for you. Although I’ve been out for a very long time, I made a conscious effort to be out with relation to this project, as I wanted to be visible as a lesbian in the game industry. New Vegas itself is, I think, one of (if not the) best games out there in how we treat homosexuality – and all of that is very intentional. If my work on FNV, if my being out has helped even one gay person, then I have succeeded.

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LONG TIME COMING - Part IV

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It's Valentine's day! You there, browsing the tag. Have you ever thought 'I like Nick Valentine, but I wish he starred in two novels lovingly written in the prose style of a detective noir from 1943, and so help me God, I don't want to pay a cent for it?' No! Nobody has! What an unusually specific dream!

But it's too late, I've already written them.

More than that, I've filled them with art, too.

If this sounds like something you'd like, you can find the full series (the two books and two small side stories) here.

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when I'm near you the stars feel closer

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Currently very interested in Courier OCs who have actual in-story consequences from the brain injury. I wish everyone a very please tell me about your Couriers.

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fallout memes while i work on other bigger pieces

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trying to draw my sole survivor on my computer

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you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from