@tanaleth's Fallout sideblog. I write fic, draw the occasional comic, and paint problematic paladins more often than is reasonable. Sometimes NSFW. (See pinned post for tags I use regularly.)
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One of my favourite random Fallout trivia is that in official Fallout Tarot Card Deck, The Tower card is represented by Paladin Danse. They knew what they were doing. Also their artstyle sucks.
Tower card meaning:
When The Tower card appears in a Tarot reading, expect the unexpected – massive change, upheaval, destruction and chaos. It may be a divorce, death of a loved one, financial failure, health problems, natural disaster, job loss or any event that shakes you to your core, affecting you spiritually, mentally and physically. There’s no escaping it. Change is here to tear things up, create chaos and destroy everything in its path.
Just when you think you’re safe and comfortable, a Tower moment hits and throws you for a loop. A lightning bolt of clarity and insight cuts through the lies and illusions you have been telling yourself, and now the truth comes to light. Your world may come crashing down before you, in ways you could never have imagined as you realize that you have been building your life on unstable foundations – false assumptions, mistruths, illusions, blatant lies, and so on. Everything you thought to be true has turned on its head. You are now questioning what is real and what is not; what you can rely upon and what you cannot trust. This can be very confusing and disorienting, especially when your core belief systems are challenged. But over time, you will come to see that your original beliefs were built on a false understanding, and your new belief systems are more representative of reality.
The best way forward is to let this structure self-destruct so you can re-build and re-focus. And let’s be real – with a card like The Tower, you have no choice but to surrender to the destruction and chaos, no matter how unwanted or painful. Change on this deep level is hard, but you need to trust that life is happening FOR you, not TO you and this is all for a reason. This destruction will allow new growth to emerge and your soul can evolve.
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Dogmeat 🐕 | Fallout 4
Mods used: (x), (x)
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i finally bought a new sketch book again! to celebrate, im drawing something ive never done before; animals!! irradiated animals from the fallout universe!
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I need to get back into animating more frequently. So have a pensive toaster I drew in Photoshop and animated in After Effects
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A courier at the edge of the Storm.
Kansas, 2284.
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look at my factions bruh the commonwealth is doomed
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TW: blood - Nuka World dlc spoilers

Toby was not prepared for the Gauntlet at all.
When he ran into Harvey, he hadn’t expected anything like that.
He could have turned back before getting on the monorail, but after the destruction of the Institute he felt lost, overwhelmed by a sense of inertia, of passivity.
He had only brought a few grenades and Kellogg’s gun. He hadn’t even bothered to wear any armor, just a shabby road leather outfit.
And then, Nuka World? Fuck, he had yet to see it.
After realizing he had walked into a trap, Toby wasn’t surprised at all.
Just another group of radiers who think they’re dealing with the last of idiots, he thought.
The Gauntlet certainly put him to the test. Whoever created that game had some time to waste.
The hardest part of it was the final one, the fight with the raiders and the walk through hand grenades hanging from wires, that lead to the fight with Colter.
He listened carefully the advice of that voice from the intercom, that Gage guy. He wondered where the catch was, what was the reason behind all of that mess.
Then he prepared for the fight, after catching some breath in the locker room. In one hand he held the Thirst Zapper, in the other one the revolver of the man who took everything from him.
It all seemed so absurd and ridiculous.
He stepped into the arena and fought following Gage's advice, using the water to deactivate Colter's armor and the revolver to finish him off.
During a close encounter Colter vigorously pushed him against a bumper car, opening a large wound on the side of his face. At that point it seemed all over, but Toby managed to escape again and gave him the final shot.
An earthquake came from the stands: applauses, whistles, screams. Some of the crowd’s comments were directed at the man who had helped him earlier, the man who now stood before Toby, behind a thick glass wall.
“Welcome the new Overboss,” he heard Gage say, or something like that.
He turned to him, and staggered forward a few steps.
That was the first time ever they saw each others face to face.


And then, well…

Toby asked for water.
(He drank some from the Thirst Zapper but he was still thirsty af)
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Nick Valentine ❤️❤️

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collection of posts for a very specific dynamic
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I think that it’s important, as consumers, to avoid letting the visual and mechanical shorthand language of video games color our reactions to real situations involving real people, as much of that shorthand can reflect and reinforce the destructive knee-jerk prejudice of the culture that produced it. As an example, let’s take Fallout. When you’re dungeoneering in Fallout and you come across a space where there are flayed, mutilated corpses strung up all over the place, that’s the developer using visual shorthand to frictionlessly inform you, without breaking the loop of play, that you have the moral high ground over whoever lives here, and thus moral license to kill them and take their things. But in real life, when you go over someone’s house and they’ve got flayed and mutilated corpses strung up all over the place? I mean, maybe that’s from the last tenant. Maybe they have a roommate. Maybe they were all just jerks. I mean you literally just got here, you don’t know, you gotta let this play out for a minute
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"couriers who were jumpscared by their companions kill-cams" support club
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Cannot get enough of these two. I just want them to be happy. (´ε` )♡
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