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yall gotta learn the difference between "this character is an asshole" and "this character was supposed to be super cool but the author is an asshole" and "this character is a teenage girl who was mean once"

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Okay so I've gotten a couple of comments here and there whenever I complain about the anti-native american sentiment (aka racism) that's baked into Honest Hearts asking "how is it racist??", which I know it's not my job as a native american fallout fan to teach ignorant white people how something is harmful but I'm gonna spell it out anyways because it's annoying when people constantly act blind to it

First of all, the dlc is very heavy handed with the "uncivilized savage" depiction of native americans. The fact that they had to be TAUGHT how to use guns and use their own natural resources to make medicine are already two examples of this right out of the gate

Plus, the fact all the tribe members wear rudimentary hides, hardly speak english, and sleep on the ground without any buildings (where Joshua and Daniel get to wear normal clothes and Joshua has his own work station) are more examples of this troupe (and its especially stupid since iirc a lot of southwestern tribes were known for making buildings that still exist to this day)

This also ties into the white savior troupe, since as said, the Dead Horses and the Sorrows both had to be taught to take care of themselves and have to be protected by another tribe by two white men (Joshua and Daniel), and that they practically worship them for it because they apparently would've died off if these two white guys didn't intervene

This, plus the fact they're both missionaries who are trying to convert the tribes into a Mormonism is downright offensive as Christianity as a whole has been used as a tool to justify committing genocide against us for centuries. Do I even need to explain this?

And speaking of them needing protection, the White Legs themselves are a whole shitty can of worms, falling right into the (what should be) long-dead idea that if we're not stupid mud people, that natives are bloodthirsty, cannibalistic, warring savages (which. Again. Another tool of propaganda used to literally kill us for as long as white people have been here). Which in turn loops back around to the whole white savior thing with the problem of the White Legs only being solved because Joshua uses his mighty hand of God to take them out or whatever. No matter if you try to end the dlc peacefully you STILL have to do that! It's fucked up!

This post is already lengthy and there's a lot of things I haven't covered (such as the native characters in the dlc generally falling into the "noble indian" troupe), but these are the most glaring issues I can come up with from the top of my head

Tl;dr - quit heralding Honest Hearts as the pinnacle of good writing when it's all built off racism. Listen to us native fans for once, please

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Hey so "all men are trash" posts help terfs

I'll explain if one of you want

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i found marcy long really annoying when fo4 came out but now i appreciate that she has as much contempt for her surroundings as i do

there's something funny about that intro scene in that dark room where the rest of the characters are tense and freaked out and she's standing there like >:( negging everyone in a normal indoor speaking voice

"how's a vault dweller going to protect us? bleed on them to death?" yess go for the throat your majesty

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very specific situation that happens to me and my partners a lot

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Teen LGBT Squad

Another Hometar Runner fancomic for pride month, this time starring the Teen Girl Squad.

This was mostly an excuse to make that “ow mein kampf” joke

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You know what’s really sexy in Fallout? Repurposing.

Either like, as places, like how Camp Golf and Jacobstown are resorts, or Diamond City is a baseball stadium, or McCarren is an airport, or Arcadia is an observatory. People would flock to enclosed areas with living and working spaces built in.

Or even objects. The fact that Lily uses a vertibird blade as a sword in New Vegas is so good. Objects with clear former purposes will always be better than “prewar gun” or “gun made out of junk”

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I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

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HELP he’s so funny

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Honestly I could see a fallout vault(s) where somebody at vault tec wanted to prove communism wouldn’t work by putting it and a capitalist vault in the same connected system with the same amount of resources only the overseer of the capitalist vault is tasked to sabotage the communist vault at every opportunity metatextually showing how communism historically only fails due to capitalist interference and how that even the “experiment” was rigged due to capitalisms hostility to cooperation. Only Todd Howard would never want to do actually anti capitalist messaging in a fallout game

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No, but we are legally bound to kill you if you can't be gay enough to be gay doctor of pride month. :D

I can assure you that I am always gay enough, but thank you for the threat. I'll be sure to kiss twice as many men as usual.

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From a state hearing in Texas

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put a finger down if you: – edited one line for an hour – googled ‘how long should a paragraph be’ – changed your protagonist’s name 14 times – made a pinterest board that emotionally destroyed you – opened your doc, scrolled, sighed, and closed it – cried because you love your story so much but also want it to die in a fire

you’re a writer btw. hope this helps <3