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Life update:

My boyfriend has just got into Fallout, starting with 4. He saw the show on Prime and wanted to watch it with me, so we watched the first episode and I really enjoyed it oh no

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-Your thoughts?

-It's nice to finally have something to call my own.

Or the romance mod is really cute

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Everyone and their mother is talking about Fallout and now I’m teetering once again on the edge of my Nick x Sole Survivor bullsh—

Anyways if he’s not in the show I’m not watching it. I stand by this statement

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Also a Valentine, because of COURSE I’m a sucker for the noir detective. I mean. Was that even something I had to point out

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my hyperfixation becoming the new "thing" is so weird.....

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vermilion muffler

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CRYING /pos

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Fallout 4 as Christmas Stockings

Maccready

Hancock

Cait

Danse

Curie

Deacon

Piper

Nick

Preston

X6-88

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Yeah but imagine how funny it would be to take the big bad out with one or all of KFC’s 11 Herbs and Spices

If the Institute is the Commonwealth’s boogeyman, then Flavortown is the Institute’s boogeyman

Fuck the cancer I could've killed Shaun myself by pulling out some black pepper

no one has used any seasonings in 200 years. That man's piperine tolerance is in the negatives

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I'm a synth. Synthetic man. All the parts, minus a few red blood cells.

thought I would repost probably my most successful art while I was still here last! but this is special because I actually took a picture with a nice camera and cleaned up the edges and now it has my signature on it lol

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oh hell yeah! get it peepaw!

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varnished him

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a compilation of Nick looking adorable

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pre-war songs and post-war songs

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Ellie Perkins | Fallout 4

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For Harper: What's your greatest fear? Have you had to face it? If you have, do you think you could do it again?

Ava Harper

Harper shakes her head with a chuckle.

“Know what’s funny? All the things I had nightmares about before the War are real now.

“…No, you see, it’s funny because now that they’re real, I guess I haven’t got time to have nightmares about them anymore. Now I only have nightmares about silly old things. Like being late for work, or having to give a speech in my underthings.”

She looks down at her hands. It’s only in the past two years that she’s begun to recognize them as her own. Chipped nails, new calluses and scars, a fading tan line where her wedding ring used to be.

“ — I suppose my worst nightmare, my greatest fear, was losing everything. And I did. But somehow, little by little, I pulled through. Once I realized there was no going back, I said ‘Okay, life’s a fact,’ and I did my best to start over.”

Now she looks up, at the tacky neon heart sign casting its red glow over Third Street.

“I don’t know if I can face that again. I can’t lose this, too.”

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A timeline for Harper - Part 1

December 17, 2042 - Ava Marion Giddens is born in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her father is a foreman at a cigarette factory, and her mother is a high school history teacher. She’s the youngest of three kids, with older twin brothers in elementary school. She begins her life in a small town outside of Raleigh.

She’s partly named after her neighbor, Miss Marion, an elderly widow who’s been a friend of the Giddens family for ages. While her parents are working and before she’s old enough to go to school, Ava spends a lot of her time with Miss Marion. Since her grandparents aren’t in her life, she thinks of Miss Marion as her grandmother. Although she lives very simply, Miss Marion is rumored to have a fortune from her late husband’s successful uranium mining ventures. What money she does spend is on caring for her friends and neighbors. When Ava’s dad was injured in a work accident, Miss Marion covered the hospital bill. Ava still remembers her mother trying to refuse, and weeping with gratitude when Marion insisted.

2048 - Ava begins reading the Nancy Drew books and immediately decides she wants to be a detective when she grows up.

She continues to be friends with Miss Marion, who promises every once in a while to make sure Ava and her family are well taken care of someday. It’s only when she’s older that Ava understands this means financially — although they’re not poor, the Giddens family is in considerable debt.

2052 - Ava is in fifth grade. When she’s not playing softball or gossiping with her chums about boys, she and her best friends run an amateur detective agency. They hold office hours on the playground, keep their files in Ava’s backpack (written on bright pink paper decorated with stickers), and accept payment in either candy, or quarters for the candy machines. They help their classmates recover lost items, spy on unfaithful puppy crushes, and occasionally settle disputes about just who has control of the girls’ bathroom.

When Ava suspects that a school board official is accepting bribes from a local business tycoon, she breaks into his office to investigate. The good news: She was right, and the official gets in big trouble. The bad news: Ava gets in even bigger trouble. Giddens Detective Agency is shut down for good. Ava is heartbroken for a little while, but has moved on by the time middle school rolls around.

2056 - Miss Marion passes away. Her distant, wealthy relatives from Morrisville turn up to snap up her fortune and her home, and leave a bad impression on the whole neighborhood, to which Marion had always been such a blessing. Despite her grief, Ava feels there’s something fishy about how fast they moved in and how the will left nothing to the community that Marion had devoted her life to improving, or the people she loved.

In her free time after school, she tries to do some digging, find out what she can about the will. She comes to suspect that the will read in court was a forgery produced by the Morrisville relatives. When she’s caught exploring Miss Marion’s house, trying to open up a secret compartment she found in an old clock, the relatives turn up and call the police to have her arrested for trespassing.

She isn’t charged, but she gets a stern talking-to from the precinct detective. And an even worse one from her mother, who orders her to stop snooping in others’ private affairs. Ava is bitter about this for some time. She’s convinced that the secret compartment held the real will of Miss Marion, and regrets that she’ll never know for sure.

But, soon enough high school is on the horizon, and Ava has dreams of becoming a jazz singer.