#[new] commencement

[foolishcrafting]

My finished hand-spun and hand knit, 100% Welsh wool sweater! 🕺🏼

[sher-ee]

Oh FFs. What a dolt.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Governor Franklin Roosevelt was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at Fordham University's 84th annual commencement, June 12, 1929. Governor Roosevelt displayed his academic cap, saying that he had saved it for 25 years for this occasion.

Photo: Associated Press

[verstappen100]

do these three have a ship name

[infestedguest]

A favorite Benny Gecko headcanon of mine is that before House “civilized” the Chairmen/Boot Riders his name was literally just Gecko.

The name Benny is a double reference to both the most powerful trump card in the card game Euchre, and to Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, the real life mobster who owned the Flamingo Hotel and Casino and who drove a lot of the development of the Las Vegas Strip in the 1940s. Benny’s entire brand is pretty clearly influenced by Bugsy Siegel, both out of universe by the devs as well as in universe by House and possibly Benny himself, especially considering the buffalo plaid suit. (Bugsy Siegel almost definitely also existed in the Fallout universe and played a similar role as he did irl because the Fallout timeline branches off from ours in 1945, only two years before he was assassinated).

It’d be one hell of a coincidence if that was the name he had as a tribal, and since we know that House’s reinvention of the strip families was specifically in the image of the old world, it only makes sense that that would include names. Swank probably wasn’t called Swank before the Boot Riders became the Chairmen either (I mean, his name is literally Swank).

Gecko doesn’t seem like a particularly unusual name for a tribal to have. It’s the name of a fairly common hostile creature in the Mojave Wasteland that the Boot Riders probably encountered regularly. Geckos were likely at least associated with combat or ferocity in their culture, which given Benny’s description of them when you talk to him at the fort were probably traits that the Boot Riders valued. Thus it isn’t that hard to believe that a Boot Rider would name their kid Gecko. Alternatively he may have earned the name after some kind of encounter involving one or more Geckos, if earning names was a thing in their culture a la the Khans.

We can assume that the usage of Gecko as a sort of surname for Benny could’ve been started by other members of the Chairmen while they were still getting used to the name transition. Like, imagine every single person you know suddenly has a completely different name. Informally tagging a person’s Boot Rider name onto the end of their Chairman name could’ve been a way to prevent confusion in the early days of them being Chairmen. (The implication of this subheadcanon being that every Chairman has a “surname” like this, which I personally think is really cool). People outside of the Chairmen probably just assumed those were their full names, so now they basically are, at least in the public consciousness of the city.

Another possible contributing factor to it’s usage as a surname is the general usage of surnames by other groups the Chairmen interact or associate with, especially the NCR. If House didn’t give the Chairmen last names, or if last names just weren’t a thing for the Boot Riders, it doesn’t seem unreasonable for them to just put their Boot Rider name as their last name when signing paperwork or whatever, or whenever else other people expect them to have one, especially if my subheadcanon from the last paragraph is true and they were already kind of using them that way anyway. Also I like to think there were at least a few Chairmen who, when asked what their last name was, assumed the asker meant the last name that they had.

[imperatorrrrr]

summer sweat

(Jonas Siegenthaler’s Instagram Post)

[comingup-rxses]

tgif, am I right ladies?

[bettyshoweduptotheparty]

First single Fortnight… shocker.

But much more interesting that she ended the Apple Music puzzle with Begin Again and with the word ME in James 👀🤣🤣

jaMEs, really taylor??! 🤣🤣🤣 somebody save that one for the history books.

See you tomorrow for more chaos, no doubt 🫣

[ttaibhse]

my goal was 4k in 30 min really really didnt think i was going to make it 🥹🥹🥹

[lululeighsworld]

stand for the flag (monochrome no kiss) and kneel for the cross (lacrimosa)

[unorideul]

fireworks are already going off rn and i have the sudden urge to go to the restroom yikes

[aceontheline]

Also, can we talk about this too???

Is this New York's nickname for people he likes?

"B" as in Bitch, or Baby??

Either way. Yes.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

hello everyone look at my sick ass new cane (I promise it is the right height I just have the world's longest torso and am leaning to the left slightly here)

[samuelroukin]

i need to turn my need for attention into something productive *remembers i’m writing fanfiction* something other than that

[fremedon]

Chapters: 19/? Fandom: Les Misérables - Victor Hugo Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Enjolras & Cosette Fauchelevent Characters: Cosette Fauchelevent, Enjolras (Les Misérables), Jean Valjean, Les Amis de l'ABC Additional Tags: Fake Dating, Cosette gets friends, Valjean gets more than he bargained for, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Eventual Happy Ending, Enjolras's metaphorical mistress is literally France, his literal fake fianceé is metaphorically France, Canon Era, Digress like a 19th Century Novelist Fest, Slow burn friendship, Asexual Enjolras (Les Misérables) Summary:

It was true, Cosette allowed, that he was nothing at all like the beautiful young man from the Luxembourg, but she must not judge him unkindly for that. The world was full of young men, and it would be quite tedious if all the handsome ones were handsome in the same way.

[mycatismyeditor]

A snippet of what's coming from me in the new year...

Lena woke up hungover. She winced as the light and then groaned as her phone kept ringing. She fumbled for it and squinted at the caller ID. “Sam?” “Finally!” Lena groaned again jerking the phone away. “Hungover, inside voice,” Lena mumbled. “Lena honey, get up, shower, and get some coffee. Then call me back.” Lena mumbled something closing her eyes. “Now! Actually I’ll just call back in twenty. Do not go to sleep!” Lena dropped her phone and mumbled into her pillow. She considered getting up but she decided that would be a lot of effort and she was hungover. So she went back to sleep again. Sam would call back anyway. The obnoxious sound of her phone ringing again pulled her from falling into blissful sleep for the second time. She didn’t bother looking at the caller ID before answering. “Sam it hasn’t been twenty minutes-” “Lena, darling! Why haven’t you called me about this?” Jack asked excitedly. Lena groaned dropping her face back into the comforting embrace of her pillow. “Jack I’m hungover. What are you on about.” “Wait, you don’t know?” he asked his voice sounding far too loud. “Oh Lena this is going to be big. Kara Danvers! The real and official Kara Danvers. And you’re going to marry her.” “What?” Lena asked, alarmed. She didn’t remember getting engaged. She glanced over at the other side of her bed to make sure this mysterious Kara Danvers wasn’t there. Jack was still talking but she’d moved her phone away from her ear. Someone was ringing her doorbell, repeatedly. Lena dragged herself up and put on a robe heading for the door. She looked through the peephole and saw Sam. She sighed and unlocked it finding herself shoved out of the way as Sam hurried into her apartment. “Shower now,” she ordered. “I’ll make coffee.” Lena groaned and looked down at her phone. “Sorry Jack. Sam’s here and bossing me around. I’ll call you back later.”