#It's a super normal reaction

[peach-coke]

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I have been honored with anonymously gifted dashboard crabs and they’re the most wonderful thing ever, I love them - Thank you so, so much my friend 💕

[recny]

what's the musical inspiration for the vampire lestat?

[traumatizedjaguar]

Two things you needed to hear today:

“You can’t be a good child to a bad parent.”

“You weren’t a bad child, you were reacting to your environment.”

[dykedvonte]

why do you hate Joshua Graham or Honest Hearts so much?

This DLC and character represents a bigger issue with fandom spaces I have but particularly fallout fandom in general.

Fallout tends to tackle a lot of topics controversial and not. The first two games it’s heavy cause they are the most satirical and direct with how anti-war, nationalism and etc… they are. 3 loses this as it’s very clear once you play or learn about all the games that Todd and a bunch of guys at Bethesda just liked the 50s post apocalyptic aesthetic and refuse to actually critique the ideals of the time period like the earlier titles.

New Vegas is the game that really gets back into it a degree it almost seems like it’s taking too much on. There are things done exceedingly well while other things are done horribly wrong . I’ve made posts about it before and plan to make a big series of posts (it’s a lot of writing) but my biggest gripe is with Honest Hearts and all the gross and white savior esque depictions it has of indigenous peoples. The entirety if FNV does not do the injustices faced by indigenous people correctly on any count. My two biggest complaints are with the Khans and the tribes in Zion but I’ll talk about the former on a different post.

Both characters of Daniel and Joshua are the most accurate depiction of white saviors I’ve seen and I hate how the DLC tries to justify and defend them. The DLC treats Joshua like this man who has repented for his past actions when he is just retracing his steps after his cruelty bit him in the ass. He was one of the worst parts of the Legion and it is all but explicitly stated that if you don’t force him to be non-violent he will turn the tribes of Zion into the legion 2.0. The Dead Horses and the Sorrows are horribly infantilized by both Daniel and Joshua who both use them for self serving purposes guised by religious duty. The White Legs are the horrible stereotype of violent and savage indigenous and I personally think a lot of their interlinking with Ulysses, his hair and Ulysses character in general are distasteful and very telling of how BIPOC or POC where involved.

But outside of the game it’s the weird obsession people have with these characters ideologies and trying to make them seem more interesting/philosophical than they are. Tumblr is an echo chamber and many fans of Fallout are not the people on this site. Many people are not educated in the issues these characters convey and how poorly they do or used these characters as a poor introduction for their takes. Contrary to what a lot of people believe in, fallout has a prediomeny white cis male fanbase. More importantly a large portion of the fanbase is white.

You can joke how FNV made you trans or see the numbers on post/fics or diverse headcanons but these are kiddy numbers compared to the millions that consume the franchise and aren’t in those more aware spaces or don’t engage in the spaces the same way someone like me does/has to. Their views shape a lot more than people realize and it’s exhausting to be in a space where people don’t correct the more subtle yet toxic aspects of it but also adopt them into some weird quirky view point on the characters or issues. Some people don’t realize and some people don’t care.

My main issue is just the idolizing of these sort of thing in this fandom space and people try to acts like a game like fallout whose tagline is “War never changes” and has never had a game not revolve around political or militaristic factions issues isn’t that deep or doesn’t relate to real issues. I think it’s mainly caused by how over powered you can become and how you can strong arm your way past these learning moments as majority of people who play this game do play it as a power fantasy where they can do so as they please (which of course, go ahead it’s fun) but never take in parallels or lessons in the story as if it was just another first person shooter.

Also like another personal gripe is Cazadores spawn like hell whenever I’m there and I have not found a mod that works to mod them out so I have to play Indigenous Racism the DLC while getting jumped by giant wasps WHILE helping Mormons. Like I cannot catch a break.

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! It's weird question time again! So that doctor I mentioned before that I wanted to make a dog plushie for because he has improved my quality of life so much* (and also inexplicably reminds me of like a greyhound or a borzoi) is my endocrinologist And, as my endocrinologist, he recommended back in December that I go see a rheumatologist, because he thinks I might have rheumatoid arthritis**. The staff at his office have been trying to get a rheumatologist for four months now. I know that, because yesterday I got a call from the rheumatologist's office and the nurse I spoke to said "Your doctor's office has been very...persistent about getting you this appointment" So now I kinda want to get something for the whole office? But idk what I could get them or make them. Like, in non-medical contexts I'd make cookies or brownies for a group, but I can't bring cookies to a doctor's office. I mean, I guess I could, but if I were them I would definitely not eat them, and I run the risk of allergy-ing a fellow patient. Is there like a gift basket or gift card or thank you card or something you can recommend?

*I mean he maybe should have found a diagnosis before offering me steroids about it but the low dose steroids have made such a HUGE difference in my quality of life I am thrilled with Tennessee's weird (to me, with my experience in California) medical practices **I don't think I have enough joint pain for it to be rheumatoid arthritis, but he's like the fourth doctor to tell me it's weird that when I got hives they usually started on joints, so maybe I'm wrong? I have the weird version of enough medical things that at this point I would not be surprised if I had Weird Rheumatoid Arthritis.

[squorttle-pox]

please. i need alastor with his hair up so we can see the side of his head. second set of ears or smooth flesh prairie?

[amasdoodles]

a redraw of the 2e version of the innocent card with my character giselle for the new curse of strahd game i'm joining!

also used her face for the profile while i was struggling to get it right

[infinibeep]

two and gaty !!!! also I watched the new burner episode and why.. why hanger.. tissues was super funny though the missile got me JHSJS

[scandalouslamb]

Festus Creed Watching the 10th Hunger Games (1/5)

—The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)

[thecultoflove]

I love their design so much I just HAD to draw him ^^

The colors aren't the most accurate but yeah

Flowers and pink and green combo, just amazing

DUDE I JUST LOGGED ONTO TUMBLR I AM SO SORRY FOR NOT SEEING THIS UNTIL RIGHT NOW OH MY GOD IGASPEDD I SCREAMED (thank god i'm home alone right now) PLEASE???? YOUR STYLE IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES??? EVER???? THIS MADE ME SMILE SO WIDELY AGHHHH YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I'D LIKE TO SHAKE YOU AROUND AND THROW YOU INTO A BLENDER???? /AFF ANHFJKGJAFLDJGLDFJGLKDFJGLDFJFJDGFDJGDFG SORRY IM NORMAL

[sugerblu]

you ever just

[fox-guardian]

not to be Abnormal ( ??) but for your Celia drawing, the vein you drew on her hand just. Really struck me? Bc I also have kinda big veins on my hands and I've been a bit self conscious about it, and I think that outside of the stereotypical Big Angry Meaty Man image, that's the only time I've seen that so uh. Thanks! It really touched me

I'm so glad it had that effect on you!!

[hearts401]

i love fics that include lizzie and michael carelessly hitting people bc they never learned better it just hits very close to home

[glittertimes]

I shouldn’t have to actively fight to not get addicted to things! Like why are things that are addictive so easily accessible to me!

[mythicalpoolnoodle]

YES JANNIK YESSSSSSSSSSS YOU ARE SO HOT I LOVE YOU

[spacelesscowboy]

they should invent a me that doesn’t have an irrational and intense reaction to bugs or the very concept of cleanliness.