#falllout four

[raayllum]

Originally I wanted to highlight every significant Choice in the series but realized that would be probably at least one moment from every episode, if not multiple (just look at 1x03, 2x07, 2x09, and sadly absent 3x09 with Soren, Callum, and Rayla for example) so this thematic “greatest hits” compilation will have to do. The main cast of TDP have always been so active with a character-driven plot precisely because the series is all about choices: big and small, easy or hard, whether to perpetuate the cycle, break it, or at least try to. 

Characters make bad choices when they feel like they don’t have a choice to make, falling back on ideas of destiny and pre-determinism. The show routinely pushes characters between a rock and a hard place. In both 1x03 and 2x07, Callum and Claudia must choose between their fathers or their brothers, and each pick their sibling. Rayla, Claudia, and Callum can be paralyzed by inaction; when presented with new information, Ezran chooses to go home, while Viren strays ever further, backed into a corner and ready to do what he wasn’t before, just as Callum likewise turns to dark magic. Ezran and Soren both choosing to leave, even if that means saying goodbye to their sibling, while Rayla and Callum work to place agency back into each other’s hands: “Say the word and I’ll go back into that tower with you” “No. It’s up to us now” —> “But it’s your choice. No one else’s” “We should decide together.” It’s very rare for a character to Do A Thing just because someone else suggests it, and if it is along those lines, they will often likely spend a decent amount of time grappling with said option and the possible or subsequent falllout. 

Choices move the plot along. Choices reveal character. Choices develop character and relationship. It’s rare for a character to just be dragged along, as even when they’re bound together by convenience or upbringing, they still choose to care and choose to stay — or to go. And for it, they are imprisoned, or killed, or rescued, or cared for, and sometimes close to all four, physically, emotionally, narratively, metaphorically, etc. 

It’s this refusal to relinquish agency and accountability, I think, that makes the series so enrapturing and the characters so fascinating. And it’s all of these things, I think, that will lead to Callum choosing to go to Aaravos at the very least in S4, and choosing to hand over the Cube at the very most in the finale. 

[trashboi2768-archived]

Another fun request. Male SS visiting the third rail with Hancock. Magnolia seeing SS with Hancock. She wants to mess with him and insists that SS sings a song. Only to realize that SS has an amazing singing voice. Think “Love me with all your heart - Engelbert Humperdinck”

Love Me With All Your Heart

John Hancock/M!Reader

SFW

TW:Mentions of Drug Use

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I wasn't sure if you wanted some romance or just pals being pals but I threw a lil romance in bc I love this idea <3

I hope you enjoy it my lovely

...

You had taken the day off and decided to spend it in Goodneighbor, specifically with the mayor.

It was rare that either of you ever had time to just relax together, so today was a bit of special occasion. Neither of you were much for dressing up and going out on the town though, so instead you decided to go to the Third Rail for a couple of drinks.

As you and your ghoul boyfriend walked into the bar, Magnolia, who was sitting at the bar, noticed you walk in and decided to mess with you a bit.

You and Hancock walked up to the bar and ordered a couple of beer, chatting about a settlement you had just visited.

“Hey there, big guy...” Magnolia purred, stepping up to the two of you.

“Hey, Mags.” Hancock chuckled, watching as she eyed you, “What's up?”

“Oh, nothing...” She sighed a little dramatically, “It's just Charlie wants be back up to sing, but my throats a little sore.”

“Well that's too bad.” You gave her a small smile.

“Well, yes, but I was hoping you could do me a favor, and sing for me?” She asked, batting her eyes up at you.

Hancock perked up at that, watching your reaction.

You blushed a little before speaking, “No, no, I don't sing.”

“Oh, come on, you've never sung before?” Hancock asked, leaning against the bar.

“Not really, maybe karoake a few times, but other than that...”

“Please?” Magnolia asked, leaning against you and looking at you with big round eyes.

“Alright, I guess I can give it a shot.”

“There we go, that's the spirit.” Hancock laughed.

You took a big swig of your beer and stepped up to the stage, nerves racked as you looked out to the audience.

Most of the drifters weren't even paying attention to you, but that didn't stop you from feeling like everyone was watching you.

The music started playing and you recgonized the song, a song that Hancock had played for both of you several times before.

You took a deep breath and closed your eyes and began to sing.

“Love me with all of your heart... That's all I want love...”

Magnolia's smile turned sweet when she heard your voice echo into the bar.

Hancock watched on in awe as you sung, your deep voice singing the notes perfectly.

“Love me with all of your heart, or not at all”

You opened your eyes to see Hancock and Magnolia watching you, sweet smiles on their faces as they enjoyed the sweet sultry of your voice.

“Just promise me this, that you'll give me all your kisses, every winter”

All the patrons were silent now, listening as the new voice sung this song for them.

“Every summer, every fall, when we are far apart, or when you're near me”

You dragged your eyes across the crowd and back to Hancock, who was watching you with love in his eyes.

“Love me with all of your heart, as I love you...”

You began to smile as you continued to sing, wrapping your hands around the mic stand as you continued.

“Don't give me your love, for a moment, or an hour, love me always...”

The nerves slowly started to disappear and were replaced with a sense of pride as you became more confident.

“As you've loved me from the start, with every beat of your heart, just promise me this...”

You closed your eyes again, putting more effort and soul into the lyrics as you sung.

“That you'll give me all your kisses, every winter, every summer, every fall...”

You slowly started to sway along with the song, carrying the notes a little longer.

“When we are far apart, or when you're near me”

You opened your eyes one last time to look at your boyfriend.

“Love me with all of your heart, as I love you...”

The song was coming to an end now, within a few more lines you'd be done

“Don't give me your love for a moment, or an hour, love me always”

But now that you realized how much everyone enjoyed your voice, you realized how much you enjoyed singing for them

“As you've loved me, from the start”

You dragged out the last few lines, raising your voice slightly as you finished on a strong note.

“With every beat of your heart”

[nuclearhancock]

alright put the angsty hancock/danse fics in the mf BAG 👺👉🏻👜

[doctorwhonews]

Doctor Who 20th Anniversary On Audio

Latest from the news site: Big Finish is to celebrate 20 years of creating Doctor Who stories on audio with The Legacy of Time – the biggest audio crossover event ever. Six hour-long stories see characters from the entire history of Doctor Who crossing paths – some for the very first time – Classic and New Series Doctor Who will collide. Professor River Song (Alex Kingston) meets her predecessor, a time-traveling archaeologist, Professor Bernice Summerfield (Lisa Bowerman). Kate Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) travels back in time to classic UNIT and meets the Third Doctor (voiced by Tim Treloar) and Jo Grant (Katy Manning). As 2019 is also the 30th anniversary year of their first appearance in Remembrance of the Daleks, the Counter-Measures team will be reunited with the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred). And the Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) and his companion Charlotte Pollard (India Fisher) once again meet Detective Inspector Patricia Menzies (Anna Hope) in a police procedural like no other! Plus a visit to Gallifrey, and elsewhere the Time War. Doctors will meet, and there will be Easter Eggs aplenty. Time is collapsing. Incidents of temporal chaos and devastation are appearing throughout the many lives of the Doctor and his friends – falllout from one terrible disaster. The Doctor must save history itself – and he will need all the help he can get. * Lies in Ruins by James Goss * The Split Infinitive by John Dorney * The Sacrifice of Jo Grant by Guy Adams * Episode four by Matt Fitton (to be confirmed) * The Avenues of Possibility by Jonny Morris * Collision Course by Guy Adams The truth is revealed, and it will take more than one Doctor to save the day! The cast of The Legacy of Time includes: Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Paul McGann, Sylvester McCoy, Alex Kingston, Lisa Bowerman, Sophie Aldred, Simon Williams, Pamela Salem, Karen Gledhill, Hugh Ross, Tim Treloar, Katy Manning, Jemma Redgrave, Ingrid Oliver, India Fisher, Anna Hope, Lalla Ward and Louise Jameson… Executive Producer and one of the founding members of Big Finish, Nicholas Briggs told us about this exciting new release The Legacy of Time will probably go down in Big Finish history as our biggest, most exciting production, ever! Celebrating 20 years of Doctor Who at Big Finish, it expertly pulls together all the strands from our many and varied Doctor Who ranges. This is down to the brilliance of script editor Matt Fitton and producer David Richardson. They epitomise the creative strength, organisational expertise and leadership of the company. Quite simply, this is going to blow people’s minds! It’s got everything!The producer assigned this epic task is David Richardson. How do you celebrate something that has meant so much to all of us who work here – the friendships, the freedom to be creative, the glory that is Doctor Who itself? That was the challenge facing myself and Matt Fitton, but once I’d had an idea for what this six-hour epic would be about (spoilers!) it was then relatively easy to start assembling the huge team of characters and actors who would take us on the journey. The Legacy of Time is quite possibly the biggest Doctor Who story we have ever told at Big Finish. It’s been so hugely satisfying to make – I hope everyone finds it just as satisfying to listen to!Chairman and Executive producer of Big Finish, Jason Haigh-Ellery said. In July 1999 we released The Sirens of Time. In July 2019 we're releasing The Legacy of Time. Those two decades have been so fulfilling for us at Big Finish - a chance to work with so many great and talented actors, writers, productions crews and all of our friends at the BBC. This is a celebration of it all, with lots of surprise returns and references. Think of it as one massive Doctor Who party - and everyone is invited…Doctor Who: The Legacy of Time will be available from bigfinish.com on download and, as one of the last audio producers and distributors still making CDs, released in an eight-disc CD set with a limited edition of just 4,000. Doctor Who: The Legacy of Time will be released in July 2019 to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Big Finish’s first Doctor Who release, The Sirens of Time. Doctor Who News http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2018/08/doctor-who-20th-anniversary-on-audio.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr