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sortof insane just how drastically getting on anxiolytics [alt 2 anti-psychotics] has helped my ability to function.
i look at my old notes and journals and everything & its like. to be real i think i mightve been going thru a bit of a psychotic break over the past year. -something im sortof conflicted on because that feels like somewhat strong wording. but when ive had such a dramatic worstening in my social isolation, perception & memory, paranoia, basic function, ability to form coherent thoughts, & ability to trust people. all in the span of like a year. to the point even my Father has noticed. even my friends have noticed.. then yeah maybe.
but its something i dont even know how to talk abt tho cuz. like. well if im medicated now. if im better now. if i can see where im being delusional now. then why should it matter? but also one thing is like. god during all of that i do wish somebody at any point actually tried to talk to me about it. sure i self isolate alot but i was just spiraling in on myself for months & months & months. i wasnt eating. i was sleeping upwards of 18 hours Daily. I Genuinely wouldve killed myself in the past 6 months if i had to go thru any of my recent life events entirely unmedicated.
but saying. at any point. 'hey listen, i know i have a habit of this kind of behavior & i do not tell people about it but i do need people to try & check on me sometimes because left to my own devices I Will Kill Myself.' to my friends is like. scary.
nobody ever knows how to respond to my more serious mental health concerns or about my families abuse & it makes me never want to speak about them because its more likely to make people avoid me then it is to help me in any way. ive learned that my friendships are very contingent on my ability to shut up & to censor myself. witch then leads to people thinking i am far more normal then i am.
like all of my ramblings i do not have a thesis. its just nowadays people can actually read my typing because my hand cordination has gotten much better. BL my "the tranny tarr pit" tag.
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was it really just an accident?
PART 1



ahn suho x male reader
warnings/tags: no warnings, just pure fluff, reader is a shy person, THEY BOTH LIKE EACH OTHER SECRETLY BUT THEY BOTH DIDNT KNOWWW STAWPPP
<next chapter>
after you step out of the shower, ready to study for the upcoming mock test, the doorbell rang rapidly twice. you didnt ordered something nor bought something online.
"delivery!!!"
a voice of a man shouted as you frowned your brows, maybe that delivery man misunderstood the apartment number.
you opened the door, revealing your classmate, ahn suho, wearing his usual jacket and the name of the fried chicken restaurant tshirt behind the jacket.
"oh? its you?"
suho was surprised internally, but he didnt show it all. he never knew he would meet you accidentally but he wished he will, but not in this state.
"i didnt order anything..."
you looked at the paperbag on his hand, then back to his eyes as you saw him fixes himself. cute. you were also shocked, seeing your crush in a time you never knew he'd appear.
"*** apartment, floor 5, 101?"
"this is 102.."
he was so confused, scratching his neck as he looked at the paperbag again. seeing that it is 101 and not 102.
"oh? thats too bad.. do you have water?"
he said as you nodded a minute after, feeling too tired yet awoken by the sudden appearance suho made.
"ill go get it, you can come in-"
"great!"
he cheerfully went inside your house just behind you as he sat on the doorstep, removing his helmet in the process along with a deep sigh.
you went to the fridge, your ears are burning like hell. your secret crush is now inside your apartment? and you both have a interaction?? who in the world wants this to happen-
before you came up to your senses, the water was spilling from the counter while your hand was hung up in the air to pour suho's drink.
you let out a short yelp as it went to your shirt, luckily you wore all black, but not lucky at all because you just made a puddle of water just below the counter.
you then heard stumbling as footsteps rushed quickly to your side, you saw suho with his eyes widened, catching breath. you then looked at him, confused why the latter was such in a hurry.
"what happened to you? are you alright..-"
he then looked down to the floor with the puddle spreads out almost touching your feet, he then quickly pulled you away instinctively as the water covers over the surface you just stood in.
you were startled, still dazed by the thoughts but then you shook it away because WHY IS HE HOLDING YOUR WRIST???
"are you okay?"
you looked up at him, only to meet his gaze on you. your heart was thumping loud and fast, almost coming out of your chest. your shoulder was touching his chest with you accidentally leaned onto him.
but the your frozen state melted away quickly as you pulled away from him, your ears are still burning as you tried to hide it from him by looking away.
"yeah... im fine.."
you then walked to the counter, avoiding the puddle as you got the mop that was beside the fridge. you started mopping the floor while stealing glances with suho.
while he was there, frozen. just like you did.
he dont know why he pulled you that fast, he didnt mean to pull you closer to him. but as soon as he saw your reddened ears, he was confused yet its was a cute sight for him.
you pointed at the cup that was filled with water to its rim, "you can drink it..." you said, still flustered as you continue mopping the floor quickly.
he tries to help but you push him away politely, still embarrased by your clumsiness. he then gave up by your stubborness and got the cup of water, spilling a drop down to the floor.
while he drinks the water, he stared at you. he was admiring you. how cute and how clumsy you are is just two of the many things he liked about you.
you then caught his gaze to you, making him smoothly close his eyes with his eyebrows scrunched to the middle as he drank all of the water with one sitting. but you noticed he was looking at you, making you also look away with your ears burn more.
suho thought he shouldnt be going into people's houses, not like this. after you mopped the floor, he put down the empty glass to the counter and took a step closer to you.
"ill be going now, i have to make this delivery."
he smiled at you. IS HE SMILING AT YOU NOW??? his hand patted down your head gently. NOW HE'S PATTING YOUR HEAD????
"thank you. ill buy you 3 waters tomorrow."
he smiled widely as he walked to the door, and you were there standing, frozen in shock at the sudden interaction. your heart was thumping out of your chest, your eyes stayed widened, and your ears burn red.
you took yourself out of the thought as you rushed to greet him goodbye but the words didnt got out of your mouth. instead, you watch suho struggle with the doorlock.
"uh.. how does this work..? oh here it is."
suho waved goodbye shyly to you as he closed to door infront of you.
you leaned on the wall beside you as you let yourself slide down to the floor, still processing what happened just now.
how will i greet him tomorrow? am i just gonna act like nothing happened??
you sigh as you scratched your reddened nape.
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thank you 3am thoughts for letting me write this🙏🙏 but idk when ill be posting the next chapterr
#weak hero class 1#weak hero class 2#x male reader#weak hero x male reader#ahn suho#suho#choi hyun wook#netflix
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"a plate, a fork and knife, and a drinking chalice are at the end of a massive table...both a funny and sad look at solas' isolated existence"





#9 years of this btw 👍👍👍#dragon age the veilguard#dragon age#solas#datv spoilers#dragon age the veilguard spoilers#da4 spoilers#ok i still dont know how to tag this game but i hope these will help people avoid the spoilers#im gonna go lie down now#me when he wasn't joking about din'anshiral#im soo glad the lighthouse is his place!!!#we're going to get so much of his story not just via murals letters and notes (do u guys think he has a diary......) but by just looking at#the design of the lighthouse :')
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hiiiii guys ummmm I feel like im kinda in a weird state rn which is making me interact less.. sorry for not interacting as much and/or putting effort into it ^^;
#posts.nae#its not like i dont want to interact but i just feel super weird lately#like my feelings are currently being mushed into some unintelligible goop that i cant make two ways about#its kinda like mashed potatoes!!! but literally anything else could be getting mashed in with jt#mystery goop...... ouuu..no thanks#but yeah. kinda feel llike im just floating around lately. i know how i can get so im not trying to avoid u guys entirely >.>#i guessss im just lurkingggggg....... but yeah. that's all. i hope this feeling doesnt last long. love u guys !!#hmmmmm. in the end i still feel like im terrible at connecting with people. i guess jts a self fulfilling prophecy?#but thats a tag ramble for another blog.. sigh sigh#im going to blame this on like sn upcoming period or something.. woag wait i need to get a perood tracking app .smh#i feel sooo weird. ... i nrrd yo stop editing this post. sorry
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Jayce telling vi she won't make it on her own.... okay mr. projector...
#viktor just turned his body into the arcane and you dont even know!!! his leg is purple!!!!#im not going to excuse vi for saying the kid knew what he was getting into bc he didn't bc he is a kid (here we have ms. projector)#but telling jayce he has always been complicit of this he just didnt have to see it... yeah exactly.#and like she obviousky regrets the kid dying but it was jayces fault lmao why does he blow up on her??? the name calling got to him#jayce thinking omg he is going to off himself and viktor just trying to hide the evidence of his murder akdhsksj well yes he does want to...#i was wondering why the council was so Flabbergasted about the nation of zaun?? like they dont care and basically dont intervene#in the undercity bc they don't have any interest or profit in there. they don't gain anything at all from there.#so of course when silco asks jayce says sure fuck it. the only thing the council needs from zaun is the gemstone and its not even theirs#it's probably just fear of agression towards piltover as another nation and not something they can control or repress#silcos reaction to cait being wheeled in akdhaksj it sounds like he said 'what' he probably didnt know the girlfriend part... understandable#i forgor about her bringing the platter out... like ofc i didnt forget it but i didnt see it coming there. with bad memory you can be#surprised every time you watch the same show 👍🏻#i haven't cried because well the foruth time is a stretch now to cry but i still got chills at the end with the missile impacting....#and like whay would have happened if cait didn't free herself.... like ofc she would have bc everyone in that room could have killed her#not vi etc etc but she did just leave her so who knows really#anyways the monsters appearing in jinxs vision when vi mentions her past family is so poignant to her change.... they dont have the intended#reaction vi meant.... and silco is trying to shut her up for jinx's sake and look what happened to him. like vi really couldn't understand#her sister now and maybe back then either.... like not to be a silco apologist but it seems like he was the only one who could handle her#maybe im exaggerating but it would have gone wrong either way i think like no matger how much love there is in between them#idk man its so bad. like maybe this could have been avoided but it would have gone wrong in a different way for sure#and this couldn't have been avoided#talking tag#watching arcane#three weeks away still.... what now....
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I don't like debating much(unless necessary for the sake of my own humanity) but sometimes it can be really Really fun specifically if it's about something that has absolutely no real weight to it(and yet if you were a spectator it might cause some concern for whatever reason)
for example: would you rather be threatened(physically mentally or emotionally take your pick) by a can of corn or a cob of corn?
Me personally I'd pick cob for a few reasons
1. I can outlast it(probably)
Fresh corn will eventually rot and decay but have you seen how long canned stuff can last unopened before it looks slightly different from new stuff??
2. Cans are made of metal not vegetable flesh
While a corn cob has its core that's not metal. Ever dropped a can? Might get a dent. If you have a good kick then you might survive but you will probably hurt your foot. Ever dropped corn? If it had it outer leaves and hair it might have stood a chance but if it didn't then bits of corn go everywhere
3. Actually fighting if needed
I feel like I could survive a fight with a sentient can but a sentient cob just seems less likely to hurt
However there are some things might change my decision
Like issue one which is how the corn moves because if the cob is fresh with hair and leaves and can move all the little hairs individually and can move the leaves then I'd probably choose the can because at that point I feel like it's less of "how would i survive with the least amount of bruising" and more of "how would I rather die but with a chance of surviving" and in my opinion i think blunt force trauma would be better then a slow death of strangulation via a sentient corns hair plus I do think I'd have a chance against a can of corn
Another issue is if it was mentally or emotionally I'd probably go with the can bc I feel like it would be easier for to rationalize it as ridiculous to be threatened by a can of corn then a cob for some reason
Like a cob is ridiculous to the point that I'd just accept it as making sense for that to happen?
a can is like "why am I listening to the can of corn. I literally own a can opener." But a cob is more like "if I were to try and deal with you in the traditional way of dealing with corn that would mean a pot and water and time and-"
Plus idk why but I feel like a cob would be less mean with its words. I can't explain it I just think cob would just go straight to physical threats instead of emotional ones but a can would stare at you menacingly making you question yourself and just judging you
#the part where some might be concerned is the fact that after coming up with that scenario it took me 3 seconds to decide on my awnser#this corn convo scenario didnt actually happened but ive had many similar convos#this may or may not make any sense but thats the fun of it in my opinion :D#the other part that concerns people so i dont tend to say it out loud as much is the “how would you rather die” part#so many people are just so uncomfortable with death they try to avoid discussing it at any cost even though its somthing coming for us all#its kinda sad#like i do get it. its hard to not only accept but really think about death as a reality#people dont like it when something good can end so they try to avoid it and try to deny it#its hard to look at something that youve been ingrained to consider as “bad” and see it as anything else#i feel like recognizing the fact that something will end can help you cherish it more in the present#and if you can recognize the good and accept that it will end you can also morph that when thinking about the bad#life isnt simple and neither is death#bad moments come and good moments come and bad moments and good moments and bad moments and good moments ect#is it really so weird that i dont ignore it?#like im going to die eventually welcome to reality but thats not right now.#right now i have blood moving in my arteries and veins right now im breathing and blinking periodically#right now im still alive and i intend to do the most i can with whatever time i have even if im still fighting myself to do basic tasks#its kinda sad that so many people think its better to ignore that our time is limited#maybe its just the way i grew up#i didnt face death a lot but my family moved every few years and whenever i met another kid i used to know it was never the same person#we were both different in ways that made it seem like we were entirely new people#i had to get to know them a second time practically from scratch so every time either one of us left there was always a part of me that knew#when one of us left we were done#like sure we could get to know each other again but it would never be how it had been#we would be new people to each other#idk i think that made it easier for me to accept the existence of death and not taking things for granted#like stuff happens life goes on make the best of it and make friends with everyone possible while it lasts#idk sheesh this started as me being like “i like weird and slightly stupid debates” and ended as “i have opinions on peoples veiws of death”#whatever hope my point is made i guess. good job making it this far? give me stupid questions pls(also 30 tag limit who knew: me now)#brains rambles
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been a while since ive had a spell of anxiety bad enough i genuinely can't tell how much im overreacting
#like AM i overreacting? almost certainly. are the REASONS for being anxious valid? might be tbh!! but then again maybe not#i really really hate this. i hate not being able to judge what is Reasonable what is Rational. most of the time although i cant dispel#the anxiety i can still on another level know that it is irrational and that tempers the effects. not this timeeeee#meeting with my mentor tomorrow im going to try to get things as clear as i can to move forward i just dont know if ill be able to make#myself explain how ive been feeling because im genuinely afraid ive been wasting both of our time by not taking enough initiative#like i think he thinks im much busier than i actually am but i have no idea what he thinks im Doing because he hasnt given me all that much#to do#(unless im missing something major which is very unlikely and not really worth worrying about i dont think)#but regardless i spend a Lot of my time just sort of whiling it away looking at literature that isnt really relevant scrolling thru shit i#dont care about on linkedin staring into space etc#and now the big meeting for the program is coming up and we still havent done the experiment we originally set out to do#and i really honestly think i couldve made more progress by now if id just decided to take things more into my own hands#but for some reason that didnt really occur to me until fairly recently and now it feels like too little too late#idk idk tbf im pretty sure most of the other people in this program have said they feel like they arent prepared for the meeting either#but like im unprepared for REAL for real and i know i couldve taken steps before now to avoid that#and yeah it comes down to feeling like ive wasted time and resources that couldve been used better by someone else#because they SHOULD be used i dont hate my job i dont hate the project or the program i think theyre all worth while#but somehow im just not transferring that into my day to day#BLEH. maybe hopefully i can get on a clearer track for the next month or so at least with this meeting tomorrow#personal tag
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awesome long post about sonic and shadow you love finished by mentioning untagged sonadow in the last sentence to piss you off
#CAN YOU PLEASE TAG YOUR SHIPS#some people dont want to see the offhand mention of it either#like my entire dash is FULL of filtered posts right now and then i see the ONE post that isn't flagged#and its about sonic and shadow wow yay i can finally read something about them#and its of course just untagged shit#like idk how to explain this to the shippers but seeing everything there interpreted as ship makes me just not want them around each other#at all in the show because i know how tiring being on the internet will be afterwards#AND IM TRYING TO AVOID THAT BY FILTERING POSTS#but i keep getting untagged sonadow on my dash
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WAIT. i got a really good idea. i shouldn't have to do homework i should be allowed to just write nasty stuff forever
#avery.txt#ok like ok. i haven't watched past s10e4 because I Dont Want To. but ik that lucifer ends up in the bunker at some point and i want to#*do something with that. something about sam thinking he never got out of the cage. that he needs to do the same things he did in the cage#*to avoid the worst tortures. something about lucifer in the bunker meaning he needs to do all of those things again to survive. he thinks.#so he like. transforms into the person he had to be in the cage. and the others are like. ??? why's sam acting so weird.#BECAUSE YOU LET HIS ABUSER IN. YOU KNOW.#tw sa#for more tags#lucifer tells him to get on his knees for him and he just Does It because this is the cage isn't it? or if it's not it might as well be.#lucifer tells him what to do and he does it. orders him around. and sam flinches whenever he moves. and he never knows when dean is actuall#*lucifer bc of how many times lucifer wore his face. can't trust anything going on. they fuck and lucifer makes sam scream for him bc nobod#*will hear bc this is the cage! but of course they hear!!!!!!#and the worst part is that HE MISSED THIS. whenever lucifer talks to him or smiles at him or holds him or fucks him part of him is glad#*bc HE MISSED IT. he's fucking GRATEFUL that his abuser is back. godddd im gonna claw up the walls. i need to write this
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Man i have got to start getting offline more
#maybe i should become a desktop user#i just. i want to be able to log on and not see shit about the war. i see enough of that irl#do yall know how many tags i have blocked??? like actually 8 or 9 and still i have posts getting through#its easier for me to avoid critical role content than this#like dont get be wrong post all u want about it but like. i gotta be able to chose when im in a headspace to be seeing that shit#anyways im ramblin#vent#i guess?
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ok question for other aros, do you guys also get uncomfortable seeing selfship stuff or no? i think for me my discomfort does stem from my aromanticism; i enjoy fictional romance but seeing real people actually desiring/being in romance makes me really uncomfortable. but i don’t think i’ve actually seen anyone else who’s aro say that it makes them uncomfortable/i know some aro people who selfship themselves so it might just be my brain being awful and hateful about nothing idk.
#txt#it’s been on my mind more since from what i’ve seen on twitter a lot of people i know post about it very often#in particular most of the rk fans there from what ive seen selfship with him and it makes me super uncomfortable and i feel awful abt it#also worry about the logistics of how i would express that if i were to open commissions. i know a lot of artists say that thats a lot of#what people will get commissions for and id feel bad saying no but i just dont think id be comfortable with it#also as another thing i would very much appreciate if you avoided tagging my art with stuff like that 😅#i haven’t really had a problem with it here just as a precaution i guess
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puppies suck no one should ever be forced to take care of a puppy
#^ he is being forced to take care of a puppy#she is so smart but i think she genuinely just dislikes pooping and tries to avoid doing it.#she's impossible to house train because she just doesnt like pooping and refuses to do it.#even when she does she is obviously trying to get it over with asap she literally tries to walk away. mid poop.#i dont know how to convince an animal that is behaving that way to just go. like i dont know how to get her to do it.#sometimes she does it 0 issue! and other times you get this (so mad i can't see straight because the dog is dragging me outside to eat bugs)#unsan#the whole post is in the tags but whatever
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Here's something crazy... Still haven't watched Bridgerton s3, but seeing everyone fawn over the kanthony cameos, and then now having moved on to just fawning over iconic kanthony scenes apparently in response to it, has got me like sdkfa;sdfkadsk ABOUT TO REWATCH S2.....!!! AGAIN....!!!!
I saw the Dancing On My Own first dance scene on my timeline like 3x today and I'm foaming at the mouth, have been thinking about them all day LMAO
#ive mentioned the show here and there i think but idk if ive mentioned im... crazy about them LMAO#it was a slowburn on me too bc i put off watching s2 since idgaf about anthony#but everyone was raving about their chemistry and kate was so beautiful that eventually i watched it and#it rly is lightning in a bottle w those two#in that dancing on my own scene the way they look at each other rly feels like they are the only 2 in that room together it takes me tf out#anyway this post brought to u by me realizing i hadnt logged my tumblr back in on laptop since getting it worked on#and also being stressed and avoidant so here i am making a long ass text post w rambling tags about NOTHING#no no im gonna watch s3 first tho im gonna watch it... i just dgaf about colin EVEN MORE than i used to feel about anthony#look i know no one here cares about bridgerton but unfortunately I DO#also i keep trying to remember to get active on tumblr and dont remember how to write posts so heres this#text posts#i have a lot more to say but it is truly aimless rambling i have no organized thoughts to share about this show goodbye
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i finally finished the fallout show, so here are my thoughts. i will talk about both things i enjoyed and things i didn't enjoy. be aware that i'm one of Those west coast fallout fans so this will be bethesda-critical, although it's never my goal to be a hater or make fans of bethesda games feel bad for enjoying them.
spoilers for not only the show, but most fallout games ive played, which includes: fallout, fallout 2, fallout 3, and fallout: new vegas
lets start with the positive!
things i enjoyed:
the aesthetics: it just plain looks good. it matches the games pretty accurately, it brought the world of fallout to this new medium very well. visually, it definitely looks like fallout, and i thought it had some nice cinematography and shot framing. i like that it was never too dark to see what was going on, i like that it was fairly vibrant even with the unavoidable Brown Wasteland, Metal Grey Vault palettes. the costumes were great. i liked how the people looked realistic for the world they're living in. i would have liked cooper to be more standard ghouly, but after having seen the full show, i'm fine with it. the ghouls have a lot of range, physically, and it does make sense for cooper to be more human-like because he's actively preserving himself, and probably did so pre-war as well. all in all it was visually great
the main characters: lucy is a fantastic main character. i love how shaped she is from living in vault 33 specifically, with her moral compass, view of the world, social uniqueness, and relationship with sex. i adore that she's such a positive person, always wanting to see the best in others and make the best of any situation, but that doesn't mean she can't get hurt and angry, can't fight when she has to. she's fun and badass, i really like her. maximus is just as complex, shaped by the brotherhood instead of the vault--again, moral compass, view of the world etc all coloured by where he's spent most of his life, just in a different way from lucy. more grey, more skewed, more manipulated, in my opinion, even though of course vault 33 was quite manipulated as well. his struggle with identity is awesome. i like how both of them are a little weird, a little socially unhinged, and majorly biased about the world. i enjoyed maximus' struggle and journey with coming into his own. i'll be eager to see that continue in s2. cooper took me almost the ENTIRE season to warm up to. at first he was the kind of character i found interesting, but difficult to like. right from the start, you know he wasn't always like this, and 200 years in the wasteland has understandably changed him, but i was still very "fuck this guy, hes a prick and he annoys me" for most of the show. the final episode finally tipped me over onto the "okay yeah im properly into this character now" side. he's definitely layered, just takes a bit to see more than the outer one that makes him just look like... a major piece of shit. i love a dark character as much as the next guy, but i prefer if it Makes Sense, and i didn't fully get him until the last ep. eager to see how he develops going forward as well. don't have a lot to say about norm, i just really like him. hell yeah fuck shit up, little bro
the side characters: betty and stephanie fascinate me, especially after learning who they really are. moldaver is SO COOL and a milf for real oh my god i'm a little obsessed. thaddeus surprised me with his depth. ma june was really cool and felt sort of quintessential fallout to me. even just the one-off people of the wasteland were really interesting to me. they were real people with a place in this world, no matter how small. (you'll notice i havent mentioned dane, even though being nb myself, a nb character should be a big deal to me. well. i still dont entirely know how i feel about dane, unfortunately)
the vault lore: from start to finish, i was HOOKED on everything to do with the vaults. the concept of 3 vaults being connected and able to trade with each other when necessary was interesting. i liked the concept of vault 33 and how it gave the characters a different culture about relationships and sex. then i enjoyed the suspense of the lie unravelling, of following norm's arc of defying what he'd been raised with to figure everything out. it was very tense and mysterious.
vault lore part 2: historically, i've not been a fan of pre-war society actually being shown. didn't like that they did that in fo4, though part of that could be that i just massively dislike the choices they made for it, including how it locked the player too much into an unchangeable (heterosexual) backstory. i guess i'm not fully against the pre-bomb time being shown as long as it's lore-friendly, and i'm pleasantly surprised that the show was pretty lore-friendly indeed. not entirely. i have some major gripes that i will get into later, but i liked the tension and intrigue of the big corporations doing their gross capitalism shit, and cooper finding out just how fucked up they are. the idea of the vault ownership being split up between different companies and therefore different ideals so "the best ideas of how to continue civilization can win" was interesting! i think it's more grounded to say that most vaults were trying to make something viable for the future, not just fucked up experiments for the sake of it, but the ideas were extreme and many doomed to failure. i wouldn't even say this is a retconn, a lot of the vaults, even the ones that got really messed up, can be viewed as an attempt at making something good, just with amoral methods
how the brotherhood was portrayed: FINALLY bethesda has written the brotherhood in a way more reflective of what they're supposed to be. the brotherhood are not the ultimate heroic knights in shining armour. they're not just a grandstanding military faction. caveat that i don't know the fo4 brotherhood personally, but fo3!brotherhood was so incomprehensible. in fo1, the brotherhood is reclusive and focused on technological / scientific information. they are a force to be reckoned with when convinced to take good action, but they're on the insular side. in fo2, they're a destroyed shadow of what they were, with barely any presence. in fnv they're even more reclusive, entirely xenophobic to anyone outside of the brotherhood and further stuck in their ways. you can help them improve, but there are cult vibes. and the show? i am impressed by how they focused on those cult vibes! the brotherhood doesn't have to be 100% the same every time when there's a lot of geography between chapters and different points in the last 200 have different needs, different goals and enemies, but the brotherhood should, imo, always be a grey area. when lucy asked "this is good right, the brotherhood are the good guys?" and maximus and thaddeus were like....... eh... it's. a complicated organization. THATS THE REAL SHIT. complex. a bit uncomfortable because they're reclusive and teach their people biased ideas of the wasteland. an ideology that makes sense in-verse, but isn't a simple dichotomy of good or bad. some parts of it were uncomfortable for me in a "well thats an odd writing choice" but most of it was uncomfortable in the way the brotherhood is SUPPOSED to be uncomfortable, and i am here for that
the scene where maximus comes clean to lucy and she accepts him, because she's learned how complicated the surface world is, and she has been travelling with him enough to see who he really is
the fnv theme cue when the ncr flag was shown. got me emotional fr
lucy is down to fuck and i LOVE that for her. it's great to see a female main character be so into sex without it being for any reason other than... she thinks sex is good and fun
the lucy/maximus ship. im officially on team "people who say its boring and lacking in chemistry might be not giving the black character the consideration he deserves because of internalized racism" sorry
i can ALSO get behind the lucy/cooper ship, after the last episode. it feels like theyre on somewhat even ground now. i can go for a begrudging allies pair. they should have rough, angry sex and remind each other it doesn't mean anything after and then they both go and pine and/or brood about the people they wish they were with, or wish they were with but in a happier story
the music in general
cx404 my beloved <3
things i did not enjoy:
the biggest issue is, of course, the way the show completely fucked with and/or retconned fallout: new vegas. in my opinion, it was very disrespectful, to the point where it's hard to see it as anything but maliciously intentional for mr. todd 'liar' howard to literally nuke the center of west coast fallout's world. it feels scummy. it feels tone deaf. it feels like a kid stomping on another kids sand castle at the beach because all they understand is destruction and coming out on top. and it also makes NO sense. the show says shady sands was bombed in 2277, which is the year of the first battle of hoover dam, and 4 years before the start of fnv. it renders everything in fnv void. the thing is that shady sands is just one small part of the ncr--in fo1, its a small farming village just getting started and a couple generations later in fo2, it isnt even recognizable as shady sands anymore, its just. The New California Republic. it's huge! it's sprawling! bombing a single city wouldn't have wiped out the ncr--and even the show acknowledges this with vault 4 and moldaver's people--but it's still too significant a calamity that fnv could have happened the way it did proceeding it. you can't just add an event like this and think it'll work when no one in fnv mentions it, when it can't retroactively impact the ncr's future that is already shown. and even though the show does allow that remnants of the ncr have survived, they didn't do it in the way that makes sense, in my opinion. what would make sense is having an entire nation losing its capitol, but the rest being able to continue on. it doesnt make sense for them to become what they did in the show, nor having it be a non-issue during fnv. the ncr could not have had a continued presence in the mojave if that nuke really happened. ive seen pieces of articles and such about how they were careful to follow the timeline and "dont worry, fnv still happened!" but.... they most certainly did not follow the timeline, and what they did utterly fucks up fnv's narrative
the answering of the question "who fired the first bomb". while i enjoyed the backstory, i did not enjoy this question being answered. the point of fallout is not who was right and who was wrong. the point isnt about there being a good side, a bad side, a justification for anything. the point is that nuclear bombs are horrific and what happened to the world is the ultimate tragedy. and it's about communities still being able to rise from the ashes and make something real. it's about people being able to survive and thrive. yes, conflict persists, but the world has not ended, and in west coast fallout, entire cities have grown up from nothing to take on a way of life all on their own, different from the pre-war days, but no longer weighed down by the tragedy, either. east coast fallout is post-apocalypse. west coast fallout is post-post-apocalypse. it's supposed to be post-post-apocalypse, and who dropped the bombs does not matter. the point is that war never changes--but people do. the old world is gone, what happened happened, and society has to move on. answering the question of who dropped the bombs serves no narrative purpose
and if america dropped the bombs on themselves--what does that mean for the rest of the world? of course, we have never known if the rest of the world is still out there continuing as normal, but making the bombs in america an inside job has new implications for china's part in everything. i do wonder if the shift away from the american-chinese conflict is a sensitivity issue. i'm not knowledgeable enough on the topic to speak on it further
robert house's potential/likely character assassination: the best way i could possibly read it is that house was being reticent about his true feelings because it wouldn't have been very tactful to oppose an entire room of capitalism moguls. but his part in planning the bombs is, if taken at face value, utterly opposed to his actual goals as stated in fnv. i want to believe he was just flying under the radar to get information. but it either doesnt make sense, or we dont have the full story yet, because house's intentions were to save new vegas from the bombs, and he wasn't able to save the entire area, which he should have been able to do if in the know, and he also would have been able to get the platinum chip on a better timeline if he was in the know. i'm trying to reserve judgement in case they elaborate on him in s2, but s1!house is.... not fnv!house
needed more pre-existing rad creatures. i'm guessing the bear was supposed to be a yao guai even though they didn't name it, but the gulper was new, and i wouldve liked to see geckos, maybe nightstalkers or cazadors if possible, just... anything properly reminiscent of west coast fallout. based on the final scenes, i'd like to think we'll see deathclaws in s2. please.
sometimes there were bouts of confusing / weird writing. episode 6 in particular had me a bit "what the fuck is going on and why are certain characters acting like this????". the scene where maximus reveals himself to thaddeus was also lackluster in my opinion. i think it should have been drawn out at least a bit. maximus trying to explain, thaddeus being conflicted--not just an immediate flip. it's hard to believe maximus would injure thaddeus THAT badly without trying something else first. whiplash for real. maximus was a little weird in vault 4 and i genuinely don't know what vibe they were going for. at first i thought he'd been drugged and the people there were going to experiment on him. (also how did cooper NOT SEE the "test subjects" over the door when he was doing the vault-tec ad? i dont remember if the name plate was shown in the commercial itself but i sure hope not or, uhhh... people would have known something bad was up). it was just a bit ??? for me, that whole damn episode. what was with the ncr remnants acting Like That? i don't get it and it was never addressed again? am i just supposed to believe that a couple decades or whatever separated from the ncr society has turned them into a cult? what association do they even have with moldaver anymore? its all so weird and unexplained. and if moldaver opposed vault-tec, how did she end up in cryo with them? i guess she didn't actively walk away from it? maybe im missing something here
on that note, the portrayal of the ncr: moldaver and her people end up being ncr but they were played the whole time like raiders. only for the end of the show to have moldaver's settlement be totally normal people just living their lives. what the hell? and the vault 4 people, again, were unsettling and confusing, i don't understand what i'm supposed to take away from this. i suppose the point is that time has changed both groups, and moldaver's been pushed to extremes, but the framing was just.... weird and iffy for me. it's a far cry from the ncr i'm used to
final thoughts:
i did overall enjoy the show, but i suppose, as they say about games like fo4, "it was a good show, but it wasn't a good fallout show". i was pleasantly surprised in a lot of ways, but the fact remains that bethesda misses, or disregards, the whole point of fallout. often they go directly against the original message of fallout. most modern fallout just isn't what it was when it started or what it is when created by people who were there at the beginning. it's painful being a west coast fan specifically, sometimes, because todd is always finding new ways to massacre my boy. but if i pretend this isn't canon and that it has no bearing on one of my favourite games, if i look at it just as it is instead of something that hinges with a bunch of other stories... it was surprisingly enjoyable. i just have to turn off the part of my brain that wants to fight mr howard in the dennys parking lot at 4am
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there is a robot in undertale yellow and i need to play it immediately. For the robot
#me tag🍭#this post is a LIE!!!i want to play undertale yellow just like in general#but#ummm#:3#i like robots :3#i think ill play it. Tomorrow.#i actually dont know a damn THING about this game besides 1. undertale 2. yellow 3. a robot who can get silly#i scroll past every undertale yellow post i see really fast to avoid spoilers but every time i see the robot i go !!!!!!#i like how the robot looks :)
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i really love these games a lot but this fandom is so stressful to me
#i dont know if its. i dont know#this is the most stressful and exhausting fandom ive ever been in. i think its partially because its one of the biggest fandoms ive been in#partially because im like. how do i explain this#i generally get attached like this to things that i think are in one way or another majorly flawed. the sort of 'i never said it was good i#said i liked it' thing. and so there while i still worry about characterization i feel so nervous posting anything or even making anything#because i hold these games to such a high standard i guess. and people can be BRUTAL about things they dont like which i think is part of#the big fandom thing. theres just so much ive thought about making but know i probably never will because i Know its probably reading#something wrong or making a connection i shouldnt and its stupid and everyone else is going to think im stupid for it. i never want to anno#people i dont want to be the person that people are avoiding i just hate this feeling. i literally feel like tearing my skin off sometimes#when i post or go into tags because i know that im probably doing this wrong. i dont know#i dont want to let go of these games at all. i love them i love talking about them i love seeing what other people make of them i just feel#like. i dont know.
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