#nick diamonds

[featherfoils]

is this why all those dolphins lost their legs?

[theunicornsdotnet]

[riylcast]

Episode 616: Nick Thorburn (of Islands and the Unicorns)

This month marks 20 years since the Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?

The Unicorns' sophomore album is a singular triumph for a group that was clearly too beautiful to live. But it didn't take Nick Thorburn long to regroup after his seminal high school band imploded.

There have been countless musical projects along the way, but Islands stands the tallest as longest tenured, most brilliant and best among them.

The band returns this year with And That's Why Dolphins Lost Their Legs, the second album since Thornburn's self-imposed hiatus. It's bleak at times, but always a fantastic snapshot of a musical career ever charging ahead.

[undergroundrockpress]

Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks in 1977.

Photograph: Rick Diamond

[artbyblastweave]

Another thing I found odd about Fallout 4's writing is that when you first encounter Nick Valentine, you meet him in the middle of a showdown with Skinny Malone, a gangster who's written as a habitual opponent of his, someone who he's been playing cops-and-robbers with for years. This is most likely an attempt to shore up the impression of Nick as the Quintessential Noir Detective- you've blundered into the middle of an episode of the Nick Valentine Show, he does stuff like this all the time. But the thing is that Fallout- and east-coast Fallout in particular- is a setting that has a hard time plausibly giving rise to a friendly-enemy cops-and-robbers dynamic, for basically the same reason that Marvel has always had a hard time establishing a persistent rogues gallery for Frank Castle.

[weeewooobitsfallout]

remember how Dina casually drops that there is a 70% chance you are a synth?

AND THEN NO ONE EVER MENTIONED IT AGAIN?????

[kamiyae]

this has nothing to do with my blog but i felt inspired to share pictures of Nick Valentine sitting in places/doing things he really shouldn’t be.

[constablequodo]

I keep seeing the trope of "Hancock met Nick as a teenager" in Valencock fics which....huh???

We don't know when Hancock moved to Diamond City , he wasn't born there and theres a big chance he moved there well into his 20s. If we're going off of the fandoms general idea that hes in his 30s-40s, he could have been any age between 18-40 depending on how long you think he was there for before his brotjer became mayor.

I like Valencock, I really do, but why did yall find a way to make it weird???

[randomraytrash]

[sevenheven7011]

Nick is complicated cause he doesn't fall under acab to me because while he has prewar cop Nick's memories he chose a completely different path by being a private eye

But on the other hand there's copaganda in his writing with how he views prewar nick and his morals

Bethesda could've made a interesting thing by having nick slowly come out of this idealization of the police force and realize how corrupt that system and by extension diamond city security is

And that could've served as a way to further differentiate him from prewar Nick

Also they could've made the eddie winter thing about actually revenge instead of turning around and going justice✨️

[stoat-party]

A post-Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing mayoral election would be so funny, and I think the best outcome is that Piper runs Nick’s entire campaign without his agreement and he wins.

[theunicornsdotnet]

vinyl-only bonus track "Feel A Way" from And That's Why Dolphins Lost Their Legs by Islands (2023)

via @ruffgem (thank you!)

[knightlyknight-art]

Forgot to post this here yesterday but I made this specifically for Nick Valentine and Nick Valentine only. I love this guy, best guy ever, the silliest little guy if you will

[haischaper]

Unfortunately didn’t finish this around TDOV but I still wanted to post it! So happy (very late) TDOV!

[kwistowee]

JAMES SPADER in SUPERNOVA (2000) ft. Angela Bassett, Lou Diamond Phillips & Wilson Cruz

[weeewooobitsfallout]