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I love the ghoul bc badass corpselike cowboy makes my brain go brrrrrrrrrrr but at the same time. AT THE SAME TIME! he’s a two hundred fifty year old man who survived the attempted eradication of civilization by the corporation he endorsed bc his wife asked him to (the same wife he loved. the same wife he wire tapped and listened to her suggest to a room full of capitalists they bomb the world) but sacrificed his humanity & became a “monster” in the process — not just in looks and status, but morality. he ( who didn’t even like the his characters he played as an actor to be cruel) embraced everything he once stood against. the radiation didn’t just poison his body but also his gentle soul. became not just a ghoul but THE ghoul. a perpetually impassive jaded bounty hunter who never flinches. an urban legend that haunts the wasteland. brutal skilled dangerously intelligent and borderline impossible to stop once he has a goal in mind. who doesn’t discriminate who he kills. a famous western actor who played the “good guy” turned murderous fallout outlaw. who denies there’s any good left in him but, despite this, hasn’t turned feral or ended his life. because he still has reasons (and hope. maybe a tiny itty bit of hope)

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Ghoul

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Cooper's first reaction to Lucy "At first glance, your treatment of this man appears unfair, and I'm obliged to intervene." "... Huh."

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Cooper Howard -> in Fallout: Episode 3, The Head

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it's ghoul hours

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Cooper comm for @b9rambling !!

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ride a horse, fuck a ghoul, or something like that

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save a horse…

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i really like fallout because, unlike a lot of media that uses retrofuturism as just a cool aesthetic, fallout’s obsession with 1950s americana actually means something. it’s not just chrome fins and googie diners, it’s weaponized optimism. it’s that sickly-sweet propaganda sheen slathered over nuclear terror, where smiling mascots tell you to duck and cover while the government quietly preps for the end of the world. it’s about a country that believed so hard in its own greatness it signed its death warrant in cursive.

fallout takes that warped, post-war idealism, the “gee whiz!” charm of suburbia on lithium. and drags it through the dirt, showing us what happens after all the white picket fences melt into radioactive slag. in a world shaped by that specific brand of McCarthyist exceptionalism, the future isn’t flying cars and robot butlers, it’s a dinky holotape of your last moments before the bombs hit, looping forever. like vault 11, the one where the final recording plays after everyone’s already dead, revealing the whole “sacrifice one person every year or everyone dies” mandate was a lie. a loyalty test. a sick joke. and the vault passed, right before it failed, because paranoia and desperation had already eaten them alive.

that’s fallout. not just the end of the world, but the punchline that comes after the moral.

and honestly? that hits way harder than any sleek utopia. because fallout remembers: beneath all that pastel patriotism and canned laughter, something was always rotting.

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if i were attracted to someone i would ignore them and if someone were interested in me i would ignore them and if someone cute asked me out i would say no #myimpenetrablefortress

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Can’t get over how bitchily he ate that grape

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I can finally be a person again (it’s below 80 degrees)

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“nobody is making you do this” i am driven by unnatural forces you will never even begin to comprehend

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Im gonna be so real can yall actually talk about ways we can support trans women in the UK instead of giving all the attention to fucking JKR. I already know that Harry Poter sucks, I wanna know how to actually HELP people. Something something you have to love the oppressed more than you hate the oppressor

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Ruler of Rivendell ⚜️

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Only one person died. Only one singular person. In a superhero movie! The type that love to throw around casualty counts like it’s all a big game, waving off 70 people being killed in a handful of days like it’s no big deal, yet only ONE PERSON died.

And he was mourned. Superman cried for him—this stranger who gave him free falafel and, while facing death, told him that he still believed in him. Metamorpho, this cold-seeming man who is being actively blackmailed to do this, breaking down and taking the risk to believe in Superman, too, because seeing someone murdered right in front of him is devastating enough to take the risk. The newspapers run a front page article talking about how they’re going to memorialize him.

The stakes didn’t have to involve real actual loss of life. The threat of it was enough to convey the severity of the situation. Because human life is that important. All life is that important, at least to Superman who goes out of his way to save dogs and squirrels.

(Hawkgirl does kill SHEIN Netanyahu but genocidal dictators don’t count as human beings lol.)