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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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Managed to take some pics of this pretty Cinnabar Moth in my garden this morning!!

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Horsemen of the apocalypse - war

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animation is based on one game and our friendship with my friend from Kazakhstan.I love her 😛😛💗 /platonic /pos

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doing another round of these but in the meantime take these. ottoman empire design belongs to @belorussiandino, go check them out :^)

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Today's Seal Is: Pikmin

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Continually filling your mutual's dash with your blorbo like some sort of missionary trying to convert them

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What's in Grunkle Ford's pockets?

Journal 1!

2. Fancy pen (for journaling)

3. sci-fi electro-gloves

4. Bag of normal DD&MD dice

5. Super illegal, 9-thousand dimensions banned, infinity-sided die (in a cheap plastic case for safety)

6. Black Gloves, normal, snappy

7. flask (presumably of I'm Fine Juices)

8. touching childhood photo

9. fuck-off huge poster of his ex

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Hot take: Hetalia and Harry Potter are both problematic. but as far as I know, only one of those IPs is funding actively harmful legislation, and it's not the country yaoi show

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Fun fact! There is almost always a tag called “anti [your fandom here]” that will sometimes show different views of the characters than the normal fandom. But be warned! It is 99% politics and The Worst Fucking Takes You’ve Ever Seen

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i feel like i'm going Italian

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lowkey some of you guys would thrive in a world that was better and kinder.

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observation: among a certain subset of tumblr users, the term “blorbo” has become unchic, but the concept it describes is still important; and so it has been replaced with “The Character”

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just saying i prefer my food-based crimes to be more "heisting $1 million worth of syrup from the Canadian Maple Syrup Reserve" and less "corporations giving toddlers listeria for fun and profit"