You really sat there and let these white people go full white supremacist vis a vis the sexual domination and civilization of poc and you're waxing semantics about the word tribal?
To be clear, it is incredibly difficult to reply to a post I am unable to see. I responded to what I had heard about at the time. (I have since been sent screenshots by other folks to clear up what I was not able to see.)
And, as I stated, I did not "sit there" and "let" it happen. I was not even aware it had happened, as I cannot be constantly monitoring every individual message - nor read each one of the several thousand messages sent every day. If no one alerts me to a problem, I may not see it. Taking it out of the server to address it was unnecessary, as I would have been more than willing to do so if I had known about it in the first place.
That particular aspect of the post's addressed topics has since been addressed in the server. While it was taken entirely out of context for the post, I agree that it was (at best) in poor taste. Joshua Graham is a character who is racist by nature, but this topic is not something to be discussed lightly or in entertainment. On that we are in full agreement, you and I. But I can state with absolute certainty that the user who made those comments is not in any way a white supremacist - they are someone who said something they should not have, just like every other human on this planet has done at one point or another in their lives. They understand that a line was crossed and have apologized for crossing it, and will not do so again. If they do, or anyone else does, they will be banned from the server.
The majority of the server's most-active members have had an open and honest discussion of this whole event and what messages on the server have, regardless of topic, been inappropriate (whether with or without their relevant context). Again, there will now be a team of mods to ensure things like this do not happen again.
I would like to take a moment to address the post that I am actually no longer capable of actually seeing. It seems a bit ridiculous to tag me in a post (which was clearly intended for me to see) and then block me before I was even able to take a look at it, but I digress.
A tumblr and discord user has been upset at some of the language being used on the discord server I run for Fallout Fanfic Writers. I am honestly saddened that they took the time to create their tumblr post about it and yet said absolutely nothing to me personally about it. I cannot address problems if I am not aware that they are problems.
The key word they are concerned about is: tribal.
This makes things more than a little complicated. In the Fallout universe, this is simply the term for... well. Tribes! It does not specifically refer to Native Americans, though it appears that this is something else that this particular user does not seem willing to admit. The fact that they specifically added a screenshot of an in-game screenshot to their post makes it rather clear that they are upset with the various creators of Fallout. I can understand that, as a woman of Native American descent myself.
The entire purpose of this discord is writing discussion, both SFW and NSFW, so that Fallout Fic writers have a place to go to get feedback, to ask questions, to talk about any and all topics relevant to the Fallout universe.
Some of these topics are uncomfortable ones.
I fully agree that Tribal is an extremely sub-optimal word choice, but it is what we have been given to work with. We can't just go willy-nilly changing the terms the game creators themselves have set out for us to use.
Being someone who writes largely about Caesar's Legion, this is not the first time I have seen people upset over something to do with my world. That is also quite understandable. They are also not unique to the Legion, though it does have a significant amount more of it than other parts of the games. Slavery, misogyny, racism, abuse (of all kinds) of men/women/children, torture, murder, alcohol and drug abuse; it's all disgusting. Thankfully, it is (in the case of these games and our writing) entirely fictional. No real persons living or dead have been physically abused by our writing, and honestly? Don't like, don't read. No one is being forced to read this stuff.
I will personally vouch for my discord members and say that absolutely none of them support any of these ideas in the real world. Anyone who DOES support these ideas offline would be very quickly removed from our server. So if anyone there does, they have been damn quiet about it.
We have members of all races, genders, orientations, and walks of life in our group. We help each other with anything we know about, from travel and culture to language to history and more. It's a great space that I am proud to be a part of, and I have made some wonderful friends there in the last few months.
I would also like to note that I am one woman running a server with a few dozen people (some of whom are rather chatty at times!), spanning the globe. I am a real, live, human woman in my 30s. I do not have time to be watching every word that is said in our discord. Quite frankly, this server grew much larger than I ever expected it to (to my pleasant surprise). As such we will now be adding a new team of mods - each of whom will have to be voted into the position. The voting period will last a few days, to ensure everyone has their say.
Personally, if this all only effected me, I would leave the doors open to new members. People will sometimes be angry just to be angry. Sometimes they feel genuinely justified in their anger, and I support them in the thoughts that evil should not be in this world. But we are not an enemy - in the end, we're just fanfic writers.
Since this does, however, effect persons other than myself, I will temporarily be closing all open invites to the server and removing the ability to create them. This is done to keep my members from being harassed over false claims of racism. I look forward to reopening the server to new members at a later date, and apologize to anyone who will be unable to join at this time.
If anyone would like to come forward and discuss, my inbox is open - but I'm not here to feed trolls. I welcome genuine discussion, and have no time for anything else at the moment.
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The unexpected sequel to A Fox, a Wolf, and a Sheep All Walk into the Fort! Vulcade Romance is back, and more traumatized than ever!
Summary: It's been five long years since Vulpes and Arcade went their separate ways in the Mojave after the Second Battle for Hoover Dam. When they find each other in a bar in at the foot of the Rocky Mountains long after the Legion has been destroyed by the NCR, they are both very different men than the ones they once knew. They both have stories to tell, a need to recover, and a want to make up for lost time.
Tags: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Post-War, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Aftermath of Torture, Implied/Referenced Torture, Revenge, Graphic Description, Death, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Romance, Hurt/Comfort, Other Additional Tags to Be Added
There will be eventual smut, but it's gonna take a while to get there. It will be vaguely kinky but nothing too wild.
Now, stick with me here, this is hilariously cracky au material.
So first off, the fire alarm goes off at my apartment building, and (for once) I actually notice and go downstairs and outside. I get out there just as the firemen do, so I let them in the building (its a locked building). A whole bunch of them go in, and the last one just sort of stands next to me by the front door, not saying anything.
I do a double take. “Vulpes… your hat has ears.”
Vulpes, dressed head-to-toe in fireman’s garb, quirks an eyebrow, as if to say ‘my hat always has ears,’ so I ammend my statement.
“Your fireman hat has ears.” And it does.
Otherwise, it’s a normal fireman hat, just with two fluffy fox ears jutting out of the top in the least stealthy move I’ve seen him make since wearing a decanus helm with a suit. Which wasn’t exactly something you’d expect of the Legion’s master of disguise (perhaps his plan all along). He crosses his arms with an annoyed frown.
I simply sigh and shake my head. He’ll do what he wants anyway, so it’s not like my words mean much. Things get a bit fuzzy for a bit here (and I’m not referring to the ears), but for whatever reason we go down the street for coffee, abandoning the whole potentially burning down building to do as it wants. With him still dressed as a fireman and me in my pajamas, like we’d just left a costume party together despite having obviously put different levels of work into our outfits.
The best part about all this is that no one else seems to be noticing the peculiarity of Vulpes’ hat, or the fact that he’s wearing it with sunglasses at 4 in the morning. We sit down for coffee on the couch at my favorite coffee shop, which for some reason is open and moderately busy. We then spend the next several hours drinking coffee together and talking about the vegetable garden my boyfriend wants to build.
That’s it. It was a dream, no conclusion or plot. But what the hell lmao.
I have a Fallout themed D&D game that I run and I created a New Plague/Blue Flu warning flier based off of real Covid ones. Here’s both the distressed version and the normal verison if y’all are interested. If u wanna use it for art or ur own campaign pls lmk about it!
now that a bunch of twitter users are migrating over here i’d just like to remind y'all that tumblr has no verification system. to be recognized on tumblr your followers have to declare you imperator and the senate has to award you a triumph for your victories
Made to organize my mind since the game itself is pretty vague on how Legion society is constructed and the roles they have. Fanfiction/Roleplaying resource.
Check out the Fallout Fic Writers community on Discord - hang out with 37 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
This server has been growing and now has a large variety of offerings!
We offer writing sprint nights twice a week (at the moment), and a dedicated sprinting channel that is available for anyone to use any time they'd like.
There are dedicated discussion channels for Fallout 1&2, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76. We also have dedicated NSFW channels (discussion, writing prompts, and a Kinktober channel waiting for October to roll around) to keep the rest of the server relatively clean!
For fun we have channels like off-topic, memes, a channel for discussing your OCs, and even a dedicated NSFW channel for Vulpes simping (this works for everyone - you only have to see it if you want to!) - and I am open to adding more channels as well. There are also tons of reaction roles for fun as well!
We also have a huge number of Writer's Resource channels: general fallout/writing sources, an NSFW channel for the same, a channel to get into technique discussions, a fan art channel (and a NSFW one too), a music channel, and most recently a channel to learn Latin with (for those writing a lot of New Vegas content).
There is definitely more I have not covered, so why not come check things out! We're trying out events, have already had an impromptu Jackbox Party night, and all around have a great time!
(If at any point the link has expired and you want to check it out, just shoot a message to me, @adira-tyree!)
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