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marcie. she/her. 25. I love bio & chem and being a nerd in general. - → - Video games: (fallout, stardew valley, overwatch, pokemon & animal crossing). - → - Shows: (ATLA & LOK, rick and morty, Invincible, What We do In the Shadows, mostly any true crime, esp forensic files, Yuri on Ice, Death Note, Evangelion, Space Dandy, older animes in general). - → - Webtoons/comics: (Yuna & Kawachan, Microhunter, Lore Olympus, Suitor Armor, True Beauty, Brass & Sass, The Kiss Bet, Boyfriends, Not Even Bones, The Remarried Empress, American Road Trip). - → - Also catch me blogging about d&d and fantasy and Studio Ghibli. Sometimes I'll post my amateur digital art. Ask me a bio question whenever, okay? ♥

[skeletoninthemelonland]

BOOMM DIE DIE VIOLENCE (strong sense of companionship) BLOOD BLOOD GORE DIE DIE DIE ARRGHHH!!!!!!!!!!

[diamondnokouzai]

i actually really really like the amount of detail we get about the lone wanderer i think its the perfect amount. you grew up underground not understanding that youre different until that difference forces you out. you have to save the world even though no one will care. you have to save your home even though they wont forgive you. you never had a mother and you never knew your father. but you have to complete his works. you have to save his world.

you have to become your father, essentially

[butt-berry]

Your Pokedex ran into a problem and needs to restart

[grickle14]

They didn’t know which factory had built him and there was no serial number or manual anywhere, but they decided they would love him for however long his battery lasted.

[bedupolker]

Soul Eater fanart to celebrate October

[huariqueje]

Wave in Backlight - Peter Witt

German , b. 1966 -

Oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm.

[starberry-cupcake]

[memewhore]

pokemon blood and pokemon bone where you osmosis jones your way through some creature to discover microscopic pokemon

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

I can get behind that

(Top to bottom: tardigrades, staphylococcus aureus, and mash up of various fungi)

this but they’re the sole source of disease in the Pokemon universe

*doctor places stethoscope on my chest* “Good news and bad news: here’s the good news, I can hear it chanting it’s own name, so diagnosis is easy. The bad news is… you’ve got tuberculosa.”

[mctreeleth]

[nuclearconsole]

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.

[christslamb]

German hunting knife, 19th century

[slingbacked]

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

to this day i cannot BELIEVE aang called up and blew off like nine avatars just because they didnt offer any vegan options to ending the war

[pikameme-dayo]

roku: my best friend assaulted me as a senior citizen :(

kyoshi: sometimes some murder is OK

kuruk: just punch people that disagree with you

aang: okay i’m starting to think that none of you took this avatar thing seriously

[teeveew]

You're not wrong

[aboutiroh]

Aang when he is told he’s the Avatar at age 12: *has a melt down because he understands the seriousness of this function and the consequences his new responsibilities will have on his personal life* 

other Avatars at age 16: I’m the avatar? Cool! Hey look it comes with a glowing eyes feature! 

[aviculor]

aang: fuck this noise, i’ll get advice from the last air nomad avatar

yangchen: i gave up that hippie bullshit first chance i got, i love murder

[hedge-rambles]

I will never not laugh at the bit where Aang is like "finally, an Air Nomad, you get me, right?" and Yangchen just says "sorry bud, I also vote murder".

A close second on that note is of course the trial of Kyoshi in which she manifests in the courtroom just to say "Actually, I did murder him and I'd do it again. But consider: the bitch had it coming".

[kittyissac]

#tbh I think there's something to be said for the fact that Aang was 12 when he ran away from home#and how there's more than a bit of evidence that the adult airbenders had a less strict pacifistic approach#Aang was purposefully sheltered by Gyatsu to protect his childhood and so he has the ethics of a child#and when he awoke there were no other air nomads around to sit him down and have The Violence Talk#about how yes we're pacifists and murder is bad but there are exceptions#like Gyatsu was a kindly man of the highest order but uh#he didn't just lay down and die on a pile of skulls he just found#man went out taking like 20 fire nation soldiers with him#Aang: ''I could never kill! Gyatsu taught me to abhor all forms of violence“”#Gyatsu: deals out death to attacking soldiers like he's got a side hustle as a claymore mine

[zarohk]

And the fact that he figures out a more technically complex and socially stable way to remove Ozai without making him a martyr just shows that he has a lot more skill at the problem at hand than most the previous ones.

To me, that whole scene was very much the previous avatars saying “when all you have is a hammer” and Aang going “okay, but what can I do with this Swiss Army knife?” and they don’t give very useful advice about it.

[tamer-of-jabberwocks]

Personally I also don't think the prior Avatars were all that helpful, but they weren't all saying murder was okay. Aang's there asking for help with Avatar skills because he'd had so minimal training, maybe there's something in the toolbox he doesn't know how to use yet, but they're all trying to make him comfortable with using the hammer he already has and knows how to use. What they were saying was what they thought he needed to hear, based on what they regretted most from how they'd acted as Avatars, and what they thought was most needed here.

Roku regretted not killing Sozin specifically because it gave him the opportunity to come back and kill him, then the Air Nomads. His lack of decisive action led to a lot of tragedy, and so his advice was to make sure whatever he did, make sure it was permanent, or Ozai would come back.

Kyoshi regretted not moving sooner on the threat of Shin the Conqueror and waiting until he was at the very edge of Kyoshi Peninsula before actually doing anything. She allowed a lot of destruction on the continent because she didn't move fast enough. Her advice is to move swiftly instead of allowing Ozai more time to act.

Kuruk basically did nothing as Avatar by his own admission and basically just said that Aang had to do something, and not to back off of his responsibilities because it was hard.

Yangchen is complicated because, well, she isn't talking about one of her own regrets. She's the one trying to give the 'Violence is sometimes necessary' talk to Aang, because she's the best person to tell him his duties as Avatar have to outweigh his duties as an Airbender. Arguably she is the one telling him to murder Ozai, but personally I read that as more 'you need to do what's right for the world, and I am giving you permission to break our cultural rules to do that. Because I am the only person you can ask for absolution.'

They were all trying to offer him spiritual guidance and support, but Aang wasn't looking for emotional support here, he was looking for solutions. Because he had already decided he wouldn't kill Ozai. No advice or absolution was really going to change that he already knew he wouldn't do it.

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

I've acquired a creature that stares at you no matter which direction you look at it from

[orphanedsource]

I’m hypnotized 

[pussyronin-deactivated20260120]

tomorrow i will ride an elephant sized isopod into a crowded public area and we will all find out what happens next together

[oniongarlic]

[tiktaalic]

Can I speak my truth. I don’t think Brienne is even a little gay. I think she’s a kinsey zero who false positives on everyone’s radar. I think if you dropped brienne into new age 2024 she would get treated as a lesbian in her day to day life but whenever a woman liked her she’d be like. Ummmmmmm I’m really sorry but I don’t. Feel like that. I think she’d give lesbianism the good old college try bc of the direness of her male love life and come down firmly on the side of not attracted to women. I think she is quintessential pnw woman who you think is a slam dunk homerun lesbian based on everything about her who drops the word husband on you. I think she gets clocked on sight and mentions a partner named Jaime which makes people go. Okay. Partner i know that game. Jamie easily the name of a lesbian. Easily. And then she drops the he pronouns and you go. Well. Could still be a weird lesbian. And then Jaime is a business major in a frat with generational wealth. And HE is the kinsey five in the relationship.

[lesbostomping]

some award winning thoughts from the tags

[prontaentrega]

classic fallout is like hehe kill bill reference [To the west you can see stars in an open sky. For the first time in your life, you are looking at the real world.] funny mutant shoot a rocket [Few can be on the surface because they are not used to having a black sea of nothingness above them. The sensation of falling upwards is so great for them that they lie frozen, clutching the ground.] hehe sex joke

[professionaljester]

[frootbyethefoot]

i forgot fallout new vegas really is one of the games of all time. you're a cowboy. you're in a post apocalyptic america. there's the most insane larp war going on between a bunch of fascist ancient roman cosplayers, and a bunch of californians rping as the dead united states government. theres also a 200+ yr old man trying to play capitalism. you were shot in the head, double tapped even, and still crawled out of your grave. it's about the apocalypse, but more importantly, it's about what happens next. its even gay sometimes!