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[pondwitch]

when fo4 came out the entire bioware fandom moved into my house for one month and scrawled vague things about nick valentine’s ripped up mannequin dick all over the walls and insisted to me that fnv was homophobic with no given reason and then disappeared like the dwemer

now the only evidence that they ever existed are a cache of feral-hancock sadout fics which are currently being kept in a vault under the smithsonian

[pondwitch]

some people say if you go in the fallout tag late at night on a full moon and listen real close you can faintly hear the whispered echoes of someone calling Elder Maxson a hunky dad

[pondwitch]

every year on the anniversary of fallout 4’s death, an unlisted number calls my landline and the entity on the other side slowly rasps “cait is a poly bi sinnamon rolllll” and then my phone short circuits

[pondwitch]

sometimes when i look around in a crowded place i swear i get a glance of paladin danse staring straight at me wearing glasses and emitting an unnaturally saturated enb/sweetfx light but when i double-take he’s gone

[pondwitch]

i had a nightmare that all the souls in hell simultaneously spoke the words “FALLOUT 4 COMPANIONS REACT TO SOLE BEING PREGNANT” and when i awoke in my bed the entire post had been carved into my back with surgical precision but there was no blood on my sheets

[ghc-deactivated20190415]

a man of science

[pyreo]

The Yes Man Companion Mod!

Now you can bring your lovable robot underling with you wherever you go! Show him the world, take him to a casino, or just use him to blow up radroaches with his onboard M-235 missile launchers.

Developed by Lady Swillmart and myself (she did all the hard bits), Yes Man is fully voiced for every occasion and comes with a companion perk. He’s quite big and has a little trouble with small doors, but he’ll manage eventually. Don’t worry about getting him blown up, he can’t die! He’ll just respawn for you and wait to be taken on another adventure.

Have fun!

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[ghc-deactivated20190415]

I’m so glad that more people are subscribing to the theory that the fallout universe didn’t culturally stagnate for 120 years and instead gradually shifted back into the 50’s aesthetic as the political situation got more fucked because it more makes sense to me

Think about it. As the years went by and the government got more nationalistic and mccarthyist as the resource wars raged on, what better aesthetic for the government to implement than the inherently “american values” based 1950’s, it served as a catalyst for that ideology

the 1950s with all its nationalism, racism, and mccarthyism was a fabulous model for the pre war government to use towards mending the authoritarian united states they desired to construct during the resource wars, the end result being the great war reflects on how awful this ideology was

[letmebegaytodd]

Fallout 3 Gothic

I did Fallout 4 and New Vegas, so I’m gonna do Fallout 3 too:

Nineteen years of life pass in a blink of an eye. You can distinctly remember two different memories but nothing else.

Your father goes missing. He’s in both of the memories you can recall. He must be important.

You come across a city built upon an unexploded atomic bomb. You can’t shake the feeling that, like its residents, you’re living on borrowed time.

You stumble upon people that feast on blood. You’ve felt a sick hunger inside before. You can almost relate. You decide to leave them alone.

You’re thrown into a simulation and ordered to kill innocents. There’s enough blood on your hands already. You kill the simulation instead.

Your father dies in the quest for something important. It feels less important now.

You stare into the water that your father gave his life for. It stares back.

In the end, you choose to give your life. As you crumple to the ground, the futility of it all isn’t lost on you.

When you wake you’re small again. Your dad is there. Nothing ever really ends.

[ghc-deactivated20190415]

im on team “the fallout universe slowly shifted from a (near) modern day aesthetic into a 50’s aesthetic as the ideology changed for the worst” so i choose to believe that goths existed

[pietriarchy]

sometimes a bitch just wanna lay on the couch with a blanket and play fallout new vegas

[jesawyer]

While coming back to Fallout: New Vegas for my 8th playthrough, I've recently realized that depictions of couriers within F:NV are pretty rare, as far as I can tell only Ulysses and the body of another courier in front of the Mojave Express in Primm can be found in game. Though the Mojave Express dropboxes imply they are still active in the area, it seems you'll never run into them. Was there a particular reason for this?

IIRC, we felt that more Mojave Express couriers might feel like red herrings.  More importantly, they didn’t strictly feel necessary.  The Mojave Express and your role in it were just the premise for how you wound up where you did when you did.

[ghc-deactivated20190415]

The Good Doctor and his drink of choice

[couriers-mile]

Here have another Benny

[finsterwalds]

Big MT scientists but in a cartoonish way

[ghc-deactivated20190415]

The Good Doctor in a very casual outfit

[cryingalonewithfrankenstein]

This photo always cheers me up a bit. It’s a front-page article from 1955 about Christine Jorgensen, one of the first women to have sex-reassignment surgery.

Since the text is a bit small and I couldn’t find a larger copy, here’s what the small blurb says:

A World of a Difference

George W. Jorgensen, Jr., son of a Bronx carpenter, served in the Army for two years and was given honorable discharge in 1946. Now George is no more. After six operations, Jorgensen’s sex has been changed and today she is a striking woman, working as a photographer in Denmark. Parents were informed of the big change in a letter Christine (that’s her new name) sent to them recently.

This article is 58 years old, and it’s more respectful of Christine’s pronoun choices and name than some publications are today. It makes me happy to see a newspaper be respectful of a trans person’s choice of name and pronouns like that :3

[chrstabellathornofthebriars-blog]

Say it again for the haters in the back who want to keep pretending that trans people, or even treating trans people with respect is even remotely anything new. 😎

[dreamsofamadman]

It’s worth mentioning, that this was kinda celebrated as a wonder of the atomic age at the time. “Look at the power of our scientists! Look at what we can do!” You know, back when America was trying to be the leader in scientific advancement.

[lesbianrey]

hozier, singing sensuously: nothing fucks with my baby

my brain:

[bad-4chan-literature]

[kasai-yagi]

Wait, there’s physical copies of Fallout Equestria? That’d have to be massive.

[snakegirllovehandles]

The first run was five hardbacks of progressively increasing girth. The stack is hefty, but the books are comfortable. Each chapter has chapter art too, which I consider a plus in all fantasy books.

Later runs were single-book softcover monstrosities. I think I saw another five-volume hardback run recently, but I’m not deeply involved in the fandom anymore.

[gayestgen]

[discozu]

[insomniac-arrest]

movies about apocalypses: it’s every man for himself!! you can’t trust anyone, it’s a wasteland of solo travelers and sad families, we’re alone out here

humans irl: *pack bond with strangers*

*pack bond with large carnivores*

*pack bond with robots in space thousands of miles away*

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Apocalypse preppers who fantasise about all our artificial rules and governments falling away in times of chaos seem to forget that we invented those rules and governments. Over and over. When you put humans near each other, they group up and make a society; that’s why those  governments exist. Do they think we magically stop doing that in dangerous situations? Because… we don’t.

[digitaldiscipline]

hopepunk doesn’t have time for your racist doomsday hard-on, carl.