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hiatus notice: I’m going on hiatus for a while. Things have been really busy in real life, and I just haven’t had any motivation for roleplaying. Sorry to everyone that’s waiting for a starter or reply from me. I’m not sure when I’ll be back; hopefully sometime this month.

In the meantime, I’ll be on my video game blog over at @fortabandon and I’ll still be checking Discord.

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My motivation is still entirely gone, and I don't think I’ll be coming back. Again: sorry to anyone who’s waiting for a reply. And thank you to everyone who’s roleplayed with me over my (almost) two years in the fandom! You’re all wonderful. <3

#(ooc. )

not back but i’m crying at how much this post is liam @ house

#(ooc. )

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In the meantime, I’ll be on my video game blog over at @fortabandon and I’ll still be checking Discord.

#(ooc. )#(psa. )

In the meantime, I’ll be on my video game blog over at @fortabandon and I’ll still be checking Discord.

#(ooc. )#(psa. )#{gonna schedule this to post tomorrow morning too}

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❛ —————- what was it like? y’know, before the war. i heard a lot’a the old starlets used t’come here. ❜

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“You heard correctly,” House says, just a touch pleased at her knowledge -- however small it may be -- about the Vegas that was. “More likely than not, any actress you may have heard of walked along the Strip once. Las Vegas was resplendent, a neon paradise beyond compare. More than enough of an attraction to draw in celebrities.”

#(v. every stray variable)#{house conveniently leaving out the fact that he dated a lot of them}#platiinvm

good end

For Commonwealth verse:

The SoSu destroys the Institute and sides with either the Minutemen or Railroad, meaning Robert can live in the Commonwealth without looking over his shoulder for people trying to hunt him down. Robert decides to leave the past in the past; rather than going back to Nevada, he stays in the Commonwealth.

He uses his technological genius for the good of the Commonwealth, helping to improve the defenses of settlements, finding ways to restore infrastructure, etc. He gets to change the world for the better, just like he always wanted to.

(And he eventually finds a husband.)

#(v. prava alma mater)#{thanks for sending this!}

Send “good end” for an ideal ending to their story

For main verse with @altruistec:

Liam continues working with House for decades, functioning as House’s right hand and moral compass. Vegas thrives, better and brighter than it ever was before. House claimed he would be able to get colony ships out and searching for new planets within a hundred years, and he keeps that promise. He and Liam (now an old man, alive only through stubbornness) watch the first colony ship disappear into the sky, carrying people who will found a new civilization.

All biological components fail eventually. Robert Edwin House dies having accomplished his life’s work: ensuring that humanity, and his city, have a future as bright as the stars.

#(v. new horizons)#{thanks for sending this!}

liveslikeanindefinitehiatus-dea

Send me “bad end” for an alternate, dark/tragic ending to my muse’s story

Send “good end” for an ideal ending to their story

Send “neutral end” for a neutral ending to their story

#(meme. )#{:o this is cool}

❝ Nobody tells me when to work and when to play. ❞

“As your employer, I do. You clearly misunderstand our arrangement. When I ask you to accomplish a task, I expect it to be done in a timely manner. Of course, if you aren’t capable, I can choose a more competent member of your… tribe for the job.”

#platinumcheckers #(v. setting the board)#{just realized i don't have a pre-game verse #so that's the temporary tag}

mirajanestrauss

DO NOT USE .CO .VU

Please for the love of all that is holy DO NOT USE THIS TO PERSONALIZE YOUR TUMBLR. It’s covered in adware and every single time I click onto someone’s tumblr who has it I have to run my spybot and then it catches a bunch of stuff and in one case one of these addresses downloaded an adware program onto my computer that prevented me from hitting back on my browser and had loud popup ads now and then and annoying blue hyperlinks everywhere. It took several hours of my time to remove the darn thing from my computer completely.

“But I can have a cool personalized name with .co .vu!” Yeah, you know why? Because most people don’t use it so names aren’t taken. Why?

Because it’s covered in adware and spyware.

If you respect your followers AT ALL do not use this. Please.

amielleon

This is actually a really fascinating scam.

So, you know how how “co.[country abbreviation]” is commonly used to signify that a site is from some country? For example, “amazon.co.jp” is the Japanese version of Amazon dot com.

The people selling “co.vu” sites want you to think that that’s what’s going on–that you’re getting nice good web addresses from Vanuatu.

But what’s actually happening is that they publish your sites as a subdomain of a site called “co” that is in Vanuatu.

In other words:

In the url “http://amielleon.tumblr.com”, “amielleon” is the subdomain, “tumblr” is the actual site, and “com” tells me that it’s a commercial site and probably from America.

In the url “http://mytrashyotp.co.vu”, “mytrashyotp” is the subdomain, “co” is the actual site, and “vu” indicates it’s from Vanuatu. But they WANT you to think that “mytrashyotp” is the site, and “co.vu” indicates that it’s a commercial site from Vanuatu.

What are they getting out of this? The ability to throw shit on top of your blog (like adware) and also leech off your content for search engine rankings.

(Source: I based this post off of this blog post which is somewhat more technical in nature.)

ETA: I’m never going to catch up with all the reblogs of this post, but I’m going to edit this one in case people click back to it (as I’ve been seeing.)

First, I take back the “ability to throw shit on top of your blog” line. While I think it would be possible for them to do to any subdomain of their own website, this is not currently the way they have things set up. As it is, all it does is point to your blog, adding nothing. I looked into the source code of a co.vu blog and confirmed this.

However, I maintain that the service does clever take advantage of the human association between the “co.xx” format and country domain tags. Note that this site only lists “.vu” as a country tag while it lists, for example, “co.uk” and so on. Also, the domain is registered to someone from India and not, say, listed as apparently unregistered because that’s not allowed or listed as as “country domain”.

If you’re looking for a cute URL that parses unobtrusively to the human eye, and you don’t mind that technically it’s a hit to someone else’s website and a URL to a page that they could potentially modify to their wishes (although they currently do not so, and probably will not do so as long as their current scheme is profitable), this probably works out for you.

Mind you I still don’t know how their scheme is profitable, although just providing a DNS service is probably relatively cheap and doesn’t really grow that much with volume. It could just be banking off the search engine rankings or general visiblity to advertise its other paid services.

#(ooc. )#(psa. )

thememesource

house of cards (US) starters

from the first season. content warning: violence, sexuality, profanity, gendered slurs.

❝ I have no patience for useless things. ❞

❝ I love that woman. I love her more than sharks love blood. ❞

❝ I almost pity him. ❞

❝ Wait. We’re in a very gray area. Ethically. Legally. Which I’m okay with – ❞

❝ We’re in the same boat now. Take care not to tip it over. I can only save one of us from drowning. ❞

❝ Centuries from now, when people watch this footage, who will they see smiling just at the edge of the frame? ❞

❝ They talk while I sit quietly and imagine their lightly salted faces frying in a skillet. ❞

❝ Such a waste of talent. ❞

❝ What a martyr craves more than anything is a sword to fall on, so you sharpen the blade, hold it at just the right angle, and then 3, 2, 1– ❞

❝ Nobody can hear you. Nobody cares about you. Nothing will come of this. ❞

❝ You want my advice? ❞

❝ Treading water is the same as drowning, for people like you and me. ❞

❝ I know all about hate. ❞

❝ Maybe it’s best he died so young. He wasn’t doing much but taking up space. ❞

❝ You don’t have to lecture me like a little girl. ❞

❝ You’ve got a long way to go. Don’t be so arrogant. ❞

❝ It’s so refreshing to work with someone who’ll throw a saddle on a gift horse rather than look it in the mouth. ❞

❝ I don’t think you appreciate anything. I think you’re an ungrateful, self-entitled little c– ❞

❝ Cunt. You’re a cunt. ❞

❝ Friends make the worst enemies. ❞

❝ Nobody tells me when to work and when to play. ❞

❝ That’s a rookie mistake. ❞

❝ Are you letting pride cloud your judgment? ❞

❝ I promise you’ll never be bored. ❞

❝ The most you’ll ever make of yourself is blowing men like me. ❞

❝ I can smell the cock on your breath from here. ❞

❝ You think you can get under my skin? ❞

❝ You’re too intimidating. ❞

❝ Do you get off on this or something? ❞

❝ There’s no better way to overpower a trickle of doubt than with a flood of naked truth. ❞

❝ I have to be ruthless, because failure is not an option. ❞

❝ So, you’re fuckin’ my son? ❞

❝ Here’s another truth that’s gonna be hard to swallow: I’m all you’ve got. ❞

❝ I’m not going to lie. I despise children. There. I’ve said it. ❞

❝ So, a piece of advice as far as career strategies go: It’s not worth fucking your way to the middle. ❞

❝ Proximity to power deludes some into believing they wield it. ❞

❝ A great man once said, everything is about sex. Except sex. Sex is about power. ❞

❝ I have zero tolerance for betrayal, which they will soon indelibly learn. ❞

❝ You don’t understand, I’m not afraid of you anymore. ❞

❝ Such a shame, how naive you are. ❞

❝ I just thought I should open those big bright eyes. ❞

❝ You want me to teach you? ❞

❝ I wanted to be significant. ❞

❝ I envy your free spirit, and I’m attracted to it, but not all of us have that luxury. ❞

❝ What I chose was a man I could love for more than a week. ❞

❝ Fact, I have something that you want. You have something that I want. ❞

❝ Have I said something amusing? ❞

❝ He doesn’t measure his wealth in private jets, but purchased souls. ❞

❝ Of all the things I hold in high regards, rules are not one of them. ❞

❝ Are you even capable of language, or do you only understand depravity? ❞

❝ Have the courage in death that you never had in life. ❞

❝ I pray to myself, for myself. ❞

❝ I won’t let people like you fuck up the world my child has to live in. ❞

❝ Am I an enemy you want to make? ❞

❝ You can’t purchase loyalty. Not the sort I have in mind. ❞

#(meme. )

luthienne

I have them, these attacks of the past, like faintness, a wave sweeping over my head. Sometimes it can hardly be borne. What is to be done, what is to be done, I thought. There is nothing to be done.

Margaret Atwood, from The Handmaid’s Tale (via luthienne)

#(about. )

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corblimeys

anyways… reblog + tag what you smell like according to what does a hero smell like 🍃

#{thin mints and regret #i'm #well it's not inaccurate}#(ooc. )

Having billions of dollars in the bank doesn’t matter much when the bank is destroyed in a nuclear strike and American currency collapses, so the late 2070s were a race for House to spend as much money as possible while not tipping anyone off to his certainty that the apocalypse was impending. His turning into a complete recluse after he entered the life support chamber (in early May 2077) only strengthened certain people’s suspicions, but House's accountants knew enough tricks to make everything seem normal. And with food riots, oil shortages, the ongoing New Plague, and a war against China, anyone who could’ve investigated House had bigger problems on their hands.

From 2070 to 2077, House converted as much of his wealth to useful forms as possible. He stockpiled extensive amounts of food, medicine (including auto-docs), fuel, and other post-war necessities under the Lucky 38 (which goes much, much deeper than was shown on any official pre-War documents). He knew that if his city was to survive after the War ended all imports coming in, he’d need to have supplies on hand. It was also a form of leverage: even in the chaos following a nuclear war, people aren’t going to disobey the man who has an army of robots and enough food to feed the city.

Of course, House went into a coma after shooting down the last missile headed for Las Vegas, and those supplies never got distributed to their intended recipients. The few people in Las Vegas who didn’t die from fallout died from starvation or -- without House’s securitrons keeping the peace -- violence. When he woke up, it seemed like all of his planning had gone to waste.

But when, decades later, he needed to employ tribals to rebuild Las Vegas... those supplies were finally useful again.

#(headcanon. )

回 - For a phobia they have.

My muse cannot lie | accepting

He’s loath to admit it, but he has no choice. “Flying,” he says, grudgingly. “My parents passed away in a freak gyrocopter accident, when I was very young. I was the only survivor of the crash.”

#lastofthepast #(re. freak accident)#{thanks for asking!}

PSA: I’ve gotten a bunch of new followers recently (thanks, everyone!), so I’ve updated my rules a bit. I look forward to interacting with you all! <3

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@vicourier | starter call

“It is still customary to ask permission before rifling through a man’s things, isn’t it?” House asks dryly, without condemnation. If anything, he’s pleased to find his new protege going through his book collection. Appreciation of knowledge is scarce in the barbaric desert his home state has devolved into; any intellectual interest ought to be encouraged.

It’s one more way in which Sheila differs from her predecessor, though not the most significant.

“Feel free to read any that interest you. I suppose decent libraries must be hard to come by in the wastes.”

#vicourier #(v. every stray variable)#(ic. )

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