[loveridden1999]

spongebob looking out the window meme but it's me being jealous of everyone w those cunty chinese cigarettes

[loveridden1999]

look at these beauties [x] [x]

[stonefemmesiren]

[catgirl-kaiju]

come the fuck on

[catgirl-kaiju]

no one fundamentally doesn't understand Fallout like like the modern Fallout fandom

[catgirl-kaiju]

it is, but that's not the thing i'm taking issue with. the thing i take you with is that this question should be answered for you by playing any Fallout game! like, you'll have to dig through Fallout lore to find the in-universe, textual reason for the retrofuturism, but the games practically bang you over the head with a super sledge about the metatextual significance of the Atomic Era retrofuturism.

the games' setting is a clear satire of the nationism, imperialism, and hyper-capitalism of Atomic Era America (1945 to about 1963ish), working with a scenario that is emblematic of the era's nuclear warfare paranoia. the american culture that lived in the comfort and luxury of a booming post-war economy and was gripped by the paradoxical fear that atomic annihilation could strike at any moment, without warning. a culture informed by the lies their government were telling them about the survivability of nuclear war, leading them to believe that if they obeyed their government, prepared for the worst, and made sure to get their very own fallout shelter, they could survive an atomic attack unscathed. a culture that grafted together comfortable consumerism with a world on the brink of mutually assured destruction to create a happy, fear-based economy ready for the end of all things.

what Fallout points out is that if there was no political shift during the 1960s with civil rights and counterculture movements, and this regressive eschatological culture continued to persist through major technological developments, it's inevitable end point would be a world ending atomic war. like, that's one of the main points of the Fallout setting, and certainly one of the most defining things about this series. without that commentary being tied to the aesthetics of it, it would just be a bog standard post-apoc setting with a fun 1950s aesthetic (so basically Fallout 4)

if you're curious at all about the cultural impact atomic weapons and the Cold War had on atomic era america, i highly recommend the documentary The Atomic Café from 1982. the full film is available to watch on youtube for free:

watch it with an adblocker enabled so you don't get served an ad for geico ai generated perfume or whatever while learning about american war crimes

oh, and the textual reason for Fallout's retrofuturism is basically that the micro transistor was never invented and technology advanced down a path that didn't utilize them.

[catgirl-kaiju]

reminder that the US has a long long legacy of heavily documented war crimes and harm against its own people that it has gone unprosecuted for during the entire existence of the UN. i hope the UN shows some backbone and charges our leaders at the Hague for everything happening now and everything that has happened before now.

happy fuck of july

[sixty-silver-wishes]

sorry america but you’ve been really mean. and I don’t want to go to your birthday party in two days

[sixty-silver-wishes]

so this post has blown up; turns out a lot of people feel the same way I do. If you're feeling conflicted or upset over 4th of July, I've compiled a list of educational resources and charities, both regarding US and international issues, which you can look into if you'd like. Issues here include humanitarian aid to Gaza, Ukraine, and the Caribbean, as well as reproductive, LGBT, BIPOC, and disability rights in the US.

[sixty-silver-wishes]

woke up and saw people were reblogging this again. anyway, yeah. america is still being really mean and I do not want to go to its birthday party today

if you would like to spite the really mean people even more today, consider donating to raices con voz. they're a student-led organization in los angeles, who deliver food and essential supplies to immigrant families who can't leave their homes due to the ICE raids. More information about them here

EDIT: Had to fix the link! please reblog this version instead

[sixty-silver-wishes]

another year of not wanting to go to america's birthday party in two days. because it's really mean. so we should help the people that america is being really mean to

in keeping with tradition, here is a link to unicef's fund for emergency health supplies and services for survivors of the venezuela earthquakes.

here is another link for manos in action, an organization that delivers supplies, such as food and childcare items, to latin american immigrants in central florida. I've participated in one of their local food drives; they're great. if you're not local to central florida, you can always donate money.

the other links are still available too, so feel free to check those out!

[catgirl-kaiju]

me when my friends politely tell me they are uninterested in engaging with my current hyperfixation

Visit Original Link

[catgirl-kaiju]

and this is where the magic happens. 😏

*shows you the inside of my wonderous top hat*

[catgirl-kaiju]

*inside of my wonderous top hat you see a bunny girl laying seductively on a bed with a rose in her mouth*

[amygdalae]

I absolutely adore dogs but I think dog haters are (usually) more justified than cat haters wrt their reasoning

[amygdalae]

your average cat hater: I don't like how they r bitchy and ignore me/ won't let me manhandle them

your average dog hater: I have been mortally endangered by an ill-trained dog

[soapkid]

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

[birdplushie]

"it's not that deep" START DIGGING!!

[magn-animously]

DIG

[14-opossums-in-a-trenchcoat]

DIG

[buriedunderyourmum]

DIG

[hannisconfused]

DIG

[kitsunesakii]

DIG

[yourlocalfandomfriendo]

DIG

[apple-notplural]

DIG

[vivitur-moritur]

DIG

[spacecat24-7]

DIG

[chub-froggy]

DIG

[thatghostthateatspeople]

DIG

[krowbreaker]

DIG

[spid-the-spider]

DIG

[annabelle--cane]

DIG

[yellow-faerie]

DIG

[vampiraptor]

[philosopherking1887]

OOPS TOO DEEP

[breaks-hetheon]

CLIMB

[artist-of-obsessions]

CLIMB

[fablegate]

CLIMB

[marzibird]

CLIMB

[the-luckyrabbit]

CLIMB

[staarbles]

CLIMB

[modmad]

[sebwritesstories]

[charlesoberonn]

OH NO

[thehollowmite]

FLY

[scaggis]

FLY

[unyieldingsilence]

‎

[segamascott]

[godisafujoshi]

😩 i cant deal with this dawg

[allpiesforourown]

So you don't have to Google everything like I did

[trickstertime]

Wh-why is the crotch of the illustrative drawing censored???

[fishiest-fish]

touching my penis for good luck

[emily84]

you kid, but it *is* quite literally touching your balls, not for good luck but to ward off jinxes. like, someone will mention illness or something tragic that might happen, and men will automatically touch their balls out of superstition

[segamascott]

[fawn-soul]

Planet TOI 1338 b

[vfeioa]

[mollyjames]

A young girl with colorful hair and remarkable intuition recently barged into my office and declared that she's fully aligned with our principles and wishes to join our cause. It so happens I have an experimental mech prototype in development that would be perfect for her, but her upbringing and attitude suggest she knows nothing of the horrors of war, and while she has protagonist potential, because of her gender I suspect she will die early as a component of some tragedy. What should I do?

[fallentitan98]

I mean you can just make another mech prototype right? You didn’t lose the blueprints or anything like that.

If she dies then well that kinda just happens sometimes. Send her family a gift basket, a thank you card, and how their daughter died a hero’s death. Do NOT explain in detail how she actually died, that’s not important and they’re in mourning they don’t want to know.

But if she doesn’t die then you get a 68.5% of getting a hardened mech pilot that’ll push her machine to the extremes and be an amazing ace that new recruits will look up to.

However there is also a small, minor 31.5% she becomes too delusioned to the horrors of war and starts killing everyone in an attempt to bring “peace and prosperity” and to quiet the “voices” in her head that probably aren’t real and she’s just having a horribly prolonged psychological breakdown.

Anyway I say make her the pilot, it’s not like there’s a similar aged young boy that she’s friends with that will witness her possible if statistically unlikely death and grow a deep hatred for your organization and join the other side where he becomes an ace mech pilot.

[mollyjames]

This is good advice. To be safe, I will allocate my top intelligence officer to investigate her personal life and dispose of any possible male compatriats

[pretentiouslimericks]

Counter-proposal: we forcefem the male compatriots.

[mollyjames]

[dreamingeternally]

"The fun thing for us for that end sequence was his costume -- what he would have left over from the ship. I don't really think you see it in the film but the trousers that he's wearing, they're cut from one of the flight suits. And we've done a belt buckle that's made of xenonite that Rocky would've made for him. And all of the sewing on it is a little bit - it's nowhere near as good as Jenny would normally do, so we had to purposely ask Jenny to do bad sewing at the top of his trousers, so it'd look like he would've done it.

And then our brilliant breakdown department, run by Tim Shanahan, they break everything down to look like it's 10, 20 years old. So his cardigan and the t-shirt's all faded. And even on the laces -- the laces in his chuck taylors -- because your laces always break after a certain period of time, so we found stuff that was on the ship, like elastics and stuff. There's a nice big close-up actually in the film, so you can see that they're not normal laces, they're like stuff that he would've got from the ship that he's made as make-shift laces."

Glyn Dillon, one of the costume designers on Project Hail Mary

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

where to upgrade social battery. where to buy larger social battery. how to attach multiple social batteries. how to hang out with all your friends without getting tired. how to hang out with everyone you wanna hang out with without burning out. infinite social energy hack. nap tips

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

social battery rapid charger. social battery usable while plugged in. how to love everyone you love

[im-mender]

is it normal for social battery to look like this

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

mye social battery is pillow because im so sleepy

[maniakminis]

quit your job

join my band of mercenaries

[notactuallyherefor]

How's the dental?

[maniakminis]

you can have all the teeth you can carry

[muzzlesbian]

nice outfit LOSER!!! 2001 called, they

[muzzlesbian]

hold on.

[muzzlesbian]

oh my god

[gwyoi]

This image is killing me

[pinene]

Minnesota is so dope

[capacity2]