Nonblack writers/creators who treat slavery or other traumas of black people as a completey fictional genre, setting or AU thay they can insert their nonblack characters into need to die off already. Especially when it's the backdrop to a romance. Like, is that all our trauma is to you? Something that can be used to make your generic bargain bin romance more interesting?
id try to spell her name right but i have been up goin on 30 straight hours now and frankly i cant bring myself to give neigh half a rats ass about how i spell her name, so, fuck it. im gonna spell it like that now forever
Hey there, new fan, just saw your Vault 16 song (Which I love) and I was hoping to get a little bit more in depth explanation of what exactly it is?
Sure, no problem! I’ll preface, just to be clear, that Vault 16 has yet to actually appear in any of the Fallout games, so if it ever does, it’ll probably be wildly different to the one in the song.
Basically it’s one of the few vaults that didn’t have a malicious sociological experiment behind it. The extent of the experiment was “make sure all the inhabitants are the best doctors and medical experts, so they can pool their efforts together to help find cures for diseases.” This goes as far as schools only teaching basic everyday school stuff, and medical studies, so children can only grow up with a degree in medicine. To help them do their research, they have an AI computer of some kind (never ended up naming it) that keeps track of all of the data they’ve compiled, and monitors all the inhabitants of the vault.
Everything’s going fine for the vault inhabitants for a number of decades, until the AI suffers a logic error of sorts. It decides that instead of trying to eradicate the diseases and viruses themselves, they should be eliminating the methods through which these viruses spread themselves around. It just so happens that the virus they’re researching at the time is an airborne one, so it shuts down all air ventilation in the vault, depriving all the inhabitants of oxygen and killing everyone.
It deems this to be a success, and basically builds upon that logic by thinking “viruses need organic creatures to spread around, so the answer must be kill all organic creatures.” Thus, if you were to encounter the vault, the AI would be doing whatever it can to kill you while you’re inside.
There’s a thematically similar vault in Fallout 4 the deals with cures to diseases and such, and it’s probably better written in regards to Vault-Tec’s intentionally dangerous experiments, but they’re just different enough for me to be okay with that.
It was also pretty heavily influenced by Jonathan Coulton and his nerdy robot stuff, so I’d recommend you go check him out if you liked Vault 16.