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if had a nickel for every time I wanted a charismatic Fallout ghoul biblically, I would have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

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happy new years!

awh! you too! 🤍

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He was as tall as he was tall, and his eyes were the color they were. To describe his hair one would say that he had some. His face had all the features you'd expect, and none of the ones you wouldn't. "There he is," people would often say of him, but only when he was there. And they were right.

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Coop playing with Dogmeat

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Trying to get into drawing backgrounds. Why does he wear two belts? (Wrong answers only)

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I love soulmates but also this-

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my favorite parallels part 2/2

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Tunnelsnakesfool on X has noted that those appear to be the San Bernardino Mountains near Baker, CA reflected in Walton Goggins' glasses here. Which lines up with evidence of them turning an abandoned motel in Baker into Novac.

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i keep thinking about vaultknight and why i think it is highly unlikely to be endgame. and dgmw, i love vaultknight. i also love ghoulcy/vaultghoul. i love all three of them together tbh so i'm not doing to debate the merits of any of those ships or pit them against one another. i don't think one of them is better than the other. do i have a preference? sure.

but while i do personally feel they are certainly setting something up w/vaultghoul and that could very well end up being shippy (but just as easily could not be), i think they show has done one specific thing that makes me feel like they will not be going the vaultknight route, and that's the fact that they already had them kiss.

i'll never forget having listened to this podcast re: tv writing and specifically about writing romance/love stories in tv. and that sydney pollack had told the writers of will and grace essentially that "a love story is over after the boy and the girl kiss" and that "if you can figure out a way to tell a love story where they don't kiss, you can have a show that could run for a very long time" (i'm paraphrasing...the folks recounting the story are paraphrasing). anyway, this idea stuck w/me bc it's very often right. i can think of examples off the top of my head where this is true (huddy!!) that once they kiss...it's kinda over.

in will and grace specifically, they do in fact have them kiss in the pilot, but that's a very different story obvs bc that show is about how a gay man and a straight woman can have a different kind of love story together. they did this to subvert this idea that a love story is over when they kiss bc they're telling a different love story. i think in fallout, they've had max and lucy kiss in the first season not to subvert this plot trope/concept but to be an example of it.

now, the rest of sydney's advice was that a love story needs obstacles as well. and i think vaultknight in any context, whether shippy or not, their relationship will have buckets of obstacles. but i do think that the writers have deliberately done that one thing (have them kiss) not to set them up for obstacles to overcome to get together but to establish that they won't get together. their story, their relationship is about something else entirely.

i think their story is a tragedy. i think that brief moment they have with each other is a sort of 'what if' scenario. a 'what could be' if the world were different. if her vault was the safe place she thought it was where they could be together. if his brotherhood were the good guys he thought they were. but they're not. neither of those things are true in the ways that they believed them to be. and as long as max remains with the brotherhood (despite knowing/discovering harsh realities) and lucy continues on a path that takes her away from vault living (because of the harsh realities she's discovered), they'll be driven further and further apart.

and again, i don't necessarily think they're doing this specifically to set up vaultghoul instead. i think that's the story they're setting up for max regardless of whatever goes on w/the ghoul and lucy.

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Season 2

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Ghoulcy comm!

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I was walkin' along, mindin' my business, when out of an orange coloured skyyy--

FLASH BAM ALAKAZAM

--wonderful you came byyy~!

Ghoulfuckers arise, this print will be available at my comic con stall AND is now in my online shop for £5: https://ko-fi.com/s/b15d91778d

(and if YOU have Cooper art/merch PLEASE tell me in the comments I would like to see it 👀)

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i will not lie, friends in my phone, i have been imagining affection from time to time

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Cowboy ghoul.

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