#Sai Enclave

[reasonsforhope]

Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.

[harrycollins]

incredible

[maelancoli]

i'm kind of late to this but i just finished reading the scholomance trilogy by naomi novik and i feel like it is such an underrated urban fantasy?? taking the chosen one trope and turning it on its head with a fmc who has been prophesied to bring death and destruction, who is imbued with terrible power, but cannot even properly use said power to solve any of her obstacles because it would obliterate them and her soul. it takes a tired trope and the idea of an 'overpowered mary sue' and throws it back in your face by showing how all the power and destiny in the world is useless against a system filled with corruption that has burdened you with an easy way out (evil/destructive magic) that you can't take so now you have to work twice as hard as everyone else just to do simple, constructive spells instead of flicking your wrist and being done with it.

[kazz-brekker]

finished reading the golden enclaves and idk if this is a hot take but i feel like it had better exploration of the importance of communal unity and the necessity of societal change than like 99% of books that people like to classify as hopepunk these days simply for not just being like "working together is so good, i love community, together we can accomplish so much and change the world for the better <3" and was instead like "yeah, this work is going to be really fucking hard. it's going to suck, and it's going to be unpleasant, and people are going to hate you for doing it. and maybe you'll feel like giving up because it feels like too much, and being complacent and just going along with the status quo would be easiest. but you still need to do it, because it's what needs to be done, and eventually the world will be better for it."

[bleepabloopa]

“You are already dead.”

[nukacoola]

I know the Fallout TV show wanted to have a cool bombs dropping moment/scene but in all likelihood the West Coast would’ve had advanced warning before the bombs dropped or they would’ve dropped around 6 am bc on the East Coast they dropped at 9:40 something.

The people at the birthday party in the show are watching the news on tv and listening to it on the radio so it’s not like everyone at the birthday party was just tuned out and they didn’t realize they were getting advanced warning, there was no warning at all even though we know the bombs dropped on the East Coast first. Plus, there’s sirens all over the city that would have gone off even if the ppl weren’t listening to the news. I feel like that’s one inconsistency that the show had with the games that is not talked about as much.

We know that the bombs hit the East Coast first around 9:40 which would have been 5:40 West Coast time so why would they drop during this party which seems to be taking place in the middle of the day or at least late morning and why would the news station and the radio which were both talking about national news not have been warning people about the bombs actively dropping on the other side of the country? It’s a total lore dismissal of the games.

Also Vault Tec received an early warning before the citizens of America knew about the bombs dropping. It’s mentioned in the Vault 111 terminal they got less of a warning than they thought they would but wouldn’t Barbara Howard, one of the higher-ups at Vault Tec, get that warning and be blowing up the phone of the person whose kid’s birthday party it was? There’s a possibility that she didn’t have time but I don’t know, she tried so fucking hard for years to get her family together in a “management” vault. It doesn’t seem like she’d give up right at the last moment. We still don’t know what happened to her or Janey so I guess we’ll see in season 2. 

[ezri-is-real]

After a lot of starting projects without finishing them, i finally did it. My cadre fireblade Shas'el Bork'an Shir'var (Or Noble Swiftwind for short). Really happy with the way she turned out ^^

Hopefully the rest of the Combat Patrol will follow Shortly xD

Edit:

A bunch of people on reddit, who I very much appreciate, actually out-nerded me and pointed out that Cadre Fireblades actually hold the honorary rank of „Shas‘nel“ instead of Shas‘el. In honoring of the T‘au ways, she has thus officially been renamed to „Shas'nel Bork'an Shir'var“

[gigifluidcat]

I love how there's more popular Legion fanart than Enclave fanart on here. Says a lot about Tumblr users if they prefer Misogynistic Imperialism over the Racist Imperialism...

[vamprisms]

i do despise how bethesda fallout doesn't have like. story-based consequences for doing evil shit. your dad saying he's disappointed doesn't count todd

[hellenahaurus]

Who is your favorite companion in New Vegas?

Who do you use the MOST?

I'M SO CURIOUS PLEASE TELL ME

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

watched Elemental today <- is asian

[pibbiscus]

God I hate the Legion so much

Like wdym you think the faction that doesn't think women are people is the BEST choice for the Mojave. How can you look me in the eye and tell me that the faction that ASSAULTS people have the best morals.

I don't like the NCR. But taxes will NEVER be worse than human slavery.

I hate the BOS/Enclave but at LEAST they treat women like human beings instead of PROPERTY

I genuinely don't get the appeal. They're not even a fun faction for an evil playthrough. They just make me feel disgusted. I feel vile listening to them try to justify themselves

I could go on and on.

[wild-at-mind]

It's so hard to explain to my partner, the one who loves me the most, why I feel so much guilt for not abandoning all of the trappings of life in society (job, home, society, voting in elections etc) to become an anarchist living a life as independent from society as possible. This is my main OCD fixation and has been for about a decade, this is the thing I feel the most panic about in my lowest moments and where my mind spirals. I can use tumblr to trigger myself endlessly, if I'm in that place mentally, using the blogs of people who present themselves as living this way, untouched by the impurities of living life as most of us do, the way we interact with corporations and vote for imperfect politicians. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be apart from that, living surrounded by people so radical and pure, I tell myself, and then tell myself i would be immediately rejected.

In my healthiest moments I focus on living my life as it really is, in society as it exists today. The people around me who I sometimes agree with, sometimes disagree with: my colleagues, my family, my lgbtq social group (when I still had it), and above all, my friends, who I love and also disagree with on some things. Practicing healthy relationships without absolutism has been very important to me. (The period when this website was spreading the idea that in order to be a good and moral person you must immediately cut out people in your life the minute they do the tiniest thing wrong was very damaging to me.) Engaging in activism, and just ignoring the fact that tumblr anarchists would hate all of it for not being enough, has been maybe the most valuable thing of all.

So why can't I see that sometimes?

[kazz-brekker]

el leading orion out of the scholomance in the golden enclaves is like a reverse orpheus and eurydice…you're bringing the one you love out of hell but you don't look back because their time in hell has turned them into something so horrifying you can't bring yourself to look at them…

[symunuk]

do i have to actually "know lore" or "character history" to roleplay cattie-brie or dahlia. is it not simply enough to coast purely on vibes and a wiki page--

[obessivedork]

I LOVE doing a "Was always planning on betraying The Brotherhood" Fallout 4 run, it's so funny. Like why yes I did take the collect technical documents quest specifically to hoard them away from TBoS, why yes mister "Elder" Sir I will definitely, totally, inform you when I find a way into the Institute. Lol. Thanks for the power armour and energy weapons, losers 🤪🤙