#all girl arcade

[astrosoldweb]

Icons from spark city world

[fallout-lou-begas]

i am almost constantly thinking about the mountain of implication, characterization, and insanely fucked up unspoken and unknown stories that are packed into the single paragraph of this ending slide for arcade gannon

[edorazzi]

More Thunderbirds Are Go! With an idea I couldn't shake; Kayo being the only one qualified to escort Penny to society events and "discourage" potential suitors (while shamelessly stealing Gordon's girl)! 🌸🗡️

The boys are all cute but Scott will have half a drink then idly drop some unhinged traumatic experience into polite conversation; Virgil will start lowkey stalking the unvaccinated guests; John hasn't come out of hiding since the Charity Auction Incident™; Gordon will free the buffet crabs into the ocean before showing off "cool" x-rays from the time he broke every bone in his body; and Alan will eat too many desserts, feel ill, then end up hiding under the table to play video games. Kayo is Penny's only hope of preserving any dignity! 😮‍💨

[dykedvonte]

idk if you've written any head cannons about this before but i'm curious what your thoughts are on arcades previous relationships

I think this is a very interesting question because we can even know if he had previous relationships? I don't know if you want platonic or romantic, so I will answer vague enough to fit both.

Arcade is a man that wants to be reserved and self-assured. When he first vaguely tells you about his past you can 100% tell he is very mournful of something and I really think its partly him not knowing his place in the world and being incredibly lonely. One of the ways you can recruit him is literally just by being gay and showing interest. That's not someone who is used to having deep, long lasting relationships of any kind. He never mentions friends his age growing up or otherwise and he is honest (once he opens up) about how he is considred too young to be taken seriously by the older remanents when enlisting their help (Imagine like trying to be friends with your much older aunts and uncles who like wiped your ass).

He is desperately trying to find a place and I feel like that applies to being among people as well, I mean he does hide himself in a tent with the followers. When I think of his past relationships I think of fleeting hook-ups or abrupt endings with him often being the one to do the skedaddling or walk of shame to wherever he was residing at the time. I say shame becasue I know he'd want to stay and get close but he's just too scared. It's understandable when 75% of the factions would want you dead due to your family lineage... even if you had no part of their actions. He has so much baggage and hang-ups I don't think he thinks it'd be worth it to unpack that with a friend or lover.

But since your asking what I personally think his fleeting, wasteland relationships were like here's my thoughts:

Most of his relationships (friendships and otherwise) started occurring later in his like, likely his early to mid-twenties. He had seen Enclave remnants be hunted and those who survived did so by staying alone...

His first friend was a wasteland girl who liked how well-read he was. It wasn't so much a traditional friendship but like two people who frequent the same places a lot. He provided the closest thing she was getting to an education and she provided pleasant conversation.

They barely knew anything deeper than each other's names or the topics they discussed but Arcade had never had a non-enclave friend before so it meant everything to him.

She was inspired to get a formal education and do something with her life and thanked Arcade before leaving to go do that. Arcade liked the feeling of helping and sought out ways to do that.

His first kiss is actually how he got into the followers in my head. It was the first chance he took to form a relationship outside the remnants and he wanted to follow him (him as in his lover). He wanted to join a diplomatic Follower group in the NCR and Arcade was terrified of being that close.

Following the last point it was a big blowout fight because Arcade refused to explain why he didn't beyond "Aren't we fine here?" and received a very harsh reading about his inability to open up.

His first actual boyfriend was a king gang member that liked to brag about how he was dating the smartest follower on this side of the wasteland. Arcade felt bad cause he knew he was only dating the guy cause he was crushing on The King at the time and the guy made him feel good with all the praise.

He broke it off under the guise that his work made him feel like he was being neglectful to their relationship and due to the kings' strong sense of duty/principles he understood

Gave Arcade his fav hair comb as a token of no hard feelings and Arcade felt extra bad cause it was like the one real and safe feeling relationship he had and he hated it was built on lies and half-truths.

Hence why he only tells the Courier half-truths, both is too much

After that he made a rule to only have FWBs and casual friends.

This worked as well as you think it did for a man like Arcade.

Most of the people he "dated" (weird coy flirting until he shut them out when they asked something deeper) were all people who wanted to go somewhere with him. He has a deep desire to live, experience and find himself but never has the courage to commit

This explains why you can so easily recruit him with flirting and promising to whisk him away into adventure. (Daddy issues much?)

All his "friends" were either the socially weird Followers who never asked much or people who were passing through and wouldn't question the random guy they hung out with for a bit knows too much about energy weapons or power armor or that old defunct faction that almost killed everyone with evil water... twice.

Silly Headcanons is he loves to rag and joke and is a little shit. He has a chip on his shoulder about how smart he is but he's never a direct jerk about

Not a touchy friend but he clings and hovers around partners and people he has a romantic interest in. Hand brushes, pats, standing close, and wanting to be very involved. Sad but he really wants a connection and even a small sign is enough to make him lose his sensibilities.

He hates it but he knows he's touch and emotionally starved so sometimes he allows himself to get a little lost in the love sauce.

Prefers friends and partners that are a little dumber than him. This has nothing to do with anything, dude is just attracted to idiots platonically or romantically.

This post is long just because I need to explain just how I think these characters think. Arcade is a guy who wants to be gay and own a garden and drink a glass of non-irrated wine with his friends while snarking to his partner. But he's also affliated with violent war crimminals and genocidal factins and settles for just trying to give that life to someone else.

[fluffytheocelot]

honestly homophobic of netflix to remove the interactive with the julethief canon events in it

AND ON THE DAY CARMEN ESCAPES VILE NO LESS 😒

rip To Steal or Not To Steal. you had the entire fandom in a chokehold over that ending <3

[blue-eli]

Ink October day 3: Sophistry

An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.

[igottatho]

fanart, this is a snapshot I made for my #fnv comic ... still working on it.

[heckcareoxytwit]

Mettle tries to relax himself from his trauma by surfing on the waves by himself. Unfortunately, because of his nervousness and his rusty (*pun groan*) surfing skills, Mettle falls off his surfing board and he nearly drowns in the water as his skin turns into metallic Iridium. Devil Dinosaur alerts Lunella Lafayette to go outside and save Mettle from drowning. Even though Mettle is too heavy for Devil Dinosaur to lift him up, Lunella manages to save the young man by using her ice blaster to make him float as an ice block. Later, Mettle wakes up in bed and panics again when he sees the robot version of Arcade hovering near him. Carol Danvers and Hazmat come into the lab from hearing the commotion. Both Carol and Hazmat scold Lunella for using a robot version of his murderer near a traumatized Mettle.

Sigh....Lunella, using a robot version of a supervillain near a traumatized person is always insensitive.

Avengers Academy: Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic #20, 2024

[illuminaddyy]

2 fallen angels and chappell roan walk into a bar:

[charmac]

X

[astrosoldweb]

SPARK CITY WORLD BY ALL GIRL ARCADE REWRITE WHEN????

[spotaus]

I have 5 genders: Dark Academia, Wizard, 1920s Animator, Arcade Carpet, and As Close to masc as I can get Before my Parents Start Pointing it Out. Which one I am on any given day is Russian roulette baby!

[twink-between-worlds]

“people are inherently mean and bad” a stranger came up to us today just bc she thought our hair + outfit was cool and wanted to tell us.

[fingertipsmp3]

No one:

Me: does anyone want to hear what my sims family did today

[wonderwolffs]

Susie_Wolff: Spending International Women's Day with inspirational women. Thank you to @F1Arcade for hosting us this evening and for creating a space for women to come together to discuss their power and potential. #IWD2023

[ziracona]

The scenes the things companions will say to me in NV create is unreal because I went to say last goodbyes before the finale and Cass was like “Mmmm look I don’t mean to offend you bc I know where your sympathies lie, but I don’t think the Followers should run New Vegas,” & Arcade who just had a whole event last week where he went “Look obviously you’re going NCR and I guess I’m okay with that. I think the Enclave could help.” and I agreed and we talked about why I made that choice and about life and the future and politics and said our goodbyes dramatically to each other in mutual admiration, will be 5ft away on his way out the door to treat the wounded like we agreed on and just hear that like