#cause i dont follow the rules

[dykedvonte]

An independent Courier would actually hate being in charge or enforcing standards in New Vegas. At least in my mind.

They made Vegas independent but I feel like that playthrough/style so clearly makes it apparent it isn't for them. They are making Vegas a place where people can live freely, like how House genuinely didn't care what people did but without the behind-the-scenes Big Brother surveillance he did. Having every family, faction, and other influence group or person comes to them about alliances or rules would be draining, and boring, one note.

In an independent Vegas, The Courier is also Independent. They like getting rid of lines and borders that impede freedom, they like to help give people the tool but I don't believe they want to be the one to shape it.

[lord-squiggletits]

One of my least favorite parts of how JRO wrote Optimus is that he wanted so badly to continue his dark and gritty world building making the Autobots problematic, but evidently couldn't reconcile this with Optimus being a Heroic Paragon, so instead he leaned way too hard into "oh Prowl was the one who did this and it was behind Optimus' back" which if anything I think makes Optimus look worse, not better. Because then it's like, okay I know Optimus trusted Prowl a lot as his friend but you CANNOT TELL ME that over the course of 4 million years, Optimus as the leader of the Autobot army who literally would have access to 99.9% of all the records they produce, would never notice or question where some of these odd/inconsistent details were pointing. It just seems really inconsistent with how a real military would actually function, especially regarding Optimus' character, who is incredibly thorough and responsible and wouldn't neglect to keep up with all the details of his army.

Hell, Optimus knows who the Wreckers are and had them on call for tricky operations when he needed them (Stormbringer) so he's literally not at all ignorant of/averse to the use of special wartime units composed of dubious individuals. He's the fucking commander of an entire army, of course he knows that War Is Hell (TM) and no one's hands are clean. That's not even getting into all the stuff he got up to in phase 2/3, I mean everything from the annexation of Earth to OP breaking humans out of prison against Council orders shows that Optimus is no stranger to immoral and/or unlawful means.

It also leads to a lot of annoying fanon where people write Optimus (sometimes unintentionally, sometimes not) as like some sort of ignorant fool who's unaware of the machinations of his own army or has some sort of naiveté of "b-but we can't use bad tactics against the enemy! I would never condone the use of morally gray means in war!" No, IDW Optimus knows perfectly well all of the bullshit he's enacted/condoned for the sake of trying to win the war. Some stuff is definitely out of character for him and was only machinated because of Prowl, but I think this fandom REALLY underestimates Optimus' personal agency/responsibility as the commander of a whole ass army and ESPECIALLY underestimates Optimus' capacity to condone morally gray Bullshit Of War while still being a good person individually as well as, comparatively, the lesser evil compared to Megatron/the Decepticons.

Anyways what I'm saying is JRO may be a good writer but he's really hesitant to make Optimus morally gray and does some asspulls sometimes to justify most of the bad things the Autobots did as "Optimus just didn't know," and since the majority of the IDW1 fandom only reads JRO's stuff they go running with this premise of ignorant/uninformed Optimus when there's evidence elsewhere in canon to show that Optimus is, in fact, very highly aware of the bullshit he's allowed "for the greater good" and the only stuff he was "unaware of" was the stuff he would literally never agree to the ethics of, like bombing innocent neutrals disguised as Decepticons to get them to join the Autobots.

[zapsoda]

you can easily seduce the way i write letters just by looking at my handwriting huh

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Basically the entire character of Red at this point with everything Disney releases with her in it:

[stolememory]

a lil doodle of Mora manifesting to the LDB using a dragon skeleton, because I love the concept of how horrifying that might be hehe

[ilovettrpgs]

rip Magnus Carter you would have loved causing problems for the general public and also not having mad cow syndrome

[savoureuxx]

btw i hope you guys know that even though i don't usually click like on personal posts i am liking them in my heart and soul. im just kind of neurotic about keeping my number of likes low and only liking things that i intend to come back to. i use it like a bookmark feature. so whenever you post a vent or a joke or whatever, just know that mentally and emotionally and spiritually im sending you a heart.

[mbat]

i saw this meme format and i had to do it with them im not sorry

[5-htagonist]

if i head the words "jesus" "sacrifice" and "himself" in a sentence again ill scream.

[hyah-lian]

I forgot theres like 3 schools that all let out where I had to go lol getting a forced break/snack time until all the busses and cars from them are gone lol

[avsandflyboys]

Like they really gave him NOTHING not even a major penalty not even a fine not even a pity hearing they said nah fuck that

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[meatriarchived]

not me finding the maria insta tribute page and falling into another round of shambles-

the photos & letters she sent home while traveling, the one addressed to ana, the mentions of johnny, the fact one of the captions notes she sent them not only to family but also to her friends, their last little pieces of her,

also not one of them mentioning how shes been a cold case for 49 years- sobbing

[perceivedpast2]

So I've finally gotten around to making my Nessie Cullen blog 👀 fair warning there's no rules or proper links sorted but I'll work on that later tomorrow after work 😅 (it'll also be a little while before she's fully set up to write) but if you want you're welcome to follow mylittlenudger ❤️

[sophiethewitch1]

I understand thinking people complaining about never getting Lumine content is annoying, even though I don’t agree with it but like.... hating Lumine herself?? What the fuck?? Why are you like that actually??? My girl has only been wronged and you think shes in the wrong??? I am anti YOU!!!

[orcelito]

Tho ex assistant manager aka miss bitch, her boyfriend came in. Or ex boyfriend at the time, except he used her rewards account & I had to see her name (ughhh), so I'm like. Are they back together? Who fuckin knows

Anyways I had to make a drink today that possibly went towards the person that holds the #3 spot for most hated in my personal life. I was Slightly tempted to spit in it, but I did not.