#i will get there at some point hh

[depoteka]

decided to make myself gloves for winter. decided that crocheted gloves will be too bulky and chose to knit them instead. failed to work in a circle without creating gaps in between despite many attempts

[ryllen]

x

[rbtlvr]

'Is this like an Alice in Wonderland thing?' Leo called out, paddling towards Sensei and trying not to swallow water as he moved. 'Did you cry all these tears?' 'The mindscape does love a good metaphor.' Sensei called back, and he sounded fucking wrecked.

old dead bones that don't get theirs (death wish sidefic by @remedyturtles) was written to kill me, specifically, personally, actually. i still think about it Constantly

[hyunpic]

🩷💓💗💞💕💞💘💖

[newvegascowboy]

Ok. Look. I can understand why people come away from Honest Hearts thinking it was "fine" and that Joshua Graham was a fine deuteragonist and that he had a fine redemption arc. Maybe Honest Hearts wasn't a shining jewel in the crown of fallout new vegas like some other DLCs, but it was "fine".

The narrative in HH presents all these things as being true. If you're doing a surface level analysis of the game, you look at what they tell you and you see that Joshua has changed his ways, left the legion, and is helping a tribe defend themselves and you think, oh, cool. He sounds great. He even has a cool animation and a cool voice, and he says cool things. Good Guy.

This is supported by the game itself. Joshua is listed in the wiki as having good karma, for God's sake! None of the characters have anything bad to say about him, except for Caesar, who we have already established as a Bad Guy.

When people come away from Honest Hearts thinking Joshua is a redeemed hero and the DLC was fine, i fucking get it. The problem comes in when your analysis stops at the surface/in game level.

Because the narrative itself presents Joshua as the redeemed hero, you have to begin to assume that the problematic aspects of the DLC come from a metatextual level, and if you are (usually!) White person, this tends not to clue in until later. (And for transparencies sake, i am also a white person so i am by no means trying to present myself as an authoritative figure on why HH sucks ass). White fans may have no desire to examine HH at a metatextual level because the racism baked into the DLC just flies under their radar. For them, the DLC was fine. This is the very definition of privilege.

Fallout has had a racism problem since the beginning. The writers of the DLC wrote a racist narrative because of their own unexamined biases. Joshua Graham is not a redeemed hero, he (and Daniel) are propping themselves up as white saviors. He is doing exactly what he did in the Legion. The game caves to the "noble savage" stereotype and has them speaking in broken english. Once you realize that, it becomes very very hard to analyze HH outside of that perspective. When indigenous fans plainly tell you what's wrong with HH, it is no longer up to you to argue.

If you like HH, then like, fine. If you think Joshua Graham is cool then whatever. But trying to claim that Honest Hearts is what it isn't is just annoying at best and irresponsible at worst. Acknowledging why something is bad is better than getting uncomfortable and refusing to engage with the problematic aspects of the game because it makes you uncomfortable.

[sysig]

The brainworms are winning, clearly (Patreon)

[byanyan]

finally going through my likes to collect all the asks i've wanted to reply to since fucking april to add them into my drafts

i'm. i'm trying to at least start getting my shit together here. i've felt the strong urge to give writing a shot since yesterday, so. i'm gonna see about potentially doing some tonight? maybe?? still teetering on the edge of falling into Bad Thoughts when i let my mind wander too far, so idk how long the attempt will last or if it'll be successful, but.

[soranker]

What’s the biggest emotional gut punch you’ve ever gotten from a show?

AHH i wish i had a good answer for this but i havent watched a lot of shows lately and im wracking my brain to remember if i had a strong reaction like that to anything i've watched in the past... ive def watched sad stuff that hit me in the heart but not enough to feel like a gut punch......

BAHA ok this gonna sound predictable but fr when i got to the end of volume 10 of trigun maximum i stopped reading for a couple of days LMFAOO T_T maybe even a week. i just reread that same chapter over and over again for a while lol

[plugnuts]

Where was this writing energy when I was still writing zero_one?

[rubra-wav]

BOO! I'm back!♦️

I literally can't wait to see the smut you mentioned in the future, I am STARVED for x AMAB reader content in general with Hazbin, let alone with VOX 👐

I never see x AMAB reader stuff so I'm excited!

I have an OC question too alongside that! What's the shapeshifting thing in the ability thingo refer to with him??

That drawing of him looking really pissed off and telling someone to not touch what's his is also me with food

Nah, you fr for that, that's why I'm set on writing alternate chapters for both AFAB and AMAB reader for it when we get there haha.

And as for the shapeshiting - as Atlas is made of wires and metal underneath the layer of stuff resembling skin and he can manipulate metal, he uses that that way

Usually he makes himself taller and more intimidating during a fight - it's also kinda creepier too because since he's stretching out his wires and metal business is exposed in the process (I gotta draw it at some point but I just have not had the spoons for proper art at all these past few days)

Also:

[kazumahashimoto]

partial bernie family reveal

[scattered-winter]

crazy how I literally have no energy to do anything ever like isn't that totally wild (my life is literally in shambles)

[miodiodavinci]

feeling tired and weepy , , , ,

[entropys]

:/

[designernishiki]

hot take (aka headcanon) but I kinda think that nishiki and kiryu’s relationship pre-split wasn’t on both sides platonic/familial or fully romantic; I feel like nishiki had a thing for him (not sure if he fully realized it though) and that he had developed feelings for kiryu over the course of a good long time that were deeply confusing on their own, but even more so considering they would’ve been hard to sort out with what could just be attributed to close friendship or a familial-type bond.

and on the other side of this, kiryu was utterly oblivious and never thought to question what they had as being anything other than a close friendship or familial-type relationship or whatever it was being called out loud (we know kiryu, he’s blunt as hell and takes things at face value– not the best at reading between the lines) hence why the split between them, though both were clearly hurt a ton by it, hit nishiki harder and more acutely– because on top of losing the most important person in his life, which is bad enough, it would’ve crushed any tiny shred of hope he may have had to live out his long-time, perhaps even since-childhood fantasy of being by kiryu’s side forever as his one true confidant, in a more intimate way than as a friend.

[theoddest1]

Lmaoooo

Edit:

Samantha is a Story Artist, Animator, and Animation BFA who works for Viv on both HH and HB.

2nd Edit: Some of y'all need to chill in the comments with certain things you say. It ain't finna make any point come across decently with how you spread some info. I get being mad at some of the reactions, don't get me wrong, but bring it back down slow plz.