#misc fallout

[orange-coloredsky]

as a Wretched East Coast Fan i will always always side with Stuck Up West Coast Fans wrt the themes and functionality of fallout as a series because frankly in comparison (and excluding some of my longtime mutuals) i have never felt more scrutinized and unwelcome than in hypersensitive 3/4/76 spaces that see any frustration or expressions of negativity at the state of the franchise as an attack on community wellbeing.

seeing a passion of mine for the past 10 years -- digging into the worlds of fallout and their political explorations, or lack-thereof -- be reduced to "fandom wank" and an inability to let people have fun is disheartening. and honestly demeans the exceptional amount of time, energy, and thought me & MANY others have put into piecing together lore and themes and creating interpretive meta.

i understand this seems like A Lot for people who may have just started following me but this is not the first nor will it be the last time well-established critiques of the later fallout games made by people of color or queer people have been reduced to fandom drama and im kind of fucking sick of it. and honestly im kinda tired of being nice about it

[frumentariae]

What if Carla was alive out there and didn't have any memories. What if she was Courier Six. What if she wore a mask and and eyepatch and slayedddd. She doesn't remember her first name, only "Boone" and that she hates the Legion.

[obliviongate]

ah yes, my favourite fallout new vegas character

[great-sketch-pectations]

Lucy Goosey love of my life

[videogamepolls]

Requested by anon

[calder]

For we can always see and feel much that the people in old photos and newsreels could not: that their clothing and automobiles were old-fashioned, that their landscape lacked skyscrapers and other contemporary buildings, that their world was black ... and white ... and haunting ... and gone. --Learning History in America by Lloyd S. Kramer, Donald Reid, William L. Barney

[asleepinawell]

can't believe tumblr is now more functional than twitter that was not on my bingo card for the year

[hannahwashington]

I think it would've been really cool if Travis or Magnolia had more quests associated with them. You go and fetch new music for Travis by finding still-surviving vinyls in wacky places (after delivering them he plays new songs), and you help Magnolia and her band (she has a full, fleshed-out band in this scenario) find a way to record new music. The radios and music are a pretty iconic part of modern Fallout so being able to interact with it more would've been sweet.

[lone-star-shine-down]

Feeling normal about my Sole Survivor tonight

[ruvviks]

↳ GAMES PLAYED IN 2022

[fereldanwench]

🏡 sanctuary hills → the banner household, october 2077

[orange-coloredsky]

idk i feel like its pretty obvious why bigots like fallout. at least modern fallout. post apocalypse power fantasy is like a conspiratorial conservative's wet dream. people unironically believe the brotherhood of steel is the only faction "equipped" to survive the wasteland for a reason. also the racism but i feel like ive beat that dead horse enough

[frumentariae]

he's my funny honey 💖🤓

based on another leyendecker piece

[obliviongate]

I know the night just got darker, but it won't last forever.

[nukaposting]

i've been keeping this ask in my inbox for at least a year because i don't have the heart to let go of it