#pre-dlc

[artnoutdraws]

[2024/06/13] St. Trina

I drew this 3 hours past my usual bedtime (i.e. the perfect time to draw the Saint of Sleep)

(Obviously, this was before the DLC came out so her canon design was not yet known)

[bayboyzone]

follow the leader

[bongosinferno]

A devastating and confusing thing about the Fallout setting, when you explore the pre-war aspects, is what the creators think about pre-war America. In the first games we only get hints of the pre-war world, but they seem to be some sort of wild fascist nation invading Canada. In Fallout 1, the first thing we're introduced to of the pre-war society is seeing a soldier shoot civilians and laughing.

Now, for the first 2 games and New Vegas we don't really know much. What we know is that there's a fascist military group known as the enclave who were a sort of US deep state even before the war, and that the government teamed up with corporate interests to preform vaguely MKULTRA-ish experiments with the Vaults. Basically, the government was an extreme version of the 50s American jingoism and McCarthyism.

This is well and dandy, I guess issues come up more when we get to the later games, especially 4, where it seems like none of this extreme plotting and societal civil unrest which would exist is seen. The society as presented in 4 also seems quite progressive, gay people are featured in the opening, and none of the baggage of say, civil rights not existing are included. Now on a baseline, I don't want settings to be more conservative, homophobic and sexist etc., but it becomes a very confusing setting when it's displayed both as this jingoist extreme thing with fascist tendencies aswell as a progressive place where everyone is seemingly equal. If you're focusing on the 50s as your setting, and American nationalism in the 50s, then you can't have McCarthyism spoofs and anti-communism as a societal paranoia norm while also general equality is the norm without misunderstanding why McCarthyism and nationalist jingoism is bad. A massive harm done in anti-communist paranoia is how it degrades and vilifies any progressive movements (women's rights, civil rights, homosexuality) as being morally un-American and therefore connected to communism. To ignore this just makes any critique of MacCarthyism and jingoism weird!

Basically, pre-war America in Fallout 4 becomes this both sides thing where America is both pure and equal and white fences in every instance that we see as the player (the intro), while also supposedly being this dystopic MacCarthyist hellscape that's broadcasting gladly about their war crimes in Canada, and wants to root out communism. I guess the only fix for this issue without getting into the fine print like they had to do is just not to focus too much on the pre-war world.

[epicfroggz]

I stared at Messmer for a very long time (hcs under cut!)

Messmer theories/hcs with a 106 day warranty:

His upper, longer snake is female and called Sevika, while the lower snake is male and called Sevarche.

They were embedded into him when he was young, stunting his spine’s elongation, hence why his limbs are disproportionately longer.

He is bastard son of Marika with Radagon, back when Godfrey was Elden Lord and Radagon was wed to Rennala. Order-wise, he was born after the Omen twins.

Due to the heretical nature of his powers, Marika wanted him gone for good. She sent him on a “quest” in the Land of Shadow, to which his soul departed and his body was left behind. Then, Marika had his body sliced into many pieces which were scattered in mausoleums across the Lands Between (the walking mausoleums we know today). Because of this, he can never return.

When he discovered this fact long ago, he razed the Land of Shadow with his flame. While he is still angry that he was abandoned, he holds a distant hope that if he continues to get stronger and carry out his mother’s bidding, burning those without grace, she may allow him to return.

In his efforts to attain power, he slew all the dragons in the Land of Shadow and ate their hearts. When he did so, his snakes acquired aspects of dragons as well.

He has a fiery temper (pun intended).

He is ambidextrous.

[puhpandas]

Puppet Boy

[nereeitor]

Timothy Lawrence, NOT Handsome Jack

[leal-hound]

and it was your heart on the line-

[sbeep]

A little redraw of something. Happy skyrim day.

[unknowngamingthings]

Looking for edit footage and I found this absolute gem in the Claptastic Voyage trailer.

This goofy ass dance is now taking up space in my brain.

[rinisdrawing]

amidst the ruin

[chipistrate]

LET’S GOOOOOOOO

[funkbun]

lookin at some older stuff again and it was so funny when the dlc came out and revealed who Alegander was cause i was instantly like "OH SHIT!! THAT'S THE GUY IT'S THE GUY I KNOW HIM I DREW HIM LIKE A YEAR AGO WAA!!!"

(this second image was drawn in 2021 as stated in the previous drawin)

im still surprised that i was Kinda, Slightly right about his whole deal (being on Snaktooth but not with Lizbert's expedition, he has a snak pet guy with Joey, and that he's a loser lmao)

[the-cpu-system]

Scrapped the full thing bc it didn't make sense but holy shit look at her T girl swag

[magpie-come-east]

Full offense, but if people are saying that the treatment of the Hornsent and their story remind them of real life atrocities maybe just shut your mouth and let them speak instead of stumbling over yourself to excuse the fictional genocider with ‘well actually you see it’s not the same at all because the Hornsent are ACTUALLY a barbaric race. I am very intelligent’

[asklesbianonceler]

Just cozy winter things ❄️🫰🏻

[puhpandas]

couldn’t stop thinking about if gregory will have a new design in ruin so here’s the one i keep imagining :)