#tony speaks

[tincantony]

olimar: eeeyikes! I’ve got to “pick” these “men” before the sun goes down tonight! i wouldn’t want to get eaten!

the foul snagret:

[tony-andonuts]

My name is Zak Bagans

[thetonyestark]

Got stuck in some wiring. Hate to ask for help, but… help?

[tincantony]

while this is definitely an interesting take on things, you’ve got to remember that the mutants made on the east coast are completely separate from those on the west coast- instead of being created by The Master these guys were created by the Vault 87 scientists (in 3), the Institute (in 4), and West Tek (in 76). it makes perfect sense why they would be idiots- they’ve got no guiding force, no prime directive. for all they know, their only goal is to create more mutants. that’s why examples of friendly mutants on the East Coast (Fawkes and Uncle Leo in 3, Strong in 4, and Graham in 76) are treated as shocking by Bethesda- they have no reason to be the way they are.

There's a question which the west coast Fallout games are quietly litigating, which is that age-old gotcha about what you do with the remaining orcs once you've deposed Sauron. In the original Fallout, the Super Mutants are basically universally aligned against the quote-unquote "good guys," for whatever value of that term is applicable to the wasteland at large, but subsequent games make it clear that this was an ideological thing, and a product of the political moment of the mutants creation rather than an ontological quality that they have. The game is very aware that this is something that was done to them, and the tragedy of that; the first mutant you're likely to run into is dying scared and alone.

Fallout 2 presents super mutants who've broken in every direction ideologically in the aftermath of the Unity's collapse; the peacemakers under Marcus at Broken Hills, Gond as a member of the abolitionist NCR rangers, reactionary remnants of the original mutant army, genocidal self-hating fascists like Frank Horrigan. Fallout: New Vegas iterates on this beautifully. The mutants dovetail perfectly with the theme of how every faction in the wasteland is trying and oftentimes failing to reckon with the weight of history. Their utopian movement imploded outside of living memory, closer to the apocalypse than to the present day. The survivors- who can only dwindle in number due to their sterility- have been left to reckon with that in whatever way they can. And they have their backs to about a hundred and twenty years of that reckoning not going particularly well, of being the bugbear and boogeymen for bullies and ideologues whose grandparents weren't even alive to suffer from the Unity's actions. The lack of a collective future for mutantkind casts a pall over even the best ending for Jacobstown; humans are collectively resilient within this setting, but through violence, and accidents, dementia and senility, the day will inevitably come when there are no mutants left. And worse still will be the day before that, when there's only one mutant left. Finding some form of satisfaction or contentment within that dwindling window, with the world against you, is a task that falls to the individual mutant. (Take Mean Sonovabitch, for example. He seems to be doing alright for himself.)

Then we slide on over to the east coast games, where the mutants are.... morons. Cannibals. Marauders. And when you meet one who isn't, the game throws itself a ticker-tape parade for containing such an audacious twist. To go back to the orc thing, it's like if The Hobbit had contained a lengthy, empathetic subplot about the rich internality and fleshed-out-if-deeply-flawed ideology of the orcs, and then there was a pivot to treating them like a monolithic block of ontologically evil marauders in LOTR. While staring you straight in the eye the whole time, unblinking. Daring you to say something

[pleaseletmestaydead]

At this point, I don't know if I want to be free or locked up somewhere safe from the world.

[moreliketonysnark]

Still here, still queer, still exist WOO

I'm not as into "blogging" (as the young'uns call it 😉) anymore, but just wanted to update that we're more likely than not doing just swell!

So yeah, even if I don't post much here, it's not because a meteor blew us all up. Unless that IS the case, if so then I'll find a way to post an update from beyond the grave, trust 🙏

Also Pete is still here too he says hi as well! Good kid.

[t-slash-ony]

Selfship win! My brother had a dream where my YasuTony art got so popular on Tumblr that everyone started shipping us and making fanart of us

[tincantony]

i do not have a brain. instead, i have a jolly little medieval monk in my head who guffaws at jokes, imparts wisdom, and partakes in a bit too much of the monastery’s mead

[tony-andonuts]

i amn goung crazy I need this man carnally

[thetonyestark]

Gotta say… the multiverse is wild.

[tincantony]

Flowey: NO! YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO OBEY ME!

The 7 Pikmin Souls:

[tincantony]

monobutt millie my beloved...

comm from @honeyswells

[tincantony]

hi! im tincantony!

im 19, and i use he/him pronouns!

and this is my oc maggie! if you want to draw her, lmk- im willing to discuss!

have a good day B)

if you want to contact me, you can use either tumblr messenger or my gmail- despyfromteamfortress2@gmail.com

here's a playlist inspired by her below!

[tincantony]

blue shift best expansion confirmed. barney fans keep winning

half life fans are so annoying about the hecu. waa waa the poor soldiers were probably so confused and scared 😢 my favourite part is when the soldier boys get burned up into a crisp by the big alien and also blasting them with a shotgun at point range yay!!

[tincantony]

every time i commission a piece of art i feel like a mad scientist creating a homunculus

[tony-andonuts]

I think im finally going to rehab LETSGOOOOOOOOO