#ur faves could never

[gunsatthaphan]

#smooth.

[cephalopodsquad]

i love when taz is allowed to be a sicko and a hater

[qprstobin]

Tommy Hagan I love youuuuuuu people who call you ugly just jealous that you got to press Steve against a car and be horny about it and they didn't

[firelise]

When she fucking points to perrie and jade in the audience…

[abnormalpsychology]

the indigo girls were right because HOW LONG TIL MY SOUL GETS IT RIGHT.

[jonathanbyersphd]

[fumifooms]

Thinking about them…

[dykedvonte]

why do you hate Joshua Graham or Honest Hearts so much?

This DLC and character represents a bigger issue with fandom spaces I have but particularly fallout fandom in general.

Fallout tends to tackle a lot of topics controversial and not. The first two games it’s heavy cause they are the most satirical and direct with how anti-war, nationalism and etc… they are. 3 loses this as it’s very clear once you play or learn about all the games that Todd and a bunch of guys at Bethesda just liked the 50s post apocalyptic aesthetic and refuse to actually critique the ideals of the time period like the earlier titles.

New Vegas is the game that really gets back into it a degree it almost seems like it’s taking too much on. There are things done exceedingly well while other things are done horribly wrong . I’ve made posts about it before and plan to make a big series of posts (it’s a lot of writing) but my biggest gripe is with Honest Hearts and all the gross and white savior esque depictions it has of indigenous peoples. The entirety if FNV does not do the injustices faced by indigenous people correctly on any count. My two biggest complaints are with the Khans and the tribes in Zion but I’ll talk about the former on a different post.

Both characters of Daniel and Joshua are the most accurate depiction of white saviors I’ve seen and I hate how the DLC tries to justify and defend them. The DLC treats Joshua like this man who has repented for his past actions when he is just retracing his steps after his cruelty bit him in the ass. He was one of the worst parts of the Legion and it is all but explicitly stated that if you don’t force him to be non-violent he will turn the tribes of Zion into the legion 2.0. The Dead Horses and the Sorrows are horribly infantilized by both Daniel and Joshua who both use them for self serving purposes guised by religious duty. The White Legs are the horrible stereotype of violent and savage indigenous and I personally think a lot of their interlinking with Ulysses, his hair and Ulysses character in general are distasteful and very telling of how BIPOC or POC where involved.

But outside of the game it’s the weird obsession people have with these characters ideologies and trying to make them seem more interesting/philosophical than they are. Tumblr is an echo chamber and many fans of Fallout are not the people on this site. Many people are not educated in the issues these characters convey and how poorly they do or used these characters as a poor introduction for their takes. Contrary to what a lot of people believe in, fallout has a prediomeny white cis male fanbase. More importantly a large portion of the fanbase is white.

You can joke how FNV made you trans or see the numbers on post/fics or diverse headcanons but these are kiddy numbers compared to the millions that consume the franchise and aren’t in those more aware spaces or don’t engage in the spaces the same way someone like me does/has to. Their views shape a lot more than people realize and it’s exhausting to be in a space where people don’t correct the more subtle yet toxic aspects of it but also adopt them into some weird quirky view point on the characters or issues. Some people don’t realize and some people don’t care.

My main issue is just the idolizing of these sort of thing in this fandom space and people try to acts like a game like fallout whose tagline is “War never changes” and has never had a game not revolve around political or militaristic factions issues isn’t that deep or doesn’t relate to real issues. I think it’s mainly caused by how over powered you can become and how you can strong arm your way past these learning moments as majority of people who play this game do play it as a power fantasy where they can do so as they please (which of course, go ahead it’s fun) but never take in parallels or lessons in the story as if it was just another first person shooter.

Also like another personal gripe is Cazadores spawn like hell whenever I’m there and I have not found a mod that works to mod them out so I have to play Indigenous Racism the DLC while getting jumped by giant wasps WHILE helping Mormons. Like I cannot catch a break.

[saint-jussy]

This dramatic ass display for 1789 in the Swiss National Museum 😭

[acebytaemin]

my beautiful friends recommending songs.. There’s literally nothing better on this earth.

[poppyseed799]

yknow I get the frustration when a character is ooc in a fanfic but my LEAST favorite thing people say is like. When it’s like “this fic is an AU where this character is evil” and ALL of the criticism of the fic is “she’s just so out of character… doesn’t the author know she would never hurt anyone?!?!” like. My guy. Why do you think it’s an AU. Do you think the world would just be better if nobody ever tried to write her being evil. If every fic was perfectly in character then the only types of fics we could get would be ones where the setting is completely different otherwise it’s all exactly like canon. Live in a world where she would freaking say that okay. Just for a second.

[novafloofeatsbirds]

MY FLOWER FACE MERCH CAME IN THE MAIL :DDDDDDDDD

[waltwhitmansbeard]

lmao

in case y'all were wondering what i was talking about in that one post

[jonathanbyersphd]

Sometimes a sibling trio can be a self-proclaimed freak with a slight weed addiction, a boy who was demonically possessed and committed accidental homicide, and a girl with psionic abilities ❤️

[fappellmoan]

bitch 😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑 get UP!!!!!

[cafephan]

i like how dan and phil have come to accept that any crumb of content they give us can and will be used against them