#vault boy 2000

[errnimations]

This is a common occurrence.

[thefalloutwiki]

Concept Art by Leonard Boyarsky of the "Pip-Boy 2000" character, who's now known in the Bethesda Era games as the "Vault-Boy 2000" to likely avoid confusion with the in universe tech of the same name.

[deepthought-1]

Guys do NOT download the vault boy companion mod, its just pop up after pop up!!!

Extra ReYou doodles under cut :-2

[paul-simon-juggling]

Press Photo from One Trick Pony (1980)

Deleted scene where Jonah (Paul Simon) tells his son Matty (Michael Pearlman) a bedtime story.

[ghostreblogging]

Ngl this is a short one.

So Danny comes to Gotham. Down on his luck. But lo and behold, he still has access to the kingly vaults! He doesn't have to worry about money!!! He can just buy a small apartment and live out his miserable little life In luxury!

But then he is stopped on a horrible and a dark stump in his plan. How in the 7 hells is he gonna explain it to the IRS ??????

Money laundering????

Can't he just say he found a mysterious big pile of gold and be done with it?

No, Danny . How are you gonna explain the fact that you keep finding mysterious little gold files to the tax man . Jazz says emphatically through a video call . Which is a multi dimensional cuz I can't explain why sam wont just give him the money. And btw the just assume that the vaults has a magic function to give the money to him in the local currency.

Sso from that day onwards Gotham had a new little cafe in a quiet little nook. The prices are super cheap. And it by far has the best fudge in all of Gotham. If you exclude Alfred's.

The gothamites love it. It's a favorite college hangout. Everyone is pretty sure the cafe is a front. Everyone is 100% sure of it. But in this economy who the hell cares. At least it's not nfts.

People can actually benefit from this because we can get like a whole breakfast for like 4 dollars ( an au where like Danny's 2000s world is like super cheap compared to the modern Gotham city and nobody taught the poor boy common prices of this world. Danny's thinking like how do I keep accidentally going into these rich people stores with their ridiculous prices, Ughh guess I'll have to buy this I don't want to go farther) and the quality is good too. The scrawny little twink owner sure as hell does not know much about ingredients prices or did the bare minimum study of business.

Anyway when the bats came sniffing (the scrunkly little guy was innocent blame Fenton luck) and we'll tried to interrogate the owner people actually chained themselves to the front like the worlds most confused save the trees activists.

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so idk about you, but i say all the time "this panel has been living in my mind rent free" and the other night i got the idea to make a compilation of all the panels that have been doing that this month and see what picture that paints, but then also to do that for the next few months and see which panels stick around/what changes.

anyways, nobody asked for this and it may only be interesting to me but when i realized i had more than 30 images and that i'd have to stitch them together if i wanted it all in one post i def noticed some themes and that was super neat!!

might reblog later with commentary but for now i'm just going to share the panels/compilations and a brief summary. all source issues are listed left to right ;)

batman: urban legends # 5, legends of the dark knight #100

robin 80th anniversary 100-page super spectacular #1, batman and robin (2011) #14

batman: gotham knights #26, batgirl (2000) #34

batman: urban legends #18, batman: gotham knights #2

detective comics #572, from the dc vault: death in the family: robin lives! #1, justice league (2011) #19

nightwing (1996) #106, batman: urban legends #10, young justice (1998) #7

robin (1993) #10, nightwing (1996) #69, nightwing (1996) #25, azrael: agent of the bat #56, robin (1993) #133, detective comics #723, nightwing (1996) #96, teen titans (2003) #24

batman #455 (twice), robin (1993) #102, red robin #7, robin (1993) #132, adventure comics (2009) #3

titans/young justice: graduation day #2, robin (1993) #46, knight terrors: robin #2, batman (2016) #147 (yes i meant to put it three times), the boy wonder #4, batman (2016) #130

some stats:

34 total panels (timmy hands only counted once), 65% (22) post crisis, 6% (2) n52, 29% (10) rebirth onward.

22 separate titles (might be off by one or two but i think that's right), with robin (1993) getting the most rep, 5 panels. nightwing (1996) came in second with 4 panels, and then, batman: urban legends in third with 3.

i've also only read/re-read i think 6 of these recently? obvs robin lives and boy wonder, and then robin #132-133, adventure comics #3, and batman #455.

at a glance observations- shocker, there is so much tim lmao. i think about jason more than i think i do, kind of? like obviously ik i'm thinking about him a lot but it feels like more all laid out lol. lot of focus on grief/loss, not at all surprising. i think that damn "i fell from the moon" panel is never going to leave, bc ik for a fact that bad boy has been squatting since november of last year lmao. lil sprinkle of timkon. damian feels underrepresented *squints*, but this is also strictly panels i'm thinking of and not just like character thoughts. no dick and damian panels, that is interesting to me, bc i do think about them. the dick & tim, dick & jason, jason & tim focus, in that order too, makes a lot of sense.

seeing all of these put together feels like i reached into the junk drawer of my brain and organized it, very wild lmao

[purkinje-effect]

Thinking again how it would feel infinitely more realistic if any given installment of Fallout included multiple Pip-Boy models. Like, 2000, 2000-VI, 3000, 3000-IV, etc etc. Why is there only one model type visible in a given installment? Design simplicity? Surely, like how some people have the newest iPhone, and others still have their fifteen year old Razr, different models could've gotten scavenged. One area ever only getting a single model distributed feels... so unrealistic in a hyper-capitalist setting.

More NPCs should also have one. I know they're supposed to be incredibly rare (and potentially difficult to refurb/restore) but that doesn't mean it's prohibitively impossible for a non-Vault Dweller to have one. Esp. when NPCs on multiple occasions will insinuate you must've killed someone for the one you're currently wearing, or at the very least, someone died for you to get it.

I really wish we could see someone with a jury-rigged refurb Pip-Boy that's held together with bubblegum and spite. Someone whose Pip-Boy only works if it's plugged into a terminal. People with a newer or older model than the one your character's been given at the beginning. Being offered more chances than just the Pimp-Boy to change which one you've got.

It's kind of disappointing that 76 doesn't have Pip-Boy skins that make them look like other models, or even plans that let you craft other models that you can skin. (My line of thinking with this is many things--e.g. the Secret Service Underarmor, Binoculars, Jetpacks, etc.--come in multiple colors/patterns, but instead of recoloring the base one, you craft a new one. The ATX recolors for the Ranger Outfit feels pertinent precedent too somehow, but I can't put a finger on it.)

Anyway. More Pip-Boy variation within a single game setting pls.

[junesisbluenow]

Vault Boy 2000 is so silly OMG 😭😭

[mylastundeadbraincell]

my headcanon/theory is that cooper isn't really vault boy but that he did inspire its current design.

the pip-boy 2000 (from the classic fallout games) has a decal showing a vault boy with a different colour scheme, which may very well be an earlier design that predates cooper's involvement with vault-tec (since they switched to his iconic colours moving forward).

then, as we saw in the show, cooper became their new mascot, with his face appearing in tv commercials, in papers, on posters and billboards, etc...

but what happens when cooper decides to cut ties with vault-tec and (most likely) launch a campaign against them? they can't keep using his likeness, so what do they do? they revamp vault boy, giving him cooper's colour scheme (because by then they've already mass-produced all of their blue and gold vault suits) and the thumbs-up gesture that has probably already become iconic too.

[woodstoneb-b]

Hello and welcome to Woodstone Manor - I have been here since the beginning, this house growing up in my shadow. A majestic mighty tree that has stood the test of

Nah this is weird...I'm Jay Arondekar and this is all just a simulation. Because video games are awesome and so is this ability my wife, Sam has. She can see ghosts!

She inherited this house from her Great Aunt and after falling down the stairs and kind of dying for a bit - she got better! - she can see actually see and hear ghosts.

There's 8 of them haunting here (well...not exactly, but more on that later)

This is them! Well, almost all of them... From left to right - Trevor aka "No Pants" (fortunately this game doesn't let Sims go pantsless, but he absolutely insisted on me putting him in tiny underpants after this...weirdo.) He's a finance bro from 2000 - he worked at Lehman Brothers (yeah those guys), despite this he's not as shitty as you'd think.

Then there's Sasappis, he goes by Sass (a well deserved nickname my wife tells me), he's a Lanape who's tribe used to live on the land here and he died back in the 1500s. Despite that he really loves TV.

Next to him is Flower - and you can totally guess where she's from right? The 1960s. She died on the property after trying to hug a bear, drugs were involved. She's cool though, if a bit spacey.

The guy next to her is an honest to God Viking from like the year 1000. Did you know there were Vikings in New York?! I did not so this was pretty epic to find out. According to my wife the good news about Thorfinn aka Thor - he's learnt to speak English, the bad news - he talks a lot about murdering and pillaging, also cod, salmon...any fish really.

And your eyes do not deceive you, next to Thor is a soldier from the Revolutionary War - Captain Isaac Higgintoot, who you can learn all about by reading my wife's recently released book on him The Forgotten Founding Father: The Isaac Higgintoot Story - available from all good bookstores! He died from dysentery, but we don't talk about that

The guy in front who looks like boy scout, is not a boy scout, he's Pete, Pine Cone Troop Leader and awesome travel agent (kids ask your parents about that), he's from the 80s, loves D&D, basketball.

And in the back wearing the eyecatching red, is Alberta who you may have heard about from the monthly Murder at the Manor?! podcast hosted by my wife and Todd Pearlman complete and a total loon who has one of Alberta's toenails and wants to clone her she was a raising star in the Jazz Age and her loss is utter tragedy for the music world.

And this is Henrietta "Hetty" Woodstone aka the owner of Woodstone Manor - well, that would actually be my wife, since Hetty is a ghost, but yeah. She wanted a screengrab of just her because as the owner of Woodstone she deserves it. She and her asshole (we're not striking that out? No? OK) husband/cousin, Elias - Mill Owners and Robber Barons built Woodstone in the 1850s. Apparently, there was a house on it when they started, but they made it the place it is today.

Here's the ground floor layout, there's a Ballroom, a Library, a Music Room and a Games Room. So yeah, the Woodstone's were rolling in it!

The first floor, where the bedrooms are, there's actually 9 of them - well 8 if you don't include the Owner's Suite, or 6 if you take out the ghosts' bedrooms (why do ghosts need their own bedrooms? Because getting walked through hurts. They bunk up, Thor and Trevor share the Private Living Room so that means only 3 bedrooms are out of commission. Although the one marked "Spruce" isn't actually available yet because of a terrible mould issue so there's actually 5 guest rooms at the B&B in real life. But for the purposes of the game here, each Ghost gets their own room, again! They're pretty jealous of their simselves to be honest.

We have a basement with an actual secret Vault in it! Sadly, the visions I had a piles of gold ala Scrooge McDuck did not come to be. But you can drink wine down there now, it's accessed by a secret room and passageway. Where exactly is the secret door? You'll have to visit us to find out!

There's also a whole group of ghosts in the hot water heater room that died of Cholera, my wife says be glad you can't see them.

And finally the attic, you don't wanna go up there, it's full of old stuff including metal things that are probably a tetanus hazard. Also there's a ghost of a teenage girl up there, she got murdered on her way to prom in the late 80s and she's pretty pissed about it. Which is totally understandable, although she's also a huge mean girl and that sucks.

So now you have a bit of background! Tune in next time to see how the Ghosts settle in and their excitement at actually being able to leave the Manor grounds! (Did you know Ghosts are bound to the places they haunt? Turns out they are...which is why my wife and I have to put up with them)

[errnimations]

Saw the challenge of putting the last character you drew into the last game you played. So wahoo, Fallout x Lethal Company.

(I suppose the company in question would be Vault-Tec. It seems like a Vault-Tec thing to do.)

[thefalloutwiki]

Fallout 76: Vault Boy 2000

“Are you feeling the Wasteland blues? Then snuggle up next to this Vault Boy 2000 Plushie!”

- Vault Boy 2000 Plushie, Atomic Shop description

You can read more about Vault Boy here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Vault_Boy

[terranatior]

Ranting about blands movie under the cut idk if people care about spoilers but I put them there SOOO

HO BOY. I don't even know where to fucking start??? Max keeps saying it was like they opened the wiki page and just threw darts at it and said yeah that's good enough!

None of the actors suited their characters; which I had a feeling going in but I had hoped it would be like. Slightly better than the trailers painted it as? Absolutely not lmao

Weird tragic backstory (I GUESS) for Lilith while she looks 50+ BUT Moxxi and Tannis knew her as a child lmao and she actively looked older than both of them in present day

Tiny Tina was a CLONE???? Created by Atlas CEO who wanted to use her to open the vault and shit. The villain was very much a bootleg handsome jack with an awful accent who didn't really play into the plot until it was convenient for him to show up. Parts of Tina's backstory were obviously supposed to be Angel and Jack related.

I am SO GLAD THEY DIDN'T USE HANDSOME JACK. I CANNOT IMAGINE HOW HE'D HAVE BEEN BUTCHERED.

None of the dialogue was well written or memorable. I couldn't tell you a single line now that *checks watch* it's been like 40 minutes since I watched it.

The fight scenes felt cheap and flat and boring and there were no stakes in them! I also don't think psychos would just patiently stand around and let the villain monologue and barter with the heroes LMFAO (The psychos also looked way too clean to be living violently on pandora IMO)

The gunplay wasn't even fun or exciting! The CGI effects reminded me of late 2000's movies and not in like...a good way.

There was no heartwarming fuzzy feelings for the little found family they tried to make at the end? I genuinely would not have cared what happened bc they didn't build up any of the characters or relations to be anything special. Attempts were made but it never GOT that far?

It wasn't even fun in like a bad movie way? It was just so flat and boring and forgettable and it's so strange that they took borderlands as the source material and didn't even play into anything that makes the games FUN?????

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS enjoys another re-release theatrically before Halloween...

This is... The seventh theatrical re-release... Domestically. As in, a wide release and not a limited engagement. Like a one-night only thing... I mean a full release that lasts more than a week and runs everyday until it's gone...

There was a small re-issue in 2000, prior to the DVD release. Then, it was converted to 3D and re-released in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. Five so far. Then there was a re-release in 2020 when the theaters were slowly opening back up, w/ limited auditorium capacity. (The distanced seats, remember that?) Lastly, there was the 2023 re-release, for the film's 30th anniversary. Now we're on re-issue #7... Just because.

That's cool though, but it's interesting in that this 31-year-old movie has seen as many re-releases as the oldest Disney animated features... Which are decades older than this movie is...

For context... SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS, the very first Disney animated feature film... Was re-released eight times: 1944, 1952, 1958, 1967, 1975, 1983, 1987, and 1993. It's turning 87 in a few months...

The video age mostly brought the end to Disney theatrically re-releasing their movies. Video killed the re-release, oh-a-oh...

What happened was... The first Disney animated film to see a re-release after a home video debut was PINOCCHIO. PINOCCHIO went to video in summer 1985, this particular release - with its nighttime cover depicting Pinoke and Jiminy strolling through the countryside - disappeared a couple of times, coming back w/ a new price... and then went into the vault completely by early 1987. It wouldn't see a new video release for a long time.

Disney re-released PINOCCHIO theatrically, in a new "restored" form, in summer 1992... To underwhelming box office. Disney surmised that people either owned the 1985 VHS release, or rented it. It was no longer viable as a re-release title. Especially when the gross ($18m) was put next to the 1991 re-release of 101 DALMATIANS ($60m) and the 1990 re-release of THE JUNGLE BOOK ($44m)... Those, as you may have guessed, weren't on video yet.

The low gross lead to them cancelling a re-release of SLEEPING BEAUTY set for spring 1993, as that too had come to video in the mid-1980s. A preview of that scrapped re-release appears on the VHS of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, that must be how last-minute the cancellation was.

So with video, usually a film wouldn't appear again in theater. Disney did put THE LITTLE MERMAID back in theaters in 1997, and it only did so-so. Again, the video had come out in 1990 and sold around 10m copies in North America.

In 2002, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and THE LION KING got extended "Special Edition" IMAX-only re-releases that only did so-so at best. Their performances lead to them scrapping the plans to do the same for ALADDIN (where they would've animated a new sequence set to the unused song "Proud of Your Boy") and POCAHONTAS (which may explain the completion of the cut "If I Never Knew You" scene that appears on the 10th anniversary DVD).

Then there was Disney's brief go at 3D re-releases, it had only resulted in theatrical runs for THE LION KING (in 2011, to great success) and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (in early 2012, to relatively so-so results), in addition to Pixar's FINDING NEMO and MONSTERS, INC. They also did so-so in comparison to LION KING in 2011. A fall 2013 LITTLE MERMAID re-release got nerfed thereafter.

2020 did see some re-releases when theaters were opening back up but very few new movies were coming out, and then there have been random ones after that. The Disney 100 campaign last year brought some re-releases. My theater didn't get them, bummer. They didn't go back, animation-wise, any further than BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. The UK, however, got a SNOW WHITE re-release. Lucky bastards...

Then we had LION KING earlier this summer, for its 30th anniversary. Now we're on NIGHTMARE again, and also HOCUS POCUS.

So...

SNOW WHITE and FANTASIA each had 8 re-releases in the span of six decades.

PINOCCHIO had 7 re-releases. BAMBI had 6. CINDERELLA and PETER PAN had 5. The number gets lower, the later the film.

NIGHTMARE, at 31, beat almost all of these. That's something.

But, I do think - even if these movies are available somewhere, be it on disc or Disney+ - Disney should do wide re-releases of the classics more often. A whole generation didn't get to see SNOW WHITE and CINDERELLA and such on the big screen, and I sure as hell would LOVE to, myself. And not for a one-night only screening that isn't in my state, I mean a wide release...

Well let's see... 2025's coming... PINOCCHIO and FANTASIA turn 85, CINDERELLA turns 75, LADY AND THE TRAMP turns 70, ARISTOCATS turns 55, EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE turns 25, you get the idea-

[lemonsrosesandlavender]

WIPs Update!

I was organising this with a friend and thought I may as well share, in case you’ve ever thought “huh that idea sounded interesting” and wondered where it disappeared to!

Ongoing Longfics

Planar Tears, 21/40, highest priority! I am hoping to keep up the 1-2 week typical update pace. Agshahajajajjaja guys you have no idea how excited I am for the Shadow Cursed Lands, and a scene I’ve been building to since the beginning. Multiple scenes, in fact. It’s going to be JUICY.

In Service of Magic, 3/25, medium priority. Chapter 4 is partially drafted and I’m very excited to finish this one. Ohhhh Phaere. She’s gonna have her way with him a lot. (I am also very excited for their honeymoon phase to wear off and the conflict to begin… so that l can resolve it with more kinky sex of course!)

Partially Drafted Oneshots

Fingering the Fist (Lia x Nine Fingers) This has been on my to-finish list for ages and I made some progress recently so I SWEAR it is coming soon! (It’s ~2000 words and Lia gets spanked. Mmmmmhnmmmm.)

Rolan x Steel Weave Tav Rimming I’m only a few hundred words into this one, but I want to do it so bad because someone requested it months ago and I very enthusiastically said YES (and I still very enthusiastically feel that way!)

Subby Rolan in Rut (Rolan x f!Tav) This has been stewing at ~1000 words in my drafts for a while. Heat/rut for tieflings isn’t my usual headcanon, but I am enjoying playing around with it. Also this one comes with a sizeable dose of Feelings. Lower priority than the first two in this section, but I am very keen to finish it!

Basically Just Ideas

Oh boy, I want to write ALL the things! I’ll probably have forgotten some off this list, lmao.

Rolan x Lennie Car Sex Changeover day at camp, and someone’s got to go buy drinks for the counsellors’ party. Lennie offers… and everyone else is surprised to see Rolan volunteer to go with her. Needless to say, they don’t make it to the nearest town before parking up and having endearingly awkward car sex (and Rolan gets a spanking because of COURSE)

More Rolan x Lennie generally. Juggling four OCs is so frustrating because I want to write about *all* of them! And Lennie deserves her time in the spotlight too. I’m thinking bonding over the campfire, tied-to-a-tree blowjobs, and love confessions during Seven Minutes in Heaven. We’re going all out on the all-American summer camp tropes.

“Trapped” - Rolan x SW Tav. Probably a duo chapter of stories in which Rolan gets caught by various traps in the vaults, and Tav has fun with that. C1 will be the “Miniaturised Rolan” idea, and C2 some classic “Stuck in the Wall” filth. I want to write C1 PARTICULARLY bad unph. The way this idea has stuck with me…

Omega!Rolan x Alpha! F! Tav After the Shadow Cursed Lands rescue, the wave of relief that Rolan feels unleashes something in him… a heat he’s long sought to repress with magic. And now it is here, with a vengeance, so much stronger for all the years he tried to hold it back. Lucky, then, that Tav is an unbonded Alpha, and both she and Rolan have been nursing feelings for each other that roar to life and shatter all their carefully laid plans. (Aka pick up that pretty man and rail him into oblivion, probably until he gets pregnant).

Fae Bindings Multi chapter Rolan x Steelweave Tav that I have been wanting to write for ages, featuring the Tower crew going on a quest, and Tav and Rolan exploring their kink relationship more deeply. (Probably set between Along the Chionthar and Combat Training). I have a bunch of kink thoughts and dom/sub drop stuff I want to write about. Also potentially the place for that sussur wood kink I teased a LONG time ago. However… I am struggling to see when I’ll have the brain space for a THIRD proper multi chapter on the go. Unfortunately. Argh.

And that’s about it, I think! This isn’t comprehensive because well, I just have Rolan and OC thoughts coming out of my ears. Is Rolan’s existence just a vehicle to make up hot women who explore their feelings about kink?!… no but also yes. Lmao. Thank you to everyone who’s expressed interest in various of these stories! I can’t wait to write and share them ❤️

[sloshed-cinema]

Sexy Beast (2000)

Don is like an auctioneer of profanity.

His presence is prophesied well before the back of his bald pate first appears onscreen, nervous glances between people and tense dinner conversations enough to reveal that this criminal is not merely a crook but rather a complete monster. And when Don does arrive, what a nightmare he proves to be. A controlling presence, he feigns calm and clarity before erupting at random, sometimes in a physical outburst, but always with plenty of verbal abuse to accompany. Ben Kingsley’s performance here is menacing in how he manages to rattle off a litany of screeds, carpet-bombing the space with insults and derogatory statements, all while maintaining a perfectly neutral expression. It’s almost as if he were simply stating facts, albeit in rapid-fire fashion with a raised tone. Unfortunately, though, for Don, while the pen may be mightier than the sword, even words can’t cut through the spray of a shotgun. Don may view himself as a master of his own domain, able to call the bluff of lesser sheeple by his own approximation, but boy can that self-centered mentality backfire in spectacular fashion under the proper circumstances.

Despite its dire atmosphere, Sexy Beast is a darkly comic gem. The film signals this early on, freeze-framing Ray Winstone in peak indignity as he attempts to vault over a poolside lounge chair to accompany the title card. The peak of male form. Throughout, just how far a character is willing to push the line goes from being frightening to funny in insane ways. Don is a complete head case, so why wouldn’t he piss with his hands on his hips and intentionally miss the toilet? The undoing of Don is a theatrical ultra violence piece spliced into the London Underground proceedings, escalating to the point where his face has to be shown in shadow. A Baphomet style figure first haunts Gal’s dreams and then liberates Don from his coffin in Hell, the criminal unimpressed. And yet despite all of this, the characters here are jarring. McShane gives every Scorsese gangster a run for their money when he tells Winstone he could be dead at any moment. Don has a chilling effect on the hacienda during his visits. And yet in spite of it all, the strongest through-line that emerges is Gal’s love for DeeDee. He makes that clear at every turn and clings to it to the end. Even though a boulder can strike those tiled hearts, they endure.

THE RULES

SIP

Someone says 'fuck'.

Voiceover narration begins.

A flashback occurs.

BIG DRINK

Needle drop moment.

Revolving camera.