#weaver rambles

[nodaudaboutitt]

Ngl its gunna take some time to process the fact i just bought a house 😳😳😳

[b1adelight]

it’s way too late for me to be asleep right now but I’ve been thinking about this all day… it strikes me as odd that in fo4, the dogs you see in game are completely purebred. I don’t mean the mongrels, but Dogmeat and the Rottweilers that you come across.

you could create a hypothetical scenario that at least one person would be able to keep breeding some dogs shortly after the bombs dropped… but doing that would be nearly impossible with a sudden lack of resources (also hoping that you don’t die in the initial blast, or deteriorate too soon), and bringing pets into a Vault wasnt an option (unless, you know, there was a vault specifically designed for that, but there is no trace of that in the Commonwealth). so with that out of the picture… what’s stopping dogs from mixing breeds over the 210 years after the bombs hit? Literally nothing.

realistically, dogs in the fallout universe should appear a lot more like the dogs found in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. they’re pretty much just… really irradiated mutts. No specific breed since everything has been so watered down. look at these guys. they’re adorable.

(photo found here)

not much to add to this tbh. I just really like these dogs and wish fo4 could have taken a bit more inspiration from them. as much as I love German shepherds, I was always confused as to why Dogmeat is the only one… or why he even is one at all! same with the Rotties too.

[cryptid-catnip]

my favorite part of Worm was when Taylor Worm said "it's worming time" and then murdered a toddler

[eternalscribbles]

@raggedytiger so I had a uhm. An idea. And originally it was meant to be sweet and all but I don't control the definitions of names so-

[akuma-tenshi]

i crave silly boat shenanigans with this crew so silly boat shenanigans i shall create

[trans-queen-administrator]

Taylor turning herself in was such a fun twist and character moment, and idk I see some people disliked it and hate Dinah for orchestrating it and I get that but it fits her. Taylor is someone who will throw herself away for the greater good, and if she thinks she has a way to help she has to do it. "Cut Ties / I'm Sorry" was practically a guarantee that she'd leave, because it's Dinah appealing to her compulsive need to help, and Dinah's appeal to this was born out of a very similar need to do something to stop the end of the world. There's an interesting parallel there, where Taylor hurts her friends that she cares about by leaving them all behind when she defects, and Dinah hurts Taylor who saved her and she definitely cared about Taylor on some level. Neither of them want to do what they feel they have to do, but there's no other way that they can see to help.

Also important to remember that Dinah played a part in setting Taylor down the path to being Khepri, she just completely fucks up the girl who saved her time and time again, and what's ironic is that I think Taylor would do the same if it was the only way she saw. They're both incredibly result-focused people, which is what makes the entire mess with the notes so fun to me. Dinah wouldn't fuck over Taylor like that if she wasn't so focused on saving everyone, and her method of doing it wouldn't have worked if Taylor wasn't just as determined to do that good and stop the apocalypse. And it aches for both of them, when Khepri gives that slip of paper back to Dinah she finally gets hit with the full realization of the fact that she played a part in breaking Taylor. Idk where I'm going with this, I just think "The girl who you constantly threw away your morals and feelings and hurt others to save throws away her own morals and feelings and hurts you to save even more people" is such a wonderful little dynamic.

[sharrkbaiitcartoonz]

I drew Catra :3

I plan on drawing cute shit soon but for now, here you go children

[worldsbiggestnerd101]

started rewatching spop and holy fuck y’all i forgot how good this show is

[lockandkeyhyena]

no idea where the ‘falls in love with every woman and like two men’ bisexual stereotype came from. for me its like the opposite lol

[zorasink]

drawing I did for celebration of the Silksong windows page! This was very fun to do ^^

[heyitslapis]

Watching Alien for the first time & OMG SIGOURNEY WEAVER'S VOICE????

[nodaudaboutitt]

Local bastard has made it to the snow!

[b1adelight]

what if i gave luther a different railroad code name than the one in game... none of them really fit tbh. bullseye was the closest but i think he would have used that in his backstory, and not in the main plot

[cryptid-catnip]

give me a fictional character and i will tell you how taylor hebert from the hit web serial Worm can beat them

[saintdollyparton]

Rewatching Alien for the first time in years because the Romulus trailer got me hyped. I forgot how much Ripley really was the only one with anything resembling common sense on that ship. Also, Sigourney looks so good!

[trans-queen-administrator]

Taylor being paranoid about her passenger is such a fun character trait. Like none of her friends really seemed to give much of a shit when they learned about passengers from Bonesaw, but Taylor consistently notes the times her passenger acted without her consent, she tries to talk with it, communicate with it, just anything to learn what this thing that can control her without her say wants with her. One of my favorite little details is that during the timeskip this was the focus of a lot of her therapy sessions with Yamada, trying methods like hypnosis to communicate. I think part of it is that she's inherently just paranoid about the fact that this thing is helping her sometimes and she doesn't know why and she HAS to figure it out because no one would help out of the kindness of their heart, and another part is just that she can't bear to not be in control and this is something that threatens that in a very ominous way.

Another aspect of her paranoia towards her passenger is that she doesn't want to take blame for her own actions I think. During the Behemoth fight when her ally tried to shoot Phil Sē, she pulled the gun off target with silk and got him killed. She's the one who pulled the string, but because she's genuinely unsure if it was her being wary or her passenger setting up the string she settles on the second option because it absolves her of the possible blame or need to admit she's paranoid and ready to betray people in an instance. When Glenn shows her the video of her being the most terrifying fucker in existence she ignores how horrifying she is and fixated on how her passenger moved her, and then she doesn't have to think about the fact that she'd fit right into the ranks of the Slaughterhouse Nine because well, she can blame her passenger and focus on that instead. This applies to other people too, she sees Lung not using his power and thinks that maybe he's concerned about his passenger like she is. She projects hard onto Sophia in my opinion when she says that she got violent because of her passenger. If this person she doesn't like isn't to blame for everything she inflicted on Taylor, the surely Taylor can't be blamed for the violent steps she took to take over a city. It's another way she rationalizes everything to herself, if something is so bad that she can't justify it immediately there's always the excuse of "my passenger made me do it." But crucially, Taylor ends up being aware of the fact that she's doing this during Gold Morning.

And I think it's really good that this is something she grows and accepts about herself. It's wonderful growth for a character who's so often too stubborn to move herself forward. She's generally more in touch with her passenger during Gold Morning, like the time when she thinks that her and her passenger were in agreement in wanting to hurt Scion on the oil rig. No one else in Worm really seems to accept their passengers, Riley is questioning how much of herself has been subsumed by it, Eidolon is always annoyed it doesn't give what he wants, and most other people don't even know about them. But Taylor forms a bit of a symbiosis with hers after a long time rejecting it at every turn. I think this quote really sums up her feelings towards the end.

And by towards the end I mean like, at the very end, because immediately after this thought she becomes Khepri, and yet another fucking theme and character trait cumulates and reaches its peak with Speck. God damn what a good arc. The blur between Taylor and her passenger that she always feared is finally an actual thing consuming her, and she can finally communicate with her passenger as well. I do wonder what this is like on her passengers end. It's clearly down for the idea of killing its maker, and it's heavily implied that her passenger does care and doesn't want to actually leave Taylor as a husk (too lazy to get the quote because I've been typing for 45 minutes but Contessa remarks upon the administrator claiming everything about her until there's nothing left and she feels fear that she thinks is from both her and her passenger. 30.7 I think, near the end). But there's still so much about Taylor's passenger that's unknown. Was communication something it may have wanted when Taylor kept trying to communicate, but doing so required punching holes in the connection that would lead to more bleed through and functionally destroy its host? Did it slowly grow to care for Taylor more than the cycle, or was it always wanting to fight Scion? Did Taylor's autistic swag convince a multidimensional alien made of crystal to rebel? Is Queen Administrator trans? Idk how to end this post if it's not obvious, sorry.