#Anti The Ghoul

[technoturian]

Okay, I have to rant about the one thing about the Fallout show I just hated.

The Ghoul.

I'm sorry, I think he is the weakest character in this whole series. Believe me, it pains me to say it. When I saw in the trailer I was like, "Oh yes, a clever and charismatic, morally ambiguous rascal". I was expecting Boyd Crowder. I got a busted up Punisher/Deadpool mashup who stands out in the open, runs his mouth, then survives every scene only because every other character is made an idiot who can't shoot straight and is forced by the narrative to stand there dumbly, a captive audience to his monologues. His plot armor is ridiculous. He's just terribly written in my opinion.

Were it not for his screentime, his top billing and his flashbacks, he would just be a cartoonish secondary antagonist.

The thing about a good anti-hero/villain/whathaveyou is not knowing what they're going to do in any situation. I knew exactly what he was going to do every single time. Run his mouth, murder everyone in the scene, smirk, repeat. He's not morally gray. He's not complicated. He's not interesting.

And, I'll say something even more controversial, I don't even think he's that well written in his past life. Although I *did* enjoy the flashbacks leagues more than I did his post-apocalyptic self, he was kind of a plot device to get to their VaultTec conspiracy story more than he was a compelling character.

Also, his one funny line was the one in the trailer. I said it.

#Fallout Critical #Fallout Show Critical #Fallout Prime Critical #Anti The Ghoul #and worse his character trajectory in the future seems so predictable the way he and Lucy went off together #he'll toughen her up and she'll soften him and warm his grizzly scarred heart and blah blah blah #like a version of Ellie and Joel if Joel was a cartoon character

[starliteonearth]

You know Ghoulcy has become a very serious threat when antis are literally forgetting that their ship IS the main cannon ship. Because what do you mean you'll cry if Vaultknight doesn't become real?? They ARE real. Did we somehow slip into an alternate reality where they aren't canon? Like please be so serious right now 😭😭

#ghoulcy got them shaking in their boots so bad #that they started to lose their grasp on reality lmao #like if antis are so convinced ghoulcy is some immoral terrible ship that will never ever happen #and that us shippers are just delusional #why are they questioning their own ship's future?? #honestly i think they know deep down ghoulcy is a possibility because of the type of world fallout is #and it scares them more than they'll want to admit it #cause otherwise they'd be unbothered and secure in their ship #I'm just saying #ghoulcy #vaultknight #vaultghoul #lucy x cooper #lucy x the ghoul #cooper x lucy #lucy maclean #the ghoul #cooper howard #fallout #fallout show #fallout tv series

[d1vinecries]

Another rant because I’ve been seeing a lot of TikTok antis as of late—

So let me get this straight, anti’s love preaching about the large age gap and non-existent “ped0philia” in regards to vaultghoul (unfortunately I have seen an anti spew that on TikTok before), yet I’ve seen some of them saying how they love older men + DILF’s, I’ve seen them fangirl over Lana del Rey and her romanticization of toxic relationships with older men, talk about “beekeeping age” men on TikTok, and they all seem to love the enemies-to-lovers trope until it comes to a ship that is the literal PERFECT representation of that. Things don’t need to always be sunshine and rainbows 24/7 in the land of shipping, not to mention we’re talking about a ship within the Fallout universe for fuck’s sake.

I am begging y’all to QUIT INFANTILIZING LUCY. She is a young adult, we don’t know her exact age but we do know that she is indeed a young adult. She is more than capable of making her own decisions in regards to who she wants to be romantic toward. If they make VaultKnight canon that’s cool with me, if they want to make VaultGhoul canon, that’s cool with me too. Fuck, if they don’t make her wind up with anyone that’s cool too! Regardless of how the writers go about it, Lucy is a grown ass woman!

Oh, and before I end this— Can you guys also tell me why you’re A-okay with people shipping Dane x Maximus, yet when people ship Lucy and Cooper it’s “oMg WhY aRe YoU sHiPpInG tHeM??? LuCy and MaX aRe ThE cAnOn ShIp!!!!! 😡😡😡”

Please make the hypocrisy make sense.

#fallout tv series #vaultghoul #fallout #lucy x the ghoul #the ghoul x lucy #fallout series #ghoulcy #i still love lana but it had to be said #antis stay mad #lucy maclean #cooper howard #the ghoul

[dichromaniac]

Dont you understand, they're the SAME

#spike #the ghoul #btvs #cooper howard #fallout tv #THE SAME #i cant explaik why in less than a collegiate level essay #but theyre the same #the anti prince charming #the beauty and the beast and the beast once he has to be a man again #this is the monsterfucker site #someone gets me

[spice-ghouls]

For this piece, I cut out and collaged typography taken from pictures of anti-trans protest signs. Each letter was cut out manually, and then arranged and scanned in page by page to form a poem I wrote about transness & hope for the future.

#sources of the letters include matt walsh's anti-trans rally + 'get the L out' signs + westboro baptist + misc. street preachers + others #these are horrifying times but our hope lies where it has always been: in solidarity. #trans artist #trans poetry #trans art #ghoul's art tag

[existennialmemes]

Remember Kids, when your boss says you're

✨ "like a family" ✨

they mean it in a Charles Manson kinda way, not in a Barney the Dinosaur kinda way.

Your life is disposable to them. Your well being will never matter more than their bottom line.

#anti work #anti work memes #antiwork #leftist memes #do not give your boss a single second of work that they're not paying you for #they will literally work you to death if they can #quiet quitting is just what the ghouls call having any semblance of work life balance

[tyrinecarver]

Guys the show is so good I want to go back and play the games I missed lol.

The Ghoul © Tyrine Carver and Wil Woods of Musetap Studios

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#fallout #fallout tv series #fallout show #the ghoul #cooper howard #the ghoul fallout #musetap #tyrine #wil woods #art #digital art #op is artist #fanart #musetap studios #anti ai #no ai

[kyanitedragon]

#i love them so much 🥺 #tokyo ghoul #kaneki and banjou #anti aogiri #kanekis squad #tg #tg reread #kanou lab arc #tg ch 95 #tg ch 97 #tg ch 107

[cemetery-drive-sys]

We started hyperfixating on danger days again and the party poison headmate came back save us

- 🕸️

#endos dni #anti endo #did osdd #osddid #dissociative identity disorder #pdid #pdid system #dissociative system #system stuff #traumagenic system #danger days #mcr #my chemical romance #the true lives of the fabulous killjoys #party poison #fun ghoul #kobra kid #jet star

[vnknowcrow]

I'm so sorry y'all, maybe I missed something, some type of scene, something somewhere but I have no fucking clue how you can get lucyXcooper out of this show.

I truly don't gaf about rarepairs or enemies to lovers or shipping just cause you like how they look together or just cause it's fucked up but like genuinely saying they had good romance chemistry (better then Lucy and max even???) Is genuinely mind boggling to me.

Ship what you want, just don't lie to me?

#you can admit the ship is weird #and doesnt make sense to most #it is okay #cooper came up #used her for bait #stole her to a organ harvester #and then at the end he was like #lets go find your dad i guess #i dont care about what you ship #if i do ill just fucking block you #but i need to know #where is the romance chemistry #im trying hard to find it #was it when she gave him he vials of anti feral ghoul? #when she gave him the anti feral ghoul because shes just fucking kind to everyone ever??? #are you looking at me jn my eyes #and going by incel logic that being nice to a guy means your instantly in love and dating now???? #was it when she was kind and nice because she grew up in a vault??? where she was raised to be nice to anyone???? #fallout on prime #fallout prime #fallout show #fallout show spoilers

[ghouljams]

Bruh the fact that anon still sent that ask about C.AI even after you'd made your stance on AI perfectly clear? Wildly entitled behaviour in the askbox today omfg. It just saddens me so much that the ART of writing has been reduced down to nothing more than "content" people "deserve" to be given for free precisely when they want it. That people think they have a right to an author's ideas and thoughts and creations rather than simply appreciating how kind it is for someone to be sharing these things with us. I'm so sorry that you and many of the other creators on here have to put up with such horribly entitled people.

I don't want to keep harping on the ai discourse, but it's very disheartening to see this trend of using ai to replace artists. I think I've mentioned before but I tried using the c/ai thing for about 2 days before I started this blog and it was just not good. The ai can't contribute new ideas to a story, it can't remember what's already been said, it can't riff, I found no redeeming qualities to its abilities. All in all it left me going, "Fuck this I can do a better job just writing fic" when I hadn't written fic in 4 years.

I think there's an aspect of entitlement, but I think there's also an aspect of just... never having experienced the real thing. I view a lot of the c/ai shit as tiktok teens who have never role played before giving it a try with the worst possible partner. The people that really fight against the anti-ai crowd are people that just don't appreciate the effort that goes into art, and don't see art as anything but a consumable. It feels a lot like the 1984 "book machine" that just churned out slop for the mass market consumer and was run by people who didn't even read.

Idk I think being an anti-recast BJD collector, I see a lot of the same arguments for ai that I've heard about recasts and it always boils down to "well I want it now and my desires should come first" which just.... grow up. Interact with human people I am begging you.

Anyway this is all over the place, but yeah it's in my pinned now right up top that I hate ai. Please don't send me pro-ai asks I am just gonna start blocking.

#ghoul speaks #anti-ai #anti ai

[hussyknee]

Just saw an article by a neoconservative "historian" that's gone viral on twitter saying Hamas is worse because Nazis never imprisoned babies and the elderly or used them as human shields. This same talking point was in a twitter essay by a Zionist rabbi retweeted by Amy Schumer weeks ago.

I'm not even Jewish and I'm just sitting here like. What. The everloving fuck.

The levels of Holocaust minimization and revisionism by Zionists need to be documented and studied. Most virulent antisemites couldn't come up with the kind of Nazi apologia and Holocaust victim degradation that I've seen both Jewish and gentile Zionists enthusiastically cosign and boost the last few weeks.

#anti zionism #antisemitism #someone in the QTs had dug up the picture of a Jewish toddler that was sent to the gas chamber #I'm so tired of seeing pictures of dead children #almost certain the same picture is being used by another group of Zionists to be like nEvEr AgAiN #ghouls all of them #free palestine #holocaust #tw child death #tw child murder #knee of huss

[thebiggestfuckgiven]

i just think they would get along

#monster high #clair monster high ghouls rule #danny phantom #sam manson #goth girlies #they’d clash for one second #the one would say something distinctly anti-capitalist #and the other would be like okay i totally misjudged you #then they go do crime together

[maxwell-grant]

So yesterday was my birthday and I invited a friend over to watch some movies we’d been each putting off. He showed me They Live, which I’d somehow never seen, for the first time, and I repaid the favor by breaking his brain with Speed Racer and letting him see how everyone ever was 100% wrong about that movie at release and it is in fact the best thing ever, but in regards to They Live:

I expected a good time and had a really great one. I knew about it’s central alien allegory, and how it’s been co-opted by anti-semitic memes and right-wingers who think they’re being cute. I knew it inspired dialogue in Duke Nukem, I knew it was a John Carpenter film starring Roddy Piper with Keith David in it, and that was it. I was blissfully unaware of everything else, including the fact that it somehow winds up being a spiritual successor of “The Challenge of the Beyond”, the pulp writer round robin exercise nowadays most famous for it’s H.P Lovecraft - Robert E.Howard parts.

There’s a post on it that floats around regularly and I’ll link here for better explanation, but in short: Lovecraft’s section of this story had the protagonist George faint from terror constantly and go mad after turning into a giant alien centipede, which was followed by Robert E.Howard immediately retconning said madness in his opening line and having the character embrace his new life as a horrid centipede beast in a new planet and go on a conquering rampage of “titanic adventure” as George the Centipede Barbarian. I bring up George the Centipede Barbarian not because it’s funny, but because They Live intentionally pulled off a very similar kind of brutal tonal dissonance.

They Live is very comparable to The Thing in the sense that it is a 50s concept told through 80s filmmaking and distorted accordingly, to the extent that the black and white parts are not just colored differently, but shot differently from the rest of the film in a way that’s far more reminiscent of 50s horror films. Our protagonist is an 80s meathead cowboy who lives in a struggling urban landscape with mysteries and horrors he never quite understood but continue to plague him and those around him, and he has a moment of truth when he puts on magical sunglasses and finds out that he’s been living in a Twilight Zone episode the whole time, and so has everyone. The black and white allegorical terrors won and have been running everything all along, and that is the point the episode should end with our protagonist horrified and broken, “wouldn’t that be fucked up / doesn’t this remind you of something / these horrors are real” message conveyed, episode over.

Except our protagonist is an 80s meathead cowboy, so instead of surrendering to the horrors after finding out everything is a monstrous lie, he fights back with a shotgun and a bag of one-liners. Dude just immediately, like not even 10 minutes after he first puts on the glasses, starts blasting alien cops and bankers and spaceships. I really did not think that “bubblegum” one-liner happened that early in the movie. This dissonance would have been wonderful regardless but it helps that it’s done so intentionally.

I really didn’t expect that the movie was this 100% completely blatantly unsubtle about the true nature of the alien ghouls as bloodsucking capitalists. It’s not some veiled allegory that can be left to interpretation, the movie tells you repeteadly and explicitly what it is about. The film tells you that the aliens are weaponizing communist paranoia to gain control over cops, preceding a line “We'll do anything to be rich” and then a description of them as “They are free enterprisers. Earth is just another developing planet, their third world” is actual dialogue from the film and that’s just before we learn the aliens all wear expensive watches, that most of the cops going around brutally gunning down the resistance are humans who sold out, and get scenes of the aliens and humans standing around in suits congratulating each other on profit margins. I don’t meant this as an insult but it’s frankly cartoonish in how unsubtle it is, it’s insulting that John Carpenter even had to set the record straight with Yes This Was About Capitalism and Reagan and Yuppie Bloodsuckers You Stupid Fucks like the movie isn’t hammering the point constantly.

If you haven’t watched it, did anyone ever tell you that the inciting incident of the movie is the protagonist being radicalized by police brutality? Yeah, funny, nobody ever talks about what happens in the movie before George puts on the sunglasses. The first 20 or so minutes are about the protagonist, George Nada, arriving in the city and struggling to find a job or place to stay and being offered one by Keith David’s character Frank, who takes him to a homeless community. They have a handful of dialogues together where Frank repeteadly expresses a cynical viewpoint towards life under You-Know-What, over opportunities turning into traps and steel mills giving themselves raises by screwing workers over, and George brushes him off stating he still believes in America, he still believes in getting a fair shot.

George is quickly and immediately reduced to horrified bystander as the police storms his community and destroys their church and goes around beating up them up and evicting tents by bulldozer, while George runs around trying to help and save at least one of them. The next time we see him, he puts on the sunglasses and learns the awful truth and starts his rampage (framed in no uncertain terms as an act of revolution) by doing, what else, shooting cops. Or, well, aliens who approach him as cops and tell him that, now that he sees them, they can work out a deal to profit together if he just goes quietly. The movie makes it as obvious as it could possibly make it.

So yeah, watch They Live, it’s Duke Nukem vs The Twilight Zone’s Episode on Capitalism (with Extended “Guys Being Dudes” Action, I’m glad I didn’t know about that alleyway fight scene beforehand). Also watch Speed Racer, it’s glorious, and it has the exact same villains. Had a really great time yesterday with both.

#they live #film #John Carpenter #roddy piper #keith david #everyone who told me this movie was ambiguous was full of shit #I do wish it was a little more clearly against Othering since that might have prevented it's unfortunate legacy #but you can't blame Carpenter for underestimating how deeply stupid anti-semitists are #it's mostly sad but still funny that american right wingers keep using this movie for their memes #my dudes this movie couldn't possibly be more about you #yes it draws a line between aliens and sellout humans and yes it's more specifically about #unrestrained Reagan capitalism #but come on #the aliens are red white and blue ghouls who treat the world the way America treats the rest of the world #the movie is pointing at you and saying you ruined everything and you deserve to be shot #Avatar wishes it could be this potent as a criticism

[jingle-jangle-spurs]

#transgenderism upon ye #you can’t stop me #no Todd’s no masters #diversity win! the person who destroyed your secret base is trans! #canon means nothing to me #I make it all up in my head #maybe the REAL legacy we left is the multiple bastard children we made along the way #my courier discovering more fun lore about his mother #‘oh she had another kid? 👍 great’ #your great grandmother is the reason the NCR exists and now you’re at war with them #thnx for destroying the cathedral grandma but now I have to reload again because these nightkin saw me while I was trying to help ghouls #with rockets #surprise! this was an anti Come Fly With Me post the whole time #I am not trans so please let me know if I’ve worded something wrong 💕 #fallout #fallout 1 #vault dweller #the chosen one #fo1 #fo2 #I think that’s all the tags? #I do not care if you are gay straight or trans I am blowing up your oil rig #then act like I don’t know nobody 🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷 #SO many babies were made #fallout radiation is fleeting #fallout protagonist rizz is forever #my fallout oc’s family tree looks like a pyramid scheme #they are all connected #my lone wanderer and courier are second cousins

[gunkbaby]

Wait u guys rly want my dad’s tg thoughts i think i tweeted a bunch of shit he said i need to find it

#he’s very into tg #like kaneki is his phone lockscreen #we talk abt it every week he always lookin for new tg content #genuinely thinks it’s the manga & anime of all time #he buys me shuu stuff all the time can’t complain rly #he likes beastars too like he has it on his apple watch #he read csm but ‘it’s just not tokyo ghoul charlotte’ #he’s reading punpun atm #i gave him all the manga and light novels. if i get the plays subtitled ge wants a copy + live action #i think he’s rewatched tg like 3 times now??? think he might reread it #my brother watched s1+2 of the anime but he’s a shuu anti so no brother of mine #it’s wild #i like that so many of u have parents who watch tg too #It’s nice reading all ur stories #Pls keep em coming!!!! #My brother hates furries too #We shud kill himb