#Not half bad I don't think!

[ryuucae]

Bygone days

#ffxiv #ff14 #ancients #hades #hythlodaeus #azem #art #digital art #illustration #FF14 again sighs BUT #I have wanted to do a drawing with these three since forever! #And i thought the BG was going to break me #BUT I DID IT WOO #Not half bad I don't think! #It took me every bone in my body to not change the colors though LOL I went into this w/ a palette in mind and I needed to stick to it!!!

[bongosinferno]

A devastating and confusing thing about the Fallout setting, when you explore the pre-war aspects, is what the creators think about pre-war America. In the first games we only get hints of the pre-war world, but they seem to be some sort of wild fascist nation invading Canada. In Fallout 1, the first thing we're introduced to of the pre-war society is seeing a soldier shoot civilians and laughing.

Now, for the first 2 games and New Vegas we don't really know much. What we know is that there's a fascist military group known as the enclave who were a sort of US deep state even before the war, and that the government teamed up with corporate interests to preform vaguely MKULTRA-ish experiments with the Vaults. Basically, the government was an extreme version of the 50s American jingoism and McCarthyism.

This is well and dandy, I guess issues come up more when we get to the later games, especially 4, where it seems like none of this extreme plotting and societal civil unrest which would exist is seen. The society as presented in 4 also seems quite progressive, gay people are featured in the opening, and none of the baggage of say, civil rights not existing are included. Now on a baseline, I don't want settings to be more conservative, homophobic and sexist etc., but it becomes a very confusing setting when it's displayed both as this jingoist extreme thing with fascist tendencies aswell as a progressive place where everyone is seemingly equal. If you're focusing on the 50s as your setting, and American nationalism in the 50s, then you can't have McCarthyism spoofs and anti-communism as a societal paranoia norm while also general equality is the norm without misunderstanding why McCarthyism and nationalist jingoism is bad. A massive harm done in anti-communist paranoia is how it degrades and vilifies any progressive movements (women's rights, civil rights, homosexuality) as being morally un-American and therefore connected to communism. To ignore this just makes any critique of MacCarthyism and jingoism weird!

Basically, pre-war America in Fallout 4 becomes this both sides thing where America is both pure and equal and white fences in every instance that we see as the player (the intro), while also supposedly being this dystopic MacCarthyist hellscape that's broadcasting gladly about their war crimes in Canada, and wants to root out communism. I guess the only fix for this issue without getting into the fine print like they had to do is just not to focus too much on the pre-war world.

#fallout #fallout 1 #fallout 2 #fallout 3 #fallout 4 #fallout new vegas #fo1 #fo2 #fonv #fo4 #I'm almost half-way through the show #it suffers from this too but whatever I'm just going to count it as it's own thing #it gets a pass or whatever. telling a video game story and telling a tv-series is completely different #they can do what they think is useful. #We see a bit of what the I'm talking about in New Vegas with mr house being able to be that rich etc #but new vegas cares more about the fallout of Fallout 2 + new ideas than some pre-war America. The most we get is like Poseidon energy and #Raul. but Raul doesn't really care that much about the details of the past world #his life seems pretty normal. it's not that important. #dead money and owb did this like... Okay. wasn't too bad it was fine. I don't like those DLCs too much. Dean Domino is whatever

[butchviking]

if you dont believe in homosexuality as a natural, innate, morally neutral sexual orientation that cannot be changed then you! are! a! fucking! homophobe!!!!!!!!

#im so FUCKING tired #WE CANNOT CHANGE IT WE CANNOT CHANGE IT WE CANNOT CHANGE IT #you don't even have to like it! you can even think 'well thats not ideal it would better if you could change it' i dont care thats fine!! #hell.. that is what i think half the time!! #but u have got 2 accept that we CAN'T. i have to accept it and u have to accept it and we all just have to LIVE WITH IT #this is life!! this is the real world this is just how it is! homosexuality exists! its not good its not bad it just IS!!!!!

[egophiliac]

HOW WE FEELING ABOUT THE UPCOMING NEWSS 👹👹👹

man, it's a good thing they stopped doing the episode 7 SSRs, because I'm really low on keys and gems right now and --

OH NO

#twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 chapter 6 spoilers #IT'S MY BOY #MY BEAUTIFUL ELECTRIC BOY #LOOK AT HIM! HE'S A BIG BRAVE KNIGHT!!!!!!! #but in a good way or a bad way. IS IT IN A GOOD WAY OR A BAD WAY TWST?! #'armor of the eternal night' that's not ominous at all NOPE #malleus is nightmare moon confirmed #wait. wait. hold on. armor of the eternal KNIGHT. ha ha i'm sorry i'm losing my mind a little #me zooming in to the banner as if that's going to tell me anything new: is that a crocodile mask. is he wearing baul's mask. #they did the half mask thing in lilia's card too so i think it's just to show his face in the card art. but it could also be a Thing. #I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING #god this is cerberus ortho all over again. what could it possibly MEAN #someone on the twst pr team really loves seeing us lose our goddamn minds huh #okay okay okay i'm cool i'm good i'm calm #let me just arrange my red thread on my corkboard here #unified exams end on the 11th so we're looking at >2 weeks here #eeeeek #sorry jamil your kelkkarotu card looks lovely but we'll have to catch up later #(do love that they straight-up were like 'kelkkarotu rerun featuring jamil as sir not appearing in this story') #man i'm so glad my horrible shrieky son is getting a big fancy story card #i hope this means silver gets one too #i hope this means EVERYONE gets one too #YOU GET A FANCY STORY SSR! AND YOU GET A FANCY STORY SSR! #DECADENTLY-ILLUSTRATED PLOT TWISTS FOR EVERYONE

[mxfrodo]

y'all for fucking real. don't fucking write slave fics or x reader fics of aventurine's slavery??? are you guys out of your goddamn minds???

#i swear half of you don't fucking think. #what makes you think it's okay or “angsty” to write fics about suffering like that #especially without nuance?? or any understanding of the ramifications #its one thing to write about it being integrated into his past #but it's another thing to write it as an *in the moment* thing #especially if you're writing it to portray him being bought again -- who gives a shit if the reader “saves” him or “treats him nicely” #that's still a perpetuation of the cycle of abuses #like it's still already brain dead of hoyoverse to write about the suffering of POC by using a fair skinned blonde man #but come on #i thought we were better than this?? #like yeahh #dont get me wrong - i love aventurine and his development. the writing is amazing despite how bad form using very white features #to portray a real race of color and it's suffering (the romani) #but you guys. come the fuck on #hsr aventurine #aventurine honkai star rail #aventurine x reader #honkai star rail #hsr #hsr x reader #i know it's “NOT THAT SEROUS” because it's a fictional game but im still putting tags for racism and slavery bro. wtf y'all #tw racism #tw slavery #random talk

[keferon]

Starting to consider doing really shitty drawn animatics. God knows these robots take too long to draw to be effective or humane for animation..

#I have so many ideas #help #but I keep just abandoning them because I don't have enough time and energy to draw all those c u b e s properly #wanna do some bad animatics #I mean “don't give a fuck about proportions” kind of bad #“little arrows expressing the motion” kind of bad #I'm tired #I drew half of the animatic about Deadlock and Wing and I'm really to combust #after all no one really seems to care about those animatics even if they're pretty haha #okay no one exept one person #I should be sleeping but I can't stop thinking about making Megatron singing villain song don't mind me

[floatingfacedownintheocean]

Fancy date night outfit~

#I'm so bad at fashion help #I don't think this is terrible tho #isat #in stars and time #isat siffrin #isat isabeau #I half-assed that speech bubble so bad lmao #took me forever to finish becuz I've been hibernating #my art #sketch

[hychlorions]

apollo justice is completely unrecognizable at home. that is all

#apollo justice #ace attorney #.png #omg quippy doubleposting?!?!?! they're obviously not doing homework #'uhhh why is he dressed like a stinky gamer' knowing clay more than half his life #also the funniest thing a transmasc can own is saitama oppai hoodie. sorry i don't make the rules #i sincerely wish i had one. it would be so funny to wear post top surgery #anyway it's also the only hoodie of apollo's that is big enough to fit klavier and he keeps trying to borrow it sooo much #he wants to wear a boyfriend hoodie in public soooo bad #he calls it the 'catface hoodie'... not knowing what it really is all along..... #i think he'd want it more if he knew tbh

[pearlynia]

Conversation I had with my brother but as marauders era:

Regulus: ...did you eat all the chips!? I told you to leave me some!

Sirius: I did leave you some!

Regulus: 4 FUCKING PIECES!?

Sirius: YEAH!? HOW AM I SUPPOSE TO KNOW?

Regulus: HALF, SIRIUS. I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE ME HALF.

Sirius: NO YOU DIDN'T!

Regulus: YES I DID YOU DEAF IDIOT!

#based on true story #i don't think i told him to leave me half #but still he should know better #sorry if my grammar is bad #sirius black #regulus black #the black brothers #marauders #remus lupin #james potter #jegulus #wolfstar #ao3

[front-facing-pokemon]

#alolan raichu #holy shit these alolan forms are kicking the fuck outta my ass #the things i do for you all. my production value on this blog has increased over the years and i don't think i can get away with the same #weird shit i used to be able to when i couldn't find a good model so now i'm having to learn how to use blender and shit?? #downloading weird scripts off the internet just because i can't find the right models. and now alolan raichu has kantonian eyes #they have kantonian eyes. i know. i'm sorry. i don't know how to fix it and this is the best you're going to get because i had to work for #like an hour and a half just to get to this point. and i know the lighting is dark. it's. it's bad. it'll probably be like this for all #the alolan forms at least. and holy shit when we get to gen 9 it's going to be even worse #this is a wreck!! this is a wreck. i had to use the sv model for this one and it's like #i dunno the eyes in sv aren't textures?? they're procedural. they're fucking. shaders. in sv. which is why espeon's pupils #are no longer pupils and are instead reflections (lie‚ falsehood) #and i'm. dissolving. y'all're gonna have to bear with me moving forward bc i've gotten Very used to the “it just works” nature of #the older models that i was using but this is getting way harder on me as we move into newer generations

[qcomicsy]

I have the controversial opinion that maybe, just maybe we stop wanting to go after people with pitchforks for getting characters wrong and not reading the comics inviting them to easy and accessible ways of and making our own content with comic accurate representation

people might feel less anxious about starting comics and misinformation won't spread as easily

#but that just me #I'm a batman fan for maybe all my life but just started seriously getting to the comics of half of the batfamily as an adult #let people take their time #some of them just got here #“THEYRE WRONG” you can block them #“THEY'RE GOING TO INFFECT THE CANNON JUST LIME THEY DID WITH TIM AND COFFEE” make accurate jokes then push people who make accurate jokes #interact with accurate jokes #make informative posts #if every time we feel the hit to beat up a comic inaccuracy post we make a funny little comic accuracy post maybe there won't be as much #disinformation peace and love on the planet earth. #never going to forget how much I shit on bad spideypool fanfics until I get to read some of my favorite writers old fanfics and they were #absolutely nothing like the characters #some people take time some people don't know where to start #some people don't have time to read the comics #some people don't have your favorite character whole backstory engraved #“THEY CAN RESEARCH” of course and fannon would be better if they did but have you consider....you have the power to make it better #i just think sometimes we can take the spite and make something beautiful #q rambles #i wrote the shit and forgot to finish LMAO

[musicalgifs]

my toxic trait is i don't think james corden was bad in into the woods

#i don't think he could play the role on stage. but in the disneyfied movie he was fine #i don't think any of the casting was bad bad except j*nny d*pp but that's because fuck that guy #however cutting half of no one is alone IS unforgiveable

[non-un-topo]

All it takes is a wee little nightmare to make you too scared to step foot outside for fear of Bad Things happening, like it’s an omen lol

#also it is p o u r i n g outside and it takes me an hour and fifteen minutes to commute to campus #i'm a good little student but sometimes i just can't be assed #esp with all the crazy stuff that's been happening on public transit and on my campus for that matter #i'm just getting a bad vibe today [insert empath meme here] #warning for me complaining about a graphic nightmare!!!!: #had a few stress dreams(?) last night but one particularly violent one in which a woman got run over by a streetcar-- #--and the paramedics were moving people along but i accidentally got a really good look at her and it fucked me up #she looked like she was just sleeping peacefully but i could only really make out the top half of her body #probably because the bottom half was... yeah. #i think i also had another dream that i was being hunted by a sniper?? and they had called my cell and were threatening me + my folks? #and another one where i had to hide some children from... i don't really know what. some dangerous person who wanted to kill all of us #but the kids wouldn't leave me even though i begged them to. #yeah just a normal collection of dreams for me. literally ugh. #i don't even think i'm stressed in my life rn?? #not any more than normal lol

[miraclemaya]

im never gonna get over "it's actually bad to talk about the racism in the things you like" especially coming from a 40k fan. who said i had neurological damage because i guess that's not ableist or racist.

#and the fucking guy who started this shit is famously an attack on titan fan like come on #also i love the implications that i give a shit about homestuck because painting me as 'fandom brained' makes it easier for her to act like #idm im the real racist here like i don't give a shit about homestuck just fundamentally i think mocking people for talking about the bigoted #elements of something they like is bad actually. i think it would be good if white people talked about racism ever #instead of pretending it's not there or giving a half assed 'oh that's so racist' and that's it

[smalltimidbean]

Feel Free To Talk To Me Or My Son* Anytime! - He Still Bites

(*Also not actually their son)

#OC: String the Stupid Rat #OC: Half-Pint the Bad Rat #pizza tower oc #pizza tower #don't mind me rat posting #I am thinking about them right now

[scarefox]

My siblings in hell that rating .... 🙈 but also while it definitely does not deserve that low rating it's the most fitting number 😏

#it was at 7.0 recently.... #but there are people in the comments srsly thinking First shoved a scalpel up Soongs ass during their med k!nk session #ya know instead of the more logical thing: a rectal thermometer #nothing makes sense for these folks because their own thoughts don't make sense #they only see and believe things they have set in their minds and not what is actually shown #the mystery part of the plot is on Manner of Death level imo but half the audience is immature and shocked about unprettified sex #i just hope xitter does not look as bad as MDL comments and the writer actors and creator don't get to hear the whining #playboyy the series #discourse #playboyy #bl drama #lgbtq