#most of the lore is fan made

[harbingerofsoup]

there’s death of the author and then there’s whatever the fuck is up with danny phantom

#danny phantom #death of the author #most of the lore is fan made #a decent chunk of the fandom hasn’t even seen the show #one of the most beloved side characters isn’t an actual character #because we made him up based on a like 2 second clip #he’s not even the only widely accepted fan made character #because we spawned more from him #and we ba sing se-ed ourselves about phantom planet #dannypocalypse is also a thing #it doesn’t have anything to do with death of the author #but it’s important to me that we’ve pulled off a successful fandom apocalypse #every year since i think 2017

[titsthedamnseason]

eras tour lookbook: my favorites edition

#taylor swift #tswiftedit #candy swift #my edit #eras tour #CAN I GET SOME COMMOTION FOR THE MOST UNDERRATED LOVER BODYSUIT. AND THE YELLOE DRESS #AND UNPOPULAR OPINION THE GREEN FOLKLORE DRESS WILL NEVER BE THE WHITE FOLKLORE DRESS #mine #this has been in my drafts since JULY 😭😭😭😭 #because originally i had the black and gold the man jacket here but that was soooo hard to make a usuable gif of #and then once i finally was happy with how it came out taylor debuted the midnights bodysuit with the cutouts and i was like oh crap #that was also somewhat hard to make a cohesive gif of but i persevered #i just have to say though that IVE BEEN THE NUMBER ONE YELLOW DRESS FAN SINCE SHE FIRST WORE IT OKAY #there’s so much lore associated with it now but it’s been my darling all along #also my unpopular opinion is preferring the empire waist bronze dress but that was just impossible to find good footage of tbh #also my original efforts at this gifset were all for naught regardless bc i’ve changed my mind and like the silver jacket better now #this also all preceded the debut of the pink bodysuit and jacket but idt they would have made it on here anyway

[dragonpropaganda]

you should talk about your thoughts on rw fanon (looking with huge eyes)

Oh god, there's a lot of major misconceptions have concreted into fanon, mostly around ancient society and ascension.

First things first! Ascension is not death! They are entirely separate things treated entirely separately by the text of the game. I can see where the interpretation is coming from, but it doesn't really align with how the text treats either subject. Five Pebbles may want to remove the self destruction taboo, but from his reaction to the rot it's clear that he doesn't want to die. Conflation of ascension and death only comes up as an offhand possibility that pebbs makes on iterator 4chan, when he's going into the possibilities of scenarios that even the other sliverists are doubtful of! (let me make clear that I am not a sliverist by any means)

Ascension is more of talked about as a form of transcendence, yeah? A Bell, Eighteen Amber Beads talks about their sitution as being "To have grasped at the boundless infinites of the cosmic void…", not as them seeking an end to life.

The beta dialogue goes into more detail, mentioning the "infinities of time and space" and the "boundless fractal planes of spirit and reality...", though this dialogue was cut and it's hard to tell how much it reflects the concept as in the released game.

As for the cultural misconceptions... there's A Lot to talk about, but the first that comes to mind is the common conflation of the five natural urges and the christian concept of sin.

It is true that the negation of urges is mentioned by moon as an alternative method of ascension, but much of what we know about the culture of the people who the fandom calls the ancients (which makes discussion of the depths a mess but that's something for another post entirely) points towards the urges not being seen as shameful.

Even the first urge does not seem to be particularly scorned! Being a warrior is presented as a cause for bragging in the Shaded Citadel pearl, being comparable with being an artist and a fashion legend. The second urge, also does not seem to be suppressed. Multiple sources attribute some level of honour to parenthood! The aforementioned pearl also mentions Seventeen Axes, Fifteen Spoked Wheel as being a "Mother, Father and Spouse" without any hint of shamefulness. Nineteen Spades, Endless Reflections expresses pride about having progeny, mentioning it alongside their owned land and esteem among their peers.

After some peer review, an esteemed friend has told me to add a section on purposed organisms as well! This is not so much my area, so I might be a bit off on some things.

As moon says, the majority of purposed organisms were tubes in boxes, and that the primal fauna of the world are almost entirely extinct. A lot of the fandom seems to ignore the first part, and i can't say I blame them, but the evolution of the creatures is so much weirder than people think.

Concept art for the creatures has this interesting quality to it, where the organic parts of the creatures have an almost... melty quality to them.

In the concept art, the flesh appears as if it's almost defying the machinery to form an animal shape. It's as if it's conquering its own artificiality the way the foliage grows over the (stone, brick and concrete, not mostly metal as some think!) ruins.

Of course, it's hard to really tell how much of this reflects the finalised concept, most of the integration is much smoother in the game, in line with a seamless kind of biomechanical design. There was always an intention of biomechanical strangeness, as shown in this screenshot of the devlog before the term "slugcat" even existed!

That said, the melty nature of the concept art shows a level of wild change inherent the biomechanical nature of the creatures, as if they truly are the result of these "tubes in boxes" almost revolting against their own boxes.

and considering centipedes... some tubes may not have had boxes in the first place!

#rain world #rain world lore #rainworld #rw spoilers #please note! my role in downpour development does not make me an authority on what is canon or not! #my domain is entirely within challenge mode and arena which aren't canon anyway #my lore analysis is just lore analysis with no looks behind the scenes of anything vanilla #downpour was made as a fan expansion and the rewrites were just done directly by james #we didn't get any disambiguation on the lore (and thank fuck for that honestly. analysis is the best part) #though the hills ARE made of bricks #this is canon not because i say so but because it is visibly true in some areas of the game. part of the text and thus canon. weep. #i could go into more detail on most of this! purposed organisms aren't my area of expertise tho so i might be a bit shaky on some of that #anyway if anyone has any fact checking to do. please do so #media analysis is a dialogue!

[magistralucis]

pronouncing the necron 'sz': personal rating list*

broke: /s/ only ('seras')

woke: /z/ only ('zeras')

provoke: /s/ and /z/ pronounced separately ('s-ze-ras')

bespoke: /ʂ/ or /ʃ/ ('scheras')

invoke: tensed fricative /s͈/ ('sseras')

misspoke: /s/ but evil ('ßeras')

(* Further notes in tags.)

#warhammer 40k #wh40k #necrons #illuminor szeras #necron #shitpost #german speakers i am so sorry you had to read that with your eyes 😂 i also speak german i do know eszetts can't start words #originally this was just for fun but it seems there are quite a lot of ways wh40k fans pronounce this #native english speaking fans usually seem to stick to 's' #whereas in languages that actually use this digraph it would be s/ʂ/ʃ #but in korean translations 'sz' defaults to 'z' so it's definitely 'zeras (제라스)' and 'zarekh (자렉)' #and sometimes the 's' and 'z' are both present and pronounced like in japanese ('s-za-rekh';スザーレク) #(i personally use ʃ because it seems the logical compromise) #in lore terms i think all or most of those pronunciations were used among the necrontyr and there is not one 'canon' version #variety is the spice of life it's fine they're all good. well maybe not the last one but still 😂 #according to TDK the necrontyr didn't have a united language until szarekh came along so they must've had different dialects #i reckon that's why the silent king made his universal language. so people could pronounce his name how HE specifically wanted it #it's all becoming so clear now!!!! 😬

[flecks-of-stardust]

wholeheartedly and with as much gentleness as possible, i truly think there needs to be more discussion about downpour in the community as it is now. for a variety of reasons.

#not main tagging this right now but #some tag babbling. like #some of yall are unnecessarily cruel about downpour. seriously. #you don't have to like it but you can also stand not to tear down someone's work like this #if every word out of your mouth is just about how much you hate downpour. why are you still here? #and i mean that genuinely. it's unpleasant for you and for everyone else. and i say this as someone who still prefers vanilla's lore #at the same time i think it's a real issue where some people take downpour as gospel and assume things about other people's creative choice #even though downpour is a DLC and it's hard to make certain claims about canonicity because of that #it has been publicly acknowledged as being an official AU. multiple times. by the MSC devs themselves #downpour is a fan made passion project that was worked on for years and years before it got DLC status #it was never meant to be scrutinized in the way it is now. i think it's more appropriate to regard it as like #a really popular fanfic most of the fanbase has read #i just feel like. a lot of the community conflicts i've seen stem from downpour's messy existence as a DLC that was originally a mod #and i think it's valuable to have community discussions about that. but also this is tumblr. so. i'm probably asking for too much

[lord-squiggletits]

"IDW Megatron got a redemption arc and Starscream didn't it's so unfair--"

Do not slander Metalhawk, Bumblebee, and Windblade's hard work trying to fix this man they didn't work for half the continuity (and in 2/3 of their cases) literally die and come back as zombies/ghosts for y'all to be out there saying no one helped Starscream get redeemed and have friends and be a better person

#squiggposting #i'm so fucking confused why people keep saying this honestly #'M got a redemption so why can't SS' HE LITERALLY DID LIKE HE LITERALLY DID #this was the subject of most of his character development in exrid/op and wb/taao did you just not see it? #i don't get it bc like. even if you try to argue that M got to have friends and validation and shit. so did SS #SS lost his power and then died saving the world at the end #M also lost all his power and prestige and then went to his execution at the end #STRICTLY IN TERMS OF IDW1 they literally both got redeemed idk why ppl are piss fighting about this #and i would expect ppl who are SS fans to like. BE AWARE OF all the story content he got in idw1 #mscott clearly liked SS based on how she made him so sympathetic (even dealing with his M related trauma!) #barber said via word of god once that SS is his favorite decepticon #you literally can't even claim that the writers were just biased against him #i dont get it. like of all ppl to know all of SS's lore i would expect SS fans to be the one to know it #is it bc their hateboner for mscott and non-reading of barber is just that strong? i dont get it

[hobbinch]

Im doing so good at just staying over here with my dislike of Hazb1n Hotel but nearly every single thing I learn about it justifies my haterdom to myself

#i just found out Lilith is a major character and I'm CONFIDENT the writer just took the name out of Jewish apocrypha and made up new lore #using Jewish mythological figures in a setting clearly based on christian theology isnt a new thing but its still obnoxious #when most of the characters are OCs with no mythological basis it makes it feel extra weird to take a real name and get it so incorrectly #*i* was mistaken about jewish demonology and Lilith in particular for most of my life because of similar ways she's written by Christians #sorry i just dont trust the Christian south park fan to handle jewish mythology respectfully #hell literally doesnt exist in jewish theology in the way the show portrays it #so to make Jewish figure who is literally not a part of Christian works the QUEEN OF HELL #i know ive been going in circles but that just feels sooooooooo weird

[brynnmclean]

I can't believe I still have to see posts about how much better ROP would be if Celebrían was the lead vs. Galadriel. As someone who has Tolkien Brainrot, I understand the appeal, I really, really do. As someone who has had to interact with so many people who either do not care about Tolkien Lore but are interested in fantasy television shows or are Jackson film fans first/foremost/only, y'all. Galadriel is a known character and a decent intro to lesser known characters.

Hate to break it to y'all but Celebrían is OBSCURE. I'm pretty confident in saying that if you get outside of Tolkien Fandom online circles, you could tell people that Elrond was married to Galadriel's daughter and the response you would get would be, "oh, I didn't realize that" because it's touched so lightly in the films. Celebrían isn't even MENTIONED by name. Now that I think about it, I'm not even sure if anyone mentions that Galadriel and Arwen are related at all!

My point is the show is meant to appeal to more people than us over here with Tolkien Brainrot!!!!!! I love Celebrían, but Galadriel was an easier sell to the potential of a wider audience as a lead. For a show that needs to go through so much lore very quickly, having Galadriel as the lead because she's 1) female [the overwhelming amount of male characters vs. female characters in the Legendarium is another post], 2) relatively familiar, and 3) has a set characterization to lead toward for an arc vs. her barely-even-mentioned-in-LotR daughter is a no-brainer.

#rings of power discourse for ts #i don't actually want to get into a fight about any of this. i just feel like i've been having this same conversation with people offline #for a year. like. #i don't want to make this all about running games but as someone who does run tolkien ttrpgs i have to explain A LOT of lore! regularly! #people can be fans of the films and simply not know information that could be called basic in fandom circles #do i agree with everything ROP did? no #but hot take: most of the changes they made were understandable to me if i thought through them for five minutes #point is: galadriel (known) celebrian (unknown). who the fuck were the writers going to pick as a lead? KNOWN. feels obvious to me! #tl;dr ROP is meant for a wider audience than Tolkien Brainrot Fandom sorry to say #and that goes for everyone who is saying the show should have kept the original timeline too #i saw one take early on that was like 'we should have had the focus be on the elves with a (basically disposable) cast of mortals #quickly dying off to show how much time is passing #sorry that is an unrealistic take! i can't imagine that any show is going to want to pay that many actors #i was surprised by the time jumps in HOTD!!!! #these tags could be their own post. this is out of hand. #to be deleted

[cat-downthestreet]

can HSR and HI3 players please just stop with picking on Genshin players already? we all like Hoyoverse, there is literally no reason to trash on the other games to try and get people to play your favorites. if anything you've only made Genshin players avoid HSR and HI3. you've accomplished nothing.

this post is not about the rewards players of each game get, I'm only talking about the Hoyoverse fans who trash on Genshin just because they think the other games are soooo much better and their opinions are better than "those stupid Genshin players'"

seriously, stfu. it's a game. if you don't like it don't bully people who do. and especially don't follow it up with "my favorite game is better" 😐

#hoyoverse #genshin impact #and if i see any reblogs or comments doing the same i will delete them. end of story #if you're one of the people who does this you're the problem. you're actively making the hoyo fans hate each other more by doing this. #just play your game and let people play what they want. it's not your life so it's none of your business #and yeah genshin has shitty rewards #but at least you can play for free and still enjoy the game. #not saying the other hoyo games aren't f2p but genshin is and that's part of why it attracts so many new players. #not just that but since Inazuma was rushed Hoyoverse has been making an effort to make the story better and less rushed. #idc that most patches are filler either. that's literally how it works y'all not every patch is going to be packed with lore #games take time to create and good stories can't be made for a game like Genshin in just three months. #if you don't believe me just look at Inazuma. they rushed that and tried to fit 5 acts worth of story into 3 and it did not go well. #games are passion projects and while i do agree that Hoyo wants your money it's important to remember that every game company is like that. #Genshin is not better or worse storywise just because the company can't make every patch not filler #or because Hoyo wants your money. like that's how it works what did you expect #the point is #the players who play Genshin for the story are having a great time and if you dislike that aspect just don't play it or engage with it. #the writers obviously care about Genshin enough to put massive amounts of effort into making it detail heavy and interesting. #if you think otherwise too bad ig that's not the game's fault #Genshin isn't your thing if you don't like the story. move on. #sorry for the rant #I'm not having such a good time and Hoyolab + the HI3/HSR community are so mean for no reason to Genshin players. #anyways thanks for coming to my ted talk

[nicosraf]

wOW THERES SO MUCH LORE ON ANGELS GENDER IM HAPPY THANK YOUUU, i actually didnt know all of that. It's so nice that its actually part of the plot too, you are brilliant 💕💞💓💘❤️💘💓❤️💘💓💘❣️❣️❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❣️❤️‍🔥❣️💖❣️❤️‍🔥❣️❤️‍🔥 bless your heart sweet angel

Ahhh I'm happy you enjoy it being part of the story!! I think angel gender is super wild! I love reading old angeology texts and seeing how the authors struggle between being misogynist but not wanting to be gay either. And then there's John Milton who decided to say all angels are between male and female but also they are men and they love to have gay sex. It's so silly! I love it and I love writing about it :) <33

And thank you! :') You're too sweet

#theres an insane amount of misinformation on angels #even beyond the gender issue #tbh #a LOT of it comes from angel websites that don't credit sources and that “celestial hierarchy” book that I'm not a fan of #and most angeology books will credit the Celestial Hierarchy so #most people are just regurgitating random made up information #I like Milton because I think he makes a major effort to stick with what the Bible actually says about angels (which is very very minimal!) #though i disagree with him taking Lucifer's motivations from Islam (though Dante did something similar) #Christianity is just very empty and vague in its lore tbh #ok im rambling im gonna stop now skskks #angel gender!!!!!! #mine #ask

[gu6chan]

Spending a year translating a novel and am split between the joy of seeing people in the west be able to enjoy something previously only able to be enjoyed by fans in japan and immense regret seeing it used for the worst fucking fan theories you've seen in your life

#drakengard #gu6chan's musings #it sucks ESPECIALLY when you know the context behind some of the shit they either talk about like some big mystery or miss the mark #COMPLETELY with but it's all in japanese and you don't wanna be an asshole OR translate a whole passage of something just to say #'thats not it actually' #im so tired why are westerrn drakenier fans so obsessed with the idea of a drakenier cinematic universe where everything is connected and #made in a way every small little thing is a result or clue to another thing instead of just.... existing. being a motif at most #cause SURE #everything TECHNICALLY is connected; that's like the whole thing #but not everything was made with that connection in mind drakenier pre-dod3 was largely just people fucking around #not everything is a reference #not everything is a piece of secret foreshadowing #i just wanna see an actual good fan theory that isnt like #'this piece of NPC dialogue that gets referenced in a cutaway gag 10 years later PROVES this scene has deeper lore than we thought' #and actually acknowledges the fact that 80% of drakenier is just people pulling shit out of their ass as an inside joke at most #sometimes I really wish I really wish I just kept the translations to 1.3 and Magnitude Negative a secret to like 4 people

[misedejem]

I think the most self-indulgent FFXIV thing I could draw would be my wolship, as they’re both my own OCs that I don’t share very much, and every day I get closer to doing it :3

#I know that most of the ffxiv stuff I make is my npc faves #but this game really has made me love making my own characters more than any other #it’s so nice to see how supportive both the game and the fans are for ocs honestly #like #I have so many documents and stuff of my wol lore and it’s so fun to write #one day I’ll give her an outfit that I like drawing :’)

[chainreh]

im listening to hypmic music again and everytime kuroda starts i go like "???? KIRYU KAZUMA????

#ik he has other characters #but kiryu is the one i associate most with him #esp w how much i listen to rgg karaoke #also i think its so funny rei absolutely could be a scammer from a yakuza substory #idk if there is much crossover of hypmic and rgg fans but. im sure at least someone out there #im so behind on lore i looked up rei to double check his name and he MADE THE HYPMOSIS MICS???? #please call me hypnosis.... mr microphone was my father

[ziracona]

Yeah, they really made an absolute dogs breakfast of the writing in Inquisition? It's so abysmal that I don't know if it'll ever recover, much less if the writers would even WANT to. In all honesty, I know the previous two games were far from perfect but at least the writing was more or less consistent, can't say the same for DA:I unfortunately...

Yeah. I kept hoping the end would somehow fix stuff but the end was worse than most of the game. O_O I could have written a god-tier game with the concept and basic outline for Inquisition, but alas I am not head BioWare staff. And we sure as hell did not get a god tier game. Tbh I have no interest in DW unless I hear they’ve like, wildly changed the game/writing course of their development. And I don’t exactly have high hopes, because they seem to have mostly staff from Inquisition on it. But I in good conscience can’t keep forking over piles of money for a tripple A game and DLCs when they U-turn from lauding me for massacring a bannon for what they did to my husband, Alienage, and friend, and even Lady agreeing that while she wants the descendants free, the original humans the Keeper went after absolutely deserved their fate, with a little DLC that talks about the cultural appropriation of indigenous people in the world and the loss of their own history to their invaders to the point a circle mage can read and speak more elvish than the Dalish companion, and how terrible it is, to a game where they refuse to take any stance really, finally to a game where they frame Briala & Celine together as cute & sweet with no tell to player who hasn’t read TME on their own what that woman did, retcon the godhood of every culture they based (often not just visibly but explicitly Word of God as well) on minority cultures until the only not retconned god is Fantasy Catholic God, so the only paths forward are Fantasy Catholic (traditional white Europeans are right & all other cultures wrong) or Atheism (modern white European ideology is right and all other cultures wrong), both terrible, and are so allergic to a minority rights narrative they retcon the entire elven history of the franchise to make it Opulent Suddenly European And Slaver Society back in its glory days, and kneecap the game’s second best character by making his sudden face heel end game goal Racial Supremacist Genocide to go back to Opulent Suddenly European Styled Culture for Elves?? And-ah forget it this would go on for a while day. Just. Yeah. It had wild potential as a game and I loved scenes and characters, and am retreating to DAO->DA2 with the things I liked in the divorce, and I could have made SUCH a DAI. But as it stands, I just. Both don’t and can’t really care going forward. I love the games I played and characters and that won’t change, but I have no faith they’ll not just keep getting worse (personally), and I’m not Paying to see that. But yeah, the others ain’t perfect, but they’re fun and solid enough. Even though I think DAO is easily the most well made, DA2 has such a fun cast and interesting concept and story, and such moments, it was my favorite. And he’ll, Nothing is perfect. That’s normal and expected. But there’s a big difference between ‘I don’t like these aspects but I like the whole enough’ and like

#ask #anonymous #dai spoilers #I still can’t BELIEVE they gave Solas one of the most God-Tier charcaters of all time in DAI and then in Trespasser went ‘haha psych! time #for racism species Supremacist Genocide Intellectual Dude Bro motives!’ like wtf I’m taking him & Cole in the divorce and leaving #they really had a charcater all game that was ‘pretending to be a calm Lawful Good professor but he’s Wearing the Mask & sometimes it cracks #but when you see behind it it’s not death sidius it’s Bugs Bunny sawing florida off the United States and ALSO he’s a big wolf’ and then #didn’t even let him actually be a trickster god just some dude who’s willing to kill every species in existence to hit race supremacy again #UNBELIEVABLE writing move in the worst way. I could have made the most amazing upsetting Solas starts a war finale while he’s still a god #and elves keep their elf culture and shaken the franchise to its knees and delivered writing unknown to man and done RIGHT by the bald man #but the devs fkn decided to massacre their franchise and my boy right in front of me #well not on my watch. I’m taking him and leaving back to previous games and writing my own - better inquisition in my head #if this timeline won’t deliver I’ll make my own! it won’t be the first fkn time #GOD it’s the little things too! in DAO I can help my bestie kill her abhsive mom but in DAI I’m supposed to find Flemeth sympathetic??? shes #the same flemeth who ruined my girl’s life as she has countless others! they really nosedive into so many piles of shit in DAI #to unfortunately paraphrase Trespasser Solas: I would be /thrilled/ to be proven wrong by BioWare. like you can’t imagine #but I’m not holding my breath. one fan who loves a charcater generates in a month 12x more usable DAI story and lore than the entire team in #the last 9 years

[tariah23]

Character bingo: sasuke (everything I know about naruto is through osmosis thanks to ur blog and wow so naruto and sasuke are actually that gay and it's not just the fandom)

The “why do they look like that,” section was marked because of Boruto Sasuke… he looks cute from some angles but man… old ass man…

#aKakkKKakajjjJAJAJAJAJAJAJA #I will… be normal for now… #okay like. #I LOVE HIM!!! ALWAYS HAVE #he’s just so…… #if you’re ever curious about some sasuke lore just got through my naruto meta tag lmfaooo #it’s under the ‘nm’ tag… 😭 #but anyway #UM #YEAH #he’s great! #it’s sad that majority of his fans don’t respect his character enough to let him just be… they either project too much onto him and are #weird about him or overly aggressive and insane about him (not a bad thing all of the time but it definitely depends on what kind of sasuke #fan it is) since you have the sns fans (usually smart and most of them get his character the most…) #then there’s the s/ssk sasuke fans 😭… lmfao #then there’s the sasuke fans who hate every other character including naruto except for sasuke and this right here will always be extremely #weird to me since naruto means so muchhh to sasuke and it’s been made clear multiple times all throughout the story #that the only person who sasuke loves with his whole heart is naruto and I’m being serious like this is canon not #me being just trying to be silly 😭… so the fact that ppl just like to take and twist his character around and erase the bits that they #dislike about him while forcing and projecting how they want him to be is so… #I’m like #‘sasuke would hate you if he was real’ *walks away* #I can go on and on but hes just so special and good like that is my dude I am rooting for him 🥺 #also still cannot wait for him and naruto to die in boruto like I would actually watch that episode just to laugh #both he and naruto are like old dogs waiting to be put down they are shadows of themselves and that’s not ‘character growth’ at all that’s.. #something else entirely… anyway I’m going on and on sorry I’m annoying #um #I love this guy lmfao #b1uetrees #tkf replies

[evening-rose-309]

to not spoil it, they quietly killed off the ncr for absolutely no reason and made the BOS victors for some reason.

house is not dead, but for majority fucked over at the battle of the hoover dam. how it is not stated yet.

but you’re pretty much correct everything else, so real “let’s wipe the slate clean bullshit”.

Of course he lost the dam.

The NCR was the main force behind Hoover Dam's acquisition in the first place, wrenching it out from under Caesar at the last second when Hanlon and the Rangers pulled their hail mary.

Without the Bear of the West, the Three Families probably defected into Caesar or fell to the Legion or just straight up deserted House once they realized a couple hundred tanks on tricycles would never be able to stand up to the Several Thousand Trained Berserkers that make up Caesar's Legion by year 2277.

I'm just curious as to what the Tin Can Buffoons will do to him when they find him. Or if he's made contact with Boston yet as his own last stand hail mary, though that part's purely wishful thinking.

#honest comrade i'm sittin' here coming up with all the ways i can improve on my own aus and crossovers #simply by observing this highway pileup #and being all like 'huh well if they can do that–' #of course most fan-creationists aren't trying to impose new cannons on everybody else #and regardless of whether or not it's entertaining that doesn't make it right #to basically make it a precedent to say: #“YO NERDS! SEE THIS THING THAT YOU LIKE? #“WE FUCK YOU WE'RE GONNA TURN INTO A PISSASS SHAMBLER OF WHAT YOU LOVED ABOUT IT #“BECAUSE WE LIKE MONEY AND MAKING PEOPLE FIGHT EACH OTHER ON THE INTERNET” #“AND YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO SEE THIS THING THAT YOU LOVE EVER BE HONORED BY US EVER AGAIN HAHA FUCKING LOSERS—” #i mean what does that say about media and the industry around it as a whole? #that it doesn't care about its consumers so long as it's progressing? #anyway this is getting rambly #to the people who like the show: good for you there's something nice for you to tune into on your one day off #but me well i go to an art-film school #i get to see how this warped perception of how the audience will receive our art #(—a perception fostered by bigwigs with marketing degrees—) #effects the mindsets of the people responsible for my education and and also my peers #if the consumer consensus looks like 'oh these graphics look really good the game must be awesome!' #and the market research shows those games sell without any other facet of them being affected #then the industry is going to keep making beautiful but hollow games #sequels that don't care about their predecessor's lore to either continue or transform and improve upon it #sequels that get made into streaming serials of the same mindset #the idea that you can just throw away your previous audience because there will be new and “correct” people who will enjoy you stuff #is also a trend that i've noticed #for better or worse #and it truly is #a bit of a tragedy #fallout tv show spoilers