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"...we know the government doesn't give a fuck about us. We know the government doesn't give a flying fuck about the future of this country. I don't give a fuck about Biden's campaign! Nor do I give a fuck about Trump's campaign. Because they don't care about me! They don't care about babies. They don't care about women. They don't care about Black people or Native Americans. They don't give a fuck about Palestinian children. I do! I give a fuck about this country! I was born on this soil. I love this place. Because I love my friends, and I love the earth, and I want to protect it, and they don't. Because they want pocket change."

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You have to forgive me, cause I'm getting a little angry, but I've seen a lot of rhetoric on this app, and on other social media, and on the news, that our generation is soft. That Gen X- Gen X, Boomers, and Silent Generation believe that Gen Z and millenials and this Gen Alpha are soft. And I will tell you what, I think that is the worst thing to assume.

I have witnessed hundreds of my peers' lives be stripped away from them; their futures, their hopes, their dreams, their prom nights, because of our government's inaction with gun control. I have witnessed millions of lives taken away and altered and changed and ruined because of our government's inaction with Covid.

You guys made us tough. We're tough. We're tougher than you think, and we're tougher than you like to admit. Because we know the government doesn't give a fuck about us. We know the government doesn't give a flying fuck about the future of this country.

I don't give a fuck about Biden's campaign! Nor do I give a fuck about Trump's campaign. Because they don't care about me! They don't care about babies. They don't care about women. They don't care about Black people or Native Americans. They don't give a fuck about Palestinian children. I do! I give a fuck about this country!

I was born on this soil. I love this place. Because I love my friends, and I love the earth, and I want to protect it, and they don't. Because they want pocket change.

Tough. You think you're tough? You're bootlickers! Subservient to the idea of "growth." As if we can grow anymore! Our planet is dying! Because you don't give a fuck. Because you're soft. And saving the planet might be a little tougher than you thought.

I'm ready for that work. You know what I'm not ready for? Another world war. Just because I'm not gonna go over and shoot another working class person that I probably have more in common with, than an owning class piece of shit like Elon Musk, I'm soft? Because I care enough to accomodate my differently-abled peers, I'm soft? Because I don't wanna joke about women getting abused, I'm soft? If I'm alone in a room with Jeff Jackson, I'm leaving with his teeth in a jar. I'll show you how soft I am.

And you wanna ban the only place that we found community? Yeah, nonono. This election year is crazy. Because at this point, like, I think the entire generation, my generation, knows that you guys are geriatric, and knows that the Constitution is as well. It's too old. We are one of the youngest countries and we have the oldest Constitution? Make that make sense to me.

It's time for change. It's time for a new way of life. And these rich, stupid fucks don't deserve to be in charge of it. That's it, I'm sorry, that's it. That's it, I'm done."

#social studies #this guy is awesome and he gives me hope for the future #im a young gen x but you're right kids have it so much harder now

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Soldier?

#ahhhaha i love this #its really bringing me back to the wild days of 2016 fo4 thirst posting #paladin danse #art i like

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#fo4 #lmao

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the funniest dynamc between my boyfriend and i is the chef/baker divide runs so deep. experimentally my boyfriend is a genius with figuring out what flavor profiles will not just taste good together but also will be enjoyed by the specific audience he is cooking for. a recipe is not a guidebook so much as a suggestion and he will frankenstein ideas together to get exactly what he wants to happen. he also didnt know that sugar will not work properly if you dont mix it with the wet ingredients in banana bread and when i asked 'why didnt you do it in the order of the recipe' he said 'i didnt really think it mattered'. autistically i exploded his head in my mind

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no multi option, agonize and choose, no results option, pick one to find out or scroll onward

#had to pick the veggie one #i live in canada #groceries are a luxury

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fic planning be like:

#aahhhh this #this is because writing is not a solo activitu #it is a group activity that always goes better when you have someone to talk to about it. #or better yet a small group

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There are 3 types of Fallout players.

Oh my sweet babygirl husband let me protect and cherish you.

I know he has some strong opinions but poor man was raised by a cult and I can make him better.

What the hell did you think I hoarded all the RadAway for, bitch?!

#fallout #fo4 #fotv #im number 2 obviously #paladin danse #preston garvey #hancock #maximus #lucy #cooper

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Regardless of my feelings about the BoS as a whole in the Fallout series, Maximus as a character exceeded all my expectations.

Maximus, honestly, to me, was the most nuanced and best acted character in the series. His situations were fantastical and yet the way he reacted to it all was so grounded. He was like a prestige drama character in a series full of cartoons. Don't get me wrong, I like the cartoons. Fallout leans heavily into parody and it's totally on brand. But Maximus' entire emotional arc was so understated and I really appreciated it.

He isn't a very vocal OR excessively emotive character because he knows being vulnerable hurts him. He shapes himself to that idealized memory of the knight in the armor even as he doesn't seem to really understand or care for the beliefs behind the armor. He's failing his classes as an aspirant. When talking of the BoS beliefs, he throws in a "or whatever". That part of it doesn't matter to him. The armor IS his belief system.

His whole story is about the cycle of violence and toxicity. The bullies who beat him. The abuse he endures. He wants power so that he can escape it but once he gets that chance he's doomed to perpetuate it, because that power is coming from the system. It's tainted. Deep down he doesn't want revenge, he doesn't even want power for power's sake, he wants safety. And he wants to be the hero from his memory, he wants the strength to save himself from this cycle.

And yet, he just keeps making he wrong choices. Over and over and over. He can't get out of it.

And then Lucy throws him a lifeline. And it takes someone from outside of the cycle to break through. And then he makes the choice to do the right thing even though it means making himself weaker, making himself less safe. He chooses to do the right thing for the first time in the show. And it means finally letting go of his dream, the armor.

And he sees a light at the end of the tunnel. He thinks his reward is going to be Vault 33, he's going to be safe and happy with someone who cares about him and makes him feel like a real, good person.

And by the end of the series, he's trapped in the cycle again.

There is just something so delicious about someone getting everything they wanted at the start and being miserable about it. There's something so REAL about wanting to be something but every instinct makes you sabotage yourself every step of the way.

And the thing is, he had all of these little moments of genuineness, selfishness, pettiness, virtue, I genuinely didn't know what he was going to do for most of the show. I thought he might turn on Lucy at some point. I honestly, truly thought he had sabotaged Dane even though Dane was his only friend. He is so morally hard to pin down because he's so full of life's little hypocrisies. His ideals and his feelings are in conflict so much and he doesn't have to look anguished for you to understand that. You just see it in his resigned stares, in his hesitance and his ultimate actions.

I just... I really loved Maximus. Bravo to Aaron Moten.

#fotv #maximus #thanks for putting this into words for me op

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#paladin danse #excellent work op #i still have one of your edits as a wallpaper for like the past 8 years lol

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being aware of the impact of things we can often not think about (like straws) is important if we’re to make strides on environmental preservation 

that does not eclipse the importance of being aware of how it impacts disabled people. they’re both conversations we need to have

#social studies

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'Castiel should have been Dean Winchester's lover' yes and in a way he was!! He was the only one who saw Dean and loved him not despite his flaws but because of them! He was the one who sacrificed himself for Dean and things that were important to Dean over and over again! He was the one who watched silly Westerns with Dean and indulged Dean's interests, the one who took care of Dean and healed him, who made sure Dean knew he was worth something and that the world was a better place with him in it! So yeah, Castiel was Dean Winchester's lover. But I agree, they should have fucked on screen too.

#spn #destiel

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On the one-hand I think that the commonly-memed-upon detail that Elder Maxson is only 20 despite presenting himself like a battle-hardened grizzled 40-something is grounds for really rich characterization and storytelling, because it reframes many of his more over-the-top actions as the grandiose performativity of a young-adult massively in over his head and trying to playing catch-up, an exalted figurehead who's more the product of the authoritarian cult he's ostensibly leading than it's architect. On the other hand I also think there's a really excellent chance that they just weren't paying attention to how old he was supposed to be

#arthur maxson #fo4

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this is actually how blind betrayal went down

#Paladin Danse #arthur maxson #fi4 #art i like #blind betrayal

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being the high elder of the brotherhood of steel is just a nepobaby position at this point…

By 2296 I am very sure arthur maxson is high elder with the very looming threat of “get married and have babies NOW”

#fallout #arthur maxson #brotherhood of steel

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Maybe*CRASH*

Maybe I'll try *CRASH*

Maybe I'll try and learn to appreciate *CRASH*

Maybe I'll try and learn to appreciate Fallout Ne*CRASH*

Maybe I'll try and learn to appreciate Fallout New Vegas if I *CRASH*

Whatever, I'm going to bed.

#fallout new vegas #i got through the ghoul rocket launch #it is better if you leave the radio off though. #it's still not clicking with me #im like the one person who doesn't care for fonv

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Depth of Field

Depth of Field by TessEtc (@tessetc) Rating: Explicit Word Count: 27k

Dean, a professional photographer, is taking photos at the Fourth of July parade when he spots an old man with striking blue eyes across the street. Dean follows him, but before they can speak, the man falls down and dies with his hand in Dean's. Dean feels responsible, and seeks to learn more about the old man, retired doctor Castiel Novak. Dean discovers that Castiel once owned Dean's house, and comes to find an old camera amongst his things. When he takes his own portrait, it sends him hurtling back fifty years to 1962 where he meets a young, handsome, Cas. They can't help falling for each other. But Dean can't stay in 1962. His connection with his brother, Sam, pulls him back to 2012. Determined to see Cas, he uses the camera to return, but each time he travels to the past, it takes a greater toll on his body. Eventually, in order to stay with the man he loves, he has to make a heartbreaking choice.

If you want to read the piniest of the pining trope, read this story. It was sweet, gentle, beautiful, and it ripped my heart out and stomped on it with it's piney needles. Don't worry, there is a happy ending, something so beautiful and hard earned it will make you believe in love in a way you will never recover from.

Dean witnesses the death of an old man who looks at him with the kind of soul-searing understanding that leaves him bereft. He discovers then that his house once belonged to the dead man, and when he starts searching, he finds an old camera and pictures of the old man when he was younger.

Through unexpected and unexplained magic, Dean finds himself transported back into his own living room when he takes a picture of himself with the old camera. He finds himself suddenly looking up into those same blue eyes, but now Castiel Novak is looking back at him from the beautiful face from the pictures.

A connection to his own time calls him back, but Dean returns to Castiel again and again as they fall in love and try to build a life together, but each trip he makes takes a larger and larger toll on his body, pushing him closer to death but True Love calls to him across time. Now he must decide, stay with his family and the life he's known or give up everything for whatever time he might have with the love of his life.

I can't recommend this one strongly enough.

#omggggg #vibrating #destiel #spn #my fanfic

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If you're thirsty for some more fallout content I have tons of fallout 4 fics to read!

Here start with this f!sole/paladin Danse rom com! Then check my ao3 for more (just scroll past the destiel)

#fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #paladin danse #fallout fanfic #rated e #m/f #but there’s m/m #and mmf on my ao3 #Also i can give recs #for other writers not just me