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this is the first time for me I DRAW DWEMER sooooooooo fun (but now is getting stress because when i got it i wanna write many lines 🤪 FEEL SO GOOOOD
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Long post ahead. My full thoughts on the fallout series. TW for references to Sexual Assault, racism, antisemitism. It's not particularly in depth here- but I do reference specific acts of violence done in the show.
I've had people insinuate I'm only mad because I'm a New Vegas fan, because I think they retconned the lore. I'm not upset at the fallout show for its dubious lore additions and reworks. I think they're quite bad in places, but they're by far the least of the show's problems.
This isn't a case of a New Vegas fan mad they messed with my game in a way I didn't like.
Please refer to literally any of my posts pointing out the racism and antisemitism in the show. They brand a black man in episode 1. They named the enclave scientist after a real life holocaust survivor and then spent most of the show lobbing around his decapitated head like a volleyball.
But I'd like to consider other elements of the show. View it as a whole.
Consider the inherent misogyny of having a female main character whose entire character arc is just her getting abused for 8 episodes. How the trajectory of her character revolves around not giving up on the humanity of the man who waterboarded her and sold her to organ harvesters. A female main character who is raped in the first episode and watches her entire community get brutalized and who comes out of it completely unphased- still as plucky as ever- just worried about her dad.
Consider the horror of having a black woman be the one to drop the bombs. Consider the horror of her leading a council of elites who have infiltrated and taken over the US government. Consider the ways this group is presented and shown, the ways every fault of the US government in the series is offloaded onto a shadowy group of elites.
Consider how the capitalist critique of the show only goes so far as saying there's a secret organization of bad people who must be purged. The antisemitism and conspiratorial nonsense inherent to that premise.
Consider the rampant classism with the show's depiction of Wastelanders as either animalistic monsters or too stupid to live.
Consider the ways the show punishes nearly every act of kindness- the ways the world rewards might-makes-right authoritarians.
Consider the way the NCR collapsed offscreen because a disgruntled husband was mad his wife left him, and how after it collapsed the army immediately became raiders and the survivors became blood drinking cultists. Don't give me "it's just shady sands that collapsed" because the NCR was a developed nation. If one of their cities blew up, they would send aid. They would assist.
Consider the way the show constantly uses sex crimes as comedy and horror- the incest jokes and the "chicken fucker" bit, and the Vault 4 monster impregnation and the main character's rape in the first episode.
Consider the ableism of the treatment of ghouls, how every ghoul is now a ticking time bomb, how Lucy helps free a small dementia-riddled old ghoul woman from a medical torture facility and then is immediately punished with the woman trying to inexplicably murder her. Thaddeus openly talks about ghoul exterminationism and it's never a joke or a bit- he just says it and nobody reacts or says anything.
Consider the way the Vault 33 town councillors use real world progressive talking points about restorative justice and prison abolition and multiculturalism- meanwhile Norm advocates for the death penalty and a closed society. How Norm is shown as good and righteous and the vault dwellers range from deluded to damningly stupid- how the mere concept of restorative justice is made a farce because the NCR raiders are screaming about eating organs and murdering people 24/7.
Consider the way they removed the Boneyard, and the Followers of the Apocalypse by extension. In New Vegas we heard about the Followers operating a university in LA. It's gone now. Not destroyed by bombs- but written out of existence because the Boneyard never existed, and Shady Sands is in its place. Consider what that says about this world- that the group most dedicated to peace and rebuilding has been surgically excised from the narrative- destroyed more wholly than even the NCR- written out of existence entirely.
This is the single most reactionary fallout story that has been produced. By a fucking country mile.
Whatever lore critiques there are should be secondary. The storytelling is reactionary in ways I straight up have not seen from other Bethesda entries in the series. It is cruel to a fault, and depicts a world that is incapable of healing or growing- where the best you can do is hold onto that small spark of goodness while every bit of the society around you tries to murder it out of you. This isn't a story about rebuilding, or about postwar politics, or about society- it's about dueling warlords and might makes right attitudes and grimdark views of the nature of humanity. It's fallout in aesthetics alone- and it's perhaps the most hateful thing I've seen come out of this series outside of the actual neonazis in the fanbase.
Whatever hope there is in Moldaver's final moments looking out over the glittering ruins of LA is undercut by the knowledge of what came before. What was destroyed. And it's undercut by the Brotherhood's totalitarian control. It's not hopeful, it's the bare minimum of survival. It's all the progress of the postwar world, 200 years of humanity and history, reduced to just barely getting the lights back on.
In the intro to fallout 1, "War Never Changes" is used as thematic glue. It ties together two concepts- past wars- and present capitalism and militarism.
Ron Perlman describes the Roman Empire, the Spanish conquests of the Americas, and the Nazi regime- and then he says "war never changes" and uses it to connect those past atrocities to the modern world of the setting- to the war that ended everything. The phrase existed to link the resource wars and their ensuing fallout to all the crimes of empire prior. War never changes wasn't a hard and fast rule of human nature- it was a specific condemnation of America.
Lonesome Road even ends with the phrase refuted. War Never Changes. But men do, through the roads they walk. There is hope. That's what this series has always been about. The Master died at the end of fallout 1 and said "leave while you still have hope."
In this show, the black woman Vault Tec exec who ends the world says the phrase. It's stripped of all meaning. Just a generic throwback because it's a famous phrase in the series' history. It's not a condemnation of America, it's a celebratory thing. Vault Tec toasting to the end of the world.
What a thing to see this series become. What a thing to see celebrated.
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i shall always come back to you ⚔️💫 princess x knight au
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I actually really like how you characterize Leona.. I think the new lore favors Diana bc she got the better quality story. A bit of a rant but I would’ve loved the new lore if they didn’t make Leona so one dimensional, there’s so much potential with the lunari solari religious aspects of the story, the fanaticism, and it just feels like they did a watered down Christian reformation plot lol.
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You're right - after retcons, Riot flipped many characterisations between "connected" characters; I'd use Morgana and Kayle as an additional example - while Kayle did use to be a rigid judge, she was reasonable and clearly had internal conflict between justice and the mercy she wanted to grant, while Morgana did dabble in dark arts. Retcon happened, and suddenly Kayle's hysterical and trigger-happy while Morgana is merciful and endures pain.
There was nothing exactly written about the solari-lunari conflict in old lore because it didn't even reach that part beyond Diana's introduction. But new lore definitely did a distilled "good vs bad" religious conflict which pushes the conclusion "somehow (we don't know how though), everything will end in balance between powers" non-position. Most likely because this is considered most easily marketable to the widest audience. Easiest to understand. Imagine convincing a gigantic MOBA company to invest in a complex plot and complex unravelling of the story haha.
But they very clearly did basically delete Leona's character. There's a reason why so many new League players consider her now bland. Here's a comparison of her old lore judgment bits:
~~ And these are just cutouts, the Judgment is much longer.
Now let's compare to how much Leona has "screen time" for herself, before she's inevitably shoved into a relationship with Diana in new lore:
This is it. She is not allowed a paragraph more to have a personality or something other than her devotion to solari. Her colour story is just a description of carnage in a battle. Do I have to explain that characters are only interesting if they exist as their own people before they enter relationships with other characters?
Original lore Leona wasn't actually so devoted to solari. She wasn't part of the religious order until 16, and even after that in the Judgment it's clear she only feels indebted to the Sun itself, no matter how much solari try to convince her that she is owed awe by everyone.
So, because I felt the potential in this huge area of League's old story and because I like the characters, I decided to develop it into a comic!
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Pantheon, the Unbreakable Spear, Soldier of Humanity
Pantheon Moodboard series: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
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Sometimes I wish Sylas wasn't designed to look sexy because most discussion or content of sylas is about him being hot, and I just reread Demacian Heart and IT'S SO SAD
SOMEBODY GIVE THIS POOR MAN A HUG HE DIDN'T DESERVE THAT
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Some of my favourite short stories from League's Universe page since Riot doesn't give a flying fuck about their narrative team
This is not a comprehensive list -in fact there's many more that I also really like!- so please share your favourites as well.
The Cage by Odin Austin Shafer
Featured champion(s): Aatrox
The Man with the Steel Cane by Odin Austin Shafer
Featured champion(s): Jhin, Zed, Shen
The Lure by Dan Abnett
Featured champion(s): Kayn, Sona
The Man with the Grinning Shadow by Jared Rosen
Featured champion(s): Lucian, Senna, Thresh, Karthus
Art is Life by Graham McNeill
Featured champion(s): Vladimir
Paintings Framed in Half-Light by Isa Mari De Leon
Featured champion(s): Hwei, Jhin
Child of Zaun by Ian St. Martin
Featured champion(s): Vi, Caitlyn, Urgot
Perennial by Dana Luery Shaw
Featured champion(s): Ahri
House on Emberflit Alley by Rayla Heide
Featured champion(s): Viktor
A Quick Fix by Anthony Burch
Featured champion(s): Jayce
The Eye in the Abyss by Anthony Reynolds
Featured champion(s): n/a
A Good Death by Matt Dunn and Scott Hawkes
Featured champion(s): Kindred
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The only reason he keeps his hair visible is vanity
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