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So, I saw an interview with the show’s writers and it gave me a lot of thoughts regarding fallout, narrative themes, and colonialism.
First off, I consider myself pretty misanthropic, but even I know “people are evil and innately bad and destructive” isn’t the theme of fallout. That’s doing a lot to lift the blame off of American imperialism and how *that* is the great evil the series warns us about, not “everyone is like this”. The first game opens with us seeing American soldiers executing prisoners of war as America annexes Canada to take petroleum and uranium: it’s clearly about American evil and military/imperial evil, not something innate to all people.
Second, fallout is unique *because* you see “civilization” in a post-apocalyptic setting. Tim Cain has a quote about fallout 1 where he said “my concern in this story is the ethics of life in the aftermath of nuclear war, not building a better laser gun”, and that’s pretty central to fallout. Rather than stagnating, it tries to show us how life would adapt and move on from the apocalypse. The world will change, yes, but it will change in that the apocalypse will become more distant. The future won’t look much like the day the bombs dropped.
Third, what a colonial view to have! “Where’s civilization? Where’s *everything*?” is what you got from westerns? You think railroads and churches being built in recently stolen territory (as is common in Wild West stories) is “civilization”? Wanna tell us what you think America was pre-colonization, Wagner?
It shows this perspective that doesn’t truly want to admit the flaws of America, either willfully or (more likely) due to ignorance. It’s a sheltered perspective, one that doesn’t know history, one that doesn’t know other cultures, one that doesn’t even know the themes of the story it’s writing for…
Edit: this next quote doesn’t have anything to do with those points, it just feels wrong to me to write so spitefully for a series…
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another comm done for @tabellarium!! tysm you are the BEST!!!
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fallouttt horses. I don't have a snazzy name for them, they're just my silly little guys.
Transcript cause my handwriting is bad:
Fanged mouth - used for offence and defense. They are opportunistic predators and will often eat small animals like mice and lizards, or birds if they can catch them.
Bristles - Bristles on their withers/shoulder and on their croup are tough and sharp, meant to dissuade any predator who might be big enough to grab them or jump on their back. These are frequently cut down for the comfort of the horse and rider.
Spurs and secondary spurs - Spurs for defense. They are larger on males than on females. Not every horse has secondary spurs; Spurs are usually shaved down by farriers for workhorses or horses kept in herds to prevent injuries.
Three toed hind feet - toed hind feet give the hoof more grip when turning and on uneven terrain.
Standard bred horses are found all over. Decently healthy, decently strong and fast, they're good workhorses and riding horses both. Usually even tempered, they can be prone to fighting.
Heavy bred horses are usually workhorses or cart horses. They have good endurance and good health, but poor speed. They are calm horses, and don't tend to get aggravated easily.
Desert bred horses are fast and have good endurance, but they are badly tempered and difficult to train. They are favored mounts of Legionaries due to their intelligence and the ease of care, but they can frequently injure their riders.
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There was a shooting star in the sky
It flew over the Mojave desert
And landed, bullseye
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In honor of the Fallout show being out, here's this edit my friend made 6 years ago
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okay i will take a break from drawing the sassy bisexual doctor who hates living in an undersupplied camp in an active warzone to draw the sassy gay doctor who hates living in an undersupplied camp in an active warzone. nihil novi sub sole et cetera
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Just wanted to drop the cover for the next chapter so y'all know I haven't forgotten about this comic. I probably won't be back to weekly updates for a little while longer yet, but I'll try to commit more time to comic work over May and hopefully get things going again by June. Sorry for the radio silence but I want to get more pages done before I come back. But here's something for now at least <3
Prologue
Chapter 1 Page 1 (coming soonish)
#hi#my art#every cheer for darion death hand appearance!! yayyy!! dont worry about him being dead hes fineee
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Rory (my oc) and fnv boys
+ a little bit of benny gecko
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