Nick Valentine having to deal with Kellog's personality taking him over sometimes, acting on those feelings he starts to develop for Sole Survivor!Darling and Nick having to push those urges out of his head. How do you even act on sexual desire when you don't have the equipment to do that? Still, he worries that one day he won't be able to fight hard enough.

Dean Domino who is such an egotist that when he sees how capable the Courier is, he wants to keep them close. Find a way for them to owe him a favor or two. Make them think they need him, the same way he manipulated Vera into being a tool for him to use as he pleased. It's been 200 years since he saw another living being that wasn't trying to kill him or strap a bomb collar to his neck, and even if his willpower is strong he's still a man. And that scraggly jumpsuit on Courier's body somehow manages to fill out in all the right places...

Boone who becomes more protective of Courier after his companion quest because he has someone who means so much to him again, and even if they can protect themselves better than Carla could he still hates the thought of losing them. He'll take anything and anyone out that tries to go after them with a well-placed bullet, and he always has an eye out for anyone who might be giving them trouble---even if Courier insists that some guys or girls ogling them doesn't mean he has to give those people a death glare.

"Aw, shhh, don't cry."

Welcome to the Sierra Madre!

music:  POWERWOLF - Poison (Alice Cooper Cover)

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.

My nomination for the cuntiest ghoul in the wasteland

It occurs to me that given the nature of Pre-War Hollywood, Cooper Howard and Dean Domino probably not only know but absolutely fucking despise each other and honestly that brings me so much joy??

ROSE NOW IS NOT THE TIME

I said it in a reply earlier, but I'm gonna say it again:

THERE ISN'T ENOUGH EROTICIZATION OF RAD-X AND RADAWAY USE BY GHOUL FUCKERS!

There's so much lost potential there, in my opinion. Can you imagine gifting Rad-X/Away being the equivalent of giving someone lingerie, or a sex toy? Taking a Rad-X from across the room while your partner watches to show them you're turned on in a low-key way? Your partner frenching you a Rad-X? Amazing sex followed by lots of tender aftercare which includes your partner taking care of you while you're basically immobilized as you're given RadAway?

We're missing out, folks!

in honor of that fucking post getting notes again

dead money devotee til the day i die

Begin again

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a few sketches with ghouls and couriers (the smoothskin-sweet courier Ester belongs to @astely)

i have been rotating them around in my head for months

⚜️HEIST OF THE CENTURIES⚜️

i think it's about time we had a sexyman poll for the fallout side of tumblr. above is a list of all the fallout sexymen i could think of; if you think i missed anyone, i probably did want to add them, but polls only have ten answer slots. i may make a part 2 if there are enough characters left over, then pit the winners against each other in a final poll.

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