Headcanon: P.A.M. is a lesbian who has a crush on Glory and that’s part of the reason she decided to help the Railroad.

NEXT TIME, YOU INVITE PAM

Gonna tell my grandnieces and grandnephews this was Barbenheimer

HOW YOUR BACKYARD BARBECUE GO, THE SMITHS?

PRETTY GOOD, IT DOES NOT SEEM.

the fallout show was great but I'm going to have to deduct a few points on account of the fact that FINAL PAM wasn't in it

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FINAL PAM 🎉

Reposting my tattoo to celebrate the creation of our God and Leader

Poor Fallout 4 really went completely unremembered outside one funny video that got memed. Nothing intentionally in the game really charmed people like Fallout 3 or New Vegas did and it seems like very few people felt they could get any higher entertainment value out of it than Monster Factory did and it faded from public consciousness. And I don’t remember anything else about it standing out to me as a game either, but it sucks and makes me very sad because if only Fallout 4 had been more culturally relevant perhaps it would have been able to elevate scorpionflies from obscurity.

Imagine a world where the first video game to feature this insect actually took off enough that they became common knowledge, especially from all the people who might assume the “stingwing” is just a cool made-up monster until they learn it was just lifted 1:1 from an actual animal, THEN they learn that the real animal’s tail is not a stinger at all but the male’s genitalia. It could have gone so viral. But they blew it. They put it in a game that people were just okay about. They RUINED scorpionfly’s big chance :(

if the ghoul ever shows up in the games

I know never once not a single time in history did anybody ever look at my tumblr blog title and think “huh I wonder where that line is from” but just so everybody knows, it’s fucking this gem

Finally finished my six characters! Thanks again to everyone for your suggestions.

In order:

Dar-Ma - Oblivion

Jiub - Morrowind

Harold (and Bob) - Fallout 2

Moira - Fallout 3

Silus Vesuius - Skyrim

The Final Pam - Fallout 4/Monster Factory

[The Final Pam] is both the metric by which the world will be judged, and the judge... and executioner.

Griffin McElroy

Wild how in the Fallout TV series they left out that The Final Pam was fallout.

Can't believe they would hide her achievements like this.

happy birthday queen

Me watching the Fallout TV show: Oh cool, they opened with a party scene

Also me: NEXT TIME YOU INVITE PAM!

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Me: oh cool, radroaches.

Also me: ROACHY!

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Me: hahaha snip snip with Matt Berry voice. Nice.

Also me: SHINY METAL HUSBAND!

Gosh, someone probably already said this so much better than me, but I absolutely love what Fallout did with the character of Barb Howard. She's this sort of subversion of both the doting 1950s housewife and the archetype of the wife who dies as character motivation, and you think that's the direction the series is going, but then you get to see bits and pieces of her outside of her marriage to Cooper.

Like these archetypes, she loves her family fiercely, but that love pushes her into an active role, not a passive one, and is one that encourages her to distrust humanity. Throughout the series, there's this ambiguity as to how much she's being manipulated by Vault-Tech and how much she's an active power player, especially when she suggests dropping the bomb in the first place. Maybe a combination of both?

I don't know, I generally dislike comparisons between Fallout and The Last of Us, because they go in very different directions outside of the general concept of a Western set in the apocalypse. However, Joel Miller and Barb Howard both embody this idea of love pushing us to be selfish, not selfless. It's a neat reversal of the theme of love as a source of redemption, and more as a love that alienates us from the rest of humanity.

ALSO, the choice of costumes and color for Barb's wardrobe! She wears these soft pinks that eventually transition into oranges, both shades that feel conventionally feminine, yet vibrant and powerful. The contrast between her dress and the meeting room in episode 8! Thank you, Frances Turner for bringing this character to life! Thank you, Amy Westcott for the costumes!

I'm crawling up the walls for a scene of the separation and divorce in S2. I want Barb Howard to be waiting for her moment in one of those cryogenic chamber thingies. Still in a very cool 1950s dress.