With Oppenheimer garnering so much attention and given that this blog is focused on a game that takes place in the U.S. American Southwest and explores the effects of nuclear war, it's important that we keep in mind how the arms race and nuclear testing have historically and still affect the Indigenous populations of the region, particularly the Diné/Navajo.
I loved redrawing this ghibli scene with Mono and Six omg!!! Also first time drawing a background just to blur it in the end 😫 buut I’m very happy about it!!!
For any Canadian/East Coast peeps please remember to wear masks outside!! This air quality is WORSE than when Fort McMurray burned!!
Keep an eye on your children and grandparents and pets! They’re all especially prone to smoke inhalation!
If you get any nosebleeds you can put a tiny bit of petroleum jelly in your nose to keep things from drying out, and lip balm is a good idea too. Sunglasses won’t save your eyes completely but they do help if you have to go outside!
Any yard work or exercise can WAIT. Going for a run WILL hurt you. If your house is too smoky, turn on your air conditioning (if you have it) and go to a shopping centre for the day. I think they opened the cooling centres in Ottawa which is apparently getting hit super hard so you can also head there to get a break!
I’ve noticed a trend, and this is by no means exclusive to Fallout but definitely crops up from time to time, to question why fascists enjoy left-leaning or even outright leftist works of art: Fallout New Vegas, the X-Men, Breaking Bad, etc etc etc. It tends to get attributed to either a lack of understanding or, in cases where fascists identify with a character or organization in said work, a lack of condemnation of said character. There’s this belief that if the work condemns the fascist identification character enough, then fascists won’t identify with them. On the surface, it seems to hold water; after all, nobody claims that the Illinois Nazis were right all along. But it misunderstands a fundamental thing about fascists:
Fascists steal. It’s what they do. It’s not that they can’t create, although little of what they do is anything remotely approaching good. Instead, they aim to legitimize themselves by grafting on to the existing. It’s why so many fascists use Roman imagery, the Last Great Mythological Empire. The Hindu Swastika was a symbol of good luck and prosperity.
If they can pretend that Fallout or the X-Men or whatever were apolitical and only BECAME “woke”, then it legitimizes their position as longtime fans of the work expressing displeasure in this “new” direction rather than interlopers coming in and destroying what already exists. And they do it because to the casual observer, it works: after all, what’s so political about a guy shooting lasers out of his eyes or a mailman wandering the desert? This is why it’s so important to make spaces absolutely hostile to fascists.