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Aaron Moten as Maximus & Xelia Mendes-Jones as Dane Fallout (2024—) 2.04 "The Demon in the Snow"
Obsessed with how the 3 principals of Fallout Prime are becoming like each other, or at least intersecting on their moral graphs:
-Ghoul doing oddly Lucy-like (or maybe just Cooper-like?) things, rescuing Lucy, protecting the NCR holdouts, punishing the Legion.
-Lucy becoming more Ghoul-like with her distrust of the NCR people and the weird possibly drug-induced gusto at killing the feral kings...
-Maximus somehow becoming a bit of both, telling Quintus you cant choose in the wasteland, you have to take action, but also that action was protecting children. Maximus resolving to Kill Quintus because that's how the Wasteland works, but then being unable to kill Quintus because he wants a family so bad and no matter how disillusioned he's become he wanted the Brotherhood to be that so badly...
The Contrast of "They were kids!" vs "They're just ghouls"
come on.
COME ON!
Dane and Maximus should have kissed in that one scene and Dane should have left with him LET THEM BE GAY TOGETHER TODD THEY ARE IN LOVE
(if Dane stayed behind I hope they at least get an "I am that guy" scene with Quintus to contrast their "You're not that guy" scene with Max)
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obsessed with this
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it's so sick and twisted that you have to forge the life you deserve from the molten scraps of the life you were forced to have
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Meiji period fashion was some of the best in the world, speaking purely from an aesthetic standpoint you can really see the collision of European and Japanese standards of beauty and how their broad agreement even in particulars (the similarity between Japanese and Gibson girl bouffants, the obi vs the corset, the obi knot vs the bustle, the mutual covetousness for exotic textiles, the feverish swapping of both art styles and subjects) combined and produced some of the most interesting cultural exchange we have this level of documentation for. Europeans were wearing kimono or adapting them into tea gowns, japanese were pairing lacy Edwardian blouses with skirt hakama and little button up boots. haori jackets with bowler hats and European style lapels. if steampunk was any good as an aesthetic it would steal wholesale from the copious records we have in both graphic arts and photography of how people were dressing in this milieu.
«The botany professor,» from Kkokei Shimbun, October 20, 1908. she's wearing a kimono blouse or haori, edwardian skirt or hakama, gibson girl bouffant, a lacy high-collar blouse with cravat and brooch, and a pocket watch with chain
1910-1930 (Taishō era, right after Meiji, which I should have included in my OP) men's haori with western lapels
I have a love for both kimonos and bustle dresses, so I love seeing how the two fashions influenced each other over this period. And thanks to Pinterest, I have pictures!
Victorian tea gown that clearly started as a kimono. It still has the long furisode sleeves, but now they’re gathered at the shoulder and turned around so that the long open side is facing the front instead of the back. Similarly the back is taken in with curved seams to fit the torso and pleated below that for the skirt.
Woodblock of a woman in a a bustle dress made with colorful patterned fabrics and examples of how a woman could style her hair with it.
More prints to showcase hairstyles, two women wearing western wear and two women wearing kimonos.
This next one’s modern, but it involves hoopskirts so I’ll add it in because it makes me so happy. There’s been different styles of wedding fashion that take kimonos and give them a more modern look. Often this involves taking a kimono and then cutting and resewing it into a new dress. Very pretty, but it can’t ever be worn like a traditional kimono again. But now there’s another trend where the bride wears a hoopskirt with a white skirt, then you take the kimono and drape it on. The back of the kimono covers the front of the dress, the long sleeves fall across the sides or the back, and you still wear an obi with it. The result is pretty and the kimono itself doesn’t have to be altered at all.
And because you mentioned steampunk, I have to add in these two:
Personally I’m a big fan of Taisho Meisen kimono, which are what happen when the Japanese textile industry abruptly gets access to aniline dyes, new spinning and weaving technology, and the concept of Art Deco:
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harry potter fandom experiencing such a revival in the last 5 or so years to the point where 5 out of the top 10 ships on ao3 this year are hp AFTER that woman started fully funding hate campaigns with her royalties is so bleak. fandom isn’t an indicator of morality but what are we doing here man.
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Danse: being a synth is terrible. my very body feels wrong and not my own. I was not the first consciousness in this and I might not be the last. I am a borrowed life on borrowed time. Most of my memories aren’t even my own and my entire identity is founded on lies
Curie, previously a robot: Ai am zo vairy glad to ‘avé ‘uman hands to feel le Home Depot “carpet samplés’!
Okay. Screw it. Prediction for the final Scene of the 2nd Season:
A fleet of BoS ships come over the horizon. 2...3... no, 4 massive Airships, surrounded by enough Vertibirds to darken the skies.
At first, the assembled armies of the Legion, NCR, and Mojave BOS, fighting in the streets of New Vegas, are cowed, despairing.
Then they take a closer look. The airships - they're torn half to pieces. Most of the Vertibirds are barely afloat, half are sparking, a large amount are breaking formation and flying away.
And that's when we see, coming behind them. A bigger fleet. twice as many Airships. And on the side of each, a field of blue, with a familiar white symbol.
Cut to the Interior of an Airship Deck. A bunch of smartly dressed soldiers rush about between consoles, turning dials, speaking into radios, firing off reports, but this is no disarray. This is the controlled chaos of a finely tuned machine. Someone at one console turns to look behind them.
"General? Your Orders?"
Another cut. Sitting in the Command Chair, a figure. Is it? Can it be? No....
PRESTON GARVEY: "Looks like Another Settlement Needs Our Help. Open Fire."
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To fully understand the Bashir/Garak thing in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, you need to understand that Garak first appears in the second episode of the series, very obviously trying to arrange a hookup with Bashir – like, it's just barely subtext – and then the network was like "what the fuck" and ordered to showrunners to knock it off with the gay shit, and as a result, Garak promptly disappears from the show for twenty episodes, next appearing in the fifth episode of season two. Can you imagine what that did to folks who were watching in real time?
For the unacquainted, this is literally Garak's first on-screen appearance:
It's about two minutes long, but watch until the end. Trust me.
I want you to imagine being a viewer who's into gay Star Trek fanfic, having this be your cold intro to these two characters' dynamic, then getting zero interactions between them for the next eight months.