What With Bucket Hats, Bare Midriffs, And Flared Jeans Having Been Resurrected By Some Irresponsible

A late Valentine’s Day project. Nick shows Hancock that there’s still value in those ‘old world antiques’

epilogue pic - link

Nick is playing this song! Takin’ a Chance - Hazel Scott

Life Story

the Fisher King from under the lake/before the flood

me when sun characters are terrifying and destructive. me when light is an overwhelming damaging power. me w

the son of the dragon lives up to his name

*doom music starts to play* I actually kindof like scheduling these kinds of appointments now...

but seriously Fellas, don't forget to schedule a pap smear every couple of years just in case. If you still have a cervix you can still get cervical cancer. ilu

this has been a psa

Ass deep in the Dragon Age wiki again, and apparently there’s a mysterious chanter character who appears around the Hissing Wastes.

the part that gets me:

The Enigma of Amigara Fault

This short story by Junji Ito is about a fault that appears in Amigara mountain after an earthquake. The earthquake exposes countless human-shaped holes in the mountain which seem to have been made about a thousand years ago. People, intrigued by these  silhouettes, gather at the site and that’s when things get creepy.

It’s about a 15-20 min read, but if you haven’t read this before, you’re in for a treat. Link above.

Though their initial mutations were the result of long term nuclear war, it's actually an intense culture of propaganda and strictly enforced conformity policies that have kept the Daleks in their current state. Every Dalek undergoes surgery just after birth; not to mitigate the effects of irradiation, but to rid them of whatever is legally considered "imperfections to the Dalek form" (usually throwbacks to a humanoid body plan, such as teeth and hands) and physically ready them for their casing. Additional surgeries must occur throughout a Dalek's life to prevent them from becoming "rooted" - a painful, often fatal scenario in which the Dalek overgrows their own shell and cannot be safely removed. Not only does their homogeneity serve to reinforce their fervent belief in genetic superiority, but the resulting chronic health issues prevent insurrection; a Dalek's fear of losing access to regular healthcare colors much of their judgement, and most attempts at dissent end as soon as their painkillers run dry.

One of my favorite things in Fallout 4 was how synths can randomly replace settlers in your settlements. And people in real life all talked about how you could tell who a synth was by checking their energy resistance in VATS. Having energy resistance = you’re a synth.

Except this was completely made up by players trying to find an easy way to find synths. Settlers can just randomly have energy resistance for various reasons.

So in a game about paranoia and witch hunts, players created a real life equivalent of witch trials and plenty of random innocent NPCs were butchered over paranoia about synths, started by real life rumors.