most unrealistic aspect of fnv is the fact that caesar’s legion didn’t get bullied harder bc let me tell you if a bunch of gay ass roman cosplayers showed up and tried to intimidate me i would’ve shoved them into a locker first chance i got. fucking nerds

In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

Almost forgot to share the complete version of my contribution to @chunklet 's War Never Changes zine !!

it absolutely boils my parsnips when i'm busy trying to have a crisis in acadia and get a little popup like THE SLOG IS UNDER ATTACK! well it sucks to be you, the slog, but i'm in fucking maine. what do you want me to do? you want me to make a raft out of lobsters and fucking float my way down there? i'm three hundred miles away. what am i going to do. somebody had to crawl, hands-on-knees, to the radio in the middle of a super mutant attack. put down the radio and pick up a baseball bat, you have a farmer's physique so please use that upper arm strength to deal with the 5 level 1 mutants currently holding you hostage. for god's sakes a light breeze makes them explode into gore. use them to fertilize the tarberries or something, what am i, a farmer? no. no, i'm not. it's why i'm in maine getting alerts from 300 miles away. 'this settlement needs help' clearly if this is how they're carrying on

WE ARE SO BACK

Welcome to bible study

Snow Light

I just wanted to play around with some snow and bright light. This seemed as good as any topic to try it out on.

NAWH BUT IT'S SOOOO CUTE!!!! 😍💛 your art never fails to make my day ✨💫

WE'RE SO BACK RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

do u think omegaverse acknowledges covid-19 and the generation of people who permanently lost their sense of smell like how are they all scenting each other now is the omegaverse economy in shambles

actually pheromone sensing works differently from normal olfaction, since humans in our world don’t have a functioning vomeronasal organ (VNO), we don’t have any data on how covid-19 would affect a functioning VNO in omegaverse AUs

Actually there is evidence that covid probably would affect the VNO and it stands to reason would accordingly impair its function. Briefly:

In conclusion the omegaverse economy IS in shambles.

OP this is very well-written but im still hung up on how you came onstage dressed as a clown only to tear off the costume and reveal yourself as a biologist

The moment FNV's Caesar fully clicked for me was when I heard him pronounce "et cetera" as "et ketera".

Think about it for a second. This is a post-apocalyptic future where most knowledge of ancient civilizations has faded into obscurity. It's not gone, thanks to the efforts of the Followers and other factions, but even if you're a Follower you have to really go and look for it.

Now, our boy Edward here didn't just learn the broad strokes of Roman history - he's familiar with niche and intricate aspects of its political and military structure as well as its cultural practices. He knows the original meaning of "decimation". He knows the difference between a legate and a centurion. He knows the general appearance of a Roman legionary. And he knows Classical Latin, in its Classical pronunciation. Think how deep into the weeds you would have to look to find out that "Caesar" was actually pronounced "kye-sar" and not "seezer" like any English speaker would instinctively say it. And then how invested you would have to be that your whole army adopt this incredibly archaic pronunciation.

But the "et ketera" bit really takes this to the next level. "Et cetera" has been a common set phrase in the English language for centuries. It's not a fancy word from a long-dead language that Caesar exhumed from the depths of the Followers' archives. It's a regular part of casual speech that Caesar bothered to learn the etymology of and decided to retroactively apply the original pronunciation to. For no reason other than commitment to the bit.

This is not the approach of a scholar interested in learning the deep lessons of history. This is the borderline unhealthy obsession of a fanboy. He's the caricature of the teenage boy whose gateway into fascism is thinking a bit too much about the Roman Empire. An archetype that barely existed when FNV came out but has gotten awfully common since then. This game was really ahead of its time.

(Also in further support to this read, it's quite telling which things Edward Sallow did NOT bother to learn about Rome. Like very salient and well-researched points of historical analysis that help explain its rise and decline. For example the fact that Rome did not in fact typically stamp out local cultures, but actually often borrowed from them, allowing people to generally live in peace as long as they paid their taxes. Or their heavy emphasis on infrastructure building which meant people could see their lives materially improve as a result of Roman presence. Or conversely, how concentrating power in one man drawing his legitimacy from the military led to recurring civil wars which critically weakened the empire. All factors that directly run counter to Caesar's governing philosophy. Because his understanding of Rome is fundamentally aesthetic rather than political or historical.)

Joshua Graham- aquarelle on paper, by me, 2024

on ao3 like some of these doves aren't even wounded

#people used to be freaks #we used to be a country (@spikeface)

et tumor, brute?

fallout mod where if you wear joshuas armor infront of caesar he suffers from an epileptic seizure and goes limp the way enemies do when the super slam perk works on them