Not queer as in “queer is not a slur” but queer as in “I do not give a fuck if its a slur, you don’t get to censor my identity regardless”. Queer as in “I HOPE my identity upsets you”. Queer as in “my identity is not only a slur but a threat”
queer as in “every word we have used to describe ourselves has been turned around and used against us. so no, i will not surrender another word to those who wish to shame us out of existence.”
Still angry that Christopher created Little Yangtze, arguably the most devastating location in the game, and gave it less narrative relevance than a fucking dog
After Little Yangtze, I played through the rest of OWB with the goal of securing some kind of justice for the prisoners. They give you a group of people who’ve been imprisoned and tortured for more than two hundred years and make you witness their deaths firsthand, but only one conversation with the Think Tank even acknowledges that. The least you should be able to do is look Borous in the face and tell him exactly why he’s about to die.
But no, you’re expected to care more about the dog.
You don’t get to talk to the prisoners. They don’t even have names. Any prisoner there who didn’t die from Elijah experimenting with bomb collars on them doesn’t make it out alive. All of the lore surrounding that area is heart wrenching and uncomfortable but it’s never addressed
OWB’s Little Yangtze combined with Point Lookout’s Turtledove Detention Camp and FO4′s poorly done (and easily missed) narrative with Kim Wu is just racial devastation for edgy/graphic shock value
and what’s worse is that OWB is often praised as the best DLC because of its “fun wacky sci-fi humor” that overshadows and dismisses everything about Little Yangtze
I really wish more people talked about what went on before the war. We have evidence in fallout 4 of Chinese Americans being sent to internment camps, we also have evidence in fallout 4 of Chinese American families trying to leave the commonwealth and being detained. Kim Wu, as mentioned above, is from fallout 4. He was a young Chinese-American child, we learn of him from a holotape of his. A heartbreaking detail we see in this holotape, is that Kim Wu didn’t know why his family kept moving around, or why they had to hide. They had to hide because of the increasing threat of being placed in internment camps, as well as family members being placed in them as well.
We have in fallout new Vegas; old world blues (as discussed above), little Yangtze, which was another internment camp. The people in these camps, were used for brain extraction for the Robo Brains.
We have in fallout 3, the Turtle Dove Detention camp from the Point lookout DLC. Turtle Dove had multiple, small bunkhouses filled with bunk beds for these prisoners to sleep in. There was also a morgue, where they would cremate bodies as well. Multiple bodies and remains are found here.
From these games, we see that the internment camps are at least evident on the east and west coast. We see that internment camps also posed a great threat to Chinese Americans due to how commonplace they were as well.
Fallout is a satire America, particularly of American culture and society and how engrained propaganda is engrained in society. You would think that there would be more emphasis on these atrocities besides just a mention, considering the core themes of Fallout.
I’d just like to clarify that as someone living in a very working class area full of queer people and POC that pro-monarchy is NOT the majority opinion of the English and certainly not the UK as a whole. Don’t let the mainstream media or the fascist anti-protest laws fool you into thinking otherwise.
That being said, pro-monarchy brainwashing is still very much a problem here and we need to keep pushing against it (and try not to get arrested in the process for committing treason or some bullshit).
The UK Government is trying to introduce guidelines that would force teachers to tell a child’s parents if that child presented as a different gender at school.
This would put thousands of children at risk.
Please, if you live in uk sign and share the petition!
If you don’t live in the uk please onlyshare the petition! We don’t want forged signatures to be an excuse for this to be dismissed.
Sorry to have to ask so soon but okay so I’m still waiting for EBT and tbqh idk if I’m going to be able to get it here as social services seem incredibly strict but like here we go. I need the money to do a big grocery trip we keep buying maybe half the stuff we need and it’s just not working so if we could get a big grocery trip we should be better off. Again we’re two disabled trans women looking for work.