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when your boss unthaws his mother from cryo and lets her into the workplace--and she brings nothing but snark and family drama

to be fair, wilma's been frozen for 200 years and watched her son get kidnapped, so can you blame her for being a little testy that he turned out to be such a prick? at least some of the scientists, like yvette, seem reasonable.

yvette isn’t a strong dancer but her go-to move is the first gif in public (like at a mixer) and the second one in private (like in their apartment) lol

she tries to pass her love of books and music to her daughter but they don’t have access to a huge repository of old media anymore. as i said last night, they’ll always have the boogie woogie that plays on diamond city radio… but it’s not quite the same 💔

bonus unshaded version ..

Arcade and Antyllus taking a break from the mojave heat~

Antyllus belongs to @tevintersnakes he is SO cool go check him out

hi !! it’s actually the opposite—she tends to wear her hair pulled back in a bun or low braided pigtails in her post-institute settler life. the institute provided things that aren’t accessible in the wasteland like curling irons and blow dryers.

because of that, yvette tried out different styles moreso when she was in the institute. for that period of years she had a few iconic looks that coincided with big life events.

january 2279; yvette and her father hudson move to the institute, to live presumably for the rest of their lives. her technical know how as a former scribe places her in robotics.

hi !! it’s actually the opposite—she tends to wear her hair pulled back in a bun or low braided pigtails in her post-institute settler life. the institute provided things that aren’t accessible in the wasteland like curling irons and blow dryers.

because of that, yvette tried out different styles moreso when she was in the institute. for that period of years she had a few iconic looks that coincided with big life events.

january 2279; yvette and her father hudson move to the institute, to live presumably for the rest of their lives. her technical know how as a former scribe places her in robotics.

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hi! yvette is a research archivist in the inaccessible portion of the robotics department. she works on a very small team that maintains most of the department's physical and digital records. she's also tasked with interviewing/evaluating, photographing, and categorizing every new synth that is created.

+ she sometimes works cross-departmentally with her father hudson in advanced systems where she records various things that are brought in from the surface, their function/purpose, and where they need to go: weaponry goes to advanced systems, tech and circuitry are divided between facilities and robotics, etc.

yvette didn't absorb much of the brotherhood's attitudes about several things which includes their stance on technology. what stuck with her were the advanced methods they used to gain technology or information since she was training to be a scribe: how to access hidden data on a terminal, how to care for a ruined book so it doesn't get damaged any further, etc. these are things that matter to her, not their 'ideals'

i saw your tag on that post about the propaganda posters from a few days ago and it got me thinking how the legion is closer to the american hagiography of ancient rome than ancient rome itself. caesar's reliance on hegel, their hangups about homosexuality, legion clothing reusing american football pads and the design being closer to 50s hollywood productions than historical counterparts, etc. forgive me if you've already written about this before, but i was curious to know your thoughts about this!

You almost read my mind here, because I was thinking about making a post about this. Well, not exactly about the Legion, but about how this period of time is more often than not reduced to a hypermasculine fantasy, and how it deeply pains me.

Of course, the Romans themselves are partly at fault for this (some of the written sources we have of them are very aligned with conservative sensibilities of today, but it may also be survivorship bias, absence of evidence is not evidence of the absence and all that), but when you see how Ancient Rome is represented in modern media there's an almost conscious and persistent effort in removing all the elements that may not be considered masculine in our time: dance, poetry, bucolic fantasies, perfumes, the lives of women and queer people in general...

Probably, even though Caesar had access to written sources about Rome, at the end of the day the iconography and mental image he had of the ancient times was heavily influenced by American culture (Arcade tells us something about this, how the Followers had gladiator movies holotapes in their archives), so he imitated Rome the same way people in the Medieval times would depict Roman emperors and senators with clothes that would make them look like Carolingian nobles. Human creativity is very easily influenced by what it knows best, consciously or not.

Overall, while almost all of human history is victim of being both dehumanized and distorted by the ideas of the present, in the case of Rome it's particularly noticeable outside academia. After all, centuries ago it was decided that Rome was the peak of "Western" civilization (what's the Renaissance if not the rebirth of Rome and Greece), and that idea has never died. Napoleon heavily took from Roman history, when fascists first looked back in search for a glorious past they reached for Rome, America has always kept Rome as a reference and ideal, and ultimately that conservative depiction of Rome skews our perspective of that period of time.

I also believe Mormonism had a huge influence in certain elements of the Legion that don't align with Roman culture, but if anything, that's another way for America to influence the social and cultural structure of the Legion.

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young archimedes: and other atomic inspired soundscapes, a retrofuturistic playlist made especially for my institute scientist, dr. yvette carmichael-holdren!

enjoy over an hour of modern and early electronic music from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, featuring selections from the BBC radiophonic workshop and raymond scott, the father of electronic music.

i was inspired by UPA animation and illustrated science manuals from the 50s and 60s for the cover. you can listen to young archimedes on spotify or youtube!

Finally finished last reference for my artfight! Last FNV OC to introduce - so here is Aulus, a Legion scout. Well, ex-Legion now. He was captured by Mag's unit while he was scoping out an NCR operation near REPCONN HQ. Eventually he was taken to McCarran for interrogation, and later transferred to the custody of a ranger for field work translating Legion scout symbols.

What can I say about him... he has scared chihuahua energy. He has only known life in the Legion constantly scared and trying to look intimidating. He can't swim, he can't read, but he can't give up either! This chihuahua wants to keep going.

Anne got all the whimsy