#thetevintersoldier

im hootin n hollerin

I have SO MANY FEELINGS

most of which I cannot describe in a tumblr post because people on my dash have not seen the episode yet, but like

there’s the good bit that we knew was coming that was fabulous and even better than we hoped!

there’s the character development and emotions that have been building and being dealt with continuing to get dealt with and addressed appropriately!

and then there’s EVERYTHING ELSE WE DIDN’T EVEN KNOW TO EXPECT

ALL I WANTED WAS A [REDACTED] AND INSTEAD I GOT SO MUCH MORE

I had so many feelings just in the first three minutes and then there was all the gay but like

🌠 @thetevintersoldier​ asked:

mm, possibly goofy/already answered question (sorry if so) - is there a way to get just the enamel pin as merch? im plannin to order a physical copy of the zine but then just.. rly want a pin too hahaha;;;;;; 

🌠 Anonymous asked:

I have a quick question. Is there anyway you would sell the pin by itself? I would love to buy the zine but I only want the pin too. I understand if you can't but that pin is soo beautiful.

Hello!

Thank you so much for your kind words and support! As mentioned in this post, we are unfortunately not doing separate sales of our enamel pin at this time. It is currently only available as part of the New Horizons bundle.

We may make the pin available for a limited time during our extras sale, but we unfortunately cannot guarantee the quantity. We hope this answered your questions!

real good real good real good 

i think the Main Thing is that like - i think it should be open to legit criticism i guess; it's interesting to look at; but like - idk, all the various Internet Safaris i go on, most of the ... the guidelines. you don't interfere. reddit has a rule like that. SA had a rule like that. you dont go participate in internet disaster tourism. idk. idk

Oh yeah I think there’s like... I guess I’m speaking in the abstract? Unless a person asks for crit don’t just redline someone’s fanfic and hand it back to them haha. But for the larger like published fanfics don’t dismiss criticism with “it’s just fanfic” if you also want fanfic to be seen as like... a legitimate subgenre or whatever. I think that’s just like... kinda BS? Like you don’t get to have your cake and eat it too you know? Like IDK it just... I don’t like that style of thinking I guess. Is it worth our time, as a society, to look at or is it not. I actually think it is despite the fact that I’m not a huge fanfic person, but I also just... I think sometimes the semantics get weird I dunno

Yeah, a lot of people view 'art' as a label that is an attainable and high ranking title to achieve but don't always understand the amount of objective criticism and the sheer amount of analytical perspectives for it to be considered as such. I'm on a Game Art course and we have to critically engage with and analyse Games in order to understand their place in society. It took a while for people to get out of the 'calm down, it's just games' attitude'

First– that course sounds hella cool. Second– yeah, I could see that. I don’t know how to fix that view, especially since I’ve only limited experience with higher-level art theory. I’m in favor of making things more relatable and accessible to the public, sort of tearing down the ivory walls I suppose, and that’s part of the reasons I want to go into museums, but my background is the sciences and not art.

Thanks for the insight, I appreciate it!

@thetevintersoldier replied to your post “Here’s an off-the-cuff thing I’ve been thinking about for a few days...”

i do think one thing worth noting about regular fanfic - hamilton notwithstanding, that's a whole other beast - but stuff written by non-pro fans, that's ... v explicitly Not Professional, not-for-profit stuff. so i think for MOST fanfic it's kind of. a little more ok to go "yeah this is intended for a REALLY specific audience, made by a fairly specific subset of people who are NOT pursuing greater things w/ their work" or whatever.

.. that said people who try to defend ie historical fiction on the basis of WELL ITS FICTION or ITS BASICALLY FANFIC are def missing a whole huge point wrt target audience + creator intent

I think that’s fair, but I also think that like... there’s something worth examining about fanfic, even the non-professional stuff. I mean like... people examine the past via diaries, I think it’s worth examining non-professional writing so long as it’s done in a like... civil manner and not in the “haha aren’t these people fucking weirdos” way? If that makes sense. I dunno, like I think examining it in an academic fashion is interesting, and people who want fanfic to be “legitimate writing” (whatever the hell that means) but then shy away from any sort of non-fandom people viewing it, like... I think they just don’t know what they want haha

thats really exciting .. im so bad at actually finishing quests, ill send my dwellers off and forget to actually enter the builindgs lmao

omg 

I’m like... embarrassing about checking my vault tbh, I roll over in the morning and immediately open the app. A few times in the last few days I’ve been with my friends and we were all hovering over our vaults. 

what I’m saying is: one day i am going to have the perfect vault, all level 50 perfect special dwellers with legendary outfits and weapons and every legendary dweller-