me reading someone’s about and not seeing their race / ethnicity, then seeing a “longer about” link and click on that and STILL not seeing anything about their race or ethnicity
As someone who grew up with the internet, in the huge era of online safety campaigns, and the constant drilling in of not sharing your personal information online because it’s not safe. I will say this:
No one, not one single person, on the internet owes you their personal information.
What I share on my blog, is shared out of a choice, because that’s a decision I chose to make. Because I talk frequently on neurodivergence and sexuality, and I know I have followers who connect with that.
But I don’t owe people that information.
Strangers on the internet are never entitled to know:
Your name. Your gender. Your age. Your date of birth. Your location: City, State, Country, wherever. Your religion. Your ethnicity (your culture, your nationality) Your race (skin colour) Your mental health. Your physical health. Your sexuality.
Your anything at all.
That information is personal. If you choose to share it, that’s your choice, but it is nobody elses right to have it, or demand it, or to manipulate it out of you.
If someone chooses not to share that. That is not some neferious plot.
This is something important to understand, especially for young people on the internet. Kids in highschool. Your information is your own personal right. Keeping that safe, keeps you safe online.
We’re in this very questionable internet scape where your information can be taken, and searched, and found. Where there are people who can dox you because they had access to basic information that lead them to deeper info. Where one bit of information can be used to make a smear campaign against you. Or used to target harrassment.
(This is also a really shady time where our information is being quietly sold through advertisers, and taken by data breeches, and DDOS attacks. Where there’s literal fuckin nazi’s on this site that tumblr doesn’t seem to care about because apparently breasts are worse?????)
This is why protecting your privacy and safety was such a huge campaign.
Everyone on the internet is a stranger. And yeah, imma cry ‘stranger danger’ here cause that’s what I grew up with, that’s what I was taught as computers became the big thing, and I was growing up on forums and chat messengers at a super young age where I was incredibly vulnerable. And i’m very lucky to have not encountered what some people I know did.
A/S/L was the most frequent question people would ask, and no it’s not american sign language. Age/Sex/Location. People wanted your info.
You do not need to share that information with anyone.
There’s a huge difference between sharing your interests and hobbies and fandoms and the general knowledge ‘trivia’ of yourself in an ‘about’ page, VS sharing the entirety of your personal information.
So if someone just has their name, age, and pronouns, but doesn’t list anything else beyond their music interests and fave bands. That’s not malicious, that’s not nefarious. That’s exercising a right to choose what you share.
They don’t owe anyone an indepth analysis of their gender. They don’t owe anyone the knowledge of where they live. They don’t need to reveal if they have a disability or not. They’re just 21 yr old Vera, who likes music and wants you to use they when refering to them.
Protect your information on the internet.
Be safe on the internet.
And don’t let anyone pressure you, or guilt you, into sharing information you don’t want to share.
Feel like this is also relevant to seniors with little tech know-how.
Way to be
sexist ageist Islamophobic Nationalist Racist Ableist and homophobic
How about this - fucktelling people what to do? Some people can ONLY express things about themselves on the internet and they don’t need you to tell them “it’s not safe for you anywhere.” Fuck the hell off back to Trump Tower.
Someone discuss modern AUs for Fallout with me, because they’re my favourite thing to write and I can’t get my head around them for Fallout.
I can’t just ignore the whole ghoul/synth/BoSPoS thing, but I can kinda ignore the end of the world thing? So it’s just the world (as we know it~), in our timeline of 2016, but ghouls are a thing (fairly rare chemical mutation, a very groovymutation), synths are… idk, commonplace genetic engineering, and the brotherhood knock on your door on Sundays and ask if you’ve heard about their lord and saviour Arthur “to the max” Maxson?
I just want Hancock watching Sky Sports with his feet up, Piper writing her latest article in Starbucks, and Curie taking on every science module she can in every class in every college ever (also Curie in dorms because social studies and just panicking).
I want my typical tropes gdi, give me coffee shop meet-cutes and fake dating stories with texting and netflix and someone please show Deacon Snapchat.
It could be that the bombs dropped but civilization picked back up really quick.
Hancock could’ve created his persona after some act of discrimination and become an open Ghoul ally. Then he became a Ghoul using a special drug because he felt he could never do enough and he felt more at home with Ghouls and other rebels and ‘rejects’ than he’s ever felt around humans.
Piper is a blogger that’s infamous for exposing corruption.
Synths are people who had their bodies and brains altered and enhanced with technology. Nick Valentine accidentally wiped his mind and is only now finding traces of his old memories… So its a modern society but with all the same problems as ours and the Commonwealths.
The BOS are a purist organization who believe modified people are no longer human or people.
The drug John took was like a stimpak for ghouls. Rads to heal them, specially formulated to hold them together well. Hmmm…thats all I got for now…
Except that maybe Hancock is a rock idol.
I love it, thank you!
The sole survivor could still have their “backstory” by being from a place where the bombs didn’t fall, where everything is the same as it was - think like Covenant, untouched, but also largely unaware of what happened elsewhere. Air and sea travel would have been minimal after the bombs, especially to a place/country that was free of radiation (a la Madagascar ‘shut down everything’). So the SS travels to the Commonwealth, only to find NA as it was… but with ghouls, synths, and the BoS ;)
Restaurants and coffee shops could offer irradiated versions of their food and drinks, to cater to ghouls in need of rads. “Ask your server to hear about our vegetarian and irradiated options!” Tune ups and oilings at petrol garages for older synths, patch updates for newer gens. BoS “we want YOU” posters in bus stops, Children of Atom on street corners, and the odd deformed animal roaming the wastes.
I have a friend who heavily headcanons Deacon as a rock star, the two as headliners, perhaps? They’d both style leather trousers, let’s be fair. Hancock just in those and his hat…
MacCready can be on drums. Nick on bass, Hancock as lead guitarist, Deacon on vocals…!
