thinking about. in campaign of carnage there’s two quests back to back where the VHs murder around fifty people because torgue just tells them to.

one being to kill exactly 21 bandits because the alcohol in pyro petes bar had been poisoned. so the solution was…to kill them before the poison does.

the game acknowledges this through the mission log where the VHs just shrug their shoulders and go. “well, we’re still getting paid.”

and the second is torgue sending you to go kill a bunch of bandit video game reviewers (?) because they left a bad review on a game he liked. which haha funny gearbox joke whatever. but the quest objective is literally to Leave No Survivors. over a video game review.

the VHs have always been on the side of corporate interest, even when it’s less about pandoran politics and more - “oh our super rich ceo friend is paying us money to kill people he doesnt like in his vault competition that is an active detriment to the population around it.”

and sometimes this feels like a BL2 VH specific issue? bc theyre the most vicious out of all of the games (even when playing the Bad Guys™ in TPS), and there’s not even an excuse of necessity that you could argue for the BL1 and BL3 VHs.

like. what is their problem…

magnuficent76:

Interest check but would yall be interested in commissions from me ? They may take a little longer because of my longer shifts though haha

Commission Interest Check

I am Interested, but I don’t know if I would afford a comm (Completely okay)

I am Interested, would buy a comm

Not Interested (That’s okay)

Secret fourth option ? (comments ?)

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Here’s some examples of my work ! There’s a lot more but you know, tumblr image limit.

magnuficentwo:

magnuficentwo:

magnuficentwo:

Makes me little sad when I remember b.orderlands is hella bigoted sometimes because I genuinely love so many of the characters they botched/forgot about due to bias….. Kat Jr, Yvette, Fiona, Sasha, Aurelia, Mordecai to some extent, Nisha, Helena Pierce, Captain Scarlett, The Calypsos, and you know what, Leda too. So much lost potential because they want to prioritize all the wrong things and analyze None of them. Like sometimes I get mad Kat got like 30 minutes of screentime and question why they wouldn’t utilize him more, but then I remember this is the same team that made big game hunt (antiblack and antinative) and the enemies in pirates booty (orientalist) and I go Ohhhhh yeah these people like are white and stupid I forgot….

And like, obviously this is all bad, even Pandora as a concept feels kind of orientalist in its foundation just from how loosely people are willing to throw around the world “savage” in this game when referring to desperate people in a desertic planet, but I don’t know. There’s so much to like. I just often get upset over how much of it is hidden underneath layers and layers of unchecked biases against minorities the (mostly western, mostly white, mostly male) writers clearly were not thinking about while making this game and this world. I’m always going to be invested in it and I will always like it, but I feel it’s important for me to remember that these were choices made consciously by living breathing people who knew what they were doing and should be held accountable for them.

Also because I don’t wanna have any of the racist stuff, you know ? I don’t want to leave it in as I’m taking apart and expanding this world, or at least not leave it unchecked. I think the game would be way better if it took a very specifically anti-racist stanced and invited the player to think “Hey, isn’t it kind of fucked up you’re mowing down several people in the name of profit and material gain ? Or that you’re technically always siding with corporations even when they’re supposedly opposing you ?” Because I think these are genuinely interesting questions. But so long as the priority in the game is “Fun looty shooty game where you kill people indiscriminately don’t ask questions about it PLEEEEASE”, I don’t think it’ll ever progress past it.

Anyway maybe this game would be better storywise if the writers read Orientalism first. And The Capital by Karl Marx at the very least. You wanna be anticapitalist ? Then act like it you fuckass videogame that costs money !!!!

magnuficent76:

Howdy do ! It’s Magnus again with the commission announcement !!

Commissions are finally back on, baby !

…With a now fully set-up ko-fi page ! So long stupid looking beginner ko-fi, hello pretty version of ko-fi !! We got Refined Prices, with some options starting as little as 1$, we got brand spanking new examples of my work, we have a tier for supporters with cool exclusive behind-the-scenes looks in my artistic process AND priority commission placements— We even have a neatly done T.O.S and everything ! How neat’s that huh?

Well, if you’re interested, head on over to my ko-fi and toss me a dollar !

where the FUCK am i

arowithwood:

baddywronglegs:

hellcins:

what animal was/is your favorite plush?

bear

bunny

lamb

horse

dog

cat

other (tell me in the tags!!)

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i just think it says a lot about the person. my favorite is a bear named theodore

I am disinclined to believe you, Tumblr user teddybearsandlightningstorms.

[ID: a tag reading “#walrus”. /End ID]

this thang

phenikas:

Spin this wheel to pick one Borderlands character that will protect you and one character that will try to kill you.

Will you survive?

Yes, 100%.

It’s a close fight, 50% chance of survival.

No, I’m absolutely dead.

I can protect myself with my own fists.

I cannot let neither of these characters be harmed.

I don’t know one/both of the characters/No clue.

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hey does anyone else remember the werewolf priest in BL1 that worshiped angel. what the fuck was that about.

trying stuff out w shapes

i should start making these again.

tbh as much as i love angel i actually struggle to write her wayy more than i do another characters.

empyreansentinel:

tbh as much as i love angel i actually struggle to write her wayy more than i do another characters.

chat would u forgive me if i ditched everything else im working on to focus on an entire series about a character who dies before the first fucking game.

empyreansentinel:

empyreansentinel:

tbh as much as i love angel i actually struggle to write her wayy more than i do another characters.

chat would u forgive me if i ditched everything else im working on to focus on an entire series about a character who dies before the first fucking game.

promising angel lore but its actually a trojan horse for class traitor wainwright being introduced to pandoran politics. i can imagine anything.

playing through BL1 again. fuck this guy.

(with fists clenched. visibly pained.) sometimes characters are just meant to die. sometimes there are no alternatives to the end of the story. but also sometimes they are just a female character written in 2012.

celestiachan:

i love a character who can’t stop dying. bitch you JUST got better what do you MEAN you died again. that’s the fifth time this week

by FAR my favorite part of angels character is how determined she is to stop jack once the curtain falls. its instant, theres no hesitation.

she knows exactly what needs to be done and she gets straight to the point about it. her outburst during the raider meeting. threatening to airlock the helios engineers. cursing out jack over the radio. if shes going down, shes going down swinging.

idk where this post is going. i think its funny that she yelled at roland that one time.

galaxywarp:

slimegirlslugwife:

she’s right

that’s her. the Task Manager

sivavakkiyar:

why does the ouroboros not simply stomp chomping on its tail? Is it stupid or something?

swamp monster.

wainwrightjakobshammerlock:

3 minute doodle of alistair hammerlock frying something . because why not (can you tell i drew this while hungry)

shes hungy

reasonsforhope:

Chevron ordered to pay more than $740 million to restore Louisiana coast in landmark trial

“Oil company Chevron must pay $744.6 million to restore damage it caused to southeast Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, a jury ruled on Friday [April 4, 2025] following a landmark trial more than a decade in the making.

The case was the first of dozens of pending lawsuits to reach trial in Louisiana against the world’s leading oil companies for their role in accelerating land loss along the state’s rapidly disappearing coast. The verdict – which Chevron says it will appeal – could set a precedent leaving other oil and gas firms on the hook for billions of dollars in damages tied to land loss and environmental degradation...

The jury awarded $575 million to compensate for land loss, $161 million to compensate for contamination and $8.6 million for abandoned equipment. The amount earmarked for restoration exceeds $1.1 billion when including interest, according to attorneys for Talbot, Carmouche & Marcello, the firm behind the lawsuit.

Plaquemines Parish, the southeast Louisiana district which brought the lawsuit, had asked for $2.6 billion in damages…

How are oil companies contributing to Louisiana’s land loss?

The lawsuit against Chevron was filed in 2013 by Plaquemines Parish, a rural district in Louisiana straddling the final leg of the Mississippi River heading into the Gulf of Mexico, also referred to as the Gulf of America as declared by President Donald Trump.

Louisiana’s coastal parishes have lost more than 2,000 square miles (5,180 square kilometers) of land over the past century, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which has also identified oil and gas infrastructure as a significant cause. The state could lose another 3,000 square miles (7,770 square kilometers) in the coming decades, its coastal protection agency has warned…

Thousands of miles of canals cut through the wetlands by oil companies weakens them and exacerbates the impacts of sea level rise. Industrial wastewater from oil production degrades the surrounding soil and vegetation. The torn up wetlands leave South Louisiana – home to some of the nation’s biggest ports and key energy sector infrastructure – more vulnerable to flooding and destruction from extreme weather events like hurricanes…

Attorney Jimmy Faircloth, Jr., who represented the state of Louisiana, which has backed Plaquemines and other local governments in their lawsuits against oil companies, told jurors from the parish that Chevron was telling them their community was not worth preserving.

“Our communities are built on coast, our families raised on coast, our children go to school on coast,” Faircloth said. “The state of Louisiana will not surrender the coast, it’s for the good of the state that the coast be maintained.”

What does this mean for future litigation against oil companies?

Louisiana’s economy has long been heavily dependent on the oil and gas industry and the industry holds significant political power. Even so, Louisiana’s staunchly pro-industry Gov. Jeff Landry has supported the lawsuits, including bringing the state on board during his tenure as Attorney General.

Oil companies have fought tooth and nail to quash the litigation, including unsuccessfully lobbying Louisiana’s Legislature to pass a law to invalidate the claims. Chevron and other firms also repeatedly tried to move the lawsuits into federal court where they believed they would find a more sympathetic audience.

But the heavy price Chevron is set to pay could hasten other firms to seek settlements in the dozens of other lawsuits across Louisiana. Plaquemines alone has 20 other cases pending against oil companies.

The state is running out of money to support its ambitious coastal restoration plans, which have been fueled by soon-expiring settlement funds from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and supporters of the litigation say payouts could provide a much-needed injection of funds…

Attorneys for the parish said they hope that big payout will prompt more oil companies to come to the table to negotiate and channel more funding towards coastal restoration.

“Our energy is focused on securing appropriate verdicts and awards for every parish involved in these actions,” Carmouche said in a statement. “If we continue to be successful in our efforts, these parishes, and Louisiana, will have sent a clear message that Louisiana’s future must be built around a new balance between our energy industry and environmental necessities.””

-via AP News, April 4, 2025

wainwrightjakobshammerlock:

my beautiful daughter who is wanted in 365 countries

as much as i like the angel is a jakobs theory, there is also a very big appeal to me of her Not having that outside connection. existing only to jack and the player.

and i think it goes hand in hand with the concept of angel surviving the control core as well. it’s an idea im obsessed with, but i also think a lot about the alternative. mainly about the aftermath of her death being handled properly, and being mourned alongside roland.

she was born, she lived, and she died, and there are just a select few who knew her. everyone else will only have second hand memories.

THE married people of all time. back in juno’s king phase.

does anyone else have such an Issue with eye contact that even video game characters looking at you is uncomfortable sometimes. i understand that this is perhaps the ‘tism but damn. girl can you back up.

wainwrightjakobshammerlock:

“alistair and aurelia hammerlock could NOT be more different” factual error they both have autism

continuously annoyed by how often borderlands displays the casual brutalization of women. oftentimes even faceless, nameless women at that.

im specifically talking about BL2s false sirens here. it is a few lines of dialogue in a side quest at the beginning of the game and yet i still irritated by it every time i play it.

in assassinate the assassins, roland sends you after a group of hyperion workers that have infiltrated bandit groups in an effort to hunt down lilith. instead, these men murder random women to dress up their corpses as sirens for the off-chance of making bank through hyperion. it is, by definition, femicide.

according to jack, they murdered at least a dozen women. note that these are likely bandit women, which means they have no means of protection from corporate interests, not even from the raiders. they only intervened because one of their own was being targeted.

but because we are getting this dialogue from jack, who is a misogynist himself, the game treats this with humor. there’s not any actual weight given to these women’s deaths, and as a a part of an optional quest with no further commentary, they are ultimately meaningless.

magnuficent76:

The Fallen Core Angel.

WOOOOO THIS THING WAS A MONSTER TO WORK ON !! my part in the @borderlandszine project, and also probably the biggest piece I’ve worked on… Just in general haha. I wanted to do a lot with it, and while I’m not fully sure I accomplished everything, I think it turned out really good for what I was intending to do. Remember to check out the finished zine and the works of everyone else involved because it genuinely turned out so great.

Anyway here’s Angle, she’s doing Bad !!!

kolbasos:

My art piece for @borderlandszine

Really did my best on this one 😭❤️ support/feedback would be greatly appreciated!

sunnwalker:

My @borderlandszine piece… coughs up blood everywhere. I had fun :)

wainwrightjakobshammerlock:

My entry for the @borderlandszine ! Of course I had to do Wainlock, what else?

If you want to see this image without the watermark and read the companion drabble, download the full zine (it’s free) here!

arachegeek:

my piece for the @borderlandszine ! i loved drawing shade and zombie tk! borderlands has so many npcs that deserve a spotlight!

looking through old screenshots of burchs ask.fm and i found these. nisha rescues angel au real,,,

on the topic of the hyperion assassins, their designs are flawed. hyperion couldn’t even care enough about the populations they’re harming to properly infiltrate them.

oney is what i presume to be a bloodshot nomad, but he has no specific clan markings. it made him originally unidentifiable to me because of it, added onto his unique head gear. he also is the only nomad in the game to not use his shield whatsoever. (aside from mad mike, who is also a bloodshot nomad with has no shield at all.)

wots design is an tossup between slab and sawtooth. the shape of it is slab, the shoulders, the mohawk, but its all in yellow. he also spawns with a badass sawtooth despite southpaw being bloodshot territory.

these are two clans who are at war with one another, and while some slabs DO wear yellow, it is only in segments of their armor, not all of it. he would absolutely be viewed as a slab by the sawteeth and vice versa.

reeth is also a combination of two different clans who are currently at war with one another. the bloodshots and the children of the firehawk. he would theoretically be a bloodshot, but he doesnt have the tattoos despite being swarmed with other bandits who do.

but fire enemies of his type are clan exclusive in this game, locked only to the cotf, unlike in BL1 where they are all over.

rouf is actually different to me. i think he WAS actually a bandit before turning traitor and working with hyperion. his bodytype is specific to rats, and hyperion is confirmed to work with them at least through the mines in lynchwood. his bright green outfit and respirator are also unique to himself.

he and wots also use hyperion guns. for…no specific reason, im sure.

and personally i find this all Very Fun. it makes them uncanny, where their appearances would be off to the bandits around them, but the differences would go unseen by the raiders or hyperion. it is corporation trying to get you to buy into a language they themselves do not understand.

because. realistically. they’d walk into their respective bandit camps and immediately get questioned if not shot at for what they’re wearing.

magnuficentwo:

Get more insane and loud about your special interests. NOW !

cant think about jimbo being both moxxi AND scooter’s father too long or i will want 2 kms. btw. theyre literally siblings. jimbo is going to HELL and so are the writers.

isabellebissonrouthier:

reblog with a spoiler for your wip with zero context. no context allowed.

magnuficent76:

Does anyone know what the hell this thing is

art fight ref for my lw/courier tomcat! im not certain on anything yet and this year will be my first time participating but yippeee!!

wainwrightjakobshammerlock:

old man miscellanea

magnuficent76:

Howdy do ! It’s Magnus again with the commission announcement !!

Commissions are finally back on, baby !

…With a now fully set-up ko-fi page ! So long stupid looking beginner ko-fi, hello pretty version of ko-fi !! We got Refined Prices, with some options starting as little as 1$, we got brand spanking new examples of my work, we have a tier for supporters with cool exclusive behind-the-scenes looks in my artistic process AND priority commission placements— We even have a neatly done T.O.S and everything ! How neat’s that huh?

Well, if you’re interested, head on over to my ko-fi and toss me a dollar !

tbh i dont think angel would rlly be outwardly affectionate. i think at best she silently orbits people she feels comfortable with and every ten minutes or so this appears above her head.

euthanasia by will wood. angel and roland. no one talk 2 me,,,