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so the BoS as a whole is worthy of a lot of crit because fundamentally their method of 'helping' people is by taking away all the remaining technology in a flawed attempt to stop uneducated wastelanders from using it on each other right. which doesn't really work because a) one faction hoarding ALL OF THE TECHNOLOGY seems a little sus don't you think and b) why should they be the determiners of what happens with it?

so lyons rolls up with his new shiny chapter out east and he says that's right! we should do more to directly help the people by fighting the source of their problems! so he changes their modus operandi to focus much more on battling the super mutants and the raiders and the enclave and all of that stuff, with way less emphasis on the technology hoarding bit. and this is great! they're really out here prioritising the people!

right?

well... there's kind of a lot of flaws in that thinking, too? the super mutant threat ain't helping, but the people of the wasteland could really do with food, water, energy, medical care, and other resources that would allow them to tackle these problems too. being beholden to the brotherhood in regards to your safety isn't great, especially when their politics could change on a dime and that safety could be whisked away ARTHUR MAXSON NO--

owyn tries to address the water thing! but don't think it escaped my notice that when james pulled out after catherine died, owyn did nothing to protect the purifier further. i'm pretty sure with enough scribes on the job they could have at least made a rudimentary stopgap--scientists love documentation are you telling me catherine and james wrote nothing down???--but owyn just drops that shit the moment the two project leaders are out of the picture. like bro. come on.

liberty prime also Exists, as a Thing. for a guy who says he wants to really help the people of the wasteland, an awful lot of resources has been diverted into this loooong running project to get the Proper Gander mega machine up and running. that's a lot of manpower! why weren't these scribes studying how to make efficient local water purifiers? or helping design irrigation systems? or training doctors, or or or

then of COURSE you have that little ideology opposition going on. i do think owyn is a guy who wants to do the right thing, but he leaves one hell of a lot of problems in his wake; the outcasts were always going to bite him in the ass sooner or later, and from what we know regarding the whole 'taking potshots at ghouls' comment, there's still a few soldiers who at least partially subscribe to the original thinking of the west coast bos. owyn hasn't created as much of a unified front as he acts like he does, which was always going to be a problem because fundamental ideological change like that happens fucking slooooooowly. no wonder the moment the lyons influence is gone there's a radical push back to the original goals--pushing hard in one direction often causes a huge rebound even further past the starting point. shit, we see that happening TODAY in MODERN POLITICS. it's a constant push-pull.

now i could go on a whole tangent about sarah in this situation her father has left her in but i'm saving that for my essay so dw about it. yet. i could also go on a whole tangent about hey why is a knight-captain quartermaster??? and how that is a sign of the times. and also a bunch of other shit as well. but like. boy is the fo3 bos really being held together by duct-tape and a prayer. in a lot of ways i wonder if owyn would have been legitimately better off trying to achieve higher status back west and shift the perspective at the source........................... but that shit probably wouldn't have flown either. c'est la vie!

anyway rookie spots a lot of this the moment they meet the brotherhood for the first time because they've been submitted to this same type of brainwashing since they were 2 minutes old and that's why rookie's like. sarah i'm with you all the way. but not the rest of it. hard pass. sfghjghkjsdfsfd

extremely funny occurrence in my life is seeing someone criticise the fo3 brotherhood, causing me to have a kneejerk reaction thanks to years of seeing bad-faith fallout 3 'takes', only to then remember i too am a criticiser of the fo3 brotherhood lol

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extremely funny occurrence in my life is seeing someone criticise the fo3 brotherhood, causing me to have a kneejerk reaction thanks to years of seeing bad-faith fallout 3 'takes', only to then remember i too am a criticiser of the fo3 brotherhood lol

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sometimes i see some cool art of Blorbo but before i reblog it i peek in the notes and discover. it is not, in fact, art of Blorbo. it is art of Squub. i have no idea who Squub is.

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i've mentioned before how andrea and her whole character is really a story about weird little girls, and how weird little girls rarely survive unscathed to adulthood—because of societal expectation, peer pressure, conformity—and that andrea is designed to represent the concept of a weird little girl who, when that weirdness is threatened, embraces it instead. and she keeps embracing and embracing and embracing until it leads her down a most terrible path.

see, andrea is told that being a weird little girl makes her wicked in some ephemeral way. that her curiosities, benign as they once were, are some darker mark that needs to be expunged lest it reflect poorly on the people around her. and because of that, when she follows this path against all advice, she looks at her reflection and sees that wicked little girl and figures, well, apparently she's already gotten this far. what's a little further? she chases down rumours and kills raiders and scams people and lies, and those things alone do not a bad person make, especially in the wasteland... and then she realises that with the right people at her back, she can be so much worse.

this is why i think andy loving the disciples is basically instant. she doesn't love them for the gore or the chains or the aesthetic; she loves them because she looks around and all she sees are weird little girls. girls who might have also once been cajoled onto a better, if no less weird, path in life, who kept embracing what people told them until they resolved into that self-fulfilled prophecy. say something enough times, and it stops being a warning and starts being a statement. you are bad. you are bad. you are bad. you are bad.

andrea looks at nisha and sees a weird little girl. andrea looks at dixie and sees a weird little girl. she looks at all the disciple girls, she looks at the pack girls, and it's all she sees.

and then she looks at mags, and she realises that if there was a weird little girl in her once... she didn't survive. that her weirdness is already too deformed to reclaim. so andy doesn't trust her.

the tragedy of andrea at the end of the day is that, to put it bluntly, she could have had her weirdness nurtured into something beautiful; someone needs to man the abattoir, someone needs to dissect the bodies, someone needs to amputate the limbs. but the more they tried to tear it out of her, the more it grew and grew and grew into something else entirely. the more it did for all of them. and now the wasteland looks to the west and sees a hurt weird little girl find other hurt weird little girls, and knows how it's all going to end.

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thank GOD for old-ass tumblr html tutorials because i now know how to make my bg image a theme asset that tumblr hosts HOORAY

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ie your making ppl like nisha goals now i feel i have to tell you i found wow in the middle of playing through nukaworld dlc for the first time and it single handedly made me change my mind from a pack/op finish to pack/disciple so congrats (though admittedly i never Disliked nisha, i just liked the other rewards better but youre Right and you should say it pack/disciple is the ending that fits best)

YESSSS it SO is and i'm tired of pretending its not. truthers unite

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WE LOVE TO STAY WINNING

i have many goals with this blog but one of them is making at least one person who dislikes nisha for whatever reason love her instead

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i have many goals with this blog but one of them is making at least one person who dislikes nisha for whatever reason love her instead

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redraw of nisha's guns, ft. new slurs! yippee!

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comparryson

redraw of nisha's guns, ft. new slurs! yippee!

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redraw of nisha's guns, ft. new slurs! yippee!

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god i love being able to draw

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updated with more art (SEVENTY THREE???) and also a little progress update on the work of wolves. it is happening! its just happening slowly

THE WORK OF WOLVES - MASTERPOST

The new Overboss, in Nisha's mind, is too young to be as monstrous as she is; she looks like some young lamb, her flesh soft and tender under the harsh edge of a blade, and Nisha doesn't expect her to survive the cruelty of their world, bathed in blood and steel as it is. Yet, when she slaughters Colter with all the skill of an abattoir butcher, and smiles as brightly as a machete's glint in the light, it's clear there's more behind those big dark eyes than anyone could ever come to expect.

By their fruits shall ye know them, and all that.

Even hundreds of years after the bombs turned back the clock on what-once-was America, people still often underestimate the ambitions of dark-eyed little girls with a taste for poor behaviour. Andrea Jiménez intends to prove she’s the worst of them all.

A Fallout 4/Nuka-World DLC series about raiders getting everything they ever wanted, and maybe a little bit more. Featuring Nisha/f!Overboss, he/him lesbians, and a whole damn amusement park of queer people. It's going to be a great summer season of 2287.

FICS (full length):

The Work of Wolves (ongoing) [CURRENT PROGRESS: chapters 16—Epilogue drafted, one chapter redrafted, zero chapters edited {as of 12/05/25}]

FICS (short length):

Welcome to Flavourtown

Kinktober 2022

ART:

Rottweiler Bandogge (your local Pack dog breeder)

A Quadruplet of Rotts

Andrea Jiménez Concepts

Nisha Concepts

There They Go, Kidnapping Baby Molerats Again

I'm Something of an Asshole

Nisha, Local Menace

Andrea, Nisha, Mason (1920x1080 wallpapers)

With Arms Like Those, Who Needs Knives?

Itty Bitty Overboss

The Work of Wolves, Cover Art

Nisha's Fat T*ts

S U C C (i'm sorry i draw memes sometimes)

so true best tits :)

Andy

Got Me Confused

i got worms :(

Andy Andy Andy

The Kill and Grill

Bite Bite

Tierney

+3 Charisma Drip

Thonkin' (i'm still drawing memes my bad)

Scalpel

The Work of Wolves, Cover Art V2

heehoo pupper :3

Cut Here

Lamb, She-Wolf, Overboss, Warlord

Batch of Andys

Valentine's 2022

Nisha's Haircut

Andy's Hangout

Local Twink

Open Jacket

👀

Arf

Andy + Alejo

do you see this shit alejo

Sorry Girls

GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS

cover them up, slut

Nukacade

Stupid Boy

Gender Envy

Nisha, Local Menace V2

Graffiti

Who Would Win?

Fun With Knives

The Jiménez Twins (2078 AU)

Itty Bitty Nisha

Lame-Ass Boyfriend

Cigars

Off The Leash

Nisha, Growing Up

Playing With Dolls

Bestial Warmonger

Nuka-Express

THE FOLLOWING IS PURE FICTION

negotiations

ART PART II:

60: Feeling Lucky? 61: Andrea Jiménez Concepts, Redrawn 62: Andrea, Nisha, Mason: Redrawn (1920 x 1080 wallpapers) 63: Andy, Getting Older 64: YOUR OVERBOSS NEEDS YOU! (Fallout Roleplaying) 65: Perfect Seat 66: F.B.I (Female Body Inspector) 67: Hanging Out 68: 100% BAD ATTITUDE 69: Positive Affirmations 70: Prince of Serpents 71: Summer Evening 72: That Ephemeral Summer 73: the fucking what

MISC. STUFF:

The Work of Wolves tag

Cover art V1/V2

Andrea + Friends: Fallout Roleplaying stickers/emojis

TESTIMONIALS:

"I love these little murder gremlins. Your characterization remains spot on. Great job murph ily"

"Reading this makes me regret short-changing the disciples at every turn. But it's really nice to see the Commonwealth's resident murder queen unrestricted loathing. This is superb."

"got a VERY strong opening on andy's hot girl summer here i think id like to dip her low and kiss her so sweetly in the moonlight"

"ha, gay."

"They're gonna kiss while just covered in blood aren't they?"

"you can't catch me kinky thoughts!!! I am too fast!!!"

"This? THIS? Is the shit I've been looking, PRAYING, for, and oh boy, have I found it. JOLY.GOOD.SHOW."

[you can help add more testimonials by commenting on AO3!]

NOTES:

The Sole Survivor, aka Nate/Nora, does NOT show up in this series in any meaningful capacity. Also, pretty much every character unless implied/mentioned otherwise is queer, and the vast majority of the Pack are nonbinary because they tripped over and spilled all the gender juice. Whoops.

Given the nature of this content and subject matter, there are standing content warnings for explicit and bloody violence, drug use, alcohol abuse, mentions/scenes of murder/torture/suicide, sexual content (severity of which will be marked ahead of time), extremely bad language all the time, and people making bad decisions, intentionally, for profit. There are also tags and warnings for individual chapters on AO3.

Finally, this fic updates in batches because I am a chronic double-drafter, so there will be hiatuses between batches whilst I build a buffer! However, when chapters do go up, they will be (more or less) posted every Saturday at 4pm GMT (or 4pm BST if you're reading this between March and October), so look out for that!

If you like my fic or my art, why not leave some kudos, drop a comment, and reblog? It means the world to me! ♥️

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my biggest concern is that when people open this blog they open it in tumblr's stupid little window type thing and therefore a) do not see my custom theme and b) do not see the links i have conveniently placed so you can find my art and writing and masterposts without going through the tags

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playing with dolls strategy meeting

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re-upload of my fallout 2 edit, including a watermark since this video has been reposted without credit to me. its obnoxious but unfortunately this is what has to happen

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