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Due to the indirect influences of certain selfship blogs, I am now stuck with a Self Insert OC x Oogie Boogie brain rot, so now you have to deal with me rambling on about it.
Only if you want to ofc. The choice is yours.
No one can force you to click on the "Keep reading" option.
But if you do click it, buckle up because when I ramble, it will probably not make a lick of sense.
You have been warned.
Ok, so. Self insert oc is a little clown from a far away place called Birthday Town.
Sorta similar to other Holiday Towns, Birthday Town is a place that celebrates the birthday of each of the clown residents. All 366 of them.
Yes. There is a clown for every day. Including the leap year day. It is a very large and colorful town that lays the birthday theme on thick with present boxes for houses, confetti for rain, and other whimsical Birthday related shit.
So they all celebrate each other's birthdays every day. Non-stop. To the point it drives clown oc mad.
So clown oc pulls a Jack Skellington and wanders away from the constant celebration, stumbling into the holiday doors, especially Halloween door in the same fashion as Jack in Christmas Town.
Oh, right, I forgot to mention this takes place during the movie, mostly outside of the scenes.
Only unlike Jack, they are in a constant state of fear and panic because Halloween Town is understandably spooky and scary to all who are new to it.
Then, after like screaming and running around like a headless chicken, clown oc is mistaken for "Sandy Claws" by Lock, Shock, and Barrel cuz they got the pudgy looking body and the pointy hat. That and pink looks like red at night, I guess?
So they brought clown oc to Jack. The same thing that happens to the Easter Bunny kinda happens to clown oc, except instead of being returned, they just shove clown oc down the hactch because they got no idea where to return this weird creature that they found.
Due to clown science and cartoon physics, clown oc is able to fit into the small hatch and goes tumbling down into Oogie Boogie's lair.
Clown oc meets Oogie Boogie and gets mistaken for "Sandy Claws" for a moment. After misunderstanding is cleared up, platonic bonding shenanigans ensue.
During the actual meeting of Oogie Boogie and Santa Claus, clown oc just stands off to the side like:
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And then, during the scene where Jack "kills" Oogie Boogie, clown oc manages to grab a hold of one of his bugs and tucks them safely into pointy hat, sneaking off and returning to Birthday Town.
When they arrive at Birthday Town clown oc, who I've just now decided to name Rinkie (little friend inside joke yum) shows Oogie Boogie Bug around the place and introduces him to other clown friends.
Oogie Boogie Bug, who wants revenge on Jack, asks Rinkie for assistance. Rinkie is pretty meh to the situation, so they reluctantly agree to help him.
Another bout of fun shenanigans ensue that involve Oogie Boogie Bug having no choice but to relucyantly accept the bright and colorful bugs from Birthday town as an addition to his newly forming hivemind, and have to deal with colorful patterned cloth patches on his temporary body, hand made and stitched by Rinkie ofc.
And that's it for my rambling.
It's mostly just funny platonic stuff in mind. Who knows if I'll be as heavily invested in this as I'll be to the Reverse Isekai Disney Villains AU. (RIDV AU for short)
Which I'm still working on, btw.
Anyways, yea.
Thanks for reading!
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#ramblings#rinkie the clown#self insert#self insert oc#self shipping#self insert x canon#oogie boogie#disney villain#disney villain imagine#this might potentially be the start of me going down a rabbit hole of self shipping myself with various other fictional characters#which isn't a bad thing ofc#that just means I might lose the bet I made with myself in high school about never shipping myself with fictional characters again#*gets war flashbacks to the undertale sans days*
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I love your art soooo much-it gives me life!! 🥰🥰🥰
I have a question about Milek and Jaskier! Milek says they fought before Jask went missing-what did they fight about? Did Milek say something he shouldn’t have? 👀😢 is there ANGST?
Also does Geralt know Mileks plush friend is called Roach? Because surely that’s a clue that Milek is his…(I love this universe so much)!!🥹❤️❤️❤️
[MASTERPOST] That was the last conversation they had before Milek stormed out - and when he came back, Jaskier was. gone. The thing is, Jaskier knows what Milek is interested in (and he is not even wrong about that, Milek has an interest in medicine, and helping people, and I think when they met he was Shanis biggest fan) and I think Jaskier is aware that some of the conflict does have its roots in Milek not wanting to leave him, even if they get really heated and ugly in their arguments. Milek shouldn't feel like he has to care for him, or have to protect him and at times I think Jaskier feels quite ashamed, which leads him to being way too unrelenting at times - especially if he thinks he's doing something to protect Milek.
#jaskier#the witcher#geraskier lovechild#artists on tumblr#omegaverse#I think if they argue Milek is saying stuff he shouldn't all the time#I think for Milek the part that makes him feel really bad is that he KNOWS that Jaskier would always choose having him again and again#because he KNOWS that he loves him more than anything else#but he still implied that he doesn't know - and he knows what he said was cruel#but he also !! is so angry#because Jaskier always treats him like he knows what's best for him and. let it be true - it still makes him FURIOUS#he isn't a little kid anymore#and he wants to HELP he loves his father and he knows that Jaskier gives and gives and gives especially when it comes to him#he doesn't need a fancy education in an academy where he'll be just the bastard kid again#he just needs a Pa who doesn't absolutely run himself to the ground#and I think he finally wants to meet Geralt too#also I'm trying to do a thing here which I think shows how secure their relationship truly is#because Geralt sees Milek as a quite sensible (if sometimes a bit hotheaded) young man - who is quite mature for his age#which he CAN be#but Geralt is also basically a stranger even if Milek knows he's his dad - and he tries to impress him naturally - ofc he wants to be liked#with Jaskier? who has his one true emotionally secure relationship with?#moody teenanger - but also allowing himself to be childish at times - crying shouting teasing - exploding sometimes#because he never ever had to question their relationship once#he can just let loose
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#take this as a bonus round to find 2nd and 3rd#just a lil curious because these seem to be a little skewed in botw/totk's favor since a good amount of ppl have only played those#which isn't a bad thing ofc ^^ if it was a problem i would just not include them in these polls#loz#the legend of zelda#tloz#majora's mask#skyward sword#worst zelda boss tournament
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Ok guys I have two more anastasia posts queued but I am going through a CRISIS OF FAITH so please be honest w the following poll
I should also mention that Sims Legacy Challenges are TEN generations long so there's quite a gap to fill. The descendants will have to be improvised
#PLS BE HONEST#I noticed everyone went bonkers for harrow and nona but were 'meh' for anastasia ;o;#which isn't a bad thing bc ofc harrow is way more popular (anastasia in the Deep Lore)#so let me know what u guys would like to see because I'm down for whatever I just wanna play sims#HUZZAH FOR SIMS#tlt#ts4#the sims 4#the locked tomb#harrowhark nonagesimus#anastasia the first
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Starting to slowly realise I'm really not doing well mentally and it's. concerning. I feel like I should take a break from tumblr bc it takes some of what little energy I have but it's also my source of joy with friends so idk what to do, like I'd miss y'all more than I'd feel good about being away. But if you notice me talking less/not responding in days it's bc I just cannot. I leave your message notifs up so I don't forget tho <3
#Personal#Feeling dreadful bc so many friends have shared with me things they wrote that I SO GENUINELY AM EXCITED TO READ#I've just had literally no time nor energy for ANYTHING I enjoy in like a month#And I'm also literally not sleeping. I'm either not sleeping or I have recurring nightmares that wake me up. It's god-awful#Therapy isn't helping either cause atp I already know everything they're advising me about it's just not working#Nothing's changed either which ofc makes me feel worse. No meds changed no habits changed nothing crazy happened#I'm just suddenly worse than I've been in years which is Not Good#I feel awful for not being able to read my friends' things if I could let y'all see my mind you'd know I want to read what you write so bad#I just can't right now. I'm sorry#Not to mention work and school have been especially more demanding recently and I literally get home after 8 every single night#Don't even eat dinner til past 10pm#Doing hw until 3am etc etc#It's like high-school all over again but I'm an adult with more responsibilities than ever
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i like how barton went from being like... a hippie in terms of how he viewed sex in his early twenties, then kind of abstained from it for a few years / became sexually repressed, which... definitely isn't such a good thing. BUT then he became even more of a freak (and i do mean that in the good way this time LOL) around the time he started residency because WOW is that shit stressful. though that was also unfortunately around the time when he really started to spiral as well 😬 but we don't need to talk about that ahahhh
like the way this man learned how to express his sexuality REALLY came full circle in the end considering he was like 'yeah, back in the early days that i was in college, i was a freak. but now i'm not anymore... though do you want to see me do it again anyway?' like 💀 JSJSJ if he weren't so demented, i'd almost be inclined to say good for him, y'all LMAO feeling comfortable with your sexuality and perhaps even having a bit of fun with it (though maybe too much in barton's case, because he literally weaponizes it in order to lure in his victims. BUT once again, we don't need to talk about that right now psshhh. i actually fully intend on talking about that in the tags NGL) is more often than not a good thing after all
#OF MONSTERS AND MEN: musings.#nah but although i haven't really mentioned this before... when i first developed barton he had ALWAYS been kind of sexually repressed-#because he was sort of brought up by wesley to believe that it was one of those 'taboo' topics to the point where he had to get the talk-#from winslow and i'm not gonna lie i kind of find that WILD now LMAO because i mean like i said here a big part of how barton lures-#people in to eventually become his victims is through flirting with them and going on dates with them.#so like whenever i think about it now it didn't really make sense for barton to view sex as this 'hush-hush' topic bc he quite literally-#uses his sexuality to his advantage as i said here / weaponizes it. though expressing your sexuality isn't bad in and of itself OFC#the way in which he goes about doing it personally is just. Wellll not so good for lack of better words JSJSJ because barton is-#a serial killer whom has actually been sensationalized in the news (bc y'all know how terrible the news is when it comes to this stuff)-#into being called the 'heartbreak killer' because barton manipulates people and basically says exactly what they want to hear as well-#as makes himself as physically attractive as possible to voluntarily get his victims to come with him which is. yeahhh YIKES#but i can imagine that as soon as the news found out for the first time that his victim had last been reported to be going on a date-#with someone that they latched onto that and made it into a story that lacks the seriousness that something like that should-#always be treated with TBH because although they are just characters whenever it comes to the scope of their world they aren't and-#are living people so??? it's TOTALLY wack to be exploiting people like that to get views especially in a place like gotham where-#there's already enough craziness as it is without giving a serial killer a name that basically equates the murders to 'heartbreaks'-#which are definitely not on the same level at ALL but anyhow. i'm rambling now SKSKS#this isn't to say that barton always uses his sexuality to fulfill bad objectives bc like i said it isn't bad in and of itself -#though the fact that he does says something about him as a person since it's a rather sensitive thing for a lot of people you know?#and making people feel like they're wanted? when in actuality you just?? want to kill them??? it is severely messed up so yeahhh#tw: manipulation#tw: sex mention#tw: barton just being an asshole tbh
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I've said it before on twitter but honestly though I'm firmly in the "tcw is actually a kids show, just one that leans more mature/all-ages" camp, one of the things that definitely feels iffy to have in a kids show for me is that ahsoka is sexualized/implied to be sexualized by grown adults multiple times throughout
#like there's the implication behind anakin's 'are you okay' question to ahsoka during the zygeria arc#(which isn't even to mention miraj's dynamic with anakin in that arc but that's a different post)#then there's hondo capturing ahsoka with some comment about how people would pay a high price for a jedi like her or smth#though of course that could also just mean that there was a very high bounty on jedi at that time#and I think there was at least one other time but I forget when that was#and ofc these are all portrayed as bad things in the narrative that scumbags would do#but I'm glad in later sw children's animation that there's far less of that or those implications fly much farther under the radar#star dorks
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ngl I think I could do numbers as a cult leader.
#either that or i just really need to fill the leader urges in me#bc going straight to starting a cult isn't great i don't think#maybe i should try a clique first#see if i like it before moving up to a cult#dw it wouldn't be a bad cult. no dying or killing people or sex stuff. not unless it was consentual ofc.#NO WAIT I'M NOT THINKING ABOUT THIS I'M NOT STARTING A CULT I DON'T NEED TO JUSTIFY SOMETHING I'M NEVER GOING TO DO#certain things which are out of my control are developing rapidly and i don't like it. i like being in control. and i'm not and can't and#i'm freaking out about it a bit#but i'm not starting a cult#ig i'd jsut like my opinion to matter to people. and i'm going to a very dramatic end of that scale bc i'm not even getting the minimum#right now#but it's fine#i'm fine#noting to worry about here
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not a single person asked for my opinion but I have decided i'm going to trust iñaki again, I think he can be the goalkeeper he always seemed he was going to be and that last year's performance was more of a mental thing than an actual reflection of his abilities
#I do think if we have a good option to get rn we still should go after them but aside from woj i dont see anyone else free#so I'm not only rooting for iñaki but after considering it for a long time I'm actually actively thinking that he might surprise everyone#like genuinely think he has it in him#ofc I understand the doubts (though I think there's a bit of an overreaction to how 'bad' he actually was last season) and I had them too#but yeah thought about it long enough and I think he might just “be good again”#and obviously im not certain and am not dying over this hill but yeah im giving him a chance#btw one thing about woj (and I LOVE him do not get me wrong he's one of my favourite recent goalkeepers I would die for him and I'll be#happy if we get him) is that his footwork isn't really a strenght? and hansiball actually seems very dependent on a gk who can pull that of#so it would be interesting to see if he is actually suited to the team#ofc that's part of the argument of what do you prefer? average-ish shot stopper with great ball playing abilities or exceptional shot stopp#*shot stopper who's average at footwork and ball playing?#for us I actually prefer the first one (which mats leaneds towards) but I know lots of people prefer an exceptional shot stopper#and I think that's a bit of a busi like case where people didnt appreciate what he brought to the team until he was gone#fc barcelona#iñaki peña#fcb#barça
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i know aging isn't the end of the world and 24 isn't that old and life isn't a race etc etc etc. however,
#i think a big reason i feel so bad abt being this age is ppl told me this is when things start to get better#and i still feel the same way i did as a teenager so. well. is it really 😐#(being on t probably isn't helping but it's been over 3 years already so... not an excuse i think)#but I'm also physically aging like the reason i barely upload selfies anymore is i see myself getting uglier every day#despite fighting for my life to at least take care of my face and hair...... can't fight the passage of time 😔#+ ofc. my (younger) friends being way more sorted out than i am on every level#again ik life isn't a race but. it can't help but hurt to know I'm still behind literally everyone i know#and my excuses for that aren't even good. bc other disabled ppl my age are also more sorted out than i am#other depressed ppl other borderlines other autistics etc etc. hell these are also my irl friends 😭#and it's dumb. bc feeling like i wasted my life isn't really pushing me to change that now. just makes me want to die even more#(bc i mean what's the point. i will never catch up. I'm still at the starting line AND i move so slow it doesn't even count)#(i don't have a single milestone ppl my age have not even finishing high school which is like. the bare minimum)#(and it sucks bc i also know i have potential i KNOW i can do shit in theory i know I'm smart and got skills. but i can't put it to use)#(and now this is turning into less of a thing abt age and just generally me talking abt how i wasted the last 24 years)#this was more of a stressed rant abt how I'm turning ugly and feeling super old but well. it all boils down to self loathing at the end 👍#vent#negative //#ask to tag#sorry for being so depressing all day oof ik i already said it before but it's been a rough couple of months#(nothing happened my brain just needs to get flushed down the toilet ^_^)#edit: i think. part of my panic about aging. is bc as a kid i was used to being the youngest everywhere#i was the youngest in my class bc i started school a year early. i was the youngest in acting school bc they don't normally accept teenagers#and in addition to that as an adult but before starting t i was always told that i LOOK young too#but now ik i look like I'm in my 20s. and it's killing me that i aged this much in so little#i wonder if shaving my beard will help but i don't wanna get misgendered 😐😐😐 and rn it's the only thing guarding me from that
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hell day today and i'm only two hours into my EIGHT HOUR SHIFT
#9 to 5 by dolly parton starts playing in the background..#literally had to open up shop alone 2day and also was entirely alone for the first 45 min. of my shift so that was already a negative start#to the day + i heard that i can't have my break later than two thirty which is very bad for me bc 1) there'll be a lot of ppl all around me#when i'm eating which i already dislike and 2) like 85% of ppl taking their break around that time are VERY noisy eaters so even worse and#then 3) it'll be really loud in the room as well bc everyone's talking loudly and eating and the cutlery's clanging against plates and such#and also some ppl have actual full-blown arguments with each other in the break room bc half the ppl here hate each other's guts so more#negatives to the day and then on top of that we've had sooooo many annoying customers already today who r just. intent on making u stressed#out and upset and literally will tell u to your face to 'do your job better' like bro...i can easily tell you haven't worked in retail....#also someone hung their clothes on the rack outside the fitting rooms which is where u hang ur clothes when you're DONE fitting them & don'#want them bc they don't fit or don't sit right or u just don't rlly like them after all so if clothes are hanging there we the ppl working#there WILL take them and hang them back in their original places what did u expect to happen?? anyway someone hung the clothes they had#tried on already and did want there and i reached out to take them bc like. that's what we do here..we hang the clothes on the 'discard#rack' back in the store bc else the rack gets stuffed and the woman literally grabbed my arm and said 'those are mine what do u think you'r#doing' LIKE?????? GIRL THE RACK'S THERE FOR A REASONNNN ofc i'm going to assume u don't want them anymore if they're hanging there that's#why it's called the DISCARD rack....also how am i to know those specific clothes are yours HONESTLYYYYYY STFU AND GET OFF ME#ALSO some dude was like (to his child but like. looking at me while he said it.) 'this guy needs a haircut doesn't he' bc my hair is kinda#long and apparently i passed today. LIKE 1st of all kind of a rude thing to say to a stranger innit 2nd of all setting a great example to#your child there just casually commenting on other ppl's looks like that👍 3rd of all jokes on you you wouldn't consider me a guy if#you Knew most likely. thanks for that little zing of glee much obliged <3 but also man just piss off will you. 4th of all my hair isn't eve#that long....like the ends of it are just shy of my shoulders wdym LONG if u knew the long-haired guys i know you'd faint.#anyway. great start of the day. i still have six more hours to go 🥴#ALSO no surprise this always happens but my legs already hurt SOOOOOOOO BADDDDDD :(((((((((((#r.txt
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every time i talk w my parents i have to remind myself not to get swayed by their doting affectionate act.
#i mean see#becoming older has made me recognize and appreciate them for a lot of what they did#but to say that i am doing anything except lip service to them rn would be an exaggeration#our relationship has improved but i have made it clear that i never intend to live with them ever again#that the honeymoon period will last 2 days max#they'll cry their crocodile tears#and the emotional abuse will restart like it never stopped#that the physical abuse would have continued if i didn't threaten them by throwing chairs and a knife#like....these past few months have given me such fucking WHIPLASH#it almost makes me forget just how dysfunctional our dynamic has been#how i got away relatively well adjusted because i psychologied myself through clinical and counselling psych classes#how they refuse to take the blame absolutely for my brother's issues surfacing now in his adulthood#ever so often something so viscerally twisted will happen on a call or on the group chat which makes me want to hurt myself#and that serves as a wake up call abt how bad shit used to be#and how glad i am to be away from it all#but every few weeks i will be lulled back into thinking that maybe things weren't so bad#i'm also swayed so much by the people around me rn who hesitate so much to talk about anything that isn't small talk#either that or they're people who really love their parents and enjoy spending time with them#and i'm like....respectfully i cannot relate and neither can the bamboo rod that once broke in two bcs of how hard my parents wielded it <3#and ofc when families come up in conversation everyone acts like it's a normal thing for there to be ups and downs#w so much unsaid and implied about how i'm actually an ungrateful POS who can't appreciate their parents sacrificing so much for me#hehe. no thanks. keep ur judgement to urself
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amnesia: the bunker release obviously turning my thoughts to cherished fun guy of a baker's dozen years, amnesiac daniel of mayfair. cherished game of as many years; meanwhile he Has the ranges: tormentor/tormented, good/evil, noble/petty, scaredscaredscared/bold as brass tacks. not to mention ofc his Some Guy ft. a very dramatic nature, a lot of introspection, but not much to show for it. i do love him & he's a great choice for [i want to do fun sketches] which i also did with call on me on loop which happened to be a song i associated permanently w/him, as well as the reason my art tag is corned beef
#clapping cheering etc He Horney#amnesia#atdd#corned beef#daniel of mayfair#just watching someone's playthrough of a:tb so i dunno All the lore yet. hope there'll be more revelations abt things like Dan's Enthusiasm#further context abt the game if you weren't familiar already which: check it out!!! watch a playthrough. or play it yourself#i actually played through a third? half? the game. got stuck on a puzzle in one run then trapped in the water section later lmao....#it's a game from an indie developer & made a big splash & had Lasting Reverberations: survival horror game shift impact; namely#you have No Weapons in amnesia (though you Can kill the kaernk w/a precisely aimed barrel (or box?) or two (this isn't at all obvious))#and Daniel Gets Scared is a big component of the game. an Enemy shows up & blurred tunnel vision + the [DANGER] audio goes off#v fond memory: once yrs ago i was moving a small grandfather clock & hit smack w/like. What *Sounds* Threatening Here....#then realized the reverberation of the chimes was akin to the kind of low ringing of [daniel's Low Sanitymeter] effects#which! the game Tells You to watch your levels therein b/c enemies will find you more easily when your sanity(tm)'s low or nil#turns out this is completely untrue though lol. the player may be impeded b/c daniel's vision is crap & his mobility will cut out as well#but just as it says; enemies Aren't drawn to you any more than they ever are; they just tell you that Knowing the player will feel it lol#and it works perfectly...as well as ofc daniel having like nightmare visions / ambiguous hallucinations if he's feeling too bad lol#gotta solve a puzz son .or turn on the lights; daniel also being afraid of the dark. even though it's like yeah man in general i'd be scare#meanwhile i always forget frictional had already made penumbra games & the penumbheads would be like...scoff. amnesia easy mode#b/c penumbra doesn't give you any light? you do have a flashlight i believe. at least sometimes. but that's more ltd than a lantern#couldn't be danny w/his tinderboxes; candles; torches; etc. laudanum. blowing shit up. daniel is sososo fun to me#and it all comes back around w/pentiment like ''mithraeum....i heard of em'' fr fr lol alchemy....weird science ooo#the universe HATES him: unless it doesn't (daniel & the shadow) local locals HATE him: baron discovers one weird interdimensional trick#for real for real check out some playthrough of amnesia: the dark descent if you haven't ever seen / heard of it. or play it#we'll have a movie night of it....#corned beeeeeeeeeeeef........i'm the same boy i used to be
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i honestly loveeee art like that has such a clear style to it, with lots of focus on form, colors, shapes, varying levels of abstraction. it's so cool! my mind doesn't work like that at all, so to me it's so fascinating and wonderful.
#my art is very literal! which isn't a bad thing ofc that's just what i arrived at and i love my own style#but seeing someone who can break from the lines and forms of that realism is so cool ! like how do you do that#according to jules
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#ooooh my god#i think the universe well and truly hates me lmfao#i cannot hang onto happiness for more than a few days it feels like#something big and bad always has to happen#which is why im hiding at work literally sobbing over a stupid hoodie bc GOD i just wanted something nice!!!!#that i got for me!!!! and ofc the fucking preorder ends#like no that alone isn't worth all my grief but so much has been going wrong nonestop these days#i wanted one nice thing. one thing i picked for myself and got for myself. that wasnt a stupid gift I'd be full of guilt over!!!!!#fuck
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I think a reason why raiding might be appealing to some is because they've either been born into it or joined young, in which case it's all they know, or they've seen how much easier raiding is compared to farming. If you're a farmer, you work so hard on your crops and cattle only for raiders to show up and reap the rewards of *your* hard work. It IS human nature to want to help others, but if "survival of the fittest" gets beaten into your head enough and you look around to see that cruelty and selfishness is rewarded, some people will convince themselves raiding is the only way. I can even imagine what they tell themselves: "this is just the way the world works," "it's the only way to survive," "my kindness never did anything for me so why bother" "better him than me" etc. and it wouldn't be the first time people have tried to train the compassion out of themselves to be selfish without any qualms. (Also considering pre-war US was uber capitalist megacorp hell and capitalism also relies on exploitation I have to imagine the earliest of raiders were "inspired" by pre-war CEOs and the weird glorification of getting rich from the work of the poor continues into post war)
As for why raiders raid, it's probably a lot of reasons all at once. Some raiders may have no knowledge of farming, others might raid as an ego thing like "I'm the top dog and I'm gonna prove that by robbing these settlements and scaring them into submission because the weak farm and the strong take from them" or smth, but the biggest reason imo is having a farm seems to be a liability too. If you have crops or cattle that are known to belong to your gang, another gang could try to sabotage your food supply by salting the crops or killing your livestock. This might make gangs opt for raiding multiple farms so they can still get the resources without having such a weak spot within the gang, which honestly sums up raiders pretty well. They eliminate any weaknesses they have that could be exploited (assets, kindness, vulnerability) and then exploit those who have said weaknesses for their own gain, and the cycle continues.
(ik none of this is said or even implied I just like theorizing and talking about fallout lol)
have you ever noticed how Bethesda loves to imply that raiders don't want to work hard to survive, they'd rather take someone else's hard work when like..... there has to be a more nuanced reason than they're lazy, violent thugs. But it brings up a serious question, why do raiders raid? What is stopping them from settling down? Is it that prime land is taken up? Terrible soil? Lack of education? Unable to form alliance when settlements are shoot on sight? Why?
#once again we have a case of 'doing a bad thing because being selfish is easier than being good'#which isn't even that shocking the number of REAL LIFE mfs who genuinely think others should suffer the way they suffered is INSANE#so when you consider the raiders of fallout were born from US citizens idk that just makes sense to me#not defending them ofc I'm very into being kind because there's not nearly enough kindness is the world :3 but I can understand them#raiders#fallout
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