#Arthur.....I mean.... he lived

[whereisthedamndaddymanual]

The boy reading with Halo font

I expect him to vanish behind closed doors with "someone" and we'll see him if he's hungry....

Or wandering.

[enders-redemption]

rdr fan culture is playing the game, looking at so many posts, and reading so much fanfiction that arthur’s dialect unironically starts slipping into your every day vernacular

[kan-be]

everyday is a fruk day here but today is especially so 🥳

[potato-lord-but-not]

okay, first of all your Lily design is GORGEOUS SHE IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND AMAZING AND IS SHE SINGLE ASKING FOR A FRIEND

And second, with Noel(or Charlie) actually knowing Lily does that mean sometimes in the future she and John can meet? Lily trying to shake John’s hand while John is trying not to cry, because IT’S LILY OURTHUR LILY IS HERE

but then Lily’s reaction to Arthur?? That weird coma patient that just up and left?? That would be a fun conversation

that’s all if she stays alive during holy ghosts plot line, women in this podcast are really unlucky T-T

GAHHHHSJSJS TYSMMM (she is ;) )

and honestly! more likely than you think! and the likelihood of her understanding the situation they were in is pretty high!! like omg!! there were two of you there?? you heard everything I said??? you decided to name yourself John because of how much you liked me calling you that??? she’s usually more out together but I think she would start sobbing.

and (assuming Arthur didn’t tell Noel about going to Harper’s Hill, which I think can deduced from the way Noel talks about his past to Arthur tbh) Oscar and Noel learning about what Arthur got up to in Harper’s Hill…….. him being responsible for Sarah getting killed….. ouch. the Holy Ghosts au is crazy bc you really get to explore Arthur’s impact on the world thru a different perspective, and it makes me go INSANE

ALSO I SWEAR BY MY MOTHER SHE WILL NOT DIE NOT ON MY WATCH

[arthursfuckinghat]

Oh you guys I am thinking about Mary and Arthur and I am once again feeling sad about it

[cowbeeboy]

arthur morgan: i’m dark and ugly on the inside, there’s not a gentle bone in my body, all i do is cause people and animals around me to suffer, i don’t deserve kindness for i am just a mean man, i’m worse and scarier than your ugliest fear, i don’t care about kindness, all i want to do is hurt, i take joy in hurting.

a fine example of some of the ugliest and meanest and scariest things arthur morgan gets up to in his spare time that prove what a bad man he truly is:

[horseboneologist]

"Time to come home, John."

(I just think maybe the King in Yellow is big and also pretty)

(id in alt)

[gooboogy]

The problem is they both make sense.

John lacks any agency, and as his abilities start "failing" he loses more of what little he has. The only things he can do is perceive the world through Arthur's eyes and talk to him in his head. That's it. He has no material effect on the world around them. He is solely 100% reliant on Arthur for his continued existence and influence on the world. He can't ignore Arthur whatsoever (unlike Arthur who can ignore John easy peasy) he can't Do anything but talk and observe (and also experience the deaths of people Arthur touches but ultimately that does nothing). Of course he is going to be distrustful of other people and possessive over Arthur.

Arthur feels like suddenly he can't rely on this very reliable thing that has been keeping him alive this whole time. It would shake anyone up. Especially with the shit they have to deal with? If he can't rely on directions he will be sliced to ribbons or shot without a chance of fighting back. They may as well be dead already. And for all of John's lack of agency, it's Arthur who has to actually deal with the consequences. He's the one who's getting wounded and torn to bits and has to fight all that. Plus it's HIS body. If someone's existence relies on your body, you have the right to refuse, bodily autonomy is a human right.

The problem is they've gone through this cycle before (cycle of learning and forgetting and learning that they are One Unit and need to work Together vs The Problems and forgetting) but never has it shaken Arthur so much. Even when they've argued before he would still listen to John's directions. But now? Everything is in question (as is probably the intent behind John's "failing" abilities.) They DO need other people to help and they DO need to be careful and include John. They cannot truly trust someone else while keeping John a secret or without his input. Arthur has the most control over the situation and the onus is on him to make the compromises. Yeah it's his body but 1) countless times he promised to John that they were in this together and 2) at this point separating them would be so traumatic that they may as well be One.

All of this is to say, curious that Arthur is so willing to tell Oscar about literally everything EXCEPT John. What happens if he does? What if there's someone else to assert for John in a way Arthur can't ignore so easily? Would that legitimize the shared ownership of Arthur's body? What does it mean for John to gain agency by the loss of Arthur's autonomy?

[carlottastudios]

Every day I get closer to making an unhinged behemoth of a post listing all of the things about Kaeya and his possible connections to mythology & stuff that I notice but NOBODY ELSE SEEMS TO BRING UP IN THEIR THEORIES

(edit: OMG I reached the tag limit I'm so sorry)

[ananxiousgenz]

oscar: (*random priest who seems fairly sweet and helps people as much as he can*)

me: okay seems reasonable

oscar: (*reveals that as a kid he bashed a priest's face in with a hammer for bullying/murdering his friend*)

me: (*dimming the lights and lighting candles*) COME HERE LOVERBOY-

[qyburn-in-the-black-cells]

Again, I haven’t gone here in a long time -

But let’s talk Arthur.

He was not Uther. He was a better man and ruler than Uther but Uther forged him. It’s very difficult to be a healthy person when the foundation of your personality is cracked - affection starved. His worse impulses enabled or encouraged. Thrown in jail for fighting with his father. Participating in massacres at fifteen. Raised since birth to hate an entire group of people.

Who does he go to when he breaks his own laws to save an elderly woman from burning alive? The father who wrote those laws. The father whose legacy was genocide. It was his destiny to undo that legacy.

Fulfilling it required him to change as a person in a way that would’ve been incredibly painful. It would’ve required self introspection Arthur wasn’t fully capable of yet and something/several things to radically reverse his attitude toward magic. It would’ve required facing the fact that his only parent, who he can acknowledge wasn’t always good, was evil. Truly and deeply evil.

Season 5 made it clear it would’ve happened eventually (esp. if Merlin took the opportunities given to him to push for magic to be legalized) but it was too late. He was out of time the moment Aithusa was put in that pit with Morgana.

[thekingofspin]

born to be arthur morgan,

forced to be kieran duffy.

[wonder-worker]

“They [the people] love the Prince [Arthur Tudor] as much as themselves, because he is the grandchild of his grandfather [Edward IV]. Those who know him love him also for his own virtues.”

"Polydore Vergil remarked that “a vast multitude of persons” flooded London when the date of [Henry VIII's] coronation was announced. “[E]verybody loved him,” Vergil wrote of the ceremony, likening Henry to Edward IV “the most warmly thought of by the English people among all the English kings...and for that reason [Henry] was the more acclaimed and approved of by all.”

— Don Pedro de Ayala on July 25, 1498 / Lyndsi Lewis, The Politics of Public Relations: Concepts of Image, Reputation and Authority in Henry VIII’s England (LSU Master's Theses, 2015)

[justaz]

okay but have we considered morgana x freya?? two women who believed themselves to be monsters, hunted by the same man and his loyal followers, cursed, doomed to death the moment someone finds them out, alone. they wish for freedom, somewhere where they can be themselves, where they dont have to hide, where they can embrace their power and who they are without fear or without harming anyone.

[brieflykay]

I need to start Malevolent season 5 already because I'll finally catch up, I saw a new episode just came out recently even, but my brain is literally going "But Oscar and Noel won't be there :("

My brain really said "im gonna get WAY TOO ATTACHED to THESE TWO SPECIFIC GUYS in the 'everyone dies or disappears' podcast" WHAT IS WRONG WITH MEEEE HAHAHA

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

this is a tiny pet peeve but i think its kinda odd that people seem to like. forget, or maybe just neglect to take into account, that yellow, for whatever reason (whether he's an alt universe john or a fresh piece of this universe's KIY that kayne went and ripped off) has ALSO been trapped in the dark world prior to being with arthur and has exactly as many Feelings about it. this is a very load bearing character trait imo