#Robert Jones

[crankhandles]

Y'all, this post is specifically dedicated to Scott Carty and Robert Jones, voices of Ned Nickerson and Joe Hardy respectively - two PERFECTLY cast actors who have held their characters down VERY NEARLY for the length of the entire series.

(Joe has been consistently voiced by Jones. Ned first appeared in Stay Tuned for Danger, voiced by a different actor. But then Carty voiced Charlie in Message in a Haunted Mansion and had such perfect Boyfriend Voice™ that right after that they brought him back for Ned and the rest is history, I guess.)

Both of their performances are so synonymous with the characters for me. Every time one of them speaks, I'm always like "YES. THIS IS HOW THIS CHARACTER SHOULD SOUND. THIS IS PERFECT."

Adore them.

[neathyingenue]

For those who don't know, since yesterday Silvia has:

been poisoned by Elias in person

assumed that Elias was trying to blackmail her on Jamie's behalf

told Jones "help i'm being blackmailed"

on Jones's instructions, written back to Elias asking what the terms of the blackmail are

asked Caoimhe if she could stay the night with her because she's scared

got hit with the old "and there was only one bed" with Caoimhe >:)

received a letter back from Elias explaining, "Silvia I'm not blackmailing you, I'm threatening you! Drop the Marvellous because I regret playing it... or else"

agreed to meet Elias at Beatrice's but Jones will also be there

oh by the way Jones and Elias have a history??

and Jones got Shaw involved to investigate Elias (not knowing Shaw was Shaw) even though Silvia purposefully didn't tell Shaw about the poisoning

i don't even think that's everything 👍

[rjalker]

So, Robert Jones is a Black American who fought in world war I, and was captured by the Germans, and then when the war was over, all of the white American soldiers were bartered for but he was just left there a rot, so that eventually the Germans just let him out and gave him a job as a servant and now he has been kidnapped on a airship going to the center of the earth without being told that that's where they're going and without the option to leave at any point because this was supposed to just be a test flight to see if it would get into the air, with everybody thinking that they would be landing again and then making the proper voyage at some later point. Until the three rich white guys in charge of the trip decided spur of the moment to make the test flight the actual voyage without consulting anyone but themselves.

That could make for a great story if you were a person who thought that racism and exploitation was bad.

Edgarice Burroughs though is neither of those things.

[thepointingghost]

ok whats ur opinion on dax and alice's father. forgot his name. i have opinions but my opinions of adult figures are generally bad so im biased

oooh okay okay. Robert. Robert Jones.

This is mainly focused on Dax but with Alice it's more a reflection of how he messed up with his son, those dynamics juxtapose one another so we can see specifically how Dax's relationship with him has been destroyed over the years.

It's clear he cares about his family: his work is a sacrifice of his time and body to help them as best he can, he stays in contact regularly, and he's at least aware of COLA protocol (Code 47). It's just that his family is Gina and Alice and the kid from his previous marriage whose eyes remind him a little too much of her, and it hangs between them so much that it's too late to ever address it, and... yeah, it's easier to stay in Aberdeen than reconcile with him. I think he made a mistake out of grief and maybe there's some hope of repairing the relationship, but realistically? He's lost the agency to decide that.

We do see some improvements with Robert in Unleashed, in the most basic form of respect: he lets Dax keep his bodily automony and refuses to consent to the COLA Project's magnetite scheme. It's not nearly enough, but it's something. There's respect.

But my opinion of him starts to sour with this part of Dowsing the Dead:

It had never, never occurred to him to be ashamed. Worried, freaked out, confused—yes—all of those things but never ashamed. Maybe that was what Gina had put into his dad’s head. ... ‘Special’—that was the word. It had too many meanings. Even bad things, like awful disabilities, got called ‘special’ these days. Maybe his dad thought what happened to him was ‘special’ in that way. The letter should have made him feel better. All it made him feel was ‘special’—in no good way.

Respect can buy you courtesy, but it can't buy you understanding. There will forever be a distance between them because what Robert Jones cannot understand is the power and pride of being different.

Looking a bit deeper, here's how I read him. Robert represents a very steroetypical, nuclear family–style of parenting: the stoic father, bringing in the money and leaving the turmoil of parenting to his wife (tm). The honour of the family rests on him, but the work in bringing them up and actually providing for them is delegated. The latter should have been to Gina, but... well, that's another question.

While Gina is disgusted by Dax, Robert is wary, unsettled. While Gina is frustrated and stressed over the burden of raising children without any emotional support from her husband, Robert runs away to provide for them without ever needing to think about his first wife's sacrifice and what it left behind. Robert wants a normal life, one where his firstborn is just a bit different, not 'special' and strange and COLA.

Of course, this is a harsh reading of him. Off the top of my head I'm pretty sure Dax was born in 97 or 95? And so in DtD he's, what, 13? In any case post-financial crash and look around at job security over the past couple years. Robert has a lot to juggle with work, Alice and Gina, and the COLA father admin stuff, but the fact is he's let himself neglect Dax to a point where it may be irreperable. He's worked hard for a normal life after the death of his first wife, and Dax is the scar that cannot fade. An outlier. Someone to appease and promise change.

Despite all of this, I don't hate him. I know enough members of my own family who reflect that not-quite-understanding mindset that I can't go and have fictional daddy issues too! (there'd be too many in the cola verse anyway let's be honest) To put this all together, the political context and grief made way for incompabitility between Dax and his father, and there is no way to fix that - only manage, with copious amounts of therapy.

I wish we had gotten to see a more emotional scene where Dax gets to shapeshift in front of Robert: would he have the same fascination as Owen in FtF? Would he recoil in fear? It doesn't matter. We never got that - StS subverted it, and far bigger problems prevented it. Dax had no honour, no pride he could display, and that's that.

[asktheosixfamily]

What is robert doing in detention now, i wanna see him suffer 😈

@skeletormasterofevil

[vintagepromotions]

American Airlines travel poster for Australia featuring a koala (c. 1960). Artwork by Robert Jones.

[tomoleary]

Ron Lim and Robert Jones “Green Lantern” Hal Jordan, Alan Scott and Kyle Rayner (2000) Source

[bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews]

The Summer Book (PG): Very Little Happens, But Beautifully.

One Mann's Movies Film Review of "The Summer Book". Beautiful but slow moving melancholic drama. 3/5.

(This is related to the book – there is only one published picture from the movie at the time of writing) A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Summer Book” (2024) (From the 2024 London Film Festival). I don’t know. You wait years for a gentle drama set in a Finnish Summer House and then two turn up at once! Hot on the heels of the excellent “My Eternal Summer” comes Glenn Close starring in “The…

[carlarosenakilah]

Have this goofy animatic while waiting for more Osix Family (please have mercy on my burn out and art block)

[orangeball]

hey mama, 12 won the big 12

[scarbordoefair]

originally i was going to fully animate this, but with all my art gear packed away and two jobs in my future, i don't think i'll get a chance to get to it anytime soon!! so i'm calling it complete for now.

audio from my favorite tiktok ever

john is @okiedoodle's OC and i am obssessed with him

[okiedoodle]

when ur oc is bi you’re morally obligated to recreate 12th night anne hathaway pic

[neathyingenue]

💌kiss roundup part 1 of 3💌

here are 8 of the kisses i drew for what has been dubbed the "kisspocalypse"!!

Silvia and Caoimhe (belongs to @the-insouciant-scientist)

Silvia and Elias (belongs to @the-dye-stained-socialite)

Silvia and Josephine (belongs to @thedeafprophet)

Silvia and the Six-Finger'd Scrimshander (belongs to @dualclock)

Silvia and Merry (belongs to @anomaly-beans)

Silvia and Brett (belongs to @thedandy-detective)

Silvia and Vincent (belongs to @the-clay-quarters)

Silvia and Jones (belongs to @viric-dreams)

[the-scooby-gang]

There are many benefits to being Barbie's cousin

My Ko-fi

Edit: Guys I know her last name is Roberts. This is an AU and also a Barbie Tickets meme it’s not that deep

[maa-pix]

I Wrestle With The Angel

Rev. Robert Jones

Like Jacob in the wilderness I don't know wrong or right But I look to God in heaven to get me through this wicked night For when my brother comes to kill me all that I can see Is that I must do unto him before he can do unto me

And I wrestle with the angel all night long And I wrestle with the angel all night long And I wrestle with the angel all night long And I wrestle with the angel all night long

Now grace is still amazing but for him who will not see He says, "That grace that brought you safe thus far don't mean a thing to me And I don't hate you for your actions, for your name I barely know I hate you for what our fathers did a long, long time ago"

And I wrestle with the angel all night long And I wrestle with the angel all night long And I wrestle with the angel all night long And I wrestle with the angel all night long

And when you wrestle with the angel the fight might leave you lame But if you hold on till the morning the Lord'll change your name Oh, the Lord'll change your name

And when my brother comes to kill me I hope he'll understand How much I'd rather meet him man-to-man than to beat him hand-to-hand But as he comes against our families I know we'll have to fight Sometimes war is what you have to do but that don't make it right

And I wrestle with the angel all night long And I wrestle with the angel all night long And I wrestle with the angel all night long And I wrestle with the angel all night long

So like Jacob in the wilderness, when we grapple through the night Don't let go without the blessing that comes with the morning's light For when Jacob met his brother they both put aside the sword And they call him by his new name: He Who Wrestles With The Lord

And I wrestle with the angel all night long And I wrestle with the angel all night long And I wrestle with the angel all night long And I wrestle with the angel all night long

And when you wrestle with the angel the fight might leave you lame But if you hold on till the morning the Lord'll change your name Oh, let him change your name

[elesketchii]

tips my fedora Hellooww ladiez 😏