#The Lonesome Drifter

[caelan0d]

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[scopebite]

boy the mojave wasteland is just a fascinating place isn't it?

[maddymoreau]

Videos of the performances:

Hadrian the Ghoul:

Billy Knight:

Rad Pack Revue:

Bruce Isaac:

The Lonesome Drifter:

[skumpitt]

[bellonathedragonborn]

Met this cool dude today. Nice guitar to.

Also Vulpes made Adrien a heart over at Nipton.

[undeadcourier]

so i never actually did the talent pool quest where you recruit performers for the tops until now, and the last person i'm supposed to recruit is the lonesome drifter. no problem, except... i stole his guitar when i first met him... oops lmao

[fnvminorcharacterpoll]

FNV Minor Character Poll - Round 3-B, Day 2

Left: Beatrix Russell, hired guard at the Old Mormon Fort and potential sex worker at the Atomic Wrangler. —"Longing makes the heart grow fonder, but I've always been a fan of hog-tying my lovers to make sure they can't escape."

Beatrix Russell's designated cheerleader is @shockvalue! shes got it all!!! shes a ghoul. shes a cowboy. shes a strange little freak. shes the guy with the gun. i love her.

Right: The Lonesome Drifter, a traveling musician. —"Well, I was born in a little town out Montana way. Me and Ma didn't have much, ever since my pa up and left."

The Lonesome Drifter's designated cheerleader is @lledxela! Cheering for the Lonesome Drifter since he is like the only Montana Rep in fallout. Respect for my fellow Montanan.

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[analogbreakdown]

The tale of the Lonesome Drifter

If you've been around the wasteland like me, you may have heard the tale of the Lonesome Drifter. Accounts of his appearance vary from person to person, but one thing shared between all oral reports describe the drifter as being tall in stature and having a signature handlebar mustache. Of course, that is not the most recognizable part of him. No. That would be the acoustic guitar that is never seen without him; charred black across the rest of its wooden body, touched with a warm, orange fire at its center.

Legends say that the Lonesome Drifter presided among many great battles that have occurred throughout the desolate wasteland, with some sightings being as recent as the Second Battle of Hoover Dam. Reports of him range as far north as Utah, stretching all the way back west to California. Some say that the music he played could determine the victor of a conflict. Whether you think he's alive and real is up to you, but I know one things for certain. Along with his guitar is his trusted .44, always holstered upon his hip. I've seen some of the bodies after battles he was supposedly sighted at, some filled to the brim with six bullet holes, patterned as if it were some sort of symbol. I'll let you be the judge.

- Written by me, Analog :)

[891movies]

552 to go

Performance (1970, dir. Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell):I'll be honest, I had a difficult time following this one. On the plus side, Mick Jagger is very nice to look at.

Ride Lonesome (1959, dir. Budd Boetticher): A very tight, economical 73 minutes, for good and for ill. Good, because this thing is perfectly paced, not one minute wasted. Ill, because it gets very tell-don't-show at times and a lot of pre-established Western tropes (specifically in regards to Native Americans and women) go completely unexamined.

Pickpocket (1959, dir. Robert Bresson): This is the second Bresson film I've seen and as with the first, I admire it more than I like it.

Roma (2018, dir. Alfonso Cuarón): I have no excuse for not having watched this sooner but I'm so glad I finally got around to it. Absolutely stunning and left me an emotional wreck, 10/10.

High Plains Drifter (1973, dir. Clint Eastwood): Incredibly nihilistic and dark. Those final scenes are absolute perfection but I can't say I love the two (two!!) instances of rape-to-sex.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001, dir. Steven Spielberg): Liked this more than I thought I would. And I don't get why anyone would think the ending is a cop-out or somehow not as relentlessly sad as the rest of the film?

[littledeadling]

Lonesome cowboy who would do anything for his town X lonesome drifter who would do anything for his son

[an-android-in-a-tutu]

Romancing the Exit Sign

Art: @nickelkeep

Writing: @an-android-in-a-tutu

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Other Tags: Alternate Universe, Eldritch Horror, Cults, Gore, Suicidal Ideation, Mystery

Summary: A teenage boy is left to die in a shallow grave and something slithers into his bones. Devotees of an ancient god work to bring Her into the world, as with equivalent fanaticism, a man on a mission picks them off one by one. A lonesome drifter crosses paths with a mysterious stranger and finds himself inexorably drawn into the middle of it all.

Dean Winchester is adrift. All he has is his car, the next hunt, and a conversation he doesn't want to have waiting for him in California. Then a case involving mangled bodies washing up on shore in an idyllic lakeside community puts him on the trail of a man calling himself Castiel, and the dangerous web he's entangled in. Dean is used to living in a world of monsters, but the End of Days is a little out of his wheelhouse. Especially when his only ally is determined to keep his secrets behind his teeth, even as they draw closer together. Still, he intends to see things through, no matter how dark the path ahead gets.

It's either that, or call his brother.

Excerpt:

The smell of rot was stronger here, flies buzzing away over what looked to be the remains of animals, shunted into the corners, bones and bits of fur and unidentifiable red mush. The walls were covered with scrawls, symbols and pictures painted in something dark and shiny, and pools of wax melted around stubs of burnt out candles littered the room. The centerpiece, though, was the massive pool of blood that had soaked into the decaying floorboards, half obscuring the scrawl of a magic circle underneath, five points of a star, each adorned with a tool of the trade: an offering bowl filled with lumpy ash, an incense holder, a dull copper coloured knife, a bundle of herbs and feathers, and a black crystal.

“Guess it was a gateway drug after all,” he muttered, stepping forward and tracing the script that filled the circle with his eyes. He couldn’t identify it, but he didn’t have to be a scholar to figure whatever it was was major bad juju.

Cas stood with his back to all of it, staring at the symbols on the wall across from the door.

“Looks like we found the right place,” Dean said wryly. “Good call, Cas.”

Cas didn’t answer, stayed facing the wall. Something about the line of his back set Dean ill at ease.

“Hey-” He took another step forward.

Something whispered in his ear.

Dean whirled, staring into the empty space behind him, his hand coming up to his neck where he could have sworn he’d felt someone’s breath.

“What the hell-” He took two steps back, away from the open door, jumping when his foot collided with the offering bowl, knocking it over with a clatter that rang loud in the silence.

No, not silence. There was whispering, still. Constant, so quiet as to be indistinct, but if Dean strained his ears he could just hear it.

“Cas?” He called out, shaky. “Do you hear…”

His voice died in his throat as he turned and caught sight of the man again, silhouetted against that strange mural, a jarring gap in the twisting symbols that seemed to draw them in, they curled towards him, writhing on the wall as the room darkened, the shadows pulling in and the whispers getting louder until he could make out the shape of words-

Come home.

Dean’s pulse pounded in his ears, a drumbeat to accompany the chant. Come home, come home, come home to me. In front of the wall of writhing shadows, Cas started to turn, and something in Dean quailed, knowing he wasn’t prepared, wasn’t ready, but stuck in place all the same by his wanting.

Come home to the Mother.

Coming in October as part of the @deancashorrorfest!

[wolfepirat3]

Okay i like... just realized that ive literally never expanded on my love for westerns besides the copious amounts of references in my fic and the one picture of all my westerns...

So heres a list of all the westerns in my collection (plus my favorites, ill mark them with a *)

Shows

Gunsmoke (seasons 1-5)

Laramie (seasons 1-4)*

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Lonesome Dove The Series

Magnificent Seven 1998 (season 1-2)*

Rawhide (season 1)

Shane 1966*

Lonesome Dove (miniseries)

Return to Lonesome Dove (miniseries)

Sugarfoot (season 1-4)

Alias: Smith and Jones (season 1-3)

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.*

Whispering Smith

Movies

Streets of Laredo

Dead Man's Walk

The Magnificent Seven 1960*

The Magnificent Seven 2015

Tombstone*

Young Guns*

Young Guns II*

A Fistful of Dollars

For A Few Dollars More

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Pale Rider

Hang 'Em High

High Plains Drifter

The Outlaw Josey Wales

3:10 to Yuma 2007*

Shane 1952*

Once Upon A Time in The West*

Evil Roy Slade

Dead Man*

Books

Appaloosa

Brimstone

Shane*

Blood, Guts, and Glory

Saddle by Starlight

The Gunslinger

Lonesome Dove*

Comanche Moon

Dead Man's Walk

Streets of Laredo

The Big Sky*

The Way West

Seven Ox Seven Part One, Escondido Bound

The Tall Stranger

Kilkenny

Hondo

Showdown at Yellow Butte

The Virginian*

Miscellaneous

Adventures of the Old West (docuseries)

Outlaws & Gunslingers (docuseries)

Legends of The Old West (docuseries)

The Classic TV Western Collection (40 misc. episodes)

TV Western Collection (27 misc. episodes)

Western Collection (8 misc. movies)

The Wild Wild West the Series (book)

The Hollywood Western (book)

A Pictorial History of Westerns (book)*

Please please please ask me about any of them if you like any please!!

Those are all of the physical westerns i have, but there are plenty more i love but havent gotten my hands on yet!

[ask-the-lone-drifter]

the other snorted, listening to him try to protest, while he does believe him at the first part, the moment he saw him chuckle he knew it was him "yes but even Mike has a good poker face at times." he says, humming as he crossed his arms "i got my eye on you, mister krabs" oh- oh he just made a freaking pun.

Crabs?

“Alexei I swear to god if this is you—“

[azura2298]

who is more cowboy?

lonesome drifter (fallout: new vegas)

Arthur Morgan (red dead redemption 2)

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[freaksmyweirdness]

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry ~ ~ ~ Gene Gamble Jr

@freaksmyweirdness @1264doghouse @simply-ivanka #Hank Williams #rockabilly #Luke the Drifter #countrymusic #nashville #southernmusic #fredrose #MCA #Grand Ole Opry #Nashville #GambleStrong

[fnvminorcharacterpoll]

FNV Minor Character Poll - Preliminary Voting Round 1-B: Tops Talent

Top left: Billy Knight, street comedian. —"A break's better than a shot - less chance of lead poisoning. Hey, if you know any gigs hiring, I'll work cheap. Real cheap. I'll take peanuts!"

Top right: Bruce Isaac, runaway singer from New Reno. —"'Robbed' is such an ugly word. It's more like I took care of a payroll problem for [Mr. Bishop]. Also, I might have…umm…sort of…plowed his daughter. A little."

Bottom left: Hadrian, ghoulified insult comic. —"Name's Hadrian. Bet you never saw a ghoul in a suit before, huh? Course, you don't exactly strike me as the worldly type."

Bottom right: The Lonesome Drifter, wandering country musician. —"Ma always said [my father] was a real mysterious feller, even when he was with her. Like he was a stranger sometimes."

(Preliminary Voting Round masterpost)