#sadie west

[heavenlymorals]

I feel like a lot of people forget that the Van Dir Linde gang was actually famous in their universe- Dutch Van Dir Linde was as famous as the real life Butch Cassidy. The gang had as much infamy as the Wild Bunch or the Dalton gang. Arthur Morgan, John Marston, Bill Williamson, Javier Esculla, Lenny Summers, Charles Smith, Sean McGuire and more were probably as famous as the real life Doc Holliday, Jesse James, Black Bart, Rufus Buck, Ike Clanton, the Sundance Kid, Wild Bill Hickock, and more.

Sadie Adler would've been just as famous. She was a gunslinger like the real life Calamity Jane and Anne Oakley and she was an outlaw at one point like Laura Bullion, Pearl Hart, Belle Star, The Cassidy Sisters, and more.

The other women of the camp would've probably been less popular but still very intriguing figures to people in the future.

In the newspapers, we see that there are songs about Dutch's boys and books too. Trelawny mentions them being on dime novels. In the future, the pieced together story of the Van Dir Linde gang might've gotten adapted into a movie, similar to "Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid" or "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". They could've gotten biopics, documentaries, and more.

Historians and fans of the wild West era would dig up records, find pictures, and maybe even track down people who were apart of the gang, accomplices to the gang, or victims of the gang. They would try to piece together stories to figure out the mystery of what actually happened to the gang.

People would argue over things that happened in the gang and have their evidence to back it up. Letters written by gang members would become so valuable. If they ever someone come across Arthur's journal, it would probably be considered one of the most valuable pieces of documentation to ever exist for that time period.

The guns of the gang would probably be kept in museums if found. Albert Mason's portrait of Arthur Morgan would be found in history books, same as other pictures.

Dutch would probably be a very controversial figure in history- some would hail him as a failed hero and others would condemn his violence no matter the reason- they wouldn't know what the people in the gang knew- especially in the end. Same with the rest of the gang members.

They'd probably all get romanticized. Hosea and Dutch's friendship, the raising of the boys, Dutch and Annabelle and his fued with Colm, Mary and Arthur, John and his family, Javier being a revolutionary- no one would know the full story.

And then there is Jack- he may live to see the 1960s and 70s and 80s. He may have grandchildren who'd pull him into a theater to watch a retelling of the gang that he was a part of at one point. He'd be amused. He'd think that the actor playing his father was too clean looking, too pretty. He'd think that the movie Arthur was too skinny. He'd think that the man playing Dutch had a funny voice as he tried to mimic the accent. He'd laugh and make notes in his head of the historical accuracy. He'd feel sorrowful at the deaths of the characters- he knew them at some point. And no one at the theater would know that the old man with the rowdy bright eyed boys who brought him there was Jack Marston, the last of the Van Dir Linde gang.

Jack might talk about it to the public. He might do interviews. He might even write a book about his father, the infamous John Marston. Those would be priceless. Even Beecher's Hope might be kept around and visited as a historical site for history goers.

And honestly? It is such a bittersweet thing.

[three-unspoken-words]

You’re pretty. You’re so pretty. It’s actually unbelievable how gorgeous you are. You’re pretty and funny and you’re everything I want. You’re the one I want to tell the good and bad news to, and the one I want to wake up with a text from. You’re the one I close my eyes thinking about and the one I look for in every room. You’re perfect, you’re perfect for me.

And maybe in another universe you’d think that too.

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

One thing I’ve grown to appreciate about the “Red Dead Redemption” series now that I’m older is that you can tell Rockstar approached this project as an anti-western. It lures you in with the promise of Wild West, yeehaw goodness, but when you actually play the games, you get hit with the brutal reality of this world.

Examples of what I mean:

1) The Mexican Revolution arc isn’t romanticized. At first, you think it’s a simple tale of the evil fascist government fighting against the heroic rebellion. But then you meet the rebel leader and he turns out to be just as bad as the government. It’s a true “both sides are in the wrong” situation and, unfortunately, the ones who truly suffer are the peasants (such as Luisa Fortuna).

2) Frontier life isn’t just shooting and action. It was also watching over animals, building farms and ranches, and trading with towns. The games really make you feel the monotony of doing chores and yard work, especially when John was in his Jim Milton phase.

3) Outlaw life isn’t romanticized either. Although you start off as a happy family, it eventually devolved into backstabbing, despair, and self-destruction. Even before then, your group aren’t the greatest of people, especially with the whole robbing people at gunpoint and shooting up towns.

4) Good guys don’t always get a happy ending. Also, every action has a consequence. John Marston had to learn that the hard way.

5) The racism. I feel like a lot of Western-themed media tries to skirt around this issue, or even avoid the topic (such as the 2016 remake of Magnificent Seven, which had a diverse group of fighters). Red Dead doesn’t pull back its punches. You have the Ivy League professor who treated Native Americans as subjects for his racist research. Abraham Reyes straight up calls Chinese people an inferior race. Then there’s the Blackwater short film playfully talking about the massacre of Native American tribes.

6) Along the same lines as point 5, the sexism. For example, there was the propaganda short film about opposing the women’s suffrage movement. And, of course, Sadie Adler not wanting to be relegated to cooking for the group since she can shoot.

7) This is more for RDR2. You actually have to pay attention to the maintenance of the horses and the guns. I’ve never seen this in a Wild West movie/TV show, and yet it’s integral to someone whose life revolves around horseback riding and shooting people!

8) Not skirting around the issue of disease, especially when healthcare wasn’t as advanced as it is nowadays. You can see that especially with Arthur and Abigail.

[thatstheproblemwithnapkinman]

i cannot stop thinking about dick coming out so imagine

blüdhaven - and theres some truth serum shit in the water BUT its not just making people not lie but its actively forcing them to tell the truth

and because people are just saying every truth constantly theres a lot of fighting and violence (its blüdhaven, a lot of bad people live there and a lot of bad things happen)

so dick is trying to find the source and he manages to track down the person, and they fight and he wins

but during the fight he gets injected with like, pure truth shit, which doesn't stop his fighting ability bc it takes a few minutes for it to kick in but by the time he finishes the fight it's starting so he ties the person up and leaves so he doesn't just reveal his identity

he goes back to titans tower and is fighting the serum (training means he can fight that kind of thing) but it's stupidly strong and trying to fight it is painful

wally happens to be there and he finds dick on the floor in his room so he goes over and is like "dude what happened" and dick tells him and is like "i can't say it, i can't, i can't ruin our friendship"

wally goes "dick, you are my best friend, my brother, you can't say anything that would change that" and dick just breaks then and there and says

"you were the first person i ever truly loved and part of me regrets not telling you when we were younger"

and he starts sobbing and saying "i'm so sorry i didn't want to ruin us" and wally just sits down, pulls dick into his lap (like dick is lying into wallys arms) and is like "you didn't need to tell me, you're my brother and i love you" and they just sit there as dick sobs and wally holds him

but that will never happen bc dc are cowards and can't let the bi king have his moment also it is like 2am leave me be

(also yes i know dick won't have any issue saying this stuff but let me torture him please)

[foreverreverie]

6/4 Fanarts from a while ago! These were lots of fun; some were suggested, and some were random dice rolls!

[pedroam-bang]

Sadie Adler - Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018)

[a-f00ls-bl0g]

Part 3 of RDR 1-2  on  Twitter/X

[nerds-yearbook]

In 1870, the time traveling alien known as the Doctor (Doctor 11) and his companions Amy and Rory mistakenly landed outside Mercy, Texas to find themselves stuck in the middle of a conflict between a gun slinging cyborg and an alien being protected by the Sheriff in Mercy. ("Town Called Mercy", Doctor Who, vlm 3 TV)

[honeybeeswritings]

Sapphic old west flirting?

“You’re very…honest.”

“Why, thank you ma’am.”

“No, I mean, it’s not bad, it’s just–“

“Sigh. And to think I thought you were complimenting me for once. ”

“No! No, I just mean it comes off as a touch insensitive. To some people.”

“Like you, sugar?”

“No. And don't call me sugar."

[eclaire-went-bam]

idk if i'll get my thoughts out clearly bcs it's 2 am but

i've seen people talk about the different ways dutch has acted counter to his own beliefs in rdr2, especially as the main story progressed

like, dressing real "smart" (looking more at home in cities), progressively moving camp cliser to the (civilised) east instead of west, getting buddy-buddy or appealing to powerful people who kinda represents what he's supposed to resent, allowing strauss to loan shark desperates (how arthur literally describes it as a legal/"civilised" crime or something like that), enacting revenge

& on that revenge note, i don't think i've seen anyone really talk about colm o'driscoll's hanging outside of that lens. i think it had equally to do with not only showing his morals against vengeance slipping, as it does with visually showing how dutch keeps driving himself & the gang closer & closer to society/law at the very same time as He In Particular becomes more & more lawless

the writers could have chosen numerous different impactful ways to kill colm off, but symbolically speaking, i think there's a reason why they had dutch, sadie, & arthur blend in with saint denis civil society as an upper class citywoman & lawmen while watching colm die. dutch's gang always seemed more as a commune of misfits lead by a robin hood, at least at first, while what we know of colm's gang seems more in line with what we expect from the ugly sides of the old west (like micah). being irresponsible, sleeping around, killing random people, torturing, etc (& if i remember correctly, didn't dutch say they began to drift prior to killing colm's brother bcs of how much their ideals clashed??). So i mean. Dutch, blending in as a lawman, watched a microcosm in one person of the wild west die, at the hands of the law

i don't think this is the writers Literally saying dutch sides with the law now, that clearly isn't the case he Literally just killed himself after going all "our time is over john </22222" he definitely was unable to realise & accept it the way hosea had. but i do think it's a visual portrayal of a very real shift in his priorities/morals/however you wanna put it

yada yada micah also personifying the evils of the old west while also siding with the law whilst also obviously not being a lawful person there's a connection there to the rest if this idk maybe since dutch was already Gone by then he started to do that too to a less conscious or organised extent something something i'm too tired to make a full line of reasoning and i dont even know where i'd put it so like. So like.

[totallynotcensorship]

so updates: first of free gaza is back on the trending page, which is awesome, that is great keep going

secondly OMG that is a lot of tags.

so for anyone unaware noah schnapp promoted stickers on twitter with the phrases "zionism is sexy" and "hamas is isis". hence why he (and stranger things, netflex, and some other actor names related to the show(i think? i never watched stranger things)) is trending right now

i got nothing new to add, he is at best "dumb and young"(which isn't an excuse he is the same age as me). and at worst either a chill out supporting a genocide for cash, or a straight up Zionist

netflex is already a target of the boycott so if you aren't boycotting it already here is an extra reason to. either let the show die or pirate it so it doesn't support pieces of shit like them

don't stop talking about Palestine

[impostores0o]

Read dead redemption 2 illustration All credits to: @Rockstar Games Story mode characters artworks Artwork appreciation

We can't always fight nature, John. We can't fight change, we can't fight gravity, we can't fight nothin'. My whole life, all I ever did was fight...—Dutch van der Linde

You know, all that ever mattered to me was loyalty. It was all I knew. It was all I ever believed in...—Arthur Morgan to John Marston

I wish I had acquired wisdom at less of a price.„—Hosea Matthews

[three-unspoken-words]

It’s easy to realise that they’re not good for you anymore. The life and energy they use to give you with every interaction now switching to simply draining you.

It takes a lot of courage to step away from the situation. Despite how painful it is.

You have to acknowledge that the longer you hold on. The deeper the wound will become.

Let go of them now and let yourself heal.

[colorhollywood]

Barrymore family in different decades:

Georgie Drew Barrymore with Ethel, Lionel, and Jack, circa 1890

John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, 1904

Ethel Barrymore, 1901 and 1916

John Barrymore, 1905 and 1914

Lionel Barrymore, 1910 and 1919

John Barrymore with Carmel Myers in Beau Brummel, 1924

John Barrymore in Don Juan, 1926

Lionel Barrymore with Lon Chaney in West of Zanzibar, 1928

Lionel Barrymore with Gloria Swanson in Sadie Thompson, 1928

John Barrymore with Loretta Young in The Man from Blankley's, 1930

Barrymore family, 1932

Lionel Barrymore as Grigori Rasputin in Rasputin and the Empress, 1932

Ethel Barrymore as Czarina Alexandra in Rasputin and the Empress, 1932

Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore in Rasputin and the Empress, 1932

Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore in Rasputin and the Empress, 1932

Ethel Barrymore with John Barrymore in Rasputin and the Empress, 1932

Lionel Barrymore with John Barrymore in Arsène Lupin, 1932

Lionel Barrymore as Paul Lavond in The Devil-Doll, 1936

Lionel Barrymore with Greta Garbo in Camille, 1936

Lionel Barrymore with Lew Ayres in Calling Dr. Kildare, 1939

John Barrymore with Virginia Bruce in The Invisible Woman, 1940

Ethel Barrymore in None But the Lonely Heart, 1944

Lionel Barrymore with Joseph Cotten in Duel in the Sun, 1946

Lionel Barrymore in Duel in the Sun, 1946

Lionel Barrymore with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in Key Largo, 1948

Lionel Barrymore with Clark Gable, 1952

Ethel Barrymore with Doris Day and Frank Sinatra in Young at Heart, 1954

[figures4fun]

Sunset

[romances-not-tragedies]

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