#there's a lot to UNPACK tho cos i do also relate the gratuitous VIOLENCE in the old west proper n its depictions in westerns to
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thoughts,,, abt the cowboy as american mythology vs the reality, per chance,,,
#ooc;; mun barks#//to be deleted;#it swims in my head time to time but i think i shld sit down n organize my thoughts abt it#n i suppose i wld also talk abt it in regards to rdr2 n rdr1 bc they both share/embody commentaries on the western genre#particularly rdr2 takes a shining to the cowboy imagery w Knights#Men upon horseback with some sense of Noble Honor etc etc while peeling back the veil of it to the men beneath#but then here is cole cass/idy n how i want to convey the part of that mythology of rugged individualism while he is also-#part of this organization that has a nasty habit of mythologizing its people – while he himself to me#represents an avatar of People - the everydays person - the boy scraped up from nowhere;#n how he will Defy this mythologization for better or for worse; always the homeless homebody stranger#too imperfect to be made immortal bc he refuses convention n facade#bc part of this blog is stabbing fingers into what is this archetype n masculinity n i suppose what it is in my lens :///#but also smthing abt the fact that ppl dont think cowboys still exist 💀💀 that they remain#some storybook piece in movies n novels–#there's a lot to UNPACK tho cos i do also relate the gratuitous VIOLENCE in the old west proper n its depictions in westerns to#its normalcy n mundanity in COLE's life n how he receives it as such - that he's not necessarily#haunted by killing bc he grew up w it being a normalcy; kill or be killed was apart of his life n he - really doesnt blink twice abt it
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