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btw non-toxic masculinity is not a new concept. Y’all ever seen the Rifleman? Single dad in the Wild West, raising his son to be a good man who respects women, respects all people and treats everyone like a person, and to always do the right thing even if it’s hard. Like- this show is in black and white. This is not a new concept. “Oh it was the attitude of the time” no excuse. be like Lucas McCain or perish

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Middle years Chester becoming a sleuth who specializes in looking after widows, children, and families down in their luck is one of my favorite things.

He becomes an advocate for the impoverished, something he reports he didn't have in his youth. Chester's justice is rarely about punishment, always about making right by the victims and the people left behind. It's a unique take, his restorative justice, whereas Matt certainly defers more to punitive thought.

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Gunnar Mauritz Widforss (Swedish American, 1879-1934), Yaki Point, Grand Canyon, watercolor on paper, 22 × 19 inches.

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Another fic that I am not going to write but I needed to share:

Andy gets a card from Slim and one of his roommates steals it and reads it.

“Oooh! Who’s Daisy? Did you brother finally get married?”

“No, she’s Mike’s nanny. Remember the kid Slim and Jess adopted after the Indian attack?”

Andy’s roommates stop and look at each other, sigh, pull out whatever the 1870’s equivalent of a PowerPoint is to explain why they are confident slim and Jess are fucking.

And Andy’s like no, of course not, Slim and Jess get mad puss! This is ridiculous!

But he keeps thinking about it because huh they made some really good points and now he can’t sleep so he gets out of bed and composes the fastest letter of his life, runs down to drop it in the mailbox. Tries to put it out of his head.

The next week mail arrives on the stage. There’s a letter from Andy. Slim smiles and calls Jess over to read it. They open it together and all that’s written inside is:

Dear Slim and Jess,

Are you two fucking? Please respond!

Love, Andy

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Surrounded by wildflowers, a bull bison enjoys the morning in Hayden Valley, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

© riverwindphotography, July 2022.

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Bob Wills Special Bob Wills And His Texas Play Boys Harmony Records/USA (1957)

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"...Rowdy?" "Yeah?" "Is that my jacket?"

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I've done very well suppressing my inner horsegirl, but sometimes during my Gunsmoke fanfic, it accidentally slips out, and the lawless west is tarnished by some guy getting way too sappy and tender with his horse.

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Hideout Ranch, Wyoming

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“Mojave Maiden Study” Jason Lohmeier

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John Ford directing Ward Bond in “The Colter Craven Story,” a November 1960 episode of “Wagon Train.”

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Alan Ladd-Jean Arthur-Van Heflin "Raíces profundas" (Shane) 1953, de George Stevens.

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Ranch Romances Apr 15 1954

Kirk Wilson

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characters whose both greatest weakness and greatest strength are their compassion and unwavering faith in humanity

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For the doodle request could you draw a tiny cowboy on a regular sized horse

I think that would be fun

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one of the pitfalls of watching old tv shows that film in black&white and then switch to color several seasons in is that i am so damn distracted by the sheer brilliance of the color that i entirely lose focus on the actual plot of the episodes. for instance i would love to describe what actually happens in the first few episodes of laramie s3 however all my brain is receiving is the saturated blue of slim's eyes against his apple-red bandana/denim blue shirts/goldenrod hair/very tanned skin

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