#robin allender

[candyfloss-techno-hell]

Ever wondered what a 25-year old Johnny JR singing with the Lovely Robin in a cafe in 2007 sounds like? Well wonder no more.

[shortqueershakespeare]

Remembered that the lovely Robin had a tumblr and while it would be fun to interact with his writing here I’m also very glad he abandoned it before I started my unhinged pcd decline

[john-robins]

From John's IG stories

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

ℭ𝔯𝔞𝔡𝔩𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔉𝔦𝔩𝔱𝔥

[emo-klepto-pyro]

Javier Escuella died in Mexico, in his homeland. I don't know if that makes his fate sadder or not.

Javier became a revolutionary at some point in his life, likely in adolescence or early adulthood. He fought for fair wages and food for the people of Nuevo Paraiso. He fought despite revolutionaries receiving cruel punishments, such as death or castration.

Javier killed a man in Mexico. More specifically, a military man or some other important figure of power. They had a dispute over a woman and Javier killed him. Fearing the consequences his actions might have, he fled Mexico for the sake of his family. For if he stayed, his actions would be their noose.

Now an enemy to the Mexican government, Javier fled to America. Despite not knowing the land. Despite being an outsider.

Javier fell in with Dutch Van der Linde and the gang in 1895. Fiercely loyal to Dutch's revolutionary ideals and Robin Hood attitude, Javier ultimately sided with Dutch in the falling out in 1899.

In RDR, Javier has returned to Mexico. When John tracks down Javier, he is found working for a new government in Nuevo Paraiso. Javier does bounty and hitman work for Allende in exchange for protection. While John does what he does in exchange for his family. It's poetic in a way. Not quite a mirror image, it's more like looking at your reflection in the water and seeing yourself distorted by its waves.

By the time Javier Escuella dies, he is a husk of the man we see in RDR2. Gone is the vain, proud man who plays guitar in the light of the campfire.

He flees Mexico to hide, and he dies in Mexico. Hiding.

[thestupidhelmet]

i'm about to send you a bunch of these hehe

B and C, 1-6

🤭

Babies, how many and their names: Eric, Donna, Jackie, Hyde, Fez, Kelso.

You didn't specify Eric/Donna as a couple or Jackie/Hyde as a couple, which would be numbers 17 and 18. You also didn't specify Fez or Kelso in a relationship with a specific person (I put numbers for those, too), so I'm going to answer this question based on the characters as individuals.

Note: Since a baby's gender can't be planned (without medical involvement), in some cases I'll give options for more than one gender. Also, people's biological sex doesn't always match their internal sense of gender. Trans people often choose their own names when they're older, but that fact is beyond the scope of this game (but certainly not beyond the scope of thinking about the T7S characters' children 🏳️‍🌈).

Eric: He grew up with an unhealthy sibling relationship, so he might want only one kid for that reason. Then again, he might want two and do his best to foster a healthy relationship between the two.

If he has a boy, Luke. (Obvious reason.)

If he has a girl, Kayla. (It was a popular girl's name in the 1980s and honors his mom without being a direct copy of it.)

If he has a second boy, Peter "Pete" (after Peter Parker).

If he has a second girl, Robin. (Another popular girl's name in the 1980s. It honors Red with the first letter and is the name of Batman's sidekick.)

Donna: One child. She wants to be a mom but not have that be the only part of her identity.

If a girl, Isabel "Izzy" (after feminist journalist and author Isabel Allende).

If a boy, Anthony. (Susan B. Anthony's father was a huge women's rights advocate and opened a school that taught both boys and girls when his daughter was rejected from school for being female. That's just one way he tried to help and protect women's rights and safety in his life. The name Anthony is also common in Italian-American families.)

Jackie: She's an only child and barely got attention from her parents. She could either go the one kid route to make sure she'll be as present as possible for her child. Or she might have two but not more. If following in her parents' footsteps, she'd be rich one way or the other, and a nanny would raise the kids.

First boy, Jack. (Jackie is named after her father, whose canonical name is Jack. Nothing in T7S tells us differently.)

First girl, Jacklyn. (Essentially Jackie Jr., but the different spelling was popular in the 1980s and gives her daughter's name a little individuality.)

Second boy, Jason. (Sticking with the JA theme plus son. See what she / I did there?)

Second girl, Sarah. (It means princess, and one can infer from Jackie's JSB shirt in S1 that her original middle name could have been Sarah before it was retconned to Beulah for a running joke. Jackie hated her middle name, so she might have gone as Jackie Sarah to her friends until, of course, her secret is discovered.)

Hyde: No kids. He wouldn't want to be a father for so many reasons, but he'd be a wonderful uncle -- because, in part, his uncle was the kindest family member to him growing up (that's a headcanon inspired by the fact his uncle left Hyde his boots).

Fez: Three kids. I see him wanting a big family but a manageable one.

First girl, Michelle (after his best friend Michael Kelso). Middle name after Fez's mother.

Second girl, Stephanie (after his best friend Steven Hyde). Middle name Linda, after the goddess tattooed on his body.

Third girl, America (after the country he chose as his home and his good friend Eric Forman).

First boy, his father's name but called by a shortened version of it.

Second boy, Charlie (because Fez would want his son to have his own beautiful angels to do his, er, bidding. Sorry about that one. 😄)

Third boy, Alexander (a popular 1980s boy's name with a lot of history. Fez wants his son to be a conqueror of worlds 👀).

Kelso: Wants no children. He grew up with six siblings, and his parents barely knew he existed. Unfortunately, he ends up with at least half a dozen -- if not double that -- kids he never intended to have. He probably doesn't know he's the father of most of them (until talk shows start doing paternity tests for ratings).

Careers

Eric: Vice President of a toy company, either as a prototype approver/tester or toy inventor.

Donna: Rock journalist.

Jackie: Fashion designer, fashion stylist, or wedding planner.

Hyde: Owns his own record label and signs bands.

Fez: Chocolatier (competitive).

Kelso: Marries a rich, much older woman and cheats on her with much younger women. Or he becomes a catalogue model. Or both.

Jukebox Ask Game

[lambentplume]

tagged by @usalock for top 9 books of 2023 or 9 books to read in 2024! i will also be doing the latter. i'm a slow reader so this is definitely an aspirational list lmao.

The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende

A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin

Hawaiʻi's Story by Hawaiʻi's Queen - Liliʻuokalani

The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson

17776 - Jon Bois (does this count. idk i'm counting it)

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

edit: adding some more

Our Sea of Islands by Epeli Hau'ofa

yes i still need to read Orientalism

i actually don't have 9 books i want to read but here's 3 general ideas for books i'd like to read. suggestions welcome :)

more magical realism (guy who got their shit rocked by One Hundred Years of Solitude a few years ago)

something about mountains/climbing but preferably from an Indigenous/place-based perspective

a book that has similar vibes to Friends at the Table (i primarily mean the worldbuilding/interconnectedness of it all rather than a particular season, but if i had to point to one then probably sangfielle)

i'm a lil shy when it comes to tagging LMAO but mutuals feel free to do this!

[scuderlia]

LIA!!!!! top 5 books everyone should read. or top 10. Whatever your heart desires 💕

HII RO!!

top 5 8 books everyone should read (please consider that i'm a victim of recency bias, but these are all just so good):

An Anthropologist on Mars / Oliver Sacks

The Stories of Eva Luna / Isabel Allende

Fruiting Bodies: Stories / Kathryn Harlan

Braiding Sweetgrass / Robin Wall Kimmerer

In the Dream House / Carmen Maria Machado

Flights / Olga Tokarczuk

High Ground Coward / Alicia Mountain

Slouching Towards Bethlehem / Joan Didion

(ask me my TOP 5/TOP 10 anything)

[slicedmayonnaise]

I always like to headcanon him becoming an alcoholic mainly because I love the tragedy of him turning into his father. Also, how else could he cope with the things he's done? The way he betrayed his values?

We know Javier's father was an alcoholic, and his family (like most) were essentially slaves to the Allende family. As a child, Javier witnissed his uncle be brutally tortured and murdered after asking that the workers got fair pay from Allende (not Agustin, but his uncle). We don't know much about their family dynamics, but it's implied that Javier was closer with his uncle than his father (probably due to the alcoholism).

I like the idea that witnessing his uncle's brutal killing is what made him want to become a revolutionary. He vowed to himself that he'd fight for the people and be some sort of Robin Hood. He wanted to be like his uncle, not his dad. Unfortunately, after Guarma, he lost that spark and fell into a deep depression where he turned to alcoholism like his father had. Then, of course, he fell right back into the arms of the Allendes (now working as an assassin for Agustin).

He tried so hard to break the cycle and do good for his country, but in the end, the cycle continued. He went from fighting for his uncle to giving up and drinking like his dad. It's deliciously tragic.

do you think Javier became an alcoholic after rdr2? Or at least during the epilogue? I keep seeing that he was, but I’m not sure.

:)

It is just headcanons, canoncially there is nothing pointing to it. Most people just think he acts different from rdr2 and looks a bit more crusty and think it is alcohol, thus we get:

I wouldn't say he is an alcoholic, he looks more crusty, yes, but there are several different reasons for that.

He aged 12 years.

He completely lost himself and had to rebuild his entire personality, ideology and existance.

His haircut is questionable.

The game's style is different.

Look at John, he also looks crustier in rdr1, why? Because of age, maturity and the fact that it was made in 2010, they weren't able to make as smooth and fluid motions like they could in 2018.

[shortqueershakespeare]

Some adorable insta stories from John and Dave

[ansacht]

In case anyone is interested here are some of the authors or books Katie has read or recommended that I’ve collected from various Katie interviews, livestream cameo, etc:

Fav Genres: Historical Fiction, Biography/Memoirs, and Russian Literature

Authors: Sharon Kay Penman, Ken Follett, Robin Hobb, Tolstoy

Books:

Martha: The Life of Martha Mitchell by Winzola McLendon

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara

Fall On Your Knees by Annmarie Macdonald

The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

The Bronze Horseman by Paulina Simons

American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee by Karen Abbott

Gypsy: A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty by Robert K Massie

A Scandalous Life: The Biography of Jane Digby by Mary S Lovell

The Infinite Plan by Isabel Allende

Wonderland Avenue by Danny Sugerman

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Katie says this is one of her favorite books but warns that you have to be in an emotionally secured place because it broke her.)

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel

Katie voiced Audio Book:

Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain

There are probably plenty more books that she mentioned in other interviews so I guess my wish would be that we add them to this list/thread.

Asking for a friend, why has Katie McGrath not started a book club or at least release a monthly list of suggested books so the rest of us bibliophiles and literary enthusiasts can get our book nerd on?

PLEASE. I NEED THIS.

During Covid she had videos of what books she was reading and I’d like for this to continue because I read some of the ones she suggested and they were great!

But also - I want to know how she chooses her next book because we all have a process and I’m forever nosy about everyone’s book discovery adventures.

Please and thank you.

[alystayr]

Gravenhurst - The Collector

[lovehermioneforever]

stranger things oc challenge : day five : "you're beautiful nancy wheeler" : promotional posters (season 4 poster edition)

featuring (from left to right) Donna Hollis, Josephine Allende & Beth Byers. (not part of the same story)

tag list : @richitozier ( let me know if you'd like to be added )

[robinallender]

I released my first album ten years ago (!) and to celebrate (!) I have just whacked it up (!) on bandcamp in a 'pay what you want' type vibe scenario. Had very mixed feelings about this album for a long time, but I'm quite fond of it now. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing at the time (plus ça change) but there are some nice songs on it.

I don't think I'm really selling it am I. Anyway, have a listen here. Also, all of my other albums/EPs are now pay what you want as well, so fill your boots.

[nofatclips]

Singularity by Jon Hopkins from the album Singularity - Director: Seb Edwards

[rp-kat]

Cradle Of Filth

2001

Thrash'em All  #5