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I love hijab Mohawks

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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holding his hand while I’m up in his pussy because. I get nervous

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“always trust your intuition” my brother in christ I have overwhelming anxiety

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i need to get back into something and soon. or i will probably die for real.

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Forgive me, I am soft and warm, but cruel and a coward, I know nothing but goodbye, goodbye

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I hate when a tiny stupid thing pushes you over the edge and makes you freak the fuck out because it makes you look like a completely irrational tar pit of a human being. Like no I promise this is warranted just maybe not about that specifically I swear I'm well adjusted. Come closer stick your fingers in my cage

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you all have Patrick Bateman and Tyler Durden and I have him

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fanfiction isn’t enough, I need to chew on him

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🧵 THREAD: This #PrideMonth, don’t forget that the fight for queer liberation didn’t start or end with marriage equality.

💪✨ We need to keep fighting for our rights.

Here’s are a few examples:

💋 Before the 2003 Supreme Court ruling in Lawrence v. Texas, same-smex smexual activity was illegal in fourteen U.S. states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. military

👶 Before 2015, LGBTQ+ couples couldn’t adopt in all 50 states. Before the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, laws varied wildly by state.

🏳️‍🌈 Before 1973, the American Psychiatric Association listed homosmexuality as a ‘mental illness.’ In December 1973, a vote was successfully held to remove it.

🗳️ Before 1974, there were no openly gay elected officials. That changed with Kathy Kozachenko, who became the first openly gay American elected to public office in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

🎖️ Before 2011, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” banned LGBTQ+ people from serving openly in the military.

💍 Before 2015, LGBTQ+ couples couldn’t get married in all 50 states. At the time, laws varied by state, and while many states allowed for civil unions for same-sex couples, it created a separate but equal standard.

💼 Before 2020, employers could legally discriminate against queer and trans employees. It wasn’t until the U.S. Supreme Court held that an employer who fires or otherwise discriminates against an individual simply for being gay or transgender is in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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Honestly, y'all, I'm begging you. Take the time to think and learn for yourself. Even if it's just something casual like knitting or cooking. Exercise your brain. It's important.

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This website is too mobile focused these days. Reblog and tell me what your desktop/laptop background is.

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Are we ready to talk about the parallels between Mary and Molly and that, if Mary had given up her relatively safe life to run away with Arthur, she would've been equally unhappy and met a similar fate? (ಥ_ಥ)

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I am BEGGING gamer bros to allow themselves to be a little bit bisexual and start deconstructing the internalised queerphobia. Even if through thirsting over Arthur Morgan

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dec. & jan.

New Years

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Arthur is mean.

Yes and no, obviously.

It depends on the player and what they decide to do with him in their play through. Most don't have the heart to antagonize anyone else outside of maybe Micah or Bill but I'd like to acknowledge all the responses the gang gives when antagonized. (I find the gang's reactions most important than other npcs since they know him personally.)

No way am I hating on Arthur! I just think it's another interesting side of him and layer to his character that is worth at least taking a look at.

The responses you often get when antagonizing (keep in mind I collected this through videos) are:

Don't start with this/me / Not this again / Here we go (again) / I should've known I'm next / You're in that mood again / etc.

All points towards the facts that Arthur, at least prior to where the game picks up, has a reputation for being mean or having bad temper (pretty sure he says it himself too but I can't pin point a scene right now.)

For the women he also has stereotypical (and sort of misogynistic) lines like:

Smile more / A smile won't hurt / How are you not complaining/moaning right now?

(He does tell Kieran and Charles to smile too, Hosea to cheer up, but the women are consistently told that. Obviously there's the argument that it's a different time but he's shown himself to be more than decent to the women in game too.)

It also seems with specific characters like for example Swanson, Uncle or Javier, they are used to his ridicule when you choose to antagonize them about Reverend's drug use, Uncle's laziness and Javier's clothing style.

This is exasperated when Arthur is drunk.

Are you drunk/drinking again? / No one likes you when you're drunk / Liquor makes you mean / You're talking drunk again / You're a bad drunk / When will you learn to hold your liquor? / etc.

It's likely he just used to drink as regularly as the other men in camp and this is again player choice. (Although I would classify some members heavier drinkers than others.)

And, again, it shows that he has or had a tendency to be a mean drunk or mean person in general.

(Also would love to point out specific reactions by Dutch and Hosea when Arthur antagonizes them, one being by Dutch: "Are you getting ideas above your station again?" and the other by Hosea: "How about we talk about your problems?".

Another one is Arthur antagonizing Tilly, I know, ouch, by asking her if "he should call her Tilly Foreman" and making other remarks towards her old gang which distress her greatly. Gives the impression they all are veeery familiar with his attitude.

He also has the option to insinuate to Jack that John isn't his father or straight up say to him that he and the other adults lie to him. This shows that he says things just to be mean, even though he knows better because he is very well aware that Jack is John's son.)

All of this to say: I think there's a difference between people who are plain mean (you could think of Micah here) and people who choose to be mean, because you will have a sense of trust and expectation there that they will be nice, only to suddenly switch on you.

-> Many reactions to Arthur antagonizing members are exactly that, confusion: Come on, now / What did I do? / What do you mean? / What's that mean? / Oh, don't start / etc.)

[These are especially common with Lenny and Jack, both being a bit young (no shade to Lenny) and subsequently naive. Lenny might also be confused because he hasn't been very long with them, about a year I think.]

So, Arthur is mean. He can be nice, and he often is, but when he turns mean it's both expected and met with disappointment.

Hosea's reaction strikes me especially because it makes it sound like he knows Arthur is deflecting. And considering the shit he's been through, I imagine most of that anger came from the experiences with Mary and Eliza. Mary is openly despised around camp when her letters come up and I can guess it might stem from the fact that they watched her inadvertently turn Arthur miserable and bitter.

Let me know what you think about it and what you noticed yourself!

I don't doubt anyone forgets that Arthur is a mean guy, even if we primarily love to focus on his goofy, cute sides. I love this more difficult side of him because it fleshed out his character for me way more. He's just a person in the end and it reflects how he struggles to hold his tongue and control his temper. It gives him depth in regards to the years of his development that we don't get to see in game.

Also – just because he's mean doesn't mean he's bad.

There are plenty occasions where the game forces the player to do the good/right thing and even when John reflects on Low Honor Arthur, he calls him confusing but clings to the good parts he still had, which is his life that he owes him.

In the end, the game is about Arthur's (and in turn John's) redemption from their unlawful and cruel ways of life and even a Low Honor Arthur isn't a completely cold and heartless person, he's the product of letting his anger and bitterness consume him while High Honor Arthur looks at the things from the outside and chooses to try and let go of things.

High Honor Arthur can coexist with a mean Arthur - he knows how to do the right thing but he doesn't know how to say it. He can be a man that helps strangers and pays for his actions while simultaneously snapping at his closest companions and hitting them there where he knows it hurts.

My sources/references ig: