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On the Shore By Fidus

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Took me so long to get his big ass head right

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The finished piece, not too happy about it ngl, but fuck it we ball. Click on it for less dookie quality 😞

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I think that one of the biggest indicators of Dutch not being this perfect, benevolent leader is his relationship to the women around camp and his treatment of them.

Yes, his manipulation of Arthur and John, his conditional love, his selfishness and his huge ego are all clues that Dutch isn’t a great guy. However, his tendency to gravitate towards younger women that he can use and manipulate, how the gang is very much split into “women’s work” and “men’s work” and how he is more than content to have it be so are huge clues that Dutch is a self serving man. Annabelle’s memory becoming a motivation for murder, his treatment of Miss Grimshaw, the abuse towards Molly, his creepy comments towards Mary-Beth, and so many more. He constantly uses the women around him for physical pleasure, as emotional punching bags and as a way to make himself feel more powerful.

His talks about American imperialism and the evils of capitalism and racism, but the truth is that it’s just talk. He has no qualms using indigenous people as tools to justify his hunger for power and money, nor does he act upon his so called philosophies in a way that matters, and the fact that these so called values don’t seem to extend to the female members of the gang says a lot of about him.

This little rant was brought upon by the fact that I just finished the Evelyn Miller mission where he basically kills himself to finish his book and John burns his cabin down. I’ve been thinking about it for a bit lol

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𝐌𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧

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Batman by Evan Cagle

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i don't have a fleshed out thought, but i keep thinking about this persistent theme in rdr2 (and maybe rdr, it's been a second) wherein we get to see the homogenization associated with white supremacy actively play out.

white settler immigrants with distinguishable differences are defined by their nationality, the german, the austrian, so on. but there's this thing that the white members of the vdl gang do that i see all the time irl where their european identity is only ever mentioned for the sake of convenience. "the best part" of dutch van der linde is scottish when it benefits him in creating connections with the Grays. arthur morgan has no time for "politics" and "old world bullshit" but when push comes to shove "his people were peasants."

or even characters who are associated w the story like colm o'driscoll. he's irish much in the same way dutch is scottish. i don't know what his heritage is or the exact make up, but he doesn't even pronounce his irish name correctly. and yet, he is able to utilize the isolating experience of being an irish immigrant of the time and collects them in spades as essentially shields and canon fodder.

again, don't rly have a succinct point or a bow to wrap this idea up w. just thinking about it.

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Something about RDR2 John is so sad once you begin to play as him and you find all these people Arthur has helped. Not because they still remember Arthur and are sad because he’s gone, but because it’s sad to imagine that John is learning about his brother’s life for the first time in a way he’s never done before.

He’s meeting all these people and doing all these side missions left over from Arthur, learning that his brother had all these different and silly experiences outside of the gang that most of them never knew about. He reads about Arthur’s joys and sorrows in his journal and he probably regrets he wasn’t there to experience them with him and that is so sad to me.

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Somebody is trying to tell me Molly is an immoral person for not doing camp chores. Deep sigh

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I’m obsessed with this omg

i just keep thinking...

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After finishing Sunrise on the Reaping I decided to re-read Catching Fire, only to be slapped by Part 1 being titled “The Spark” and the image of that damn flint striker projected itself onto my brain incredibly fast. AND THEN Katniss has the AUDACITY to say “I can’t fight the sun” in the first paragraph of the book.

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“Cat in a cottage window” by Ralph Hedley (1848-1913)

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Melvika WIP progress lol, still needs some heavy adjustments but I think we’re on the right track

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Sketch done:3 pls click to zoom on it tumblr has stolen the quality 💔

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Finally digitized (or in the process of doing so at least lol) and I’m thinking of adding some more flowers. All the ones I have here have meanings from a book, I’ll post them w the finished piece probably:)

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Cropped his whole body cuz i messed it up

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This very striking sculpture of a barn owl (Tyto alba) comes from Egypt. The piece, OIM E17972, is not currently on display at the Oriental Institute - University of Chicago, but has been exhibited at a past Oriental Institute special exhibition: “Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt.”

The barn owl was carved from limestone and some of the original paint can still be seen. It is clear that it was carefully decorated in an attempt to make it as realistic as possible.