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I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about John & Evelyn Miller and how their meeting affected John.

It's a popular theory that Dutch has bipolar-i & was experiencing a manic episode the entire game.

How many times did John watch Dutch go from being so full of energy, skipping sleep and meals and everything in endless persuit of whatever plan has taken hold of his imagination, at the expense of everything else- just to slipping into a depression that could last days or weeks or months that seemed to suck all the life and energy out of the man, the sparkle in his eyes gone.

Hosea and Arthur are used to the pattern and do their best to manage the behaviour but it's disturbing for a younger John to witness for the first time. Arthur explains it's "Just Dutch being Dutch" and it's not something he has to worry about.

And then in 1907 John stumbles across Evelyn Miller and discovers that Dutch's philosophical hero shares the same tendencies that John associated with "Just Dutch being Dutch".

When he sees Miller slip into that pattern of behaviour, he knows it for what it is. He does what he can , trying to get him to eat or leave his cabin or just talk to him. And he fails.

By 1911 John has incorporated a lot of philosophical and flowery language into the way he speaks, a lot of pretty words that don't mean anything, just like Dutch, just like Evelyn.

Did he pick up this cadence from reading and rereading the book that Miller died over? Another collection of thoughts that John carries the burden of being the only person to read, the only person who can try and make sense of it.

How many times did he read through that book in those few years, subconsciously thinking if he could maybe understand this book, if he could understand Evelyn Miller, then maybe he could understand Dutch.

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mpreg engels birthday gift for @destalva25 last month 🫃🎉

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🎂HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRIEDRICH ENGELS🎂

#OnThisDay

28th November 1820, Friedrich Engels was born in Barmen. The rest is history🔥

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these are almost a year old and unfinished but they’re on my mind again (specifically the bimbo)

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Arthur is so older sister core

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kirafumiposting in honor of brazillian valentines day 💪

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they would destroy the competition at a Halloween party

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"charles and arthur are in love" I say into the mic.

the redditors boo. I begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room

"they're right" they say. I look for the owner of the voice. there in the third row stands: noshir dalal himself

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Talking about the way people treat Charles Smith, in greater detail this time

Charles is always a carer in many, many fics involving Charthur, if not almost all of them. Because Arthur always needs to be taken care of???? For some reason??? Arthur is thirty-six years old. Charles is twenty-seven/twenty-eight.

I think a lot of people have that "big, Afro-Indigenous man with no emotions is made for taking care of his slightly smaller partner" stereotype for Charles. Charles is his own person. He's not an accessory for you to slap a therapist label on. I mean no hate to this writer- but this is proving my point. This is the exact thing I was talking about.

Charles has his own problems, his own worries and issues that people seem to always ignore. Charles has, in my opinion, one of the saddest backgrounds for a character that I know. Raised by an alcoholic and most likely abusive father after his mother was taken away from the government because she was Native American, running away from his home as a child, a *literal child,* and living alone for the large majority of his life until he joins the gang. If that doesn't scream emotional baggage, then I don't know what does.

I see it a lot in many fics, where Charles is taking care of Arthur; the difference in the number of fics is proof enough that people seem to view him as a big, strong protector, and not a fully fleshed human with actual emotions. Because that's what he is. He's not a trauma dumping ground.

Smut fics, too, are no exception to the rule. Because Charles is *slightly bigger,* people seem to think that he has to be some hulking sex god with all the knowledge in the world, while Arthur is a frail, submissive UwU bottom. I highly doubt that Charles has had much sex, if any sex at all, due to growing up alone, raising himself and having the sexual experience of a pineapple; whereas Arthur was *engaged,* and had a *child* at one point. I think it's pretty obvious who'd be more experienced.

Filtering bottom Arthur vs bottom Charles, with the charthur tag, gives you this result. Surprise surprise.

Let Charles Smith be vulnerable. Let him be held, let him cry or be patched up after an incident or let him take a goddamn dick up his ass.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk 💋

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Conquistador AU

Javier explains to Honon (Charles' Indian name in this au) how he got his scar on his neck. They do not know each other's languages, so they communicate with gestures and facial expressions. When Javier lived in Spain, he was caught kissing a man and people tried to execute him by throwing a rope around his neck and tying him to a horse. But Javier managed to escape and fled the town

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a bloody star will rise over the ruins of your house, and your feet will never touch this land again

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i had all and then most of you some and now none of you

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I got a new tablet I wanted to test out, somewhere around hour 5 I started to severely regret going for the rain effect...

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charthur

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Mama i'm in love with those criminals🔥🔥

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(Parody from Barbie Movie)

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we can get rather silly at times