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cook is canonically the strongest character in the game for being able to take a punch to the balls and then get back to hunting victims 3 seconds later.

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It's been a while, but chapter 8 is here!

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forever thinking about Nubbins being blind in one eye in the script <3

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Your honour my client was just overstimulated. He’s a found object sculpture artist who doesn’t have access to the medications he needs to function at a socially acceptable and comfortable level. His effigies of grave robbed corpses were an elaborate, symbolic art piece meant to discuss the unimportance of background, class and identity showcasing that in the end, we are all flesh clinging to bone... it was all a social experiment. He never killed nobody.

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wtf is he happy about…looking at a photo of another man ?

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POV: You give Bubba a Root Beer

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Did some sketches of my guesstimation of a young Drayton the other day. Here's my favorite ones

Some of my usual overexplaining below

Been trying to figure out how I want to draw young Drayton bc the youngest image of Jim Siedow I've ever seen was him in The Windsplitter during which he was like 50 instead of 53 lol. Then I saw someone compare him to Milton Berle, who like, isn't a dead ringer for him but does look pretty similar, especially in face shape, so I tried to combine young Berle's face shape and Siedow's features (rounder nose than Berle, apple cheeks, slightly higher brow, etc) to make a baby Drayton. I think he's reasonably recognizable/ not too yassified lol. Also gave him that hairstyle because 1 it was popular in the 30's, when he would have been a teenager, and 2 because I think it sort of resembles his hair during the film. Like if he just never stopped parting it the same way even as it got thinner lol. Also it kind of accents his widow's peak, which is another kind of defining Drayton-y trait and one I'm particularly fond.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

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my first time on tumblr! 💖

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I usually think of Sally as the younger sister because of her carefree attitude and lack of practicality (seems to have invited Franklin along without much consideration to whether or not he'd really be able to participate. In the screenplay they even went like hiking and skiing which like?). Also the age of the cast, with Franklin's actor being older by a few years.

That being said, an older sister Sally could certainly be interesting, especially when looked at in conjunction with Franklin/ Bubba parallels, and the themes of disability and isolation throughout the film- particularly the way Sally and Franklin's relationship rapidly deteriorates as they're isolated and put in a tough situation. I've seen someone before (@charleslee-valentine I think? Sorry if I misremembered) call Drayton and Bubba's relationship a dark reflection of what Sally and Franklin's could have been in a future where they are isolated, and I think that could be explored interestingly with older sister Sally. I also think Nubbins and Bubba's relationship could darkly parallel Sally and Franklin's, with one sibling leaving their isolated and disabled brother behind in pursuit of adventure and fun.

Sorry for the rambling lol.

Do you guys see Sally as the younger or older sister? Her lack of care for Franklin makes me lean towards her being the younger one. Then again, while older siblings are usually associated with having a protective instinct, that's not always the case.

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Ed Neal revisiting the role of Nubbins Sawyer in Ministry: tapes of wrath dvd compilation (2000)

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people who think franklin was gay for nubbins are directly engaging with the themes of the movie in a meaningful and transformative way

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The sillies

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Baby boy baby

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expression practice from a little while ago

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One of the things i find really interesting about Nubbins’ character is peoples perception of him depends a large amount on what their character interpretation of Bubba is.

I’ve noticed that fans who interpret leatherface as being a victim of his family, or not much of a person outside of his disabilities, tend to have a more negative view of Nubbins, often lumping him in with the abusive family member label (even though the opposing canon shows him being the one abused). This being further carried by the Jason x Leatherface comics, solidifying this interpretation of the character to some viewers.

Despite being in the same home circumstances as Bubba Sawyer and despite also being mentally disabled (Both Gunnar Hansen (leatherface) and Ed Neal (Hitchiker) referenced real life mentally disabled people for their performances) his character is treated as more capable and held to higher scrutiny not only by fans but by Drayton Sawyer himself in canon.

My own character interpretation of Bubba Sawyer affects my opinion on Nubbins also, which is probably why I like him so much. I see Bubba as someone who is more capable than people give him credit for. Especially within the family dynamic. He’s not just the physical strength of the family but he has the skills of all family members combined whilst also filling in for the roles of family members which are missing (aka grandma).

Maybe it’s his violence being more on the unpredicatable side or a specific scene or interaction that people are put off by him. I would love to know other people’s thoughts on it bcs I could be slightly biased.