gumnut-logic · 2 years ago
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Anna was so deep in thought while jogging, she didn’t even see the person she collided with until she did.
“Oh, god, I am so sorry.” Neither of them had fallen, but she had hit hard.
Taking a step back she realised she had nearly bowled over Gordon Tracy.
“Hey, Ms K!”
“Gordon?” Her muscles sung with blood flow, her chest panting just enough to know she was getting the exercise level she needed. “I’m sorry, I didn’t see you.”
“Eh, my fault, too. Was thinking. How are you doing?”
A blink. “I’m good. How is Alan?”
“Sporting one hell of a shiner. He has documented it extensively.”
“Documented?”
“Well, there comes a time in a boy’s life where he earns his first shiner...”
“Gordon!”
“What?”
Her flat-eyed glare communicated enough. He had a lot of experience reading it.
“Hey, what did I do?”
“I can guess.”
He grinned with just enough mischief to know that he had probably convinced Alan that a black eye was a medal of honour or some such.
“You are incorrigible.”
That just made his grin widen. “Yeah. I am.”
He was wearing the ever-predictable tracksuit and carrying a bag no doubt full of swimwear and accessories. “How goes the training?”
“Perfectly. Your excellent Aotearoa has world class training facilities just a few miles thataway and I am making extensive use of them.”
“So, you are staying here with Mr Kyrano?”
“Kyrano? Yeah, me, Tin and Allie hang together when Scott, Virg and Johnny are being all heroic. Kyrano puts up with us.” He frowned. “Have you met Kyrano? He’s not one for easy introduction.”
She could agree with that.
“Yes, he appeared at the school after the altercation between your brothers and Mr MacIntyre.”
Gordon grunted at that.
“How’s Virgil?”
“Making me glad I’m on this Island and not that one.”
Her query must have appeared on her face because he followed up that statement immediately. “Virgil hates being grounded and grounded he is. Which means he is a cranky ass. John’s had to come down to assist Scott and isn’t any happier. Scott’s worried about Virgil, Alan and now John as well because...” A frown. “...well, because he is John and not Virgil, I guess. But in any case, Tracy Island is Cranky Island and I’m quite happy to be here, thank you very much.”
Blink. “So, Alan is on the Island.”
“Yep, leaving me and Tin to some blissful peace and quiet.” Gordon appeared very happy about that.
She had no idea who Tin was and she wasn’t going to ask.
“If you see any of them, give them my best. I’m looking forward to having Alan back in class.”
“Sure, will do. And same to you Ms K.” Gordon’s grin was truly an infectious thing.
“Thank you, Gordon.”
His grin just got wider as he turned to resume his walk towards that house. “Nice seeing you again.” He spun and started walking backwards. She suddenly had waggly finger guns waving at her. “You know, don’t be a stranger. You were one of the cool ones.” A pause punctuated by distracted finger firearms. “You know what, you should ask Virg to show you some of his fireworks. That would help him out of his grump and add a whole new dimension to science class.”
She smiled. “We’ve already done that component for this year, Gordon. Alan showed me the recording of you running down the beach with your pants on fire.”
The finger guns froze. “He did?” He eyed her. “You or the whole class?”
Her smile split into a grin. “Wouldn’t you like to know.”
His flat eyed glare showed that she had managed to teach him at least something at some point. “I guess he still has one eye available.”
“Gordon.” His name was pure warning.
“I’m kidding.”
“You better be.”
“Hmph.”
She may have to email Alan a heads up.
“Okay then, invite Virg in to discuss his eco-internal combustion engine. The grease monkey would love it.” His eyes widened. “Or the theory of clockwork. Big bro is a secret steampunk. Give him some cogs and gears and he’ll play all day. All that engineering design stuff is his jam.”
“Because he’s an engineer?”
“Well, yeah, but mostly because he could do with a distraction.”
“He’s injured.”
“One broken rib.”
“Isn’t one enough?”
Gordon shrugged. “Not enough to stop him from driving everyone up the wall.”
“He was protecting your brother.”
“Of course, he was. And now he is doing his best to convince Scott that that life is no longer worth living.”
“Gordon...”
“Hey, it’s only a suggestion. Get him out of our hair, give you a free demonstration. He even has a clockwork chicken.”
“A clockwork chicken?”
“Yeah, he said he needed something to cross the road.” Gordon’s grin was massive.
Anna just stared at him.
“What?” All grinning innocence.
“You haven’t changed a bit, have you.”
His grin just got wider.
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star-ts-farts · 8 months ago
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Damn bro you got the whole squad laughing
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sweetapplecurry · 5 months ago
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He felt it.
Ref: X
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sillybeck · 4 months ago
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had this fixation for 5 DAYS!!! motorcity art dump (it's mostly chuck)
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green-nerd-showdown · 3 months ago
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Btw! Here is all of them, if you just want to judge on vibes alone
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el015a · 2 years ago
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Gordi <3
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pokeparking · 7 months ago
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i will be the first to say that rock is not one of my favorite types BUT i love so many of the rock gym leaders just bc i really like their designs
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spooksalotnoel · 6 months ago
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Relating to Chris Chambers
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There's a feeling I get when I relate to characters, when it comes to sbm I do definitely see myself in every character. Chris Chambers however, the forever feeling of being misunderstood. The feeling that the whole world is against you. You're just a kid, a kid in a world full of bullies. I feel smaller than most, and often I feel barely visible. In the movie Chris makes sure Gordie get far in life, constantly insisting that he (Chris) won't be anything. It's really easy to perceive that especially when you're always alone.
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in an attempt to not receive pity, he puts everyone first, attaches this "mask" and hopes nobody could possibly decipher what he's thinking. The fear of seeming weak in front of anyone, it's very important he was willing to open up to Gordie. Even goes on to say nobody would believe a Chambers kid when Gordie asks why he didn't tell the truth. There's a beauty in this. Trying to soak up every emotion to be as tough as his brother, in the fullness of time he confides in one person. Someone he trusted enough to tell everything to.
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Please never feel afraid to be the real you. People will say showing emotions won't solve anything but it's not true. Always look for your Gordie!
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scullcrusher101xd · 8 months ago
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rosiespokemontwitterau · 11 months ago
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Gotta catch all the genders! ヽ( ·∀·)ノ
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flauschwurm · 6 months ago
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Some Gordie Pokémon for you 🤲🏻💛
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danysaurbutnot · 6 months ago
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Ok but
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eldritchparasol · 1 year ago
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@theknifeclown
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standbyme-shit · 1 year ago
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If SBM was based in today’s world Lachambers would be canon and Teddy Duchamp would be a trans boy
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kinokoshoujoart · 1 year ago
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scribbled down a relationship chart for the forgotten valley bros to collect my thoughts after snooping into their dialogue files, because i’m crazy over the barebones scraps of tiny interactions between them that we are given they’re a neat group of lads and i want to see them in lots of wacky situations together
rambling explanation and screenshots under the cut. spoilers for dialogue
gordy and gustafa are bffs and i love them!!!!!
they have mutual respect for each other… gustafa clearly admires and understands gordy’s art, and gordy seems to view gustafa as his closest confidant, he even gets you and Gustafa the new kitchen if you enter chapter 2 without being able to “afford” it yourself
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they only really mention each other and don’t have anything to say about the other two boys
no one has anything bad to say about gustafa, which is exactly how it should be. blessed bard. it’s extra sweet to me that he’s the most well-liked bachelor both in and out of the game given one of the npc gossip lines your son can tell you— he grew up without many friends (in the original game the secret was that he was bullied). he deserves all the happiness in the world
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matt opinions
matt shares his Opinions (slander) on gordy and rock specifically if you show him your kid with them, but has no slander for gustafa… his line for gustafa is instead just copied from what he says about the bachelorettes’ kids. so i count that as a gustafa win
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i had to stretch to find any mention of gustafa by matt, the closest thing is that he comments that he doesn’t usually go to the starlight concert
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i want gustafa and matt to interact!!! i want gustafa to give matt a tomato when he’s being gruff like he did with nami (matt: “th-thank you…..*blush* i already have ten billion of these”) matt also has lines about farm work being easier when you’ve got music accompanying you if you show him a record so i’ll count that as a very flimsy positive connection (matt IS friendly with gavin, due to frequenting the bluebird café, but is a bit reticent to make friends on his own)
rock opinions and social diseases
rock is extremely excited about hearing gustafa play music and calls him a wizard at the guitar and says he never gets tired of hearing him play. he also likes wandering over to gustafa’s yurt and listening to his music along with tei on market days (his most normal bachelor to bachelor interaction)
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the only guy who gets no positive comment from rock is matt, instead rock goes to town roasting him in his fourth heart event out of envy for a completely imaginary situation and argues that he’s worth a hundred matthew’s (source?). he also likes to go into the already crowded farmhouse at night on market days and make it even more cramped, but he usually leaves right before matt gets home
finally rock has what i can only describe as a really odd one-sided crush on gordy!! he meanders into gordy’s trailer at 12:45 AM (AM) every market day and loudly, obliviously asks why there’s so much “trash” everywhere (you’re the trash, rock!!!!!!). thankfully rock is quite literally beneath gordy’s notice, however this seems to make rock sad and he tries to come up with wacky stunts to get gordy’s attention like drawing on gordy’s face and… holding his breath? (maybe, i dunno WHERE that dialogue triggers). he has a line celebrating gordy finally noticing him, i’m not sure what causes it though (for his part, gordy has no lines referencing rock)
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finally, if you show rock your kid he will tease them by bragging that he was waaaay cuter at their age… but ONLY if it’s a bachelor’s child. rock your complex is so obvious that it’s more of a simple
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in summary,
rock seems to think highly of each of the guys (except matt), unfortunately this manifests in him making really odd attempts to barge into their houses at strange hours and by trying to assert dominance in annoying ways. thankfully no one really notices anything he does (except matt)
matt doesn’t generally say nice things about anyone except cecilia (which makes the nice things he says, like about nina, more meaningful…) so unsurprisingly he has nothing nice to say about any of the guys, but he doesn’t have anything negative to say about gustafa. however he seems to want friends to do stuff with (he complains about how no one in the valley wants to go swimming…..hhhgg i am desperate to force rock and matt to spend time together. a friendship where you can’t stand each other but you’re the only two people who enjoy doing the same hobby so you put your differences aside and splash around in the water) like with rock no one really seems aware of matt’s existence except rock who is Extrwmely Aware to the point of knowing about matt’s crush on ceci, but unlike rock matt is not exactly jumping at the chance to go socialize with others
gustafa and gordy are friends with each other (and also both are friends with nami) and they support each others ambitions. i have no source but i’m confident that when gustafa visits gordy he’s also bringing him water and soup (he also visits daryl so i think it’s cool and fun if gustafa drops in on the local lost-in-thought creative hermits with hydration reminders and care packages)
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savvylittlecoxswain · 5 months ago
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Back at the dock awaited the press, officials, George Pocock, Al Ulbrickson, and the few Washington rowing supporters braving the transcontinental trip to support their crew. Henry Penn Burke, dressed in a handsome white double-breasted blazer fastened around his ample waist, with his cleanly pressed white trousers and perfectly shined black shoes, started the ceremonial program.
Standing with Roger Morris, Charles Day, Gordon Adam, and John White on his right, Robert Moch next to him, and Jim McMillin, Shorty Hunt, Joe Rantz, and Don Hume on his left, Burke started talking about the glory that is crew racing, the fantastic event everyone had just witnessed, and the victory he expected in Berlin. He talked. And talked. And talked. And gestured, smiled, and kept talking. The sun broiled the dock as he held up the ceremonial cup awarded to the nation's top crew. The Husky oarsmen, completely exhausted, started to sway; they had raced without their shirts and now stood bare-chested facing the press and photographers. Burke kept rambling on, praising the Huskies, the Bears, but most especially, his beloved Pennsylvania Quakers. Bob Moch had enough. He reached over and grabbed the handle on the cup opposite the one Burke held. "I gave a little tug on it, on the cup. And it came off— he let go of it," Moch remembered. "He still continued to talk. So we just walked away from it. That's the kind of a guy he was: a blowhard." The oarsmen, then the crowd, and finally the press drifted away as Burke eventually stopped talking and called the ceremony to a close.
— an excerpt from Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics by Michael J. Socolow
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