#cassundetta

[joeal-kaysani]

my republican john wayne-loving english teacher wants us to write a movie analysis so guess who’s writing about the bisexual threesome subtext of butch cassidy!!

[joeal-kaysani]

butch cassidy and the sundance kid + text posts part vi (insp. & insp.)

[joeal-kaysani]

ask meme - uh, those dudes from the bisexual polyamorous cowboy movie you keep writing essays about

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(black sails spoilers below, so skip the paragraph about butch’s notp if you haven’t seen it)

Butch Cassidy:

Sexuality Headcanon: This might be a little controversial, but I tend to headcanon Butch as a gay biromantic (though I totally get seeing him as bisexual.) Even though he’s more of the womanizer of the two from what we see in the movie, it always feels sort of performative? Very much in line with how I feel a charismatic gay man would behave in the late 1800s if he were trying to convince everyone around him he wasn’t gay, considering how he easily drops it without a word of complaint in Bolivia. While he obviously loves and cares about Etta, I’m not sure sexual attraction plays nearly as big a role in their relationship as hers with Sundance did, and I think it’s just incredibly convenient for both of them to have a healthy emotional relationship with each other in a way they might both struggle to have with Sundance. I also don’t think he’s averse to sex with women (especially Etta, and especially in the context of their triad), but that if he existed in a later time period where it wouldn’t be a death sentence to be openly gay, he would probably identify that way.

Gender Headcanon: Cis male, perhaps one who would be more in touch with his feminine side if, again, he lived in a time and place where it was safe to explore that.

A ship I have with said character: Butch/Sundance and Butch/Sundance/Etta

A BROTP I have with said character: Butch/Etta

A NOTP I have with said character: Butch/Etta without Sundance in the picture. What’s funny is I actually think the Butch/Etta relationship would be the healthier one if Sundance died (and that’s the only way I could imagine this happening, because Sundance is obviously not leaving Butch by choice or he would have never gone to Bolivia when it would have been safer to split up) rather than the other way around, which is not unrelated to their emotional connection being stronger than their physical one. I just don’t think it would be romantic in nature so much as two people who very much love each other living together platonically and mourning their shared husband, à la Flint and Miranda from Black Sails. 

A random headcanon: I’m actually having trouble thinking of one for Butch but they DID make it to Australia and you can tear that from my cold dead hands.

General Opinion over said character: Baby boy. Baby. Has just three brain cells and he uses them to respect women, be gay and do crime. Absolute icon.

The Sundance Kid:

Sexuality Headcanon: [NSYNC voice] baby bi bi bi

Gender Headcanon: Cis male.

A ship I have with said character: Sundance/Butch and Sundance/Butch/Etta

A BROTP I have with said character: Sundance will only speak to two human beings voluntarily and he’s sleeping with both of them, so there’s not a lot of room for BROTPs with him.

A NOTP I have with said character: Sundance/Etta without Butch wouldn’t be as hard to swallow as Butch/Etta without Sundance, so I don’t really consider them a NOTP, but I’m also just not hugely interested in their story without Butch, either.

A random headcanon: To quote my favorite Butch Cassidy fic ever, Turn of the Century, “Sundance liked to sit and drink and say things so rarely and so deadpan most folks didn’t realize he was the second funniest guy in Wyoming.” 

Also, he really wasn’t cheating in the opening card game and was dead serious about killing Logan if Butch lost that knife fight.

Also also, as a side note, I have a half-finished fic from Sundance’s POV where they get caught in a snowstorm and Sundance is internally roasting Butch for being from Utah, where it doesn’t get nearly as cold as Atlantic City. Then I Googled Utah’s average temps vs. Atlantic City’s and found out it’s actually much colder in Utah, but the mistake felt so fitting for Sundance’s character that I left it in.

General Opinion over said character: How can you not stan the bi-est man to ever live? Love him. Absolutely exhausted at all times and ready to murder someone at the drop of a hat and I can 100% relate.

[joeal-kaysani]

butch: are you the little spoon or the big spoon?

sundance: i'm a knife

etta, without looking up: he's the little spoon

[joeal-kaysani]

someone really watched bonnie and clyde (1967) and was like..... okay but what if we made a bisexual polyamorous version of this and two years later it became the highest grossing movie of the year like damn gays really do stay winning huh

[joeal-kaysani]

on one hand i’d never support something butch cassidy-related without the original cast because i’m not about to watch like ansel elgort or kj apa try to pull off those roles but on the other hand give me a canonically bisexual and polyamorous black sails-esque semi-biological tv adaption with wild west outlaws instead of pirates or give me death

[joeal-kaysani]

butch cassidy and the sundance kid + text posts part iv

every ot3 has these very important roles (insp.)