#i was the same way with red dead

[sharmoota-job]

sometimes i feel bad that i dont focus on any other characters that i love from gta v (franklin + lamar, wade and ron, ect) but i am so hyperfocused on michael trevor lester and brad that i cant stop looking at them with my eyes

[catmask]

does anyone have like an anti aesthetic. like something you look at and can recognize as a complete fashion/interior design/artistic movement and understand it but it makes you shudder seeing it. i am not talking like “its morally bad” “its poorly structured” like just sheerly devoid of joy for you actually invites a repulse response.

[heavenlymorals]

Sadie and Arthur and the Affects of Gender Roles in 1899 America

(warning: there is sexism and sexist ideas in this analysis because I refuse to sugarcoat the time period that RDR2 takes place in. Arthur is a product of his time and though it isn't shoved in your face, it's still there. Understanding the gender dynamics of this time period makes the characters much more understandable, nuanced, likeable, and better, if I'm being frank.)

I don't ship Sadie and Arthur, at all, it makes no sense to me besides two people liking the characters and thus putting them together. I like them as friends but that's about it.

And let's be so real for a second- even if they do get together for whatever reason, they absolutely wouldn't be compatible as partners because its been shown time and time again that Arthur believes in gender roles and gets visibly annoyed or angry when a woman takes up a man's role when a man is there or when a woman does something he thinks is unladylike in their line of work (just listen to his antagonization of Abigail (for her past as a prostitute, usually), Sadie, Karen, prostitutes, and female performers, all women who take on unconventional roles in their life(also pay attention to certain mission dialogues, and cutscene body language)).

Sadie proves herself as capable, and Arthur works with her, but he makes quips about her behavior or subtly judges her or makes fun of her("Oh, I'm sorry princess. Was there an insufficient feather in your pillow?" "You got a pair of pants and all of a sudden you think you're Landon Ricketts?" "You want to ruuuunnnn with the men?" "Few more like her and there wouldn't be much of a world left." "That ain't what you mean- I can still fight!" Or him being visibly annoyed when she doesn't take his hand to enter the boat and other similar things like that)

Arthur believes that a man should be the one doing the work that revolves around such physical exertion and if he isn't the one doing those things for a woman, he feels as if he is failing in his role as a protector and provider, which then provokes annoyance or in some cases, even anger. Sadie doesn't care about this obviously, and Jake Adler didn't either, hence why they worked so well together as a couple.

Not Arthur though. To put it quite simply, he prefers and is compatible with women who believe in the same gender roles as he does (Mary Gillis, Abigail Roberts, etc.).

This doesn't mean he dislikes Sadie, because it's quite obvious that he is fond of her, but given the intimacy of a relationship, Sadie would get fed up with him trying to be the ONLY provider and protector, and him getting fed up with her by encroaching on what he sees as his duties and responsibilities. He works with her in the way that he does because he has to and he respects that.

Some people may disagree with me on this analysis and that's fine, but to me, it feels like the most realistic outcome if they did become romantic partners. Another reason why I say this is because my mother comes from a culture that still operates a lot like 1899 America and I've seen this dynamic between men and women so many times that it's ridiculous- men who will accept working with a woman in more traditionally masculine roles and prefer partners who are more traditionally feminine.

[sluttylittlewaste]

Hilarious that the same people defending any and all questionable choices the Bad Kids make (namely Kristen lbr) by saying "They're just kids! They have all this trauma and it's fucked up to expect teens to be good and nice all the time!" are the same people insisting that Kipperlily is an evil bitch and the Ratgrinders deserve to die.

[strrwbrrryjam]

susan grimshaw deserves to be grouchy because can you imagine, she spent so much time alone with hosea and dutch before arthur came along, I'm surprised she didn't turn mad sooner

what with their endless flirting and endless arguing and having the same argument over and over again and dutchs off the wall plans and hoseas disappointment and then she having to reign in hoseas stupid plans cause dutch will just feed into any stupid plans hosea has even if they are stupid yknow cause we know hosea has the capability to make plans just as bad as dutch can lest we forget hoseas plan to steal the liquor that was stolen from the lemonye raiders and sell the liquor as advertisers in the town where lemonye raider can be most commonly found. susan grimshaw deserves to be angry and deserves to yell and then we bring in arthur cause you cannot convince me that he wasn't argumentative and a trouble maker in the start. not as bad as john but yknow bad cause he cant trust adults after his awful father and living on the streets for years. but i will say i believe that susan was the first person in the gang arthur warmed up to cause while he probs don't remember much of his mother. arthur being a mommas boy just works in my head. and it wasnt his mother that treated him badly but his daddy.

i think the only break susan really got was when bessie and anabelle joined and the three of them became their own gaggle of girls like karen tilly abigail and mary beth

[garashir]

kinda sickening how so many of the dean winchester meta analysis posts I like apply to arthur morgan so instead of being able to say anything coherent or intelligent about arthur my brain just goes “so deancoded” as if that makes sense to anybody

[coolspacequips]

I think if all ppl can say about allura is that she's an obstacle to kl or that she's dead to be kl angst or that ppl shipping her w Lance suck then maybe just don't talk about her ever LMAO

[the99thfanboy]

I like to think Miss Grimshaw will see gang members on occasion, think they’re too skinny, and nag them to eat like a southern grandmother

[bluebellhairpin]

best friend who conveniently lives two doors down from my house: *buys a PS5* me:

[small-spark-of-light]

IT IS DONE!!

L’arc: God of war and battles, patron saint of all warriors Therese: Minor god of natural ores, jewels and jewelry Glass: Goddess of death and spirits/souls Kizuna: Goddess of the hunt, survival, and divine warrior who fights evil

[scattered-winter]

category 18 event (thinking too hard about the lions again)

[kapilesque]

How Dutch looked like when he said this:

Also they cannot beat the sleepy allegations

[akkivee]

so in regards to the bat charm, esp in the hella awesome banquet mv!!!!

the tag itself is called ofuda, a protective talisman!!! there are many different types of ofuda (omikuji are also classified as a kind of ofuda for instance) and throughout the hella awesome banquet mv, we do see the bat charm used as said various types!!!!

here in these two shots, we see the bat charm used as a senjafuda!!! senjafuda are these talismans with personalised designs that, once upon a time ago in japan, were passed around in secret councils like trading cards. ofuda typically have a deity written on it to call for luck, wealth, health, whatever said deity presides over. senjafuda, however, tend to have the person’s name on it and when people would go on pilgrimages, they’d stick the senjafuda on temple shrine gates like a very decorative ‘we were here’ tag lol

fits with the journey to hell narrative that seems to be happening in the mv!!!

and this type of ofuda is known as fuin no ofuda!!!! this one is used as a type of seal to keep evil, vengeful spirits enclosed and away from humans. the more powerful the spirit, the more seals are required to contain in the enclosed space. it’s already a little worrisome to see imagery of kuukou getting killed but this puts a evil spirit/vengeful spirit spin on top of it 🤔

[the-punforgiven]

The eternal struggle between wanting to hire the bounty hunter because hnnng sexy and huge combo/mark damage vs like, actually wanting to profit off this expedition

[dankovskaya]

The hardest part I think is deciding which of the 300 possible interpretations of Red Hood Jason I want to go with

[cuteniarose]

“No one's here. I guess it was just in my head.”

“Well, can't blame you for being paranoid after everything we've been through.”

“Yeah. You know, I just wanna make sure everyone's safe.”

“Same. And that includes you too.”

“What?”

“Yeah. Gonna make sure you're safe too, Hunter. You're family now.”

“Oh.”

-

No I am not turning into a The Owl House blog, it’s just that, three weeks after Thanks to Them aired, I finally realised what this scene reminded me of:

It’s basically identical to how I imagine P’Li and Ghazan’s pre-canon sibling relationship and one of these days I swear I’m gonna draw it