#phase weeps

[countryfriedcatboy]

i think we should just let dolly parton be president and not worry about it anymore tbh. i think she could fix it

[countryfriedcatboy]

also. arthur morgan is dog coded because he has known love and has known this love to spread it and to save and to be loyal and helpful and that is what eventually kills him. being a good man. being a good dog. self-sacrificial and guilty because he's bitten and he needs to make up for the blood spilled. his place is to fight against his nature. to be gentler. to learn how to use his teeth a different way than what was destined of him.

john marston is wolfdog coded. a dog in everything but mind. he is not loyal. he is skittish and he runs from authority. he knows to bite the hand that feeds when it deserves it. but he wants to love. he wants to sit by the fireplace and have fingers running through his fur. but he is half wild and half teeth. as is his nature. and he runs. but he comes back. he always comes back. a wolfdog is all teeth and vigor. but he can be soft too. but nature is nature. and he knows how to bite best.

dutch van der linde is a wolf. he cannot fight his nature. and though a part of him longs for it. knows it. what that love might feel like. the contentment. he cannot fight nature. he is all teeth. a product of nature and geared for it. snapping at everything and everyone. a wolf will tear off its leg in a trap if pressed. a wolf knows it cannot love the same way a dog might. it is too rough for that. too violent. cannot and will not be caged. the hand is soft but the hand is foreign and unknown. cannot be trusted. a wild animal will not fight it's nature. it can be taken out of the wild. but the wild cannot be taken out of it.

[countryfriedcatboy]

shoutout to transgenders in all shapes and forms. i love you. i hope ur day is full of loving and laughter btw.

[countryfriedcatboy]

not enough gay sex in cowboy media these days. we should fix this

[countryfriedcatboy]

anyways. john being the favored son actually makes me insane because. arthur was dutchs golden boy. his pride and his joy. arthur was obedient and good and never argued against his father until the end. the perfect son. john was his son. the way arthur describes his relationship with dutch versus with hosea. how hosea is more human. because hosea does not treat arthur the way dutch does. the way hosea loves arthur but not in the way dutch does. dutch puts him on a pedestal. hes dutchs boy. his prize pony. HIS beloved son. to hosea arthur is just his son. he loves arthur. but arthur is his own man and hosea understands this. its the way dutch sees arthur as a an extention of himself. a symbol of his prowess (even though he still loves him its just. fucked up). hosea sees him as a person. hosea is arthurs father and arthur is his son.

john and dutch emulate the way hosea and arthur act. to me. john and dutch are father and son and john is dutchs spitting image. flaws included. dutch loves him as much as he hates him because he sees himself in john.

he loves it as much as he fears it.

[countryfriedcatboy]

mother and eldest daughter

creds; honeytuesday, maisie cowell, ICU - phoebe bridgers

[countryfriedcatboy]

vandermatthews photos alongside quotes about achilles and patroclus

creds to; @/oldstormyy, the song of achilles by madeline miller, louise glück "the triumph of achilles", the illiad by homer.

[countryfriedcatboy]

rdr1 is just. so fucked up when you add the context of rdr2. like arthur makes it his mission to save john, to give him a chance with his family and he succeeds!! but john looks back. he goes to avenge arthur which ultimately brings the pinkertons to his doorstep. the fact that after everything and all he drags the gang through dutch finally gives up. and he doesn't even have john kill him. he gives up on his own and he tells john that their time has come. the same way arthur tells them that it's over for the gang. they both tell him that it's done and he needs to go on. that he needs to let go of them and the "wild west" and it all culminates in john's message to jack and abigail. to go on. he'll catch up. they just need to let go.

also the fact that arthur and mary have this conversation first. that john and abigail wear arthur and mary's rings. dutch's murder of heidi mccourt and jack's eventual murder of ross. john's murder of micah. etc. etc.

the themes of redemption and the ultimate vicious cycle vengeance brings are so well done it makes me wanna puke

[countryfriedcatboy]

the fact that jack marston as the final vestige of the van der linde gang and "the last gunslinger" is sososososo fucked up because its even in his outfit like. the stupid khaki jacket looks almost like the one arthur is wearing. he has his fathers hat, feather and all. he wears a red striped bandana just like dutch used too even though he hadn't seen him in at least 12 years like. agony ?? the fact that he is their successor ?

[countryfriedcatboy]

various classical-esque art pieces with dutch van der linde there too

creds: the pieta by michelangelo, cain and abel by pier francesco mola, l'innocence by william-adolphe bouguereau, eve with cain and abel by bachiacca, lion by gustave surand, saturn devouring his children by giulia lama, the death of hector by peter paul rubens.

[countryfriedcatboy]

gilgamesh and enkidu, dutch and hosea

creds: the epic of gilgamesh

[countryfriedcatboy]

dutch telling john in rdr2 that he "thinks too much", john emulating the man that dutch wanted to be. that he taught his children to be. john talking like dutch. john who had learned on dutchs knee with his philosophy and his poetry john who picked it up just as quick. john who wants to be kinder and who jokes and laughs and misses his daughter in heaven and his son on earth. john who is his fathers son. who is kind but doomed. john who cannot change his nature just as much as dutch can. john who loves his family. john who keeps on coming back. killling everybody at rockstar

[countryfriedcatboy]

molly o'shea and longing to be loved

creds; the ophelia - john everett millais, desperation sits heavy on my tounge - a.m., the nightingale - kristin hannah, warsan shire, 300122 - @/ryebreadgf, @/chaandajaan, heather havrilesky, sylvia path, ruslana korshunova, marina tsvetaeva, wishbone: "crush" - richard siken, amore on the rocks - francis danby.

[countryfriedcatboy]

worst thing about dutch van der linde is how much everybody in his life loved him so deeply and he just. fucked it all up so severely and even john still went on loving him anyways. what if i threw up

[countryfriedcatboy]

susan grimshaw wears victorian goth. karen wears like. trailer park trash fashion and i mean that in the highest regard. sean dresses like a cliché stoner. john,javier, and eagle flies (paytahs also there) are the emo unholy trinity. abigail dresses like its the early 2000s jean skirt and all. charles is a hoodie sweats and too many layers of clothing king. arthur dresses like hes on brokeback mountain. dutch dresses like he plays golf regularly (he doesn't). hosea dresses like the gayest theatre kid you can conceive. bill wear strictly camo cus he thinks it makes him look tough. it doesnt. reverend swanson just. dresses like a protestant preacher. uncles got that karm fit with the really questionable graphic tee and sports cap. lenny wears 90s preppy style but not. white 90s preppy style. prince of bel aire. to me. 90s sitcom fashion. marybeth wears strictly vintage and frequents any yard sale and flea market. tilly wears hand-me-downs but she makes them look cool and sows patches n shit onto them. like. the cool patched shit you find at thrift shops. kieran just wears the ideal dysphoria/depression fit. strauss is a proud old man clothing wearer. he still dresses like its 1950. pearson just dresses like a 1980s dad with his many patterned sweaters and khaki shorts. trelawny only dresses in the most disgustin gaudy eyebleed fashion known to man. and his bath robes are extravagant and layered. micah dresses like eminem but he looks so fucking cringe and stupid. his ankle moniter doesnt help either. molly exists solely in cozy wear and flowey skirts. and platform heels. sadie wears exclusively mens clothing but also like 70s mens work wear and also always dresses like shes on brokeback mountain. like the butch she is.

[countryfriedcatboy]

jack marston webweave jumpscare

creds; untitled - franz wright, @/inbredlamb, compulsory education - briton rivière, secrets from a girl (who's seen it all) - lorde, the end - my chemical romance, @/inanotheruniverse, @/autoneurotic, unknown, oamul lu, @/nutnoce, matthias habb, unknown, arthur wardle, @/ink-the-artist, alfred duke, little fires everywhere - celeste ng, green self portrait - håkon gullvåg, class of 2013 - mitski, best friends - carlo wostry, the song of the huskies - call of the wild, the orphan - august friedrich schenk, aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe - benjamin alire sáenz, the dead miner (mourning the master) - charles christian nahl, haunted house quiz - @/streetlighthalo.