#ponderosae

[mapsontheweb]

Range of the Ponderosa Pine Tree

[vintagecamping]

Bertha Barry, Dorothy Jenkins, and Genevieve Pochelu posing around the largest Ponderosa pine tree on the Fremont National Forest

Oregon

1946

[summerwages]

pine forest paintbrush..

[the-gone-ton]

Ponderosa Steakhouse, once a beloved national brand of buffet-style steakhouses, has only 13 locations left. Its sister brand, Bonanza Steakhouse, has just 3 locations left. I had hoped this one was open when I saw the sign, but nope.

[fatchance]

Untitled.

[cankersaurus]

They killed off Maureen because if she ever met Artemis they'd take over Philadelphia

[exdeputysonso]

Brad Dourif as Maurice 'Frenchy' Devereaux | Ponderosa (2001)

[basingstokemercury]

Thinking about how Brutha carries Vorbis across the desert, because maybe he's a dangerous enemy but of course it's the right thing to do.

And in most stories this might lead to conciliation, realising the value of compassion, bridging gaps...

In fact, I'll digress for a moment and mention the Bonanza episode The Stranger, which inspired this post.

In that episode, the character Ben is travelling as the prisoner of a man who hates and intends to kill him.

But when their horses and supplies are stolen in an ambush en route, Ben helps his physically weaker enemy through the desert, eventually carrying him by the time they reach safety.

And the antagonist has this closing speech about how the hate is gone now, and he can't imagine killing Ben anymore.

In Small Gods, though, that's not what happens - they get home, Vorbis exactly returns to his former pitiless calculating self, and it seems fairly simple that Brutha could have saved many people a lot of trouble by letting him die.

I'm not sure how to analyse Pratchett's reasons for making this choice or whether it was necessarily the right thing to do, but it's a fascinating decision to make in a story exploring morality and human nature.

[deadmotelsusa]

Opened as Nolan's Motel and closed as the Ponderosa Motel. This property has since been redeveloped and replaced by new apartments. Located in Wausau, Wisconsin.

[bleachstain2000]

[eeternalferret]

background macden but they’re just apparently staring at each other’s crotches in the court room….

[adventurealldays]

[ch4rliew0rk]

Dennis Reynolds is not a serial killer. in fact, he has never killed a single person. all of his fantasies of kiling are his way of mentally reclaiming power from someone who he feels has taken it from him, and he says incriminating things to make people think that he is unfeeling and dangerous and convince them not to cross him. (edit: or help him.)

as he says, Maureen is the only woman who can break his "shell", his protection. he feels like he was weak around her, so he needs to make everyone think he killed her as a way to reestablish his power over her in their minds, and to override their memory of him when he was in a relationship with her.

ha fantasizes about killing the news reporter because she is the only woman who makes him nervous (powerless), and once her boobs are ruined (the part that had value to him) he realizes what she's 'done' to him and needs to take his power back.

he wants people to think that he's capable of murder, just to scare them into submission. he acts like he wanted to actually kill the waitress in Mac is a serial killer because he needs Dee to keep following his orders. he says he likes being considered a serial killer when he asks charlie if he's "methodical" because he's trying to get charlie to follow his obviously flawed 'say yes' advice. he tells Dee to 'think of the smell' because he is in an argument with her where he needs to feel superior. love is a head in a freezer because then they can't leave, they cant hurt him, he is in control.

but in the end, he doesn't have the strength to kill pop pop.

I know that it sounds like I'm overlooking hard evidence of things that the character himself has said, but Dennis is a liar. he hates himself, so he starves himself and hurts people to prove that he's a golden god. all he wants is a loving relationship, which he has, so he acts like he doesn't need Mac (or anyone else for that matter). he tells mac that he has no feelings, only to reveal seasons later that he has big feelings, but he can't be seen as loving, caring, (weak). so he presents the anthrax, when it was always just sugar.

[exocynraku]

ermmm if you remember them i would be SHOCKED

[deeenjoyer]

sunny episode titled 'dennis fights gay marriage' and its dennis doing everything in his power to stop mac from marrying his boyfriend while insisting the entire time that it's for his own selfish self-preservation and not because he's in gay love with mac

[gh0stsh4rk]

Dennis fumbled a bad bitch 🐈‍⬛