Ok, so this is what I have so far. I love her. And I also apparently realized that I've never seen a softshell turtle fursona either, so I made one of the sweet old ladies at my job (Target) a softshell turtle. Apparently they have lil flipper claws? She needs help putting a popsocket on her phone so her grandkids can tell her she's cool. And yes, that is a sunhat and an apron. And yes, the takin has no pants. And the snake is only wearing a tophat. I like the idea that only some animals wear certain clothes, its funny
Yes I'm bad at backgrounds, but its ok. I'll cover it up with funky colors that make no sense
Ok, so this is what I have so far. I love her. And I also apparently realized that I've never seen a softshell turtle fursona either, so I made one of the sweet old ladies at my job (Target) a softshell turtle. Apparently they have lil flipper claws? She needs help putting a popsocket on her phone so her grandkids can tell her she's cool. And yes, that is a sunhat and an apron. And yes, the takin has no pants. And the snake is only wearing a tophat. I like the idea that only some animals wear certain clothes, its funny
Yes I'm bad at backgrounds, but its ok. I'll cover it up with funky colors that make no sense
Speaking of Takins, LOOK AT THIS GIANT FUCKING STEROID SHEEPGOAT AND ITS WIMPY LITTLE PITIFUL BABY EAGHHH. I love them. Deciding which one is gonna be my new fursona and drawing it as we speak
Has anyone ever made a fursona of a Takin? I kinda want one. My fursona has been a Tapir for a REALLY long time and I just feel like it doesn't fit anymore
Btw this is a Takin, it's a REALLLLY weird sheep. I love them and I love their juicy muscular body. They live in the Himalayan mountains because of course they fucking do
*In the tune of Frozen 1's hit opening song*
*Knock knock kno-knock knock knock*
Arthur: "Do you wanna rob a stagecoaaach?"
*The sound of idiot clattering*
John: "GOD DAMNIT, ARTHUR"
I'm sorry, I just can't get this out of my head, so now I'm doing my bi-monthly shitpost before I disappear again. Colm is not a stable man. If he DID truly love someone, he would ABSOLUTELY hoard and hide them and any feelings he has about them like they're a plague.
Like- hole you up at a little house in Van Horn, make sure you're ok financially, but also only visits you like once or twice a month and just seems so... distant. He's not lovey or touchy in the slightest. Any amount of affection just reminds him of loss. Of how EASY it would be for someone to hurt him through hurting you.
Every time he looks at you, he sees a weakness in himself that he hates and he kinda- takes it out on you? Like. Verbally lashing out and then going all quiet and disappearing for a month again. His affection style, after losing his brother, is COMPLETELY detached. This man will not let himself love ever again.
Or- at least that's what he's convinced himself he'll do. Give the poor O'Driscoll some nose kisses and tell him everything will be ok. He needs to hear it.
"I never liked him much": why Colm was (almost certainly) lying about his brother
Let's talk about Colm O'Driscoll telling Dutch, during their tense little parley, that he "never liked [his brother] much".
We know that the feud between them started when Dutch killed Colm's brother. Colm murdered Dutch's lover Annabelle in retaliation, and things spiraled into the decade-long war we see during the game.
According to newspaper clippings, Colm and his brother were close. They rode together for years, probably since childhood, all the way up until ~1889. By that point they'd have been in their thirties or forties (assuming they were close in age). That's decades side by side.
And here's the important part: the O'Driscoll Boys as we know them only came into existence after Colm's brother was killed.
Colm's brother dies → he kills Annabelle and founds the gang → the feud with Dutch explodes
That doesn't sound like a guy who "never liked" his brother much. That sounds like a guy whose entire trajectory changed because of that death.
ARTICLE 1 (from Blackwater Ledger No. 69):
For nearly ten years, citizens of numerous Western states have fallen victim to the savagery of Colm O'Driscoll and his gang of outlaws. They have robbed coaches, battered women and men alike, murdered, tortured, and committed sundry unmentionable atrocities. His wild, hot-headed and impulsive ways are the stuff of outlaw legend.
ARTICLE 2 (from Blackwater Ledger No. 70):
Since the death of his outlaw brother a decade prior, Colm O'Driscoll has run with both Irish and American hoodlums willing to die for a few dollars and some whisky.
When Dutch offers his fake, forced apology during that meeting, Colm shrugs it off. It sounds dismissive and that's the whole point. It’s a power play.
And that parley? That wasn't Dutch's idea, it was Colm's. He pitched it as a chance to bury the hatchet when it was actually a trap to lure and capture Arthur. Colm knew it but Dutch didn't. Which means every word Colm says at that meeting, including the "I never liked him much" line, is part of the performance.
Why I think Colm was lying (or at least bending the truth):
His answer undercuts Dutch's apology
Dutch is playing a psychological game with an apology he clearly doesn't mean. He's extending a fake olive branch, setting up a moral balance, and trying to pressure Colm into apologizing for killing Annabelle. Colm's answer flips the script. "You didn't hurt me so your apology is worthless". It also destabilizes Dutch by mocking his own loss: "I killed the woman you loved over a man I didn't even care about".
We also know Colm isn't just out to kill Dutch, he wants to humiliate him (and vice versa). He knows Dutch thrives on control, appearances and the belief that his gang is guided by higher principles. Dutch says "We're both men who've lost people, so we're equals here" and Colm replies "No, I didn't lose anything that mattered. You're the one who's soft and weak."
It protects Colm's image
No way is Colm about to admit grief in front of others, especially not Dutch. Vulnerability is weakness, and weakness gets you killed in their world. Even if he was gutted when his brother died, he's not going to show or acknowledge it, especially in front of his own men and his nemesis
The Annabelle problem
If Colm didn't care about his brother, why kill Annabelle in revenge? Why her, Dutch's lover, specifically. Not Hosea, Dutch's partner in crime. Not Arthur or John, his surrogate sons. Colm targeted the woman Dutch loved.
That choice feels personal. It's like Colm was saying "I can hurt you in the most intimate way possible". It also shows he wasn't afraid to escalate. He could've picked someone more "strategic" but he went straight for emotional damage. That tells us two things: (1) his brother's death meant something and (2) Colm is the kind of man who settles grief by making the other guy hurt harder
The feud itself proves he cared
If Colm truly "never liked" his brother, would he have sparked an all-out gang war over it? Would he have founded a whole outlaw empire following that death? I doubt it. His actions don't match his words
So was he lying?
I think so, at least partly. The best lies usually have a sliver of truth and maybe Colm and his brother did clash or butt heads - what siblings don't? But the "never liked him" act feels more like strategy than honesty.
Colm's goal in that "parley" was to destabilize Dutch and set his trap, not actual peace. Downplaying his brother's importance made Dutch's apology look foolish, angered him by diminishing his own grief over Annabelle, and it reinforced Colm's image as cold, untouchable and completely in control.
Heyyy... ya'll remember my post about The Pirates of The Caribbean x Target idea? Well... I still haven't watched all of those movies. But I DID binge Game of Thrones! Twice...
Modern!Au GoT but Westeros is a shopping plaza on the west side of some kinda large city
Base Idea: Tywin owns a mattress store chain in-town that's a front for The Lannister Mafia, The Baratheons are cops that are being paid off by that mafia. The Starks own a famous, family-owned pizza shop (I know it sounds lame, but I promise it'll get better). Daenerys is the daughter of a corrupt police chief, Chief Aerys, and when her father was killed by The Lannister Mob, Robert not only did nothing about it, but was one of the men that supported the decision behind the scenes since Aerys was also doing some underground shit and it was getting in their way. Her story has to change a lot and I haven't thought out that part yet- but essentially she's going to rise back to the ranking of chief and, along with that, gain a lot of social credit.
Cersei was arranged to be with Robert as a way to tie the police to the mob, but that tie started to break after Robert was 'mysteriously stabbed' and, of course, plenty of allegation spread out after Pizza Man Ned And Assistant Chief of Police Jon Arryn were asking questions about Cersei's suspiciously blonde children.
Due to the tie between the mob and the police in The West District (with Dany being in The Essos District in kinda the town over), 'The Hand of The King' (like Tyrion, Jon, and Tywin) is actually Assistant Chief of Police
Maester Pycelle is a Station Medic. Varys and Petyr are Chief Deputies? I don't know how police work, I'm just having fun. Treat it like a cop show where absolutely nothing makes sense, but its fun anyways because there's drama and you get to watch the mob, several gangs, and different districts of police war with each other.
But Dr.Paul? You say. What about The Wall-Mart and The Pizza Place?? What would The Whitewalkers be? What about the dragons?! Hear me out. Season one makes it SEEM like a regular reality TV cops and robbers show that you've seen before. But at the end of season one... Dany gets into a fire for some reason or another... and comes out with actual dragons from the 'decorative' eggs she had found in her father's attic. The entire city was built on a deeply frozen lake and the thermal temperature from the city's buildings is waking up frozen zombies. And the only reason Wall-Mart is the only one that notices? The zombies have an electromagnetic signal that's fucking up their Zebras.
Ned Stark: "Your pizza is coming."
Stark Pizza! It's a normal family restaurant. Everyone loves Stark pizza!! Until... Robert calls on his best old buddy that helped him in some bad business with Aerys to be the next Assistant Chief... and when Ned finds out about why Jon Arryn was killed. And confronts Cersei about it. The mob doesn't like that. Ned is disposed of in quiet instead of publicly, but with Joffrey's loud mouth? (We have to age him up so he can be an officer, but I don't think he'd immediately be Chief? He'd just... have a lot more authority than he should). Everyone knows it was the mob. Everyone finds out. Especially The Stark children, who are pissed. Bran mans the restaurant while Robb goes into crime. Rallying other restaurants who are sick of The Lannister's shit. Sansa was going to be married to Joffrey as a way of joining The Starks into 'the family business', but now that Ned is dead? Anything goes. But Sansa is still WITH the mob. So was Arya.
I dunno... I'm tired, I just got home. I can't finish my thoughts until maybe tomorrow???
Also I just like the idea of Janos Slynt manning The Wall-Mart deli
And Ser Alliser is managing the guest service counter telling you no, actually, you cannot return a half-eaten cheesecake because you didn't like it.
Maybe all OCs are collectively working at the Target a few blocks away
I reblogged her late last year and my 2024 has been very satisfying work-wise and (secure enough to not stress out) money-wise so far. Money Snake is wise and good.
I know I don't post much anymore- sorry about that, I've just been tired. Currently awaiting a genetics test and trying to talk to my friends more because I feel like I neglect them too much
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