sawdust and diamonds

star ✶ | she/they | rdr2 enjoyer

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hiiii i’m star ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧

27, bi, she/they

i’m currently haunted by red dead redemption and i can’t help but write and draw about it lol

my ao3 📖✨

(i’m only on here and on ao3; pls don’t post my work anywhere else!!!)

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dni bigots, zionists, racists, proshippers, and no minors pls

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I'm in love with your blog, it's so difficult to find artists who draw Molly and you draw her so perfectly!! Seriously, I'm obsessed

AHHHH omg thank u so much!!! 😭💜 it is my mission to make more beautiful molly art to share and do my pretty girl some justice!!

i LOVE ur jovier art <33 you render them so sweetly, and even tho it’s unfinished your latest post is GORGEOUS !! im such a sucker for deeply symbolic art :’3

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shooo weee it sure is a scorcher today!!

me drawing this

i have nothing to say for myself other than sadie makes me super gay and ermmmm i had to get this out. lol

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the irony of molly getting cut from a mission literally titled ‘the gilded cage’ is Not lost on me

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do you allow people to have your art as their profile on different sites? (with credit of course)

i think yeah so long as i’m credited i don’t see why not ^_^

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and all those lonely nights down by the river

i couldn’t keep the night from coming in

ahhhh i think about just how lonely and sad molly was at shady belle at least once every hour. she suffered so much mental anguish and for what :((( my poor angel </3

also we got an alligator skull, cicadas, clover, oleander sage (bottom), queen’s orchid, and night scented orchid (top) (these r rdr2 plant names lol). i wanted to draw some flora and fauna found in the area surrounding shady belle…,,

was listening to a lot of joanna newsome’s ys album during this and well. jeah it certainly shows

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I bestow upon you:

🍰

A cake! Because your art is cool and Yuri supremacy.

Tldr your art tastes like the feeling of being a kid and playing with playdough and crayons in the back of class while you're eating snacks and looks like something I'd see in an art book (positive, serious!)

HUZZAH!! tysm!!! ^_^ <333

dw i was an art major i am absolutely picking up on what yer puttin down friend!! i love how specific that is and i see ur vision!!! thank u thank u :3

and YES YURI SUPREMACY!!!!!!!

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the little red fox that can be seen yipping before turning and running away from dutch and arthur at the beginning of a rage unleashed is molly o’shea. to me

like ofc its fur (sorta) matches her hair color but i think about how solitary both molly and foxes were/are. i also think about her perceived betrayal of the gang, ie going from being loyal to dutch to supposedly ratting everyone out. foxes are so misunderstood and shunned just like she was, and i think this fox specifically acts as an omen of the increasingly unpredictable and radical changes happening within the gang (molly’s death being a catalyst for some of them).

on a sadder, more morbid note, foxes were often burned in medieval and renaissance europe for their association with sin and molly was burned for her sin of betraying the gang.

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i think they should share cigarettes and kiss each other

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the small bits of evidence of molly’s past relationships with other gang members rockstar added absolutely kill me. like we see that molly’s already separated from everyone at the start of rdr2 when arthur tells her that everyone’s in the other cabin together and she responds with “dutch is all the company i need” while sitting alone in his cabin in colter.

but in polite society, valentine style when tilly asks the group if they should’ve asked molly to come with them and karen says she’s too “high and mighty now for the likes of us,” that means there was a time where she would’ve joined them and so tilly still thought of her. in the same chapter arthur notices molly hasn't been herself lately—she’s changed and we never got to see who she really was before dutch.

at a later point she greets tilly by calling her sweetie….,,, and molly and mary beth banter together during sean’s party…..,,

when micha gets jailed in strawberry and lenny barrels into camp to tell dutch, molly comforts him by patting his arm and nodding.

in chapter 4 when arthur tells molly everyone’s worried about her…,,,

dutch took so much from you molly

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little mary sketch bc if i were arthur i’d visit and draw her every single day

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yeehaw mrs. adler!!!

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drew a man so natürlich i must fill my procreate folder with like four wips of rdr2 women and yuri to make up for it

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all the world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you.

but first they must catch you.

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>opens procreate

>tries to draw an rdr2 chara but in like a cool and hot way

>ends up making them sad and pensive instead

like. ok. guess this is my lot in life

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i shine only with the light you gave me (i could’ve been anyone, anyone)

was listening to the moon will sing by the crane wives and the lyrics r sooooo molly coded it makes me weep…,, she just wanted to feel the fire that dutch kept from her :(

nyways i wanted to draw my beautiful tormented wife who haunts the narrative yet again bc she deserves the world

zoom in on her pretty face :’)

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my stages of grief are drawing molly, mollyposting, and listening to joanna newsom while weeping openly about my beautiful tormented wife