Breakthrough

All about Rick Wright

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Just found these while snooping around a Syd Barrett fan group on facebook

I cropped these from a bigger photo so if the quality isn't the best that's why😭

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sum barright ( ˘ ³˘) ♡

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I watched Nosferatu (2024) in Feb and immediately knew I'd have to recreate this scene with Will and Vecna at some point. 🧛

(The final panel is super rushed and I'm not happy with how it turned out, but overall I'm pleased I got this done in time for Halloween for once!)

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Why do you think Vecna is touching/cradling Will's face with his normal hand? I've been going crazy over it ngl

I think Vecna sees Will as a precious object to him. It's like Gollum cradling the Ring in his hands. That would be the in-universe explanation anyways.

The more meta/thematic explanation is that Vecna is meant to be seen as predatory towards Will. If we are following along with stories like Dracula/Nosferatu/Phantom, then Vecna is meant to fill the role of the evil and toxic supernatural boyfriend.

TW: Mentions of SA below cut

Now obviously the show is not going literal with this. Even if Vecna represents these things, he isn't literally a pedophile and he isn't attracted to Will. Unlike the other stories that I mentioned above, he is interested in Will for his power, not for sex (although his power is definitely representative of his sexuality). Even if Vecna shoving a vine down Will's throat can be seen as SA, he doesn't do so out of sexual gratification but most likely as a means to gain connect him to the hivemind and gain his powers.

Even if Vecna isn't a literal sexual predator, I do think that viewing him through this metaphorical lens is important and intentional. Like I indicated earlier, Will's sexuality is metaphorically tied to his powers. Vecna acting as this predatory antagonist is meant to help Will embrace and gain autonomy over his sexuality/powers.

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rainy day in Hawkins

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Pink Floyd with Peter Wynne-Willson, the band’s lighting engineer, and manager Andrew King (peeking out from behind Rick Wright) in Sausalito, California, on 11 November 1967. Photo by Baron Wolman.

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Pink Floyd in Sausalito, California, on 11 November 1967. Photo by Baron Wolman, scanned from the book Pink Floyd 1967 by Ed Paule.

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Them😭 heart warm seeing Syd and Rick together

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Pink Floyd photographed before the Carlton Hotel of Stockholm on 12 march 1970 by Bengt af Geijerstam

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Them, of course 💕

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aaaaaaahhhhh🥺🥺🥺

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Annoyed Rick.

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I’m not articulate enough to put into words how important Rick is to me and that’s why this blog is mostly a mixture of silent reblogs and superficial praise, but I thought that on his birthday I should make a little effort.

Recognition eluded him most of his life and he only really got it in his later years and, sadly, after his death, which is something that I could never understand — the Floyd would have never been what they are if it weren’t for Rick’s magical touch and I don’t get why someone so integral to the band was so blatantly ignored for many years (his return wasn’t easy either, but that’s another story). On a more personal level, I have always found Rick rather relatable because I see a lot of myself in him and I can get an idea of how isolated he felt due to his shy and reserved personality.

I’ll stop now because I don’t know what else to say except that he’s very dear to me, always has been and always will be, and I really cherish the music he has left us as his immortal legacy.

Happy birthday, Richard 🩷

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“It was Syd and Rick [the ones who stood out musically]. Rick was doing a lot of stuff; it was sometimes quite difficult to sort out what was Rick and what was Syd. They really worked very well together.” — Peter Jenner, Pink Floyd’s first manager.

“When Rick was working with Syd I think he found him very intriguing. He was such an extraordinary character and he was able to give voice to his fantasies, his lyrics were extraordinary, the way that he behaved on stage was extraordinary. It was challenging but it was also very exciting, and I think there was an enormous amount of respect there.” — Juliette Wright, Rick’s first wife.

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I love his little smiles.

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We slipped into a pub for one pint (very nervously as we were so young) and then walked along the promenade. We saw a very dirty and dusty Ford Transit parked up outside a club. It was covered in graffiti amongst which were references to Pink Floyd so we looked in the cab and, bugger me, Rick Wright was sitting behind the wheel in his stage gear. We tapped on the window and said we’d been to the show. We all got his autograph and asked where Syd was. He pointed into the club (no way we could blag our way in there!). We chatted for a couple of minutes and went for our bus. And that was it really. I was so shocked when, a few weeks/months later, it was announced that Syd was out of the band.

Simon Phillips

From Richard Houghton 《Pink Floyd - I Was There》

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You know you're an outlier in the PF fandom when you have zero interest in any of the popular ships.

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Rick and his beloved sweaters.