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-- Lucy Gray Baird --

I mean, I love all kinds of things I don’t trust. Thunderstorms . . . white liquor . . . snakes. Sometimes I think I love them because I can’t trust them, and how mixed up is that?

archersandsunsets

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 → ʟᴜᴄʏ ɢʀᴀʏ

#this is me returning after a years long hiatis to reblog stuff about this damn prequel book i loved so much

saint-hemlock

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

She tries to take back her families business only to find that it’s been taken over by a cult of Evil Cowboys

transmortifried

are you kidding i’d watch the fuck out of this

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Her love interest is an Actual Cowboy from the Old West who was the greatest gunslinger of their age and who won countless duels, but they still aren’t as good at it as she is because of Reasons

majingojira

Reason being she has the Guns of Pecos Bill.

saynotodyedflowers

*internal screams of joy*

Do not do this to me my husband is a historical reenactor and weapon historian I know so much about this shit.

My brain is over flowing. Like like i love and hate the idea of it being Pecos Bill because on one hand I can think of 4 real humans I would want it to be and on the other Pecos Bill is BRILLIANT because he is a myth and tweeking things are less likely to hurt historians in their souls.

Also if it’s Pecos Bill she would also have his lasso.

You guys. Don’t do this to me.

majingojira

The Lasso is too OP and you know it!

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

As someone who knows very little about the Wild Wild West other than that it was the inspiration for a terrible Will Smith film, I am curious to know more about this because I do not know who Pecos Bill is or about his guns/lasso

ohgodshesloose

Pecos Bill is an American folklore hero in the same vein as Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed. Among his feats included being raised by coyotes, using a pet rattlesnake for a lasso, using said sneklasso to wrangle a tornado, and snacking on dynamite. He fell in love with a woman he met while she was riding a giant catfish down the Rio Grande, but his horse got jealous and sabotaged the relationship.

In other words, he’s the perfect legendary figure for Quickdraw (as I now dub our Asian reverse Iron Fist) to inherit her powers from

kyraneko

*shrieks happily* Yes yes yes I need this.

venerabledreadnought

Quickdraw feels kinda generic for a super hero name. I’d say using the naming conventions of Iron Fist I’d name her something like the Raging Gun.

kyraneko

Iron Six.

Can refer to the six shots on a revolver, her having six guns (each with their own name, naturally*), or her nearly-supernatural abilities to follow her enemies and show up behind them (”on their six.”)

Pecos Bill might be an old man or even a myth-spirit in the way of Discworld gods (dependent on belief, fading away without it), the elderly mentor who devotes himself to training a hero/chosen one/heir to be better than he ever was. She can represent the future of the art while the old white guy represents the past, as an inversion of both many martial arts movies and many westerns where Asian and Native American characters, respectively, pass their torches to the white dude.

*The guns are named things like Golden Sunset and Deep Canyon and Silence After Battle, poetically referencing both the vibrant geography of the Old West and the weapon’s function of ending lives.

yellingschmetterling

Or/and she gets Pecos Bill’s horse which broke up his relationship by throwing his wife to the moon on their wedding day

i-am-corbin-dallas

The horse is given to her by Pecos Bill as payback for the wife thing, but they actually get along great. The horse is to her as Appa is to Aang. A guide and friend. They’re there for each other in the dark and cold times and in the good times. He may or may not be able to speak. Its an ongoing joke that Iron Six will say “Widow Maker/Lightning was just telling me…” or they’ll be alone somewhere together and she’ll be whispering but will stop as soon as someone comes near.

kyraneko

Better and better.

Pecos Bill is old, centuries old or wind-and-skies old or whatever, and his original horse has run wild with other wild horses and has many descendants now. One of Iron Six’s tasks over the years of her training is to tame and train a foal, which grows up to be her horse.

And thus, she can learn the ways of the horses and the language of the horses, and teach them all sorts of things, so when she goes into town she can see plain as day which people the horse is afraid of, or she can teach the horse to recognize certain phrases that other people might say as a command to bite whoever’s saying it, and the result is people thinking the horse can understand human speech and talk to Iron Six.

One day some guy tries to steal her horse while she’s in a bar. Jumps on and digs his heels in and the horse just turns around, looks at him like he’s being stupid, and finds something interesting to nose at on the ground.

Dude’s friends laugh at him, dude gets angry, dude starts kicking at the horse, horse stands there calmly and then suddenly rears and dumps him off behind.

And then poops on him.

Dude gets up, furious and humiliated, borrows a whip from his friends, and is about to strike the horse with it and the horse calmly walks away.

More laughter, more fury, and that’s about when Iron Six shows up in the doorway.

Not a word.

She doesn’t go for her guns. She walks up to the guy, takes the whip out of his hand, he goes for his gun and she decks him. He hits the ground with a broken nose and the gun goes bouncing into the dust.

She picks it up, looks at it, sends it sailing into a nearby water trough. “Garbage,” she says. “Now, about my horse,” she says, and whips the would-be horse thief half to shreds.

Tosses the whip back to its owner, tips her hat to the rest of them, and her horse is right there when she turns around to climb on.

marchingstitch

Triggered but I need it

pencilcat

Will you be adding the Indoraptor to the flower crown dinos??? I know hes a boy but you totally should!!!!

I admittedly haven’t seen the newest movie yet, but maybe?? I do have another T-rex print in the works though!

marchingstitch

I won't lie, I've been low-key stalking your page hoping for this.

infomics

floorwildcat

Holy guacamole and cheddy cheese!

anomalousdata

“I mean, that’s not really that impres–JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.”

pizzaotter

JESUS FUCK

armasthekooiker

This is how Armas stretches after sleeping! Do your dogs do this too?

owlcitytweets

lesbian-yandere

YALL THEY’RE ADVANCING

sangled

cagaderamental

megheadmed

You need.. you need to unmute…

cobaltdays-deactivated20210208

I’ve waited too long to find this gem again!

brandonrogers

pettycentral

smatter-deactivated20220909

This might be my favorite post hahaha

pdothamman-deactivated20170513

I WAS LAUGHING SO HARD YO BECAUSE DON’T THEY KNOW IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE THERE???

daenerystargaryen

I suffered quite a bit of bullying, yes. I don’t know why. Life’s hard, man. School is hard, and I was a late-bloomer in finding out who I was and how to be myself. Kids are very cruel to each other. It was never mental—it was physical, and psychological. And that’s the worst kind of bullying because it’s hard to grasp on to and explain it to other people. It’s a cliché, but what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

itseasytoremember

someone help me find that image of 4 cats being held up in front of a brightly coloured background. the cats look calm being held but each have their own personality

itseasytoremember

nvm i found it