#richard maxwell

[asterdeer]

[carlygrace]

Every few years Phil Lollar releases a novelization of a Blackgaard episode, with just a little extra information about a few characters in it, and I eat it up EVERY single time.

[dirtydezy]

anything for my mutuals 🫶 @adventuresinodysseyfan

[noprancingpinkpajamas]

Richard and Glossman really are just ragebaiter and ragebaited

If the Blackgaard saga happened when humor was super brainrotted, Richard would 100% do 6 7 just to pull Glossman’s leg

[odyssey-owl]

Everyone in this crummy little town hates me.

I put on a face

I wave goodbye

I get on the bus

and in the window my mind paints faces

of all the good people who didn’t forgive.

In the window

in the passing trees and river

I paint them with the blurring colors.

The blueberry bushes with summer-green leaves

seem to me overalls and a button-up shirt.

Glasses, a wooden porch, the door cracked open,

an old man’s voice through clenched teeth

and a grudge held closer than a cup of hot coffee.

I look down.

The stark white-black-white of the pavement streaks

bring to mind an offer of forgiveness – a conditional offer –

a business offer dressed up in a black vest and a white shirt –

the guy never lightens up, says he’ll never be more than my acquaintance.

And he tries not to call me names

but he looks at me with suspicious eyes

like he knows I’m a thief.

I’m a thief,

but I remember the girl

who fills up my heart

like a page in the journalist’s notebook

with notes in the margins and upside-down.

And when I told her I was sorry she cried

and the ink stained all over.

She was scared, but so much braver than me –

she offered her forgiveness like a smile –

she waved goodbye and watched me leave.

[raspberricyanide]

Ok ok ok but like — some of the moments between Blackgaard and Richard.

gay? slightly homoerotic? But like, in an unhealthy manipulation kinda way? Thinking about “hurt people hurt people” and I’m just saying there might be something there.

This might be self-projection/trauma speaking. I’m also very sick currently. But I need someone to tell me if I’m out of my mind or if this is something that other people see

[boneofrath54]

So when it comes to Richard I think that at least in canon it’s pretty obvious he’s not actually IN to Lucy, he’s just manipulating her and using her. Yes it’s still very creepy and the fact he did it for so long and was so good at it is concerning but the thing we don’t talk about enough is how he makes a comment to Donna before all that, something about “well don’t I get a kiss goodnight”? She was in elementary school at the time (pretty sure that was confirmed) and so the idea of Blackgaard having him do what he did to Lucy just feels like another layer to his very interesting psyche. I can’t remember if that line got changed in the books I’m gonna have to look. I swear if Phil Lollar kept that while it also being confirmed later that Donna is like actually very hot it’s gonna make me question some things.

[long-live-the-gobop]

Richard Maxwell and Arthur Dent functionally fill the exact same role in their respective sagas in completely opposite ways, in this essay I will-