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" 'Pernell Elven Roberts, Junior'. Sounds like a Western character. ~ My mum

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Genius move to have your father character's name be Hebrew for "son"

Really thought that through

#bonanza #pondering the ponderosa

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Bonanza: they're a family, and they love each other (❁´◡`❁) Me, forever: OH MY YES THEY'RE A FAMILY, AND THEY LOVE EACH OTHER

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"We have a problem."

Ben: All right, now I want to know exactly what's going on- Adam: JOSEPH FRANCIS CARTWRIGHT YOU GET OVER HERE THIS INSTANT! Hoss: Take it easy, Adam. We don't have the facts yet. Joe, holding flamethrower: Yeah, why is everyone assuming this is my fault?

#bonanza #pondering the ponderosa

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Finally came up with an interesting way to build off a minor character detail!

My D&D PCs Ava and Bobbin are sisters. Bobbin, the younger, is a changeling adopted by Ava's elven family after being abandoned near their ranch.

D&D changelings can take any humanoid appearance at will, and Bobbin doesn't understand why those who can't shapeshift care about visual recognition - she just takes whatever form she feels like, whenever. There are other ways to recognise someone.

Ava has a scar.

It's tiny, and has no intriguing origin. She was born with a cleft lip, it was corrected by a magical healer, and the process left a scar.

This fascinates Bobbin.

The idea that someone's appearance can be changed permanently for them, against their will? She's never met another changeling (until her adventuring hook), but it's strange for her to imagine.

(Ava doesn't care about the scar. She's had it as far as she can remember, and it's not that visible unless you're close to her.)

And since both Ava and Bobbin's personalities are shaped by how each relates to her sister, if I ever play either again that's a good think to work in - Bobbin can change whenever she likes, Ava's limited nature is the norm but she's spent nineteen years growing up alongside a changeling.)

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Jewish Bonanza AU is basically begging to be written I might have to do it

(it's suspension of disbelief to think of a Lorne Greene character as a white Christian so why not)

#pondering the ponderosa

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Need to stop this alternating between crying over real-world present danger and crying because a character I love leaves a show and I can't imagine leaving home being a mentally healthy choice for him in the long run :(

#adam why must you hurt me so

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I imagine Kid Joe as having even less understanding of when people are lying to him than he does as an adult, something Adam absolutely took advantage of.

(insert me trying and failing to adapt the Calvin And Hobbes "I came from SEARS?" strip because chain stores and home assembly kits probably weren't a thing then)

#bonanza #pondering the ponderosa

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Need to learn how to draw just so I can tag Bonanza fanart as "c-ART-wright"

#bonanza #pondering the ponderosa

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okayyyyyy remind me not to look at the news

cute cartwright pictures/art welcome, I need to clear my brain and sleep

#aww thanks #all my darlings!

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I still think Adam should have kept the hairstyle from the pilot, with the sideburns. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't know why they changed it.

#bonanza #pondering the ponderosa #lost in adamiration

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okayyyyyy remind me not to look at the news

cute cartwright pictures/art welcome, I need to clear my brain and sleep

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Ohhh DS9 A Man Alone is such a Bonanza story

Well the main plot not the side stuff and not the clone business

Sisko protecting an untried suspect from mob justice, talking about due process and asking if it's really justice they want or the feeling of having done something? That's Ben and Adam, a dozen times over.

The murder where everyone's "sure" of the facts but don't have the whole story? The leads protecting someone distrusted by society? Common themes, yes, but especially common in the Bonanzaverse.

#space station squad #pondering the ponderosa

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Dream has decided that Adam's mother was named Lyla.

You know what? I accept. It makes more sense than my headcanon of Josephine, and a name meaning "night" seems to fit.

Other highlights:

Joe: You sure you can handle yourself gettin' married? Adam: Well, I've got Pa, and as my wife used to say- (trails off as if he revealed something by mistake) Joe: WIFE? Adam: (casually) Oh, you were too young to remember the wife. Bystander: (bursts into laughter. Joe is being messed with.)

Yes, Adam was engaged. Joe was very excited about this, if rather overwhelmed. Lots of good-natured teasing.

Of course, his fiancée didn't live to the wedding. Would it be Bonanza otherwise?

#pondering the ponderosa #lost in adamiration

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Yeah uh sorry about the Bonanza takeover it will get worse when I get my hands on more seasons

Don't worry all the other fandoms are still there

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My guess is Adam's "I'm fine, stop fussing, why would you think I was hurt" (was literally just injured) thing started after Marie died.

A teenager, with his father clearly hurting and younger brothers just realising what's happened, probably already intelligent and responsible?

Of course he puts his own problems aside, of course he doesn't matter when there's a motherless toddler who needs help and a father figure who can't handle everything alone and a child who understands the situation but has to be protected and given a normal life...

And by the time things became less dire, he was stuck.

After all, his brothers were still so much younger and so vulnerable, and his father still had so many burdens that needed to be eased-

What do you mean, those brothers are old enough to help with that now? They're kids, and he's the adult, and honestly Joe doesn't act like an adult, does he?

(I think someone needs therapy. And hugs. Both is good.)

#I do this with emotional pain for some reason #which is weird because I've always had a normal family life and parents who beg me to tell them what's wrong #so why should I be worried about seeming weak #maybe it's just a universal oldest sibling thing? #bonanza #pondering the ponderosa #lost in adamiration

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RIP Terry Carter. Colonel Tigh is a legend.