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“you know i had to do it to them 5 kids”

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this one is a tumblr early access post :) youtube link will be up tomorrow morning

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Winter has me craving Red Dead. Missed my man :(

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Big guy

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So… I have a lot to say about this post I saw on my feed today. I took screenshots and blocked out the username for the sake of the OP. I didn’t want this to be a fallout post for one specific user, and do not wish them any hate or harm. I have a whole heap to say about this and the treatment Charles gets from the rdr fandom as a whole, not only the OP in the screenshot.

I have a lot of problems with this post, and I have been wanting to talk about this issue and pattern I’ve noticed in the rdr community. Again, I do not mean to send any hate in OP’s direction or suggest that OP is racist in any sense. With that being said…

It’s an inherently racial stereotype to assume that Charles, a black and native man, is illiterate with such a lack of evidence or real reasoning behind it. He was isolated for most of his life after the age of thirteen, and he’s been with a gang for only six months. He is very private, and he is shy. He doesn’t talk much at all, much less about reading. I have never seen this sort of assumption made about any other character, claiming they’re illiterate, because they’re never seen reading at camp.

This is the most ridiculous take I have ever seen. Charles is the one who buried Arthur with his own two hands and created his gravestone. He was the only person who knew where Arthur was buried, hence being the sole creator of Arthur’s final resting place. Charles’ handwriting is the one we see on the gravestone. Charles is the one who wrote the inscription on the cross. He is not illiterate.

I think a problem I have with a lot of Charles fans is that they see him as a blank slate. They see Charles, a physically attractive man, who is quiet and take him for that alone. He is often seen as a blank canvas to project their own ideas onto and sort of mold to their own use and convince. And often times, whether knowingly or not, Charles is consistently watered down to racial stereotypes. Race is obviously a part of who he is, and it affects a lot of his actions, as it does with everyone, but that is not all who he is.

Charles is clinging to the fringes of what little of his culture that he does have. His mother was taken from him as a boy, and he holds onto what little he does have and that absence of his mother, and either of his cultures (because people do also tend to ignore the fact that he is also black) is a huge part of who he is. But a lot of folks would rather see his shyness as blankness. He is not levelheaded, but he is moral. He is not always morally correct though. It’s frustrating to constantly see who he is being ignored for the sake of the false persona that’s been created for him.

I think a lot of folks need to listen to the one dialogue of Charles opening up at the campfire. Yes it is a relatable speech for a lot of reasons, but it is also about his race, how he experiences the world, and how he feels as though he has no place because of the loss of his mother, the lack of knowing who he is, his culture, and a whole host of other things. He is one of the best written characters in the game, and to brush that aside to make him into this ‘softhearted super caring ideal s/o’ is so frustrating. This is the same man who was ready to kill Uncle if the need arose. He is moral, but they are morals of his own, and he is not always correct. He is also flawed, just like everyone else. He is not a saint. He is a flawed and conflicted man.

To disregard Charles for who he is, is such a great disservice to the character and to all the work put into him, his story, and other people who have and continue to share the same experiences as he does.

#yeha #What is going on bro. Enough racism about Charles y'all are genuinely so weird #charles smith

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So I learned something, maybe some of you already knew or not but I'm going to share

Here we have what happened to John after the wolf attack. Turns out it did major damage ( apart from scars) and made him blind in his left eye

In Undead Nightmare, his left eye is missing completely because he doesn't need it. Crazy how I've played this so many times and never thought of this

With the Deadly Assassin outfit, his left eye is covered by an eye patch ! I've got to say all this amazing detail that carried from RDR1 & RDR2 ( even Undead Nightmare)

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It makes me so unbelievably sad that Jack hardly remembers, if he remembers at all, him n Arthur's relationship. Their relationship is so precious to me

#rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #arthur morgan #red dead redemption #red dead #rdr2 arthur #arthur rdr2 #cowboy #cowboys #rdr #jack marston #jack rdr2 #jack rdr #rdr jack

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Spoiler Warning for anybody who hasn't played Undead Nightmare yet, I know most have only played rdr2.

What's so sad to me is how John never gets a happy ending, even in a non-canon DLC. He still ends up dead in the same way, but on top of that months before the events of RDR he has to save people from a zombie apocalypse, only for Seth to reverse all the work he did afterward. He isn't even allowed to have the solace of eternal rest, and is reanimated into a limping, decaying zombie. Why do they never let him be happy. I'm gonna be sick

#rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #red dead redemption #red dead #rdr #rdr undead nightmare #undead nightmare #undead #john marston rdr2 #john marston #rdr2 john marston #rdr2 john #john rdr2

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With you by my side, the world doesn’t seem so hostile

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#tombstone #tombstone movie #kurt russell #wyatt earp #morgan earp #doc holliday #virgil earp #cowboys #cowboy #western #old west

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"Doc, you're not in this Fandom. What the hell are you reblogging this for anyway?"

"Wyatt Earp is my mutual."

"Hell, I've got lots of mutuals."

"I don't."

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@mewroticworker You all the time with me cause I don't shut up about men

me when the group starts talking about boys

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a small handcarved gift

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Men used to go to war n we have this guy being SASSY

#okay arthur #mean girl ass response #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #arthur morgan #red dead redemption #red dead #rdr2 arthur #arthur rdr2 #cowboy #cowboys #rdr #red dead 2 #arthur morgan rdr2 #red dead redemption arthur #rdr2 arthur morgan

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Sadie Adler! serves revenge on a silver platter!

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The Bone Wars is such a metal name but I know it's about the paleontology bone wars BUT the true reason for this ask is that I think Charlie would/has sold rocks with funny little carvings in them to an overachieving paleontologist claiming it's a fossil

He absolutely did.

#charlie my silly #baodc askbox #baodc charlie

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