Here's a gif for "anonymous" that asked for it a few weeks ago. Captured by the stellar @sportstudfan from s4e20 - The Dispossessed. A rare bit of tenderness from Jess, seems like Slim brings it out in him.
Okay i like... just realized that ive literally never expanded on my love for westerns besides the copious amounts of references in my fic and the one picture of all my westerns...
So heres a list of all the westerns in my collection (plus my favorites, ill mark them with a *)
Shows
Gunsmoke (seasons 1-5)
Laramie (seasons 1-4)*
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Lonesome Dove The Series
Magnificent Seven 1998 (season 1-2)*
Rawhide (season 1)
Shane 1966*
Lonesome Dove (miniseries)
Return to Lonesome Dove (miniseries)
Sugarfoot (season 1-4)
Movies
Streets of Laredo
Dead Man's Walk
The Magnificent Seven 1960*
The Magnificent Seven 2015
Tombstone*
Young Guns*
Young Guns II*
A Fistful of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Pale Rider
Hang 'Em High
High Plains Drifter
The Outlaw Josey Wales
3:10 to Yuma 2007*
Shane 1952*
Once Upon A Time in The West*
Evil Roy Slade
Books
Appaloosa
Brimstone
Shane*
Blood, Guts, and Glory
Saddle by Starlight
The Gunslinger
Lonesome Dove*
Comanche Moon
Dead Man's Walk
Streets of Laredo
The Big Sky*
The Way West
Seven Ox Seven Part One, Escondido Bound
The Tall Stranger
Kilkenny
Hondo
Showdown at Yellow Butte
The Virginian*
Miscellaneous
Adventures of the Old West (docuseries)
Outlaws & Gunslingers (docuseries)
Legends of The Old West (docuseries)
The Classic TV Western Collection (40 misc. episodes)
TV Western Collection (27 misc. episodes)
Western Collection (8 misc. movies)
The Wild Wild West the Series (book)
The Hollywood Western (book)
A Pictorial History of Westerns (book)*
Please please please ask me about any of them if you like any please!!
Those are all of the physical westerns i have, but there are plenty more i love but havent gotten my hands on yet!
The Cowboy and the Poet According to De's Characters
He was an old time cowboy Don't you understand
His eyes were sharp as razor blades His face was leather tanned
His toes were pointed inward From a hangin' on a horse
He was an old philosopher of course
He was so thin I swear You could have used him for a whip
He had to drink a beer To keep his breeches on his hips
I knew I had to ask him About the mysteries of life
He spat between his boots And he replied
"It's faster horses
Younger women
Older whiskey
More money
He smiled and all his teeth Were covered with tobacco stains
He said, "It don't do men no good To pray for peace and rain"
"Peace and rain is just a way to say prosperity
And buffalo chips is all it means to me"
I told him I was a poet I was lookin' for the truth
I do not care for horses Whiskey, women, or the loot
I said I was a writer My soul was all on fire
He looked at me And he said, "You are a liar"
"Son, it's faster horses
Younger women
Older whiskey
More money
Well, I was disillusioned If I say the least
I grabbed him by the collar And I jerked him to his feet
There was somethin' cold And shiny laying by my head
So I started to believe The things he said
Well, my poet days're over
And I'm back to bein' me
As I enjoy the peace and comfort of reality
If my boy ever asks me What it is that I have learned
I think that I will readily affirm
Everybody on this site says they love cowboys but there are only like 100 people in the entire tv western fandom. Come watch cowboy shows with me, you posers!
Sometimes you just have to make a life, from what life hands you.
This is Laramie 2.0. Originally, the boy character was Slim's younger brother Andy. Then Andy inexplicably disappeared.
Then Mike appearers in the cowboys life. As does an entirely new thematic approach, in season 3. Complete with a charming and dapper housekeeper named Daisy. Of course.
And even though Jess and Slim are a bonafide married couple by now. Jess still continues to cheat on Slim every time a studly, well built cowboy saddles up next to him at the bar.
Slim always takes him back though. Determined to keep the home fires burning. At all cost.
I'd pay good money to talk to the makers of Laramie (1959-1963). They wrote a show about two roommate cowboys who, completely on free will, legally adopt a child.
I'm sure Mike was supposed to fill (Slim's brother) Andy's absence, but their dynamic with him is totally different from Andy. Wikipedia describes Mike as "an orphan allowed to live on the farm," but he's not just "allowed" to live there...They sign adoption papers. They're his PARENTS. They hire a nanny!
Also, according to IMDB, Laramie was the only western show of the time where the characters are seen doing actual chores and realistic upkeep of their farm.
What were the writers/directors going for? Did they know how homosexually domestic it would come across?
Did they cast specifically for actors with unique physical chemistry? Or was this just a stroke of luck?
Were they intending to spit in the face of the rampant toxic masculinity of their era? Feel free to share your thoughts. I could talk about this all day.
one of the pitfalls of watching old tv shows that film in black&white and then switch to color several seasons in is that i am so damn distracted by the sheer brilliance of the color that i entirely lose focus on the actual plot of the episodes. for instance i would love to describe what actually happens in the first few episodes of laramie s3 however all my brain is receiving is the saturated blue of slim's eyes against his apple-red bandana/denim blue shirts/goldenrod hair/very tanned skin
Hey y'all, it's been a while! Life has gotten in the way of posting (of course) but I'm going to try to be more consistent, even if that means I just post once a week. Anyway, on to the episode!
This is a solid "pards" episode of Laramie, and has some really great scenes. A townsperson/old friend is paroled out to Slim after serving a manslaughter sentence. The victim's father is quite upset about this guy returning to town and tries to make all sorts of issues, which of course Slim and ultimately Jess get involved in. Charles Bronson plays parolee Frank Buckley; if you're into him, there's a good shirtless scene. I won't go too far into the plot synopsis because this is really one worth watching and I don't want to spoil it. However, I will definitely talk about these screenshots. :)
Early in the episode, Slim and Jess are playing cards in the saloon while waiting for Frank's stage to come in. It looks like Jess is playing solitaire with some input from Slim, which is ridiculously cute. I never paid much attention to this scene until one of my mutuals pointed it out (you know who you are, lol), and I see why it's one of their favorites.
Later on, Jess is breaking in a horse, which leads to a very strange scene of Andy sewing the torn seat of his pants while he's still wearing them. Andy accidentally pokes Jess with the needle, and both Jess' and Slim's reactions are priceless.
We also get a fantastic tandem fight scene that ends with washing up in a water trough after the boys have kicked some ass.
Finally, the episode closes with Slim and Jess sitting on their porch, tattered boots up on the railing...and touching, of course. ❤️💙