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THIS WORLD NEEDS MORE COWBOYS
WE NEED TO YIP AND YAP Y'ALL.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWW
some more backgrounds from my cowboy video! (including one i didn't end up using)
Spring 2020, Visual Literacy II
See the environment designs here and here!
Spring 2020, Visual Literacy II
kicking off my art blog with some environment designs i did for school! they’re in an animation here
Spring 2020, Visual Literacy II
3:10 to Yuma
3:10 to Yuma (2007) needs more fics, or AUs, or fanart, it's an amazing film that goes over how grey the old west was rather than the dramatic black and white lenses we saw it through because of stereotypes and western films.
It goes over morals and values, we see this brought up when Wade mentions that Butterfield didn't even call attention to how many lives he took but rather talked about how much money he stole. Wade also mentions how McElroy has murdered like Wade before, and yet Bryon McElroy considers himself better, constantly shoving his faith into conversations as if to prove he is a good man when he never was.
The movie is like a coming of age story for William, a young 14 year old boy who is the son of Dan Evans, he sees his father's loyalty to God and his devotion to justice and how it's led to men like Hollander (the town banker and a saloon owner) to walk all over him. But by the end of the film his father became a brave man who had conquered one of the most wanted men in the west.
Daniel/Dan Evans is one of the main characters, through the film we see his achievements and his failures, we see his loyalty to his religion, how his family shares the same morals. More importantly we see the devastation in his family, lacking money for rent, for food, for anything. We see Dan face his sons despite their disappointment, we see him face his wife despite her lack of love. How poverty has strained the relationship between him and his wife, between him and his oldest son William, and even starting to disconnect him and his youngest son.
Ben Wade is an outlaw in the West, who had been abandoned by his parents and says he thinks doing good deeds might be "habit forming." He points out the flaws of each person he interacts with and seems to have a strong mindset of how the world around him is corrupt, only to have his view tested upon meeting Dan Evans.
Wade and Evans' dynamic is strong and well written out, they tell stories of their past to one another, they talk about morals and throughout the story get to know one another. Even briefly working together twice. At the end of the story, we can even see Wade almost shed a tear for Dan Evans.
Overall I think it's a good film with amazing story telling.
Third page of my original comic, “Sunset Riders!”
Second page out for my story, “Sunset Riders”
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First page done!
The first page (chapter 1) of my “Sunset Riders” comic is done! Gee, this took forever!
Tombstone Arizona
I saw your western AU of mouthwashing and i HAVE to ask if you've heard of the movie Ravenous (1999)
I haven't seen it but I had just read about it on wiki (I know, bad source.) It honestly sounds like an interesting take for this AU! You are also very welcome to take this idea, I just put it out there for discussion, no claims.
Old West MouthWashing AU???
I'm sorry if this is already a topic in here but... What about a western version of MouthWashing?
Since I've learned that the company is based off of a real life mail run, I've been daydreaming about how the crew would do on a run like this. But instead of mail, it's a supply wagon that runs through the vastness of the wilderness and snowy mountains, a dangerous journey with equally dangerous characters along for the ride.
What would happen? What would change? I'm really curious to hear what you guys have to add to this AU, I'm finding it fun to explore and might put out my own head cannons of it later.
