❝ BUTCH CAVENDISH: in one man, everything I hate about this country.... No sense of the greater good. No vision.... Men like that just can’t accept what you and I know to be true: a man can’t stay the same with the world evolving around him. ❞
Independent, private, and selective BUTCH CAVENDISH from Disney’s The Lone Ranger ( 2013 ). Est. 2016. Scolded by Fredster. ( TRIGGER WARNING )
❝ BUTCH CAVENDISH: in one man, everything I hate about this country…. No sense of the greater good. No vision…. Men like that just can’t accept what you and I know to be true: a man can’t stay the same with the world evolving around him. ❞
Independent, private, and selective BUTCH CAVENDISH from Disney’s The Lone Ranger ( 2013 ). Est. 2016. Scolded by Fredster. ( TRIGGER WARNING )
normalize being an awful person who kills people and likes it. normalize being an abhorrent piece of shit who lies cheats and steals.
I might wanna come back here, but not only is muse really low ( thanks, a.non ), but I also just?? don't really feel connected here, fam. I feel like my dash is dead and everytime I try to branch out, it goes nowhere. Like I'm going in circles.
The Favourite (2018), dir. Yorgos Lanthimos.
//Small headcanon that (especially newer) rangers are praised highly by their fellow rangers for just capturing Butch (even though it’s most likely that he’ll escape and they know this). Butch is known to be extremely hard to capture in the first place (most likely the hardest one to catch) and for a ranger to be able to say that they have done it is seen as an achievement. For those who have captured him for their first time, a rite of passage. Butch is the great white shark, the Mo.by Di.ck, of outlaws. Butch isn’t the kind of outlaw to go after small, trivial things; he always tries to either go after the biggest goal possible (like the silver) or royally mess things up as much as possible (like crashing the train at the beginning of the film). If a ranger can say that they have captured him, they are seen to have made it as rangers. But more importantly, they are being praised because they came back alive. The rangers in the movie aren’t the first Butch has killed; he’s got more than a few dead rangers and a few dead glory hunters looking for fame attributed to his name racked up over the decades.
THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Saw someone else commenting on this, but I’ll put my two cents in. MISS ME WITH THAT SHIT if you think writing a villain makes you a bad person. Every dime-novel, two-bit, dollar store murder mystery would have to be ripped off the shelves because guess what, there’d be no villain. Hell, most of the stories out there would have to be ripped off the shelves because there’d be nothing to hold the stories up; the lessons learned would entirely fall flat, and no character development would be had. Villains give the heroes something to push towards, something to overcome, whether it be externally or internally. Villains teach both the characters and the audience something about themselves, whether it be good or bad ( albeit, mostly what not to do ). Villains create conflict and get the story going. Without them? You have no story. You have no hero, and you most certainly do not have the foundation of good character and audience development. And that does a disservice to everyone involved, both fictional and not.
ivoiree:
In the shadow of an autumn wind underneath cotton clouds, 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐲 , plucking flower petals for every FAILED attempt, and withered leaves fall at listening to the same old answer. His voice stops in slow refusal, and her own lands where the sleeve ends. Was the ballerina asking too much to one outlaw?
❝ You came to see me today. ⎯⎯ why should I hide my feelings for you? ❞ one, two steps get closer as the light on her eyes observes the line of his hands, so rough but GENTLE to the touch, she could not explain the warmth she felt nor the protection they transmitted to her.
Certain emotions can’t be voiced with only a kiss. ❝ I understand that this should be kept between us. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ But why, why not now that we are alone. ❞ delicate fingers touch and trace scarred ones, almost curving between them as her gaze is back on him, ❝ Why can’t I hold your hand? ❞
Feminine fingers dance, curling, twisting, clawing at scarred own. Oh, to tease the monster, to put her very HEART in his hands! Fingers seek, search, cry for the comfort of his hand ( and yet, it does not open for her ). Man is all but inflexible, watching ( corner of his eye ) as her hand flutters near his cuff ( she’d be better off holding hands with a pit of rattlesnakes ).
❝ Ain’t that enough? ❞ Women. Ever emotional beings, needing more tending to than they were worth! Weeping, crying, scared creatures, almost as whiney as the children they bore. Her fingers brush against his own, and hand reflexively curls into a fist against the armrest.
To voice his feelings in such a way was to debase himself against her, to admit ownership and loss! ❝ You’re thinkin’ too much, Red. ❞ A pause ( looking down at their hands again ). He doesn’t want her to hold his hand, but oh! He knows her reaction to that.
Gaze traces the horizon at alone; he isn’t always sure of that. And they’d just loved the night before, where did this come from all of a sudden? A sigh. Why can’t she hold his hand? Why can’t she leave him alone!
❝ 'n that’s how it’s gonna stay. ❞ Between us. ❝ Ain’t about holdin’ your hand. ❞ Pale gaze turns to face her completely; a PREDATOR’S instinct. ❝ Or you sayin’ I ain’t lovin’ you enough? ❞
Butch got the infamous scar on his mouth via a very rough fight he got into when he was in his early-to-mid teens. He killed the man who split his mouth open with a knife, ending up earning his nickname ‘Butch’ ( short for ‘Butcher’ ) due to how violent Butch was in killing him.
bury a friend // Billie Eilish
biting is a love language. no i will not elaborate.
Thoughts on Butch as a wendigo:
Butch reacted so violently to whatever Red did because he was ANGRY at her. Whatever she did to upset him, he took her leg in return and via that, her dreams and their relationship. Anger denotes that he felt pain, pain means that he had some emotional connection to her in the first place to go to such an extreme.
On a different note, Butch avoids Red because he both made his point by taking her leg/dreams and is still angry at her.
private, selective and independent RED HARRINGTON from Disney’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘙𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 film. Par écrit by Nikki.
OH — YOU FERAL , FERAL , LITTLE GIRL ( BEAST !)
don’t you know how dangerous you are ? how big of a threat you are ? ( YOU ARE EVEN A THREAT TO YOURSELF ! )
you are just as bad as those you call monsters ( such as the wendigo ! ) if not , worse . you just proved that to yourself right now .
another poor victim claimed , by her & her new ally. she turns to face him ( it was like looking into a mirror ) waiting to hear praise from the other .
( SHE DID GOODTHIS TIMEDIDN’T SHE , BUTCH ? )
@lastbred , a new thread !
THIS IS NEVER CLEAN, FERAL GIRL. Removal of blood never is, arc between humanity and animalism given a wide berth by most. BUT NOT THEM. Not her and he, two like-hungered creatures who had found each other by happenstance ( how did she come to meet them again? It doesn’t matter now ).
It drips from his teeth ( his mouth ), GORE over hand and fist. BUTCH CAVENDISH has proved the rumors right again, twisted the daily happenings of his gang to include filth of the worst degree! Woe be to those that got in his way! These poor souls paid the ultimate price!
White cloth is stained from the blood on his hands ( not even a ‘thank you’ to the person who gave it ), the blood on his face. Removal of animalism does not mean anything: man is still as monstrous as he was seconds before ( he likes to play with his food ). Yellow raincoat catches his attention: lips spread, slowly at first, and then all at once. A SMILE.
( We did good, Six ).
