Folk Songs and other Love Stories
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You Are My Sunshine by BetweenTownleys
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption (Video Games), Red Dead Redemption 2
18 Jul 2019
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Arthur thinks of Hosea saying that the pencil should be guided by love; that looking at a thing is not the same as seeing a thing, and that this is the difference between a hack job and a man with any real modicum of talent. Arthur thinks about how inextricably his loyalty, faith and love are all tangled up together inside his heart, and he draws John’s portrait up in the tree as faithfully as he can, faithful enough even to remember the bits of twigs stuck fast in his wild black mop of dirty hair.
This is the first time Arthur thinks that he loves John.
[a canon-compliant prequel Morston tragedy, in 8 parts]Series
- Part 1 of Folk Songs and other Love Stories
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All The Little Horses by BetweenTownleys
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games), Red Dead Redemption 2
22 Jan 2021
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Oklahoma, 1972, Middle of Bumf*ck Nowhere-- Criminal defector and draft dodger John Marston once again finds himself in a very familiar place, at the other end of a hangman’s noose. But just like always where John is concerned, even if he can't help it, even if he doesn't mean it, this is the beginning of a story about family.
[a 1970's Morston rodeo crime drama fix-it fic]
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- Part 2 of Folk Songs and other Love Stories
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Fata Morgana by BetweenTownleys
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games), Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption 2
21 Sep 2019
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Once upon a time, John had been small. Living things often are. Small things get fed and get bigger. They grow up. Or sometimes, if you are very unlucky, they don’t.
After a while, Arthur murmurs in the dark, “Ain’t babied you like this since you broke your arm when you was fourteen. You was already too big for it back then too, to be honest. Cain’t say what to do with you now.”
It takes a moment for their body temperatures to match, and Arthur feels John’s voice against his chest when he quietly replies, “I don’t think about it like that.”
[A precanon Morston Oneshot] Arthur questions what his role is where a young John is concerned.
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- Part 3 of Folk Songs and other Love Stories