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“Hosea teaching young John to read. John is as dumb as a boot that lost its pair.”

then he turns around and like, to arthur in particular, always takes him on fun trips/missions and makes him coffee in the morning and will always ask him to back hosea up when he’s trying to get The Fuckheads™ to lift a god damn flour sack or something, and when he does want arthur to do something he always phrases it in an extremely gentle way even if arthur is being stubborn about it… like… the DIFFERENCE lmfdsfk

he’s very kind to lenny and jack/the women too; a bit blunter with john but never in an unkind way, which is obviously because all of them do carry their weight and don’t layabout or get piss drunk constantly. but looking closely at everything, it’s just never been so obvious to me that dutch might have had his golden boy in john but hosea honestly just had such a special fondness for arthur and it super kills me

“They connect the stories to themselves, I suppose, and we all love hearing about ourselves, so long as the people in the stories are us, but not us. Not us in the end, especially.”