Here are 10 things you should know about Arthur Hoyt, born 151 years ago today.After a few years in stock theatre and on Broadway, he became one of Hollywood's most prolific character actors.
fuck it, daydreams of arthur with a lil kitty cat are over.
from now on, it's only daydreams of arthur with TWO kitty cats.
one snuggling on his chest when he's napping and the other snuggling on his lap.
both of them meowing at him for food incessently when he gets home from work.
on cold cold nights when his hands are freezing he never stops petting them to warm up his bones. one for each hand.
arthur cradling them in his arms while swaying around the living room in a little dance, late at night.
one of them crawling into his carnival bag that he brings to work, and he doesn't even realize it until he gets there. instead of leaving it under hoyt's and the guys' care (shudder), or taking it back home (there's no time), he just brings them along and makes them part of carnival's act. :3 bonus points if that day he's working a kid's birthday party or something, and the kids are so delighted they pay arthur extra.
arthur practicing all his best jokes out on his lil audience of two. <3
...well, it would have been had Lily Gladstone won. But awards season is OVAH! The Oscars have been handed out. Here are 2024's Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actress and Actor winners.
They have joined a great club.
THEY ARE THE CHAMPIONS!
Best Picture
OPPENHEIMER
Best Directing
Christopher Nolan
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Cillian Murphy
The elusive Malachy Murphy on hand.
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Emma Stone
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Robert Downey Jr.
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Da’Vine Joy Randolph
*Issa Rae peeping in.
Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
American Fiction (Cord Jefferson)
Best Writing (Original Screenplay)
Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet and Arthur Harari)
Best Animated Feature
The Boy and the Heron
Best Documentary Feature Film
20 Days in Mariupol
Best International Feature Film
The Zone of Interest
Best Animated Short Film
War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
Best Live-Action Short Film
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Best Documentary Short Film
The Last Repair Shop
Best Cinematography
Oppenheimer (Hoyte van Hoytema)
Best Costume Design
Poor Things (Holly Waddington)
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Poor Things (Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston)
Best Original Song
“What Was I Made For?” from Barbie (Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell)
Best Original Score
Oppenheimer (Ludwig Göransson)
Best Production Design
Poor Things
Best Film Editing
Oppenheimer (Jennifer Lame)
Best Sound
The Zone of Interest
Best Visual Effects
Godzilla: Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima)
This is the timeline I have constructed and use for all of my Red Dead writings. Canon event dates/ages are taken from the Red Dead Wiki, and headcanon estimations for more ambiguous events/characters are based on their approximate ages in-game by 1899 and what makes the most logical sense to me based on that timeline.
Please feel free to use this as a reference for your own works too, if it helps. (Canon events are noted as such, and my headcanons are labeled "HC.")
1839 - Uncle born (HC)
1844 - Hosea Matthews born (Canon)
1845 - Rains Fall born (HC)
1846 - Leopold Stauss born (HC)
1850 - Susan Grimshaw born (HC)
1853 - Orville Swanson born (HC)
1855 - Dutch Van der Linde born (Canon)
1857 - Josiah Trelawney born (HC)
1860 - Micah Bell III born (Canon) (newspaper clipping mentions Micah Bell Jr. robbing with his 17-year-old son in 1877)
1861 - Simon Pearson born (HC)
1863 - Arthur Morgan born (Canon)
1866 - Bill Williamson born (Canon)
1870 - Dutch leaves home aged 15 (Canon); Kieran Duffy born (HC)
1871 - Sadie Adler born (HC)
1872 - Charles Smith born (HC) (based on est. age of 27 in 1899)
1873 - John Marston born (Canon); Javier Escuella born (HC)
1874 - Lyle Morgan arrested and hanged, Arthur orphaned (Canon); Molly O'Shea born (HC)
1875 - Karen Jones born (HC)
1876 - Dutch and Hosea meet outside of Chicago, IL (Canon); Sean MacGuire born (HC)
1877 - Abigail Roberts born; Arthur joins the gang, aged 14 (Canon)
1878 - Eagle Flies born (HC)
1879 - Tilly Jackson and MaryBeth Gaskill born (HC)
1880 - Lenny Summers born (Canon)
1881 - John Marston's father dies, John orphaned (Canon)
1882- Annabelle and Bessie join the gang (HC)
1883 - Bessie and Hosea marry and leave the gang (Canon); Arthur meets and begins dating Mary Gillis (HC) (Jamie Gillis references both Annabelle and Bessie during the mission in Chapter 2, so IMO this would've been the most likely time for all 3 to have met one another.)
1884 - Dutch kills Colm O'Driscoll's unnamed brother, Annabelle killed by Colm in retaliation; Hosea returns to the gang (HC)
1885 - John Marston and Susan Grimshaw join the gang (Canon); Charles Smith leaves home, aged 13 (HC) (based on est. DOB 1872)
1886 - Arthur proposes to and subsequently breaks up with Mary in the springtime; Arthur meets Eliza (19) later in the year, and Isaac is conceived (HC)
1887 - Lee & Hoyt Bank Robbery, April (Canon); Isaac Morgan born (HC) (According to Arthur in-game, Eliza only knew who he was after she got pregnant. Based on this they most likely met in late 1886 or very early 1887, with the bank robbery in April '87 and Isaac born that autumn.)
1888 - Death of Bessie Matthews (HC) (based on the assumption that she passed some time before Arthur lost his son. Her cause of death is never specified in canon, but I HC it was a fairly quick battle with pneumonia over the winter.)
1891 - Isaac Morgan (4) and Eliza (23) killed in a home robbery (HC)
1892 - Bill Williamson dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Army (Canon); Uncle joins the gang (HC)
1893 - Bill Williamson joins the gang (Canon)
1894 - Abigail Roberts joins the gang, introduced to them by Uncle (Canon)
1895 - Jack Marston born; Javier joins the gang (Canon)
1896 - John Marston leaves the gang; Jake and Sadie Adler marry in September (Canon)
1897 - John Marston returns to the gang after a year (Canon)
1898 - Micah Bell, Charles Smith, Lenny Summers, and Jenny Kirk join the gang (Canon)
1899 - Blackwater Massacre; dissolving of the Van der Linde gang; deaths of Jenny Kirk, Mac and Davey Callender, Sean MacGuire, Kieran Duffy, Hosea Matthews, Lenny Summers, Molly O'Shea, Eagle Flies, Susan Grimshaw, and Arthur Morgan (Canon)
1907 - Construction of Beecher's Hope ranch; John and Abigail marry; death of Micah Bell III (Canon)
1911 - Kidnapping of Abigail and Jack Marston by the U.S. Government in exchange for John's cooperation; deaths of Bill Williamson, Javier Escuella, Dutch Van der Linde, Uncle, and John Marston (Canon)
1914 - Death of Abigail Marston; Jack Marston kills Edgar Ross to avenge his father's murder (Canon)