#Dan Gillick

[sillystringsimpsons]

THE D'AMICO CRIME FAMILY RELATIONSHIP MAP.

Content warnings: brief mention of sexual abuse, cartoon imagery of blood, cigars, cigarettes, discussion of struggling to transition, discussion of physical trauma. This AU is centred around a criminal organisation and by default involves mature themes.

Over hours, through a painstaking design process, I created an illustrated map detailing the relationships between frontal characters in my Simpsons alternate universe, The Good Ones. A lot of love and effort has been put into this, so I hope you guys like it! If there are any characters you'd like to see drawn, just let me know.

More info and close ups of icons beneath cut!

I know I always say this, but interactions, especially questions would mean SOSOSOSOSOSOSO much to me, as I've put so much thought into this and would LOVE to yap to interested people about it. I know art is done for oneself, but it feels really good to share my creations and hyperfixations with the Simpsons community :)

For every character, I drew a little icon and wrote a line of dialogue, in order to give some inside into their personality and traits in a concise way. A few further explanations and elaborations are given below!

Valentina 'Tits' Albertini Her icon is a visual pun, featuring two Great Tits drawn in the colours of the transgender flag.

Aside from Memphis, Valentina is the only other explicitly genderqueer character in the AU's focus (Lucy-Mae is heavily implied to fall under the nonbinary umbrella, but she never personally feels the need to explore it further, and is happy with identifying as female). Her former nickname was a play on how ballsy of a person she is within the mafia - though Cora is a wildcard, she makes very rash decisions: Valentina is both calculated and bold, and her current nickname is a crude (fittingly), but well-spirited adaptation introduced by Memphis. After coming out, she experiences backlash from Tony, who is concerned her late transition will impact the image of the mob. Memphis, being a trans man, asks him why Valentina is any different from himself, and in the heat of the moment, Tony exclaims that half the people in their own family have no idea that he's transgender, which leads to some tension between the two. Tits' main character arc revolves around her exploration of gender and gender expression, and the character that plays the biggest role in it is Tony's son, Michele (purposefully drawing parallels between Tony and Memphis' own relationship, and showing social change between generations).

Michele 'Softfoot Mikey' D'Amico His icon is a nod to his (in this AU) love of ballet, and how he uses it to his advantage in his role as an underboss.

Michele is a simple evolution on Tony's canon son, Michael D'Amico. In this AU, he's been aged up to 23, and instead of having an unconventional love for cooking, has an unconventional love for ballet dance. Most all of his other traits have been kept the same, however, aside from the obvious fact that he's more rational and mature than his in-canon counterpart. He's straight, but is portrayed as very effeminate - and comfortably so. Mikey really just is a girlboss who never fails to (sometimes literally) slay.

Cora 'Connie the Howler' Mezzasalma Her icon plays on her nickname, portraying a dog with some of her key characteristics, such as a matching necklace given to her by her adoptive brother, as well as a splatter of blood - presumably from one of her usual 'errors'. Her nickname refers to the colloquial term howler, meaning a laughable mistake.

Frankie's awkward adoptive sister of Greek origin, Cora was initially made with the sole purpose of providing a dynamic for Frankie, outside of his relationship with Johnny (which is still the primary relationship explored), but she really grew as a character. Initially I made the name 'Connie the Howler' on the fly as a sort of female version of 'Frankie the Squealer', but I ended up actually putting the effort in to rationalise it and bring it into her character. The result was an awesome little dynamic between two characters who were equally stupid, but in very different ways. She may be responsible for a number of incorrect hits, as well as a good few accidental deaths and injuries, but at the end of the day, she's a silly girl at heart who really synergises with her brother's anxious energy.

Maximus 'Legs' Legman & Luis 'Louie' Walters Both of their icons refer to an car accident the both of them got into, wherein Legs, ironically, suffered severe damage to his legs (resulting in the amputation of his left one), and Louie underwent significant cranial trauma.

The two do admittedly have a closer relationship because of the shared experience, though they both experience significant impacts. Notably, Louie develops Broca's aphasia (yes, I know the injury is on the wrong side, that's my bad), a form of non-fluent aphasia where one's quality of speech and grammatical structure is significantly diminished - even though the words are in your head, you cannot get them out, usually due to damage to the area of the brain responsible for the production of speech. Louie really struggles in the aftermath, and has a difficult time adapting to his disability. Thankfully, he's got his friend there to help him through it.

[rolkstone]

[seroothincs]

Imagine being Louie in this situation

When you're just trying to eat dinner in peace and watch Tv and then your temporary don randomly bursts into your apartment, pulling a gun on you when all of a sudden some fat guy outside of your window stops your don and even throws his own kid.

[garadinervi]

Amour Systémique, Capc Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, April 7, 2023 – January 5, 2025

W/: Sung Tieu, César Andrade, Leonor Antunes, Pierre Barès, Nú Barreto, Irma Blank, David Boeno, Jean-Pierre Bruneaud, Daniel Buren, capcMusée d’art contemporain (Philippe Thomas), Nicole Eisenman, Chohreh Feyzdjou, Michel Gérard, Gilbert & George, Claude Gilli, Liam Gillick, Nan Goldin, Dan Graham, Mona Hatoum, Carmen Herrera, Noritoshi Hirakawa, On Kawara, Claude Lagoutte, Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Guillaume Leblon, Sol LeWitt, Benoît Maire, Nicolas Milhé, Thierry Mouillé, Max Neuhaus, Olu Ogunnaike, Masahide Otani, Bernard Pagès, Anne-Marie Pécheur, Présence Panchounette, Jean Pierre Raynaud, Ed Ruscha, Takako Saito, Dayanita Singh, Meredyth Sparks, Sung Tieu, Wolfgang Tillmans, Kaari Upson, Fredrik Vaerslev, Mona Varichon, Claude Viallat, Danh Vō, Marthe Wéry

[red-hot-moon]

Five Fics

@ifishouldvanish tagged me to do some shameless self-promotion for five of my stories! Here goes:

In the darkness on the edge of town - Back to the Future, (young) Biff Tannen x Marty McFly, in progress - I started this to get out of my own perfectionism that stopped me from posting stuff and the response to it has been amazing. It grew from a James Dean film-inspired drabble to 4 chapters to 8 with a possible sequel... and it got me into a wonderful BttF fan community that is so inspiring and making me want to write so much more for these two! I sometimes feel like all I ever do is write angst and pining but the thing is, I'm good at it lol. And writing about time travel throws up such interesting situations and conundrums that I'm quite obsessed with it now!

Fishing in the dark - Miami Vice, Sonny Crockett x Larry Zito, complete - This was one that wouldn't let me go during my Miami Vice Summer last year. It's too bad the Miami Vice fandom isn't very active and that this is such a rare pairing, meaning it doesn't get much traction, but I loved writing this and especially Larry and Sonny's chemistry, which we see so little of on screen. Again, lots of angst and pining.

Green light - The D-Train, Dan x Oliver, complete - this was a strange drabble kind of thing that I wrote after seeing the movie which really captivated me. I was impressed with how this came together and I really like the metaphor of the colour green running through it. It seems only a few people have heard of the film so this is definitely the smallest fandom I've ever written for, but the responses to my fic have been ever so nice!

Stop all the clocks - The Pacific, Eugene Sledge x Sid Philips, complete - Sometimes I reread my own fics and this is one that even years later on I love to return to. The HBO War fandom for a long while was really comforting to me in how it portrayed young people who had been through something traumatic and were struggling to pick up the pieces afterwards. I really enjoyed the narrative device of exploring one scene from different viewpoints and I had so much fun writing Mary essentially as an OC.

The company of wolves- Sicario, Kate Macer x Alejandro Gillick, in progress - This is kind of cheating since it's a series, but part four of this has been in the works for about five years. Since I've been having health and mental health issues it has sadly taken a backseat because it was hard for me to write about something so serious while dealing with my own stuff (hence my pivot to BttF lol) but I'm fully intent on completing it. I still get lovely comments on it every month or so and that makes me so happy! These stories really pushed me as a writer and continue to do so, and I'm just really happy with what I've created.

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No pressure tag: @mitochondriaandbunnies, @retro-hussy, @doesnotloveyou, @bg-sparrow, @jouissants, or any other (fanfic) writers who want to do this 😘

[disclosuro-1999]

I remember when in "Penny-Wiseguys", Snake was defeated by an stray shot when Homer and Dan Gillick were fighting over a gun, somehow the bullet made it's way to the Kwik-E-Mart.

he looked so cute and elegant in that outfit... hmmmm ❤️👌

[ilonacho]

I love that drawing where your OC meets Dan Gillick and the first thing that tells to him is: "Wow! Your head is so big!", you only made Dan more unconfortable... poor Dan XD

Gldkfldkd THANK YOU LMAO

[ghosttrickfan9887]

Here is a fanart of Wayne Slater and Dan Gillick for @rolksart and @fernikart57!

[springfieldblues]

I still wish that Dan Gillick ("Penny-Wiseguys"), Wayne Slater ("The Falcon And The D'ohman"), Jack Lassen ("Blazed And Confused") came back... at least in the background in the newer episodes...

sounds like theyd be pretty expensive to bring back. but its possible they might make a background cameo one day, they do reuse a lot of one-offs for that sort of thing

[blottomann]

The Dan Gillick episode was really good I think of him often.

[rolkstone]

[seroothincs]

What’re some headcanons you have for Dan Gillick?

Dan! Oh, I miss that cute little guy. I absolutely hate how they changed him from a legit accountant for the mob to a stupid ear piercing clerk at the mall, makes no fucking sense so In my personal words, I say he still works for the mob. Course I have some headcanons for him! - The fact the mafia literally had to hire an accountant makes me think that they most DEFINITELY just hired Dan because they needed a second intelligent person in the mob to do their math work for them. They couldn't keep on pushing that responsibility onto Legs who already has his hands full. - Dan has an IQ of 142, ranking him as being above average. - I feel like he and Legs are good friends even after Dan threatened to cut his hand off. - Guy likes to listen to the beatles after long and stressful days. Just to help him calm down.

Something tells me that Dan really wanted to become a math professor but due to his endless nights of studying and abusing his own health just to pass the needed tests, he became more exhausted and burned out than ever. Forcing him to adapt to becoming an accountant.

- He's a very organized dude, a bit too much of organized if anything. His apartment is spot-clean, he keeps track of all his files and even remembers the smallest of insignificant things.

His favorite dish is Grilled Cheese

Despite being seen and known as "just an accountant" the wiseguys treat him more like family. So much so that they even invite him to their annual karaoke nights after work. Just Him stuck in between the madness with Legs and Tommy "The Face-shooter" while Louie, Sonny - Go along and Frankie put their heart and soul into their performances.

Those are not many headcanons, I know. But Dan is the least one of the mob I make personal thoughts about, I love him don't get me wrong but I don't have many opinions on him as a character other than--- you know, being WAAYY too underrated.

[topixipot]

Episode Fact File: Singin' in the Lane

Episode Fact File: Singin’ in the Lane

The Simpsons’ Season 29 continues, as this Sunday, November 19th, 2017, Fox will air “Singin’ in the Lane”, the 7th episode of Season 29 and the 625th episode to date. This Episode Fact File will recap the episodes with pictures, video clips and more. Get the scoop right after the jump!

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[mydarkstar]

© Pierre Huyghe, One Year Celebration

2006

(Detail) The book is the collection of 48 posters for an ongoing project by Pierre Huyghe One Year Celebration.

The orginal posters are 120 x 84 cm. The posters in the book are reduced to 21 x 42,2 cm and folded in half making a double sided page sized 21 x 29.7 cm. The reduced posters are glued together and can be detached.

The books are invidually packed and include a separate colophon card with mechanically printed number.

Invited Artits: Boris Achour, Doug Aitken, Julieta Aranda, John Baldessari, Olivier Bardin, Jerôme Bel, Tatiana Bilbao and Julio Amezcua, Pash Buzari,Claude Closky, Tacita Dean, Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson, Olafur Eliasson, Paul Elliman, Hu Fang, Yona Friedman, Marc Ganzglass, Liam Gillick & Gabriel Kuri, Piero Golia, Robert Filliou, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Dan Graham, Marine Hugonnier, Koo Jeong- A, Pierre Joseph, Agnieskaa Kurant, Matthieu Laurette, Emily Mast and Carly Busta, Enzo Mari, Jeremy Millar, Aleksandra Mir, Maurizio Nannucci, Melik Ohanian, Pratchaya Phinthong, François Roche, Anri Sala, Shimabuku, Catherine Temerson & Israel Rosenfield, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Frederic Tuten, Hans Ulrich Obrist , Anton Vidokle, Lawrence Weiner.

[sureshotsureshot]

Ryan GANDER Artists' Cocktails 2013 collection Frac Normandie Rouen . Ryan Gander  a  longtemps  demandé  aux barmaids  qu’il rencontre  si ils inventaient  de  nouveaux cocktails. Le seul qui a répondu positivement est  Nishikawa, barmaid japonais, à qui il dédiera  ce livre. Lors de l’événement artistique SUNDAY à Londres, il décide d’inviter quelques amis artistes  à créer des cocktails qu’ils vendent directement aux visiteurs. Le Ryan’s Bar naît en 2010 avec Bob et Roberta Smith, Liam Gillick et Fiona Banner. En deux ans cette œuvre collective regroupe 91 recettes réalisées par 91 artistes  que Gander estime ou qui sont ses amis. L’état d’esprit du livre se situe dans l’ambivalence  entre  des  éléments  biographiques de la vie de Gander et des  partitions de cocktails conceptuels.  Le lecteur peut jouer, il peut se perdre dans  ce labyrinthe éditorial mais aussi  utiliser cette collection de recettes pour son usage premier qui est de réaliser ces cocktails.

[ilonacho]

I think I love my husbandos: - Dan Gillick - Wayne Slater - Tab Spangler - Russ Cargill - Hank Scorpio I don't know why the Simpsons have charismatic characters? Also why the characters of Albert Brooks are the most charismatic?

That’s a brooks babey