#connor o'flanagan

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(Check out Michael Ulrich’s photography!)

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(Check out Michael Ulrich’s photography! Text taken from this post.)

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Me: "Someone who’s never been to PARF, explain this pic."

Friend: “Dramatic lesbian warrior faces her foes while being serenaded by the squad.”

(Picture is a screenshot from YouTube video “Irish Revels PARF 8-27-17” posted by wavking.)

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Hey Nathan Landis Funk, Naomi and I challenge you to write and record the whole of “Meet At the Fountain At Five of the Clock and Bring Your Pikes”etc. as a bonus track on your upcoming EP.

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Colleen the Weaver - I look like a cinnamon roll but I could actually kill you

Iona Finn - I look like I could kill you but I’m actually a cinnamon roll

Wailin’ Brendan Whelan - I look like a cinnamon roll and I’m actually a cinnamon roll

Connor O'Flanagan - I look like I could kill you and I’m actually going to kill you

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Look, I’m Hymn For the Humble trash, okay, let me live.

(Check out Michael Ulrich’s photography!)

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I just imagined the Irish Revels singing The Rebel Jesus, and I was all but moved to tears.

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2017 Cinnamon Role Masterlist (see what I did there)

Catherine of Aragon - I look like a cinnamon roll but I could actually kill you

Henry VIII - I look like a cinnamon roll and I am actually a cinnamon roll but I could also kill you

Sir Walter Roderick Kensington - I look like a cinnamon roll and I am actually a cinnamon roll

Lady Dolores Pemburthy - I look like I could kill you and I’m actually going to kill you

Baron Helmut von Wolfe - I look like I could kill you but I’m actually a cinnamon roll but I could also kill you

Hans Tolhoffer - I look like I could kill you but I’m actually a cinnamon roll

Gruber Richtofen - I look like a cinnamon roll and I am actually a cinnamon roll but I could also kill you

Captain Valeria Mendoza - sinnamon roll

Penelope “Penny Dreadful” Smythe - I look like I could kill you and I’m actually going to kill you

Zerafina - I look like a cinnamon roll but I could actually kill you

Zoraida - I look like a cinnamon roll but I could actually kill you

Angus MacGuffin - I look like I could kill you and I’m actually going to kill you

Sheriff Samuel Briggs - I look like a cinnamon roll and I am actually a cinnamon roll who could maybe kill you in a pinch

Mary Barnham - I look like a cinnamon roll and I am actually a cinnamon roll but I could also kill you to an extent you didn’t know you could be killed

Colleen the Weaver - I look like a cinnamon roll but I could actually kill you

Iona Finn - I look like I could kill you but I’m actually a cinnamon roll

Wailin’ Brendan Whelan - I look like a cinnamon roll and I am actually a cinnamon roll

Connor O'Flanagan - I look like I could kill you and I’m actually going to kill you

Jenny Groves - I look like I could kill you and I’m actually going to kill you especially if we’re married

Susan Gimble - I look like a cinnamon roll and I’m actually a cinnamon roll

Angie Finch - I look like a cinnamon roll but I could actually kill you

Tally Applebottom - I look like I could kill you but I’m actually a cinnamon roll

Marty Sloth - I look like a cinnamon roll and I’m actually a cinnamon roll

Barty Sloth - I look like a cinnamon roll and I’m actually a cinnamon roll

Derrick the Unready - I look like I could kill you but I’m actually a cinnamon roll

Davy - I look like a cinnamon roll but I could actually kill you

Nicodemus Stone - sinnamon roll

Ned Applebottom - I look like a cinnamon roll and I’m actually a cinnamon roll

Diggory Applebottom - I look like a cinnamon roll and I’m actually a cinnamon roll

Guy Ablehammer - sinnamon roll

Danforth Pemburthy - I look like a cinnamon roll and I’m actually a cinnamon roll

Geralyn Albrecht - I look like a cinnamon roll and I’m actually a cinnamon roll but I could also kill you

Mable Stone - I look like a cinnamon roll and I’m actually a cinnamon roll but I could very probably kill you

Betty Diver - I look like I could kill you and I’m actually going to kill you but I’m also something of a cinnamon roll

Winnifred Baker - I look like a cinnamon roll and I’m actually a cinnamon roll

John de Vere - I look like a cinnamon roll and I’m actually a cinnamon roll

Todd Fenniman - I look vaguely like I could kill you but I’m actually a clueless cinnamon roll

Marjorie Miller-Briggs - I look like a cinnamon roll but I could actually kill you

Flamin’ Oscar - I look like a cinnamon roll and I’m actually a cinnamon roll

Rumpelstiltskin - Ultimate Sinnamon Roll

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My nicknames for the characters by the end of the season:

(Followup to this post.)

Catherine of Aragon - Love me

Henry VIII - Stop being perfect, it’s not fair

Sir Walter Roderick Kensington - Favorite character

Lady Dolores Pemburthy - Birdhand

Baron Helmut von Wolfe - *howls wordlessly into the abyss*

Hans Tolhoffer - Cinnamon roll with a sword

Gruber Richtofen - Energy incarnate

Captain Valeria Mendoza - Comparatively honest

Penelope “Penny Dreadful” Smythe - Trans bamf

Zerafina - Not English but not immune

Zoraida - I can finally pronounce your name without a German accent!

Angus MacGuffin - My best friend’s classmate

Sheriff Samuel Briggs - Brandon Briggs

Mary Barnham - Mary squared

Colleen the Weaver - Mob-friend mom-friend

Connor O'Flanagan - General agitator

Wailin’ Brendan Whelan - *cries*

Iona Finn - My protector

Jenny Groves - Mama Siren

Susan Gimble - so smol

Angie Finch - Geralyn’s maybe-girlfriend

Tally Applebottom - Pineapplebottom

Marty Sloth - he soft

Barty Sloth - Beloved birate

Derrick the Unready - Nephew to my best friend’s godparents

Davy - My husband, apparently.

Nicodemus Stone - You still-poor bastard

Ned Applebottom - Whoo!

Diggory Applebottom - Giant teddy-bear

Guy Ablehammer - Doug Wallace!  I finally know your name!

Danforth Pemburthy - Pumpkin spice

Geralyn Albrecht - My autistic brethren whom I love

Mable Stone - Typical college student

Betty Diver - I coordinated with you!!

Winnifred Baker - I need to not neglect the improv track

John de Vere - Still not that kind of faerie

Todd Fenniman - Penelope’s familiar

Marjorie Miller-Briggs - Possibly a murderer? hella cute tho

Flamin’ Oscar - Not-Rowan

Rumpelstiltskin - And then there’s this bitch

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The names I knew the characters by back at the start of the season:

Catherine of Aragon - i’m love?

Henry VIII - Long hair no fair

Sir Walter Roderick Kensington - Sir Walter “tremendous snowstorm”, master of revels

Lady Dolores Pemburthy - Mayor “been-here-forever” Pemburthy

Baron Helmut von Wolfe - Baron von uhhhh whatever

Hans Tolhoffer - Hans somethingorother

Gruber Richtofen - Smiling Mercenary

Captain Valeria Mendoza - Piratically perfect in every way

Penelope “Penny Dreadful” Smythe - “y’know, fighting?”

Zerafina - Seraphema

Zoraida - Her sister

Angus MacGuffin - The new MacGuffin

Sheriff Samuel Briggs - The sheriff

Mary Barnham - Shepherdess Scexit

Colleen the Weaver - Blond-haired Revel

Connor O'Flanagan - Revolutionary Revel

Wailin’ Brendan Whelan - Kelpie Revel

Iona Finn - Iona “nonbinary” Finn

Jenny Groves - Tall siren

Susan Gimble - smol

Angie Finch - The other siren

Tally Applebottom - Yeah, person!

Marty Sloth - Rogue been-here-forever

Barty Sloth - Him with the subtle stripes

Derrick the Unready - Same, fam

Davy - And Peggie

Nicodemus Stone - You poor bastard

Ned Applebottom - Your existence grants me happiness

Diggory Applebottom - Tall Applebottom

Guy Ablehammer - Argyle

Danforth Pemburthy - Puppet master

Geralyn Albrecht - Personal Space? Whom Is She?

Mable Stone - Cavalry champion

Betty Diver - Harbor lesbian

Winnifred Baker - Blue-and-yellow-who’s-not-the-shepherd

John de Vere - Not-that-kind-of-faerie

Todd Fenniman - Him with the cat

Marjorie Miller-Briggs - why are you so pretty, how is that allowed.

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Can you rank your top 15 favorite characters from this past season in order? you can also write why if you want to

I am sorry I took so long on this, Anon!  It’s a really tough question, and although I did eventually decide on fifteen Bacchanalians and even ordered them, I’m not totally satisfied with it even now.

The other reason it took so long is I wanted to write out why I love each character.  I eventually gave up on that because time-management and I are not friends.  I may try to do it at some point, but for now, here’s the bare list, as well as I can make out.

Honorable Mention: Betty Diver

15. Wailin’ Brendan Whelan

14. Colleen the Weaver

13. ConnorO'Flanagan

12. John de Vere

11 (tied with 10). Penny Dreadful

10 (tied with 11). CaptainValeria Mendoza

9. Mable Stone

8 (tied with 7). Baron Helmut von Wolfe

7 (tied with 8). Hans Tolhoffer

6. Gruber Richtofen

5. Iona Finn

4. Geralyn Albrecht

3. Henry VIII

2. Catherine of Aragon

1. [to nobody’s surprise at this point] Sir Walter Roderick Kensington

(Seriously though, take this with not so much a grain of salt as a whole ruddy handful.  One to eight I’m pretty certain on, but after that, it was a bit like throwing darts without my glasses on at things I was pretty sure were targets but each spot on the target was worth the same number of points, or so I had been told, but I couldn’t check, because I didn’t have my glasses on.)