#fabio lanzoni

[nobigneil]

Neil reacts to a Goose flying into Fabio's face on a rollercoaster

[scourgiez]

Please tell us the fabio lore i’m curious

My issue is that you should not get me in contact with a Wikipedia page because I WILL look through everything. Not a link untouched. Here’s a little bulleted list of highlights:

- He is a March Pisces

- He got drunk as a toddler (?!) and due to the hospital stay afterwards he doesn't touch alcohol

- When he got American citizenship he called his home country of Italy a shithole. And then in another part hes all like Italian food is the BEST!!!!!! 🍝🇮🇹

- The goose incident has its own section. He claims that the goose was not the thing that hit him, instead the goose hit a camera mounted on the car which broke and the debris hit his nose. Apparently "the news said the goose hit him so he wouldn't sue them for faulty equipment." But …. Why would he just drop that allegation 😭

- A soldier in the idgaf war. He just says and does whatever.

- Conan talking about his boobs:

[laurasoretta]

I am Italian, but only today (thanks to @lostfirefly) I discovered the existence of Fabio Lanzoni, apparently a famous 90s model of romance novels covers.

And this happened:

[photo2arts-blog]

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[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H III N G

I'm going through as many Exorcist movies as I can stand. Trying to see what I haven't seen before. Something to do.

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I don't see how William Friedkin criticized 'Exorcist Believer' in a moral sense in its production shortly before his death when this movie by Blatty himself posited that Damien Karras somehow survived his climactic fall down the stairs in the original film to become possessed by a serial killer and "the master" or "legion".

This movie's plot is beyond reasonable reality, even in demonic possession beliefs. The devil may have reach, but even Satan would be bound by certain cosmic laws.

Friedkin was an ass to do that.

That said, this is not as terrible a movie as I expected, but it's more like a slasher film than an Exorcism.

[spacevixenmusic]

Source: Jill Sobule - I Kissed A Girl [1995]

[oh-yes-i-did-not]

I am LITERALLY living in a world where people don't know who Fitness Fabio is. And also, they don't know what many parodies of him are about either.

Like the movie The Lost City and the character of Dash.

Sure, if you read romance, you might know the type, but if you don't know Fabio Lanzoni, the man, the legend, the book cover, then I think you will lose some aspect of the humour and maybe will take it all as a joke.

And SURE, it is a joke, he is a joke to some extent. But also, he is a phenomenon. And I think it would do us all good to remember that, and him.

[issela-santina]

one person's Frankenstein is another person's Fabio

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

on Fabio's wikipedia page, reading about "the goose incident"

[judgeitbyitscover]

Warrior's Woman by Johanna Lindsey

Cover art by Elaine Duillo

Avon Books, June 1990

A classic romance novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey, Warrior’s Woman boldly goes where no romantic fiction has gone before! An ingenious blend of sizzling passion, paranormal romance, and science fiction romantic fantasy, Warrior’s Woman travels far into the future—where a fearless intergalactic traveler hoping to save her endangered home world seeks a champion on a planet of strapping barbarians…and finds herself making very physical contact with a truly magnificent savage.

[mysterious-corpse]

I just remembered the time I put a common romance novel cover model thru faceapp to look younger and he looked exactly like my family friend

[garadinervi]

Villamarzana (RO), 15 ottobre 1944

Giovanni Bevilacqua (b. 1926), Luigi Bevilacqua (1926), Bruno Boaretto (1915), Carso Boldrin (1916), Danilo Botton (1919), Rino Brancalion (1926), Angelo Burin (1916), Tullio Castellan (1927), Ermes Cavalieri (1924), Guerrino Chieregatti (1915), Fabio Dall'Aglio (1929), Luigi De Stefani (1920), Giuseppe Donegà (1926), Ennio Faccioli (1928), Giovanni Fantinati (1925), Antonio Feo (1920), Onorio Ferro (1928), Gino Folego (1925), Ezio Galvani (1921), Bruno Garbellini (1927), Benito Guidetti (1926), Vittorio Guidetti (1928), Ivan Lanzoni (1921), Egisto Mantovani (1924), Gelsomino Marchetto (1924), Wilson Milani (1922), Umberto Morin (1928), Bruno Munari (1926), Gino Munari (1921), Nerino Prini (1924), Mario Rizzi (1927), Ermenegildo Sandali (1908), Antonio Tasso (1926), Giovanni Tasso (1908), Lido Tinti (1924), Nello Tosarello (1924), Valentino Tosarello (1926), Giuseppe Usan (1925), Silvio Voltani (1907), Bruno Zanella (1929), Nazzareno Zuliani (1921), Attilio Malanchin (1925) (ferito sopravvive alla fucilazione; morirà dopo un anno nel tentativo di disinnescare una bomba). Rastrellamento nella notte tra il 13 e il 14 ottobre 1944, 11 persone assassinate, perlopiù partigiani – in località Bressane di Castelguglielmo (RO): Giuseppe Zeggio, Pasquale Zeggio, Remigio Varliero, Italo Varliero; in località Precona di Castelguglielmo (RO): Emilio Secchiero, Gaetano Campion, "Otello" (Il Genovese) (suicidatosi per non essere torturato). ― Atlante delle Stragi Naziste e Fasciste in Italia (pdf)

(image: La lunga marcia dei 54, (documentario, 2010, 59 min), di Alberto Gambato)

[ilynpilled]

george is not laughing at his female audience for liking his grey male characters, he is mocking those that particularly romanticize said characters... which is definitely true. You wouldn't get popular fan opinions such as "Jaime, the feminist" or the amount of sansan art with sandor looking like Fabio Lanzoni if those women didn't exist.

sure and thats george but what im frustrated by is when i see this thing in fandom of men implying that women only extend sympathy, are attached to, love, or read these characters in a certain way bc they are shallow bad boy obsessed freaks. like it is incredibly condescending to make you feel like u dont have the intellectual capacity to be attracted to fictional characters and love them for what they are (and god forbid, say things that the author himself stated multiple times) or be self aware enough to separate the more fun and unserious in tone romanticising and actual serious critical engagement. again, im not denying that the woobification exists, but i do see some generalizing or double standards that i deem frustrating personally

[89wfox]

Idk how this will come across, but here I go.

Would you be willing or comfortable enough to do a FSBH x Rose portrait but in the style of a Fabio Lanzoni book cover sort of way? This somehow came to mind when I saw the Feathered Serpent Black Hat & adventurer(?) Rose pieces & I cannot unthink it.

Well I'm intrigued, I might give it a shot.

[most-datable-datable-bracket]

I just wanna say that I am both impressed and pissed off that Elliott SDV made it this far? He's not bad he just beat out characters who I found much more interesting. He also reminds me of Fabio Lanzoni. I don't know why that bothers me.

Just looked that guy up. Yeah it'd bother me too if all I saw when I see Elliott was that guy :/

[fellow-traveller]

What's your opinion on Hol's first appearance when he manipulated a girl and told J. Geil he was doing it so they would risk their lives to save him, compared to his later appearance when he got very upset about the implication that he would hurt a woman?

To make it short, it's good character growth, visually. Very rarely one gets to see a minor antagonist who was supposed to be forgettable having such in-depth and memorable development.

I'm not a good meta writer, but let's try to dissect this question anyway. As usual, disclaimer, I'm not an expert in the Major Arcana...yadayadayada okay, let's go!

(decided to put it under the cut because it ended up being a very long answer)

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By the girl, I would assume you're referring to Nena, the wielder of the Stand Empress. The girl who rode the elephant with Hol Horse. The girl who proposed to Hol Horse for his hand in marriage but got rejected by the cowboy because (likely, he assumed) she was 16.

Before I say more, a brief note on this: I know a lot of new JoJo fans are throwing a fit over Hol "flirting" with a 16 year-old - although I wouldn't call it flirting as it sounded more like "sweet talking his way out of trouble" kinda thing - and my solid argument to that is the era. The 1980s and early 1990s were ladened with people getting into relationships and getting married young, not just in South Asia (where Nena might be from) but also in the West. It wasn't right, but it was the norm, especially in the poorer parts of the world with strong traditional and cultural practices, before the UN strongly advocated for the rights for children's education in these regions, and pedophilia crimes had taken the spotlight in the public eye.

Hol was, and probably still is, the Western rugged gentleman trope through and through. And part of the Spaghetti Western is the cheesy romance, so if Hol's character design was following it to a T, at least in his first appearance in SDC, he's bound to speak like the dialogues in a novel with Fabio Lanzoni on its covers.

Plus, we don't even know if Nena was really 16 years old. She was in disguise, remember?

It's not too far off to say that Hol still respects women as long as they did not interfere with his life as a mercenary. And being a mercenary, one does need a network of people to aid their journeys, even if it seemed like a blatant manipulation of emotions and resources.

Nevertheless, I wouldn't call it 100% manipulation on Hol's part, even though manipulative behaviour is a trait for a Reversed Emperor. Reversed tarot cards are what I assumed the Agents of Dio had traits of and followed through as the villains of the story.

I'm not sure if this is already told by Araki or if it was general consensus since the manga came out, but...it's a common belief that Nena was in love with Hol Horse, second to Dio, and she actually disguised herself into a beautiful young maiden to match Hol's dashing looks. She was genuinely in love with Hol, and based on that, she could be willingly giving up herself to Hol's vices without thinking about the consequences.

Her disguise is also part of her own manipulation of Hol Horse himself (and after that, to an extent, of Polnareff as well), so Hol and her are pretty much just two sides of the same coin. Which, again, is not too far off.

Reversed Empress is characterized as the loss of willpower, going overboard with loving someone, neglecting own needs, heavy reliance on others and being clingy...which is basically what Nena was, and how her Stand works. In the context of her sticking with Hol and helping him, yes, it could be Hol's own manipulative trait of a Reversed Emperor, but it's also Nena's whole Reversed Empress trait doing the works.

Hence, why it's not exactly 100% manipulation by Hol.

That said, we also don't really know if Hol knew that Nena was in disguise. He might have known she had the Empress Stand. Her backstory as a heiress to nobility might also be a ruse, just so she can get close to Hol. All of these? Manipulative behaviours. Though this sometimes made me wish she wouldn't be in disguise since I do believe when Hol said that he respects all women, pretty or ugly, young or old. He wouldn't care about her looks anyway, should she present her appearance as her real self. But that wouldn't be too bizarre, wouldn't it?

(part of me actually headcanon Nena being giddy about Hol Horse, while Midler supports her crushing and gushing over the cowboy...I wished this was real, somewhere behind the scenes)

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Now what he confessed to J. Geil, about using women around the world for his own selfish benefit, could be true. As I mentioned, Hol's a mercenary, and with a Reversed Emperor, he's basically not following what a king should do - serve his subjects. Instead, they are serving him. Although I do believe it's not solely to risk their lives to save him, but, like Nena, these women most likely were in love with the cowboy that had the Western charm of John Wayne and Marlboro Man. And love can make people do stupid things.

Also, we're kinda forgetting that Hol Horse was a fucking cocky bastard. At least in his first arc in SDC.

So I'm not too surprised if he's trying to overcompensate when talking to other people, even to his work partners. And overcompensation can be an outright lie. Another possible reason for Hol to boast about his "girlfriends around the world" story might also lie in him being intimidated by the person he was talking to. J. Geil is, as far as the canon manga goes, a mysterious man to Hol and he only knew him as Enyaba's son who wielded the Stand Hanged Man. He most likely didn't even know J. Geil killed and raped Sherry, and why he pursued Polnareff first. All Hol knew at that point of time was J.Geil was assigned as his partner, and they were to work together to kill the Joestar group. But at the same time, he knew J. Geil was a dangerous man.

Also, with Polnareff, Hol Horse did his cocky stint as well, in the possibility that he didn't know much about what Polnareff can or cannot do with Silver Chariot, other than the intel that was given to him. Obviously his confidence (and arrogance) rose up a notch when he was a millisecond close to killing Polnareff before Avdol stepped in (irl context it's kinda bull since no one can dodge a bullet unless they have Star Platinum or King Crimson...or Hol Horse's supreme agility).

Hol's cockiness showed the most when he should feel intimidated. It's almost like a defense mechanism.

He's pretty much humbled since he had his head shot at, but in his interaction with Mariah in CDDH, he still has a tiny bit of cockiness left in him. Again, intimidation by Mariah because he did think he was touching her Stand Bastet a few minutes earlier.

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So this long arse explanation is just to conclude this - Hol had always been a good person, despite the obvious flaws. He still respects women; it's part of his own principle, which he cannot go against as the Emperor. He gets upset (as all people should) if he had to hurt a woman for no reason. Even in the context of his conversation with Nena, even in his Reversed Emperor traits, the words he chose to tell her off were still rather gentle, and while she was saddened, she wasn't exactly hurt by the rejection. Twice, if I might add.

Keep in mind his Emperor card is only reversed when he's the major villain in his arc i.e. when going against the Crusaders in India. Otherwise, his card is always upright and I believe before he met Dio, he's a real deal hero.

Hence why it's more of a character growth for Hol visually, because we saw it happen. From The Emperor and The Hanged Man arc, to the latest Chapter 15 of CDDH. Visually, we saw him gradually changing his Emperor traits from reversed to upright. But upright was what Hol originally was. And so were most of the villain characters of the tarot card (which we barely could dissect because, unlike Hol, their appearances are pretty limited).

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idk...I hope this answers it.