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[ladybugkisses]

i felt so bad for Rocky this entire fic i ALMOST thought it really could only get worse aswell omg 😭 damn Ari and her on-brand unfiltered bluntness lmao

i love this, love the ongoing theme of Rocky's name being used in a more or less negative light only for Ari to flip that around in the end aaaaa mY HEART 🥹

thank you so much for writing another Roari fic!! ! i'm gonna read this many a time 💕🌹💝🌹💕

Roarke

Rocky has a very bad Valentine's Day.

A Roari fic Featuring Ari, a creation of @ladybugkisses

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It was the night before Valentine's Day.

Rocky nervously smiled as he walked into Mitzi's office. "Hello, Miss May! Surely another sterling review of our latest...ehm...esca...pade?"

"...Rocky," Mitzi sat behind her desk, "Have a seat."

Rocky sat down, his hands folded in his lap, his ears perked, his eyes wide but not bright.

"...Rocky, what did we send you out to do this time?"

"Fetch cherry bounce from Mr. Reynolds?"

"And what did you do?"

"...I got the liquor!" Rocky said, a soft smile on his face, "I did! All of it, not a drop spi-"

"Crushed, Rocky. Ivy used the word Crushed. You know how long that'll take Viktor to deal with?"

"...well if Nico had just gotten out of the way of the DOOR, it wouldn't've bent!"

"Rocky, every time you get sent out on this sort of thing, something like this happens! I'm glad you got the goods, but you need to start thinking about this more responsibly - you'll get killed!"

"But-"

"But nothin'." Mitzi said. "...I'm not gonna fire you or nothin'. But I need you to understand how serious I am when I say this." She looked him in the eye.

"Be more careful, Roarke"

"...okay." With that, he got up, and left.

-

Rocky rolled by Calvin's apartment, knocking on the door. He was still a little hum drum from his meeting the night before, but he was sure he could maintain good spirits! And he HAD to! He had a DATE tonight!

Calvin opened the door. Normally, Calvin would dress simply for most of the day, but he was oddly dressed to the 9s as he came to the door. Calvin seemed shocked that Rocky was there - perhaps he was seeing Ivy a little early today!

It was not Ivy.

"Roarke."

"...Aunt Nina!" Rocky casually waltzed in past Calvin, who seemed to be desperately trying to keep him out of the apartment. "And how are you this fine, lovely Valentine's Day?"

"I'm well. I was visiting my good child. I suppose I ought to say hello to you, as well."

"You, eh...you always meet Cal on Valentine's Day?"

"He wants to marry this girl, I figured I should meet her." Nina leaned in. "Is she...more modern?"

Calvin's eyes went wide. He looked at Rocky. Rocky didn't get the message.

"Well, compared with ol' Freck here she's avant garde!"

"...is she now?" Nina raised an eyebrow.

"Of course! Awful nice, too - math major, actress, real cute as well - you know, Freckle really lucked out here!"

Rocky had figured that would help. And in most cases, it would.

But he forgot who he was talking to.

"...single? In college? And...and an Actress?"

"Only...only sometimes, ma." Calvin said, reassuringly. "She, ehm, she-"

"What's next - she one'a them flappers I keep readin' about? I should hope not, I wouldn't be caught dead givin' you away to one'a-"

"THAT'S the word I was looking for!" Rocky nodded.

"Rocky you aren't helping." Calvin angrily hissed.

"Not helping you, perhaps, but me, surely! I'm not sure I even want to see this woman! Or you with her."

"Ma, I'm grown, I-"

"No sir. I won't have it." With that, She stood to leave. "...but what about you, Rocky?"

"Oh! Well I've just got this marvelous girlfriend from Portugal."

"Portugal?"

"Sure! Ari." Rocky smiled. "I've got a date with her tonight...she's got this fiery red fur and this cute voice and-"

"You, of all people? Hmm." Nina turned and left. Rocky just stood there, and looked at an astonished Calvin.

Calvin stared for a moment. "That was...definitely the wrong thing to say."

"I-...I can tell...Calvin, I know that was real boneheaded of me, I'm sorry, I-"

"It's alright." Calvin grunted as he sat. "I wasn't planning on the reveal going much better..."

"...listen, i can make it up to y-"

"It's fine, Rocky."

"I mean it, I-"

"Rocky, please, I-"

"If I could just-"

"ROARKE." Calvin stood and barked the word, like an order. "...I'm not mad at-...just...I think ye'd better go, aye?"

"...for sure."

-

Rocky schlepped down the street, and looked in a mirror. He did look a little rough - he needed to get in better shape for his date tonight! Some fancy fine restaurant of sorts - this outfit just wouldn't do! He walked over to the truck, which had a veyr angry Viktor by it, and grabbed one of his nice sets of clothes. He hummed a bit to himself as he snuck down into the Daisy to change, and-

"Mr. Rickaby?"

"GAH!" He nearly jumped out of his skin as he turned around to spot Lacy. "Lacy! What the hell are YOU doing here!?"

"I was looking for you, actually. I have news regarding your request to Mr. Sable?"

"Sure! Will he let me have a room?"

"No."

"Aww, what!?" Rocky gasped. "But I already gave him that deposit!"

"Which he has returned to you in full, here. You'll have to get it cashed." She handed him a check.

"You don't understand, Lacy, I sleep in a truck, I-...what am I supposed to do with myself?"

"...stop breaking the truck, i suppose." Lacy said. "I would loan you space, but I'm moving out of my apartment and into Arthur's soon. I can give you my landlord's line, if you'd like?"

"I suppose-...how much?"

"A month?" Lacy looked at the deposit. "...roughly what you were offering to Mr. Sable. Which, considering he isn't a landlord and hasn't a good concept of money, is...steep."

"...oh." Rocky nodded, slowly, processing what he was hearing. Between this, the meeting last night, and ruining whatever elaborate plan Calvin had to make Ivy palatable to Nina, he wasn't doing well today.

"...alright."

"Mr. Rickaby," Lacy spoke, "if it helps, the boarding house down the way has no curfew."

"I'll drop them a line..." Rocky shuffled off, and tried to think of something else. Could it get any WORSE today?

"Roarke," said Zib, "when you're done back there Mitzi wants us to help with hauling kegs."

Oh. It could.

-

Ari waited at her apartment, humming to herself. "ó Coimbra do Mondego...e dos amores-" She blinked when she heard the door, still putting in her earrings. She knew exactly who it would be - that dashing gray cat with that devilishly sweet smile and those big, bright eyes-

Who, this evening, looked a little flat.

He had dirt on his coat. He looked winded, like he'd run to get here. He looked like he'd cried a bit. He smiled a little.

"...Ari..."

"...we're not going on that date tonight."

He slumped. "...more bad news today, huh?"

"No, no." Ari shook her head. "But you're in no state to go out some place and be miserable - you're clearly not well!"

"No, I can be well! Honest! I promise, Ari, I-"

Ari took his hands and looked up. "You look like you sprinted over here!"

"...only the last little bit. Most of it was...very fast walking?"

"Rocky..." Ari dragged him inside, shut the door, and kicked off her heels.

"...I hate to ruin your night." Rocky said, taking off his jacket and hat instinctively. "I know you must be frustrated...I get it, a guy has a rough day but he really shouldn't let on to that. Especially on a night like tonight." He watched her go into her room. "I mean, I really was planning on it being great! But-" he began to choke up, as he put his face in his hands. "I get it if you're not interested in being seen near me or-"

"Roarke." For the first time since his childhood, the name felt soft in his ears. It felt like a warm bed - like a blanket. He felt Ari's hands on his cheeks. She looked concerned.

"I would love to be seen with you - not a moment goes by when I don't want to be with you." She kissed his forehead. "But you are in NO way to go out tonight. You need o stay in...besides. We can go tomorrow - how hard will it be to find a reservation the day AFTER Valentine's day?"

"...I'm sorry it worked out like th-"

"Shush. I have to spend my night with the most handsome man ever gifted to earth. What a horrible turn of events!"

"...and you don't even need to pretend to be nice to a waiter while wishing you could just have wine."

"Of course!" Ari purred as she sat in his lap. "I'm sorry you had such an abysmal day, and that I made you think it was about to get worse."

"You COULD have phrased that a bit better." Rocky nodded.

"No question there." She replied. "...but I'm glad you're here. I love you, Roarke."

"...I love you, too." Rocky kissed her, as the two slumped down on the couch...

[cowgremlin11]

I Know Those Eyes/This Man Is Dead

Mordecai returns to the Lackadaisy to see Viktor in an attempt to apologize for the day he kneecapped him.

so uhh i finished this way faster than i expected?? holy shit its like im on crack but all i did was take my vyvanse and eat some rice

-tagging ppl i think would enjoy this @feelgoodghoul (hey babe) @lordofdestructionm @flimflamfandom @weaver-z

[letterstofreckle]

An Introduction to the Blog

HELLO!

If you’re here, then you were likely around for the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. During that time, I answered questions as Calvin McMurray from Lackadaisy, in the form of letters. I did this over on my Lackadaisy blog, @flimflamfandom !

Before we go further, here are some quirks you should know!

This Calvin is with Ivy Pepper! At the very least, he’s interested in her. He’s convinced she’s out of his league, but the heart wants what the heart wants!

This Calvin prefers letter formats! As in, ‘dear so and so, x-y-z’. You can also use telegram formats if you really wanna get into it!

This Calvin is...slightly more Irish. That is to say, he’s got an accent. I always read him as having one, and as wonderful as Belsheber Rusape’s performance was in the pilot (and I DO love his performance, let’s not get it twisted) this Cal has a much thicker accent. Does that matter when writing letters? No, but...

This Calvin does open RP! That’s right, so long as it’s either Lackadaisy related or within the era this Calvin is capable of such things! Just don’t expect a super quick response every time, because-

This Blog runner is BUSY. Seriously. Between a newly outlined (as of April 2023) fic and running my other Lackadaisy blog, it can be a bit...busy around here! That, and I have a full time job. So. Do with that what you will.

That about sums it up! Feel free to ask things, send packages (that’s submitting), and most of all, just enjoy yerself!

[lordofdestructionm]

It’s for his own good of course...

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[ladybugkisses]

he better get used to it 'cause Ari thinks he's the most handsomest boy she's ever laid her eyes on with a beautiful mind and she WILL make that known!! !

at least mostly when they start dating- but she still complimented him many times before, like his writing and violin playing (and okay maybe she called him handsome Once.. ...but Rocky brushed it off as irony and didn't stop thinking about it for a week straight)

hahaha, cannibalism!

[snellyboi]

hey dudes

I write Lackadaisy fanfiction and I use a sideblog called @flimflamfandom so if you wanna check it out go ahead!

[cowgremlin11]

How They Fell In Love- Chapter 2

finished revisions! i have half my classes today cus of Things so i had time to finish this :)

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[cowgremlin11]

oh my god gay ppl kissing

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[flimflamfandom]

Flimflamuniverse Character Breakdown!

Have you ever been reading one of my fics and asked something like-

"Whaddya MEAN Freckle has an accent?"

"Why do they end up in Hollywood?"

"Who's Rocky dating, anyway!?"

Well WONDER NO MORE! This post is the comprehensive list for all yer Flimflamfandom character quirk questions!

Essentially all of the changes are character based, but we will be talking about slight setting differences as well.

Let's dive in!

THE SETTING:

Most of the setting is exactly the same - late 20s St. Louis!

HOWEVER -

During later period stuff (anything from 1929 onward) several of the characters have taken up roots and gone to Hollywood! This has to do with various career moves that take place over the duration of the AU

Significant parts of Calvin's story now take place in Cork, Ireland - this will be explained more in depth later.

IT SHOULD BE NOTED that by the time my AU takes place, the Daisy has picked up significantly in business.

THE CHARACTERS:

It's important to note that NONE OF THE CHARACTERS' CRIMINAL ATTRIBUTES WERE REVEALED UNTIL AROUND THE MID 70S, and by then, the shock and horror of this sort of thing were replaced with fascination.

CALVIN MCMURRAY:

1909-1939

Calvin's childhood is the same, up until the nebulous "incident" that gets Rocky kicked out of home. Because of this, Nina gets a bit spooked, and sends Calvin to finish his basic schooling in County Cork, Ireland. He completes his schooling, and comes back home just in time for the "event" at the police academy.

During his time at the Daisy, Calvin becomes very interested in writing, and begins writing for the Times Dispatch about baseball games. He eventually begins writing screenplays when he moves with Ivy to California. He writes 3 novels, 2 short story collections, and 3 books of poems, on top of 4 screenplays. He's a busy guy!

Unfortunately, sometime around 1936, he develops a form of tail cancer. He dies in 1939, just 10 days shy of his 30th birthday.

QUIRKS: -Calvin has an accent! He's a cork boy. He sounds like a Cork boy. -By the time of his death, Calvin has a son, named Finn.

IVY PEPPER:

1909-1999

Ivy's childhood and such don't change much at all. 'Cept a secret that has to do with Mitzi, but shh! It's a secret!

Ivy is majoring in mathematics at college, and she's MAJORING majoring in it. her specialty seems to be advanced algebra - ring theory, nonlinear algebra, stuff like that. She slowly starts to see herself doing less and less in the field, but she always keeps an interest in it, attends conferences, etc.

The thing that REALLY interests Ivy, though, is her theater course. She takes one as an arts credit and LOVES it! She turns out to be kind of a prodigy on stage! She does some more acting here and there, and happens to meet a producer of films in 1929, after she's changed names to Ivy McMurray. She drags Calvin out to Hollywood with her, and stars in at least a dozen films, winning awards for quite a few of them!

By her retirement from acting in the 1960s, (her last picture netted her an award, by the way) she began to help get all of her old things from the Daisy together, and turn them into a museum, called the Daisy Club Museum. She helped run and fund the museum until her death in 1999, just 2 weeks into the age of 90.

QUIRKS: -Won 5 Oscars - 3 best supporting, 2 best actress. -Contributed her skills and research to at least 3 Algebra textbooks, -Never remarried after Calvin - she was quoted as saying "He'll love me when I get where he is, too."

ROCKY RICKABY:

1904-1989

Rocky's time at the Daisy is marred by his failed romances. He swears he must be the most unlovable person on earth! In the AU, I used to have an OC set aside for him, but nowadays I keep it vague and just say he has a wife and kids. ANYHOW, after the Daisy, Rocky manages to recover a tad from his head wound, and, get this - became a comedian. He even had a circuit of all the speakeasies.

Rocky did need a job after all of that though, and ended up, eventually, in broadcasting, which turned into being a comedian, which turned into his own radio show, which turned into a television show in the early days of TV. Rocky moved out to Hollywood and accidentally bought the house right next to Ivy and Calvin's.

A man with a good reputation, even AFTER it came out that he was a serious gangster, Rickaby died peacefully in 1989, at the age of 85.

QUIRKS: -Rocky was a staunch civil rights, woman's rights, and gay rights activist up until the very end. This would often get him in trouble with networks and producers. -Really liked the Beatles when they crossed over to the US -There is a very persistent rumor that he was in the OSS during World War 2 - in fact, he was not, but he did do work for the Signal Corps making mildly funny training films.

MITZI MAY:

?-1980

Little is known of her childhood, or her adolescence before the Daisy.

Plenty is known AFTER it though!

Mitzi, unlike the others, was not headed for entertainment afterwards. She, instead, lived with Sedgewick Sable, and indeed remarried, but never took his last name. As the pressure from the depression started to ease, she managed to turn all that Daisy property (and all of the hidden away stash money) into a hotel! Mitzi became an incredibly successful hotelier, owning and helping to operate no less than 5 luxury hotels by 1956.

By 1970, she had gotten in touch with Ivy Pepper again, and asked about the Daisy Club Museum - she was instrumental in getting it started, as she still sorta owned the caves down there. She had the diea of making it a living history museum, and she also had the idea of making it like a sort of themed resort.

She died in her sleep in 1980. No one was precisely sure of her age.

QUIRKS: -No one really knows her age -She has a secret about Ivy that she's never told a soul, and it went with her to her grave -Mitzi had one known child by Sedgewick Sable - Minerva, born in 1934. Minerva became a costumer.

SEDGEWICK SABLE:

1895-1985

After the depression hit, Sable was distraught and destitu-JUST KIDDING, that paranoid buffoon hid cash in the walls. The WALLS, I tell you! It wasn't a ton, though, and they coasted by until the New Deal came around.

Work projects need work materials, and Wick was able to help provide them. With a new purpose, new drive, and tons of resources, Wick managed to get the company going again, renaming it to Sable Construction Materials, later just SCM. He even had to buy 3 Lake Freighters - the company still operates lake freighters today!

At the age of 90, Wick passed away in his sleep.

QUIRKS: -While Wick and Calvin were never close, both were HUGE baseball fans - Wick was obsessed with the Red Sox. -Wick was a surprisingly involved boss - most employees knew him personally.

MORDECAI HELLER:

1899-1983

At some point, Mordecai returned to the Daisy, to work with Calvin McMurray as a 'fix it' man. Mordecai admired the work, and stayed put until the place stopped being illegal.

After bouncing from job to job, thinking he would end up back in organized crime, Mordecai settled down in New York after finding out the man who wanted him dead had been killed in a car accident. Mordecai became an accountant and theater manager on Broadway - not a STAGE manager, mind you, just the guy who runs the theater. He really quite liked the work!

Mordecai Heller died in 1983 at the age of 84, of lung cancer.

QUIRKS: -Mordecai was a homosexual, and was well known as such. -Mordecai, a seemingly ice hearted man, actually kinda liked musicals...well. Good ones, anyway. -His least favorite show up there was Seesaw. His favorite was Pacific Overtures

VIKTOR VASKO:

1886-1978

After the Daisy became a legal operation, Viktor just...kept working there. You still need someone to lift boxes and tend a bar when it's legal, too! Viktor was actually a loyal employee of Mitzi until 1943, when he left to run a construction firm in St. Louis. He did that, and had a fairly uneventful life, dying in 1978 at the age of 92.

QUIRKS: -Viktor never remarried - but he did reconnect with his wife and daughter sometime in 1935. -Viktor's daughter went on to become a famous operatic soprano, and even served at the Met for a time. -Viktor never outed any of his former associates, even when talks of the Daisy Museum were beginning. He refused, worrying that he'd sully people's reputations.

DORIAN ZIBOWSKI:

?-1954

After the depression, it became harder for clubs to keep full time musicians. Zib was still at the Daisy until about 1932. Fortunately for him, in 1933, his old...work acquaintance? Rocky was running a radio show out of Los Angeles and was asked to help find a band leader.

After a brief stint on this show, Zib began to lead bands at the cutting edge of Jazz music - he considered becomeing an academic, but he never found the time to think too hard about the option.

A lifetime of smoking and drinking caught up to him fiercely, and he died of Lung Cancer in 1954.

QUIRKS: -He's still made outta triangles! -Zib learned to play every saxophone, and every reed instrument he could get his hands on. -Zib's final record was a live recording at the Pershing Lounge in Chicago, Illinois, 4 years before Ahmad Jamal made it famous.

THE SAVOYS:

Nico: 1900-1978 Serafine: 1902-1983

Little is known of the Savoys after their return to Louisiana in 1931. Some say Nico got back into boxing, or that Serafine was responsible for a rash of killings.

The two died peacefully in their homes, and lived to perfectly normal old ages...and yet, it seemed so suspicious when Nico died. He was just...on his back porch. With a note that was written in code...

QUIRKS: -Nico did, in fact, go back into boxing, but left for professional wrestling - the fictional kind. Serafine was, for a time, a voodoo practitioner for hire, who was well regarded in her community -Neither married, but both had several relationships

THE ARBOGASTS:

Abelard: 1886-1987 Bobby: 1898-1975 Elsa: 1900-1975

The Arbogasts lead a quiet, mostly obscure life, save for Abelard, who becomes quite the lit up theologian. He starts a cult in the woods of Missouri, and is found dead after his 101st birthday. The cult, as many do after a leader dies, fell into disarray and eventually splintered.

Bobby and Elsa dropped the funeral routine and moved closer to the city - Bobby became a school teacher and Elsa became a nurse. The two died months apart in 1975.

QUIRKS: -Elsa and Bobby were just about as in love with each other as Calvin and Ivy. -Bobby had severe PTSD from the war, and would often have episodes. Elsa hated seeing him that way, but helped him. -Abelard's Cult, "the new Thinkers", was bizarrely peaceful as cults are concerned. They never ate Fish, though...

LACY HARDT:

1904-1994

Lacy was a loyal employee of Sedgewick Sable for the first year after the depression. Eventually, though, she married Arthur Keane (an OC you can read about here), a guitarist, and moved with him to his hometown of Virginia Beach. There, she lived with him as an assistant to many prominent locals.

Eventually, the two moved again, back to Peoria, to take care of Lacy's ailing mother. This was around 1934. After Lacy's mother passed in 35, she was distraught. So, she decided to find a new hobby - writing and illustrating children's books. She got onto the idea after a phone call with Ivy, who handed over Calvin's agent's information.

When she retired, Lacy moved back to Virginia Beach with Arthur, who died a year before she did. QUIRKS -Lacy won a Caldecott Medal, and displayed it in her home office until her death -Until after her death, it was kept a secret by the McMurray family that Lacy, who was close with them, had been writing Finn (Calvin's son) notes as Mrs. Claus, as well as little stories, which eventually became her 'Rudy Sees the World' books.

THAT'S ALL I'M WRITING FOR NOW!

Again, pretty much all the changes are to the characters - the setting is, for the most part, untouched! I will be writing more about the AU when I get the chance, though!

[cowgremlin11]

Silent Snow, Secret Snow - Vikdecai

Got to write fanfic for my ENG 222 course >:) We were given title prompts.

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[cowgremlin11]

How They Fell In Love- Chapter 1

im gonna start posting the big vikdecai fic! im in the heat of my exams tn and need something fun i can focus on while worrying about studying and writing essays :")

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When my mutuals post art/fanfic/edits

[cowgremlin11]

6x6

Started and finished 2 fics in one day??? tf is wrong with me

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[cowgremlin11]

How They Fell In Love- Chapter 3

im dying atm lmao. voice is gone, i have an oral interview tomorrow, i have so many things i have to write, so heres gay ppl :) this ones a cuter chapter

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[cowgremlin11]

How They Fell In Love- Chapter 6

my tummy hurts :(

anyways heres a lighter chapter where theyre just hanging out

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[flimflamfandom]

Reaching the point if meta where I'm shipping my OC with a Canon character and my other OC with a fan on version of a Canon character who appears for a frame and some change.

I PROMISE I'm trying to write, like, typical flimflamfandom stuff - Rocky will gut someone with a rusty spoon and a spinning wheel, Calvin and Ivy will kiss, all that - but Ludwig ideas are pinging off my brain rn