#franco bash

[clydemystik301]

Fatal Fury characters ranked based on how scared they would be at FNAF jumpscares

[livefastdriveyoung]

Congratulations to both Alex and Franco for making it into the Top 10 in Baku!

[uwabbittuwabbit]

the f1 community finding reasons to hate on rookie drivers is weird ngl. Like first y’all did it to Oscar who is the most normal guy ever and now with Franco. Side eye.

[purinfelix]

⋆𐙚₊˚⊹♡

franco, despite what you might expect, becomes unbearably bashful and shy when he develops a crush on someone - which is exactly the reason why it takes you so long to realise he in fact didn't hate you, because why else would he act so differently around you? how is it he could flirt with interviewers who were complete strangers or joke around with mechanics he's only just met, but is almost silent with you? maybe it has something to do with the fact that he wants every interaction with you to be perfect (he can't help it ... he just likes you so much) and it's because of this he can only manage to get out painfully awkward small talk or an excuse to leave before he embarrasses himself. it kills him, partially because he's making his crush on you so painfully obvious - but mostly because you seem to be the only person who hasn't noticed.

[felicity0222]

The turn around from last night to when Logan was trending on twitter because people were genuinely happy to see him looking so genuinely happy to be in Nashville and away from Williams.

To this morning where he’s trending again but this time it’s because of the f1 qualifying and people are bashing him and sending hate, but they don’t realize him and Franco were driving two very different cars this season is absolutely insane to me. Like those people must have the memories of a goldfish and to the f1tv commentators egging on the hate by comparing Franco and Logan by nitpicking facts about Logan’s season they should be ashamed of themselves.

[italian-lit-tournament]

The participating authors for the Italian Lit(erature) Tournament: the general list + a google form to add other proposals

Podesti Francesco - Torquato Tasso reading Jerusalem Delivered to the Estensi court

The start of the Italian Lit(erature) Tournament (first edition) is getting closer, but first I want to post the general list of the authors partecipants.

The principal issue is that every literary canon is constantly changing, with more critical studies over the years. I've thought about it, read and searched, and the solution I found has two parts:

I will take the principal authors from this list, which in turn is based from the studies of Gianfranco Contini and Asor Rosa. The list is too long and many names are only chronicles and essayists, so I'll chose the principal ones, trying to balance between north/south Italy and male/female authors (taking into account that many authors that we study are men). As you will see below under the cut, the list is already pretty long, doing some math the challenge will be 2/3 months long.

Still, I recognise that this isn't 100% unbiased and fair, so I opened a free and quick google form when you can add a maximum of two authors that you don't see in the list. This considerable limit is to avoid having too many names - if in some answers I see more than 2 names, I'll take into account only the first 2 listed.

IMPORTANT! 👇

After much thoughts, I also chose to don't include living authors or authors death only recently (before January 2023). The reason is simply to avoid potential issues in the community, like bashing between fandom or admirers of some specific author, or going too far like offending some people near the author still alive or recently deceased. Maybe if this tournament will end well, a second edition could be made next year and maybe with the addition of living authors! (I'm already thinking to do an italian or european cinema tournament in the future but this is still in the draft).

Under the cut, you will find the list of the authors already part of the challenge, name-surname with the surname in alphabetical order. If you don't see a name that you want to see, use the form to add it!

edit: I added the ones from the surbey so far, all in italics. There are names that have been sent but already on the list.

Dante Alighieri

Sibilla Aleramo

Vittorio Alfieri

Cecco Angiolieri

Pietro Aretino

Ludovico Ariosto

Matteo Bandello

Anna Banti

Giambattista Basile

Giorgio Bassani

Cesare Beccaria

Maria Bellonci

Pietro Bembo

Matteo Maria Boiardo

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giordano Bruno

Dino Buzzati

Italo Calvino

Andrea Camilleri

Giosuè Carducci

Guido Cavalcanti

Carlo Collodi

Vittoria Colonna

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Giacomo da Lentini

Caterina da Siena

Alba de Céspedes

Cielo (Ciullo) d'Alcamo

Edoardo De Filippo

Federico de Roberto

Grazia Deledda

Umberto Eco

Beppe Fenoglio

Marsilio Ficino

Dario Fo

Ugo Foscolo

Veronica Franco

Carlo Emilio Gadda

Natalia Ginzburg

Carlo Goldoni

Antonio Gramsci

Francesco Guicciardini

Tommaso Landolfi

Giacomo Leopardi

Carlo Levi

Primo Levi

Carla Lonzi

Niccolò Machiavelli

Alessandro Manzoni

Giovanbattista Marino

Giovanni Meli

Pietro Metastasio

Eugenio Montale

Elsa Morante

Alberto Moravia

Anna Maria Ortese

Giuseppe Parini

Goffredo Parise

Giovanni Pascoli

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cesare Pavese

Francesco Petrarca

Luigi Pirandello

Angelo Poliziano

Luigi Pulci

Salvator Quasimodo

Gianni Rodari

Lalla Romano

Amelia Rosselli

Umberto Saba

Emilio Salgari

Jacopo Sannazaro

Goliarda Sapienza

Leonardo Sciascia

Matilde Serao

Gaspara Stampa

Mario Rigoni Stern

Italo Svevo

Antonio Tabucchi

Torquato Tasso

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Giovanni Verga

Giambattista Vico

Renata Viganò

Elio Vittorini

Giuseppe Ungaretti

[letternotekisses]

HAII May I request Franco Barbi NSFW headcanons/drabble? THANK YOU SM!! <3

franco barbi nation this one is for u <3 nsfw below da cut

"You'll keep your fuckin' mouth shut about this."

You barely register his threats when he's crowding you against the cold wall, impatiently kicking over a barrel that was somewhat in his way. You take his growls with a grain of salt - seeing as this wasn't exactly the first time he'd bent you over mid trial. Franco is always quick to tear that stupid gear off your chest to get to your plush tits underneath, burying his face in them like he'd die without.

He's all talk. Don't be afraid to get a little bit stern with him - curl your fingers in his disarrayed hair and guide his movements while he feverishly eats you out. Franco wants you to make a mess on him because he's so desperate to please, he doesn't care if you get his expensive suits dirty - he can buy several more. It's actually almost pathetic how desperate he is for it.

Franco isn't above humping your leg to get his fix - and I imagine it probably just ties into his humiliation kink. Call him a good boy and he'll cum in his pants almost instantaneously. Same goes for whenever you let him fuck the supple flesh of your tits - anything to do with it has him kicking his feet and flushing a deep, bashful red.

Doesn't like sharing his things, and you fell under that category the moment you allowed him to sink his cock into your tight little cunt. It'll have him distracted in trials - chewing out anyone who dare touch you in a way that seems opposed to violence. Would one hundred percent throw a fit and shoot someone in the foot with his lupara.

"Come here, sweetness." >>>

[oatsa-the-humanoid]

Hi......

Sorry for sending in another request butbut (if you are still taking them) could you please draw a flustered Franco with a face full of lipstick marks?

Thank you (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

Never be sorry about sending a request. I love all of your guy's requests!

Here's Franco, embarrassed and flustered about the numerous lipstick marks across his face. 💚

He's so bashful when he gets love.

[muffy-official]

Tilly(Matilda) Newman, bride, manipulator, prime asset

Standing at maybe 5'6 without and 5'7 with heels on(not sure yet)

Early 30s

Looks weak to most, but you'd be surprised once you see her pin a man onto a wall like a dead butterfly with spare blades, adding another addition to that horrifying hallway in one of her trials areas

Yes, this is the woman I mentioned trading the at the time reagent Gabby for contraband goods such as wine and whiskey. She at first wanted to keep her as it finally was her turn to have this reagent, but heard she and Barbi knew eachother and took the chance to demand some goods in exchange for the young woman. Had to tie her up after putting her into something fancier to ensure Tilly gets what she wanted, doing hair, makeup, telling her how ladylike she looks while she's unaware where she's going to later.

She doesn't like Gabbys sometimes childish and not so traditionally female nature, wants to hyperfeminise her, doll her up to make her become "a ideal woman". Just like Tillys own mother did it to her growing up. Putting her into different dresses to try them on, applying full faces of makeup, posture lessons, sitting, talking etc. Since Gabby is so vulnerable at times she's generally too afraid to speak up. Tilly even victim blames her, calling her weak, saying how she let it happen herself, that it's her fault that Coyle stabbed and carried her to Phyllis, Coyle generally hurting her, things Franco did when she got singled out and later traded by Tilly, alongside expop and later reagents causing harm. Making the girl believe it was all her fault instead. Only time she tells her she's done a good job is later as expop where Gabby stabbed Coyle a few times into his shoulder in self defense after just being touched by her hands after enough torment was the last straw for the girl

Tilly is also in favour of the lady big grunts, would also put them through lessons, but less harsh when realising that Murkoff is responsible for their disfigurements. Maybe you see her gently brush one of the ladies hair or remains of hairs in a calm moment of peace

She has a slight(maybe even severe) drinking problem, tends to start during downtime whenever unwanted memories come back up or after she used her flirtatious ways as a survival tactic again, saying how her mother was right seeing her as a slut and the such

She came long before Barbi was considered for Lathe, felt quite upset when he got a trial before she did get her 2nd one

In one of her trials, the bridal parlour and photo studio, there's a wall pull of wedding photography. Reagents, expop, prime assets.. Murkoff themselves put them up there intentionally

Another environment might be a Great Church perhaps where you'd have to sabotage/ruin a wedding ceremony

Honestly not sure yet really

Bio:

A former bridal model Murkoff had a close eye on for quite some time. Men and women alike looking up to her as this embodiment of purity even though she truly wasn't, it's all a facade she built up to be the perfect model in the house. Having fascination for weddings and the ceremony, but no interest of becoming a housewife or bearing children, she's afraid of it. Her job let her play out her fantasy over and over again without the consequences the real deal brings. Eventually competition enters the building and she did end up murdering the new woman a month in, bashing a knife in and out of different places, the woman being nearly unrecognisable. Tilly did it as she was afraid to be replaced and abandoned, to lose her job, lose her fantasy land. She disappeared herself via abduction while trying to get rid of the body as Clyde alongside other people were following her car to a lake further away from the city site. Later a interview happened within a different facility before being moved to sinyala, thought no restraints were needed. She eventually started to give out flirtatious remarks towards Clyde Perry to manipulate him into forgetting where he was with his questions which went on for a bit until he did notice what she was doing and then questioned here as he presented evidence of the murder on that innocent woman and that pinup photo shoots results she never got to see as the man ran off once she passed out from drinking too much, resulting in her lunging over the table to push Clyde backwards to the floor and once she was near enough she started clawing through his face in a fit of rage, guards having to pry her off of him before she could get ahold of a nearby desk lamp.

As mentioned above she was taken advantage of to do a secret pinup photoshooting with a photographer she thought was in love with her just how she was with him, her being absolutely wasted and eventually passing out, waking up to the building being empty as he ran off with the material, only leaving 3 tame photos behind.

Her mother was also fairly strict growing up. Hated how little Tilly preferred play fighting and playing in mud, etc instead of being like other girls her age. Once her father who supported her never returned from service. Her mother had her all for herself. Molding(grooming her to be fair) her, pressuring her into becoming ideal as a adult, having her turn into who she is now

It's also possible that a child she used to collect dead butterflies and pin them onto a board or frames, eventually doing it with live ones..

For her trials I don't have clear objectives yet

Also here's them both together, the scaling may be a little off

[pleaseeeimjustagirl]

You Need To Decenter Men From Your Life 

Heyyyy babes<3 We will be working on decentering men from our life. This is super important! As women, we are taught to appeal to the male gaze and do everything for male validation. This can affect many young women. Causing them to have trouble being themselves and dealing with insecurities. This is also for my girlies who are serial daters. You have never been in a season of your life where you were truly single. You use relationships to ignore the real problems you have with yourself. This post is not to bash men! It is to help you ladies decent men from your life so you can start your self-love journey<3

How to decenter men

♡ Focus on making your teens and twenties about you! How can you love someone and you don't even love yourself? Self-love is the best form of love! Take this time to get to know yourself and pour into yourself. Travel, test different careers, make new friends, and so on. Your teens and twenties especially your twenties are the most important years of your life and you won't get them back so really take this time to focus on bettering and improving yourself inside out so when you start dating again you feel and know you are the prize.

♡ Let go of society's beauty standard! Most of us will NEVER be the beauty standard. You may have certain attributes that fit into the beauty standard but not all and that is okay. Your higher power created you a certain way for a certain reason. Beauty standards change! In the 90s thin was in. The model body was the beauty standard now having curves specifically an hourglass figure is the beauty standard and it is funny because 20 years ago if you told a girl she was curvy or had a big butt she’d feel insulted. 

♡ Validate yourself. Let your opinion of your beauty be the #1 opinion. Affirm yourself in your beauty and remind yourself you are that girl! Compliments are nice to hear but your confidence shouldn't change because someone calls you unattractive. We are all attractive and unattractive to someone. You deserve to be loved and you're beautiful. Tell yourself that and believe it don't wait for a man to come and tell you before you can truly believe it.

♡ Learn to enjoy your own company. I understand wanting to have someone, going on dates, and receiving flowers but you need to take this season of singleness and pause especially if you haven't been single in a long time. Learn to enjoy being alone, find hobbies, take yourself out on dates, buy yourself flowers, write love letters to yourself, and heal your internal wounds. 

♡ Be realistic about men. They are people just like us lol the eat, sleep, and poop. Men aren't perfect individuals they have their insecurities and issues. And this isn't me trying to talk down on men I like men lol. But once you take them down from this pedestal you will be able to see them as regular people.

♡ Reads books on decentering me. Try and find books on this topic to educate yourself further on decentering men. There are amazing books on amazon I will list a few for you ladies to check out<3.

Book Recommendations

♡ How to Be Single and Happy by Jennifer L.Taitz

♡ Healing the Purpose of Your Life by Dennis Linn

♡ Platonic: How The Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends by Dr. Marisa G Franco

Comment any tips that you have, and share any books, podcasts, and YouTubers! Thank you so much for all 172 of you babesss love youuuu ladiesss<3

[livefastdriveyoung]

If you're bashing one driver while promoting another, especially in the case of Logan and Franco, you're not doing anyone but yourself a disservice.

Aside from the fact they were driving two totally different cars, everyone is different. James Vowels is already talking enough for you.

[bwoahtastic]

What about Franco joining the breadbasket group? He's this tiny tiny baby fox and yaps and just runs around causing chaos and doesn't settle until he's clinging to one of his siblings. Toto chuckling cause he reminds him of baby Seb and Sebastian just sighs and knows Franco has tackled on of the others when they hear a thump, with a yelp and then a bunch of giggles as Franco is bouncing around but he only truly settled with Max and seeks out his approval and he is so in love with Lewis and actually is a little scared of him cause he admires his new Papa so much

Oh plss!! Seb thought one chaotic little baby fox (and a less chaotic Pierre fox) was enough but then Franco just sorta... arrives ar the house and decides he is home now sksk. He is such a happy little thing but very chaotic! Loves to zoom around on his lil legs chasing his other siblings to playfight! He is very cuddly tho and that's the only way to calm him down, he especially loves Maxy cos he purrs so loudly and it makes Franco giggle!

Franco being so bashful arounf all his papas at first (not momma, momma is comforting from day 1) but especially around Lewis! He judt looks up to his cool papa so so much!

[thezombieprostitute]

Mace? and a kiss...passionately?

🥹

Thank you, so much, for your patience! This ended up being the first installment of Mace x DC's second arc for the Garbage Men AU.

Frayed

Summary: There are so many new things happening in your life that the only two things you can count on are your boyfriend, Mace, and that your life is almost always in danger. 

A/N: Reader is female. No physical descriptors used.

Word Count: ~1k

Warnings: Implied violence, Talk of guns. Please let me know if I missed any!

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Mace hangs up the phone after Curtis tells him the news. He’d suspected Franco would be doing his own thing. After all, Wilford & Gilliam was crumbling from the lawsuits and they couldn’t afford to keep him paid, let alone under their thumb. At least there was one thing they could easily predict: he was targeting you. 

Even though Franco the Younger’s body had never been found, and never would be, he’d last been seen at your trial and the wrong people knew the Family was protecting you. Franco the Elder couldn’t do anything to the Garbage Men or their Family, but he could hurt you. As much as Jake had tried to hide your new job and address there was only so much he could do. It wasn’t likely Franco would find you, but it was still a possibility. And Mace was careful to do everything he could to help you hide. 

Part of that was dropping you off at work in the morning and picking you up in the evening. It wasn’t a long drive but he felt better keeping you out of the open air. He’d also helped you get some training with guns. You’d wanted a stun gun but you had to go through gun safety certification courses to get one. Mace had argued that practice with both wouldn’t be a bad thing. The giant brick of a stun gun was now safely secured in your purse, along with your license for it.

You and Mace had adopted the same check-in method as Curtis and Teach. It was nice to send and receive cute, loving text messages throughout the day. Especially when work was frustrating, which it often was. A text, heavy with heart emojis, from you has kept Mace from bashing a malfunctioning A/C unit. A pun from Mace made you laugh so hard you forgot what was angering you before reading it. 

By the end of your work day you are exhausted. You’ve been working on the machinery and helping admin with their terminology for grant proposals to get upgraded medical supplies. The work was tiring but at least it was also rewarding. Given the number of people the free clinic helped, you wonder if there should be at least one more in the area. Maybe you’ll bring it up with Mace or Teach. 

Mace’s work truck pulls up to the clinic and you enter the passenger seat. You smile at the bag of your favorite takeout.

“Working late I take it,” you comment.

“Unfortunately,” Mace nods. “But we got some suspicious activity from Franco and I wanted to make sure to relay it to you before going back to work.” You nod as you grab some comfort fries. Mace tells you about how they’ve confirmed Franco is stocking up on small arms munition. The current idea is that he’s going to be supplying a group to distract while he goes after his real target. 

“I know this is a lot,” Mace says. “But I also know you. The more information you have about a situation the better you’re able to process it.” 

You nod your thanks, your mind processing everything with the help of the french fries. “Thank you for that, by the way. You’re not trying to ‘protect’ me by withholding information. I’m really grateful for that.”

“Forewarned is forearmed, right?”

“I don’t know what my arms have to do with it,” you say innocently while giving him a grin.

He chuckles as he pulls the truck up to your apartment building. “If you need me before I get back you call me, okay?”

“Of course,” you say as you lean over the divider and kiss him on the cheek. You give him a wave as you enter the building. 

As soon as you’re out of sight Mace’s smile turns sad. He’s supposed to be making up for lost time but his work is getting in the way. The only solace he has is that work also keeps you safe. 

“I can’t thank you enough, Mr. Mace,” the resident says as Mace finishes up. “I feel kinda bad for calling you up for an emergency.”

“We’re looking at an upcoming heatwave and your A/C unit isn’t working,” Mace sums up. “Sounds like an emergency situation to me.”

“Thank you for seeing it like that,” she replies. “This has to be the best apartment complex I’ve ever lived in. And I’ve lived in a lot of them over the years.”

“I hear that a lot. I’m glad we can be so good for our residents.”

“Just promise me you’re keeping safe, Mr. Mace?”

“Always,” he affirms. 

“I’ve just been hearing such awful rumors from Mrs. Chen, at the corner-store?” Mace nods that he knows who she’s talking about and she continues. “She swears she’s been seeing more people in the area walking around with handguns. Whenever anyone asks they spout some ‘dangerous times’ nonsense. I mean, I know it’s not completely nonsense but still. It just feels like more guns equals more danger, you know?”

“That I do, ma’am.”

As Mace heads back to his truck and gets ready to go home to you, a thought hits him. He texts his idea to Curtis to see if there’s anything there. He’s not expecting an immediate answer so he focuses on getting back to you.

When Mace gets home he smiles at the sight before him. You’re on the couch, watching a show, wearing one of his favorite shirts and a pair of pajama shorts. You smile at him and sit up, holding out your arms, eager to hold him. 

As soon as he’s in reach, he grabs your arms, pulling you up, and gives you a most passionate kiss. It’s intense yet gentle in a way that makes your legs weak. His strong arms keep you pressed tight against his muscular chest and you manage to wrap your arms around his neck, deepening the kiss. He moans in pleasure as you return his kiss with the same fervor. 

Unfortunately, you need air so you break the kiss, chuckling as his face follows yours, seeking more kissing. 

“What brought that on,” you ask.

“Missed you,” he mumbles. “And you look so damn beautiful.”

“You’re completely whipped, you know that?”

“And?”

“And I missed you, too,” you admit before you kiss again.

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Tagging everyone who had asked to be tagged in Sparks Fly. Please let me know if you'd like to be added or removed from the list.

@alicedopey

@chibijusstuff

@fluxxdog

@icefrozendeadlyqueen

@jamneuromain

@jaqui-has-a-conspiracy-theory

@rebekahdawkins

@texmexdarling

[sauroff]

I want to bring up something serious here for once, because I joined a new Silmarillion group on FB (I'm old, ok?), and it's a particularly inclusive space BUT, because of that, there is a lot of debates going on. And I wasn't allowed to make this point there because the admins were saturated with risky posts.

I have seen a lot of people say things like "Tolkien wasn't racist/anti semitic because he was against fascism!". And I'm not here to discuss the logic on that, or accuse Tolkien of any of those. I'm here to bring up the fact that Tolkien supported Franco.

I get that to most people (even to me) he is not as well known as Hitler or Mussolini, but still. Tolkien supported him, a fascist and a terrible dictator, because of anti communism and very Catholics views. Franco's opposition burned catholic churches and killed nuns and priests. Now, I don't want to get into detail about the reasons behind that, and how different those actions are viewed depending on your history (For Tolkien, to whom being catholic make him part of a minority, this was very different to what it's for people from actual catholic countries in general and latin Americans in particular, in which the church, as an institution, was always complicit of dictatorships and oppression).

Even Lewis had called Roy Campbell, a poet who fought with Franco, as a sort of catholic fascist. And Tolkien considered that Lewis was just under the influence of red propaganda, believing only the things said against Franco. He couldn't understand Lewis reactions to Campbell's stories about his fight

This is mostly talked about in letter 83 which, I must admit, I haven't read. I have read other people's summaries of it. If anyone knows of some place where I could read it, please reach out and tell me.

My point here is not bashing on Tolkien. I've decided long ago I prefer not to engage too much with his personal history, since my position as a latin american, born so many years after him, raised as a catholic in a catholic country, with a VERY different history around it, makes my personal views very opposed to his in many levels.

My point is to bring awareness on the fact that Tolkien did indeed support one fascist regimen, and this is ignored by most people. I think it's not just that Franco is not as known for some as the other two, it's also that he seems to have a very different weight for those that speak Spanish and those who don't. For starters, this facts it's not included in his English wiki, while it's included on the one in Spanish. For me, that I usually try to read the English sources for English themed things, this meant that I didn't know about this until some days ago, and I learnt it through a meme.

So yeah, I just needed to tell this in case some other people are just as ignorant as me on this. Because the whole "Tolkien was against fascism" is something I have read too many times and never questioned, tbh. But maybe it was just me.

Picture of the Spanish wiki just for attention

[potatoyiart]

Mike Haggar and Franco Bash

commissioned

[wisteriagoesvroom]

bratty cunty Lando x flirty Franco I’m here for it

BUT imagine 2019/20 pr nightmare Lando and current pr nightmare Franco we the people would always be FED

i confess i do not know as much about 19/20 bratty lando... tho i have seen... glimpses...

idk that the people (me) could handle it (twink decimation)??

either way u slice it to it's so fun to bash the ken dolls together and see what chaos happens ahhahah

i personally like the vibes of current older mentor!lando welcoming new blood!franco to the grid.

also though. just had a brainwave. lando accidentally adopts a baby/newly turned vampire... enter: franco lmaoooo