#gianino

[jasina85]

It's incredibly funny to me thinking about my Lasombra, Sonia, having to at some point leave Philadelphia for a little while, and if anyone was to ask her why, she'd say she's getting summons from the court. Because she is old enough to have been invited into the Friends of the Night, which means in the eyes of the Lasombra legal system, she is qualified to sit on the Courts of Blood as a judge.

[guy60660]

Stefano Gianino | LGN | Kaltblut

[cobrakaia]

I am so in love with you @inarminwetrust 💜

[jasina85]

OCs you say? You shouldn't have.

Olivia Heller is my main blorbo. She was an orphan born in Germany (her parents are actually vampire hunters, and while her father is simply a mortal occultist, her mother is a reformed Revenant). She's a "survivor at any cost" character, or at least she used to be. Problem with having a Revenant mother is that she inherited a heart condition, and resolved to become a doctor to try and save herself. Her tenacity caught an eye of a Tzimisce Metamorphosist, who eventually Embraced her, after depriving her of the transplant that'd save her life. He blood bonded her, but after a while decided she wasn't performing to his standards, so he tossed her away to a Sabbat pack to repay a debt. Eventually, she managed to make a run for it and ended up in Philadelphia, where she met someone very important to her, and took her first steps in mastering Koldunic Sorcery. Eventually, her Sire decided he wanted her back and came after her. It ended up very badly for him. Somewhere along the way, she also became a Bahari and a member of a fanatic consentualist group.

Sonia Gianino is my Lasombra ancila restaurant owner! She runs a pretty successful chain, and while is a declared Autarkis, she's known to be on very good terms with the Anarchs, especially a certain Lamia. Sonia's quite refined and often comes across as cold and distant, being a very goal-oriented person. She's also struggling with the almost constant nagging of her Sire, whom she diablerised.

Veronica Orion (of Clan and House Tremere) was technically my first VtM oc, but she didn't get fleshed out until recently. She's a lawyer and a member of the Praesidium, working tirelessly to mend the shattered Pyramid in the aftermath of the Vienna raid (also working to secure her own high office within the newly rebuilt Pyramid, of course). As such, she doesn't have the highest opinion of the Anarchs, particularly despising the so-called House Ipsissmus.

Larissa Caldwell - what's this? A werewolf? It's more likely than you'd think. Larissa's a civil servant gone Wyld. She used to work as a low-level pencil pusher in the city hall, before she was found by her mentor - Theo of the Glass Walkers tribe, who provoked her First Change away from prying eyes and bystanders she could hurt. Though Theo taught the new Theurge well, eventually she grew frustrated with always being second-guessed by her coworkers and smashing her head against the glass ceiling, and following an argument with Theo, she left to join the Black Furies instead, feeling that she'll get more good done that way. Unfortunately, though initially welcoming, the Furies didn't turn out to be as perfect as she naively thought, and now she finds herself feeling trapped between her old and new tribe, feeling like she doesn't quite belong in either.

now that I’ve gone on a following spree of wod blogs I can start my TRUE evil agenda:

tell me about your wod ocs. that’s an order I want to see them I love love love wod ocs

[theloniousbach]

MIKE PARKINSON/PAUL DeMARINIS QUINTET with Carolbeth True, Willem von Hombracht, and Kevin Gianino, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF WEBSTER GROVES, 30 MARCH 2025

This benefit for the International Summer Jazz Academy in Krakow and St Louis Polonia brought together players I’ve seen often over the years at Webster University Jazz Faculty Concerts. MIKE PARKINSON was the chair of the Music Department and PAUL DeMARINIS ran the jazz program until he retired the summer before I did. Mike and I swapped puns and unraveled administrative puzzles; Paul answered my questions which mixed enthusiasm, naïveté, and quirky knowledge while curating performances with an attractive easy scholarship. Both are wonderful players, though I was on the fringes of the music when Mike was around and stuck in a Miles Davis is the only trumpeter phase. Mike cherishes Miles too but he has his own voice. With Paul, but also pianists like Carolbeth True today and Kim Portnoy, I often have wondered how they juggled their own styles with demonstrating the work of others. If the program has tunes associated with Cannonball Adderly, Sonny Rollins, and Stan Getz, how did they evoke those giants and sound like themselves?

This time around—and with ears with lots of stream time behind them—at least with Paul I think I heard more of his own style. He has expressed admiration for Lee Konitz, so on the Lee Tristano All The Things You Are contrafact Ablution I heard Konitz/Warne Marsh and he, at least, stuck with the Tristano melody longer than Mike and Carolbeth who were more recognizably around ATTYA. In other places, he was feathery and lithe. The closer, Kenny Barron’s Voyage, was first recorded with Stan Getz and that fits.

The title of the program was (Some of) Our Favorite Things with the premise that each player would choose two tunes. They didn’t get to Willem’s I Fall In Love Too Easily and Mike’s Intuition. But Carolbeth started with You Stepped Out of a Dream in an arrangement from her trio days, but with the horns too adding an extra measure or two—and engaging in a nice conversation in the outro. Her version of Nobody Else But Me came from an arrangement she picked up on the bandstand from Buddy DeFranco and was for the trio. Paul added the Tristano Ablution/ATTYA and Herbie Hancock’s Dolphin Dance which was both rich and ethereal. This was where I started to think about how, in retirement, they could just play and not pedagogically evoke the past (though the great thing about this music is that there is a tradition everyone is aware of and responding too). Concretely, that meant that on Dolphin Dance Paul was NOT Dexter Gordon from the album. Willem called Monk’s Hackensack to close the first set.

I got to talk to Paul, Mike, and Carolbeth at the interval (and Willem and Kevin briefly after). I’m glad we all had that time, but it meant that the second half had to be truncated. So Mike chose Quiet Nights for both Miles with Gil Evans and a Kenny Wheeler arrangement which took it as a waltz. Then it was Kevin’s tunes to close—Stella By Starlight as a samba and the Kenny Barron tune with a tight focused drum solo to boot.

I would have gone to The Friends of Chamber Music series at Eliot Chapel, but jazz won out (and I can see a stream of that performance). I brought greetings from the co-organizer of that series Bob Chamberlin who used to swap puns with Mike in the Webster Music Building. Here’s the gist of theone he had for Bob and me: The inventor of throat lozenges was cremated so there would be no coughin’ at the funeral.

[eliezersaul]

Nova Gorica - Slovenia 🇸🇮 Maybe someday, who knows?

Photos by Salvatore Gianino

[inmontagnadilunedi]

#305# 25/10/2024 Magrignana - La Marina

Ogni bambino è un artista. Il problema è poi come rimanere un artista quando si cresce.Pablo Picasso,nato 25 ottobre 1881, pittore. Pranzo: agriturismo Casa Gianino, Acquaria, Montecreto. Itinerario: ritorniamo nella mitica Magrignana di Montecreto (935 m), il paese che rivedrà il sole solo il 31 gennaio, giorno di San Geminiano, patrono di Modena e anche di questo borgo con tutti i suoi 4…

[gianinab]

“Acho que ele gostaria de você.” Não podia afirmar com certeza porque Sparkles era uma caixinha de surpresas, mas algo dizia a Gia que aquilo era verdade e ela conseguia imaginar o gato deitado no colo de Icarus. Não conseguia pensar em imagem mais adorável que essa. “Perfeito! Espero conhecer o Gianino algum dia.” Suas bochechas já estavam cansadas do tanto que sorria ao lado dele, meu Deus, Gia queria viver naquele momento pra sempre. “Vou comprar um livro para você. Não sei qual e agora que estou pensando talvez ele esteja em húngaro e você não consiga ler, mas vai ter que fingir que vai ler para me deixar feliz, pode ser?” Não é possível que a livraria não tivesse um único livro em um idioma que os dois entendessem, certo? “Para o caso de você não adotar o Gianino e aí poder ter outra coisa para se lembrar de mim.” Era um desejo um pouco infantil, mas ela realmente queria que Icarus se lembrasse dela depois daquele dia. Um sorriso se formava em seu rosto só de pensar em Icarus abrindo o livro em Auckland, há um oceano de distância de si e eles estando conectados mesmo assim.

my waves meet your shore | gracious fall (flashback)

@icaruskm

Gia estava se sentindo um pouco nostálgica. É possível sentir nostalgia de algo que conhecia há pouco tempo? O que sabia era que agora que sua viagem estava chegando ao fim, ela já sentia falta dos dias fáceis que tinha vivido na última semana. Seus olhos passavam da janela do trem pelo interior dele, achava que já estava próximo de onde desceria. Quando tentava olhar a janela oposta a sua, notou que o homem sentado ali lia o mesmo livro que ela tinha na mesinha a sua frente. “Ei, você tem bom gosto!” A morena chamou com um sorriso, levantando seu exemplar de Jogos Vorazes.

[basementghostli]

I’ll be posting @iamlunathehusky’s first reaction to #Knox soon I promise! Editing has been difficult and today @marissafarina and I are attempting to vlog for the first time 🤗 Wish us luck!! . . . #iamluna #lunathehusky #myhusky #my_husky #redhusky #huskiesofinstagram #knoxjames #thebxv #bxb #brittanybrutality #marissafarina #thegianinos #gianino #gianinofamily https://www.instagram.com/p/B2uR_PfHqC-/?igshid=1lo3xuomldwr4

[jasina85]

ITS A BIG ONE 💥, 🌙, 🕷️, 🙉, 🎁, 💘, 💗, ❤️, 💙, 💖

For both Olivia and Sonia!

Here we go! Double serving of hot vampire facts!

💥 Olivia: Helpless. If there's one thing Olivia hates, it's being unable to do anything when she thinks she should or considers it her responsibility. When it happens, she usually falls back on anger to mask it.

Sonia: She can't really stand condescension. She understands that sometimes she has to defer to those above her in the hierarchy, but the moment someone flaunts their position over her, she becomes prone to start plotting to show them just how poor of a decision that was.

🌙 Olivia: To have a family. She has that now (in some ways, she got more than she asked for) and can cross it off the list. And yes, she is willing to kill to protect that family.

Sonia: Having her restaurants gain global recognition. National fame just isn't enough when it comes to her cooking and she's not above playing dirty, usually by discrediting her competition.

🕷️ Olivia: Her biggest fear is being left entirely alone, with no one to care about her. Growing up an orphan, she desperately wanted someone to give a damn, and while it's not AS overt anymore, she still very much does. She doesn't really have mundane fears, but the more she learns of her clan's antideluvian, the more she fears being subsumed by him.

Sonia: Sonia does not fear, she is the one others fear. Why be afraid, when she's arguably the scariest person in the (dimly lit) room? The one fear she had (though she'd never admit it) is her sire, whom she diablerised) slowly driving her insane and manipulating her from beyond the grave.

🙉 Olivia: HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE DARK MOTHER?! Thanks to her wife, Olivia is a devout Bahari and she is not particularly shy about her faith, or about sharing her faith with people who're willing to listen.

Sonia: She will happily talk your ear off about Italian cooking. You will listen, that is non-negotiable, the door is already locked and your shadow gave her the key.

🎁 Olivia: She's not used to getting presents at all, so just the fact that someone would give her one is usually enough to make her emotional. Still, she's usually fairly practical, and appreciates gifts she can make use of. As for giving gifts, she's generally the kind of person to ask what someone would want, rather than try to guess.

Sonia: Presents are mostly a way to gain favor to her. Sonia's painfully practical, though most of the gifts she gives are ceremonial. She'd be happy to receive a gift with some tangible meaning behind it, like something symbolizing a guarantee of support.

💘 Olivia: She wouldn't admit to it, but she does believe in love at first sight. As for desirable traits, she values people who are willing to compromise for the sake of their partner and treating her as an equal.

Sonia: She doesn't. She frankly finds it difficult on most nights to NOT see love as transactional, or in terms of alliance. Her ideal partner would further and protect her interests first.

💗 Olivia: It usually takes a little bit for her to admit she's interested in someone, but once it happens, she tries (and fails) to give subtle hints that she's interested. She also tends to lower her guard around her crushes. It happened with her wife, Harmony and a bit more explosively with her boyfriend, Elliot (on account of him being mortal.)

Sonia: She keeps her attraction close to the chest and doesn't really let it show, unless she sees signs of mutual interest. She tends to keep an air of decorum about it. She's of an older date, so she prefers to wait for the other party to come forward first.

❤️ Olivia: She becomes very caring and protective of her love interests. She's not really a selfish lover, but she's definitely quick to become overprotective.

Sonia: Support in her partner's endeavours, be they political or personal. Need to bend the ear of someone important? She'll call in favors so you get their time. Someone causing you problems? She'll remove them.

💙 Olivia: Dear god, does she. She becomes much less animated without her wife being around. They see each other pretty much every day, but when they don't, it's fairly obvious she's missing something. Running away from Harmony following the death of her sire took a serious toll on Olivia, doubly so when it was entirely her own fault, and she never really forgiven herself for it.

Sonia: She's not really prone to missing people. To Sonia, people come and go as they fall in and out of favor, and to a degree, this pragmatism also applies to love. Still, if she becomes fond of someone, she'll gladly reminisce about them, but their absence doesn't really affect them in a perceivable manner.

💖 Olivia: A bit of both? She's not above public displays of affection and frankly, shortly after she and Harmony started dating she practically flaunted their relationship in Elysium. She's a little more reserved with Elliot, but mostly because they also work together and she doesn't want their relationship to disrupt their work.

Sonia: She's definitely a subtle lover. It's less about grand displays and more about the little things to let her love know she approciates her. That can get a little difficult when you go for over 50 years without seeing each other, but she hopes these little comforts make up for it.

[zanephillips]

Stefano Gianino in The White Lotus 2.06 “Abductions“

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Beulas entrega a la empresa AUTOMÓVILES DEL RIO ARANDA un nuevo GIANINO

Beulas entrega a la empresa AUTOMÓVILES DEL RIO ARANDA un nuevo GIANINO. #Buelas #Gianino #BusLatestNews

AUTOMÓVILES DEL RIO ARANDA incorpora un nuevo midibús a su flota, el modelo GIANINO de Beulas. La empresa Zaragozana AUTOMÓVILES DEL RIO ARANDA acaba de adquirir un nuevo midibús Beulas modelo GIANINO de 9.5m de longitud con bastidor MAN. Se trata de un nuevo midibús carrozado por Beulas con el modelo GIANINO de 9.5m de largo y 2.5m de ancho. Esta corrozado sobre un bastidor MAN 12.250 Euro…

[suchananewsblog]

Who Plays Niccoló in ‘The White Lotus’ Season 2 Episode 6? Meet Stefano Gianino, Jennifer Coolidge’s Hot Mafia Hookup

Who Plays Niccoló in ‘The White Lotus’ Season 2 Episode 6? Meet Stefano Gianino, Jennifer Coolidge’s Hot Mafia Hookup

The White Lotus Season 2 Episode 6 “Abductions” places Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) in more danger than ever before. However, she’s blissfully unaware of the threats surrounding her because new pal Quentin (Tom Hollander) has given her compliments, cocaine, and a loverboy named Niccoló (or is it Nicolo? I didn’t watch this week’s White Lotus with the subtitles on). We’re told by Quentin that Niccoló…

[funnythingstrentsays]

Sleepover. Basketball game. Roller skating. Frankie Gianinos. Target. = OUT. 😴😴😴