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[ranticore]

im so curious about the kitchen nightmares au, is félix a waiter? are erica and jean creating crimes against the culinary arts in the back? why is esk of all people gordon ramsay

relevant background info was that when i first got my ipad and was getting to grips with procreate, i was also drafting the first go at mvf so i was drawing mostly refs and character designs, and while i was doing that on an ipad i realised that i could, for the first time ever, watch something on another screen while drawing. guess what i watched

this super old art was one of my first paintings all in procreate and i did it while watching kitchen nightmares. love the show (uk version only), it's absolutely terrible and fake and ramsay sucks but something Compels me

i drew a series of fake interview portraits for all main characters of mvf, as different staff members in a failing restaurant on the show. esk who was kind of the straight man/critical voice of the group ended up being the celebrity chef

anyway the basic plot is they work at a tacky outdated italian trattoria with all that entails, that serves french cuisine, in the year 2005. the restaurant was a money laundering front owned by helena but she was an absentee owner who would deny any claim over the restaurant flaws and be generally away & uncooperative

the restaurant was failing because it looked awful and the food was not good but also because the staff could not work well with one another and the constant arguments that customers would overhear was turning them off

the person who called in gordon ramsnake was the restaurant manager, Félix, in a very roundabout attempt to try to bring heat down on Helena

general overview of the staff & their flaws

Manager (Félix) - actively embezzling from the business, basically a middle manager tyrant trying to control everyone else, ambition of becoming the owner one day (and then they'll ALL see). Would deflect the blame for the restaurant's issues onto every single other person except Francis because he can do no wrong ever. Aw jeez guys we just don't know where the money is going!! Don't look at his meticulously-kept, well-hidden balance books or his incongruously nice car. He looks like the sleaziest businessman you have ever seen.

Head Chef (Jean, you guessed right) - confrontational and rude, could not accept criticism no matter what and would pick fights with customers who sent the food back. He could cook decently but only to his own schedule and preference. The type to go "my food is perfect and nobody can teach me anything" before esk convinces the owner to hire a new head chef who can actually listen to feedback. His prized menu hasn't changed in 7 years.

Front of House (Islin) - zero charm or charisma but otherwise pretty sincere, though it IS weird that an ordained priest is working here and not in a church somewhere. He explains in an interview around the back of the restaurant that he's identified a new route to finding converts because just knocking on people's doors hasn't had a good return. He has zero interest in any aspect of the restaurant experience. Attempts to preach to most of the diners.

Head Waiter (Erica) - he's clearly had no training and is never where he's supposed to be at any given time, and it almost looks like he's ambushing the diners while they're mid-bite on purpose. Calculated bare-minimum work while spending most of his time in the kitchens for some reason. In the course of the episode it's discovered that he makes a decent cook and gets relocated. He had a habit of telling customers that the food was bad even if it wasn't.

Barman (Francis) - eager to please and maybe the only truly friendly face in the restaurant, he's the only reason anyone comes back. But he has an inconvenient habit of giving steep discounts to women, so the bar almost never turns a profit. There have been a few complaints about Barman's inappropriate advances from diners & the fact that his shirt is always a little bit too open. He seems to believe that there's nothing wrong with the place and it's a perfectly legit successful business, so it's hard to get through to him to change his behaviour. Won't hear a word of criticism against Félix or Islin.

Sous-chef (Léá) - hates it here hates every second of every day can't stand anyone wants to be out of there asap but she knows she lacks the experience to actually be a sous-chef in a legitimate restaurant, which means she'd take a pay cut if she tried to find work anywhere else, so she's trapped. She has a habit of throwing parsley garnish far too liberally over every single dish because she read in a book from the 90s that this is how you get a Michelin star

Rival Restaurateur (Senca) - she runs an equally tacky fake unpopular italian trattoria across the street and she's been trying to get Helena's one shut down for years by doing various etsy badluck curses and getting the hygiene inspectors called on them but it hasn't worked yet. She suggested to Félix that maybe trying to get the restaurant on TV would draw enough negative attention to get it shut down (and then he could reopen it of course). She's a bit surprised he actually went and did it even though the show could not have been less flattering towards him and he's essentially turbo-nuked his own reputation into the dirt forever. But she's waiting behind the scenes to make an insultingly-cheap offer and then they'll ALL see

over the course of the episode the above flaws are identified. esk attempts to propose a remodel of the tired décor which is fiercely resisted by Félix because he kind of likes the fake tuscany look but eventually he gives in and the place is given a modern and fresh feel. it draws a crowd on its reopening night but the staff struggle to meet the demand, unused to such numbers, and it ends up with Jean refusing to cook and walking out (he's fired shortly after).

they regroup and organise a charming promo event where they serve real french cuisine in a stall outside (oysters mostly) to draw customers for a new lunchtime service. this is well-received because new Head Chef Léa (now even MORE trapped in a role she has no real claim to) doesn't have to cook the oysters so she can't fuck them up. Félix actually tries to be receptive to the staff he's managing, for once, and he does a good job of supporting them and finally effectively managing the floor.

episode ends with Esk walking away and wondering if it left the restaurant in good hands, concluding that "only time will tell". there's a sequence of the restaurant's one successful lunch service, everyone smiling and working well and diners happy, with the text "RESTAURANT closed its business in August 2005, three months after the filming of this episode".

Esk goes back to interview the owner and ask why it failed, and Helena just explains that she sold it and moved on while dodging every other question. Esk berates her for having no passion for the business, calls her lazy and immature, and she simply walks out of the interview.

[sanctus-ingenium]

VII OF SWORDS | buy a print of this here

[coyoteworks]

félix ortega from mvf for @magmacannon! character belongs to @sanctus-ingenium. he was a delight to draw :)c

also i drew my closest approximation of him doing The Expression just for sillies

[vonaria2000s]

Cigarette

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[captainmvf]

Try something new...

[kqltlc]

a few more stuff I found across the web to help describe the difference between monsters and furries.

^ https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Monster

^ https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry_fandom

^ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/10kezxx/comment/j5qgk8z

Note: These definitions are not absolute, they are simply a collection of common themes found in their respective communities.

The topic is subject to nuance and outliers; it's typically up to the user how they wish to be identified as and it's up to others to respect such identification.

[triplechangermvf]

Host art trades on my main art blog and my dear friend @dreamdancerdotfile asked for TFA Blitzwing from me <3 Thank you for the trade, Dante!!

[vampireflowerarts]

My characters Scaredy, Cinder, and Jazzyme in the Bluey Universe ~

I am having so much fun making these. I'm doodling the people around me, too. I'm excited to post those doodles later ~

[carmenpeach]

*does a little dance* finally got the 1st place trophy for feed florg on neopets yaaaaaay!

[ranticore]

i gotta say i genuinely love how the ruling Hound-worshiping families are all "ohh the nobility of the hunt, the rightful mastery of the predator" but every time we get transformed lycanthrope POV it's just "hehe pubby :)"

:>

[sanctus-ingenium]

Do you have any drawings or sketches related to the Red King or the Immortal Hound that you’d be willing to share with us? Also, how do they interact with Puck?

wrt information about faeries I will only answer questions with contemporary in-universe knowledge, rather than my own 'true' metaknowledge ;) I wrote more of it about these guys in this post

Anyway this is one of my longterm WIPs depicting the Emperor tarot card. Artworks in Inver depict the Red King like this, a red deer stag who wears the head of a rival as a crown.

Statues and artwork of the Immortal Hound depict him as a large Eurasian grey wolf - 'large' can be anything from 'big wolf' to 'taller than the forest canopy'.

Followers of the Red King, Immortal Hound, and Lord of Lies don't really have much of a history together, positive or negative. Puck doesn't have any devotees or witches in the same sense as the other two, and is a far minor being in the grand scheme of things, a potential spanner in the works, the main character of a cautionary tale, but not overly consequential.

It is unknown how the above named faeries feel about Puck (and nobody knows how Puck feels about anything), but it is commonly accepted that, at least, the Red King has lost territory to the Immortal Hound and the two are enemies.

[ranticore]

HE JUMPSCARED ME on my own dash..... My bestie has been conspiring against me

Thank you ro and thank you coyoteworks.... I love him I cherish him I will stare at him all day wait what's that under the readmore-

félix ortega from mvf for @magmacannon! character belongs to @sanctus-ingenium. he was a delight to draw :)c

also i drew my closest approximation of him doing The Expression just for sillies

[vonaria2000s]

Hand tie

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[captainmvf]

MVF: "How do I use my Starshine?" MVF: has killed her first demon. MVF: has killed Sperra. MVF: has killed Creation. MVF: has become Absolute. MVF: has purged a timeline. MVF: has put Poppy Blood to rest. MVF: "Don't worry guys I figured it out."

[triplechangermvf]

I may be fashionably late posting my full piece for @turbofox-zines but here it is!

Overnight security check in the "Best Left Forgotten" hall becomes a movie night when the team discovers an old and still-working CRTV.

[captainmvf]

Hallo Ross :)