#val: monty

[callofthxvoid]

Val grinned when Monty took her hand and spun her around, taking the opportunity to fully flaunt both her outfit, and the body it barely covered. "Aww, thank you, flattery will get you everywhere," they quipped back with a sly wink. "You just like when the people sparkle. I've seen Nadine's sexy magician's assistant outfits." She grinned. "You here all by your lonesome, or did you finally manage to convince Jasper to come have fun?"

whomst: val moreno (@callofthxvoid)

"Hey hottie, lemme holla at you," Monty said with a grin as he approached Val. "Damn, do you look bad in anything? Each time I see you, you look stunning. I'm jealous." He took her hand, spinning her around. "You know what would be an amazing idea? Glitter sunscreen."

[sonzies]

OOPS! all revguys

[medievalandfantasymelee]

We are now just a few days away from the end of the submission period for the Hot Medieval and Fantasy Men Melee, and our Entrants stand numbered at 250!!!

Submissions will close on the 27th of June, so if you have a hot medieval/medieval fantasy guy (or multiple of them) you'd like to see compete, send them in!

Here is a list of our Noble and Worthy Contenders so far.

If your man isn't here, that means he has not been submitted.

The Contenders

So Far…

Adhemar, Count of Anjou [Rufus Sewell], A Knight's Tale (2001)

Prince Aemond Targaryen [Ewan Mitchell], House of the Dragon (2022-)

Alessandro Farnese [Diarmuid Noyes], Borgia: Faith and Fear (2011-2014)

King Alfred the Great [David Dawson], The Last Kingdom (2015-2022)

Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan [Antonio Banderas], The 13th Warrior (1999)

Antonius Block [Max von Sydow], The Seventh Seal (1957)

Aragorn, Son of Arathorn [Viggo Mortensen], The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)

King Arthur Pendragon [Alexandre Astier], Kaamelott (2004-2009)

King Arthur Pendragon [Bradley James], BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012)

Athelstan [George Blagden], Vikings (2013-2020)

Ash Williams [Bruce Campbell], Army of Darkness (1992)

Brian de Bois-Guilbert [Ciaran Hinds], Ivanhoe (1997)

 Brother Cadfael [Derek Jacobi], Cadfael (1994-1998)

Carlos I [Álvaro Cervantes], Carlos Rey Emperador (2015-2016)

Prince Caspian [Ben Barnes], The Chronicles of Narnia (2010)

Cesare Borgia [Mark Ryder], Borgia: Faith and Fear (2011-2014)

Cesare Borgia [Francois Arnaud], The Borgias (2011-2013)

Prince Chauncley [Daniel Radcliffe], Miracle Workers: The Dark Ages (2020)

Prince Daemon Targaryen [Matt Smith], House of the Dragon (2022-)

Khal Drogo [Jason Momoa], Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

Lord Eddard Stark [Sean Bean], Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

Edgin [Chris Pine], Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (2023)

Éomer, Son of Éomund [Karl Urban], The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)

Étienne de Navarre [Rutger Hauer], Ladyhawke (1985)

Faramir, Son of Denethor [David Wenham], The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)

Finan [Mark Rowley], The Last Kingdom (2015-2022)

Sir Galahad [Michael Palin], Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Galavant [Joshua Sasse], Galavant (2015-2016)

Gawain [Dev Patel], The Green Knight (2021)

Geralt z Rivii [Michał Żebrowski], The Witcher (2002)

Geralt of Rivia [Henry Cavill], The Witcher (2019-)

Sir Guy of Gisborne [Basil Rathbone], The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Sir Guy of Gisborne [Richard Armitage], BBC’s Robin Hood (2006-2009)

Prince Hamlet [Laurence Olivier], Hamlet (1948)

Hubert Hawkins [Danny Kaye], The Court Jester (1955)

King Henry II Plantagenet [Peter O’Toole], The Lion in Winter (1968)

King Henry V Plantagenet [Tom Hiddleston], The Hollow Crown (2012-2016)

Prince Henry [Dougray Scott], Ever After (1998)

Hugh Beringar [Sean Pertwee], Cadfael (1994-1998)

Inigo Montoya [Mandy Patinkin], The Princess Bride (1987)

Jareth [David Bowie], the Goblin King, Labyrinth (1986)

Jaskier [Joey Batey], The Witcher (2019-)

Prince John Plantagenet [Claude Rains], The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Lancelot [Santiago Cabrera], BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012)

Legolas Greenleaf [Orlando Bloom], The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)

Madmartigan [Val Kilmer], Willow (1988)

King Mark of Cornwall [Rufus Sewell], Tristan and Isolde (2006)

Mikoláš Kozlík [František Velecký], Marketa Lazarová (1967)

Merlin [Colin Morgan], BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012)

Niccolo Machiavelli [Thibaut Evrard], Borgia: Faith and Fear (2011-2014)

Prince Oberyn Martell [Pedro Pascal], Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

Peregrin “Pippin” Took [Billy Boyd], The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)

Pero Tovar [Pedro Pascal], The Great Wall (2016)

Ragnar Lothbrook [Travis Fimmel], Vikings (2013-2020)

Ravenhurst [Basil Rathbone], The Court Jester (1955)

Richard Cypher [Craig Horner], Legend of the Seeker (2008-2010)

King Richard [Timothy Omundson], Galavant (2015-2016)

Richard III Plantagenet [Aneurin Barnard], The White Queen (2013)

Robin Hood [Errol Flynn], The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Robin Hood [Michael Praed], Robin of Sherwood (1984)

Robin Hood [Cary Elwes], Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)

Robin Hood [Tom Riley], Doctor Who: “The Robot of Sherwood” (2014)

Rodrigo Borgia [Jeremy Irons], The Borgias (2011-2013)

Rollo [Clive Standen], Vikings (2013-2020)

Samwise Gamgee [Sean Astin], The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)

Sandor Clegane [Rory McCann], Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

Sid [Luke Youngblood], Galavant (2015-2016)

Sihtric Kjartansson [Arnas Fedaravicius], The Last Kingdom (2015-2022)

Thorin Oakenshield [Richard Armitage], The Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014)

Tom Builder [Rufus Sewell], The Pillars of the Earth (2010)

Mr. Tumnus [James McAvoy], The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)

Vlad III Dracula [Luke Evans], Dracula Untold (2014)

Westley [Cary Elwes], The Princess Bride (1987)

William Thatcher [Heath Ledger], A Knight’s Tale (2001)

Will Scarlet O’Hara [Matthew Porretta], Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)

Will Scarlett [Patrick Knowles], The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Will Scarlett [Christian Slater], Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

[thatliminal-wanderer]

Backrooms ID Pack

Names

Adam, Adym, Aguana, Aiden, Aiko, Alex, Alexia, Altair, Ambrosia, Amori, Andrew, Ant, Argos, Aries, Ashley, Aster, Avelon, Bartholomew, Belphegor, Berry, Bill, Blake, Blue, Bonx, Bram, Brock, Callum, Caspian, Castello, Chara, Cindy, Clement, Clementine, Colias, Corey, Corri, Crane, Creg, Crimson, Cyllene, Cypress, Daisy, Daze, Destiny, Doll, Dream, Dull, Dunk, Eden, Emily, Emme, Evangeline, Ezra, Ferren, Flannery, Frankie, Freeman, Fume, Gani, George, Gerald, Grey, Hen, Icarus, Jack, Janus, Jax, Jerry, Jess, Johnny, Kaii, Kain, Kami, Kane, Kat, Kimiko, King, Kitty, Koko, Kya, Leeon, Leo, Lilac, Limi, Llio, Lotka, Lucid, Malachi, March, Maria, Mason, Moley, Montie, Nightmare, Noir, Olive, Olivia, Ollie, Paisley, Pedro, Philia, Porter, Quinoa, Rae, Rasputin, Richard, River, Rook, Rosette, Rue, Ryan, Samantha, Sato, Saturn, Sienna, Sol, Terry, Theodore, Tom, Trance, Val, Vanta, Vee, Vesper, Vice, Violet, Will, Xavier, Xoa, Zero

Pronouns

!/!s, 0/0s, 1/1s, 2/2s, 3/3s, 4/4s, 5/5s, 6/6s, 7/7s, 8/8s, 9/9s, :(/:(s, :)/:)s, =(/=(s, =)/=)s, ?/?s, _/_s, almond/almonds, alone/alones, alpha/alphas, back/backs, bee/bees, bird/birds, black/blacks, blood/bloods, blue/blues, bone/bones, book/books, box/boxes, bug/bugs, buzz/buzzes, camp/camps, cave/caves, chalk/chalks, city/cities, clean/cleans, crimson/crimsons, crop/crops, danger/dangers, dark/darks, data/datas, dead/deads, decay/decays, desert/deserts, dirt/dirts, doll/dolls, door/doors, dream/dreams, echo/echos, end/ends, error/errors, eye/eyes, fate/fates, field/fields, fog/fogs, forest/forests, garden/gardens, glitch/glitchs, glow/glows, gold/golds, grime/grimes, hall/halls, haunt/haunts, hill/hills, hive/hives, home/homes, hot/hotel/hotels, house/houses, hub/hubs, ice/ices, icy/icys, jungle/jungles, lake/lakes, laser/lasers, level/levels, light/lights, love/loves, lucid/lucids, mall/malls, maze/mazes, mem/memory/memories, mirror/mirrors, moon/moons, moth/moths, mouth/mouths, musk/musks, neon/neons, noir/noirs, play/plays, pool/pools, rain/rains, rainbow/rainbows, red/reds, road/roads, room/rooms, rot/rots, run/runs, sand/sands, sea/seas, sewer/sewers, silent/silents, snack/snacks, space/spaces, sparkle/sparkles, spring/springs, tha/thalasso/thalassos, time/times, violet/violets, void/voids, wall/walls, warning/warnings, water/waters, wave/waves, well/wells, wheat/wheats, white/whites, yellow/yellows, •/•s, ∅/∅s, ⌛️/⌛️s, ☁️/☁️s, ⚠️/⚠️s, ⚰️/⚰️s, ⛓️/⛓️s, ⛓️‍💥/⛓️‍💥s, ✂️/✂️s, 🌀/🌀s, 🌈/🌈s, 🌓/🌓s, 🌗/🌗s, 🌪️/🌪️s, 🌫️/🌫️s, 🍄/🍄s, 🍄‍🟫/🍄‍🟫s, 🎞️/🎞️s, 🎟️/🎟️s, 🎤/🎤s, 🎥/🎥s, 🎪/🎪s, 🎭/🎭s, 🐁/🐁s, 🐇/🐇s, 🐌/🐌s, 🐛/🐛s, 🐜/🐜s, 🐥/🐥s, 👁️/👁️s, 📞/📞s, 📠/📠s, 📹/📹s, 📺/📺s, 📻/📻s, 📽️/📽️s, 🔑/🔑s, 🔗/🔗s, 🔮/🔮s, 🕊️/🕊️s, 🕯️/🕯️s, 🕰️/🕰️s, 🕳️/🕳️s, 🕷️/🕷️s, 🗝️/🗝️s, 🗺️/🗺️s, 😶‍🌫️/😶‍🌫️s, 🚪/🚪s, 🛎️/🛎️s, 🛠️/��️s, 🥀/🥀s, 🥣/🥣s, 🥩/🥩s, 🦂/🦂s, 🦜/🦜s, 🦟/🦟s, 🦠/🦠s, 🦴/🦴s, 🦷/🦷s, 🧠/���s, 🧫/🧫s, 🩸/🩸s, 🩹/🩹s, 🩻/🩻s, 🪐/🪐s, 🪜/🪜s, 🪞/🪞s, 🪟/🪟s, 🪦/🪦s, 🪰/🪰s, 🪱/🪱s, 🪳/🪳s, 🪶/🪶s, 🪹/🪹s, 🫀/🫀s, 🫁/🫁s, 🫗/🫗s, 🫥/🫥s

Titles

A Corrupted File, An Unapproachable (Beast/Entity/Unknown/Any Animal), Entity [number], Lucky (Beast/Entity/Any Animal), The (Bride/Husband/Spouse), The (Entity/Beast/Creature/Thing/God) of Level [number], The (King/Queen/Royal), The (Smiling/Frowning) One, The (Spokeslady/Spokesman/Spokesperson), The (Un)Lucky One, The Artist, The Behemoth, The Bellhopper, The Bone Thief, The Bronze Builder, The Catmaster, The Coder, The Comedian, The Concierge, The Crawlspace (Entity/Beast/Creature), The Endless Walls, The Entity, The Entity Which Doesn’t Exist, The Explorer, The First Entity, The Friend, The Game Master, The Headless (Hunter/Huntress/Entity/Beast/Creature), The Hermit, The Historian, The Homerunner, The Housekeeper, The Liminal Space, The Mail Carrier, The Maker, The Maze of Lost Ones, The Memory (Any Animal), The Memory Manager, The Mucked Smell, The Musician, The Neighborhood Watcher, The Numbed (Entity/Beast/Man/Woman/Person/Creature), The One Adorned In (Red/White/Black/Beige), The One Which Light Flicker For, The One Who Buzzes, The One Who Is Hiding in Level [number], The One Who Looks Too Familiar, The One Who Opened The Back Door to Reality, The One With No Data, The Party Host, The Puppeteer, The Scarecrow, The Scavenger, The Singer, The Smiling One, The Wanderer, [prn] That Lives Behind Reality, [prn] Who (Makes/Ruins) The Party, [prn] Who Can Not Be Explained, [prn] Who Endlessly Falls, [prn] Who Is Sick, [prn] Who Makes and Plays The Games, [prn] Who Resigns in Level [number], [prn] Who Wanders The Endless Levels

Genders

0beckəl, 1beckəl, 3beckəl, 4beckəl, 5beckəl, 6beckəl, 7beckəl, 8beckəl, 92levelic, 974kitic, 9beckəl, Backaneic, Backroomgender, Backroomic, Backroomsaesic, Backroomscattic, Backroomsdollic, Backroomsfluid, Backroomsflux, Backroomspinnic, Buzinbackroomic, Catbackroomic, Cliproomic, Deathmothgender, Eeriroomic, Endlessswimic, Entiromaric, Entity555gender, Entity666gender.exe, Entity99ic, Erokoric, Escapethebackroomsgameic, Flowliminpinkic, Hotelliminix, Kenolimighost, Lepidoipresence, Level!ix, Level0liminix, Level1liminix, Level336dia, Level370ix, Level389ic, Level7ix, Liminaldollic, Liminalmazeic, Liminalmushrooms, Liminalpoweric, Liminalsnowic, Liminalspacestalgic, Liminaquarpetic, Liminaquic, Limingender, Liminix, Liminlovecoric, Natatoliraifortic, Nostbackplushic, Panbackroomic, Parkgaraliminix, Partygoerscharic, Partykenous, Rubicunipresence, Sh4dygr3yl3v3l1c, Smilergender, Snowliminalic, Storeliminix, Unfatholiminal, Zeroaromic

Other mogai

Alderbackroentity, Alderitch, Alderliminal, Alderwhitevoid, Assigned Creature at Birth/ACreAB, Assigned Freak at Birth/AFrAB, Assigned Monster at Birth/AMonAB, Assigned Uncanny at Birth/AUnAB, Backroomsvesil, Darkwarmgreyvesil, Eldritch Omninoun, Eldritchvesil, Error Omninoun, Flesheatseaseque, Grey Omninoun, Hiliblayedernic, Kenovesi, Kittyhousehearthic, Mimicryvior, Nonhuvesil, Null Omninoun, Poolroomperspesque, Shard Omninoun, Sublimityhearthic, Terrorhotelhearthic, Thing Omninoun, Vesiliminal, ∅ Omninoun

[docgold13]

All The Batman(s)

From the best of the best to the not so best of the rest…*

#1). Kevin Conroy

#2). Michael Keaton

#3). Adam West

#4). Bruce Greenwood

#5). Christian Bale

#6). Roger Craig Smith #7). Diedrich Bader

#8). Robert Patterson

#9). Olan Soule #10). Rino Romano

#11). Ben Affleck

#12). Will Arnett

#13). Will Freddie

#14). Val Kilmer

#15). Jensen Ackles

#16). Robert Lowery #17). Jeremy Sisto

#18). David Mazouz

#19).Jason O'Mara #20). Anthony Ruivivar

#21). Keith Ferguson

#22). Lewis Wilson

#23). William Baldwin #24). Peter Weller

#25). Maura Monti

#26). David Giuntoli

#27). Troy Baker #28). Iain Glen

#29). Luke Wilson

#30). Anson Mount #31). Ben McKenzie

#32)Levent Çakir #33). Rene Requiestas

#34). Nat Wolf #35). Jimmy Kimell

#36). George Clooney

*Agree, disagree; have I left anyone out? Let me know what you think.

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Plant names that are used as names or might be nice as names

Abelia (Abby, Bibi, Bel, Bee, Lia)

Achillea (feminine of Achilles; Lea)

Aletris (like Alexis or Beatris; Al, Allie, Tris, Trissy)

Alisma (Al, Allie, Lee, Alis, Lissy)

Alliaria (Al, Allie, Lia, Lee, Ria)

Amaranthus (actual name already; Amy, Mara, Anne, Annie)

Ambrosia (actual name already; Amy, Rosie)

Ammophila (Amy, Phil)

Andromeda (actual name already; Anne, Annie, Andy, Mimi)

Angelica (actual name already; Angie)

Anise (Anne, Annie)

Anthea (actual name already; Anne, Annie, Thea)

Apple (actual name already)

Aquilegia (Gigi)

Aralia (Lee, Lia)

Argemone (Gem, Gemmy, Monnie)

Argentina (Gen, Genny, Tina)

Arisaema (Aris)

Aronia (Ro, Nia)

Artemisia (actual name already; Art, Arty, Mimi, Missy)

Ash/Ashley (actual name already)

Aster (like Esther)

Barley (like Bartley)

Betula (Bett, Bettie, Tula)

Bluet (Blue, Bett, Bettie)

Blossom (actual name already)

Calla (Cal, Al, Allie)

Callirhoe (Cal, Al, Allie, Ro)

Caltha (Cal, Al, Allie)

Calystegia (Cal, Al, Aly, Gia)

Carya (actual name already)

Celastrus (like Celeste; Cece, Cela)

Celosia (like Celeste; Cece, Cela)

Celtis

Chelone (Lonnie)

Cherry (actual name already)

Clarkia (Clark, Kia, Kiki)

Claytonia (Clay, Toni)

Clematis (Clem)

Cleome (Cleo, Clem, Mimi)

Clintonia (Clint, Lin, Toni)

Clover (Clo)

Comandra (like Cassandra; Anne, Annie, Andy, Maddie, Mandy)

Commelina (Mel, Lina, Melly, Lin, Lee)

Cotton

Dahlia (like Delia or Thalia)

Daisy (actual name already)

Dale (actual name already)

Dalea (like Delia or Thalia)

Daphne (actual name already)

Datura (Dottie, Tura)

Della (actual name already)

Dianthus (Dia, Dianne, Anne, Annie)

Dicentra

Drosera (Dro, Ro, Sera)

Dryas

Erigenia (Eri, Gigi, Gen, Genny, Genie, Genia, Nia)

Evadne (actual name already; Eve, Evie, Eva)

Fern (actual name already)

Filipendula (Fil, Filly, Flippa, Penn, Penny)

Flower/Fleure/Flora/etc. (actual names already)

Forest (actual name already)

Gale (actual name already)

Ginger (actual name already)

Grindelia (Dede, Delia, Lia)

Halesia (Hal, Hally, Al, Allie)

Hazel (actual name already)

Heather (actual name already)

Holly (actual name already)

Hydrangea (Hydie, Angie, Gigi)

Iris (actual name already)

Isotria (Izzy, Tria)

Juniper (actual name already; June, Junie)

Laurel (actual name already)

Lavender (actual name already; Lav, Vendy)

Leafie (actual name already)

Lemna

Liatris (like Beatris; Li, Lia, Tris, Trissy)

Lilac (like Lilah)

Lily (actual name already)

Linaria (Lin, Linny)

Lindera (Lin, Linny, Lindy)

Linnaea (Lin, Linny)

Lobelia (Lo, Lola, Bel, Lia)

Lonicera (Lon, Lonnie, Cera)

Lotus (actual name already; Lottie)

Lunaria (Lulu, Luna)

Magnolia (Maggie, Nola, Lia)

Malia (actual name already)

Maple (like Maybel; May)

Meadow (actual name already)

Melia (actual name already; Mel, Melly)

Melothria (Mel, Melly)

Mentha (actual name already)

Mertensia (like Mercedes)

Mitchella (feminine of Mitchel; Mimi, Mitch, Chella)

Monarda (Monnie, Mona)

Montia (like Monty; Monnie, Monty, Tia)

Myrtle (actual name already)

Myrica (like Erica)

Nemesia

Nyssa

Oakley (actual name already)

Olive/Olivia/etc. (actual name already)

Pansy (actual name already)

Peach (actual name already)

Peltandra (Pel, Tandy, Andy)

Persicaria (Persi, Kari, Carrie, Caria)

Petunia (actual name already)

Phyllis (actual name already)

Picea

Pilea

Pontederia (Ted, Teddie)

Poppy (actual name already)

Praline (Lina)

Primula (Prima)

Prunella (Nel, Nelly, Nella)

Robinia (Rob, Robby, Bob, Bobby, Robin, Nia)

Rose/Rosa/Rosaria/Rhode/etc. (actual names already)

Rosemary (actual name already)

Salvia (like Silvia; Sally, Vivi)

Sibara

Sida

Silvia/Sylvie/Sylvaine/etc. (actual name already; Vivi)

Tansy (actual name already)

Thuja

Tilia

Valley (Val, Al, Alley)

Vallisneria (Val, Valli, Al, Alli, Allis, Lissy, Neri)

Verbena

Veronica (actual name already)

Violet/Viola/etc. (actual name already; Vi, Vivi)

Willow (actual name already; Will, Willie)

Yarrow

Zea

[clovertheloser]

@doodlebob54 as you wish!

Season 1: We follow our main cast and get to know them. Our Hotel Staff, consisting of Charlie, Razzle, Dazzle, Valerie, Monty (name change for Husk), Niffty, Alastor, and Mr. C. Along with our residents, Crymini, Travis, Blue Diamond (name change for Angel), and eventually Sir Pentious and Baxter.

We get to know our cast and their struggles, all of them having ties to the Vees in some way. Speaking of which, we get to know the Vees as well, introducing them as this season and the next’s antagonists. The Vees have Sir Pentious and Baxter spy on the hotel for various reasons. Valentino, to spy on Blue. Vox, to spy on Alastor. Velvette, the only one who isn't obsessed with a specific person, wants Sir Pentious to spy because Monty, Niffty, and Alastor haven't been active in hell as a group for over 7 years.

The Casino Three (not the actual name) were rivals to the Vees, and Velvette wants to make sure they aren't going to be a threat to the Vees once more.

We have a heavy focus on Valentino in particular, considering his ties to two of the residents. Charlie actually has a couple of brain cells here and actually tries to help Blue in any way she can. But there's one issue: she’s in trouble. Her parents don't approve of the Heavenly Hotel. She’s supposed to bring destruction, not redemption!

So, as punishment, her power has been greatly reduced, the bare minimum to defend herself and conjure items and clones of herself. She can't simply tear up Blue’s contract or snap Valentino out of existence.

So she bribes the Vees to let Blue stay at the Hotel and away from Valentino, and for a while, it works! But Valentino eventually grows tired, and bold. He wants Blue back, and he’s heard how the princess is a depowered pushover.

He’s coming to the Hotel.

This sends Charlie into a panic. What is she supposed to do?! She can't kill Valentino, he’d just respawn and come back again! And even if she got her hands on an angelic weapon, she can't Extinguish a Sinner, that goes against the whole purpose of the Hotel.

But she has a duty as the owner to protect her guests. What is she supposed to do?

She takes the matter to her guests. To Blue. The whole season, she’s been learning how to actually accommodate her patients and how to help them. She tried going in without thinking the first time, so she’s asking them how to approach this.

As you can expect, they all unanimously vote towards killing Valentino, so Charlie and Mr. C head out to get their hands on one of Carmilla’s angelic weapons to permanently kill him.

But since they don't know Sir Pentious is spying for the Vees, he tells Val that the most powerful members of the Hotel have just left the Pride Ring, so he’s going to attack. But Baxter has grown attached to these people, and warns them that Valentino’s coming.

(He bullshits that he saw on a drone instead of confessing that he and Pen are spies)

So, we get that scene of the Sinners preparing the Hotel and themselves for a fight, trying to hold out for Charlie and Mr. C to get back with the weapon.

We then get two episodes; one of Charlie and Mr. C getting a weapon from Carmine. This takes up a whole episode due to Charlie being on a blacklist caused by her father but Mr. C manages to threaten Carmine into handing it over, hinting that they have a connection. Their episode ends with them returning to the Hotel in ruins and under attack.

The other episode is Valentino and a shitload of contractors attacking the Hotel. We get individual sequences with the Sinners showing their growth over the season as they defend the Hotel and each other.

During Valerie’s sequence, we see her spear shine as she stabs the attackers. Remember that.

However, this battle is not easy. The Hotel is destroyed. But they manage to hold out for Charlie and Mr. C to come back! Charlie, holding the weapon, finds Valentino cornering Blue. She manages to attack him before Val lunges at her, hissing at her that she’s pathetic and an excuse of a leader.

How can she lead Hell if she can't even get Val to respect her? But Charlie tells him that he’s wrong. That there's more to being a leader than blind fear and control. It’s about earning respect and trust as you help your people while keeping them in check.

And she drops that line as she tosses the weapon over to Blue. And Blue attacks Valentino right in the heart, yelling at him about all the shit he’s done to him.

Charlie is the one to pull Blue back when he starts sobbing. Val manages to climb out a window. Charlie says they should go after him, but Blue decides against it. Val is minutes away from bleeding out to permadeath, and they don't want Niffty to have to clean up his blood.

We get a final shot of Valentino about to die, having made his way barely a couple of inches away from the Hotel, before he’s joined by Valerie, holding her spear. Valentino is about to snark that they can't leave well alone before he notices Valerie and exclaims that he knows her, before she stabs him in the heart, her spear shimmering with the same glow of Charlie’s angelic weapon.

And that is the end of season 1.

Now obviously a lot of stuff has been left out and it isn't perfect, but it's the rough draft. More is coming with the other season’s villains, but I hope that satisfies you for now, Mx. Doodle!

If you have any questions, criticisms, or suggestions, please, feel free to drop them in my inbox or in the tags! I love hearing from y’all!

[justforbooks]

Jim Abrahams

Writer and director who was part of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team behind the classic film spoofs Airplane! and The Naked Gun

The 1980 disaster movie spoof Airplane! was a flyaway success. Made for $3.5m, it grossed over $170m and forged a new style of film comedy. It was written and directed by the trio known as ZAZ: the brothers Jerry and David Zucker, and their childhood friend Jim Abrahams, who has died aged 80 of leukaemia.

There had been movie send-ups before, notably from Mel Brooks, Woody Allen and the Monty Python team. One of the innovations of Airplane!, though, was to multiply the gags without lingering on them. The audience had to be quick to keep up: this was one instance where the phrase “laugh-a-minute�� represented a serious understatement.

Most radically, the film dispensed altogether with comic actors. Its innumerable puns, running jokes and absurdist non-sequiturs were delivered by a straight-faced ensemble of hitherto dramatic performers including Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack and, most famously, Leslie Nielsen, a journeyman reborn here as a deadpan genius.

The trio had wisely resisted the studio’s demands to cast comedians such as Chevy Chase and Bill Murray. “We wanted the audience to feel they were watching a serious movie that we had redubbed,” explained David Zucker.

Airplane! subtly altered a generation’s use of language. “Surely you can’t be serious?” Nielsen’s character, a doctor, is asked on more than one occasion. “I am serious,” he replies soberly, “and don’t call me Shirley.”

In skewering serious dramas such as Zero Hour! (1957) and Airport (1970), ZAZ took their cue from MAD magazine, which printed finely detailed comic-strip spoofs of current releases, each panel packed tightly with gags. Though the film referenced everything from Saturday Night Fever to From Here to Eternity, its adherence to the disaster movie template kept it on course. It was a lesson which later spoofs, such as the Scary Movie series (some of which David Zucker directed, with Abrahams co-writing Scary Movie 4 in 2006) neglected to follow.

ZAZ made for a disciplined directorial unit: Abrahams and David Zucker sat at a monitor watching the filming while Jerry Zucker conversed with the actors. “We huddle after a take and compare suggestions,” said Abrahams in 1986. “The nice thing about three people working together is that you can come to quick decisions – three’s an odd number so we’d vote.” He distinguished his own approach from that of his co-directors: “David and Jerry were always the ones who had goals, drive and aspirations, while I was the one having a good time.”

The trio were not responsible for the vastly inferior follow-up, Airplane II: The Sequel (1982). “[Paramount] came to us and told us they were going to do a sequel,” said Abrahams. “But we’d thought of all the airplane jokes we could and said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks.’”

After their initial success, they were treated as heroes. “We kind of misperceived ourselves, and what the real beauty of Airplane! was,” said Abrahams. “We really thought that making a successful comedy was merely stringing a bunch of funny scenes together … and that’s not really the way it works at all.”

Their next film, Top Secret! (1984), contained numerous gags, many of them both silly and highly sophisticated, while deadpan duties were ably fulfilled by a young Val Kilmer. But the material was too scattershot in its choice of targets, which included war films and Elvis Presley musicals. “The jokes might be fine, it might look nice and be well-directed, but it’s just not a good idea for a movie,” reflected Abrahams, who admitted that the trio’s confidence took a hit.

The madcap Ruthless People (1986), starring Danny DeVito as a businessman whose wife (Bette Midler) is kidnapped on the same day he intends to kill her, was the first time they had directed a script not written by them. Unusually, the friends found themselves at loggerheads. “Each of us had more confidence, and it was harder to lose an argument,” said Abrahams.

In between Airplane! and Top Secret!, ZAZ had ventured into television comedy with Police Squad! (1982), which was cancelled after six episodes due to poor ratings. But in its dim-witted protagonist, Lieutenant Frank Drebin, played by Nielsen in straight-faced mode, it introduced a character who would provide ZAZ’s spoofing career with its second wind.

Out of the ashes of Police Squad! emerged The Naked Gun (1988), in which Drebin foils a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. The film boasted a gag rate equal to Airplane!, as well as another batch of formerly dramatic actors (including Priscilla Presley and George Kennedy) adopting their best poker faces amid the comic mayhem.

Abrahams, who co-wrote The Naked Gun but left the directing to David, wasn’t keen on the end result. “I remember seeing the dailies and thinking, ‘Oh my God, that’s not how you’re supposed to film that joke,’” he recalled.

Two sequels followed – The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) and The Naked Gun 33⅓: the Final Insult (1994) – though Abrahams was credited only as an executive producer.

He was born in Shorewood, a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Louise (nee Ogens), who worked in education, and Norman, a lawyer. He attended the same synagogue and high school as the Zucker brothers; their fathers had also worked together. Later, the three boys were all at the University of Wisconsin-Madison together.

After graduating, Abrahams worked as an investigator for a law firm. The Zucker brothers roped him into making comic short films on video equipment. As this took up more of their time, they rented space at the back of a local bookshop, where they set up the Kentucky Fried Theatre Company, screened their videos and performed skits parodying movies, TV shows and commercials.

Three years later in 1972, they relocated to Los Angeles and built a considerable fanbase there. One of their shows was titled My Nose, in the hope that the local newspaper listings would read: “My Nose runs indefinitely.”

Eager to break into cinema but unsure how to do so, they sought advice from the young film-maker John Landis. ZAZ wrote a preliminary draft of Airplane!, which presented the central story as a film-within-a-film being shown on TV, complete with fake commercials. Having had no luck pitching this, they teamed up instead with Landis, who directed their script of irreverent bite-sized sketches, The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977).

Even with the minor success of that picture under their belt, they struggled to sell a more streamlined draft of Airplane! Fortunately, it found its way to the future industry titans Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Eisner, who were then executives at Paramount and happy to prepare the film for take-off.

By the time the Naked Gun trilogy was under way in the late 1980s, the quality of spoofs had begun to degrade. Two members of the team had already moved on to solo projects: Jerry Zucker found legit success with the Oscar-winning Ghost (1990) while Abrahams made the lively comedy Big Business (1988), starring Midler and Lily Tomlin as two sets of twins, and directed a young Winona Ryder in the teen drama Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990). He also co-wrote and directed his own Top Gun spoofs, Hot Shots (1991) and Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), starring Charlie Sheen.

His TV movie, First Do No Harm (1997), starring Meryl Streep, was partly based on his own search for a dietary cure for epilepsy, with which his son, Charlie, had been diagnosed. After directing Nielsen in the sub-par mob spoof Jane Austen’s Mafia! (1998), Abrahams dropped out of film-making altogether to devote time instead to promoting the Charlie Foundation for Ketogenic Therapies.

A part-sequel, part-reboot of The Naked Gun, with Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin’s son, will be released next year.

Abrahams is survived by his wife, Nancy (nee Cocuzzo), whom he married in 1978, Charlie, another son, Joseph, and a daughter, Jamie.

🔔 James Steven Abrahams, screenwriter and director, born 10 May 1944; died 26 November 2024

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[20genderchild]

The results of each round of my LIW ships polls!

Alt text under the cut if the images don't work for you:

ROUND ONE

Meg/Joan - 24.2% Connie/Dorothy - 22.6% Jamie/Wendy - 17.7% Wendy/Peter - 12.9% David/Asher - 9.7% Adam/Paulie - 4.8% Izzy/Mordred - 4.8% Gwen/Jack - 3.2%

Peter/Balthazar - 41.9% Anne/Gilbert - 19.4% Brom/Matilda - 17.2% Emma/Jordan - 6.5% Ben/Louis - 6.5% Ed/Frankie - 5.4% Katie/Peter - 3.2% Marianne/Brandon - 0%

Beatrice/Benedick - 59% Emma/Alex - 18.1% Anne/Gilbert - 13.3% Jane/Rochester - 4.8% Jules/Monty - 1.9% Jon/Lincoln - 1% Maggie/Jade - 1% Declan/Mary - 1%

Freddie/Kit - 39.7% Gabriel/Bathsheba - 19% Alice/Andrew - 13.8% Elinor/Edward - 12.1% Gavin/Nelly - 6.9% Fran/Connie - 3.4% Alex/Adriana - 3.4% Amy/Laurie - 1.7%

Harriet/BMart - 33.8% Drew/Oren - 26% Trudy/Nimmie - 10.4% Liddy/Sherry - 7.8% Algy/Cecily - 7.8% Robin/Marian - 7.8% Brandon/Marianne - 5.2% Graham/Jack - 1.3%

Lizzie/Darcy - 58.3% Ana/Fred - 19.8% Kat/Ichabod - 6.3% Fred/Max - 6.3% Annie/Jack/Val - 4.2% Marcy/Tabby - 3.1% Donni/Paul - 2.1% Henry/Portia - 0%

Bates/Gleeson - 34.2% Edgar/Annabel - 32.9% Sernea/Roxanne - 11% Catherine/Henry - 11% Algy/Cecily - 5.5% Luke/Alex 2.7% Edward/Elinor - 1.4% Jack/Olivia - 1.4%

Lenore/HG - 31.8% Viola/Liv - 27.3% Diana/Fred - 12.5% Rose/Orlando - 10.2% Cate/Henry - 9.1% Dot/Billie - 6.8% Oscar/Robbie - 2.3% Rory/Michael - 0%

ROUND TWO

Drew/Oren - 34.5% Edgar/Annabel - 30.9% Gabriel/Bathsheba - 20% Connie/Dorothy - 14.5%

Anne/Gilbert - 44.4% Lenore/HG - 28.6% Ana/Fred - 14.3% Freddie/Kit - 12.7%

Beatrice/Benedick - 45.7% Peter/Balthazar - 22.9% Emma/Alex - 20% Bates/Gleeson - 11.4%

Lizzie/Darcy - 68.8% Viola/Liv - 27.5% Harriet/BMart - 2.5% Meg/Joan - 1.3%

FINAL ROUND

Beatrice/Benedick - 45.5% Lizzie/Darcy - 44% Anne/Gilbert - 6% Drew/Oren - 4.5%

[huntsvillehq]

new business open!

saffron aubert invites everyone to the grand opening of her new establishment: Sammie's Place. it will feature all ages entertainment from 11am to 5pm, and adult entertainment from 6pm to 12am. the back room will contain cots for those who choose to stay for the adult entertainment.

(all positions full) Owner/Staff Manager - Saffron Aubert Talent Manager - Joey Albright Stage Manager - Ciara Winters Lightning Technician: Grayson Waters Bouncer - Jae-Sung Bouncer/Door - Esparanza Calloway Bartender - Mallory Clarke Bartender - Lynx Bartender - Winifred Barrett Bartender - Rhys Bennett Server - Savannah Lacey Server - Grace Summers Server - Nadine Briggs Server - Romina Lanzo Server - Elora Sakamoto

Current Talent -

Addison Gallagher - music act Ames Shehadi - aerial silk act Cassius Romero - stripper Clementine Hanlon - dancer/stripper Etienne LeDeux - card tricks Georgia Hicks - burlesque (incl. Nadine Briggs and Abby Cromwell) Kiara Clark - dancer Lynx - fire eating Maverick Cafferty - music/trick act Max Hampton - dancer/stripper Monty Larkin - magician (asst. Nadine Briggs) Natalie Gray - music act Peyton Wilson - stripper Rosa Milovanovic - dancer Santiago Ayala - music act Stella Hendrix - art performance Val Moreno - music act

[zonerobotnik]

...I'm sorry, are people really out here comparing Rapunzel Sonne with her pushy, stalker-y, "If you don't like me then something's wrong with YOU" attitude to Charlie Morningstar, who is literally trying to save her people and only really crossed a line AND APOLOGIZED FOR IT when she was trying to get Angel Dust to stay at the Hotel for the day and leave his ABUSIVE boss, even to the point of trying to convince his abusive boss to LET him go? Charlie doesn't deserve this slander. You cannot in a million years compare Rapunzel pushing Monty's boundaries because she NEEDED to know why he didn't like her to the point of stalking him to Charlie pushing Angel's boundaries and going to Val's studio to try and HELP HIM. It's not like this is just a cute little pet project, either, this is an act of desperation to try and save her people from literal genocide. Of course, she's a bit manic about it! As a side-note, I do appreciate her dad giving her the opportunity to talk to heaven about her plan, even if he might've just been trying to avoid talking to Adam. Really looking forward to seeing him in action in later episodes. And Sir Pentious is babygirl. Though, the question remains of if he's actually genuinely trying to change to survive or if this is all an elaborate act concocted by the Vees. Buutttt...I'm going to guess it's genuine. And the songs! These songs are all so good! I admit, I didn't expect Velvette to have that kind of personality, but it's good! And I'm not sure who's actually in control with Vox and Val, they both seem kind of, uh...well, hard to say. The Overlords all seem like fun people! Can't wait to see what they do as the show goes on. Anyways, great episodes! Looking forward to more!

[medievalandfantasymelee]

THE HOT MEDIEVAL & FANTASY MEN MELEE

SECOND ROUND: 22nd Tilt

Prince Jingim, Marco Polo (2014) VS. Sir Gary Galavant, Galavant (2015-2016)

Propaganda

Prince Jingim, Marco Polo (2014) Portrayed by: Remy Hii Defeated Opponents: - Ragnar Lothbrok [Travis Fimmel], Vikings (2013-2020) - Madmartigan [Val Kilmer], Willow (1988)

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Sir Gary Galavant, Galavant (2015-2016) Portrayed by: Joshua Sasse Defeated Opponents: - Sir Galahad [Michael Palin], Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1972) - Geralt of Rivia [Henry Cavill], The Witcher (2019-)

“pour one out for Galavant, lads. this guy deserved 87 seasons and a movie”

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[ihearnocomplaints]

Do you have an oc/character?

I suppose it depends on what ya mean, friend!

I don't typically make OCs or anything like that for any reason other than roleplaying. For example: My animatronic OC, Zephyr. Ignore the old art. Or my mechanic/technician OC Julia (Who I don't think I've posted before). Then there's my self insert oc, Silas. I also have a persona, who I affectionately refer to as my slimesona.

But I do have a FNAF:SB au! Which those are all technically ocs. Sun, Moon, Monty, Freddy, Roxy, the MC, and all other characters in that story could be considered "ocs"

I'll add the art for each character under the cut. Again, old art warning (sobs I do not like my old art all that much)

So, first is Julia, the only time I've drawn a cis person /hj

Then, Silas. He's got a lotta lore. I'll add my most recent art of him that I drew just a few days ago at the bottom

and Finally Zephyr!

These are all used in the same rp server I have with my fiancé

My au is currently in the works with it's designs for the animatronics and characters but you can check my au tags "#tcod au" or "#The Comfort Of Darkness" (You can find all my navigation tags on my pinned post btw!)

And finally, my most recent art of Silas (Being a depressed little baby bc the DCA hurt them emotionally and physically and they've yet to recover. Thanks Val.)

[dogslosing]

reid + val — things you said too quietly

[ @dreamse ]

chapter fifty-nine: how to save a life.

“i think it’s dangerous ,” there's a flicker of candle light from the night , dwindling low on it's last flame as she lay close to him . chest to chest , fingertip running random shapes across it as she listens to feel his heart beat underneath , “how much i love you .”

how she let herself care and be cared for for once. how when she wakes up in the morning, she's not filled with dread, but a sense of protection like he was meant to keep her safe. like he'd never hurt her the way savannah had hurt her and all of savannah's boyfriends in between.

"i'm scared one day that i'm going to leave you," death seemed to be the only option for as long as she could remember. the years between the days she was born and the time she found out her dad , wasn't really her dad . and monti wasn't the person she thought he was .

but he was , wasn't he ? the dad she was meant to have , the dad she never deserved . never forgave herself for the last voicemail she ever left him , telling him how much she hated him for leaving her . for wishing he was dead.

just to find out he was.

all the nights spent alone in the treehouse, wondering when the last time would be the last time. thinking of all the ways she could let herself off easy and be done with it all, to stop feeling the pain. to stop feeling at all.

just let me die already, she had said to val once. she'd never said that out loud before. it was always in her head, through her actions. the obscene amounts of alcohol, the drugs she would take to numb herself until she blacked out, stealing corey's keys that night just to crash it into a nearby tree.

and still, she survived that and she never understood why.

"and i don't want to," but raising a baby? how the hell was she supposed to do that? how was she supposed to love someone the way she was never loved? the way savannah would try to make her forget how monti had loved her all those years before he was gone?

"but i might have to."

[ser-zoras]

Making this one (1) post so I don’t piss people off. So here’s me writing ASOIAF characters into a bunch of Really Stupid Movies that I like because it’s fun. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL - Oddly this one is tricky. I think the narrative itself probably best fits Dunk and Egg, but I haven’t gotten to read that yet. So obviously Arthur is Robert Baratheon. Barristan Selmy is Lancelot, and I think Bedivere should be Jon Arryn for no real reason other than that it’s funny. Jaime is Galahad because in a theoretical sense they’re both formidable but in a more practical sense, very useless. I don’t know any other edits I would need to make according to this but replacing the rabbit with like. The Hound’s horse. That would be fantastic. And the Black Knight is the Smiling Knight, just because.

BLADES OF GLORY - ok credit to @jackedup180 on this one and also as inspiration for the whole post. So Sansa and Dany get kicked out of international figure skating singles due to getting into a fistfight on the podium and are forced to team up in the doubles division to skate again. This means challenging the throne of the reigning international champs, Cersei and Jaime, who are not fucking but have just as much creepy sexual tension. I’m not kidding this is the actual plot of the movie. Instead of Jenna Fischer’s character, I want Tyrion to be an accountant with zero sexual tension with either of the girls and who Jaime keeps convincing to spy on other teams. TALLEDEGA NIGHTS - Ultimate Jaimecore. So Jaime is a NASCAR driver who gets dragged into a competition with a younger, gayer driver (Loras) and ends up getting horribly injured and can no longer drive. For some godforsaken reason he was still living with Cersei and her kids and she kicks him and all the kids except Joffrey out of the house and hooks up with either one of the Kettleblack brothers or Taena. Jaime and co have to move in with Genna, who sets about whipping the kids into shape, and Jaime has to learn to drive again, from like Arthur Dayne or somebody. He eventually befriends Loras but decides to race him again anyway.

ANCHORMAN - I’m sure people think I’m lying when I say this, but this is just if JB were local news co-anchors in the 70s. There’s even a scene where they end up in a pit with a bear!

BAD MOMS - Yet another difficult one. Our charming, recently divorced heroine could be Cat if we’re doing exclusively the main series but I think drawing from all eras of Westeros is funnier, so it’s Rhaenyra, with Rhaena and Daella as her backup, taking on Alicent, the head of the local PTA, who is allied with Cersei and Alysanne.

ONE CRAZY SUMMER - Okay I am just saying that Jon and his Nights Watch boys take on the roles of Hoops and company. Sam is the character with the father who teaches children how to set off grenades. Grenn and Pyp are the twins, and Tormund is the kid whose place they’re staying at. Val or Ygritte is Demi Moore’s character. The real estate company they’re fighting is just the fucking Others.

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

so everyone knows ur the wainlock guy but are there any blands characters that remind you of certain mutuals bc of how much they like them?

oh boy time 2 tag a few people (sorry if its 2 am and i pinged you)

i had a few Handsome Jack mutuals over the years (hi monty if ur reading this 👋) but pretty much all of them have largely moved on from the fandom except for . Well. John (@handsome-john) as well as Straw (@sosorryjack) who also carries the title of Rhys mutual + only full time Rh//ack fan I like to be around (truly a eridium brick in the skag pile, as they say)

i also had a few Zane Flynt mutuals, the current one is Snowball (@snowballeclipse)

Maya belongs to Mars (@gaymars97). also Krieg. Psyren in general actually

Cicero (@enbytwink) is the Zer0 mutual of all time

Val (@phanztombzz) is the CEO of Timoxxi and i as the CEO of Wainlock consider myself allied to her and her apprentices

honorary mention to Percy (@jakfeaster) who is a secondary Zane mutual but also a Timothy mutual without the Timoxxi part attached

i have had many such other mutuals over the years but again, most have moved on. some have blocked me, and some i have blocked; this is how life is. but my eternal dedication to old man yaoi stays