#who needs a garter when you have a stopwatch

[savvylittlecoxswain]

@sparrow-in-the-field i see u fam

"In the shell, a coxswain wears a headband which holds a megaphone in front of his mouth (he has to use both hands for steezing), a pair of shorts, and a watch strapped to his left thigh. The watch is for estimating the speed of his own crew and the other contestants. Speed is measured in strokes per minute; you count the number of strokes rowed in 30 seconds. and multiply by two. Some people count for 15 seconds and multiply by four, but Moch says this isn’t accurate enough.”

—Syracuse Herald, 9 August 1936

[weebsinstash]

Where can we see Valentino, I've watched the pilot and he wasn't there? :"

Unfortunately he was in the pilot during Charlie's opening song, but only for a few seconds :(

the way I actually learned more about him and his personality was through his tag on tumblr where people were sharing posts from his official Instagram account which unfortunately is empty because he got previously banned for being. Well. A misogynist. He acted too in-character and apparently people reported the account for abuse, which honestly sucks because there was like, A LOT there?

I can try and round up some posts about his general disposition and shit though! I actually put a decent amount of posts together because it was fun for me to dig through them all again. It's good character reference

Val makes Angel run small errands for him like shopping and ALSO look at Angel's wrist and sleeve. that is very clearly some sort of mini replica of Val's signature jacket so, Val apparently sends Angel out visibly marked as his property. Also in the comments Val is threatening him to hurry back to not miss another porn shoot so, controlling dickhead sent him out on an errand and then basically has a stopwatch out timing him. Why send him on the errand if Angel had a shoot scheduled anyways? I feel like it's just something to belittle him

He also makes Angel hang out with him (because unless Angel is dressed for some really weird porno, that looks like a really cute outfit almost like for a date?)

(domestic violence tw) here's some stuff about Val being openly physically abusive to Vox, feeling so unashamed that he posts about it and is openly all "it was your fault you made me do it" and also him getting dragged by stolas because, king

Despite being so abusive he DOES consider Vox his boyfriend

But they apparently break up and get back together a lot

Not from Valentino's account but, apparently despite being a moth Valentino's fluff is apparently part of his jacket and I'm fucking devastated and will just keep pretending he's silky and fluffy while I live in blissful ignorance

part of him being banned and being dramatic about a temporary break up with Vox (including Dia and Summer!)

He sent this to Angel in a ribbon wrapped gift box after AD made a post about eating a donut Cherri gave him and Valentino responded "watch your weight". I could dissect how much of a dick move it is to send such a condescending gift in such a fancy box, Val's twisted psychology of deliberately getting Angel's hopes up to spit in his face, but--

Him being dramatic and attention seeking after his break up (and he killed queef shortly thereafter). Also a good example of how Val is occasionally gender nonconforming and fluctuates from masculine to feminine, peep at the big silky robe and how he's got it hiked up to show he's wearing thigh garters. Slut.

Despite the public image he attempts to maintain he's kind of a fucking dweeb sometimes and apparently either a messy eater or just lowkey lowers down his pimp facade and goofs off when he's with his friends

He thinks Sir Pentious is cringe and bumps into him sometimes, though I feel like it's implied that Pentious is such a fanboy that he tracks them down and "bumps into them" on purpose

Ok, this one took me a second to understand im context. Do you know those videos about cakes that can look like super realistic objects? Apparently Val takes Velvet out and plays a game where he has her, maybe even both of them together, STAB people to "see if they're cake". Is it just random people or does Val have her take down deliberate targets for his own needs? Who fucking knows but it's fucked up????

I don't have the link to the post specifically but it's been implied or stated through one of the Instagrams or livestreams that Valentino, Vox, and Velvet all chose their names, which I think is 1) found family and 2) them leaving their pasts behind. I think they all probably had really fucked up pasts and bonded somehow and then became The Three 3 Triumphate or whatever they call themselves. But then again they're all from different time periods so I assume they all met in Hell? I dunno don't listen to me

Anyways I would highly recommend checking out that Instagram archive account in some of the links above because it seems to be pretty thorough and has all the characters on it. I just may start doing some digging through it myself 👁👁