Midnight Pals: Hugo Drama
Hugo Gernsback: hey everyone its me, hugo gernsback
Gernsback: editor of Amazing Stories and namesake of the hugo awards
Gernsback: perhaps you've heard of them?
Clive Barker: oh buddy
Barker: buddy
Barker: we've heard all about them ha ha
Stephen King: they're named after you? i thought they were named after victor hugo Gernsback: ha ha a common mistake
Gernsback: but that's fine
Gernsback: i'm not mad at all that victor hugo keeps getting the credit
Gernsback: i think its funny
Gernsback: in fact i'm laughing
Gernsback: ah yes my precious hugo awards!
Gernsback: the most prestigious award in science fiction and fantasy!
Gernsback: a place for serious business
Gernsback: certainly no room for shenanigans here
Gernsback: no room for tomfoolery
Gernsback: no room for clownish buffoonery
Gernsback: The Hugo -- an award whose very name rings with integrity & honor!
Gernsback: it is no mere nebula! no paltry clarke!
Gernback: the stoker, the howard, the lambda - none can compare!
Gernsback: the L Ron hubbard writers of the future award? pah! dust before the hugo!
Gernsback: only the choicest cuts of science fiction and fantasy would ever achieve the lofty hugo award
Gernsback: an award forever untainted by shenanigans or hijinks!
Gernsback: now to take a big sip of coffee and read this file 770 report!
Gernsback: what the--?!
Gernsback: my beautiful hugos!!! tainted by the foul stench of corruption!!!
Clive Barker: yeah boy i bet victor hugo's just sick about it
Gernsback:
Barker: just sick about what they did to his award
Gernsback:
Barker: ha ha
Poe: clive leave him alone
Gernsback: my hugo!!! you were supposed to be a thing of beauty... not this monstrosity!
Dean Koontz: gosh he's so sad about his award
Koontz: do you think it would cheer him up if i gave him my nickelodean kids choice award?
Poe: i think that would be a very nice gesture dean
Chris M Barkley: [thrusting microphone] Mr gernsback! mr gernsback! a statement for the press?
Jason Sanford: [thrusting microphone] how do you respond to the allegations about your award mr gernsback?
Gernsback: confound these intrepid newshounds of the 4th estate!
Gernsback: [wiping brow] don't worry, we will be taking measures to fix this
Barkley: what are you going to do mr gernsback?
Sanford: the people demand an answer mr gernsback!
Gernsback: we'll uh
Gernsback: we'll nominate an essay called 'Dave McCarty Can Fuck Off Into the Sun'
Gernsback: what a debacle! i cannot believe my good name will now forever be associated with such shady practices!
HP Lovecraft: hey when are you gonna pay me for my story you ran?
Gernsback: new phone, who dis?
Gernsback: you know who this really hurts?
Gernsback: worse than the nominees secretly disqualified for politics?
Gernsback: worse than the entirety of Chinese science fiction secretly disqualified for being Chinese?
Gernsback: worse than the winners whose awards are now tainted?
Gernsback: the person that this hurts most of all
Gernsback: is clearly bitter karella
Gernsback: for reasons i can't articulate
Gernsback: everyone should immediately go and heap conciliatory praise on bitter karella
Gernsback: truly the most wronged person of all
Bitter Karella: [bravely holding back tears] no no it's not about me
Bitter Karella: [voice cracking] my only thought is for the hugo community who has been through... so much...
Bitter Karella: [stoically gazing into distance] they're the REAL heroes
Gernsback: look how bitter karella keeps a brave face... for our sake!
King: god bitter karella is so brave... and so modest!
Poe: truly a great goblin
Poe: possibly the greatest
Koontz: why? what did they do?
Poe: dean! show some respect!
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⚜️ Happy 10th Birthday, The Musketeers! ⚜️
The Musketeers premiered on BBC One on 19 January 2014 and ran from 2014 to 2016, with a total of 30 episodes.
Inspired by Alexandre Dumas' novel, it starred Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, Howard Charles, and Luke Pasqualino as the four loyal swordsmen in 17th-century France, who fight for justice and protect the King and Queen from various threats.
⚜️ ⚜️ ⚜️ Athos ⚜️ ⚜️ ⚜️
⚜️ ⚜️ ⚜️ Aramis ⚜️ ⚜️ ⚜️
⚜️ ⚜️ ⚜️ Porthos ⚜️ ⚜️ ⚜️
⚜️ ⚜️ ⚜️ D'Artagnan ⚜️ ⚜️ ⚜️
"I'm looking for Athos!"
"You've found him."
"My name is d'Artagnan, of Lupiac in Gascony. Prepare to fight. One of us dies here."
"Now, THAT'S the way to make an entrance."
– 1x01 Friends and Enemies
The series blends historical drama,
action,
intrigue,
and humour,
with a healthy serving of family,
romance,
and plenty of friendship,
brotherhood,
and swashbuckling goodness!
"I want… Athos and his friends… silenced for good."
"Musketeers don't die easily."
– 1x10 Musketeers Don't Die Easily
⚜️ Thanks for an amazing show! ❤️🔥⚜️
"Look to your left, now your right... A Musketeer is never alone, Brujon.
Remember that."
– 3x03 Brothers in Arms
⚜️💖⚜️
*My thanks to all the amazing gif makers for the lovely gifs!
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The mythology tells of a rat leader (a king, naturally) that demands to sit high atop a throne of lower, pleasantly rats. This tangled, mangled nest of lesser rodents becomes a living dominion of nastiness, representing the twisted and evil nature of the one king sitting high atop his suffering legacy.
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