Fan of the Week: jak7139

[Bullfilter]

And did those words in ancient time
Appear upon Fandom’s pages blue:
And was the holy Fan of the Week,
On the forum’s pleasant pages seen!

And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded heads?
And was @filcat lauded here,
Among these dark Paradoxian Threads?

Bring me my Pen of burning gold:
Bring me my Keyboard of desire:
Bring me my Thread: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Weekly Fan!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my pen sleep in my hand:
Till we have given this Award,
To @filcat the Noble and Pleasant Fan.

congratulations @filcat , from both me and William Blake!

 

[Midnite Duke]

@filcat, congratulations. You should be required to write everyone's acceptance speech. What off-beat song will you link? You have increased my knowledge in so many different ways. Thank you

 

[nuclearslurpee]

Is this just propaganda pushing because your AAR has more TBC comments than author posts?

That's every AAR though.

I hope @filcat will accept this time.

grumbles in "Six-Month Rule"...

Congrats, @filcat, and as you have no grounds not to accept the award you will not be getting away this time.

 

[Specialist290]

Congrats @filcat!

(Unfortunately don't have the talent to rewrite song lyrics like you do, but if I did, my personal choice for your commendation would be "Stray Cat Strut.")

 

[stnylan]

Many congratulations @filcat and all the many others I have missed since I last posted here.

 

[TheButterflyComposer]

Many congratulations @filcat and all the many others I have missed since I last posted here.

Mm. Did I just summon by speaking its name?

 

[Idhrendur]

Congrats @filcat!

 

[Midnite Duke]

Congrats @filcat!

(Unfortunately don't have the talent to rewrite song lyrics like you do, but if I did, my personal choice for your commendation would be "Stray Cat Strut.")

The Fil Cat Strut is an excellent choice.

 

[Wraith11B]

Congratulations @TheButterflyComposer and @filcat !! Sorry I've been at the beach and thus a lot less available.

 

[filcat]

<background music: Prologue, from the soundtrack Dune by Toto (1984)>​

[*]

Spoiler: Main title, same album

Needless to say, the acceptance posts plus the nomination one; they will be many and... long.Cheers!




[*] Adapted from the opening of Dune, d. David Lynch, a. Virginia Madsen (1984).
Title font is a close approximation of the one in the film, Albertus MT Standard.
The film is a fascinating example of how not to make a film, or how moronic production studios can hilariously fail by not making a film but trying frantically for a generic movie.
Only fragments of then young director can be traced out of the tens of barmy inputs by production. No amount of acting by Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Sean Young, Jürgen Prochnow, José Ferrer, Max von Sydow, Brad Dourif, Siân Phillips, Patrick Stewart, Kenneth McMillan, Dean Stockwell is enough to save it, nor Sting (yeah, gordon is there). Even the soundtrack by Toto is almost absurd, except for one track, and that one is by Brian Eno.
Its bizarre charm is still powerful to this day, though.
Would have written about it by filling the entire post, but that is enough.

Onwards, to enjoying the celebrations

 

[HistoryDude]

Congrats @filcat!

 

[Qorten]

@filcat : Well deserved congrats! Just letting you know because you received this award halfway the week I've chronicled you as having won on the 24th, giving you a whole 'nother week to prepare your nomination speech. We wouldn't want to risk having to read a subpar one because of time constraints now, would we?

 

[Midnite Duke]

Excellent decision @Qorten!

 

[filcat]

Well then, since Qorten approved the extension, onwards, to enjoying the celebrations:

Part I​

This time, my choice is fairly easy because a lot of regular commentators have not yet won this year...and it just so happens that filcat is not only one of them, but last won almost exactly a year ago this week. So it seems only fitting to grant him the honour once again, and see what madness he unleashes when he points his comment ray at himself!
Many congratulations, filcat! Well done!

Well, the last one was on 28th December sorted as 26th for a tidy list, but does not matter, as it has been more than 6 months, good to go, therefore: Thank you for the most wondrous honour (filcatian-protocol-for-weekly-awaards), Fan of the Week; cheers mate!


Hang on; hang on a minute.

I agree. At least until Stnyaln returns to reclaim the throne.

Hmmm. At first gave it a laugh on the @nuclearslurpee's fan of the fan of the week of the week, then comes this above.

Apparently there has been some confusion on the matter. It has to be restated, so let it be known;

The name for the - chief, count, duke, king, emperor, imperator, caesar, kaiser, tsar, rex, re, rey, roi, raja, pharaoh, huangdi, mansa, shah, shahanshah, padishah, král, król, knyaz, basileus, negus, khan, khagan, sultan, tenno, tadodaho, tsenpo, and the list goes on a bit more, then lastly, god-emperor - of the fan-of-the-week; the fan, there is one, and forever the name is @stnylan.

End of Part I​

Have said it would be many and long. Was not kidding. Lol.


Edit: Corrected grammatical, typographical mistakes.

 

[filcat]

Part II

<After hearing the news, coz1, Bibliophile, DensleyBlair, and Macavity116 arrive at the bAAR>​

< @coz1, excited, speaks to TBC, then turns to filcat, then shouts at both>

< @Bibliophile pulls a book from the shelves, finds a table, and sits at>
< @DensleyBlair and filcat shake hands firmly before sitting>
< @Macavity116 enthusiastically shouts>
<filcat smiles>

End of Part II​

In order of appearance:
- Still-images of the character Akhileús from the film Troy (d. Wolfgang Petersen, 2004)
- Portrait of a man reading a book by Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, 1503-1540)
- Portrait of Aleksandr Pushkin by Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (Васи́лий Андре́евич Тропи́нин 1776-1857)
- Depiction of the character Mira in the Stormbreakers; originally The Assassin from XCOM 2: War of the Chosen (2017)
- Autoportrait as a mocker by Joseph Ducreux (1735-1802)

Edit: Corrected typographical, grammatical mistakes. Tidied-up the layout.

 

[TheButterflyComposer]

And TBC cannot be visually portrayed or alluded to without angering the heavens.

 

[DensleyBlair]

Pushkin? Hmm. Better keep a look out for French cavalry officers…

 

[TheButterflyComposer]

Pushkin? Hmm. Better keep a look out for French cavalry officers…

It's a reasonable close physical approximation of physical similarity...no idea how much Coz paid the cat to have him appear as peak Brad Pitt.

 

[Macavity116]

*The main character of my very first AAR appears in a @filcat post*

I can die happy now.

 

[filcat]

Oh you are going with the pathways of the neuro-signals making the connections ending up in the visuals; all right, as you wish. But don't come and say aaww, don't spoil the bollocksmagic mate, after lifting the curtain.

no idea how much Coz paid the cat to have him appear as peak Brad Pitt.

It only took two words to spark it: Take it. Had it been said by a blobfish, then it would be that. Lol.

It's a reasonable close physical approximation of physical similarity...

Pushkin? Hmm. Better keep a look out for French cavalry officers…

Naaah, found the one close to it, but eventually opted for Pushkin rather than the obscure hussar. For the angle of perspective of victorian-era-romanticism-school, lol.
Some look at the other direction though, but that would not be a problem for the digital age of flipping the bits of the colours.


Edit: Added the forgotten line.