#but... that's not how i see maria

[wiihtigo]

matching with mama

#my art #umineko #rosa ushiromiya #maria ushiromiya #originally i just wanted to draw rosa in pajamas cuz of a scene where genji comes to wake her up and i was like i would like to see it. #sleepy rosa. but i kept thinking about all these times by the point i was reading where rosa talks about how she doesnt feel like a mother #she feels more like a child and how it really informs the way she parents maria #so i wanted to draw her in matching pajamas with maria that looks like a childrens nightgown on her to show sort of like #her immaturity and how out of place she feels as a mother and how hard she is on maria for not acting her age #anyways...all those thoughts for what looks like a jcpenney photoshoot LOL #btw im still working on ep 2 no spoilers plzz...

[undefeatablesin]

More inking practice ft. Lady Maria and Good Hunter Ruza 🩸

#sin scribbles #bloodborne #lady maria #lady maria of the astral clocktower #good hunter #hunter bloodborne #good hunter bloodborne #(the lady ruza AND the lady maria how do i hold all these ladies) #(also i lied i guess i only like to do clean lineart when its comic style inks lmao) #(i might upload the soft sketch version some other time) #(ruza is in fact god awfully tired) #(maria sees right through her)

[sonknuxadow]

sorry not to be negative or anything i think a lot of the jokes about maria dying are funny but am i the only one who thinks that its taking it a liiiittle too far to flood the comments of the live action actors posts with stuff about how shes gonna get shot or you cant wait to see her die (and yes this is actually happening im not making up a guy to get mad at)

#i KNOW its in reference to the character not the actor in real life but its still weird? #like even if youre talking about the character youre still directing it at a real person. who is also a child . which just makes it worse #i feel like if i was in her position id be a bit freaked out #especially if i didnt know much about sonic and how important/iconic maria dying is #like the top comment on her isntagram post confirming her role is just ''LMAO SHES IN A BODY BAG '' #and theres a bunch of other jokes under that about her dying. most of the comments section is just jokes about her dying actually #with a few people congratulating her and stuff but mostly jokes about her dying .... its weird #and about waht she was wearing maybe she Was making a joke there #but i feel like its just as likely that she was on set in costume at the time #and isnt allowed to show what maria looks like yet and thats why she had her face and body covered #theres not really anything wrong with these jokes on their own but why are hundreds if not thousands of people #insistent on making sure the actor herself knows how much you wanna see her die . its so weird

[lowpolyshadow]

i just wanted draw shadow smiling

#shadow the hedgehog #maria robotnik #me: okay what would make shadow smile (maria) (his chao) got it #sth #sonic the hedgehog #i wasn't actually expecting the marias but well. i'm emotional #uu .... Uuuu god he loved her so much ... #i know i have another shadow doodle comp somewhere that had like two or three smiles in there but. more. #a VARIETY to see his Range (also bc i already dislike how i drew those lul) #my art #edit i was apparently so lost in the sauce i didn't realize i typo'd my caption but it's staying bc its funny

[moxyphinx]

MARIA DOYLE KENNEDY as ILA in THE WHEEL OF TIME S1 “What greater revenge against violence than peace? What greater revenge against death than life?”

#the wheel of time #wheel of time #wotedit #twotedit #maria doyle kennedy #ila #tvedit #fantasyedit #mdkedit #gif #mine #* #mdk* #wot* #wot spoilers #the reason i started the show obvs #i remember seeing the original casting announcement and thinking #is this even a real show? #lmao #my my my how the turn tables #anyway fake mam back for s3 #be still my heart

[queenofglassbeliever]

The Double-Edged Sword Job

bonus

I recently finished watching this episode and I swear Eliot had more chemistry with Libby than with the Marshall.

#leverage #leverage redemption #leverageedit #leverageedits #eliot spencer #parker leverage #leverage parker #the double-edged sword job #something about the way eliot charged in #clearly ready to fight whoever he's gotta fight to protect this woman and her kid #got a feeling we'll be seeing more of this maria character though #don't tell me anything #she seems cool by herself #not sure how i feel about her as a love interest for eliot #we'll see

[neurotypical-sonic]

you would think its tails who is interested in urban design and traffic engineering because he likes smart stuff :) WRONG!! tails lives in a jungle and does not care if there are enough sidewalks. there are no sidewalks there is only Dirt Path and Airplane Runway

its AMY who cares about urban design. MAKE THESE CITIES WALKABLE DAMMIT!!!! SHE'S SICK OF HAVING TO RUN ACROSSS THE ROAD BC THERES NO PEDESTRIAN CROSSING!!

#i think shadow could also care. because if like. he wants to see the world how maria would like it #he doesnt really care about Design and Engineering but he does go damn. shame these cities suck. #egg.txt #amy #tails #sonicposting

[cerealbishh]

"We get to, this season, explore their chemistry and their real love and their intimacy. So we get to have a glimpse into that world that just feels so pure and beautiful and romantic! And then, sort of navigating those other circumstances once they're out in the world, dealing with real... challenges." - Isa in an interview with The Knockturnal(x)

#outer range s2 #outer range s2 spoilers #maria olivares #rhett abbott #isabel arraiza #lewis pullman #rhett x maria #i know the last gif is blurry but trust me she was holding his arm and i just thought that was adorable #i might add a lew quote if he ever gets asked about outer range s2 in an interview smh(i'm begging someone to ask him more about it!)... #she is always going to pull him in for a kiss like how she pulled him in for a small peck in s1 #the biggest fucking grin on her face whenever they kiss #i feel like i could hear an ''i love you'' sometimes with how they just look at each other? crazy #her smile and him smiling back at her before the forehead kiss is EVERYTHING to me #also her little smile as he kisses the side of her head like she knows he's doing his best and doesn't really blame him for anything? uGH #there was an article that said that maria and rhett may screw royal over? i say they should go for it! #truly if it gives isa and lew more screen time i'm all for it! #i say all this but i still want a spin-off of them just on a roadtrip #i am convinced that he kisses her just because he thinks she's being really cute #they're so annoying... y'all haven't even been dating that long and you're acting like this!! smh /j #i kinda had a feeling that was maria in the trailer doing something to rhett in the trailer(iykyk) and my heart still fell into my stomach #i'm not including any dream/nightmare sequences because as far as we know they can't see the future... right? #do i sound stupid and biased? maybe... please don't judge me #she's hungry but her heart aches to stay... will the flesh have its way in s3? will she be ... ''already gone'' a la eurydice in hadestown?

[hawkeye221b]

This is my new favorite Gender: Tired Guy all alone in his underworld castle

Like yes king!! be awkward with your nephew- tell him you don't like your family drama! don't worry bout it!! offer him sanctuary when he connects the dots- what king shit.

I 100% believe this man would gift his 80 yr old 13 yr old son a zombie chauffeur because he thinks it'd help them bond.

#percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv #pjo spoilers #percy jackson tv show #hades pjo #gods first we get hints of Nico last episode and now we see his DAD?? #Idk bout yall but i am l i v i n g #AND THE WAY HE OFFERED TO PROTECT PERCY HIS MOM AND GROVER IF KRONOS GETS OUT?? #LIKE HOW HE OFFERED TO PROTECT MARIA NICO AND BIANCA?? #SIR P L E A S E

[fizzytoo]

amaya and karlee take in chestnut ridge little by little. while karlee does some horse watching from afar (secret horse girl), ama gets to know some of the locals.

Maria Marshall-Lee (by @hauntedtrait) owns The Dusty Rose, the only lesbian bar in town.

#ts4 #ts4 gameplay #sims 4 gameplay #postcard legacy challenge #postcard: gen4 #queue #YEAHH #our first cowfolk townie appearance <3 #after putting everyone down idk why i was so shocked to see them around town like !!! i didnt even have to plan this #also BIRDIE <3 there's wesley walking behind ama on the bike. they didnt get to chat but it looked like wes was on their way to a class #i tried different dimensions to size these down and i’m not really liking how they came out on mobile 😞 #maria by hauntedtrait #sim: karlee kamealoha #sim: amaya kamealoha

[greenerteacups]

Hi! I am an ardent fan of your writing, and I hope to be as sorted and planned as you some day in my own writing journey.

My question is: you have a keen eye when it comes to planning character personality, dynamics, and such. I've also been wading through your ask replies, and your insights into how you write people and how you make them play off of each other is so wonderful to read. If it's not too personal a q, how did you learn how to write like this? Did you go to school for writing, does it come from years of observing people, do you have reading list recs for "how to write real people and real interactions"?

Thanks! This is a really flattering question. I'll try to answer it honestly, because I wish someone had been brutally honest about this with me when I was a young writer.

I didn't go to school for writing. I started doing it when I was about nine years old. It sucked very badly. I kept writing throughout high school, and it still mostly sucked, but some of it was occasionally interesting. ("Interesting" here does not mean "good," by the way.) I took a break in college, and then came back. I've been writing ever since. Sometimes, I feel good about it. A lot of the time, I don't!

I hate giving this advice, because I remember how it feels to get it, and it's the most uninspiring, boring-ass, dog shit advice you can get, but it's also the only advice that is 100% unequivocally true: you have to write, and specifically, you have to write things that suck.

I do not mean that you should make things that suck on purpose. I mean that you have to sit down and try your absolute hardest to make something good. You have to put in the hours, the elbow grease, the blood, sweat, and tears, and then you have to read it over and accept that it just totally sucks. There is no way around this, and you should be wary of people who tell you there is. There is no trick, no rule, no book you can buy or article you can read, that will make your writing not suck. The best someone else can do is tell you what good writing looks like, and chances are, you knew that anyway — after all, you love to read. You wouldn't be trying to do this if you didn't. And anyone who says they can teach you to write so good it doesn't suck at first is either lying to you, or they have forgotten how they learned to write in the first place.

So the trick is to sit there in the miserable doldrums of Suck, write a ton, and learn to like it. Because this is the phase of your path as an artist when you find what it is you love about writing, and it cannot be the chance to make "good writing." This will be the thing that bears you through and compels you to keep going when your writing is shit, i.e., the very thing that makes you a writer in the first place. So find that, and you've got a good start.

Some people know this, but assume that perseverance as a writer is about trying to get to the point where you don't suck anymore. This is not true, and it is an actively dangerous lie to tell young writers. You are not aiming to feel like your writing doesn't suck. You are aiming to write. You are aiming to have written. Everything else is dust and rust. And of course, you'll find things you like about your pieces, you'll find things you're proud of, you'll learn to love the things you've made. But that little itch of self-criticism, in the back of your brain — the one that cringes when you read a clunky line, or thinks of a better character beat right after it's far too late to change — that's never going away. That's the Writer part of you. Read Kafka, read Dickens, read Tolstoy, you will find diary entries where they lament how absolutely fucking atrocious their writing was, and how angry they are that they can't do better. A good writer hates their sentences because they can always imagine better ones. And the ability to imagine a better sentence is what's going to make you pick up the pen again tomorrow. And the day after that. And the day after that.

Which is what I mean, and probably what all those other annoying, preachy advice-givers mean, when we say: a good writer is just someone who writes every day. It's that easy, and that hard.

#by the way a lot of this draws on ideas inspired by 'letters to a young poet' by rainer maria rilke if you're interested #that's a formative text for me as an artist #it won't teach you how to write but it will teach you how to think perhaps #and once you know how to think. well. life is just pretty good #and i can't say the writing gets easier but when life is pretty good i find myself enjoying it a lot more #this word vomit was prompted by the question 'how do you write real people and real interactions' #because that's like — i'm not trying to be pedantic but— #that's kind of just 'how do you write literature'? #because that's all literature is. what are human beings? how do you write a person? how do they interact with each other? #like shoutout to the void if you know for sure how to write real interactions then please for the love of god tell the rest of us #because i think most of all authors in history have just been giving it our best stab #'this is how the world looks for me. is it how the world looks for you?' #so my advice on that score is: try to see how the world looks for you #and then try to share it with me #don't worry about whether it looks the same for me. it won't

[atissi]

still feel pretty uneasy about bachelor route, but i'll admit. it's fun seeing these guys again.

#'why do you feel uneasy' google nikolay dybowski <- in case someone doesn't know at this point #idk its really gonna depend on how bachelor route treats eva and maria. like i hope its normal. i really hope its normal. #i wanna see the kain family shenanigans without feeling just constant disgust. thanks. #anyways. honestly just wanted to try drawing saburov again. this was very nostalgic #beepbeep.txt #pathologic

[katyspersonal]

Fandomry tips on hcs.

I've met another user that was afraid to share their cool Maria story ideas out of fear that they'll get shunned as "hating masculine lesbians", so, just a few things:

1) No matter how popular a headcanon is, it doesn't become canon. Fandoms do not abide by majority rule in which you could never have an unpopular idea.

2) With LGBT+ headcanons, the less you justify them - the better. The rude minority might think that Maria "has" to be a lesbian because her hunter outfit resembles male Knight garb and she cares about a female friend, and everyone who disagrees "lack media literacy" and "has bias". What is it trying to say? That bi or straight women could not look masculine? That the only reason a woman would ever dress masculine is to be the 'man' for her femme? Or that women could not care about other women deeply unless they're attracted to them? Even "historical accuracy" excuse is obsolete, because Bloodborne clearly doesn't abide by real world's history Victorian antics. Female vicars/doctors/hunters and people of color being equal to white people is a dead give-away to that.

It is even more confusing with Malenia, who doesn't even look masculine. Not feminine, either. She looks like 'just a person'. So what makes her "canonically a lesbian"? The fact that she is a strong fearsome warrior? Why? Because bi or straight women would not fight but instead latch onto some guy to protect them...?

You see what I mean. Justifications for why an interpretation HAS to be one thing and not the other only make things worse and push people into very narrow, at times outright offensive stereotypes. 'She is this because I think so' is a good enough reason - and that's where you can see that someone else's thoughts will be JUST as valid!

3) Headcanons and fandomry are not activism. No minority will be effected just because in some fandom people ship some character in some ship. EVER. These things are for FUN, lesbians aren't fairies within which one dies every time you say "I don't headcanon X character as a lesbian". What do you think will happen if many, or even majority of people like bi (or even straight) headcanon instead of lesbian? A life essence of a whole demographics will be dried out?

4) "It is not that hard" is not an argument. It is never anyone's business why someone would deny a very inviting opportunity for a headcanon. Freedom and autonomy is the VERY base of having fun in the fandom. In fact, very often, it is this same toxic attitude what makes average users NOT want to celebrate a strong female character as a lesbian. Because they feel like they had no choice! And many people possess contradictory spirit, that might make them choose something as affirmation that they won't be mocked into thinking a certain way.

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Honestly, it is NOT okay that here and there people have to feel afraid to do something as innocent as to share their ideas, and might just end up leaving an interesting character aside because loud and rude people scared them away. Do not let a character you like get "claimed" by some group just because they were the meanest, do not hide your awesome ideas but instead post them and TAG them. Fandoms are free spaces, not a middle school where the popular girls set the trends and decide who gets to be bullied.

And if some people can no longer enjoy a fandom or a character because other people got a different headcanon? Well, then they were not built to be in fandom spaces to begin with.

#fandomry rambles #bloodborne #lady maria of the astral clocktower #elden ring #malenia blade of miquella #i mean what i saw yesterday was not as bad as a pointer from a friend regarding 'shipped with a man' #but it still was bothersome #naturally all this applies to MLM enjoyers that hiss at every woman in 10 yards distance from- #-a male character they headcanon as gay #i just do not have consistent examples of that #i know like one person was mad at people not seeing how g3hrman was canonically gay #and even that was half-serious and reaction at haters calling him cishet 'when he loves laurence' xd #really not threatening aura

[aymayx]

savior vivre

designs very much inspired by ratrrriot's art go check them out if you haven't already their work is amazing

#holds them gently #shadow the hedgehog #maria robotnik #gerald robotnik #sonic the hedgehog #i just wanna see them happy for a second #little idea how maria introduced shadow to manners and stuff

[mariathechosen1]

Do people know how psychologically troubling it was to be a Norwegian Eddsworld fan?

Genuinely all I remember from that show is watching all the ew episodes, finding it very entertaining and fun, trying to read one (1) fanfiction, and instantly being punched in the face with badly google-translated Norwegian pillow talk.

#honestly think I stopped being a fan the day i read that #if you’re a monolingual english speaker: Words cant describe how upsetting it is to see badly translated sweet talk in your native language #maria talks about things #eddsworld

[itspileofgoodthings]

on the one hand we have many people treating me like Mrs. Bennet trying to marry off her daughters, just like Maria pls date someone go on a date once, anyone, just GO, get out there and then on the other hand we have my mom saying she doesn’t think you should try to make Romance happen but only take opportunities as they come if you want to. so.

#these are too personal for a post I should have put it in the tags #but another source of anxiety! #I don’t feel any desire to be on a dating app i am happy with how things are right now #but people can make you feel so weird 😭😭😭 #like just. Maria you have soooooo many walls up you HAVE to get out there #sometimes it does make me question if something is wrong with me #but then I’m like ? ??? that just seems so panick-y and awful #to be like oh noooo I’m TOO comfortable I’m just hiding from reality #like surely on this matter we can all just trust God right? #not saying you can’t be trying to meet people or take opportunities! but just #I don’t see any human way to manufacture something that I personally would be happy with #I think it’s all out of my hands and I’m okay with that #most of the time!!!!!! until people make me overthink it