#*ania

[weirdlookindog]

Babs Webb - Illustration from Ania Ahlborn's novel 'If You See Her', 2022

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[azallea]

[realismovisceral]

Anna Maria Bilińska

by Remi Kozdra & Kasia Baczulis

[marejadilla]

Ania Tomicka, “Astray”, from "Seed of Memory" exhibition, 2017, oil on canvas. B. 1985 in Łódz, Poland. From @beautifulbizarremagazine

“Seed of Memory is my representation of one of those really rare and precious moments in life that you know you will remember forever. It is just a second but it’s full of melancholy and beauty, even if sometimes it is not in a positive context.”

― Ania Tomicka

[heraclito71]

Ania Tomicka - Nocturne No. 19

[classichorrorblog]

Tenebrae (1982)

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Tenebre (1982)

[edenprime]

I keep flip-flopping on whether I like Liara's change in characterization post-ME1. Was she changed exclusively by the devs/writers so that she could be an action girl, which is considered more interesting/sexier? Was it a side-effect of her being put on the "everyone is now an edgelord" train? Or did it actually make sense?

At the present I'm inclined to think it's a mix of the last two. At the start of ME, she says that she's barely an adult by asari standards, that her work isn't taken very seriously due to her young age. We overhear, in ME2, an asari on Illium say that she's 60, so she's finally moved out of her parents' house. I'd say this makes Liara's 106 years around the equivalent of early to mid twenties. She suddenly finds her mother, an extremely well-respected woman in her society, betraying her people and going off with a rogue man who's rallying one of the galaxy's boogeymen to work for him, hunting down and killing innocents, turning them into monsters. Then, when she's gone to hunt her down to stop her, she finds out she's indoctrinated, that she set out to stop Saren, not join him. Benezia finds her mind for a few minutes, tells her she truth of the indoctrination, and attacks her and the person she's falling in love with (her first love, too!) only to die in front of her.

Whether Shepard rejects her or not, it's clear that she's in love with them, that her feelings are still there when the collectors attack the Normandy. And right then, she sees another person important to her, at best a friend and at worst a lover, die in front of her. She finds out there's a race to get their dead body, that it can be given to their murderer, or to a terrorist organization. She chooses, for better or worse, the second, the one who, as she says on ME2, gives her some hope. She admits to Shepard that her feelings got the best of her in that case. After dying for the cause, she sees their reputation be torn to shreds and every discovery they made be buried by politicians.

She loses Feron, another ally, another friend.

So yes, she changes. She's a 23 year old who went from exploring 50 thousand year old dig sites to being in the center of a belic conflict with her mother as an enemy. She sees her love die a horrible death, choking on nothing in front of her.

Of course she becomes obsessive and single-minded. Of course she adopts some of Benezia's worse traits. Of course she hunts down the shadow broker with such ruthlessness. And of course her behavior softens with Shepard - they came back. She's not stupid, I'm sure she knows her gamble, when she gave Shepard's body to Cerberus, was not without its dangers. She knows Shepard could rightfully be mad at her. She knows Shepard could have not come back at all! But she did it all anyway. Regardless of how her behavior can be seen as creepy or morally wrong, I can see where she's coming from, and I don't think she's all that wrong for feeling the way she felt. She stops being the saint she was on the SR1, but she's not an evil witch, and she's definitely not even among the top 5 squad members who needs the most atonement. Or jail time.

[cameronsprincess]

exactly!! yo hoes who say blonde doesn't suit him like um hello?? his bleached era was IT. everytime i see this pics im like he's such a slut i love him. fix your brows mister Starkey and come home, kids miss you

yesss this era of him was so slutty😮‍💨😣

run it back mr. starkey 🤪🤠🤍

[aniaroa]

♡ Happy Birthday WangJi ♡

Teen!WangXian brain rot

[loosescrewslefty]

Anya's mother loved her so, SO much. It's clear she is not in this situation willingly, but she is doing everything in her limited power to brighten the cold, caged little world she and her daughter are trapped in. We saw how Ania was treated by the scientists back in Chapter 1. Given that they made it clear there that Ania is a test subject and not a child in their eyes, I can't see them taking the time to give her spacebuns or add lace trim to her hospital gown so it looks more like a dress. More than likely, Ania's mother did that for her. Even though she was trapped there and suffering herself, she took the time and energy to try and make Ania's world that little bit happier.

It really makes you realize where Anya got her altruism.

[weirdlookindog]

Babs Webb - Illustrations for Ania Ahlborn's novel 'If You See Her', 2022

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[mostlybrunettes]

[realismovisceral]

Ania Maria Bilinska

by Remi Kozdra & Kasia Baczulis

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Tenebre (1982)

[aniaroa]

Happy birthday Wei Ying ₍ ᐢ. ̫ .⑅ᐢ ₎ ♡