#Anyway!! Mila!!!

[sotc]

dragon age origins first playthru giving me brainrot <3 ft my bb warden, miss buckethead, Milana Tabris

(hello zevran romancers, i bring a gift of the best mans 🤲)

[aracariwren]

A bunch of doodles of some Miitopia default/promo Miis and a lot of flowers because I love them so much,,,

[tricoufamily]

i need to speedrun this set up. behold. every single townie slightly relevant to the story

[mickeycookies]

Page close ups with some colors

[struniolos]

god i know this is going to sound so pretentious but pls for my sake use the correct grammar & paragraph structures. there is nothing worse than reading a fic with no paragraphs or gaps between when characters are speaking, it makes it extremely hard to follow. especially for someone dyslexic like myself lol

[msommers]

did you mean: blorbo with eternal anger issues

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[heliosynchronisity]

*new elder scrolls OC noises*

[deathbypufferfish]

The Annual Terzi holiday party!!!

[katofvalentia]

An Echoes related thought:

Isn't it ironic that Alm fights in the resistance group but the characters that guide him within that same resistance, Lukas and Clive (people who are not in the know about Alm's true identity) are both "go with the flow" types? Like Lukas accepting to fight in the army and his brother reaping the benefits regardless of what happens to him. Or how Clive "believes in structure" etc. Heck Tobin and Gray have that convo at the end of Act 1 where they accepted Alm reaching heights they could never dream to reach themselves.

Also isn't it ironic how the opposite is true for Celica?

[limbel]

thinking about how i would not survive a will/lyra reunion in the book of dust part 3

[formulaonedirection]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CukPRPYsV-Z/?igshid=NjIwNzIyMDk2Mg==

This is too cute. We need more big brother, and Uncle Lando insights his whole family is so cute (and seemingly well adjusted, lol)

STOP THAT'S SOOOOOO CUTE Adam Norris Pure Electric is literally gonna make Mila the first female F1 driver I believe in him

[laurencin-draws]

kicking off pride with some worship over on patreon!

[captain-lessship]

I am just going to go off on a tangent on the celebs that I think should play Greek gods:

Jack Harlow would slay as Apollo. There’s just something about him okay?

Christian Bale could totally pull off Zeus. I mean look at the material.

My sisters lesbian awakening, Kate Winslet, would kill it as Hera. (Always and forever will be a queen)

Lady Gaga as our beloved Demeter.

Keanu (Are we surprised he’s on this list) Reeves as Poseidon (No, I am not just missing him in point break… I am)

The gorgeous Catherine Zeta Jones as Hestia

Keke Palmer as Aphrodite (She’s always been so damn beautiful imo I also just LOVE how gold looks on her. A icon.)

Ashnikko as Artemis (Yes, the twins are both musicians. Also because her alternative style could easily blend and give us a Artemis portrayal that would make history)

Mila Kunis as Athena (I just think she would give us everything as Athena.)

As a Gubler enjoyer, him = Dionysus ✨✨ (As someone else said, he could also play Apollo. But only if Jack Harlow is unavailable but I really see Apollo as a musical oriented guy because Artemis was Ashnikko in my mind first and they’re twins so they gotta match and well… I just think Matthew dressed in a purple toga with gold armlets and anklets and a grape vine crown would get Gubler Nation screaming crying and throwing up.)

Ares could only be played by Daniel Radcliffe (Stick with me, okay) Imagine the comedy that could possibly come from short man syndrome. Like some monster is like “This is the Ares? God of War?” And then we see Daniel absolutely knock the shit outta them.

Lastly, our local actor who shouldn’t be allowed near water or to date anyone younger than 27 (I was legally obliged to make that joke but honestly all I know is he isn’t dating me and that my only issue with him jk jk …unless?) Leonardo DeCaprio as Hades.

[tetzoro]

titan jean. that is all.

[struniolos]

WHENS THE NEXT GUITAR LESSONSSSSSS I CANT WAIT ANY LONGERR

i was going to end it just as a two parter but if u guys want more im def into that!!!

[mermaidsirennikita]

One reason why I think Mila Finelli's mafia books do work for me better than most other (Italian--I did really love Kresley's series) mafia romance novels I've read is that the characters do feel DISTINCT and so do the relationship dynamics.

In a lot of these somewhat darker, more erotic reads, you do get the sense that any of the characters could be switched out for one another. The heroes are always the same types of alphas, the heroines are always the same types of a) virgins or b) defiant rebels who may also still be virgins, and what really sets the books apart are a few bananas scenes here and there, and some distinct sex scenes.

And while I definitely think there are distinct sexual dynamics and kinks at play with each couple (Fausto/Frankie are obviously daddy kink-central, Enzo and Gia are.... generalized freaks with some heavier BDSM by way of CNC vibes, Giulio and Alessio also have some D/s vibes but with a more competitive edge and are very into each other's violence, and Giacomo/Emma are obviously a breeding kink/softer touch vibe) they're also just super different people.

I guess the closest couples would be Fausto and Frankie and Enzo and Gia, but even then... Fausto is a dick, but he's more rational, more doting (see: daddy), and though Frankie is absolutely defiant and strong, I actually think that though she and Fausto have more of a traditional partnership in terms of gender than Enzo and Gia (which also could be because Frankie wants a billion kids and yes she has her MBA but she's very much a wife and mom first, whereas Gia is more about her career, which keeps them from being too similar). Enzo and Gia are more into the defined D/s shit sexually, but you get the sense that she has more control in the relationship and that, at the end of the day, he is very much... her bitch. Enzo and Gia have a very similar age gap to Fausto and Frankie, but Fausto and Frankie have more of a care-focused DD/lg relationship, whereas Enzo and Gia thrive on the friction of her giving as good as she gets.

And Alessio and Giulio, aside from the obvious of being the only queer relationship in the series, are very much coded as D/s as well... But not as inflexibly as the previous two couples. Aside from them switching it up in the bedroom a little, there's also a lot of space for Alessio to take care of Giulio. Like, Giulio kinda doesn't know shit about what he's doing lol, whereas Alessio is hypercompetent (which also makes sense, as Fausto for sure spoiled Giulio and Alessio has been in essentially a different class his entire life). So while Giulio is more sexually dominant, Alessio is really the stronger, steadier, and more threatening partner otherwise. And again, they both really get off on watching each other do what they do best, which is: crime.

I do think Giacomo and Emma have the softest relationship in the series--but it's not so much because she's this kind of babe in the woods virgin (and I will say, I did love that Frankie and Gia were NOT lol) but because Giacomo is just a much more tender guy. Like, yes, Fausto and Enzo both also had loved ones, but I think that because they'd both been running their shit longer than Giacomo had before he met Emma, they had these very set roles. Fausto and Enzo come off as more brutal, and honestly more crazy (like, Enzo is THE CRAZIEST for sure, but Fausto is a fucking nutball). Giacomo seems like a dude who's good at killing people and doing mafia stuff, but it's really like? His day job. It's not his life and it doesn't feel like his culture, even, which makes sense because he was on the fringes of the types of levels Fausto and Enzo have always been in, because his father and brother kept him separate from it. Even Giulio is more connected to that space than Giacomo, because he was groomed to take over for years.

I think it would be very easy to rely on these great sex scenes and wacky plots she writes, but the thing that does make it clear that Mila has the chops (.... and it also makes it clear that she's very experienced, lol, and someone who has had to write series with very individualized characters for professional editors in the past........) is that the characters are very DIFFERENT. Like, Frankie and Gia may both have their partners' balls in their pockets, but you see Frankie do a wheedling kind of little girl pouting thing to get her way with Fausto because she knows he looooves it, whereas Gia is like LISTEN UP ASSHOLE with Enzo (and it makes the relationship the best because nobody else can do that with him, Enzo and Gia are the greatest, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk). Giacomo is willing to let Emma go in a way that Fausto, Enzo, and honestly I would say Giulio too after working out some things, really aren't okay with. He's probably the best guy out of the series, on a moral level, while also being a scary murder man.

(Except for maybe Alessio? Because Alessio is also a scary murder man, but he literally just does it for the cash or to protect Giulio. It's PURE BUSINESS.)

I find the distinctiveness of the characters really cool, especially when I reread the books, and that is probably why I've had a hard time finding a series that really clicks for me in the same way within the sort of Italian mafia genre.

(That, and: so much of the other books center on Italian-American mafia stuff and that shit DOES NOT HAVE THE SAUCE the way Mila's Italy-set books do. Like, be real here, the Italian-American mafia has not been raking in this kind of cash for DECADES.)