#Maria Park

[milliondollarbaby87]

All Together Now (2020) Review

Amber Appleton somehow remains optimistic depsite a very unstable personal life, keeping everything hidden from even her close friends and attempting to chase her music dream to attend Carnegie Mellon. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Untitled

[lostinmac]

My Old Ass (2024)

Dir. Megan Park

[niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian]

Oh, I am NOT going to be emotionally stable enough to witness this....

[bethanydelleman]

Why I am NOT an Austen Heroine:

-If I was Anne Elliot, I would have married Charles Musgrove in a heartbeat just to get away from my family

-If I was Elinor Dashwood, I would have ugly cried when Lucy Steele told me she was engaged to Edward until I couldn't breath

-If I was Fanny Price, I would have married Henry Crawford just to get away from Mansfield Park

-If I were Elizabeth Bennet, I would have probably just said yes to Darcy (highly loss adverse and very concerned about my age)

-If I were Emma, I wouldn't have lasted until Box Hill to insult Miss Bates. It would have happened years ago and far more often

-If I were Catherine Morland.... oh... at 17? Oh... yeah, girlies I would totally accuse my crush's dad of murder because I was reading too many Gothic novels...

I AM a Jane Austen Heroine

[alotofpockets]

Happy New Year Appreciation

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[randomuser678]

They're weirdly compatible with my artstyle.

Some notes here is that I added Maria and Luke bc they're the latino and hispanic kids so I feel a kinship here, I also gave Damien the same skin tone as them bc some pictures I saw of him he had a slightly darker skin tone and I would like to use it with more characters.

Also a little bonus:

It's really easy to make bases for these! Might make more!

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Plaza de España en Sevilla, Andalucía, ESPAÑA

[heavenswaif]

ave maria

[r26yz]

for you

[bethanydelleman]

The contrast between the readers reactions to Isabella Thorpe in Northanger Abbey and Maria Bertram Mansfield Park are interesting. They do similar things, but one of them, Maria, receives a lot more pity from the fandom, perhaps because she faces much worse consequences than Isabella. However, their actions are quite similar: both women are engaged and yet happily flirt with another man in front of their betrothed and both are attempting to "trade up" in men, Isabella for more wealth, Maria for a man she actually likes (she would lose out financially).

The biggest difference is their motives. While Isabella doesn't have a "heart to lose" when it comes to either James Morland or Captain Tilney, Maria does in fact love Henry Crawford. Also, readers are meant to pity and like James Morland but Rushworth is shown as stupid and annoying.

I think a big factor though is that Maria's emotional affair falls into a recognizable RomCom trope, where a dissatisfied rich girl leaves her disappointing but safe fiancé for The One. It is disappointingly common in this trope for the woman to not break off her first relationship until she's deep into an emotion, and even physical affair, but it's fine, because the original guy is a loser, right? Isabella, on the other hand, is just a greedy social climber, so her actions are completely unjustified. It doesn't seem to matter that they are both causing a lot of harm by trying to keep both guys on a string.

Henry Crawford and Frederick Tilney basically play the same role, neither of them had any real intentions and likely only flirted for fun. Henry knew that Maria didn't love Mr. Rushworth (he implies as much to Mary), but he considers her a "safe" flirtation because she is engaged. We can assume that Tilney thought the same, as he drops Isabella as soon as she breaks her engagement with James.

I see people excuse the women's behaviour because life was so tough for Regency women and they couldn't afford to lose their safe bet, but it's just wrong. They ought to have broken off their engagement first before trying to find a new fiancé. Rushworth being an idiot doesn't forgive Maria for hurting him.

[besotted-with-austen]

Jane Austen: *writing* “Mr Rushworth’s image was gradually deteriorating in Maria’s eyes; before his status and wealth had hidden his other deficiencies, but now she found it hard to overlook them. She was regretting her choices-“

Me: YES!

Jane Austen: “-and she was looking in Mr Crawford’s direction, emboldened by his attentions-

Me: NO! NO! NO!

[choptopmia]

average teenage experience

[unamused-kookaburra]

Pathologic: oh you have a screen recorder active now? you just want to show off the funny rat jumping off the cliff? don't worry I'll give you a real show

[psychic-refugee]

Pic CR @camopantsandsunflowers

We're getting close to the theatrical release of My Old Ass and I'm excited. It has such good reviews!

Every Rom Percy's been in, they only have nice things to say about his portrayal as the romantic interest. I expect to see him continue his awesome work.

[osmorino]

art summary for this year, since we're coming to a close on this year! already though damn, that's crazy

[bethanydelleman]

When it comes to Mr. Rushworth in Mansfield Park, he was aware that Maria hated him and he still didn't break the engagement: She had despised him, and loved another; and he had been very much aware that it was so.

I see a lot of people argue that he couldn't have broken the engagement because honourable men can't do so, but in this case he could have easily. If the Bertrams threatened to sue him or do anything else, all he had to do was bring up the play and it would have been over. Sir Thomas would have been mortified and all the blame would have fallen on Maria (which honestly, in this case would have been right, she knew she was engaged, she still flirted with Henry.)

Also, because you know, the patriarchy, I have also read that cases for breach of promise against men were very rare, because people would assume something was wrong with the woman even if it was the man's fault. Even if Rushworth didn't have a good reason for breaking the engagement, he probably could have done it without consequences. The woman's family usually just tried to get past it as quietly as possible.

So why did he marry her? The narrator tells us: The indignities of stupidity, and the disappointments of selfish passion, can excite little pity. He married her because of lust and somehow thought it would work out. He was only in lust with her from the beginning: Mr. Rushworth was from the first struck with the beauty of Miss Bertram, and, being inclined to marry, soon fancied himself in love.