#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

[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

[besotted-with-austen]

Edmund Bertram, after weeks of seeing Maria and Henry flirting plus the whole Lovers' Vows affair: *genuine surprise* who could have seen this coming?

Fanny Price: Me. I did.

Edmund Bertram: *sighs* I suppose you would have, would you not? I must admit that you are more perceptive than all of us-

Fanny Price: no, I simply was not blind.

[saprozoicworm]

is it okay if u draw Maria? (she’s an underrated character)

here she is 👍

[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.

[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.

[besotted-with-austen]

Henry Crawford: why would you think that I am not serious about my feelings for you, Miss Price?

Fanny Price: your flippant and borderline cruel treatment of my cousins has given me plenty of reasons to think so, Mr Crawford.

Henry Crawford: *condescendingly* but that was ages ago!

Fanny Price: *flatly* it was four months ago.

Henry Crawford: plenty of time to forgive and forget! Who knows what is going to happen to us four months from now!

[themalhambird]

I don't think Maria Bertram believed in romantic love as a concept before she met Henry Crawford. She doesn't really have any examples of it- Sir Thomas shows Lady Bertram respect and she shows him deference, but whatever spark might have existed there once is long gone before Fanny arrives at Mansfield. Her Aunt Norris probably spends more time at the Park than the Parsonage, we never *meet* Mr Norris- their partnership isn't going to inspire Maria with hopes of being able to emulate it. She gets engaged to Rushworth because he is rich, because he's handsome enough to look at, because her aunt wants her to and society expects it, and because she wants out of her father's house. She has no reason to think of marriage as a partnership, or anything other than a transaction that allows a woman to move in society independent of her father. And on that score, she can be pleased with the prospect that Rushworth offers her. The problem is that, unbeknown to herself as much as anyone else, Maria *is* a romantic, she *is* capable of falling hard, she just didn't have the opportunity to learn that about herself before she got engaged. And I can't help but feeling it must have come as a nasty shock when she realised, too late, that she found Crawford more than generically agreeable. Which doesn't excuse what happened- and she really should have taken the out when Sir Thomas offered it- but its fascinating to think about....