#Maximilliana

[lucky-lucky-dog]

okay i love this idea so much but i am TIRED of working on it lmao

this is a play on a the Saturday Evening Post cover from June 3rd, 1905 by J.C. Leyendecker, featuring Max as the dragon and Beau wooing her.

max would ask beau if he would love her if she was a worm and he would seriously consider it. but probably not lmao

[superghfan]

In 1990, Felicia gave birth to Mariah Maximilliana “Maxie” Jones.

[paranatellonta]

Fractured Concealment

No one was going to look for secrets inside a fracture that seemed to have healed.

That was the theory, at least. And for generations of dragons, it held true. The secret of human magic had been passed on from hoard to hoard, and no one had even considered claiming the small, red bowl that preserved hidden knowledge in the gold lacquer of its cracks.

It was just Maximilliana’s luck that a couple of humans stumbled upon her cave that day. After evolution had left her tiny enough to hide behind the largest gemstone of a giant’s necklace, with a growl that would make about as much of an impression as a cat’s purr, she’d have to watch this disaster unfold in a green tinge and about 58 facets. Because who could believe it would end well if humans got their hands on their own power, when unleashing it was as simple as smashing the bowl to the floor?

To her surprise, that never happened. Slipping into the bag of stolen treasures, Maximilliana was carried along to the museum where they put the tiny bowl on display. They protected it and praised it for its value, but always continued to have the wrong idea about what made this damaged object so incredibly important.

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[Image description: Photo of a small, red bowl glued together with gold lacquer, on the surface of a wooden table.]

[donospl]

Tomasz Stańko Quartet “September Night”

ECM, 2024 We wrześniu roku 2004 monachijski Kulturreferat wraz z  Wydziałem muzykologii Uniwersytetu Ludwiga Maximilliana zorganizowały sympozjum muzyki improwizowanej. Jednym z jego elementów były  koncerty artystów związanych z wytwórnią ECM. Rejestracje dwóch z tych występów wydane zostały w latach 2007 i 2009 (Roscoe Mitchell „Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3” oraz Evan Parker…

[harryjameshanson]

Maximilliana & Fontasia L'Amour for Legends of Drag x Chambord Liqueur, at Legends Live LA

Creative Director: Harry James Hanson

Videographer: Jimmy V Page

Floral Designer: Devin Antheus

[friendswithclay]

“Tunyo polychrome water jar made by Maria Martinez and decorated by her sister, Maximilliana. Maria holds the jar on her head.”, 1975. From:”Modern Pueblo pottery, 1880-1960”, by Francis Harlow, 1977.

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[beerecordings]

If Henrik and Jamie had kids to name, I imagine they’d name them things like Elizabeth <3 Thomas <3 Hazel <3 Molly <3 James <3 Casper <3 Lily <3 Elliot <3 Elise <3 etc

and then if Jackie and Chase had kids to name they’re probably like BANYAN ! ARIA ! ZEE ! BLUE ! BOWMAN ! PETER PARKER ! ALEXANDRINE ! FOX ! and hopefully they have partners that can reign them in a little

but i don’t even want to think about Marv having a baby he going to name that poor kid something like fucking “Methuseleh” or “Amaryllis” or skip straight to “Merlin” just the most dramatic names he can possibly think of. Seraphina. Theodoris. Constantine. Maximilliana the Magnificent. good luck magic baby. good luck

[keepmesaferp]

Name: Mariah Maximilliana “Maxie” Jones Anderson.

Location: Port Charles, New York.

Personality: Sassy. Ambitious. Dramatic. Survivor. Outgoing. Fashionable.

Career: Owner of both M and Crimson Magazine.

Relationship Status: Married to Tom Anderson

Character Notes: Maxie is the daughter of Frisco & Felicia Jones, but is closest to her adoptive father Mac Scorpio because he’s the one who raised her. She is married to her junior high sweetheart, Tom Anderson. The two have been on and off for years. She has three children with Tom, Thomas Jr., Isabella, and Brianna. She has one daughter with Jesse Beaudry, Sophia. She has one son with Lucky Spencer, Lucas. She has two daughters with Cody Davis, Evelyn and Madelyn. She has two children with with Dillon Quartermaine, Lily and James. She runs two fashion magazines and is the star of a reality tv show because she married into a famous family

Face Claim: Kirsten Storms.

This role is closed.

[oppaiokudasai]

A Movie A Day #13: Ringmaster (1998, directed by Neil Abramson)

A Movie A Day #13: Ringmaster (1998, directed by Neil Abramson)

Jerry Springer has been many things over the course of his long life.  Lawyer.  Anti-war activist.  Adviser to Bobby Kennedy.  Congressional candidate.  City councilman.  Brothel aficionado.  Mayor.  Journalist.  Commentator.  Talk show host.  Destroyer of culture.  Scourge of humanity.  Twice, he was a highly recruited candidate for the U.S. Senate but, both times, it was decided that there was…

[coochiequeens]

Another way for more men to have more roles in media

EXCLUSIVE: Transgender Talent, the transgender owned and operated management and production company, is looking to help Hollywood get better at portraying transgender and nonbinary characters on screen with the launch of a new consulting arm.

The company, which represents talent including David Makes Man’s Jamie K. Brown and The Craft: Legacy’s Zoey Luna, has opened the consulting business to assist the entertainment industry’s drive to increase diversity and inclusion both in front of and behind the camera.

Run by Ann Thomas, an activist, and second-generation transgender person who has worked on HLN series’ Transgender in America, the division is an expansion of its medical education division which educates and advises UCLA medical students on transgender patient care.

The company has added four DEI and trans persons to the department: Jordan Blaza Olsen (Nat Geo’s Taboo),  Vittorio Wyatt Gray, who has worked with companies such as director, Maximilliana (Nash Bridges) and Crystal Stull (Naughty Dog).

“This is something I have wanted to do officially for quite some time,” said Ann Thomas. “With daily news both positive and negative, and misinformation out there about our community, we must put education and authenticity at the forefront of this movement.  Having these four wonderful people working with me to continue blazing that trail, is hopefully really going to make a difference.”

The commenter makes a good point. If women can’t have single sex services due to discrimination against men, no matter how they identify, can trans people create their own services without being accused of discrimination?

[cuppaqueen]

"When did you first wonder about what your name meant?", Max's neighbour randomly asked. She did that often, ask weird shit out of the blue but Max didn't mind. It was like playing a unique version of twenty-one questions that just never ended.  Thinking for a moment, the brunette smiled. Max remembered it well, year three's assignment, 'What's in a Name?' It was to be an essay of sorts. Well, as much of an essay that a bunch of eight years olds could write. The project seemed easy for everyone in her year, even her twin brother Mitchell had little to no problem discovering what his name meant and how he related to it all. Max, however, was having no luck. She found the male version of her name but still, there was no real information on the origins or even meaning.

Young Max ran home after school in tears. She didn't care about the marks for the assignment, okay everyone knew that she cared about her marks. She lived for good marks in school. This assignment, however, had her all upset. She just wanted to know what her name meant, where it came from and why the fuck her parents chose it. After all who tortures their baby with a name such as Maximilliana?  Throwing herself down on the chaise in the sitting room, crying her eyes out. "Why can't I have a proper good name like everyone else", she screamed. Diane could hear her daughter from the kitchen, she headed over to comfort her child. It was in that moment that Max finally got to hear where her name came from and it wasn't just some random long-ass weird name. It truly meant something to her mum.

Diane wiped Max's eyes as she pulled her close. "Oh my love, your name is special. More so than anyone else's in this family" her mother spoke in a soft soothing tone. Max's interest was more than piqued. "Really?" the eight-year-old asked. As interested as she was, she wasn't sure if her mum was being nice to her or telling the truth. It turned out that Diane was indeed being truthful. Max's name was very special.

"Maximilliana Eleanor," her mother said her name before pausing for effect most likely. Diane was known for that. "Your name is a combination of people I hold dear in my heart," she informed the young child.  "Max is short for Maxwell, which you know is my maiden name." Max smiled at her mum. She actually liked the fact she had her mother's maiden name as part of hers. It was something extra to bond the two. Diane continued "Milli, well she was my best mate when I was a child. She passed away when we were in sixth form. I never got over losing my partner in crime" Diane's voice broke a bit as she fought back the tears. Max wanted to know more about this Milli girl but figured that it was best not to ask, at least for the time being.

"And well Ana. Now that was my grandmum's name. She was a beautiful woman from Spain. She's who you got your colouring from." Diane kissed Max's forehead. "Then there's Eleanor", Diane went on causing Max to scrunch up her nose. She was never really fond of the name Eleanor. It seemed so old school, so vintage. "I once read a book and the main character was called Eleanor" she stated without any extra explanation. "That's it? A character?" Max arched her brow. "Seriously, mum?" she added as Diane nodded. "And since your father insisted on calling you Max, I wanted to give you a name that I could give you a nick from. Hence why I call you Ellie", her mother finally explained.

With the information in hand, Max was able to write her essay, which she got high marks on. Now even though, she can't tell anyone exactly where her name came from in the sense of location or what it might mean and how that meshed with her personality, Max can tell people that her name has one hell of a personal meaning to her mum and that there makes it the best name in the world. A kick-ass story is always better than some random 'your name means sparkling water on the river bed' bullshit, at least that's what Maximilliana thinks.

[lucky-lucky-dog]

no reason, just them <3

beau lighting max's cigarette. he's a gentleman through and through.

[brassknell]

Magistrix Maximilliana Aletis De Voire Beaudelaire-Dawnspire, Esquire

It has taken a day to put it all in place. It wasn’t just illusion magic, but it certainly served the made well. It would be as robust as the other four guises that crafted this week, and the mage found it deeply amusing. She looked at herself in a mirror, one last time, certain that nothing else could be added.

A Quel'dorei with golden eyes stared back at the mage from the mirror. Dressed in silken spellthread, as able at turning an arrow or a blade as a suit of full plate. A staff in one hand that all but radiated power. Jewelry- rings, two amulets, earrings, all enchanted in ways that any mage would find incredibly useful. She had a ghost of a smirk on her lips.

Satisfied, she turned and left the Inn. A last glance and wave at Nic Alatir, who- according to almost anyone, still resided at the Inn and ran the establishment.

A portal opened up with the wave of one bejeweled hand, and she stepped through. On the other side, a forest of silver pines. And beyond, Fenris Keep.

She walked up the path, a spring in her step, and she paused at a lesser set of gates and nodded regally at the pair of Kiden Knights who guarded it. “I am Magistrix Maximilliana Aletis De Voire Beaudelaire-Dawnspire, Esquire. I’ve come to call on the Duke of Kiden, to pay a debt. Please direct me to him, or someone who can speak for him.”

@maluraunderchild @nic-alatir @the-wayfarers-inn

[dreatine]

I would love if Max was short for Maximilliana.

max reid sounds like such a good name wow

[njawaidofficial]

Transgender Actors Say They're So Far Behind That "Pay Equity Is A Non-Issue For Us"

https://styleveryday.com/transgender-actors-say-theyre-so-far-behind-that-pay-equity-is-a-non-issue-for-us/

Transgender Actors Say They're So Far Behind That "Pay Equity Is A Non-Issue For Us"

“When I first came to Hollywood, there were no trans people to look at onscreen. We really didn’t know if there was going to be any work for us, and my agent said the same thing when she first signed me,” said Nashville actor Jen Richards.

Three years later, she still sees every audition and every role she books as “educational moments,” opportunities to encourage Hollywood’s casting directors and producers to hire trans actors. The first-ever transgender actor to appear on CMT and the cable channel’s country music drama, Richards said she knew going into the project that the stakes were high. “I’m hyperaware walking into that situation that I might be the first openly trans person they’ve ever met — and certainly the first trans actor that they’ve worked with,” she told BuzzFeed News.

As cisgender women and men of color continue fighting to close the industry’s gender and race wage gap, drawing support from their colleagues, the public, and California lawmakers, transgender actors like Richards say they are fighting an entirely different battle. Multiple trans actors, from newcomers to more established names, told BuzzFeed News their primary concern is not equal pay but simply finding work.

“I think any of us would just be so thrilled to get a deeper part and to get paid at all.”

“We are so far behind that pay equity is a non-issue for us right now. … I think any of us would just be so thrilled to get a deeper part and to get paid at all. Like that would feel like such progress,” said Richards, who also cocreated, cowrote, and starred in Her Story, an Emmy-nominated web series about two trans women.

The dearth of work available to trans actors leaves few in the position to push back for higher salaries. It wasn’t until recently that Richards felt qualified to negotiate for more money than the minimum wage set forth by the Screen Actors Guild. After she landed a series regular role on a not-yet-announced television series, for which the pay was significantly “higher than average,” Richards’ agent managed to push back and secure more money for her client.

“Now that I’ve [made] this amount of money for a show, I don’t think my agent would counsel me to say yes to anything less,” Richards said of her breakthrough. “I’m really lucky in that I have a fantastic agent who’s very experienced, who’s been in this industry a long time, who really believed in me and has never led me astray. And she doesn’t treat me differently than any other client, so I don’t think she would allow anyone to treat me differently than any other client.”

Jen Richards photographed on April 24, 2018 in Los Angeles.

JSquared for BuzzFeed News

While there has been a relative increase in roles for trans actors in recent years, like Laverne Cox’s Emmy-nominated work on Orange Is The New Black and Trace Lysette and Alexandra Billings’ roles on Transparent, the opportunities are still scarce. GLAAD Media Institute, an LGBT advocacy organization, counted just 17 regular and recurring transgender characters across broadcast, cable, and streaming television series in the 2017-2018 season, still a significant increase from the seven they found in 2015.

When the rare transgender role does come around, cisgender actors often get the part, said Maximilliana, an actor who has appeared on the Clueless television series as a “Tall ‘Woman’” and on the original Gilmore Girls as “Marilyn Monroe.” “It’s been such a struggle to be even offered the job to start with because generally the job is going to a cis actor,” said Maximilliana, who identifies as gender fluid, calling out Anything, an upcoming film about a transgender sex worker, for its controversial decision to cast Matt Bomer in the lead. Such was also the case with The Danish Girl, for which Eddie Redmayne garnered an Oscar nomination for his performance as a trans woman, and with Dallas Buyers Club, for which Jared Leto won an Oscar for playing a trans woman with HIV. There’s also Jeffrey Tambor, who starred in Transparent for four seasons as the series lead, Maura Pfefferman, a trans woman. (Amazon Studios has since fired him after his former assistant, Van Barnes, and costar Trace Lysette said that he sexually harassed them; through a representative, Tambor said the accusations were “false” and criticized the studio’s investigation.)

D’Lo, a Tamil Sri Lankan–American comedian and actor, told BuzzFeed News that finding work can be particularly difficult for those who, like him, identify as trans masculine. “We’re still in what people have been calling the trans moment of television. But the narrative has largely been about trans femininity,” he said.

D’Lo photographed on April 24, 2018 in Los Angeles.

JSquared for BuzzFeed News

According to GLAAD, of the 17 transgender characters that appeared on screen in 2017, nine were trans women. Four were trans men, in addition to four characters who identified as nonbinary.

Richards said that the lack of work for trans men and transmasculine actors can be attributed to a host of issues. But she boiled it down to “garden-variety misogyny” and Hollywood’s tendency to depict women as objects of desire, often for the consumption of cis, straight male viewers. “Part of it is that trans women capture the imagination a little bit more because our default is male,” Richards explained. “So the idea of a man who gives up that kind of privileged position to be female is more interesting than a woman becoming a man. It’s a kind of sense of, ‘Well, of course you’d want to do that.’”

Although D’Lo has landed small roles in Sense8, a popular Netflix sci-fi series, and Transparent, he said his past credits aren’t paying the bills. “Most of it is deferred payment and ultra low-budget SAG.” To make a living, D’Lo stars in digital projects, tours the country as a stand-up comic and theater performer, and facilitates writing and performing workshops. Television, he said, would be the “gateway to getting more opportunities.” It’s also a path to establishing a personal rate or “actor’s quote,” as Richards recently did.

For D’Lo, pushing back during negotiations has never been an option. “If an agent brokered the thing, then I would get a day-player rate,” the minimum for a one-day speaking part stipulated by SAG. (As of today, the union’s rate for a day performer is $956.) “Basically, there was never a moment where somebody was advocating for me to get a higher wage,” he explained.

“Whether it’s an Emmy nomination, a win — all these things add on to negotiating points.”

But transgender rights advocate and actor Angelica Ross has be in the position to demand higher pay. “Anything I’ve ever done, if it comes to a deal, I’ve always negotiated,” she told BuzzFeed News.

After years of working steadily to earn her SAG membership, Ross rose to prominence after starring in Richards’ web series, Her Story. She was in an episode of the CBS drama Doubt alongside Laverne Cox and an episode of Transparent. She also landed a recurring role on TNT’s Claws, the Rashida Jones–produced drama about five money-laundering nail manicurists. She has since been able to leverage the critical acclaim of shows she’s appeared in during the negotiations process. “Whether it’s an Emmy nomination, a win — all these things add on to negotiating points,” she said. Although she acknowledged there is always a risk of losing the part, she said Hollywood executives have hired her based on her reputation and credits. “They know I deliver. They know I’m professional. I show up on time. I don’t dillydally,” she said.

This summer, Ross is set to star in Pose, FX’s upcoming musical television series cocreated by Glee and American Horror Story’s Ryan Murphy. An eight-episode drama about New York’s 1980s ball culture, Pose has been touted as a “history-making” project that features the largest cast of transgender actors in series-regular roles and the most LGBT actors in an American scripted television series.

Angelica Ross photographed on April 26, 2018 at Suite3 Studios in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Annie Tritt for BuzzFeed News

Ross is eager to join Hollywood’s pay disparity conversation, as she doesn’t feel cisgender actors have been all that inclusive of people of color or trans people. While racial diversity on television has increased in recent years, people of color still hold fewer roles than their white peers. The gap is even wider for trans actors of color: Of the 17 transgender characters GLAAD counted, thirteen were white, two were black, one was Latinx, and one was Asian-Pacific Islander.

“I’ve been on television sets and movie sets. I’ve been fortunate enough to be in this business a long time, mostly in the background, but you see how they don’t want to spend money, especially on certain talent, especially on people of color,” Ross said. “It’s so interesting how I see across the board, people of color having to prove themselves, and to have so many documents and portfolios and receipts and accolades before they get the job.”

Ross says she and Laverne Cox have begun discussing pay among themselves: “Laverne and I kind of tiptoe a little bit and started talking about what we’re getting paid. … I’ve kind of confided in her about some things.” But that’s the extent to which trans actors are discussing pay, she said. “It just hasn’t been that space where we’re all talking openly about what we’re getting paid.” The shortage of data on trans actors doesn’t help the cause.

“The focus really needs to be on just getting more trans people on the shows.”

“SAG barely has actors that identify as trans because it’s too expensive to join,” Ross continued. “So trying to get that data on what trans actors are being paid? We’re a long way from knowing any of that information. But in the meantime, I think that my role — as well as Trace Lysette, who’s a white trans woman — we need to join in on this conversation with women, with black women, about this pay gap.”

But like the cisgender women and men of color fighting for pay equity, Richards and D’Lo both emphasized that there needs to be more working opportunities for trans actors before they can demand higher wages.

“The focus really needs to be on just getting more trans people on the shows. And that means writing more and better parts for trans people and giving trans actors the opportunities to play parts that aren’t written for trans people,” said Richards.

Despite the long road ahead, Richards remains optimistic, citing the baby steps Hollywood has achieved. “Now that there are quite of few of us onscreen, I’m hoping that younger people will see that and think, ‘Oh, that’s a viable career path now.’” ●

LINK: Actors Say There Won’t Be Equal Pay Until Hollywood Creates More Diverse Roles

LINK: The Prince Got Paid More Than The Queen On “The Crown” And People Aren’t Happy About It

[harryjameshanson]

Maximilliana & Fontasia L'Amour for Legends of Drag x Chambord Liqueur, at Legends Live LA

Creative Director: Harry James Hanson

Photographer: Deb Leal

Floral Designer: Devin Antheus