#malteses

[huariqueje]

Safe - Anna Calleja , 2020.

Maltese , b. 1997 -

Oil on panel , 30 x 40 in.

[bobbibitybob]

Dropping your branding for a boy is crazy imo

Silly lil comic inspired by this tweet

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 2x15 - "The Maltese Falcon Job"

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

What a difference 50 years makes juxtaposition of Lamborghini Bravo, 1974 & Lamborghini Bravo Marcello, 2024. The original Bravo was designed by Marcello Gandini (1938-2024) when he was head of design at Bertone. It was a proposal for a 2-seat entry-level Lamborghini to sit below the 2+2 Urraco. Independent designer Marco Maltese has updated the styling in tribute to Gandini who passed away earlier this year. His proposal would be based on the Aventador using that car's V12 engine

Marco Maltese on instagram

[mtg-talk]

Some of the references in Murders at Karlov Manor! There's probably more that I'm missing, this set is chock full of everything from murder mystery to noir.

[silently-standingstill]

if a host isnt obsessed with the random contestant whats the point

[puyoupuyou]

curl up & die (i am unwell)

[icrossedtheline]

on irreversable love

Song Credits: Die Alone, FINNEAS // Graceland Too, Phoebe Bridgers // ur so pretty, wasia project // Kaleidescope, Chappell Roan // My Love Mine All Mine, Mitski // Sofia, Clairo // j's lullaby (darlin' i'd wait for you), Delaney Bailey // Pancakes for Dinner, Lizzy Mcalpine // Everyone Adores You, Matt Maltese // Birds of a Feather, Billie Eilish // So American, Olivia Rodrigo // Glue Song, Beabadoobee feat. Clairo // Halley's Comet, Billie Eilish

Painting Credits: unknown // unknown // Red Almond Blossom by Vincent Van Gogh // unknown // Crested Butte Sunflowers by Laura Reilly // unknown // Rural Landscape by William Kay Blacklock // unknown // The Seine at Argenteuil by Claude Monet // Thrift, Priest's Cove, Cornwall by Mark Preston // unknown // unknown // unknown, John Singer Sargent

if you have any of the names of the paintings, please dm me or send me an ask!!

[ineffably-poetic]

does anyone else feel music so deeply in their soul that half their life revolves around it and it’s the only thing that can truly save you in your darkest moments?

or am i just weird

[fox-from-malta]

A Maltese Miku???? yea. Here ya go.

[huariqueje]

Embrace - Anna Calleja , 2022.

Maltese , b. 1997 -

Oil on panel , 20 x 25 in.

[skullislandproductions]

Happy Birthday to the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, who began their great chase 75 years ago, when “Fast and Furry-ous” was released into theaters September 17th, 1949. This short was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Mike Maltese, who would go on to create many more adventures for the pair.

[stickeriffic]

Maltese puppy life

[quuuueto]

Shhh he is taking a nap

[scotchiegirl]

Nate: "You want to walk away? Walk away."

Eliot: "'M not walking away. That's not my job, my job is to get your back, and Nate, I'm gonna do it, all the way down. But I need you to do your job."

Nate: "And what's that?"

Parker: "Be Nathan Ford! ... Be the person we came back for."

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There is... so much going on in this scene, my gosh. (For context, it's The Maltese Falcon Job, about six minutes in when they're re-evaluating the situation and Eliot calls Nate out for going off the rails.)

First off, the way Eliot completely tosses Nate's perception of what's going on here. Because up to this point, Nate has seen himself as "running a crew." Team-mates, yes, but no real loyalty or bond beyond the next job. He runs a tight ship and if anyone has problems with it, they can leave. (It doesn't matter if he cares about them, all they care about is the next job, helping people yes--he's infected them with morals--but still, it's just a job to them.) They exercise their skills, Nate wrangles them into helping people. And yes, Nate knew that Eliot's role on the team was to protect them, make sure they make it out of here alive, but he didn't see that as actual loyalty, just--again--as far as the next paycheck. He still felt that anyone could walk away at any time. After all, they disbanded after that first year, and Sophie certainly walked away.

And then Eliot reframes it completely. He literally says "My job is to have your back." Which yes, means physically, but generally when we use it, it means loyalty. It means providing weight and aid to a situation to turn the tide. Eliot literally sees his job as being the counterweight to the family: his presence turns the tide of situations in their favor, and that's not something he walks away from. Like Nate said in the previous episode, they don't always win, but they never quit. And Eliot is not the exception to that rule.

But he needs Nate to get his head back in the game, because if Nate starts doing this for ego, the team is lost. He will back a loosing play if Nate wants him to, Eliot is every bit of the boy on the burning deck when it comes to these people he loves, but when Nate's got his priorities straight it means they win. Not unscathed, but they do win.

And then Parker--"you weigh me down you kill me" Parker--does the unthinkable (from Nate's point of view) and backs Eliot. She knows exactly what Eliot's saying because it's what they're all feeling. And her being the one to put it into words is what tips Nate. Because of all the team, Parker is the one least likely to want to stay and most likely to be able to make it on her own. And if she's the one reminding him why they started again, being the moral compass, then that means that Nate's gone way off the rails.

When Nate looks at her after she says this, he's realizing all this and being reminded of when they all first met up in Boston again. He's remembering the realization he had when Eliot was shot and for that half a minute Nate was convinced that infecting these people with morals had killed one of them. And once again he realizes that they will follow him into hell, burn themselves alive--for him--and it will all be his fault. And so yes. He does need his head back in the game. Because these people love him, and he loves them. And if he's not doing this for the right reasons and they die, they will have died as martyrs to his ego and not to a righteous cause.

And so Nate pulls himself together, assures them he remembers they're doing it for Bonnano. And then when the pinch point comes, he throws them out of hell and burns himself for them instead. Because in doing so he can finally admit that they are just as precious to him as he is to all of them.