#mariana levy

[rivangel]

‘levi isn’t cute-‘ levi:

[miss-ali-lawliet]

• AOT Writing •

🌊 Armin Arlert 🌊

•Pilot!Armin au //hcs

☕ Levi Ackerman ☕

•Levi in a relationship with a civilian // hcs

🍁 Ymir 🍁

•AUs I'd like to see her in // ask game

💥 Yelena 💥

•AU I'd like to see her in // ask game

🤍 Pieck Finger 🤍

•Coming late home to sleepy cuddles with Pieck

~ AOT OCS ~

🌼 Mariana Wells 🌼

•General info on Mariana (backstory, misc, relationships with the other warriors)

•Mari's alcohol tolerance/preferences, also reaction to getting kissed // ask game

•Weather preference and pet/nicknames // ask game

🌌 Amelia Monroe 🌌

•General info on Amelia (Backstory, misc, relationship basics)

•Amelia's alcohol tolerance/preferences, also reaction to getting kissed // ask game

•Amelia and Armin stargazing // serve you event, not written by me (please check out and support this amazing writer!)

•Weather preference and pet/nicknames // ask game

🐍 Lehya Lebedev 🐍

•General info on Lehya (backstory, misc, relationship basics)

•Lehya's alcohol tolerance/preferences, also reaction to getting kissed // ask game

•Weather preference and pet/nicknames // ask game

[leer-reading-lire]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

March 12: Bookshelf

[ladzwriting]

January 2023 Reading Recap

[snaxle]

you didn't even say it back. kys, i mean. i sent you such a thoughtful letter and all you do is malign me as a fanfic writer, who, even worse, can't even finish her wips. horrible. it wasn't a terrible guess given the demographics of your blog (or so i would conjecture based on halfhearted extrapolation based on crumbs of information absorbed counter to my will through social osmosis here) and the fandom inclinations of tumblrinas at large, though this is a cross i do not personally bear.

the charge levied against me by one commenter, namely that "[you] live rent free in [my] head" is false. a sizable proportion of your followers/mutuals/orbiters presumably are constituted of writers who don't finish their works (many such cases) as well the readers who are subjected to those half finished fictions and therefore cannot concieve of someone who looked at a couple posts, wrinkled their nose in distaste, and cranked out a "drabble" or whatever, closed the tab, and went about their day is out of the realm of imagination of the archetypal tumblrite, weighed down by a dozen half actualised ideas, splotchy faced and writhing around and waving their teensy fat fingered hands, shrieking and grabbing out to be given care and attention and to be nurtured so that they may mature into a finished work.

you may ask me what i am doing here if when i showcase such scorn for the character of the average tumblr user and the answer simply is 1) i don't care i just sound like this as a fixed state of being & 2) im like jane goodall if she was kind of a dick to the chimpanzees sometimes and if she was kind of stupid and insane and wrote screeds to one piece fans online.

becoming a one piece fan is an outstanding suicide prevention measure because it's just one final thing on the list to do forever. so im not really anticipating for any harm to personally visit you, nor do i have any personal stake in your demise or success but instead want for the environment of the internet to be slowly poisoned; first in small, enclosed environments like lonesome, neglected, and dying fish in places as toxic as a never cleaned fishbowl and then maybe, in some rosy dreams of mine, the sea dries up entirely and every whale is beached and terrifying krakens of the sea are brought to light crying and gasping and drying out in the sun and lethal pathogens unleashed when the artic permafrost melts and then evaporates and the sun beats down on all the sea creatures of the world, and bakes them, and the hole where the mariana trench once was reeks of rot for years on end. i wish people could be awful to each other, so so so badly. and you're a perfectly serviceable target, but so am i. i hate you, won't you hate me? why can't all the sisters and the brothers of the earth unlink arms in conjoint discord? if only.

and yet you don't see this vision at all, or don't value it. all this is heaped on you but you toss it aside without regard for the feelings and yearnings of the only anon you've ever received of substance. i wrap my undersized cold black ink secreting heart in some papers for you, crumble it into a ball and hand it to you, and you tag it as suicide bait without even doing suicide baiting of your own. tell me youve had an anon that has devoted 20 minutes to writing you before. repulsive. if it be your will for this to make it to publishing i would like to let the reader know that i would not recommend visiting to future hate anons.

[acemarkeygloves]

I remember seeing a post by @/fatherfigurefusion that was something like ''What if DRDT had Japanese VAs?'' and so me and some friends (@areinageishii @doodlesacevid @sorastar6 @mizumi77) decided to do the same thing just than with Brazilian voice actors! What if DRDT had Brazilians VAs?

=== Teruko- Natali Pazete Xander- Caio Guarnieri Charles- Sérgio Cantu Ace- Adrian Tatini or Charles Emmanuel Arei- Pamella Rodrigues Rose- Mariana Torres Hu- Patt Souza Eden- Bianca Alencar Levi- William Vianna Arturo- Bruno Casemiro Min- Jessica Cardia David- Fabrício Vila Verde Veronika- Lia Mello J- Luísa Horta Whit- Lipe Volpato Nico- Lucas Almeida --- Monotv- Agatha Paulita

Again, credits to @/fatherfigurefusion

[akanesheep]

What would they name their children?

I’ve seen a lot of fics and blurbs about this, it’s a fun diversion while we wait for the next chapter, so let’s play!

Lucifer:

I frequently see Lucilia, Lucia, Lucius and Lucian, and they’re definite possibilities, and I could definitely see our prideful demon enjoying his name being a part of his children’s name… but what about other alternatives?

Lilith perhaps? A tribute I think any of the brothers would gladly back… but Lucifer or the twins would definitely be the most grateful recipients of such a sentimental tribute.

Outside of those, here’s a few names I think Lucifer would definitely get behind.

Girl:

Adanna: it literally means ‘father’s pride’

Ciara or Kiara: Dark Little one or Dark Haired one. Has Pride ties as well.

Abigail: means ‘father’s joy’ I think it could work with Lucifer. I think he takes great joy in anything that makes him proud.

Daeva: this one has some mixed signals around the world, some say it means ‘beautiful’ or ‘beloved’, and some say it means ‘dark or evil spirit’ I think this could also fit. We humans tend to see everything as clearly black or white, whereas being a Demon doesn’t automatically equal evil. It’s also super pretty.

If we’re going to lean into the ‘dark’, then one cannot do better than Ebony.

Layla is another beautiful choice meaning ‘night’ and ‘beauty’

Boy:

Ciaran or Kieran: the male version of Ciara.

Don’t hate me, but when it comes to boys names, I honestly think he’s going to be most interested in names that derive from his own. Here’s a clever one tho:

Heylel is another name for Lucifer.

Meyer means ‘bringer of light’

Uri means ‘my light’

It is hard to know on him if he would lean into light or celestial names outside of his own, which he feels he has darkened. I think there are many names he just couldn’t accept. He believes names MEAN something… and he is proud of his own. He wants his child to have a name that they can take pride in as well.

You know Luci is going to be all over this though. There isn’t a decision about his child he wouldn’t be deeply involved with. Take a deep breath and collect all your negotiating skills.

Mammon:

Our greedy demon has no shortage of names for a boy or a girl. After all, there are so many names and words for all kinds of treasure.

I wholly believe he would name his daughter after a gemstone or precious stone. Amethyst, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Jade, you get the point…

He could also go with other names like Cherish, which means treasure.

For a boy?

One can’t dismiss obvious names Japanese names of Kin (gold) or Gin (silver), but other names could include:

Takara: another Japanese name, meaning ‘treasure’

If he wants a gemstone name, Garnet would fit the bill.

There are so many names from so many places that he could pick from, but I think that he would pick something that isn’t too dated and old. He’ll go with a name that will fit in with modern times. Mammon is all about value and worth, he greed drives him to be that as well as see dollar signs. His greatest treasure however is his family, he will ensure that his child has a name that will not only show the world how precious and priceless they are to him, but also how much they’re worth.

Levi:

If, and it’s a mighty if, you can get him to stop trying to name your child after Ruri, or any number of anime protagonists. Once you get him away from those (I mean you don’t have to, there are some amazing names that come from anime series), I think he’d associate with names that reference from the sea.

For a girl:

Mariana: from the sea

Kaia: means sea

Kailani: means sky and sea

Maren: sea

Naia: this has a few meanings, including dolphin, to flow, wave, & sea foam

Kairi: sea

Nori: seaweed

Nami: ocean wave

Nerida: sea nymph, mermaid

Neri: burning light or ocean spirit

Laguna: pool, lake

Umi: sea

Let’s not forget the sea goddesses out there, such as Calypso, Circe, and the Sirens (although I think he’d scoff at the siren’s names as being to old-fashioned)

Akane: scarlet cloud… just throwing it out there ;3

For a boy:

Kai: means sea

Caspian: means white, and of course we all know of the Prince Caspian from the Narnia book series.

Lyr: (or Llyr if you want to attempt the Welsh pronunciation, you brave soul) means ‘the sea’

Zale: sea strength

Ocean god names (Neptune, Triton, Jupiter, etc… I think he would think it’s ‘cool’ but would feel he isn’t worthy of giving his child such a name)

Mirren: drop of the sea, beloved

Takumi: open ocean

You could consider some of the other famous sea beasts in mythology, but some just don’t work as well as Leviathan’s name does for him… like Kraken… I just can’t attribute that name to anything other than the Kraken XD

Aside from a few exceptions Levi is more than happy to leave naming to you… please don’t name your child Henry tho, no matter how much he pleads. His fish and snake already have that name, and he also has applied it to you… it starts to get super confusing after awhile.

Satan:

Our love is so romantic. Everything will have special meaning to him, including the naming of his child with you. He never imagined feeling anything other than his anger for so long, and then you came, and you brought so many emotions out in him. He’s going to definitely be pulling names from book characters that mean a lot to him.

Girls:

Juliet: ‘youthful’ let’s be honest, we knew it’d be here, even if he doesn’t go for it.

Odette: from the Swan Princess

Guinevere: ‘White Ghost’ or ‘Phantom’

Isolde: from Wagner’s Tristan & Isolde

Calliope: ‘Beautiful Voiced’

Emma: ‘universal’ from Jane Austen’s novel of the same name

Viola: ‘violet’

Maya: from Maya Angelou, means ‘Good Mother’, ‘Illusion’, & ‘water’

Tempest: storm. Also the name of Shakespere’s ‘The Tempest’

Lyssa: Goddess of Greek Mythology connected to uncontrolled anger.

Aella: whirlwind

Aiden: Little & Trouble

Boys:

Brontë: in recognition of Emily, Charlotte, and Anne Brontë, means ‘thunder’

Tristian: means ‘sad’ from Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde

Dashiell: from author Dashiell Hammet

Edgar: ‘fortunate spear’ First name of Edgar Allan Poe

Poe: last name of Edgar Allan Poe, means ‘Peacock’ (whaaaa??? I’m going to laugh about this one for a while)

William: from William Shakespeare, means ‘will’, ‘protection’, and ‘desire & helmet’

Conan: means ‘hound’ or ‘wolf’, from Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock: ‘fair-haired’, protagonist of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

Watson: means ‘son of Walter’ Sherlock Holmes reliable assistant from the books written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Dante: ‘everlasting’, from Dante’s Inferno

Bastion: ‘venerable’ from the book and movie ‘The Neverending Story’

Locke: means ‘livid’

Satan would be so much fun to plan with, because he would be engaged and most open for negotiation.

Asmo:

Y’all… he’s going to have an opinion. His child needs a name that tells the world how beautiful and amazing they are, just like him.

I think for girls, he’s going to love floral names, but he also isn’t going to be rigid on gender locked names. He will seek out great gender neutral names, and names that can be converted easily.

Girls:

Lily: (or Lilian) the meaning changes based on the color of the flower… so we’ll go with what the Oriental Lily represents (because it’s my favorite ;3) It represents ‘the universal standard of beauty.

Rose: another than changes based on color, so we’ll go with Red, meaning ‘Love’

Primrose: means ‘femininity, Grace, youth, & renewal’

Bella: means ‘beautiful’

Azalea: means ‘wealth, family’

Hyacinth: means ‘Sport, game, or play’ meaning changes with a specific color in mind

Iris: means ‘Faith, Hope, Wisdom, Trust, Valor’

Cassia: means ‘cinnamon’

Iridessa: means ‘light, or Illuminated’

Clover: means ‘Think of me’

Ivy: means ‘affection, friendship, fidelity’

Jasmine: means ‘Grace, Elegance’

Violet: means ‘watchfulness, faithfulness, modesty’

Willow: means ‘sadness’

Daisy: means innocence

Flora: Greek Goddess of flowering plants

Fauna: goddess of fields and woodlands

Boys:

Ash: means ‘tree of life’ symbol of powerful solidarity and immortality

Juniper: means ‘strength, wisdom, usefulness, and beauty

Willow: means ‘Sadness’

Ren: means ‘lotus’ as in the lotus flower

Fiore: means ‘little flower’

Quill: from the pink quill

Beelzebub:

Beel isn’t probably going to have much input to offer. He’s happy with whatever you choose. I can imagine that he likes stories about mythical and historical heroes. We know he’s big on protecting and defending those he loves, so perhaps some names that give those meanings some life…

Girls:

Rae: ‘advisor, protector’

Alexandra: ‘defender of man’

Alessia: ‘defender of men’

Dealla: ‘protector’

Hildegard: ‘battle guard’

Kendria: ‘wise protector’

Meredith: ‘protector of the sea’

Artemis: Greek goddess of hunting, animals, and childbirth, protector of women.

Athena: Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare

Ishtar: Babylonian goddess of love, war, and fertility. Also means ‘morning star’ if Beel wants to pay homage to his eldest brother.

Juno: the protector of women

Victoria: ‘victory’

Boys:

Alexander: means ‘defender of the people’

Liam: ‘Protector’

Titan: ‘defender’

Evander: ‘strong man or bowman’

Leander: ‘lion-man’ In Greek legend, Leander was a powerful figure who swam across the Hellespont every night to see his beloved Hero, a priestess of Venus.

Quillon: ‘The Guardian’

William: ‘A willing protector’

Conall: ‘strong wolf’

Quinlan: ‘strong’

Malin: ‘little strong warrior’

I didn’t want to lean too hard on names like Hercules, Thor, etc… I feel he’d hesitate to go after many of the ‘god names’, but Hermes, Hestia, Dionysus, Demeter, and a few others would have food relation, as being various Greek gods of harvest, grapes, home, and feasting. Not sure the canon stance on mythologies like these.

Belphegor:

I think our sleepy demon would like celestial names. He loves looking up to the night sky and watching the stars. If he went with a different name, I think he’d be second most likely to name a daughter after Lilith, but for now let’s look at some other options ^_^

Girl:

Stella: ‘celestial star’

Nova: ‘exploding star’

Luna: Roman Goddess of the Moon

Andromeda: Greek for ‘advising like a man’ >.> alrighty then… we’ll just stick with more astronomy based meanings… In Greek legends, Andromeda was the daughter of Cassiopeia, who Athena made into a constellation. The star cluster is called The Bohemian Andromeda.

Star: no explanation needed, right?

Nebula:

Sky: pretty obvious, but also possibly Skylar.

Namid: Native American for ‘star dancer’

Zenith: ‘Highest or crowining point’

Alula: Arabic in origin, translates to ‘the first leap’; It’s the palindromic name of a rare binary star system (two stars that appear as one because of their proximity).

Aurora: Latin for ‘the dawn’ Also Aurora Borialis and Aurora Australis

Venus: second planet in our solar system, named for the Roman goddess of love and beauty.

Boy:

Sirus:’burning brightly’ the brightest star in the galaxy.

Orion: ‘rising star’, also the hunter who perused the daughters of Atlas, and was killed by Artemis.

Leo: from the constellation, of course, and means ‘Lion’

Alioth: brightest star in Ursa Major, Arabic in origin, and translates to ‘fat tail of the sheep’

Altair: ‘the flying one’ , ‘soar’, or ‘fly’. 11th brightest star

Aries: means ‘the Ram’ in this case.

Badar: also Arabic in nature, it translates to ‘full moon’

Sky: yup after the thing above our heads… also possibly Skylar.

Jupiter: the 5th planet in the solar system, from the Greek equivalent to Zeus.

Diavolo:

Any child of royalty must have a name that carries power and prestige. It is a big thing to live up to as a child, growing into that powerful name, as well as being part of a royal legacy. It wouldn’t be any different for a child of Diavolo’s, although I can’t picture him being tyrannical about it, as he well knows the reality of growing up royal. Don’t worry though, we’re also there to give love and support to our little princes and princesses.

Girl:

Devina: ‘Beloved’ or ‘divine’

Keres: death spirits of Greek mythology

Persephone: Queen if the underworld

Hectate: goddess of witchcraft and dark magic

Kali: ‘black one’

Orla: ‘golden princess’

Rhiannon: divine queen

Raina: ‘queen’

Morrigan: ‘phantom queen’

Maelie: ‘princess’

Boy:

Erlick: Hungarian god of the underworld

Hades: Greek god of the underworld

Iblis: Islamic name of the devil

Azazel: supposedly a fallen Angel in Christianity

Erebus: God of darknesss

Alaric: all powerful ruler

Malik: ‘King’

Rory: ‘red king’

Mael: ‘chief or prince’

Regulus: prince

Ashur: ‘ruler of the gods’

Diablo: devil

Barbatos:

Our favorite butler isn’t so particular on what a name is, as opposed to why it was chosen. He will prefer names with a meaning rather how it sounds. He would want his children to have names with meanings that he wishes for them. Loyalty, faithfulness, intelligence, wisdom… all things that Barbatos values. You’ll have to help him find that balance, although, he already knows you’ll balance all things with him, you always do.

Girls:

Ivy: ‘faithfulness’

Leona: ‘loyal as a lion’

Athena: from the Greek goddess of war and wisdom

Veda: ‘sacred lore, knowledge’

Minerva: ‘of the mind, intellect’

Saga: ‘Story, seeress’

Kala: ‘Time’

Aikatarine: ‘each time’

Eternity: ‘time without end’

Boys:

Damond: ‘continuously loyal’

Leal: ‘loyal’

Cato: ‘knowledgeable and wise’

Sage: ‘wise’

Rainier: ‘wise army’

Lance: ‘servant’

Balam: means ‘possessor’ A powerful Prince of Hell, Balam was a demon who had the power to incite rebellion. It was said he had three heads, that of a bull, a man, and a ram. This allowed him to see past, present, and future events.

(I mean, it would track with our butler demon’s powers ;3)

Chronos: (or Kronos) ‘time’

Deon: ‘god of time’

Nye: ‘New time’

Simeon:

Our precious Angel… he knows how complicated your feelings for ‘Father’ are, so he won’t push for names of devotion… but you do have things in common, music and nature being two of them…

Girls:

Melody: ‘song’

River: as described, but if you’re a Whovian, you’ll get the reference to another River ;3 (and Melody also)

Allegea: ‘joyful song’

Serenity: ‘peace’

Meadow: as described

Summer: seasonal name

Autumn:seasonal name

Winter:seasonal name

Joy: great happiness

Aria: ‘song or melody’

Harmony: ‘blending of voices’

Boys:

Aubade: ‘morning love song’

Major: (as in key, not in battle)

Ronen: song

Lyric: words of a song

Piper: ‘one who plays the pipes or flute’

Gwydion: ‘born of trees’

Reed: ‘red-haired’ or ‘grass-like plants that grow in wet places’, also used on several types of woodwind instruments

Rowan: tree with red berries, or ‘little red-head’

Solomon:

Our sorcerer knows a thing or two about being a father already, although he has forgotten most of it. Behind that easy smile and ready chuckle is a profound sadness. He will undoubtedly be happy to welcome his child with you, and genuinely be thrilled… but you’ll notice that occasional sadness in his eyes. He’ll of course want an intelligent name for your little one.

Girls:

Abhijna: ‘remembrance, recollection, clever’

Halia: ‘In remembrance of a loved one’

Dara: ‘nugget of wisdom’

Quinn: ‘counselor &wise advisor’

Shannon: ‘old & wise’

Mika: ‘intelligent raccoon’

Cassidy: ‘clever’

Abby: ‘intelligent & beautiful’

Boys:

Conroy: ‘wise advisor’

Ethan: ‘strong’ but with wise connections

Favian: ‘man of wisdom’

Quinn: ‘counselor & wise advisor’

Apollo: Greco-Roman god of knowledge and wisdom

Senan: ‘old and wise’

Makenzie: ‘son of the wise ruler’

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

this is living rent free in my head

(from the rsc 2019 measure for measure, with sophie khan levy as mariana, antony byrne as the duke, and joseph arkley as lucio)

[tu-es-gegg]

gegg pinned

I am a goopy gunky guy call me Vex or Levi!!!!

my mcyt and adjacent blog here!!!!!!

My main art acc is @blufox234isadumbname btw

misc reblogs: @vexingfox234isadumbname i love u @skullhalo and @born-in-hell

[selfsabotaqe]

just to get a little bit of structure back into my life, under the cut you’ll find a  list of my drafts  that i’ll be working through for the next while. any writing partners are welcome to check  &  let me know if i’ve missed any replies over the past days or weeks. if you think i might have missed anything, please don’t hesitate to lmk because i probably have. i’ll be continuing  all threads  that are stated in this post  &  intend to get through them in the next weeks or so. if you notice anything on here you’ve lost muse for, please don’t fret to tell me. we could drop the thread, or i’d always be down to start something new  &  would be happy to write that for you instead  😌 if we write together  &  your threads / username aren’t on this list, it means i am currently presuming i’ve already replied to our threads. but if you come across this post  &  do remember me owing you, let me know as well and i’ll add it here!

@erstwhles. rosalind  &  gabriel nathaniel  &  lale

@lilacwiine. felice  &  drew maya  &  amara malee  &  lale

@gcldcnhour. adora  &  tba  (closed starter reply) knox  &  zoe knox  &  zoe  (second thread) ophelia  &  lachlan gen  &  devrim miriam  &  marisol violet  &  ethan

@inkiidreams. yaritza  &  merve aurelia  &  robin olivia  &  lachlan nova  &  lais

@chronicsunshincs. levi  &  emre

@evcrlasting. ryan  &  aera vanessa  &  cem

@invcntions. ryder  &  kiran toby  &  nadiye jackson  &  dominic dawson  &  teresa lincoln  &  soren closed starter for royal plot we discussed noah  &  emre koa  &  beau

@gardenwalls. rhys  &  nazli mei li  &  fabien

@orbicularia. giselle  &  nikolai sienna  &  julia isaak  &  mariana dylan  &  daphne nora  &  elliott

@fearhidden. henry  &  genevieve ravi  &  leyla

@springbreezc. mick  &  nia mariama  &  leo

@bittersage. adrian  &  leo

@seolinah. hanna  &  wren

@womansound. georgie  &  fabien hayden  &  luna natalie  &  landon

@ofdamnation. elias  &  lainey

@tinkrbell. isabella  &  leo

@turkishdclights. liam  &  tba  (carmela fc) zara  &  aera

@neveraftcr. romy  &  addie starter with song kang fc

@vacationeyes. forest  &  jude frankie  &  emre gus  &  devrim grayson  &  luca tyson  &  xavier

@wutheringdevotion. ginny  &  rowan oliver  &  lachlan monique  &  meera jonah  &  tba  (closed starter reply)

@bextibellicosi. ana  &  tba  (closed starter reply)

@trcasures. iris  &  addie franz  &  aera

@sunstvne. vimala  &  kiran closed starter reply for tony constantin  &  santiago

@silvrmoon. melody  &  tba  (closed starter reply) milo  &  tba  (closed starter reply) kai  &  max  (closed starter reply)

[heymacareyna]

find-it game

tagged by @korblez thank youuu

my words: shelter, root, spin, sheer, harmless

tagging: @novel-emma @liv-is @ellierenae @authorlaurawinter @ddbirb @brianamorganbooks @ihernglass @risingshards

your words: gold, dream, ease, dark, silent

I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be just the sentence it appears in. OH WELL I LIKE CONTEXT SUE ME

1. Shelter (from Wordless):

[Julie] would never again tie herself and Nadia to a situation where they depended on someone else. Not for money, not for shelter, not for happiness. Not for anything. 

Julie would push through the years of work and class and exhaustion if it meant Nadia stayed free of anyone else’s marionette strings.

2. Root (from say my name and every color illuminates):

Caitlyn and Vi kissed there in the kitchen for a minute or an hour or an eternity. Hands tender, lips gentle. They swayed back and forth, in time to a song only they could hear. Giving and taking. Peaceful in a way Vi had never felt before. Like roots were growing deep within her.

3. Spin (from Love, Lorena):

Rose struggled to catch her breath. If she wasn’t Rowdy Rosamund, who was she? Crown Princess Rosamund was…someone else entirely, someone she wasn’t sure she wanted to know. Her world spun around her as the fire crackled with the remains of her life. “I’m not ready,” she whispered, and her voice cracked.

4. Sheer (from Wordless):

“I used to swear I would never marry a ‘homework is useful’ person,” Levi teased her. “How did I end up with you?”

“Sheer good luck,” Elinor suggested dryly.

5. Harmless (from Border Ctrl+Esc):

Embry shrugged. “It’s a tiny teacher crush. Mine was Ms. Takahashi in ninth grade English. Futile but harmless. You know how it is.”

No…no, she didn’t. Mariana’s flustered frustration charred into embarrassment. Years ago, had her classmates pined for their teachers too? She’d never felt whatever it was these girls felt, young and green and premature as it was. Had she missed some kind of pubescent rite of passage?

[bluemoonfantasiesiii]

🖊

Since you like monsters, I’ll talk about one of my Three Great Beast characters: Leviathan.

Levi owns an auction house that she runs like a nightclub called Mariana’s Auction Club. There’s not really any set hours for the place, just sunset to sunrise. Between bidding, she holds live music performances. She auctions off lost treasures she finds during her regular trips into the Pacific Ocean.

[bluuxriising]

Bluu can levy entire towns, summon typhoons to sink naval fleets, and call upon monstrosities from the Mariana trenches, but will scream bloody murder if she spots a centipede crawling on the wall and will beg you to kill it for her.

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MONTBLANC from Mauro Chiarello on Vimeo.

CLIENT – Montblanc AGENCY - W+K Amsterdam CREATIVE DIRECTOR - Elena Knox CREATIVE DIRECTOR - Joe Burrin COPYWRITER - Richard Gorodecky COPYWRITER - Allan Stevenson ART DIRECTOR - Jack Welles PRODUCER - Khalid el Khouani GROUP ACCOUNT DIRECTOR - Franky Wardell ACCOUNT DIRECTOR - Amandine Decourcelle ACCOUNT MANAGER - Wenwen Zhao BUSINESS AFFAIRS MANAGER - Sametta Gbilia PROD COMPANY - ANORAK Film DIRECTOR – Ian Pons Jewell DOP - Mauro Chiarello EP - Christiane Dressler EP - Christoph Petzenhauser PRODUCER - Björn Krüger-Levy PRODUCTION COORDINATOR - Chiara Walde 1st AD - Tirso Diaz-Jares VFX - Black Kite Studios VFX PRODUCER - Amy Richardson VFX SUPERVISOR - Adam Crocker VFX ON SET SUPERVISOR - Denis Reva SOUND - String and Tins SOUND DESIGN AND MIX - Lawrence Kendrick ADDITIONAL SOUND DESIGN - Mike Bamford FOLEY - The Foley Barn AUDIO PRODUCER - Eimear Ni Ghuaire EDITOR - Tobias Suhm COLOURIST - Tom Mangham

SERVICE PRODUCTION SERVICE PRODUCTION - 24/7 24/7 EP - Gordon Mackinnon 24/7 PRODUCER - Mariana Mota PRODUCTION MANAGER - Marc Gallén Solsona PRODUCTION COORDINATOR - Mar Llompart TALENT COORDINATOR - Eva Cid COVID COORDINATOR - Cristina Tenor PA - Isabel Camacho TRAINEE - Yi Zhang PRODUCTION AMBASSADOR - Jordi Mollà UNIT MANAGER - Francesc Puig PRODUCTION DESIGNER - Pablo Tregebov Poza ART DIRECTOR - Mar Tubau COSTUME - Núria Durá HAIR & MAKE UP - Txell Fernandez

CM CREW MANAGER CM - Jared Greenwald STYLING CM - Anders Sølvsten Thomsen STYLING ASSISTANT CM - Brian ConwayGroomer CM GROOMER CM - Gareth Bromell AGENT STYLING CM - Elise Miccolis

LOCATION DEPT. LOCATION MANAGER – David Bello LOCATION ASSISTANT - Dani Galvan

AD ́S 1st AD – Tirso Diaz-Jares 2nd AD – Monica Sanchez 3rd AD – Oriol Rovira SCRIPT SUPERVISOR - Cecilia Moliné

CAMERA 1st AC - Alicia Galiña Seijo 2nd AC - Raul Mulas VIDEO ASSISTANT – Carles Alonso DIT – Esteban Wiaggio STEDICAM – Nicolas Lasarte STEDICAM ASSISTANT – Gulcin Bekar PHANTOM – Antonio Urquijo BOLT OPERATOR – Angelo Freda BOLT ASSISTANT – lluis Giordana BOLT ASSISTANT – Dani Ballester BTS - Adrián Torres

LIGHTING GAFFER - Carlos Meliville BEST BOY - Juan Francisco Roman BEST BOY - Paco Roman Melguizo ELECTRICIANS : Juan Francisco Flores Garcia Celso Barandarian Ferran Grau Vega Javier Carrion Lopez Ivan Flores Monroy Ana Portla Alex Postius ELECTRICIAN + GENNY OP - Antonio Martinez Marti

GRIP KEY GRIP - David Arrés GRIP - Rodrigo Álvarez SOUND SOUND - Quique Lopez BOOM OPERATOR - Marcel Vilar BOOM OPERATOR - Edu Ramada

ART PRODUCTION DESIGNER - Pablo Tregebov Poza ART DIRECTOR - Mar Tubau PROPS MASTER – Ana Romero PROPS BUYER - Miriam Serrano PROPS BUYER - Julian Santiesteban STAND BY PROPS – Santiago Mario STAND BY PROPS – Arnau Gassó STAND BY PROPS – Roberto Pozuelo ART ASSISTANT – Marta Gomez ART ASSISTANT - Juan Carlos Sabaté ART ASSISTANT – Santigao Balmaceda PRODUCT HANDLER - Pau Arregui

WARDROBE STYLIST – Núria Durà WARDROBE ASSISTANTS: Manuel Jesús Jose Carayol Patricia Rodríguez Inés Iribarne Salari Andrea Garcia Chiara Legitimo SEAMSTRESS - Rosa Perez

HAIR & MAKE-UP MAKE UP & HAIR STYLIST - Txell Fernandez MAKE UP & HAIR STYLIST ASSISTANT - Leire Loperena MAKE UP & HAIR STYLIST ASSISTANT - Alba Pesas

ANIMALS ANIMAL HANDLER – Gabi

SFX SFX TECHNICIAN - Juan Carlos Davila SFX TECHNICIAN - Roger Salvany

SECURITY VIP SECURITY - Dídac Rodríguez VIP SECURITY - Juan Herredia

NURSE NURSE ON SET 1 - Jacobo Solís NURSE ON SET 2 - Alejando

CAST Allegra Ceruti – YOUNG PROFESSIONALS Koko Ishizuka - YOUNG PROFESSIONALS Wenjun Gao - YOUNG PROFESSIONALS Rafael Barata - MAN WITH BUSINESS BAG Vincent Wu - HOTEL LOBBY Jiaying Li - HOTEL LOBBY Xavier Verdes - TEAR MAN Lluis V. - ACTOR THEATER Meseret Martinez - GIRL READING BOOK Arnaud Prechac - MAN Limber A. V. - ACTOR THEATER Motokazu Kawamura - STREET PAIR Gary Thoulouis - STREET PAIR Blanca Valletbó - STRIKING WOMAN Aimar Vega - ACTOR THEATER Lluis Gerard Valeta - ACTOR THEATER Limber A. Vivas - ACTOR THEATER José Luis Matienzo - ACTOR THEATER Cio Vives - DIRECTOR THEATER Katrin V - ACTRESS THEATER

STAND-INS Raul Gomez - STAND IN Pol Brugarolas - FITTING DOUBLE

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Sessão Mutual Films: A vida de dentro: Uma página de loucura + A esposa solitária [Mutual Films Session: The Life Within: A Page of Madness + Charulata]

January 17: The link above leads to Portuguese-language information about the 21st edition of the Mutual Films Session, co-curated and co-organized by me and Mariana Shellard, whose screenings will take place on January 18th, 30th, and 31st at the São Paulo-based unit of the Instituto Moreira Salles.

The event proposes a dialogue between two canonical films devoted to exploring the inner lives of their protagonists that involve images and words from four great artists. The avant-garde masterwork of Japanese silent cinema A Page of Madness (1926) was directed by the prolific and versatile Teinosuke Kinugasa (1896-1982) and based on a script by the writer Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972), who in 1968 would become the first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature to write primarily in the Japanese language. (Kenzaburō Ōe would also win the prize in 1994.) Charulata (1964) became one of the enduring classics of Indian and world cinema of the 1960s thanks in good part to the artistic choices made by its esteemed director, Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), who adapted the 1901 novella The Broken Nest, by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the first Asian author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1913) and his country's lone representative among the prize-winners to this day.

A Page of Madness will screen in a new digital copy prepared by the National Film Archive of Japan that differs from previously circulating versions of the film in multiple respects. The restoration efforts that have been made include bringing back a previously missing part of the original opening credits, the original projection velocity of 18 frames per second (fps), the original size of the frame (whose silent dimensions were diminished in the 1970s due to Kinugasa's choice to add a soundtrack), and, perhaps most notably, the original blue tinting of the image, something only discovered during the restoration process.

The version of Charulata that will screen represents a 2K restoration carried out in India in 2013 from the film's original negatives. This restoration process, conducted in Mumbai at Pixion Studios and the Cameon Media Lab, was overseen by Varsha Bansal on behalf of RDB Entertainments, the company that originally produced Charulata together with five other Ray films, all of which have been similarly restored. The screenings at the IMS Paulista mark the restoration's second set of showings in Brazil, with the first being the series "3x Satyajit Ray", which screened in December of 2023 at the Cinemateca Capitólio, in Porto Alegre.

The January 18th screening of A Page of Madness will be presented silently. (Although the film originally showed in Japan with narration by benshis - specialized storytellers and musicians whose accompaniments of silent films proved to be tremendously popular - we prefer to let the film's surreal and oft-ambiguous images speak for themselves on this occasion.) The January 30th screening of the film will feature live musical accompaniment by the Brazilian accordionist and composer Gabriel Levy, an aficionado of Japanese instruments and folk music traditions.

There is much more that could be said about the films, filmmakers, and writers represented in these screenings, and virtually none of it will be said here. However, readers that are interested in learning more about A Page of Madness could reasonably begin with the many pieces related to the film that have been written by the Yale University-based scholar Aaron Gerow, including the book A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan.

For our website, we were fortunate to be able to translate a short article by Gerow about Kawabata's relationship with cinema as explored in literary works like the novel Snow Country and some of his short stories. We have also translated a useful contextualizing article by Kaustuv Sen about the relations between the works by Tagore and Ray, who began as a kind of unofficial disciple of Tagore that eventually more than established his own ground in relation to the master of Indian music and letters.

Of additional interest is a fine short article that was published two years ago by the Indian author and filmmaker Ruchir Joshi about the experience of rewatching Charulata on the occasion of Ray's centenary. This blog's visitors may recognize Joshi as the center of a previous edition of the Mutual Films Session (including with a translation of his essay "The Death of a Tall Man", a much longer piece about Ray's work). Film programmers never act alone, but always in conversation with other researchers, viewers, and voices. For all the help that they have given in terms not only of research, but of inspiration for this project and other ones, people such as Joshi, Gerow, and many others are to be deeply thanked.

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Transitando por um roteiro audioguiado, o público é convidado a descobrir a história desse projeto revolucionário de Lina Bo Bardi. Um passeio lúdico que inspira reflexões desde a criação do Sesc Pompéia, até a nossa relação atual com as questões que envolvem o crescimento das grandes cidades. Passeio lúdico do Núcleo Tríade no Sesc Pompeia reflete desde o projeto de Lina Bo Bardi até a nossa relação atual com a cidade De 09 a 19 de janeiro de 2024, com sessões às 11h e 14h, o TRÍADE (@nucleotriade) realiza o ”TRÍADE TOUR Fábrica”, no Sesc Pompéia, que fica na Rua Clélia, 93 - Água Branca, São Paulo - SP. Os ingressos são a partir de R$10,00 e podem ser adquiridos no site ou nas bilheterias do Sesc SP. “TRÍADE TOUR Fábrica” é um passeio lúdico, poético, sonoro e dançante para todos os públicos, que percorrerá as dependências do Sesc Pompéia, convidando as pessoas a coreografar arquitetura, tempo, permanências, restaurações, transformações, revoluções, rupturas e reparações - de uma fábrica, um bairro, uma cidade, um país. O grupo de participantes, munido de um aparelho reprodutor de áudio e fones de ouvido, é conduzido por um roteiro audioguiado para descobrir e ativar uma história desse projeto revolucionário de Lina Bo Bardi: a arquitetura do Sesc Pompeia. O audiotour coreográfico interativo site-specific realizado pelo TRÍADE propõe uma deriva onde o público é conduzido a exercitar o seu estado de presença para olhar o metal, as pedras, os seixos, os tijolos, o concreto, a madeira e o barro, elementos que guardam memórias. A ação busca valorizar e difundir a história da idealização revolucionária do Sesc Pompeia, esta fábrica do sonho e da esperança, ode à liberdade e ao encontro, plasmada e erigida durante a ditadura civil-militar. Um passeio pela história que leva o público à reflexão sobre como foi criar espaços de respiro e esperança nos anos de chumbo, mas também lança um olhar para a atualidade, diante do crescimento das grandes cidades e os fenômenos socioespaciais urbanos, questionando: “Afinal, a cidade está a serviço de quem?”. “Quem pode mais: o tijolo, o metal ou o concreto? A força do capital concreta o projeto de um país igualitário? Como manter o solo fértil e o corpo poroso? Lembrando que o concreto é poroso, ele respira. E você, ainda respira?”, instigam Adriana Macul (@adrianamacul), Mariana Vaz (@maricota_vaz) e Mirella Marino (@mirellamarino), que formam o núcleo TRÍADE. Informações: www.instagram.com/nucleotriade/ ou https://nucleotriade.com/ Ficha Técnica - Direção e Roteiro: Adriana Macul e Mariana Vaz. Pesquisa Adicional e Colaboração no Roteiro: Mirella Marino. Guias-performers (1ª temporada): i gonçalves, Pedro Stempniewski e Stella Garcia. Narração: Tatiana Thomé e Thaís Dias. Edição e Mixagem de Som: Bruno Castro. Desenho de Som: Levi Estevão. Figurino e Identidade Visual: Mirella Marino. Costureira: Sandra Gomes da Silva. Fotografia e vídeo: Anne Vidal. Assessoria de Imprensa: Luciana Gandelini. Assistência de Produção e Contrarregragem: Léo Inocêncio e Mariana Pessoa. Produção: AnaCris Medina - Jasmim Produção Cultural. Direção Geral: Mariana Vaz Teaser: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4S6GbbWEbw Serviço: “TRÍADE TOUR Fábrica” Audiotour coreográfico interativo site-specific Com Núcleo Tríade e pessoas convidadas Sinopse: O metal, as pedras, os seixos, os tijolos, o concreto, a madeira e o barro guardam memórias. Você já parou para escutá-las? Venha conhecer uma história e (algumas) memórias da idealização revolucionária do Sesc Pompeia, esta fábrica do sonho e da esperança, ode à liberdade e ao encontro, plasmada e erigida durante a ditadura civil-militar. Como criar espaços de respiro e esperança nos anos de chumbo? Audiotour coreográfico interativo site-specific indicado para pessoas de todas as idades. Duração: 60 minutos Classificação Livre Quando: 09 a 19 de janeiro de 2024 (sábado) - Horário: sessão: 11h e 14h Onde: Sesc Pompéia - Endereço: R. Clélia, 93 - Água Branca, São Paulo - SP, 05042-000 - Telefone: (11) 3871-7700

Ingressos: R$ 10,00 (Credencial plena) / R$15,00 (meia entrada) e R$ 30,00 (inteira) Informações: https://www.sescsp.org.br/programacao/triade-tour-fabrica/