#three mistresses

[danilsbeetlecollection]

Maria Kaina

I wanted the power to create a place of miracles, and precious anarchy.

One third of triptych of the three mistresses.

Really debated posting this because it's kinda a WIP but I will also start biting if I look at it for much longer.

[svenslave]

Dream or nightmare? I think both!!

[thekimspoblog]

Me: "... So anyway Kim Wexler would be the analog for Victoria Olgimskaya: a warm, benevolent figure who still was no saint in the eyes of those closest to her. Dolores Abernathy would be Nina Kaina: a terror but also her ferocity is the catalyst for positive change. And most importantly that leaves Love Quinn as Katarina Saburova: the youngest and least powerful of the trinity, deeply insecure that she is not as perfect, and the other two are unwilling to share their dyad with her. But just because she's weaker doesn't mean her status isn't important"

Waiter: "I asked if you wanted onions on your burger!"

[onegianthotmess]

Pull Yourself Together!

The Three Weddings Lilia Sobbed At

Sebek: *crying at Malleus’s wedding*

Lilia: *smiling* Oh, pull yourself together, Sebek!

Lilia: *silently sobbing in proud adoptive dad*

Lilia: *walks Mealodie down the aisle at her wedding*

Sebek: *crying as the ceremony proceeds*

Lilia: *smiling* Come, now, Sebek! What did I say about pulling yourself together, hm?

Lilia: *quietly sobbing in proud adoptive dad*

Silver: *getting married*

Lilia: *sobbing* OH, I THOUGHT I COULD HANDLE A THIRD TIME!! MY BABIES ARE ALL GROWN UP AND DON’T NEED ME ANYMORE!! I’M JUST GOING TO WITHER TO DUST AND DIE ALONE NOW!!!

Lilia: *sobs even more*

Sebek: Lilia-san, didn’t you tell me to pull myself together?

Mealodie: He was silently crying at mine and Brother’s weddings, Sebek. He was trying to act fine so no one would worry.

Lilia: *sobs in adoptive dad that no longer has any precious babies to take care of*

[thelvadams]

SKYWARD SWORD ➤ TEARS OF THE KINGDOM

[lancastrianwasian]

king stefan and queen leah were kinda cowards and idiots bc they're monarchs and they couldn't get a powerful sorcerer to stop maleficent?

[texaschainsawmascara]

Lola Kirke

[hsslilly-blog]

when claire got that abortion i’d love to think she was very claire about it and went kill that thing girl! but in reality i think it scared her to death. being pregnant i mean.

[artist-issues]

Maleficent is a retelling of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. It is not just a reimagining.

It is a capitalization on Disney’s eye-catching design for their animated Maleficent. If it were just this beautiful original spin on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault or even the version in Perceforest, it would look incredibly different.

In Perrault’s version, the evil fairy that curses the princess has one defining character trait: she is old. She is ancient, and has lived in a tower isolated for so long that everyone thought she was dead, and that’s why she wasn’t invited to the princess’ christening. She disappears after placing the curse and is not heard from, defeated, or worried about for the rest of the story.

What the animated Disney Sleeping Beauty did was take that character and make her:

Beautiful

Horned

Powerful

An antagonist that returns to the plot.

Named “Maleficent.”

Two huge things that they changed which turned the evil fairy into an iconic villainess that endured to this day were the name of the character and the way she looks. Those things are unique to the Disney animated classic version. They are inseparable.

So your wonderful “reimagined” Maleficent came along in the year 2014 and said, “Yeah, we’re going to do something new and different!” And did this:

Actually, the movie never said that. The trailer included lines from the animated film, again, iconic and unique to the Animated film, and even capitalized on the original “Once Upon a Dream” song.

But it’s funny that everyone acts like it’s not a retelling of the animated film, and they want to use the word “reimagining.”

All you’re really saying is that we should excuse this film for marketing itself as a movie that would satisfy or interest fans of the original Sleeping Beauty, but wound up totally dumping on the original Sleeping Beauty through the changes it made.

The movie is not a beautiful new twist on the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. It is a money-grabbing shock jock Wicked rip-off that would not exist if it weren’t trying to climb onto the shoulders of the SPECIFIC ANIMATED SLEEPING BEAUTY.

Going to say it one more time. If Maleficent (2014) wanted to be this amazing exercise in originality, it should not have been so tightly tied to the Disney Animated Classic. Because when it is connected so tightly to that specific animated version of the tale, we expect it to celebrate that version, and instead, it spat on it.

All it really did was celebrate the striking character design of the evil fairy and capitalize on the name. Like a bait-and-switch.

And side-note, a movie that takes the main character and makes her everything to everyone in the plot is so obnoxious. I was more intensely bored by this movie than any other live action remake because I couldn’t care about a main character who kept switching tones every five minutes. First she’s a naive free spirited waif, then she’s a scorned lover, then she’s a dramatic villainess, then she’s a bumbling caretaker, then she’s a beloved mother, etc. Her motives and feelings about the situations she’s in change and conflict so many times during the movie that I stop caring.

And while I stop caring about this movie, I entertain myself by thinking about how consistent the motives and character choices for the original were, and how superior it was, and how cheap and awful a movie that over-glorifies it’s main character is.

[fideidefenswhore]

Anne's ability to hold the king off for seven years is part of her legend. The brilliance of her strategy was to cast herself in the role of the courtly lady, requiring Henry to play to perfect knight. Henry was nothing if not dogged in the pursuit of all the roles in which he cast himself—philosopher-king, warrior, even husband—and 'this persona of courtly lover...was fully formed in Henry and had been signaling...for an answering adept to come and lift its latch. In Anne, he had her: she was the mistress of Petrarchan contraries [...] the perfect [player] for the king's tender interest.'

Renaissance Prince: Elizabeth, Lisa Hilton

[mmcrr]

𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓇ℯ𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓉𝒾ℴ𝓃 𝓅ℴ𝓈𝓉 𝒻ℴ𝓇 𝓂𝓎 𝒻𝒶𝓋 ℊℴ𝓉𝒽／𝒹𝒶𝓇𝓀 ℊ𝒾𝓇𝓁 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉ℯ𝓇𝓈 ♥︎

[aethergate]

i miss my polycule. i miss it a lot. i'll be back.

[libraryleopard]

putting shan leclaire from mistress of lies, remy pendergast from silver under nightfall, and claudia de pointe du lac from amc iwtv in a snowglobe together and shaking it

[wardentabriis]

Did I just make Crow!Rook? Yes. Do I also feel like making my Cousland's son as a Lord of Fortune for funsies? Also yes.

[ray-elgatodormido]

Gotta love how DW7 Lady Yan | Merah’s design is actually pretty cool looking with the half dress giving gladiator vibes. Her 6 and 8 looks are… Definitely hit or miss…

And then there’s Lü Bu, whom the more I look at that design, the worse it gets. Who thought it was a good idea to give him crop top armor? Yes. Crop top armor.

I personally think his DW8 design is his worst. The chest piece is so overcomplicated yet he still looks incredibly boring and dull. The colours not helping. His DW7 design is so absurd in its awfulness that it’s just hilarious. It brings a chuckle out of me. They put Lü Bu in crop top armor ffs I thought that only happens to female characters.

My personal ratings for his DW designs gotta be DW4> DW9> DW5- DW3> DW6 >>>>> DW7 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DW8

[november-rising]

But for real - Eddie had a family issue during a call. Buck overhears, we zoom into Buck’s reaction, and these fools are at the hospital together? The damn hell?! Eddie introduces Buck like he’s no big deal because he’s family already!!! ❤️

Gotta love Tia Peppa - I thought you just dressed alike! Stop it 🤣