#Maine Mendoza

[classicthalassic]

Isa Pa, With Feelings (2019) dir. Prime Cruz

[artistaforever]

Birthday post for Maja

[beautifullovelyfaces]

Maine Mendoza

[nursemichie]

E kasi why?

I always wanted to write. Ma-feeling din kasi ako e! Haha. I know that I am not that good at this because my vocabulary is not that deep compared to those I have the same age with. Despite my hobby of reading novels, diko pa rin magawang i-widen ang vocabs ko. Nakakalimutan ko kasi ang mga words. Haha..

Another reason is to free my thoughts. It is a therapy, really. Atsaka for the memories na rin! I used to keep a journal back when I was in highschool, so now, I have something to look back to when I feel like reminiscing about the past. Same to my future self, there will be something for her to look back on, especially the memoirs of good times.

I was also inspired by Maine Mendoza (Faney ako! Haha.). I read almost all of her blogs and they were so inspiring that I wanted one for myself, so here I am. I like Maine a lot. I think, of all the female artists in the Philippines, she is the most authentic one. I feel like what she’s showing on cam is her real self, walang keme-keme, walang arte-arte. Yun talaga sya. I am also amazed by how she responds to anything they throw at her. She is always graceful and eloquent in handling those issues. Maayos ang mga sagot nya, and always keeping her feet on the ground. Witty, funny and well-educated, san ka pa?! I just got frustrated that she didn’t end up with Alden (crush ko din kasi si Alden haha) but oh well, she married the love of her life and she seemed to be genuinely happy naman with him so as a fan, I am happy for her.

[wittykahitcorny]

Kung di ganito kasaya pre nup video natin, wag na nating ituloy ang kasal. Ang gaganda pa ng songs na ginamit.

[khaebalaaltea97]

Are you still a big fan of Maine Mendoza

If you are then please like it up! Thanks.

[lyn0124]

♥️♥️

[mixelation]

do you think tori/kakashi/sasori would work?

oooh i talked about this some in the sasori girls au. and the.... possibly separate ninja rpf au? what was happening back then. anyway, here's a post and now some Thoughts

i don't think it could happen in mutagenicity because kakashi would never go for a romantic relationship with tori. he's known her since she was 12 and it would freak him out.

for the course i currently have plasticity on....... there's no romance, but tori and kakashi have mutual interests and will have an interesting dynamic (hopefully). so in a plasticityverse au..... yes, and it's terrible :)

idk in the slew of posts about rpf there's two basic themes. one is that it apparently takes place in an au where kakashi knows tori and that she's shady, but he DOESN'T know about akatsuki. he thinks she's civilian yakuza or works at a ninja supply store servicing missing-nin or something. he meets up with her periodically to talk Fannish Content. the other theme is that sasori rpf is ultra popular and tori desperately wants acceptance into the fandom, even at the cost of sasori's disapproval (and HE wants her to shut up and do things for him).

so there is a world where kakashi and sasori cross in some sort of bizarro fandom based comedy of errors. consider:

sasori is at a bar to meet one of his contacts. kakashi is on his way back from a mission. they spot each other. kakashi's first thought is "that's tori's blorbo" and NOT "oh shit that's an s-rank missing-nin" and he will have to live with realization that these are his priorities for the rest of his life. sasori acknowledges he's there and is like "oh that's tori's weird friend" and THEN he's like "oh wait didn't she say he's hot under the mask" and he goes over to say hey

kakashi after he's determined sasori's in a good mood: hey this is. this is SUPER awkward. can you sign something for me

sasori: .....why

kakashi: my friend is.... a fan? i guess?

sasori: (feels his soul leave his body)

anyway a week later kakashi presents Tori with a signed napkin from Sasori and he's like "he's surprisingly nice" and she gets to feel her soul leave her body

[sfarxuri]

whoa, pirate GPAS be upon ye!! XD Meet the InkJet Pirates!

[stupidsexpotflanders]

001 ship meme -> tahani x jason

when I started shipping it if I did: When they started the fling during S2.

my thoughts: Tahani/Jason are the TGP couple. They challenge and bring out the best on each other,communicate their issues,are almost always up to weird shenanigans,their personalities' contrast is wacky and fun. To top it all,both Tahani and Jason are gorgeous,lol.

What makes me happy about them: Whenever they're acting as a couple onscreen.

What makes me sad about them: Seeing them being shafted in the show itself,instead of at least breaking them in a consistent way.

things done in fanfic that annoys me: That I've not seen any fic with that pairing,lol.

things I look for in fanfic: Again,a fic with them that doesn't pair them off with other people.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:  No one.

My happily ever after for them: Let them be a couple for long,and them work long distance post-finale (Jason keeps chilling like a monk in the true Good Place and Tahani goes to her architect gig).

who is the big spoon/little spoon: Tahani is the little spoon,Jason is the big one - most of time,not all.

what is their favorite non-sexual activity: Jason and Tahani basically engage on each others' hobbies most of times,like they did in season 2 - Jason showed Tahani Home Alone and gushed about the Jaguars,whereas Tahani presented Polo (fencing,horseriding...) to Jason.

[artistaforever]

Throwback photo of Maja and Maine

[la-dahlia]

QUEEN OF THE SOUTH | 5x05 & 5x07

[wildflowercryptid]

to me, cheren's ringtone on nate's xtransceiver is i'm a survivor by reba mcentire.

[revvethasmythh]

I love how fucking goofy Astarion's seduction techniques are. We're camping indoors, he calls me over, and dude hastily lies down in his "draw me like one of your french girls" pose when he hits homeboy with this one:

Truly, a master seducer at work

also, just, this reply had me rolling:

[lavishbylaw]

@ixonmaiden said:

"Get dressed. We are going for dinner."

Genevieve took the gifts with a couple of blinks of her eyes. Of all people to be celebratory of any occasion, she didn't expect Ava to be someone who was.

"Can I at least ask where we're going? And - wow. These are some... really expensive gifts. I mean -- I'll have to redo my hair and my makeup -- and I'll have to see what jewelry goes best with these dress. Oh, my god -- I need at least an hour." Genevieve rambled on as she started to look over the vibrant shoes that she held in her hands.

[phantomrose96]

hi your short story is giving me absolute brainworms it’s DAMN good. I don’t have anything of real note to add so I’ll just ask: is there anything you really want to say about the story but haven’t yet (like trivia or whatnot)?

(938 Seconds Per Second)

Probably that I'd very nearly abandoned it!

The idea started from an article I was reading about time dilation - the gist of it being "okay but what's to stop you from accelerating infinitely? Up to and past the speed of light?" and the conclusion was kind of "you sort of can... from YOUR frame, from YOUR perception of time, potentially. but from a resting frame, you will appear to only ever approach the speed of light." So even if you could perceive yourself traveling 100 light years in a month... to every resting body, 100 years have passed.

So I was like cool! Fucked up potential! I really liked the concept of "you can notice your mistake after 5 minutes and already be 100 years too late to fix it."

I toyed with a few ideas and ended up gravitating towards "what if one shipmate intentionally leaves another shipmate behind... and by the time this is discovered days later, the left-behind shipmate is long dead." I also settled on "what if your shipmate sucked so bad that he causes you to snap and leave him behind"

So I started writing with that as the core idea. Main character Mendoza has the Worst Coworker in the World Universe, and he snaps and leaves Carson behind on a planet.

...But then I was a little lost. I was struggling with the substance. The "what makes this interesting" and the "what ties this all together." Sure I could just write Carson being an ass for 3,000 words and then... Mendoza leaves him behind the end?

I was even struggling with the first draft because part of me was like "what's even enjoyable about reading about a completely insufferable person...?" Even Mendoza himself is no peach. Maybe the whole concept was just unpalatable. I kinda just... ditched it where it was.

Then I came back to it this weekend and decided to kind of rethink it, fresh. And the absolute biggest difference between the early stumbling draft and what I ended up with was Sampson. He actually solved so much. (He existed in the early draft, but not importantly.) He introduced the character stakes and the tying thread to the story I was missing.

Now it wasn't just Carson annoying Mendoza. Once Sampson's tome enters the story, the stakes change. Mendoza is now in the middle of Carson actively destroying the thing Sampson is even alive for. Mendoza is now in a position of actively needing to make choices--he could intervene and try to save Sampson's tome. He could tattle. He could do anything--but he doesn't. Because "not letting Carson win" is the single most important thing. Mendoza doesn't need to be any kind of hero. He chooses not to be.

And now the reader is captive to this conflict, privy to everything Mendoza knows, and does not act on, as Sampson unravels in the background.

And now we have a thread that leads to Carson and Mendoza ending up on-planet together. Carson isn't out there for shits and giggles, he's out there because the plot point about Sampson's tome led to this. Now Carson knows about the cargo, and now he's offering Mendoza the chance to not just be passive witness, but be accomplice to Sampson's destruction.

And it's enticing. It's unimaginable wealth, and it's getting off the shitty ship, and it's never seeing Carson again. Mendoza has the chance to stick to his every-man-for-himself ideals and go along with Carson. And it's interesting to explore Carson's reasoning for why they deserve this! They're the ones who sacrificed 300 years for this journey! Don't they deserve this over some fucker who wasn't even born when this mission started?

And then it reaches one pivotal moment--Carson's gleeful declaration that Sampson will totally kill himself once he discovers what they've stolen. Because now there are consequences to this action. If Mendoza follows through with this, it's with the knowledge that he's gotten Sampson killed. (And maybe he shouldn't care. Maybe it doesn't matter. As he's asserted this whole time.)

Mendoza doesn't do it. He pulls up the ladder after Carson.

He doesn't let Carson win.

And then the ending... the ending where Sampson very much was witness to Mendoza following Carson out of the ship. If Sampson were every-man-for-himself, he could just comply and tell Major Kensington what he saw. Mendoza knew Carson was outside the ship. Mendoza came back. Carson didn't. The ship took off. Sampson knows this all.

But, Sampson has an idea of what, may, have happened. He knows he accidentally revealed too much to Carson. He knows Carson stole the tome which contains information about the cargo. Sampson, maybe, knows what decision Mendoza made.

So Sampson lies to Kensington. Sampson will swear on his life he never saw Mendoza that evening. No one will ever know.

And just!!! It was delightful to find the piece that ties the WHOLE story through. It's not just "your coworker sucks and you booted him to live out 40 years on a planet for your next 2 weeks". It's character-driven now. It's about choices and consequences and the fucked up implications that the time-dilation travel throws in.