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but Shauna and Maria
dude
even their voices are opposite
Y!
like um
I was thinking the other day I thought Scarlett was tall, but she's not, is she
nn, she's 5'4
yeah, she's an inch or so taller than Maria, not much at all
of course uh
I also thought Jenna Dewan was 5'6" or 5'7" before I found out she's a tiny thing
well
I think they both have that thing - and it's interesting because shauna and maria do, conversely - where they have presence
so they seem larger
like i always forget tori amos is little
like
and this is really dorky
when i see Shauna in my head the action I usually see is swinging herself over something by her arms
like a cowboy :O
aahahahah
yeah, pretty much
and like
she's one of those people who turns a chair around to sit on it
presence is a weird thing
so idk, she's all about like....big motion and not exactly grand gestures, but. um. noticeable ones, i guess.
yeah
like unique ones kind of
or...idk if 'unique' is what I wanna say, just things that are different
HAHA ACTUALLY
I just realized something
a lot of stuff I steal for Maria is from 1950s movies with pin-ups, the really hyperfeminine behavior
and you've said Shauna--despite how she LOOKS--does a lot of stereotypically masculine behavior
haha yeah
it is true!
I think the like - turning the chair around
is a thing boys do, because you do, you know, spread your knees about a foot apart XD
tinyMaria actually told Liza her greatest ambition was to be a 1940s pin-up in modern times, which is not really TRUE.
idk how much you remember about The Perfect Score
but one of the things I noticed when I was first making Shauna and going through caps
the first shot you get of Francesca in that movie?
Is this (nsfwish)
...MOVIE GOOD LORD
hahaha I am SURE
they CUT THAT from the TV version but
you get that before you get her face.
and I just spent a lot of time thinking about that
because part of it is totally calculated
you don't...wear underwear that matches your damn outfit if it isn't
but then part of it is just like, she either doesn't notice or doesn't care OR she wants you to think she doesn't.
So it's really complicated and I have...spent too much time on this, sorry XD
nnnn it's fine
I like this stuff
Iiii
we've talked about how PB sometimes um...effects character
Jenna Dewan is really, really, really, really girly.
Like...often like a little girl, sometimes
I've noticed that when she's in pictures or stuff with /men/, regardless of who the man is, they default to this kind of possessive or...something like that body language around her
So I assume there's something about her that invokes that. ...also I suspect she hangs out with macho weirdos, judging by her boyfriends
Maria caaaan use this to her advantage, but sometimes it drives her nuts.
likewise in TPS, I think um
the boys react to Francesca with /terror/
HAHAHA y
I really enjoyed that Brody said she was hot, but scary because I think
What IS scary about her - shauna - is the masculinity
I'm kind of doing my own little gender study here.
And I notice a lot of the time the male characters she interact with really stand off from her because she is /really/ aggressive
and it's not in a safe way at all.
yyyyyy
Maria wants to be interpreted as safe, which is funny
because she isn't and never will be.
well
>_> I guess sexually she can be sort of predatory but liiike um
When she was with Alex and he'd freak out about "sdlfj;sdjf girl. touching" her reaction would be to kiss him or something, which SHE felt was reassuring.
yyy
I have noted that - LOOK I AM GOING TO COMPARE THEM ALL DAY LONG OKAY - that Maria is very free with touch
and you said that's how she is sexually too, that she prefers giving to recieving
whereas Shauna is very like - idk if you've noticed
the scene with harry just now, every time she touches him it has some kind of purpose to it
and it's in a specific way, which she has /thought/ about before she does it.
yyyyyyy which is very like an Adept! Hacking the situation.
Like - he wouldn't look at her and I actually thought of you, and Maria!
In that I thought Maria would probably put her hands on his cheeks to get him to look at her
very likely, y
But Shauna doesn't do that, because it is just as easy for her like, not to make eye contact so she can keep pretending their situation is okay.