#diosia

Don't let the voice fool you.

Today's drawing is based off of the character Diosia from the story Meryl and Diosia by @aphroditesacolyte ! This is an attempt at my personal interpretation of the siren in question.

If you haven't checked out the story before, you really should! It's a wonderfully written, wonderfully twisted gothic romance between a mer and a siren: their natural predator.

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Hello! So yay to watching SVU from the beginning - I love those early seasons so much and they don’t seem to get enough love within the fandom these days (IMHO). I agree that it’s a real shame that they gradually focused less and less on Fin and Munch, and now there aren’t even any supporting/recurring characters we see semi-regularly except for certain defense attorneys.

As for the Mariska thing…well…I’m going to try to tread lightly here because I don’t necessarily agree with all of the criticism (hello, fat!Mariska troll, wherever you are lurking today) and some of it is pure speculation. 

For me personally, I am primarily annoyed with Olivia Benson, the character, as she’s become over I’d say the past three seasons (16 onward) and that it’s only gotten progressively worse. They aren’t writing her in a believable fashion as a commanding officer of SVU the way Cragen was (or Munch, or Murphy, etc): she’s constantly still out in the field, doing all of the investigative work instead of directing her detectives. She’s become this “Saint Benson the Holy Mother of Rape Victims” who dictates to Barba what cases to prosecute (even when there aren’t laws on the book to support her demands, like in Impostor), she acts like an expert in psychiatry instead of going to a real doctor like Huang for input, she just…does incredibly stupid things that in some cases has outright lead to characters DYING (RIP, Mike Dodds). And yet she’s supposed to be the heroine of the show we all cheer and still root for? IDK. To me she is not the same character she used to be. I know people change and grow, but other characters have done so realistically on this show; Benson is not one of them. They didn’t even deal realistically with the fact that she was clearly developing an alcohol dependency, which would have been very realistic for the character given her family history and some of the trauma she’s been through. Instead that was swept under the rug at the beginning of this season, with Mariska just flippantly commenting in an interview that Benson “self-corrected” at some nebulous point last season. Really?????

How this translates to Mariska annoyance: well, for me, a lot of it is her acting at this point. MH was never the best (let’s be realistic here), but I feel like she’s coasting on autopilot at this point, AND horribly OVERacting in certain scenes (especially any courtroom scene these days where we have to constantly cut to her “shocked” and “angry” or “confused” grimaces…which often just end up looking like she’s got a bad case of constipation.) You could put some of the blame on the directors for sure, of course, but…the other factor is that MH is now an executive producer of the show. So a lot of fans speculate that she’s dictating the heavy focus on her character before any of the others, the change in tone/focus of the show, the preachiness of it, etc. I’m not going to publicly add to that speculation here because none of us work behind the scenes to know these things for sure. For all we know it’s the network that feels that SVU = nothing but the Olivia Benson Happy Rape Hour and doesn’t care/understand that a lot of us have been fans for years of the OTHER characters (too), and we miss them.