#also her bodice

[definitelyy-not-a-vampire]

In honour of our Lord and Saviour Dani’s (aka @safyresky’s) b-day, here be a lil Diteline! These guys have ruined my life for the better, and I couldn’t be happier about it! 🥰🥰

The CS fandom is truly a gift, for which we should all be Most Grateful! ☺️

I cannot. Get enough. Of these two.

(Edited bc, I am ...how you say? A dumbass. Formatting was wrong, top of Dite’s head got cut off! Not Gucci)

#there are lots not quite right things about this drawing 😂 for which I should apologise #the sleeve #for one #Dite’s sleeve that is #I used a sleeved stola as a ref #and then I realised too late that her stola doesn’t actually have a sleeve #but then the sleeve didn’t wanna go #the whole drawing just looked so off! #and I was like ugh fine #but the annoying thing is you can’t see just how BUFF Dite is #I will rectify!! this! in future drawings #Dite’s buff-ness is v important to me #Jacquie’s wizard sleeve wouldn’t behave so I had to remove it and this feels like a Sin #also her bodice #had to go with something a lot simpler #apparently I’m very rusty 😅 #but AH WELL #they’re here! there they be!! #and I’ll get better as time goes on #so’s I hope #diteline #Jacqueline frost #Dite #TSC #HAPPY B DAY DANI #🥰🥰 #ty for all you do!

[oldshrewsburyian]

I continue to make a noise like a distressed tea kettle about the scene between Brienne and Jaime in the guard room in part because of all the ways in which they are talking past each other. Well. It's not so much that they're talking past each other as that he is terrible at coping with her frankness. Options for her interrupted: "You look..."

"Better" (true on a technicality)

"Awful" (almost certainly true)

"Tired" (the tactful version of 2)

And this asshole observes dismissively that he's been deloused and regained some of the weight lost during captivity and illness. Sir, she was not gearing up to give you a compliment.

Of course, it is entirely possible that what she was thinking, but could not say, is that he looks like an effigy of one of the knights of old: beautiful and resolute and as if carved from stone, entirely unlike a living man.

#you're so vain #quite possibly he KNOWS she was not gearing up to give him a compliment but still. still. #a medievalist does got #jaime x brienne #apparently #poor brienne is also TRYING to get an answer to the question of why she has been shoved to the front of at least one sewing/tailoring queue #in a way that makes disquietingly clear that he has THOUGHT about this (the color; the cut; the pattern of the bodice) #whatever she thinks about him at this point: there is something in her voice when she says his name that he cannot endure #i'm so sorry everyone; i have gone feral; i blame alexandre dumas and rafael sabatini

[lemongogo]

random OC ask: what would your OC wear on an average day? what would they wear to a special event?

[feel free to include reference images, if you'd like!]

AA TYSMM i think she;d dress pretty comfortable on an avg day (carpenter pants , light button up, a smock & open toed sandals -- sry osha) given that she'd likely be in the studio but omg.. for a night out i can picture a gorgeousss floor length gown, black w a gentle shimmer, fitted with a deep v and an open back or some cutouts.. & jewelry to match ~

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #my art #zaihala #thank u 4 sending these... they r so much fun teehee .kicking my feet laaa lalaaa #ill have to draw her in her armor some time.. these r rly boring compared to typical bg3 outfits #i srsly love the armor i have her in though.like the cape & the metal bodice and the golden metal gauntlets w CLAWSSS #i have like 0 imagination and cant design 4 shit but AHAJKAHJKAK . WHATEVERRERRR shes like .a normal citizen so its ok :thumbsup: #im also in the camp of like.. less is more.. i dont want 2 draw a million diff layers and trinkets if i dont have to. (blows a kiss) #ocs #anyways this was sm fun thank u for sending again <3 u r single handedly curing my art block <3 #asktag #inaconstantstateofchange

[daincrediblegg]

Sincliair Saturday

#lady terror #egg’s oc’s #egg’s art #the terror #been experimenting with 1840’s bodices for my own project and here you have it #also this hairstyle I feel suits her so well better than a lot of fashion plates I’ve seen from then #but finally we are PERIOD AWARE AND PERIOD ACCURATE BABES

[lurking-latinist]

I think sleeping in chairs is Hornblower from Hornblower's only means of showing affection

#hornblower #he was born to be a firstname medianame character but unfortunately that's just his name again #also this schoolteacher is sleeping in her bodice and stays? #if you are comfortable sleeping with a young man you barely know in your room AT ALL surely you would be comfortable doing it in your shift #(I have now downloaded a copy of The Frogs & the Lobsters that doesn't stop in the middle touch wood) #(in case anybody is exercising themselves over the order I am watching these in) #(I started with s2 for McGann reasons actually and then went back to the beginning for obvious reasons)

[sirenascelestiales]

Honestly, considering the show/writers never acknowledged Daphne’s marital rape of her husband, and they only had a slight acknowledgment of Edwina’s feelings on Kate x Anthony, like I don’t think there will be a satisfactory resolution to Pen’s betrayal of the Bridgertons (Marina/Colin and Eloise/Theo) or of Eloise’s “friendship” with Cressida (and anything else she might do as “revenge”).

I think they’ll blow over the latter “I said I’d rather die than be her friend and I still mean it” and hugs all around or some other scene like that (which I know is simple and that’s my point). And Pen will apologize and confess that cause she’s so in love with Colin and she wanted to be noticed and she’ll be forgiven without much else from Colin. And maybe a little more for Eloise, if that.

(Spoiler’s for the books in case people care about that).

They forgive her for Whistledown in the books, Colin is worried more about her being revealed as Whistledown than her writing shit about him (tho nothing she writes is like Marina/Colin is not in the books. Daphne basically forgives her for anything she wrote about that but tbh she doesn’t seem to mind anyway). And, they like sorta acknowledge it as “wtf” thing, but it’s blown over quickly imo. “Oh well that’s nice dear” sorta reaction. And Eloise does have even more of a backbone than in the books but idk I just don’t see why and what people seem to want out of Bridgerton.

Eloise is going to somehow befriend and fall in love with Crane! You’re telling me the girl running around with Theo and “radicals” will suddenly fall for the guy boring the fuck out of Marina?

Like, I’m sorry but Bridgerton is pretty people hooking up with a regency background. They will not “do right” by most people’s standards of how the characters should act and how to apologize (Daphne and Simon make up after professing deep love in the rain! Anthony is shocked into confessing for real cause Kate fell of a horse! It’s for DRAMA, and then it’s resolved kinda easily?)

I’ve seen some more of nuanced takes against Pen, at least these people aren’t reducing her to a fat villain (cause when they did that I could not take them seriously 😒). And honestly a lot of it is fair, that’s good! The writers don’t care.

But now I keep seeing people hating Eloise to the point that they want a comeuppance that is not proportional to her “revenge”…and like… it won’t be as serious as y’all are making it to be. This “revenge”. Like please, the writers aren’t going to suddenly take this world seriously. See above and those are just 1 example for each season!

If they wanted to acknowledge all the hurt Pen put people through and make her work to become a better person, they could! I just don’t think they will because it’s 8 episodes per season and in this season they’re trying to find a way to get Colin and Pen together and Eloise and Pen as friends again by end of season. I don’t think they’ll extend a conflict into Ben’s season (I actually hope they don’t, I like Ben and Sophie’s story for the most part and while I love Anthony and Kate they shouldn’t be the focus either).

Idk what people expect I guess. if you’re watching it for Pen to be taken down a notch… might not be the season for you. If you’re hate watching I guess tag it with “anti” whatever and not the regular tags?

I’m sorry if you think she does not deserve an happy ending, I don’t necessarily disagree that she’s undeserving of some crow eating for what she’s done. However, I don’t think the writers care to make her go through that. And I don’t watch Bridgerton for brilliant character development that I think some of y’all want.

That being said I’m curious about how they’ll manage LW post Colin x Penelope marriage. In the books it basically disappears, and maybe they can use that to have a build up to Pen! However that means to me making their relationship last longer than as season and I do not want that for any of the couples.

#illy talks #I need to not go into tags but fine I’ll tag it #Bridgerton #sa cw #marital rape mention #rape mention #idk if I have a tag for that but I think I have it covered #I don’t write any analysis or meta cause I tend to be a centrist about everything and let the story play out #but I really relate to Pen’s wallflower ways so sorta defending her #but like also again the whole marketing of “Colin and Penelope’s story” sorta spoils it yknow she’s gonna be “rewarded” #and maybe she’ll get to have to work through her issues! I just don’t think they’ll have her do that cause it’s BRIDGERTON #she’s gonna “win” idk how else to say it (whether you believe she “deserves it” or not) in 8 episodes #hopefully the writers come up with a compelling story for her and Eloise and their friendship along with Pen/Colin romance but like y’all 😐 #why are your expectations so high about a bodice ripper book turned tv show from the creator of Scandal and HTGAWM and Grey’s #like y’all know how it ends already… #again my fault for going in the tags #idk we’re getting four seasons minimum I just want to finish out with Ben and Sophie #if four is really all we get

[craftymermaid]

#looking at a beautiful unicorn tapestry fabric for a renfaire bodice #still haven't finished the barbie dress #or the witch gloves #or my mom's granny square blanket for her birthday #knitblr #memes #actually #that blue turtle dress has also been waiting for me to finish it since August

[erotetica]

More intentional revamp of my ancient Idril design

#it was kind of an accidental kirtle that wasn’t one. so now it is. #+ some vaguely Elizabethan neck shit. #of this were high formal wear I would’ve done the ostentatious collar/cone bodice #that’s the half baked gondolindrim thesis. don’t think abt gondolindrim that much #DO know idril starts wearing white instead of a heavy silver brocade in memory of aredhel tho #tolkien #idril #idril celebrindal #gondolin #the double ponytails I ^draw her with also would Elizabethan as an updo. happy accident I’m realizing #*would look #possibly anachronistic lace pattern cw. I’m not looking it the fuck up

[see-arcane]

The Underappreciated Undead Squad: Clarimonde, Lord Ruthven, and the Family of the Vourdalak

If you’ve been keeping track, you’ll know I’ve been getting sucked into a resurgence of old school bloodsucker literature. Not just with the fun of Dracula Daily—thanks again, Matt Kirkland!—but revisiting some even older vampiric favorites who have been kicking since long before the Count started planning his English holiday. From left to right above, we see Gorcha, patriarch of Aleksey Tolstoy’s, “The Family of the Vourdalak,” (1884), Clarimonde, of Théophile Gautier’s, “La Morte Amoureuse,” (1836), translated into English as ‘Clarimonde’ or, ‘The Dead Woman in Love,’ and Lord Ruthven, of John William Polidori’s, “The Vampyre,” (1819).

I’ve been dropping hefty blurbs about each of them, but I figured a master post was in order. Much as Dracula Daily is/will continue to pick up its pace as autumn ticks along, I know there are folks out there itching for a broader classic vampire fix than just another reread of, “Carmilla.”*

*Who does not get to sit at these guys’ table, considering she has a web series, a movie, and a number of animated cameos (hi, Vampire Hunter D and Castlevania babes), while everyone on this guest list has no mainstream spotlight, period. Sorry, Millie.

 Assorted Synopses and Story Links Below!

1.    Clarimonde—“La Morte Amoureuse” (Post) (Story PDF)

POV: You’re a newly minted priest doing priest stuff in the middle of Le Bumbfuck Village in Nowhere, France. You fell in love with the hottest party girl in Paris. She dies. She resurrects herself and appears in your room looking like this ^^^ saying she came back to life because she’s into you. She asks if you’re down to run away to Venice with her. Wyd?

Oh, Clarimonde. She’s probably the best way to (un)die you’ll ever meet in classic literature. Gautier wrote her story with all kinds of ribald and religiously risqué (if not damn near blasphemous) joy, and managed to sneak a genuinely heartstring-tugging romance in. She’s probably the first vampiric character to ever be written in a truly sympathetic light, while also being one of few early seductive/bawdy female characters to not be given the ye olde ‘EW NO EVIL POWERFUL LILITH CHARACTER BOOO’ treatment.

2.    Lord Ruthven— “The Vampyre” (Post) (Story PDF)

POV: You’re the tenth adulteress tonight to try to get with the sexy stranger who lives to make everyone around him miserable (sexily). All you’ve managed to do is interrupt his game, in which he plans to bankrupt a father of seven, followed by maybe hunting down his innocent daughter to stick a dagger in her for a midnight sip. Oh, you were after a blood sugar daddy? Too bad. Take that thirsty bullshit to Carfax and duke it out with Renfield.

Lord Ruthven is the original undead bastard. His hobby is ruining the lives of good people, driving virtuous girls to madness and/or murdering them for a drink, and collecting fancy bejeweled blades for a little flair with the latter. Our guy is Not Interested in romance as anything other than a performance to get close to a young lady for the purposes of either ruination or slaughter. Nor is he about to churn out any more of his kind willy-nilly. Why bother? Maybe that shit flies for those needy Transylvanian hoarder types, but he prefers to go solo. He seems like a unique polar opposite to most ‘teaching a moral’ monsters—in his story, only the purest of pure mega-good characters suffer. If you’re anything less than saintly—see: horny chicks, folks with personal vices, et cetera—Ruthven either ignores you outright or tosses you some cash to aid your selfish aims. Thanks, man.

3.    Gorcha and Kin— “The Family of the Vourdalak” (Post) (Story PDF)

POV: You are a traveler meeting the dead and knowing eyes of Gorcha and his family. This ends one of two ways. Version 1: Gorcha and his family decide they hate you. There is only room for murderous hate or consuming love in their still hearts, as is the condition of the Vourdalak. They will nail your head over the door. Version 2: Gorcha and his family have decided they love you. So much so that they must empty your veins and welcome you into the family. Forever. What’s that, traveler? You’d like to leave before they decide either way? Who said that was an option?

Vampirism and love have always managed to overlap throughout the genre. But the condition of the Vourdalak flavor is especially fixated on it. The gist is that where ordinary vampires will target whoever, whenever, Vourdalaks are driven specifically to drink from their loved ones. Family, friends, lovers. It’s how whole villages have gone underground, with kin and neighbors preying on each other in a warped display of grim thirst and affectionate preservation. On the flip side, those not loved get put down. Messily. It would almost be sweet if things like ‘consent’ or ‘neutrality’ could come into it, but no. You are loved and kept or unloved and slaughtered. The only third option is to run—if they let you.

 I really recommend giving all these guys a read. Right now, we’re enjoying a bit of a vampiric/Dracula renaissance. Silly stuff like the What We Do in the Shadows series is going full blast, Castlevania is entering another run, and the Count has a whole slew of movies lined up. While I very much did not care for this year’s, The Invitation, 2023 is due to dish out a fun dark comedic romp called Renfield centered on our favorite inventor of the Victorian small-scale turducken (with Nicholas Cage as Dracula!), and a genuine horror movie offering with, Last Voyage of the Demeter, directed by the same man behind The Autopsy of Jane Doe. Promising stuff!

My fingers are crossed that between all that and the clear popularity of Dracula Daily, we can dust off some other coffins and, maybe, give these older undead characters some overdue love. (At a safe distance.)

#before anyone comes at me about Clarimonde's period inaccurate dress #1) I know. #2) Her introduction has her wearing the most VIVID rainbow palette finery I've ever read. She deserves color! #3) I always mentally tied her with the Psyche myth #the Goddess of Soul with the butterfly motif and a whole story dedicated to love and th breaking of trust #also death and resurrection; so you know--I have my excuses #4) I can't not picture her being a carefree trendsetter hedonist #if she wants her bosom up and bodiced with gold jewels butterflies and ye olde gauzy sparkles all over? #She Will Have It #Ruthven just always struck me as a russet/old bloodstain palette kind of guy so ^^^ #Gorcha's tale paints him as corpse-colored and the story takes place in the cold #lots of grays and deep unhealthy blues/silvers seemed right #plus a stylish accessory head #anyway #vampires is fun #and there's more than Dracula and Carmilla to play with in the classic lit #go meet them and get inspired #clarimonde #la morte amoureuse #lord ruthven #the vampyre #gorcha #the family of the vourdalak #dracula #dracula daily #carmilla #reading recs

[marleneoftheopera]

Clip of Daniel Koek (and Kayleigh Marven) during their cover run.

#yep daniel sounds wonderful #also I can’t see her dress clear enough but that looks like a U.S. one? #at least the bodice does #maybe she got some US costumes #might be who that US star princess in the costume video went to #daniel koek #kayleigh marven #poto australia #poto restaged tour

[amatres]

slow on the layla picture bc i made three different dress designs like a fool

#ama mumbles #might scrap the one i posted in the original wip tho bc while i love it its the hardest for me to draw #and also fits in the least with the fashion i observed in the setting. heartbreaking! #for reference this is supposed to be my like. finalizing her design to a degree. so i stopped messing with the dress design #and this happens bc of course it does #then again i can keep the bodice of the first and use the sleeves of one of the others. hm. pondering

[blujaydoodles]

Nyssa ref sheet: sfw edition :3

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #character art #illustration #satyr #faun #warlock #'where is her arm' don't even worry about it #I'm a little on the fence about this wardrobe direction 🤔 I do like the nod to her ancient greek mythological origins #AND I think 'more or less just a big sheet of fabric belted onto you' would be comfortable for her physically #as someone used to wearing nothing but maybe a bag or a belt most of the time #... it admittedly also has a lot of appeal in terms of 'scribble some drapey folds and call it good' lazy art lmao #but I do still really like the short bodice and drapey loincloth situation I've usually drawn her in in the past #HM #my OCs #Nyssa #Erelan #dungeons and doodles

[heartyearning]

The only thing keeping me going rn is taking process pictures

#also cause I'm currently unable to continue unless i wait like this dye needs to dry my teacher has the last bodice piece so i have to wait #for her as well ... its also a good thing technically cause i have an exam on friday ive woefully understudied for #but nevertheless this has been my focus for like a month and a bit so its hard not to be able to finish it #george.png

[b1ueshift]

oh okay i get the confusion now. it seems the person who made the dress mixed up "the 18th century" with "the 1800s" and thats why she was calling an 18th century inspired dress victorian

#i went to her account to get a better look at it and also to see if she herself called it that #and yeah the bodice shape sleeve length and amount of embellishments are all very rococo #the skirt i suppose could pass for victorian but i think that's due to the lack of padding #i was going somewhere with this. right! the art that inspired this dress was labeled ''18th century'' so that's where the mix-up is #vel.txt

[be-a-cute-scientist]

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#had a lovely day hanging out with the couple i have a crush on #tragically nothing happened between us but I think there was flirting between all of us #many board games were played #and we went into the ripped bodice and talked about sexy books it was funny #and then he drove me to a grocery store and then home #and like i really wish i'd flirted more or been more blatant #but i'll hang out with them more again #ugh i just feel so dangerously fond of the two of them #and they talk about me when i'm not there! #and there was brushing of hands together while playing card games with both of them #and we shared a pastry #and i might have made them think that i wanted to leave but i thought they were hinting and just ugh i want to sit on their couch with them #oh and they're getting much more PDA-y around me than other people and i DONT KNOW what that means #and i just want to hug both of them and cook them food and make them tea and have hot chocolate with them #ugh this is the worst how do people do this #also i'm leaving in 4 and a half months so there's that #whyyyyyyyyy is life complicated #i finally met someone i would actually move for and it's complicated #and i daren't want this too much because i never get what i want #ugh i just gotta flirt more with her when i can #i work with him so it's easier to flirt

[throwing-roses-into-the-abyss]

I think the mock up to my dress-coat-thing is almost done??????? like I need to adjust a couple of small things but overall I'm super happy with how it looks right now

like. guys. I've got all the seams in the bodice and skirt parts lined up. do you have any idea how excited I am about this alone kgdfhfgkjhdkj

#I did way more tailoring than necessary for this #super worth it #I don't have a full length mirror here to take pictures in #and I can only really judge the bodice part #so I'm taking it over to my friend's places at some point to borrow her mirror/opinions #but also....this means it's time to make some fabric/design decisions #and spend some money to get lining/buttons/etc #I was considering adding some piping but hmmm maybe not #that might be making things too difficult for myself #which I already did enough of in this project lmao