#byerly vorrutyer

[unbizzarre]

Byerly Vorrutyer visiting Ivan’s apartment’s

I adore these two character’s interactions 🤭

Creation notes:

- finished the linework and got really worried I’d fuck it up when I painted it so I made a photocopy and painted that instead of the original copy which was drawn on watercolor paper… unfortunately printer paper is not the greatest paint absorber so apologies for the lumpiness.

- also idk I messed up drawing byerly’s outfit. The shirts details are pretty but a little off from what I was going for and somehow during painting the pants now look like harem pants. (Outfit was supposed to be an attempt at a barrayaran folk-style suit/vest with a cut blending early 1800s suit silhouettes with open sleeve folk shirts. It didn’t quite work out.)

Here’s linework and a bonus doodle of instant groats:

Examples of the Greek folk bolero’s I was going for :

Similar shaped jackets exist in Albanian / Bosnian / ottoman folk styles

#byerly vorrutyer #ivan vorpatril #captian vorpatril’s alliance #vorkosigan saga #fanart #lois mcmaster bujold

[mouseinamushroomhouse]

VS character doodles

#vorkosigan saga #byerly vorrutyer #dono vorrutyer

[thirdwifeofriversong]

if someone told me, last summer when i was reading shards of honor, that a VORRUTYER would be one of my favorite characters, i would’ve laughed in their face… but that was before i met dono

#count dono vorrutyer #shoutout to byerly as well i guess #they’re great #lord dono vorrutyer #dono vorrutyer #byerly vorrutyer #vorkosigan saga #a civil campaign #shards of honor #vorkosigan #lois mcmaster bujold

[qwanderer]

By Vorrutyer is such a character tho

Like

Especially in contrast to Miles, from Ivan's perspective, because it's like, well yeah, if I have a cousin who just goes and gets into the most outlandish insane trouble and then shrugs it off as another day working for ImpSec, well, yeah, that's just how Miles is, but if my... old friend has a cousin who does the same, what the fuck? What the fuck, Byerly?

It kinda underscores how wild the whole concept is if you aren't already used to it.

#vorkosigan saga #a civil campaign #byerly vorrutyer #meta

[trellwords]

unless you play it good and right — 38,000 words, Ivan Vorpatril/Byerly Vorrutyer, post-CVA mutual pining fake dating ft. undercover ImpSec mission at a seaside casino resort.

“Um.” Ivan colored under By’s gaze. He was pretty sure that behind the dark glasses By was staring at him like he’d grown a second head. “It’s just—I usually bring girls here.”

In which there are an undercover surveillance job, an old enemy, and Byerly Vorrutyer’s broken heart.

#vorkosigan saga #byerly vorrutyer #ivan vorpatril #ivan vorpatril/byerly vorrutyer #fic #ah yes the 'can't stand to look at this for one second longer' editing phase

[highladyluck]

Finally, someone asking thee question:

#vorkosigan saga #captain vorpatril’s alliance #Byerly Vorrutyer #I am having such a good time with this book!!!

[vorkosigankinkmeme]

Byerly Vorrutyer/Duv Galeni

Byerly tries to honeypot Duv.

don't think I've ever seen this pairing before, cool, thanks! I'll add it to ao3 as well.

#vkm prompts #what a fascinating prompt #i think they'd hit all each other's buttons #by's suspicion of everyone vs. galeni having to prove himself all the time #galeni choosing the Service vs. By's rejection of vor masculinity #lots to dig into there #byerly vorrutyer #duv galeni #david galen #vorkosigan saga

[trelldraws]

spotify | download

By didn’t make his living through charity. But he did make his living through a weird sort of loyalty. And, somewhere underneath the persiflage, camouflage, and just plain flage, he was high Vor of the highest…

A(n electropop & alt rock) fanmix for Byerly Vorrutyer, ImpSec informant.

[14 songs | 48 minutes]

Poker Face – Lady Gaga

You’re the Reason I’m Leaving – Franz Ferdinand

I Get Around – Dragonette

No You Girls – Franz Ferdinand

Look What You Made Me Do – Taylor Swift

Helpline Operator – The The

911 – Lady Gaga

Night Work – Scissor Sisters

Gossip – Night Club

Honest Feedback – Saint Motel

Freak Like Me – Night Club

The Spectator – The Bravery

On a Roll – Icona Pop

Talk Too Much – COIN

#byerly vorrutyer #vorkosigan saga #fanmix #playlist #no. 5 is the a civil campaign song Of Course

[incorrectvorkosigan]

Ivan: For a long time that’s how I thought you people had sex, you know, just like, bashing your crotches against each other.

Byerly: Oh I know. I remember.

Ivan: Like you were born a perfect lover.

Byerly: No. I spent years honing my craft.

Ivan: Honing your boning.

Byerly: Indeed.

Ivan: And now you spend your nights hunting unwary straight boys, turning them like some gay were-creature…

Byerly: Don’t be silly. There’s no such thing…

Byerly: …as a straight boy.

#thank you for the submission! anything new will be bumped up to the top of the queue and then we'll go back to highlights #submission #ivan vorpatril #byerly vorrutyer #source: I Roved Out in Search of Truth and Love

[proto-language]

oh no i'm already enjoying byerly so much

#vorkosigan saga #byerly vorrutyer

[unbizzarre]

Byerly Vorrutyer Character Designs

BYERLY VORRUTYER of Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga

Tried to go for a rapidly-aging prettyboy with the gothic heavy lidded eyes (idk how to describe the eyes I’m talking about) and a face that reads as male while having something slightly feminine about it. A face that smiles often but is composed, cool. Slightly wavy black hair that is either shortish, chin length, or slightly shorter than shoulder length (I haven’t decided yet 😅)

Designing faces is not my strong suit so I am working backwards from a few references I like. Will probably simplify artstyle, slightly lengthen hair and mix with a dash of Professor Venom from OK KO (for that little bit of haggard twink energy) to creat the final design.

References:

Wardrobe:

Materials: silk, velvet, ruffles lace, detailed embroidery, military piping, sheer cloth, fur — echoes of beautiful luxurious handmade traditional artisan clothing- but all a little to gaudy and cheaply produced - the barrayaran aristocrat version of fast fashion. Androgynous and galactic styles occasionally thrown in to add to mystique

-SHIRTS: silk shirts // shirts with poofy or frilly sleeves // patterned shirts // sheer shirts // velvet shirts // shirts that are tucked in the pants but so unbuttoned the entire chest exposed

- SUITS: velvet suits that absolutely reek of cologne // sleezy yet sharp barreyaran style black suits you might smoke a cigar or play pool in // pastel suit for daytime garden parties

WARDROBE ACCENTS

- bigass fur coat - maybe even almost a midieval king robe

- several offensively knock off fast fashionmilitary style jackets

- luxuriously patterned bathrobe

- see through shawl / wrap / night robe thing

- some gaudy galactic style outfits

- a few sexy or frilly dresses to piss off the family

- a few a casual / slightly more subdued blend of komarran, barrayaran and practical galactic clothing he only really wears at home (stuff he wears when he’s not preforming for an audience). maybe some sentimental pieces. What’s hidden beneath the camouflage.

- some bling: rings and earrings. A few broaches and cuff links probably not that many necklaces

EDIT: here are some reference collages I put together! Note that these references aren’t the exact items that he would have in his closet but rather there are aspects to each piece that I would want to incorporate into his design. Maybe it’s the cut of a sleeve, the silhouette of a coat, the way a robe drapes, the embroidery pattern on some fabric, or the general partied-too-hard vibes of a particular photo of a model.

Bastardized military jackets:

Neglige options / heavier nightfrobe options:

Bigass fur coat:

Shirts (please ignore the long blue scarf in the central image like wtf is that- the rest of the suit is nice tho):

Party vibes:

A lot of these aspects would then be mixed with my own head cannon for the rules/cuts of barreyaran mens clothing (I went to a library and spent a stupid insane amount of time looking through books with midieval, 1800s and 1900s men’s fashions and France, Russia, and Greece- + additional books of traditional folk clothings and textile patterns + several other books of historic military uniforms…. The process and choices were so long that I had to give up and just stop thinking about any sort of vorkosigan related character design for a couple months cuz my head hurt. - I will probably make another post at some point with more annotated collages and possibly some of my own drawings synthesizing the concepts, but uh not right now because I need a nap just thinking about trying to organize it all.)

If you’d like to see a little more of vorkosigan universe costume imaginings here’s my Pinterest board on it (kinda) https://pin.it/2rOoHsq it’s a extremely disorganized and from early hyperfixation days so none of my fashion history research stuff is there (cuz that was all physical book stuff) but uh, you can look at it if you want.

P.S.

If you have any feedback or critiques on the design so far, or ideas for how you think By should look, let me know! I love hearing other people’s interpretations 😊.

Photos of faces you think look like By, pictures of outfits that feel Byerly-ish, or direct quotes from the books about his demeanor or appearance are also welcome!

@starfishlikestoread it’s been approximately a thousand years but I’m finally getting around to that Byerly fanart! Hope you enjoy 😅

#vorkosigan saga #lois mcmaster bujold #scifiart #fanart #character design #wardrobe #costume design #Byerly Vorrutyer #art #long #long post

[sparklyandhaunted]

But that had been different. There were ... rules for breaking rules, and Lady Donna had known how to break rules with style and flair. Lord Dono was trying to follow the rules.

Technically speaking, if you were following the rules, you didn’t invite young ladies to your home without inviting one of your older female relatives along; but the Vorrutyers were a short-lived clan, and Dono had no older female relatives left unless you counted his ex-aunt, who didn’t actually talk to people any more. (Byerly had offered to stand in for his mother, and had then challenged Dono to explain exactly why he didn’t qualify as a suitable chaperone. Dono attempted to explain that proper chaperones a) weren’t male; b) didn’t have shadier reputations than the men they were supposed to be protecting the young ladies from; c) didn’t say things like “Well, if she doesn’t go for you, can I have second dibs, because I’ve always been partial to blondes?”; and d) when treated to a full, Betan-gender-theory-inflected lecture on the inappropriateness of objectifying women, didn’t reply, “All right, I’ll just objectify Ivan then, since you’re definitely through with him.”

- We're All Mad Here by a_t_rain

#wife quest #miles mistake #lady catherine de bourgh #in service #vorkosigan saga #reading ff

[very-grownup]

Book 7, 2024

Everina Maxwell is not beating the Lois McMaster Bujold fanfic allegations, and that's okay. I /also/ want a Byerly Vorrutyer-centric novel and wish he'd hooked up with Ivan Vorpatril. That isn't what this is, but I assume Maxwell shares this common sentiment.

Like "Winter's Orbit", "Ocean's Echo" is science fiction of the space opera variety, a romance novel supporting a light sci-fi politik plot.

Maxwell shows a fondness for plot contrivances familiar to readers of romance novels and fanfic. "Winter's Orbit" was arranged marriage and "Ocean's Echo" makes use of the handwavey science fiction, more Mass Effect to my mind than anything else, with the threat of a forced psychic obedience bond hanging over the protagonists. If you know the vibe, you know the vibe.

Like a lot of recent works from and for a certain demo, there's a sense of care to ensure that while there may be misunderstandings between characters, their behaviour and acts are never Capital P Problematic. There is a spectre of having the cake of forced, unwilling intimacy with the eating of consent but seeing the pieces of a novel isn't the end of the world and comes with the territory of reading a lot of books and thinking about books and stories and having an English degree. Maxwell does do a better job of establishing a universe with a recognition of gender as a non-binary construct than some of what I've read. You can still see the World Building of it, but it doesn't itch at my brain.

Maxwell definitely builds the science fiction out from the plot and characters she wants, instead of building plots from a science fiction conceit, but "Ocean's Echo" is a fun, easy read and the non-romantic plot hangs together better than "Winter's Orbit". Still interested in following where Maxwell goes in the future. Byerly /is/ a great character.

#2024 books #everina maxwell #ocean's echo

[starfishlikestoread]

Ran across your Byerly Vorrutyer playlist on Spotify whilst assembling my own and just wanted to say what an exceptionally good song choice "Maybe My Soulmate Died" is for By! Lying on the floor contemplating the fact that By has absolutely had the thought "maybe I don’t have a soul" for the entire foreseeable future, thanks :,)

(P.S. I see your rewrite of the lyrics to «Сер Джон Бексфорд» as a send-up of the inhabitants of the Dendarii Mountains and raise you an enduring desire to rewrite «Как вы яхту назавете, так она и поплывет» as a song about the the Dendarii Mercenaries, something something как вы флот свой заведёте, так и дальше он рванёт)

hi!! very glad you like the Byerly playlist, though to give credit where credit is due the first 12 songs were suggested to me by @audreycritter. Maybe My Soulmate Died was one of mine, though, and yeah the line about not having a soul was a big reason I added it - felt like the perfect style of angst for him.

So happy my late-night posting found its target audience! And yes omg, «Как вы яхту назавете» fits so well!! I can just imagine some non-Russian speaking Dendarii (maybe Bel?) being let in on the joke* and proclaiming their disappointment at the lack of red-headed mermaids aboard the Ariel, hah.

(Also you cannot just say that you are assembling a Byerly playlist and not link it!! I love seeing what songs people associate with these funky lil characters)

*roughly translated, the original title is "Whatever you name your boat, that's how it'll float/that's its fate"

#this was a lovely ask to wake up to <3 #vorkosigan saga #ask

[trellwords]

silence is golden (you’ve got my hopes up) — 9200 words, ivan vorpatril/byerly vorrutyer. truth drugs/aphrodisiac sex pollen filth + associated complications.

This wasn’t By’s usual flirtation, or even his usual needling. The panic in his eyes had been quite evident by the second sentence, like he knew he was going off-script but just couldn’t stop.

Byerly shows up drugged at Ivan’s flat. Things escalate from there.

#ivan vorpatril #byerly vorrutyer #ivan vorpatril/byerly vorrutyer #vorkosigan saga #fic

[ao3feed-vorkosigansaga]

what keeps us standing in this view

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/Xb7FGmy

by trell (qunlat)

“The Imperium has to honor off-world marriages,” Ivan said. “We’re trying to get people to emigrate to Sergyar, remember? Can’t be scaring off potential colonists by refusing to accept their family ties. We have to have, y’know, a comity doctrine.”

In which the Vorpatrils get married to Byerly Vorrutyer, for better or worse.

Words: 12251, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, M/M, Multi

Characters: Tej Arqua Vorpatril, Ivan Vorpatril, Byerly Vorrutyer

Relationships: Ivan Vorpatril/Tej Arqua Vorpatril/Byerly Vorrutyer, Ivan Vorpatril/Byerly Vorrutyer, Tej Arqua Vorpatril/Byerly Vorrutyer, Ivan Vorpatril/Tej Arqua Vorpatril

Additional Tags: Future Fic, Polyamory, Marriage, Eloping, Barrayaran legal issues, gaming galactic marriage law for fun and profit

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/Xb7FGmy

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold