serendipity: the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
"a fortunate stroke of serendipity"
Yeo Jeong-woo wearing this word while meeting Nam Ha-neul at the lowest point of his life.
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ALSO ANYONE CAN COME @ ME (or not because I'm anon lmao) but I think Hexer!Geralt is sexier than Cavill and a black beard with white hair IS the moment and the sensation
rofl~ 🤣
Well, I'd say that his dye job could use more toner, and I find the amount of hairspray on this man EXTREMELY DISTRACTING --
But I do really dig his costume.
It's hard to get screencaps that show it well, because the streaming version I'm watching is so low-quality, but -- he wears this long-sleeved, full-length grey tunic over trousers & boots (it's in a light, fluttery fabric so I'm not calling it a coat) that's slit up the front and back to give him a full range of motion. Over it he's got a quilted, half-sleeve black jacket, and then leather belts & harnesses for his weapons.
It's very sexy (full length coat-thingies that flap around your legs will do that), but it also looks practical and comfortable, like something you could actually live in. I admit, I'm eyeballing that outfit for cosplay -- idgaf if no one ever recognizes it, I just want to loaf around in my house in it.
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dressing up in school tmrw for book day and im going as edward cullen, lads im putting craft glitter on my face and sticking it down with prit stick i am not joking is this a bad idea no its not but is it??
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If i may ask (for fanfic reason): Geralt has some down time and nothing to do and no plans to move away from a cabin for about 4 days in a row. he has access to a large washtub and standard repair kit. I thought it'd be like him to take the chance and clean/repair as much as possible, but i was gonna have him dunk the armor, which i think is a nono? if we are talking about armor such as netflix season 1 geralt or in general mostly-leather-armor, how would you suggest he go about cleaning it? TY!
(Don't know if you saw this post -- it touches on some of the issues with repairing Geralt's armor, but I can talk more specifically about cleaning it here.)
So the season 1 armor is *definitely a no-go* for soaking in water, never mind that the first time we see him in it he's fighting a kikimora completely underwater. The type of leather that's made with is chrome tan (aka garment leather), which makes it very anachronistic for a medieval-ish setting. I'm not entirely sure how it's constructed, but it looks like a padded gambeson made of thin garment leather, the same stuff you make modern motorcycle jackets out of:
Cleaning it involves:
Getting a damp cloth and wiping off whatever gunk is stuck to the surface (ideally before said gunk dries). If gunk is in the crevices, he can probably use one of Roach's brushes to work it out.
Laying it open to let it air out if it's gotten stinky from smoke/B.O./etc. (It may take a long time, weeks or more, to fully lose a particularly pungent scent.)
If it did get fully soaked, propping it up with some kind of frame so that it dries in roughly the shape of your body. Then, before you wear it, rubbing it down with some kind of oil/wax/cream (in a fantasy setting, probably neatsfoot oil) to soften it and keep it from cracking when it bends, and working the leather in your hands to make it supple again. Chrome-tanned leather getting fully soaked is a pain in the ass to recover from, it's not supposed to get wet, and it's going to be slightly stiff and uncomfortable for a long time thereafter.
And the same is true for most of the leather armor sets he wears in TW3 as well.
His season 2 armor is a completely different beast, because rather than being made of layers of thin leather sewn into a garment, it is plates of heavy veg-tan leather, wet-molded into shape and riveted together:
This is the majority of the kind of leatherworking I do -- I don't work with chrome tan or sewing (which is why I never made the season 1 armor), I make costume armor out of heavy veg-tan because that's the stuff that you can shape and do all the decorative tooling on, and part of the process does involve soaking it in water, because that's what makes it pliable.
And it is as historically-accurate as World of Warcraft.
When you've seen historical dudes wearing ab armor, it's been made of metal, not leather. Leather is padding, but it is not going to stop any stabbing weapons or projectiles, which is why IRL people have wound up favoring metal armor or mail when possible.
If season 2 Geralt got dumped in a lake, his veg-tan armor would immediately* soak up all the water and become a flabby, shapeless mess. He would have to manually redo the shaping as it dried, which would probably take 12+ hours.
(*slowed perhaps if the leather had been very thoroughly waxed, to impede absorption.)
In conclusion, regardless of the season or media, Geralt has no business going swimming in his armor as much as he does. :)
(gremble in geralt's armor, btw)
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David Tennant - the Fourteenth Doctor Photoshoot
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Pam Downe [ Costume Designer ] - It's a fabric that David chose, actually. He's probably got four or five sets of the trousers and the jacket, and maybe four coats.
Russell T. Davies [ Showrunner/writer ] - David's whole look is a nod to the old.
David Tennant: That was important, to find something that very much had the same flavor and the same feel, but also marked a sense that this is not quite the same story that we're telling
Russell T. Davies: The look of him is very precise, it's very Doctor-y but new. It's not the old look reproduced. It's a suit. It's a tight suit, but it's a different pattern. He insisted on doing that top button up and I don't know why he did that. I don't know what he was thinking but I love it. Moments like that you trust your lead actor. We all had input into it, we all have a say, but at the same time, we actually kind of sat back and went, "You're the man"
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I feel like non German speakers need to know that in German we call bats "Fledermaus", which translates to "flutter mouse"
Cause, you know, it's a lil mouse that flutters through the air
Might as well leave a little sparkly trail with how cute that name is imo
🦇🦇🦇 *flutter flutter bat noises* 🦇🦇🦇
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