#urban fantasy clothes

[tamisdava2]

#picrew #hair ref #clothes ref #urban fantasy clothes #drawing ref #may use for itsou

[laurasimonsdaughter]

"These magnet clothes are expensive."

"I know, it's a pain. But they'll make your full moons so much easier, trust me."

"But none of these are even fun."

"Look, sweetie, it's very new accessibility clothing. They're working on it, alright? This is mostly being marketed towards adult humans still."

"This is stupid. I'm getting along fine with stretchy pants and snaps."

"It won't be long before you'll start getting full transformations. A little stretch won't be enough when you stop being bipedal. And snaps are better than buttons and zippers, but they're very difficult with claws."

"Heidi's clothes have velcro."

"If you want to spend every waxing moon cleaning your own fur out of every single patch of velcro on your clothes, knock yourself our, honey."

"...do they at least have something in black?"

"If they don't I'll dye them for you."

#werewolf #werewolves #urban fantasy #that post where I talk about werewolves using magnetic fastening on clothes? #based on real accessible clothes. I didn't invent that #some costumes use them too for quick changes etc #also velcro on fine fabrics is a pain and animal hair getting stuck in it to make it stop working is an even bigger pain #laura drabbles #family

[athenaismdb]

#architecture #japan #street #building #street photography #urban photography #urban #city #tokyo #urban landscape #metropolis #lifestyle #city life #laundry #clothes #asia #photography #photooftheday #my photos #photographer #places #urban life #streets #cityscape #urban fantasy #東京 #日本 #photo

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing by Amy Allen

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Harper Zeale is finally taking up the family business—hunting supernatural threats. But she’s finding it difficult to carry the burden of necessary violence. During her first solo mission, she kills a vampire. With no time to process what she’s done, Harper’s next job is to solve the murder of a girl at Malcolm-Baptiste College, a small school in central Illinois. It’s obvious the killer was a werewolf, but Esther Talbot—the only werewolf around—is a harmless puppy who wouldn’t hurt a fly. Things get more complicated when she finds out the truth about the college hiding in plain sight. Without any leads to follow, Harper enlists the help of Esther and her friends in the search for the killer. All she has to do is keep them all alive, keep her dangerous instincts in check, and keep a lid on her foolish crush.

Mod opinion: I haven't heard of this novel before, but it sounds like an interesting urban fantasy.

#A sheep in wolfs clothing #amy allens #polls #trans lit #trans literature #trans books #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #lgbt books #mystery #urban fantasy #romance #trans woman #own voices

[blackbrrytea]

I imagine urban fantasy discourse would be like

“Ugh tiefling are such disgusting creatures. This one on the train cut a hole in his pants and I could see his underwear”

“Well if you don’t want tieflings to MODIFY THEIR CLOTHING to actually FIT THEM then maybe you should petition for companies to make more clothing designed for tails, a**hole!”

#then someone would say there are companies that already make clothes like that #and someone else would say those are overpriced and need to be more accessible etc #fantasy #work building #urban fantasy

[ladylilithprime]

Knit The Raveled Sleeve

Series: Fluffy Faerie Tales

Fandom: Supernatural

Tags/Warnings: Half-Fae Sam Winchester, Jimmy and Castiel Are Twins, Selkie Jack Kline, Sam Winchester Is Jack Kline's Adopted Father, Brief Allusions to Canon-Typical Violence, Injury Recovery, Knitting, References to Faerie Society and the Balance of Debt, Gifts Are Hard Among Faeries

Pairing: Sastimmy/Jamstiel (Jimmy Novak/Sam Winchester/Castiel)

Rating: Teen and Up

Summary: Convalescence sometimes leads to picking up new hobbies. In fulfilling a recpriocal promise to his cousin, Sam picks up a hobby that leads to comissioning his cousin's help in making a very special gift for his boyfriends.

For: @fluffyfebruary challenge!

Prompt: Day 10: Care

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THERE ARE OCCASIONALLY times in one's life when the Universe at large conspires to force one to slow down and take a mandatory break, whether one desires such a break or not. These times also tend to happen more frequently, comparatively speaking, when one is prone to measuring one's lifespan in a few dozen centuries rather than merely years. There is also no rhyme or reason to it. For instance, one might attempt to argue that settling in one place with intent to stay there for at least half a dozen decades in order to raise the selkie child one adopted and taking up with a couple of adorable humans counted perfectly well as a break.

And yet, one might still be impaled by an alicorn while protecting your human lovers because the term lover referred only to feelings and a pair of magic-touched technical virgins smelled tasty to the one-horned flesh-eating menaces. One might also then decapitate the alicorn impaling one, break the horn from the decapitated head, and proceed to fight and kill six more alicorns with the horn of the first still shoved through one's right side just below the ribs until the incursion was fully dealt with and the drifting portal closed and sealed. One might also ensure one's lovers were alright (mostly, some shock) and could handle collecting one's adopted son before one consented to being taken to the hospital, where one would be obliged to sit through a lecture from an unhappy dragon who has known one for most of her life and does not wish to see her mostly-immortal friend die before her.

One might be stuck on mandatory bed rest while one heals from the magically-complicated impalement.

Serendderch, second-born half-human son of Muireann, the Cerulean Princess of the Summer Court, known to the Seelie and Unseelie Courts as the Steel Prince, and now going by the name Sam Winchester in the mortal realm, did not like bed rest. He understood the necessity of allowing his body to heal, and even agreed with the need not to push himself too far too quickly and risk setting himself back. This did not mean he was happy about it, especially since he had quickly exhausted the fraction of his personal library that he kept in his apartment and trips to the mainland to visit the public library for more books were limited by his injury to "send either Cas or Jimmy with a list from the online catalogue and hope they're still available".

"You brought this one on yourself, what with trying to run that cafe of yours alone for so long on top of raising your son and only ever taking one day off a year," his mother had scolded him when she had called and he had dared complain about being stuck in a nest on the couch while his son and lovers fussed over him. "Maybe think about actually hiring more staff so you can take a couple days off a month with your boys and go do more of those little family outings. Go on dates, for Summer's sake! And don't worry about your brother, he'll get his head out of his backside eventually, I swear he gets it from your father...."

She must have talked to Sam's cousin in DC shortly thereafter, though, because Cadi sent him a box via portal that contained a full set of wooden knitting needles and far more yarn than should have fit into a box of that size. Cadi included a fairly basic instruction booklet on beginner knitting and a note admonishing him, You didn't break your arm or hand or dislocate your shoulder this time, and you promised after making me learn leatherworking. He sent most of the yarn back after asking Jack, Jimmy, and Cas to touch-test it and finding far too many of the skeins provoked sensory issues. To her credit, Cadi paid attention, and the yarn she packed up and sent to him in the second box was all acceptable blends of alpaca, silk, cotton, and bamboo fiber.

After some back and forth with Cadi - if he was going to give in and do this, he was going to do it right - Sam picked a skein of 100% cotton to practice with. It wasn't as stretchy as the other yarns, which worked in Sam's favor as far as getting the tension on the stitches right, and was easier to unravel whenever he made a mistake than the more wool-like alpaca would have been. And he did end up ripping out his work several times from accidental increases or dropped stitches or miscounting before a knit or a purl switchover. Calming and meditative, my ass, he thought more than once that week, but gradually he got the hang of it and even started to enjoy it some, at least once Jimmy brought him some audiobooks to listen to while he knit and Jimmy, Cas, and Jack took turns cuddling with him. At the end of the first week, when he finally could not take another day stuck sitting at home on the couch no matter how pleasant the company, he had a handful of reasonably serviceable knitted cotton dishrags to use in the cafe.

"Cadi won you over?" Charlie said knowingly when he brought them in.

"I did promise," Sam sighed.

To nobody's surprise, except perhaps Gabriel's when he noticed, Sam kept up the knitting. He appropriated one of the official Lighthouse CommodiTeas tote bags to be his knitting bag and began bringing in various small projects to work on during his breaks which Charlie, Jimmy, and Cas all conspired to ensure he took regularly. This had the effect of drawing in other knitters who came by the cafe, and soon there was a twice-a-week stitch'n'bitch group meeting up to share patterns and project help and trade yarns across their respective stashes. Sam ended up learning a lot of extra tips and tricks from the group, and he paid them back with knitters' circle discounts on meeting days and doing the legwork for organizing a donation drive of knitted baby hats and tiny socks to the maternity ward at the hospital where Meg worked. Other people who saw them knitting and talking came over to see if they offered lessons and were quickly drawn into the group as well.

Sam had a more personal project in the works, however, and it was also a bit more complicated. It involved more private conversations with Cadi and another portal delivery followed by a slower ground-shipping package to DC thanks to the limitations of shipping magical items. His own part of the project was carried out casually in the midst of the knitting circle every third meeting, working with pale blue alpaca and silk yarn as he knit with increases and decreases to match the shapes of the paper pattern Cadi sent him. He played it off as rotating his projects so as not to get bored or forget what he was doing and end up with fifteen projects going and no spare needles. The joke got him plenty of laughs and sheepish looks from the rest of the group.

"I should preface that this is not a holiday or anniversary and there is no expectation of reciprocation," Sam began as his boyfriends eyed the packages. "I did consider waiting until a more traditional gifting holiday, but there are nuances to faerie gift exchanges and equivalencies that makes these unsuitable for such a thing. Therefore, I am choosing to be very human about gifting these to you now."

It still took months, which meant it was well past the alicorn attack and well past Sam being fully healed and completely done with Dean refusing to apologize to the twins for being an ass. With Cas and Jimmy's birthday (and the more personal Separation Day) behind them, it was almost tempting to wait until Yule when an exchange of gifts was to be expected. Practicality won out over patience in the end, the desire to see his mortal boyfriends better protected overriding his faerie instincts regarding balancing debts, and so Sam waited only until the next time Jimmy and Cas came over to spend the evening with him and Jack, biding his time through the after dinner ritual of Jack's bedtime stories which Jimmy and Cas both listened in on, before bringing out the matching packages wrapped in brown paper and placing them on the coffee table in front of the couch.

Jimmy and Cas exchanged one of their speaking looks, the kind not even Sam could parse unless they wanted him to, and then reached for the packages. For his own part, Sam tried not to hold his breath or appear obviously nervous as he watched them. Jimmy tended to start at the middle of the tape and rip, whereas Cas preferred to peel open one end and slide the contents out like the wrapping was a bag, but they both got the packages open about the same time.

The packages contained two nearly identical long jackets made from dark blue dyed leather. There were protective runes nestled among traditional Seelie filigree motifs in navy, cerulean, and sky blue embroidery with silver accents at the lapels and cuffs, and the buttons were hand-carved bone with the same filigree.

"Is this...?" Jimmy started, then faltered, glancing at Cas.

"Alicorn hide," Sam confirmed.

"And the buttons?" Cas asked.

"Carved alicorn bone."

"These embroidery patterns?"

"Traditional Seelie motifs from the Summer Court and runes of protection."

Jimmy unfolded the jacket and opened it, his eyes widening as his fingers brushed over the pale blue knit lining. "This is..."

"That alpaca silk blend you both liked best."

"You knit the lining," Cas stated. "And it's reinforced."

"Canvas interfacing woven with alicorn mane and tail hairs on the crossgrain. I did have most of the materials already," Sam added with a slight shrug.

Jimmy and Cas glanced at each other again with another of those speaking looks. "Jack knows?" Jimmy asked. "He approves?"

"He chose the colors," Sam said, trying not to fidget. He didn't think their reaction was negative, exactly, but there seemed to be a weight to the moment that he hadn't fully intended but couldn't seem to deny as they pinned him with twin piercing looks.

"Marry us." 

What?

"The value of these jackets far exceeds anything we could hope to afford, so you chose to give them to us outside the bounds of expected reciprocal gifting," Cas began when Sam could only stare.

"The motifs are distinctly Seelie in nature and the colors are of your family, which would mark us as under your family's banner to anyone who knows what to look for," Jimmy picked up, his thumb brushing along the embroidery on the lapel of his jacket with a near reverent care.

"And you personally knit the lining, which could be construed as you knitting us sweaters," Cas finished. "By the lore of knitting, we must now either break up with you or marry you. If Jack approves of these gifts, we can assume you do not wish us to break up."

"Please don't," Sam blurted out, his face heating from embarrassment. "But you don't have to... to propose marriage just because... I mean, unless you really want...." To his floundering relief, the twins smiled at him and reached out to take his hands in theirs.

"We would be honored to be a part of your family and have you be a part of ours," Jimmy told him, lifting the hand he held to brush a kiss across Sam's knuckles.

"Mom might take a while to come around," Cas admitted as he lifted Sam's other hand in mirror to Jimmy, "but then, Mom's the reason you can have us both. And we already know your mother likes us."

"So will you?"

"...Yes."

#fluffy february 2024 #rk writes #supernatural fic #sastimmy #urban fantasy au #coffee shop au #knitting fic #proposal through commissioned clothing

[eggbagelz]

Everyone in the bg3 modern au has their own very unique way of dressing [usually tied in with a certain subculture] except for urius who dresses in shit like this

#granted everyone has some equivalent of the armour layered over clothing items thing bc #i feel like thats a requirement for urban fantasy stuff ESPECIALLY bg #but anyway please imagine a broad muscly odd looking tielfing wearing a shirt that days god won't let me die #thats urius #the bg3 modern au #chattering

[badkatdesigns]

Made 7 fun lil guys for a project I'm working on! Really happy w how they all turned out, I think they all look cute as hell and are very distinctive and fun ✨

#Blender #B3d #Blender 3d #Character design #Urban fantasy #Dragonborn #Tiefling #Orc #Elf #Fashion #Wanted to show a diversity of different fashion styles and fantasy races #I had a lot of fun looking at different kinds of styles and adapting them to different characters #Big fan of the tiefling school delinquent in particular. You can really see the yuyu hakusho/josuke part 4 inspo coming through #Elves in literal dollskill clothes bc they're basic but they're doing the most coachella nonsense to see a band at a bar #Had a lot of fun designing the prints on the clothes as well! That cropped jacket w snakes?? The orcish runes on the bralette? #God I love how this turned out I love everything about it #Art #My stuff #3d art #D&D #dungeons and dragons #ocs #digital art

[rosehathaways-sidepiece]

thinking deeply about Book of Night by Holly Black and Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo. This genre? Popular ya fantasy author writes adult urban fantasy debut? Unparalleled. Yes, give me grit, give me violence, give me feral, unhinged women, give me fucked up worlds and demonic boyfriends. these two authors did this for me personally and I am living my best life

#charlie hall and alex stern are so clearly cut from the same cloth #and I adore it. I adore them. my blorbos. my fucked up wet pathetic women I'm putting into cat carriers and taking home #need more popular ya fantasy writers to make this jump I want so much more of this type of content #book of night #ninth house #holly black #leigh bardugo #to be fair I'm predisposed to like these because I love adult urban fantasy. but still. they're both so good

[tamisdava2]

@themousefromfantasyland

A fairy.

#meiker.io #clothes ref #hair ref #to draw later #may use for itsou #urban fantasy clothes

[castielmacleod]

On the subject of reapers as mnathan-nighe…. I just think reaper!Billie would look absolutely stunning in a green jacket

#I like their brown jacket a lot don’t get me wrong but mnathan-nighe typically appear wearing green thus in the interest of #urban fantasy-ifying the concept….. green jacket for Billie :) #Billie spn #Scotlandnatural #My posts #Fun fact! I meant to post this four hours ago but there is literally no helping me the moment I start googling clothes 😭 #I’ll go in for one (1) item and then I’ll see something and be like oh that jacket would be great for x oh I should search up this for y #So forth and so on and then next thing I know the moon is up sgsjsgsbsgshs #Anyway I think reaper!Billie can dress in agender pride flag colours as a treat <3

[girlscience]

might learn spanish just to eavesdrop at the local laundromat

#i feel like that's a good reason to learn a language right #(also when will i have my superhero/urban fantasy meet cute when i'm here at 3am washing clothes covered in monster blood and exhausted #and i'm in my shittiest kinda slutty pjs and a fucking elf or mutant or superhero comes in to do the same thing and we start talking #and then become friends and fight evil together and spend all our time at each other's apartments patching each other up and taking naps #cause we don't have enough time to get sleep and we play video games together and eat terrible chinese takeout together???? HMM???)

[athenaismdb]

#architecture #house #kyoto #japan #building #street #clothes #laundry #Sun #home #facade #roof #street photography #urban landscape #urban fantasy #urban photography #city #urban life #urban #city life #buildings #wabisabi

[nathximesimmer]

🌙Moon energy🌙

🌙What am I wearing?🌙

♥Head: LeLUTKA - Ceylon Head 3.1 ♥Body: eBODY - REBORN ♥Skin: more more - erika skin - milk tone ♥Hair: Usagi Society - Robin Hair at Neo Japan Event ♥Clothes: Eternus - Galadriel Set at Magical fair Event ♥Pose: [piXit] Lilith - Pose Pack ♥Backdrop: K&S - // Dream Garden GREEN. Backdrop

#secondlifeblog #slblogging #blogging #sl #secondlife #secondlifeblogger #blogger #slblogger #second life #slblog #modern fantasy #medieval fantasy #natures #nature #fantasy #urban fantasy #fantasy art #high fantasy #dark fantasy #magic #bloodlust #slfashion #fashion clothes #high fashion #fashion photography #fashion

[samwisethewitch]

Homemaking, gardening, and self-sufficiency resources that won't radicalize you into a hate group

It seems like self-sufficiency and homemaking skills are blowing up right now. With the COVID-19 pandemic and the current economic crisis, a lot of folks, especially young people, are looking to develop skills that will help them be a little bit less dependent on our consumerist economy. And I think that's generally a good thing. I think more of us should know how to cook a meal from scratch, grow our own vegetables, and mend our own clothes. Those are good skills to have.

Unfortunately, these "self-sufficiency" skills are often used as a recruiting tactic by white supremacists, TERFs, and other hate groups. They become a way to reconnect to or relive the "good old days," a romanticized (false) past before modern society and civil rights. And for a lot of people, these skills are inseparably connected to their politics and may even be used as a tool to indoctrinate new people.

In the spirit of building safe communities, here's a complete list of the safe resources I've found for learning homemaking, gardening, and related skills. Safe for me means queer- and trans-friendly, inclusive of different races and cultures, does not contain Christian preaching, and does not contain white supremacist or TERF dog whistles.

Homemaking/Housekeeping/Caring for your home:

Making It by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen [book] (The big crunchy household DIY book; includes every level of self-sufficiency from making your own toothpaste and laundry soap to setting up raised beds to butchering a chicken. Authors are explicitly left-leaning.)

Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair by Mercury Stardust [book] (A guide to simple home repair tasks, written with rentals in mind; very compassionate and accessible language.)

How To Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis [book] (The book about cleaning and housework for people who get overwhelmed by cleaning and housework, based on the premise that messiness is not a moral failing; disability and neurodivergence friendly; genuinely changed how I approach cleaning tasks.)

Gardening

Rebel Gardening by Alessandro Vitale [book] (Really great introduction to urban gardening; explicitly discusses renter-friendly garden designs in small spaces; lots of DIY solutions using recycled materials; note that the author lives in England, so check if plants are invasive in your area before putting them in the ground.)

Country/Rural Living:

Woodsqueer by Gretchen Legler [book] (Memoir of a lesbian who lives and works on a rural farm in Maine with her wife; does a good job of showing what it's like to be queer in a rural space; CW for mentions of domestic violence, infidelity/cheating, and internalized homophobia)

"Debunking the Off-Grid Fantasy" by Maggie Mae Fish [video essay] (Deconstructs the off-grid lifestyle and the myth of self-reliance)

Sewing/Mending:

Annika Victoria [YouTube channel] (No longer active, but their videos are still a great resource for anyone learning to sew; check out the beginner project playlist to start. This is where I learned a lot of what I know about sewing.)

Make, Sew, and Mend by Bernadette Banner [book] (A very thorough written introduction to hand-sewing, written by a clothing historian; lots of fun garment history facts; explicitly inclusive of BIPOC, queer, and trans sewists.)

Sustainability/Land Stewardship

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer [book] (Most of you have probably already read this one or had it recommended to you, but it really is that good; excellent example of how traditional animist beliefs -- in this case, indigenous American beliefs -- can exist in healthy symbiosis with science; more philosophy than how-to, but a great foundational resource.)

Wild Witchcraft by Rebecca Beyer [book] (This one is for my fellow witches; one of my favorite witchcraft books, and an excellent example of a place-based practice deeply rooted in the land.)

Avoiding the "Crunchy to Alt Right Pipeline"

Note: the "crunchy to alt-right pipeline" is a term used to describe how white supremacists and other far right groups use "crunchy" spaces (i.e., spaces dedicated to farming, homemaking, alternative medicine, simple living/slow living, etc.) to recruit and indoctrinate people into their movements. Knowing how this recruitment works can help you recognize it when you do encounter it and avoid being influenced by it.

"The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline" by Kathleen Belew [magazine article] (Good, short introduction to this issue and its history.)

Sisters in Hate by Seyward Darby (I feel like I need to give a content warning: this book contains explicit descriptions of racism, white supremacy, and Neo Nazis, and it's a very difficult read, but it really is a great, in-depth breakdown of the role women play in the alt-right; also explicitly addresses the crunchy to alt-right pipeline.)

These are just the resources I've personally found helpful, so if anyone else has any they want to add, please, please do!

#homemaking #homemaking resources #gardening #urban gardening #self sufficiency #self sufficient living #sustainability #sustainable living #homesteading #nontrad homemaker #nontrad housewife #urban homesteading #solarpunk #cottagecore #kitchen witch #kitchen witchcraft #crunchy to alt right pipeline #book rec #book recommendations #resource #long post #mine #racism tw #racism mention #transphobia tw #transphobia mention

[laurasimonsdaughter]

More urban fantasy werewolf stuff:

● Apps like period trackers but for the different phases of the moon and how they affect mood, appetite, hair growth etc. The app can give a little warning beforehand, making the abrupt hunger and mood swings a little less sudden.

● Older werewolves often have a wrist watches (or even pocket watch) with a moon dial showing the moon waxing and waning as well as the time. It used to be a very popular gift in the community, either from parents to grown up children, or between lovers. They are still passed down like heirlooms.

● Full moon kits - usually in bags or small suitcases for convenience - with spare clothes, extra food, and whatever can make the transformation more comfortable: pain killers, heating pads, chew toys, etc.

● Clothes fastened with magnets instead of buttons, snaps or zippers, so they are less likely to tear during unexpected transformations and are easier to take off or put on with clawed hands.

#laura tumbles #werewolf #werewolves #urban fantasy