#Crowley belt

[thegothicalice]

In Philadelphia to see Hadestown again 🌹Dress by Blackwood Castle, snake belt by Strangeloop.

[eefaevie]

he’s waiting for his husband

[grntaire]

i’m here bitch this goes fucking crazy

[swimmingtrunks]

I spent a good deal of my COVID quarantine binging all of Good Omens over and over and over again. David Tennant's silly snake walk was a revelation and an inspiration, and I felt compelled to make a tribute.

Came out as sort of a hybrid of TV!Crowley and Book!Crowley *shrug*

[cod-with-boobs]

They’re at it again

[i-seeaspaceshipinthe-sky]

i literally just noticed that crowley's clothes are more BLUE in s2 but the snake belt is the same and is going through the 'aziraphale's vest journey'

[spotforme]

you know who i talk about when i mention one A. J "not a very nice person" helped to create a world and got cast out, fashion style always changing, previous enemies with someone he used to be same species with but was changed into a form considered more lowly, has also changed bodies with said "adversary" friend at one point in their centuries lasting journey?

why it's Rimmer of course, but i find all parallers facinating so here're a few more things he has in common with Crowley:

an on-screen kiss with the aforementioned adversery, also helping to raise children thrusted on them by powers they couldn't effect

can shapeshift (within reason)

actually cares very deeply for their counterpart

put here to keep an eye on their counterpart

met Jesus

don't need to eat but still get piss drunk whenever they have a chanse

have held converstations with a rat

drives an old vehicle which should not be working as well as it is anymore

has a visible mark (the eyes and the H) reminding everyone that they don't belong with everyone else

[ineffable-obsession]

90s Crowley Cosplay

So! I'm working on a S1 shoulder-length hair Crowley cosplay costume for Ineffable Con 5, and I've really been getting into the details of the costume. Let's look at this guy:

I'm getting lost in the weeds a bit, but! He has at least two different snake belts used in the same damn costume! And a different one in s3!

The top (s1:e1, antichrist delivery) has a golden sheen to the head and prominent raised oversized scales.

The middle one (s1:e1, park) has a satin black finish and paired holes over the entire length (presumably, we never see the back but they wrap around).

The S2 belt also has a golden sheen on the snakehead buckle, high gloss finish but more more subtle scales, visible rivets attaching the head to the belt, and top stitching along the edges.

Reproducing the belt

The easy part: you can just order exactly that snake head buckle off Etsy, the very same one used in the show. Available here for $20 (resin) / $90 (aluminum cast).

It has little black jewels for eyes you can glue on once it's painted (1/4" diameter).

At this point, I'm not entirely convinced that the first belt is real snakeskin; it might be embossed leather or PVC. Python scales look like rounded diamonds up close; cobras are more like ovals, vipers have the sharp diamond shape with the raised center (like the vein of a leaf).

If you go looking for viper skins, basically nothing comes up, but! Rattlesnakes are in the viper family and you can find both Western and Eastern diamondback hides quite easily. And they have the leaf pattern to the scales.

But if you compare the snakeskin in the costume belt and the real hide (bottom left) or a real belt (bottom right), Crowley's belt is overly regular in its pattern and doesn't have spacing between the scales the way real hides do. Crowley's belt is ~9 scales tall (top to bottom), the rattlesnake is ~15 scales, meaning the show's belt has scales 1.66x the size of a natural hide. Real snakes have much, much smaller scales. The more I look at real rattlesnake hides, the faker those scales look to me.

I'm fairly certain the S2 belt is real snake skin -- the smaller scale size and the flatter scale matches python belts nicely.

Embossed leather can give you nice deep grooves between the scales, and an even pattern, matching the belt in the park.

I cannot find a viper print embossed leather anywhere on the Internet. Faux snake vinyl / PVC fabric, however, has huge scales -- the same ~9 "scales" per inch, and there's likely one somewhere with that leaf-texture.

Conclusions

I can't say for certain, but I think the first belt seems really likely to be PVC wrapped in order to get that texture.

The middle one was likely made of embossed strap leather, the more durable material supports all those extra holes without being weakened, and the single layer doesn't require top stitching. The scales are an extremely regular pattern, and still fairly oversized. Plus you can get those very deep grooves between the "scales" when they're stamped into the leather.

The final belt looks like actual snakeskin wrapped leather -- you wouldn't use rivets like that on PVC, it's not strong enough, but riveting leather is just fine. Plus, it has a line of machine stitching near the top and bottom, which makes sense if you're joining two very different materials together (thin skin and hide). The scales are the smallest and flattest of the bunch, which matches actual snakeskin. And, the budget of S2 was a bit higher, so maybe they had more money to blow on a $300 snakeskin belt?

My suggestion for a belt?

This is currently $12 and not overly terrible, it's got an ok pebbley grain to the scales, at 1.3" wide it's pretty close to the buckle size.

If you have access to some dye that will work on pleather, you could try dying this one, $13. It's not particularly embossed though, so the snakeskin pattern might just disappear on you.

If you have money to spend, a 1.5" wide, men's python skin belt will run you about $56, this one is quite close to that s2 look.

Happy crafting and dress up!

[ignite-art]

Ginger 101 funfact:

As much as I love the idea of all the aging Crowleys with grey streaks... Redheads don't actually go grey. The pigment of the hair just fades over time. So they will probably either go blonde or close to white, but not grey.

Disclaimer: this is no nasty call out to any artists or writers, I just see/read it a lot of times and I just wanna spread some knowledge 🫶 (ofc it can be a stylistic choice and Crowley can do whatever he wants cause he's a demon and that's how that works if he wants that to be)

[thegothicalice]

“How they rise up, rise up” 💜Gotta sneak a Discworld reference into my outfit or it wouldn’t be the glorious 25th of May 💐

[womenofwrestlingfashion]

Vegan Leather Biker Corset in Black from Manière De Voir ($90), Show Stopper Belted Faux Leather Mini Skirt from Fashion Nova (sold out) & Sneeker-410 Boot from Demonia ($128.95)

[sunsonasaturday]

i have some inappropriate things to say

[kits-ships]

the garden -> land of uz

part one of my sera's eras collection!!! land of uz sera is in really rough shape bc, instead of falling straight to hell, she just hit the earth like a rock. that, and asmodeus was mean to her no taglist bc i feel bad tagging everyone for just self insert stuff i also made it look like a charm idk why but i :3

[deltaswapjevil]

New au? New semi original characters? Well not really...

What if Hazbin Hotel was just handed to me and I just rolled with that?

Like basically what if I took the very basic elements of the story and characters and made that

Similar but very different

For example Alastor would just be "Creepy sinner demon that represents the 1930s" perhaps Bendy and the Ink Machine vibes

Basically dollar store Hazbin

Honestly I just wanted to design the seven deadly sins but also make a rubber hose cartoon demon so-

This is where we're headed

Anyways:

Lucifer (He/Him, They/Them)

The King of Hell and leader of the Pride Ring

The fallen Angel. The snake of eden. A schemer and connoisseur of fruit. I based him on a fusion of an old (not that old) Lucifer design me and my friend made that I'll have to dig out later, Hazbin's Lucifer, and a bit on the Deltarune boss I made based on Lucifer. He's very fruity (get it???). Wears only snakeskin outfits. Very prideful with a flamboyant personality with a love of making deals and overly complicated unnecessary schemes. Has a humanoid form just cause that is based on Lucifer from Hazbin and Crowley from Good Omens.

Also all the sins feed off the sins of others and would have their demonic symbols appear on them or around them when doing so. His symbol appears when he being devious by floating above his head and between his horns

[angelic-omega]

The little exposed section of undershirt/belly when Crowley’s vest rides up

I want to live here thanks <3

[katierosefun]

oh it really is a bit dangerous to have a package come in every day of the week because now i just look forward to having a package waiting for me