#brave costume

[sihtryggr]

“You can see him aging, and his wife, she becomes squarer and squarer […].” As the series draws to a close, Temime used prominent shoulder detailing for the gowns that both Rhaenyra and Alicent wear to make their silhouettes more imposing […] “When you live around the dragon, when the dragon is not only the blood of the family but also the power of the family, then everything should turn around it—the architecture, the shape of the clothes. They are women of power. They will kill for the power.”

Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon: Inside of the Creation of the Targaryen Dynasty.

Thought this was a neat detail that they seem to be incorporating into Baela’s costuming.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

ouagh Wallee.... so so happy he's a seventies boy. peak fashion

bonus:

[cat-cosplay]

Goblin Mode

[heretherebebookdragons]

The Dragon Twins ❤ Baela & Rhaena Targaryen

[eekitseve]

Kids with guns :P (RBs>likes, click 4 higher quality!!!)

[illiaccrest]

You know what, with Gullveig being one of the CYL winners I think there's a unique opportunity for a "what if" theme for the banner.

What if what if what if?

What if life had been different? What if you were the happiest version of yourself? Or the saddest?

[barachiki]

John and Sherlock going to the costume contest again this year. Let's see if they get recognized as Brave Heart Lion and Bright Heart Raccoon!

[ride-thedragon]

DAY 6 : THE THREE DRAGONS OF THE DANCE.

Favourite Character Costumes

Predictably, hotd has gotten better from what we've seen with costume design. However unfortunately, we don't have a lot to go off of when it comes to Rhaena and Baela so, instead I decided to do different eras for their characters and my personal best outcome for inspiring the design.

BAELA TARGARYEN.

The end of the war and the Reconstruction of the house Targaryen. Princess Baela Targaryen stayed loyally at her brother's side in their kingdom, as Lady of Driftmark and Daughter of House Targaryen.

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NETTLES THE DRAGONSEED

Nettles the Dragonseed spent her days in Maidenpool, ever at the side of the Rogue Prince. This came with certain privileges and freedoms, not even Sheepstealer had brought her. It also put her to a higher status, as his kept equal, making him inclined to dress her for the part.

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Rhaena Targaryen

The last Dragon Rider of House Targaryen and Ward of House Arryn, Princess Rhaena, was poised, graceful, and successor to her Brother Kng Aegon III at the time of slim possibilities for her House. Married to be Rhaena Corbary, the girl became one of the last claims that House Targaryen was more God than Man.

[waxflowerwoes]

obviously chandrilan fashion is influenced by traditional east asian garments (the first time i was watched andor i was thinking about how much it reminded me of korean hanbok but that bias is probably indicative of how i grew up near a koreatown) and i saw someone somewhere say that it's odd that the shirts are crossed right over left (the way to dress a dead person) instead of the traditional left over right

now this could be a cultural oversight on the part of the costume designers. it wouldn't be the first time hollywood (or even star wars) appropriated an aesthetic they didn't understand. but with the line "play it how you want. but i'm going to assume i'm already dead," also existing in this show, maybe it's not.

[mydollsaregay]

im currently in the process of upgrading my dollhouse lighting, so the current atmosphere of the dollhouse isn’t inspiring me to take pics. however, all the lovely photos of everyone’s dolls in their costumes inspired me to take a few quick photos before I started changing all the outfits for winter gear.

i haven’t really been posting anything lately, but I’ve still been living my best doll life. I had a ton of fun figuring out costumes for (mostly) everyone. I even did a bit of sewing! I altered quite a few princess dresses and even sewed a batgirl cape for ivy!!

[grimbeak]

thinking ab an official nv halloween episode,,,,carlos and cecil go as frankenstein and his monster and they look exactly the same as they do every other day,,esteban would be a ladybug and would be scared of nothing except the haunted house and the shitty fake mask steve wears

[morethanaloveinterest]

The computer animated princesses may have fewer costumes than the previous ones, but they do have more complex designs. Discussion of Merida's under the cut.

This is the dress Merida wears for most of the movie (I'm pretty sure - sometimes it looks greener than it does here, but the designs are the same, so I don't think it represents two different dresses). In any case, like with Rapunzel, the three-dimensional animation gives a lot of texture and weight to the dress. It certainly looks like it is made of wool, which is both historically accurate and practical for her adventures in the chilly Scottish wilderness. This article gets more into the historical accuracy, if you're interested, but let's talk character. Obviously this is a great color for a redhead to wear (trust me, I know). Compared to what her mother wears and what she wears later, it is clearly more casual and practical. It tends to look more blue at the beginning, before she wears the sky blue dress against her will, and then is greener at the end. Green is Merida's color symbolically, so this can be a representation of how comfortable with herself she is at the end.

Female Representation: 10/10 A perfect dress for little girls to wear to match

Practicality: 10/10 The sleeves are especially practical for shooting a bow, the skirt might get in the way because of its size but Merida is shown capable of doing whatever she wants in this (and she gets up to quite a bit).

Female Representation: 10/10 Again, fantastic outfit for little girls to wear as a costume.

Disney princesses always need a fancy dress, right? Well, this one subverts those stories but not having Merida wear it at the culmination of her arc and rather putting it as the catalyst for her arc to begin. One thing I do not like about this sequence is that she is put in an overly tight dress, on top of a period-inaccurate corset, just to show how oppressive women's clothing can be. The only head covering the noble ladies wear in the film is a way to repress our heroine, rather than something that every woman did for hundreds of years. I'm not saying that women are never oppressed through what they're expected to wear, but 1) I don't like how Elinor is so happy to be continuing that cycle of oppression if that's what's happening and 2) that doesn't fit the time period. Like, putting on one's Sunday best can be an issue for a rambunctious teenager regardless of gender; making it so pointedly a woman's issue without really delving into that or reconciling it is a weird choice.

But anyway, the dress itself is lovely. It's clearly satin or silk, with beautiful gold embroidery on the hem. The kirtle is similar to Elinor's while not being as grand. It has more embellishments than Merida usually wears, as well as a crown, and makes sense for something her mother would wish her to wear to meet her suitors. And it does make sense for Merida's wild mane of hair to be tamed for this situation - as a character moment, it works perfectly to remove her wimple and show off her hair, and then rip out of the constricting dress in order to shoot better. A great example of synchronous character design and motivation (I just wish some more thought had gone into the gender implications of it).

Practicality: 7/10 Clearly it is not practical - I mean, she has to rip the seams to move properly and it gets even more destroyed when she runs off into the woods. However, it obviously wasn't meant to do more than just be worn while sitting on a throne, so it works great for that.

Check out my other costume reviews here

For more on my thoughts about Disney Princesses, check out my youtube channel (Merida episode out now!)

[ultimate-queen-of-fandoms2]

I saw so many lovely cosplayers at the m9 liveshow!! Wish I would've had time to chat with yall - if you're in this photo, please reach out! I'd love to chat :D (also of course I'll take it down if someone doesn't want it up)

Also I didn't have time to get a photo with you but platforms Essek you'll always be legendary so if you or your Jester friend sees this please say hi cause you both also looked amazing

(Also German guys who I met in the queue, if you see this hi I'm the Swedish person! You were great!)

[cat-cosplay]

"It's been awhiiiiiiile...."

Happy Mighty Nein day!

[cangrellesteponme]

OCTOBER 31ST - TRICK OR TREAT

(read this on AO3 here)

dadbastian week day three is here! on time again, what a miracle.

nothing special to say about this one, it's just a tiny sweet thing :) (oh and we're calling o!ciel astre because i'm tired of working around his name)

in which sebastian is not particularly fond of the mandatory halloween movie night he is stuck at while the children are trick-or-treating, but this year ends up being surprisingly fun due to a minor accident.

enjoy!

The evening grows late, no signs of the sun are left in the sky, save for its refracted glow in the moon. It’s a dark night. Fitting, considering the occasion.

The children are out trick-or-treating, so Sebastian stays home with his current company. He is stuck with the disastrous duo of Grelle and Lau — everyone deeply regrets letting them come into contact with each other — Bard and Mey-Rin’s whirlwind of noise and broken plates, Agni and Wolfram’s oddly peaceful handling of the kitchen, and the bane of his existence, that foul fiend Faustus.

And of course, Ran-Mao, who is picking the movies, as a movie night is mandatory on Halloween. Who knew she had such a taste for bone-chilling horror? It’s always the quiet ones, as they say.

They’re ten minutes into the second movie — something about an exorcism, and the atmosphere of it alone seems to be enough to have the weakest (Wolfram, of course.) shaking in their boots — when the doorbell rings for what might have been the thirtieth time that night.

Sebastian, who is profoundly bored with the movie and admittedly has a lot more fun looking at everyone’s costumes and taking note of every flaw, immediately rises to the occasion to scare some trick-or-treaters instead.

“I’ll get it! Don’t mind me.”

“Isn’t it the fifth time in a row?” someone — probably Grelle — asks.

“Yes, and I’ll get it again anyway.”

Sebastian is at the door before any more protests rise. The sight that greets him as he opens the door is… not what he expected.

Back early with the rest of the troupe, young Elizabeth looks too solemn for a girl her age — especially one dressed as a fairy princess — as she carries little Astre on her back.

“Ah. No tricks and no treats, I see.”

“He scraped his knee,” she immediately near-shouts, stiff like a soldier reporting back with some bad news.

“I can walk,” Astre adorably grumbles in his fake beard — he had categorically refused to have a matching costume with his brother, so Ciel is a very lonely zombie constantly trying to bite and infect a historically inaccurate pirate.

“You stumbled!” Lizzy protests, with all the fuss of a pet owner for their very fragile, very small rabbit. “I couldn’t just let you walk all the way back home!”

Looking at the rest of the group while these two endlessly argue, Sebastian sees that Ciel’s eyes won’t leave his brother’s harshly scraped and very mildly bloody knee, something like a concerned frown taking over his face. He is definitely too focused on uselessly worrying to help poor Soma carry the ungodly amount of candy they’ve already managed to collect — his sense of balance is apparently quite lacking, because his magician hat, as stylish and excessively ornate as the rest of his costume, keeps falling off his head. Alois, channeling all of the elegance of a prince — vampiric though he may be — picks it up every time, possibly because he needs to make use of some of the energy his very visible sugar rush is giving him, and carrying Luka, who is the world’s sleepiest little vampire, is not enough. Little Sieglinde seems to be in the same state, truly in character for her Doc Ock costume with the say she keeps mercilessly poking at Astre’s knee with the tip of one of her crutches.

They’re quite sweet, all of them. Very loud, too. But most importantly, movie night would be interrupted for a while if the children came in, so Sebastian, out of self-interest more than care for his injured son, hushers them all in.

Sebastian spends the rest of the night wrangling a clingy Ciel and a very vocally grumpy (read: just as clingy) Astre, and observing the absolute chaos that unfolds with all of these children trying to play board games with candy betting pools. It gets worse when they try and succeed to rope everyone else in.

Although Ciel shamelessly cheats and somehow manages to get Astre to help, Ran Mao wins, of course. The quiet ones.

[brandyrobbinscyberpunk]

cosplay by liz katz