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A shrug that I made for my friend’s wedding last year—pattern drafted from scratch, sewn out of a beautiful silk dupioni. The trim was pleated and sewn by hand, and at the last minute I cut off the sleeves and re-hemmed them by hand, so by the end I think the shrug was 70% handsewn.
Loki x Illyria: So Loki and Illyria go on a date -
A STORY TOLD IN GIFs
So she’s at work one day
And Loki comes in and he’s all business as usual
And then he sees HER and he’s all HEY GURL
And she’s like WHUT
And he’s like ‘Let’s got get shawarma or something
She’s like ‘K just let me wrap this up’
…
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it needed to be done
Fuck.
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Only sneaking on Tumblr for vicarious cosplay planning, don’t mind me….
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I would upload this directly to Tumblr but apparently I can’t upload pictures to Tumblr from home anymore because I don’t know. It’s fun. Anyway this is the most Loki I can do with what I have at the moment, although Calli figures her mom can help make a longer green coat, and I’d at least get a necklace. I also have a pair of black boots that are more buckles instead of laces; can’t remember what his looked like.
Here is a shot were you can see boots! it almost looks like he is wearing some kind of chaps contraption over his in that picture, but here are a bunch of shots of a collectible figure, which seems to be pretty detailed and screen accurate and has several good pictures of the boots. It looks like buckles instead of laces would be the way to go, though? But my advice is ‘wear the boots that are most comfortable’. I do vote for tights or leggings, though!
re: necklaces—THIS ONE.
I think this is a great start—esp. the handkerchief hem dress is perfect.
Now I want to pile on layers and I want very badly to put you in a snug vest over the green vest, though—a black one, modified with pleather or ribbon overlapping strips, and it would have to be modified to close in the back as well so that the overlapping can go on uninterrupted in front…this would be easy if you 1) had a black vest, 2) had strips of pleather, 3) had a hot glue gun, and 4) were willing to cut open the back and insert a zipper….okay it might not be easy but it would be doable and I think would look really cool!
Or an underbust corset like this although it lacks the overlapping component, but you could layer some narrow belts over it?
Yes, sit down while I design your cosplay for you from across the country :P
Haha, yes. I suppose I’m hoping to limit the number of layers (including leggings, for that matter, although if the internet thinks it’s important, I’ll wear some) just because, y’know, I’m Alaskan and I’m going to be dying in California heat even if I’m in a tank top and shorts, probably, so I’m not sure whether I’d want to wear something over the green vest…although that is a rather nice and inexpensive corset. Argh I don’t know. I don’t really have a workable black vest at the moment, although—hm, I do have a corset I might be able to use for something. I’ll have to see.
The one thing I’ve had no ideas on so far is the staff, which I figure I probably need in some form. Thoughts on that?
Since you’re doing streetwear, the thing that comes to mind first as the Coolest Possible Thing is to try to replicate the cane that Loki carries in Germany, but I have no idea how to accomplish that…I’ll have to find a picture of it and think about it. You might lurk around some cosplay sites to get ideas about making replica props, I know I’ve heard of lightweight modeling stuff that can be shaped and dries hard? But don’t know offhand what it is. I imagine you’d need some kind of sculptable thing to make either the cane or a staff replica….starting from a dowel rod base and building off of it.
Only sneaking on Tumblr for vicarious cosplay planning, don’t mind me….
(via Picture607.jpg picture by Flying_dolphin - Photobucket)
I would upload this directly to Tumblr but apparently I can’t upload pictures to Tumblr from home anymore because I don’t know. It’s fun. Anyway this is the most Loki I can do with what I have at the moment, although Calli figures her mom can help make a longer green coat, and I’d at least get a necklace. I also have a pair of black boots that are more buckles instead of laces; can’t remember what his looked like.
Here is a shot were you can see boots! it almost looks like he is wearing some kind of chaps contraption over his in that picture, but here are a bunch of shots of a collectible figure, which seems to be pretty detailed and screen accurate and has several good pictures of the boots. It looks like buckles instead of laces would be the way to go, though? But my advice is ‘wear the boots that are most comfortable’. I do vote for tights or leggings, though!
re: necklaces—THIS ONE.
I think this is a great start—esp. the handkerchief hem dress is perfect.
Now I want to pile on layers and I want very badly to put you in a snug vest over the green vest, though—a black one, modified with pleather or ribbon overlapping strips, and it would have to be modified to close in the back as well so that the overlapping can go on uninterrupted in front…this would be easy if you 1) had a black vest, 2) had strips of pleather, 3) had a hot glue gun, and 4) were willing to cut open the back and insert a zipper….okay it might not be easy but it would be doable and I think would look really cool!
Or an underbust corset like this although it lacks the overlapping component, but you could layer some narrow belts over it?
Yes, sit down while I design your cosplay for you from across the country :P
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I am still broken up with Tumblr! I am only on to answer a question!
Juuuuust pretend that you don’t see me. I’m not even here. I am not the droid you’re looking for.
Move along.
GUYS
SHE IS ACTUALLY TRYING TO DO LADY LOKI IN THE LAST ONE
So I’m thinking about doing genderswapped Loki for SDCC, right? And there’s no way I’m going to do the helmet even if I could, so I’m hoping to find something like what she’s wearing here. I mean, if I could find that, it would be perfect, although if I’m going more for clothes inspired by Loki’s costume, a fascinator with a couple tallish feathers could work. I guess. I don’t know. Thoughts? Anyone have any great ideas on making something like this?
Thoughts on hat replication: I don’t know a ton about making hats because I’ve never done it, but I have read articles about it! This hat looks like molded/sculpted felt, and here is a video that shows some relevant techniques, or you could make the hat base by using a pattern to sew it (although then of course you would have seams). Whatever you did it would take some trial and error to get those triangular ‘wings’ around the face just right, because you’d need to adapt a standard hat pattern, but if you poke around for tutorials on making a cloche hat then you’ll probably find a lot of different methods and styles and you can pick one that makes the most sense/seems easiest/most cost effective for you to do? The very easiest would be to find a cloche hat to buy and then build on it, but that might be expensive/make it difficult to find matching fabric/materials?
Easier than a cloche is a fascinator like you mentioned, which can be just a circle of cardboard covered with fabric with a clip sewn/glued to the underside (I do not recommend hot glue alone, as it peels away pretty easily from metal surfaces in my experience), although you’d have to be careful about the weight of the embellishment, so that it isn’t dragging the whole fascinator off of one side of your head :P
Obviously the most important elements for a femmeLoki street look hat are the horns, and I think that those could be made in a couple of ways, and a lot of trial and error would be involved in all of them…You could make them out of fabric, stabilized with wire, or cardboard covered in fabric, or mold them out of something—I think it would be cool to mold them out of leather, referring to Merimask’s tutorial on leather working for how to shape and then bake the leather to hold its shape, and then painting it gold. You could even make them out of a sturdy paper, although that would be the most vulnerable to damage (you could make them more durable with a coat of mod podge, though)
…although frankly my favorite idea is still to do dramatic eye makeup that extends up to the forehead and gold mascara streaks in the hair! it would take practice to get the makeup right, but probably still less intense than making a hat, especially if you’ve never done anything like that before…and if your outfit is recognizable and especially if you’re with a group, it’ll be very clear who you are?
I think the most distinctive parts of the outfit in Avengers are 1) long sleeveless coat with green lining, 2) criss-crossing fabric on the torso (you could glue layers of wide ribbon or strips of pleather over a wide belt to get a similar look?), 3) random and seemingly useless bandolier thing/cross body strap, and 4) the crescent shaped bronze statement necklace, which on him is part of his breastplate contraption but makes perfect sense as jewelry. I think a black or dark green dress/tunic with a wide belt over leggings and boots with a long coat affair will work perfectly.
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Hey, Tumblr. So, remember a few days ago when I said we needed to break-up? And we set a break-up date? Well, it’s here! Today is Charis-and-Tumbr-break-up day!
It won’t be forever, probably, it will just be until I finish the first draft of this novel thing that I have kicking around. But I do have weird guilt about abandoning you for however-long-this-takes (hopefully only a month!), because it feels like cutting a social obligation, so to assuage my guilt I asked Twitter if I should post an excerpt of The Novel For Which I Am Leaving You (tentatively ‘The Changelings and the Shadow’, mostly referred to as Changling). Two people said yes! So this is for you, two people—this is the beginning:
“Stand in the sunlight,” she said, “and let me read your shadow.”
That was the sort of thing that my grandmother said all the time. She spent most days sitting on the street corner on an upended crate (we once tried to give her a nice lawn chair, but she said she liked the ventilation of the slats under her bottom, and that the chair back would keep the sun from talking with her spine—you see? It’s how she talked), and always knitting, the shiny needles clicking and flashing and that constant stream of intricate, brightly colored cobwebs spilling over her lap and down over her knobby ankles where they were always rubbing holes in her socks, over the clunky leather shoes she wouldn’t replace, and into the laps of the children who always came to sit beside her and listen. There was always at least one, crouched under the blinking street signs, listening and rolling up the colored cobweb so that it wouldn’t trail on the sidewalk.
“Get up, get up!” She waved her knitting—I had no idea what it was meant to be but it seemed to go on forever—sending a ripple down the rainbow stream through the children. There were two at the moment, Maria and Katarina, two sisters in sun suits with frogs printed on the fabric. Maria had the bundle of jewel-colored stuff in her hands, but Katarina was letting it stretch from Grandmam’s feet over her arms and pool, just a little, in her lap, as if she was testing out how it felt. “Up!” Grandmam clucked. “Face the sun, and let us see the backside of your shadow.”
“Grandmam, there isn’t a backside to shadows—” I don’t know why I was always trying to convince Grandmam that the world was normal, especially when she didn’t care, for one, and I know for a fact that it isn’t, for another—but I really wanted the world to be normal, as if it were as easy as a setting on a dryer, and wanting the wrong things can make you wrong in the head, as Grandmam once told me. She said things like that a lot, too.
“Hush! Don’t act like you know anything about shadows—wasn’t I there when God invented the shadows? Don’t I know all about it? There’s no difference in the world like the difference between the front and the back side of a body’s shadow.”
I rolled my eyes , but I stood up, turning into the glare of August sun that came down through the buildings on our street. I squinted against the light, and I could barely make out the outline of the grocers across the street, with Mrs. Brian’s garden overflowing the roof and half-dead from the heat. I could see her tottering back and forth between the pots, barely able to lift the enormous watering can—there weren’t any hoses up there, and every morning she paid me fifty cents to fill her big can in the back room downstairs and carry it up. On days when the arthritis was bad, I got an extra quarter for doing the watering, with her hanging over me every moment like a wizened gargoyle.
My eyes began to sting and I shut them against the light. I didn’t want my eyes to water and for the rowdy boys across the street (where Mr. Brian hadn’t driven them off of the grocer’s steps yet) to think that I was crying. I was a girl, but that didn’t mean I cried like a girl. The insides of my eyelids were red and hot, like the whole world was on fire, like I had lava inside my skull. If you don’t believe me, look into the sun and close your eyes. You’ll see how scary it can be inside your own eyelids.
I waited for Grandmam to tell me it was time for me to turn around, and the heat started the sweat underneath my hair, trickling down under the braid and then down my spine, itching. Then I heard one of the girls start to cry—not sniffling, like a kid when they want something and you won’t give it to them, and not hiccuping, like Rosie when she thought one of her precious stuffed animals was sick. It was a different kind of crying, kind of like the wail a kid makes out of nowhere when someone pinches them or they drop their pacifier, but ten times worse—a shriek like a police siren, except it wasn’t like that either. It was the kind of noise that someone makes when they’re too terrified to do anything else, and the line of sweat went icy cold on the back of my neck.
“Grandmam—” I turned, just in time to hear the clatter of knitting needles on the sidewalk, just in time to see the lapful of jewel-colored yarn tumble over her knees and spill across the cracked cement. Katarina had her head back, wailing, and Maria began to cry too, thick tears coating their flushed cheeks. Grandmam was staring at me, her faded blue eyes wide, her mouth making a little grimace of horror while her hands, spotted and worn and stiff, but always controlled and orderly, spasmed in her lap.
“Grandmam!” I stumbled to my knees in the middle of the yarn and grasped her hands in between both of mine, holding tightly until our hands shook together. She stared down at me, tears leaking down through the wrinkles in her cheeks, shaking off of her quivering chin to splash on my wrist.
“Bri,” she whispered. Her voice was slurred and hoarse, but I could understand her. “Oh, my Briony girl. Oh no.”
That was written back in…2007? geez, a long time ago! so far another 80,000 words follow it, with varying degrees of coherency, and hopefully soon this story will have some kind of ending, and hopefully it will be worth our separation, Tumblr.
So, y’know. Don’t have too much fun without me, stay awesome,
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harrietvane replied to your post: Tumblr, we need to break up. We need to break up…
Tough break - best of luck with the book though! I’m sure it’ll be awesome
Thank you! I’m shooting for awesome, but at this rate I will happily take ‘semi-coherent and with an ending of some kind’ :P
reading-angel replied to your post: People on my dash are talking about ComicCon…
I love being in costume! Also, it was super easy to stay in character (ish) as Kaylee, because, well, we are rather similar. Costumes! I love to wear them!
I do love to wear them! I just don’t love to wear them in the crowded, hectic space of a con (I think, anyway? especially the costumes I most want to make/wear, because I’m all YES ELABORATE IS THE BEST. Victorian gown with tentacles = harder to wear than a flightsuit :P). At D*C there was hardly any time when we weren’t running from thing to thing—if we were somewhere with a schedule with more downtime and we weren’t trying to see All the Things, I’m sure it would be easier…
instead people mention cosplay and I’m all LIKE THIS LET ME DESIGN IT FOR YOU and HERE HAVE ALL OF MY OPINIONS :P
I want a dragon. Especially if we can have super comfy nap time together.
