Ariana

Fic writer, civil engineer, amateur seamstress, translator-whenever-I-wish. Perhaps not exactly in this order :) I post mostly Tolkien or Witcher and sometimes things I make, be it elven jewellery, cosplays, dresses, notebooks or whaterer comes to my mind. I reblog Tolkien/Witcher stuff or writing metas mostly. Ejnoy :)

[fellshish]

a lot of writing is sort of watching the film in your head like oh sorry can’t write the chapter yet i have to repeat hallucinate the dialogue first

[arianaofimladris]

Sleeves almost done, this Idril cosplay is getting somewhere.

I will need to make a tiny break from this dress to make my brother a cloak like I promised.

[savannahsdrabbles]

It’s always my favorite character

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[arianaofimladris]

I was showing my friend some old jewellery I made and I found a necklsce that could be a part of Eowyn cosplay. Yes, I know it's silver instead of gold, but gold-coloured wire was awful to work with. And I like silver.

[arianaofimladris]

Idril in the making... I cut one sleeve, had to change the initial idea, because it didn't flow.

I was digging through ribbons and laces and I found a velvet ribbon that could cover the seam at the elbow.

And I found a wide jacquard ribbon I bought before the pandemic. It was supposed to be a part of my Noldo cosplay, but I never used it. I'm thinking about using it as a belt for the outer skirt. I guess I will let this idea sit for a day or two, since I probsbly won't be doing much sewing before the weekend.

So far the idea of the whole dress is more or less like in the pics below. This time without a corset, because I was testing the possibility of using that jacquard ribbon. I want to be able to use this dress with or without the corset.

[arianaofimladris]

The main fabric for my Eowyn dress arrived yesterday. At first I was disappointed, because you can see through the fabric, but after some brainstorming with my friend we figured out how to save it.

I'm going to use two layers. I considered buying a typical lining fabric, but this one works well when folded in two, so I just ordered a bit more to double the skirt. I looked at some wool blend as well, but it was the thin kind that would be used for making suits, so there was a risk you could see through that too and that it too would need a lining... And obviously it was more expensive than this cotton/viscose fabric. It might not have the heavy look, but two layers should do the trick and I am not a fan of the concept of spending hours and hours of work and using some shitty polyester fabric. I don't want to die of heat.

The fabric goes well with the jacquard I have for inner layer of the sleeves. The jacquard is cotton/metallic as well, not pure polyester.

We also talked yesterday about cutting bits of this jacquard to make the neckline decoration.

[arianaofimladris]

Pocketses! Of course my cosplay is going to have pocketses! In both skirts, probably, but the other is not yet done.

I'm pleased so far. The main dress needs zipper at the back, and then finishing the bottom, the neckline and the ends of the sleeves. As soon as the light fabric arrives, I will make long sleeves and outer skirt to go on the dress. And I might finish it before our annual Tolkien Convention. It would be fun to be Idril again.

[arianaofimladris]

Snippet Saturday!

@laerthel, thanks for tagging me!

Here is the snippet 😅. I have not written a word in Tolkien fandom during the past four years or so, yet here I am trying to finish scenes from many years ago to post as entries in my story with War of Wrath images.

Dinessel glanced at the Vanyar soldiers.She didn't envy them. Tired as she was, she hoped she could just get back to her tent and somehow sleep through the unpleasant sensations. She knew, however, that Maedhros was going to demand a detailed report from the scouting party.

The eldest son of Feanor put his arm around her frame to support her, before she realised he stepped this close.

"Come. I want Alcarino to take a look at you."

"I can..." Dinessel tried to object, flabbergasted that the lord intended to take her personally. She was tired and sore, but didn't feel like she couldn't go to the healer alone.

Sorry, I could not resist. It is the first time I wrote fanfic bits during a class at university - when I was the teacher not the student (it was the last class in this term, the students were either giving me their assignments or sitting and working on the last corrections on their drawings before submitting their works, so, when nobody wanted anything from me, I was just bored out of my mind and I ended up scribbling notes).

Tagging @cycas, @hollers-who-is-also-levade and @humbae a and anyone who wishes to play. Post a snippet of whatever you are writing at the moment, if you would like to play along, no pressure 😉

[arianaofimladris]

I love the planning and designing process. I'm making an Idril cosplay, a second version of what I made in 2018. I'm going to use the same corset, but the dress is going to be brand new. The previous one, made of shirt cotton fabric, was impossible to iron and to keep somehow presentable. Now I'm going to use cotton/polyester jacquard fabrics and I'm going full-blown princess this time.

That's the general idea. Obviously it's a half done top with the skirt and sleeves barely pinned just to see the result, how the two fabrics I'm using are going to work together etc. I'm super excited for this one.

[arianaofimladris]

I might be diving deep back in the Tolkien fandom... I might have ordered fabrics for Eowyn's white dress. I have one already, made with my grandma (mostly by her) in 2009,I was just helping. Now I want to remake it with the current skills I have.

Wooops?

I'm waiting for the main fabric, but I have a ribbon for the belt and I have a fancy jacquard fabric for the inner layer of the sleeves.

[mithrandirl]

[arianaofimladris]

It took me ages, but I was in no hurry. My third crochet shawl. 1400 m of 50/50 cotton/acrylic thread.

Here's the pattern I used, it's free:

Technikalia odnośnie chusty ze zdjęć:

[arianaofimladris]

I sold this shawl on an auction to raise money for a kid who needs eye surgery. Very satisfying, I hope the new owner is going to enjoy it.

[arianaofimladris]

Brain is a weird creature. I have a watch I wear daily and somehow I associate it with my late grandfather. I didn't get it from him. I bought it myself. But I picked that order the day I travelled back home to visit my grandparents. It was grandma/grandpa day. We met the next day and we talked about this watch among other things.

It was the last time I had a lengthy conversation with my grandpa, I saw him a month later a few days before he died.

It was seven years ago. I still wear this watch. It makes no sense, but somehow there is some emotional load tied to this watch.

[arianaofimladris]

The watch is still working. And still reminds me of him.

[arianaofimladris]

Fake it until you make it.

Two friends told me that separately when I spoke with them about the changes in my life that are about to happen. When I said I'm calm, but also worried if I'm going to manage in the new place.

I'm hopeful, I'm curious, I'm still waiting for inevitable panic attack when it finally hits me what I'm doing. But at the same time... Maybe I have finally grown into this decision. I have a feeling that if I didn't decide to change now, I would come to regret it in years to come. There is still time for a change now, for making a slightly different carrier. As long as I'm not bound to one city with a family and a mortgage, I can move. And I will.

After ten years,,it's time for my first job change.

[arianaofimladris]

Still faking. Still somehow making it work.

[arianaofimladris]

My Facebook account just reminded me that today is the birthday of my late grandpa-by-acquisition. Two years since he passed away and I did not expect seeing his picture at the main page would hit me so hard.

Funny thing is, I was thinking about him a few days ago, that he would probably be happy to see me take steps forward in my professional development. I hope. I wish I could share it with him. He was an engineer as well, someone who co-worked with my mum and was in many ways her mentor when she was around my current age.

[arianaofimladris]

Still missing him. Still wish I could share my current work experience with him. Still hoping he would be glad of the path I took. A person I had not seen since 2005, but with whom I stayed in touch because of the Internet. Still remembering him as I play daily with Swedish on Duolingo. Still remembering him as a warm elderly guy who was ready to treat a child of his co-worker like his granddaugther.

I was 7 when I drew him a card and wrote to him in "English", with all the words badly spelled. My teacher used to write down the way English words should be pronounced in the Polish way. My mum was terrified when she saw it, she would black out the "Polish spelling way" from my notebook, so that I didn't learn to write English words the way they were written when pronunced in Polish. I was 26 and my real grandpa was dying when he wrote to me unexpectedly and tried to talk to me in Swedish. And accepted my horrible Swedish.

[arianaofimladris]

I was watching some video about LoTR movies. A clip from TTT took me back to when I was 12 and watching this movie for the first time ever. Funny how vivid those memories are, considering it was in 2004. I randomly saw TTT in the TV. Before it was finished, I realised we had a Nutella glass with Aragorn and I asked my mum "do we have a book of that?". Guess who swallowed the whole LOTR before seeing the other two movies.