Everything you need to know on FFSU!
(FASHION WEEK CHALLENGE IS HERE!!)
Contents:
-What is FFSU about?
-Tag guide for searching/filtering (including triggers, accessibility, and spoilers)
-Post submission info
-OC Friday submission info
-Canon fan art submission info
**IMPORTANT: PLEASE DO NOT INTERACT WITH MY BLOG IF YOU’RE USING THESE POSTS FOR YOUR THINSPO/E.D./PROANA BLOG. TERF SHIT IS ALSO UNWELCOME HERE.**
What is FFSU?
This blog was inspired by the Twitter/Tumblr account @steelballrunway in 2021. They went inactive many years ago, and I decided to make this blog to pick up where they left off.
I’m a hardcore JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fan and a lifelong fashion lover! Since the fashion world has such a strong influence over the character design of JJBA, I wanted to start keeping track of images I encounter that remind me of the series, and to demonstrate the depth of the series' various inspirations and design choices.
I’d love for this to be a resource for JoJo fans looking to design their own characters and searching for inspiration! If you do use this blog to inspire a character of yours, please tag me! I’d love to see the awesome stuff that other artists come up with <3.
I do not claim ownership of any of the images posted here or any of the work shown in them. All images will have a source leading back to the original creator. If you see something that’s been sourced incorrectly or you see your work here and would like it removed, please message me!
Finally, everything you see here is posted as appreciation, never mockery. Although it’s a common meme to caption photos of unusual fashion with “stand user” comments, I am by no means trying to make fun of any of the creators or their work. I hope that the amount of thought and curation I've poured into this blog is less annoying than all the "jOjO rEfEReNcE????" comments you see scattered all over Pinterest and whatnot, because I really do care about creating an archive here and discussing the artistic layers of a series I care about. All of these photos are of pieces I find inspiring, intriguing, or just really fucking cool. Enjoy the fashion and please try to bring that same appreciative energy in your tags and comments!
Tag Guide
Designed to help you navigate/choose what you want to see!
triggers will be tagged as both “cw ____“ and “tw ____”.
spoilers will be tagged as “(full part title) spoilers”, i.e. “vento aureo spoilers”, “stone ocean spoilers”, “jojolion spoilers”, etc.
"described": images with full descriptions in the alt text.
”MUSE” tags: refer to a specific character who would wear the piece in question or have the same vibe it has.
“ART” tags: specific canon characters featured in a piece of fan art
“ART: stand swaps”: stand swap designs
“ART: other media characters”: non-jojo characters reimagined as stand users
"fan art tag": all fan art posts
"COS" tags: cosplays of specific canon characters
"cosplay tag": all cosplay posts
”OC” tags: muse tags but for my personal OCs.
”looks for ----” tags: refers to a specific part that the piece would fit in.
Part 1, Phantom Blood: ”fighting vampires”
Part 2, Battle Tendency: ”protecting a precious red stone”
Part 3, Stardust Crusaders: ”traveling the world”
Part 4, Diamond is Unbreakable: ”hunting a killer”
Part 5, Vento Aureo: ”taking over the mafia”
Part 6, Stone Ocean: ”breaking out of prison”
Part 7, Steel Ball Run: ”a cross country horse race”
Part 8, JoJolion: ”tracking a mysterious fruit”
Part 9, The JoJolands: "a tropical heist"
”ffsu.txt”: text posts of mine; usually PSAs about changes or updates to the blog, or just general shitposts.
“psa”: blog announcements
”oc showcase”/”oc fridays”: drawings of people’s JJBA OC’s.
”my art”: art made by me :)
”ffsu.help”: signal boosts for medical and emergency fundraising posts.
”not fashion”: everything that is not about fashion and clothing, including memes/shitposts, signal boosts, and reblogs of textposts and memes.
”nsft-ish”: for anything I feel is sexual enough to need a tag. I used to use the tag "nsfw-ish", and used it a lot more frequently, but quite frankly I'm tired of tagging nipples as NSFW to please what I think this website's content sensitivity is (not the users themselves). In general, be aware that posts may contain nipples, see-through clothes, underwear and lingerie, crotch bulges, etc. and use your own best judgement as to whether you're cool with seeing that on your feed.
”request”: people asking for specific types of outfits for specific characters, usually as help to design their own OC.
“calamariposting”: posts about Calamari, the blog mascot :)
"post archeology": posts from various JoJo blogs made circa 2011-2015, pre-anime or in the early days of the anime. For nostalgia/curiosity's sake
Post Submissions
You can submit posts in a couple ways: tag me in an existing post for me to reblog, send me a post to reblog via DMs, submit photos through the “Show Me Stuff!” link on the homepage (click the three bar logo in the upper left corner-- this is the preferred method for sending photos that haven’t already been posted by someone else!), or send an ask with your photos.
If you want your submission tagged for a certain part/character, leave the names in the tags or include it in the text of your DM/ask!
Please include a source for your image(s)-- this should include the designer’s name at the very least, but years/seasons, publication info, model/photographer/stylist names, and all other information is also greatly appreciated. Alternatively, you can include a link to where you found the picture if that link is for the creator’s website/store, a magazine article, or some other kind of helpful and informative source. If you found it on Pinterest, don’t send the Pinterest link-- send the outgoing link that the pin leads back to. If you’ve tried and failed to find a source via reverse image search, Googling, etc., then you can submit your images with “Source needed” as a last resort.
I won’t accept AI generated images. You might send me something without knowing it’s AI, and that’s okay, but just know I won’t post it and I encourage you to look closely any any off-looking images before you submit. Here's a post I've made to help with that. (2025 edit: that post is kinda outdated now but some of the points still stands so I'll leave it here.)
If you submitted something and I haven’t posted it, it’s because I’ve already shared that piece/post!
I don't accept art of pre-existing non-JoJo characters or designs as fashion posts. For example, if you send me "X from the Y franchise reminds me of a JoJo character!" or "This fan art of Z from the show Q is wearing a cool outfit!", I won't count it. If you can find the real-world fashion that inspired those designs, feel free to send those instead!
OC Friday Submissions
Any kind of character art is welcome!
There’s no limit to the number of characters you can submit.
You can either tag me on a post or submit art through my main page, but I recommend tagging so that people can find your blog more easily!
Any quality of art is welcome, just be sure to give proper credit if you're using any kind of base or if the art is commissioned from someone else.
I’ll post whatever you guys send eventually (barring of course any unacceptable/hateful content).
I'll also be going through the OC tag and picking out characters from all around Tumblr! So it'll (hopefully) be a mix of submissions and non-submissions.
Feel free to send me posts of other people’s OC’s as well, as long as it’s on Tumblr because I won’t repost art from another platform.
Fan Art Submissions
Submit art of canon JJBA characters wearing alternate outfits from what they wear in the series-- art of canon outfits don’t count! I’ll make an exception for alternate outfits from official art (i.e. Jolyne/Bruno/Abbacchio in their Fly High with Gucci outfits) as long as it’s not the character’s primary outfit within the story.
You can send your own art or other people’s, but it has to be from Tumblr bc I won’t repost art from other platforms.
The clothes can be from this blog or not from this blog! (but it does make me very happy when you draw stuff I’ve posted)
There won’t be an official schedule for sharing these posts but I’ll try and get around to all of them eventually
