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This is a blog for anything that inspires my creative writing projects, whether they're original or fanfiction. As this is a sideblog, I won't be following or replying from this account. Reblogs only.

@goforth-ladymidnight is my main for ACOTAR fanfiction and fandom related stuff, so if you want to talk to me, that's where I'll be.

Common themes you'll see here are nature and scenery, poetry, fantasy elements, and fantasy illustrations. Thanks for looking!

saradika

hi!! i love your masterlist graphics, could you do some that are forest themed? thanks in advance, and no problem if you don’t!

Hello! Ah, thank you so much, so happy that you like them!! I have done a few forest-themed ones (here and here) but I love that theme so much that I definitely wouldn’t mind making a couple more!! 🌲💕

[Free] Masterlist Headers & Dividers!

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pxrce-lain

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graphiclost

— ⟡ water dividers!

please credit : like & reblog to use thx! you can always request divider sets too!

strega-palude

meeems-world

the-wolf-and-moon

Eclipse, Prague Castle

unusual-suspects

frownyalfred

Tips for writing those gala scenes, from someone who goes to them occasionally:

Generally you unbutton and re-button a suit coat when you sit down and stand up.

You’re supposed to hold wine or champagne glasses by the stem to avoid warming up the liquid inside. A character out of their depth might hold the glass around the sides instead.

When rich/important people forget your name and they’re drunk, they usually just tell you that they don’t remember or completely skip over any opportunity to use your name so they don’t look silly.

A good way to indicate you don’t want to shake someone’s hand at an event is to hold a drink in your right hand (and if you’re a woman, a purse in the other so you definitely can’t shift the glass to another hand and then shake)

Americans who still kiss cheeks as a welcome generally don’t press lips to cheeks, it’s more of a touch of cheek to cheek or even a hover (these days, mostly to avoid smudging a woman’s makeup)

The distinctions between dress codes (black tie, cocktail, etc) are very intricate but obvious to those who know how to look. If you wear a short skirt to a black tie event for example, people would clock that instantly even if the dress itself was very formal. Same thing goes for certain articles of men’s clothing.

Open bars / cash bars at events usually carry limited options. They’re meant to serve lots of people very quickly, so nobody is getting a cosmo or a Manhattan etc.

Members of the press generally aren’t allowed to freely circulate at nicer galas/events without a very good reason. When they do, they need to identify themselves before talking with someone.

panakina

As someone who spent over a decade catering luxury events, let me add some back of house info:

These events are almost always open bar. They're not trying to make their money back on alcohol. They want you to drink and eat and donate generously.

If there are cocktails, there will be at most two on offer, pre-made in large tubs. You cannot order a different version, it is what it is.

There are two types of events: cocktail style or seated. The first includes roaming hors d'oeuvres or a fancy buffet with tiny plates called a grazing station. For a long night, the roaming food will get a little bigger throughout the evening and have a 'main' at some point based around a protein.

A seated event will usually be more structured and may include multiple courses. Silver service is not in vogue anymore. You are likely to get either alternating meals brought to you like at a wedding, or served banquet style. A good caterer can get a plate to everyone in a 300 person event in about three minutes.

Drunk people are the same no matter how expensive their suits. They still laugh too loud, spill their drinks and slip on the dance floor. They are usually less embarrassed about doing coke in the bathrooms.

A full scale event that starts at 6pm will have staff arriving at noon to begin setup. Earlier if there's a light show or pyrotechnics. Typically venues don't just have 30 tables and three hundred chairs lying around, let alone table cloths, chair covers, etc. It's all rented and brought in on the day. Bands and DJs will be running audio tests in the background throughout.

Most heritage buildings that host these things, like museums and manor houses, aren't really designed for them. They might put down mats so you're not walking in stilettos over two hundred year old wooden floors, the kitchens are weirdly far away, and there are not enough taps. There is never anywhere for staff to sit, so if you open the wrong door you might find half a dozen waiters sitting on upturned milk crates in a room full of million dollar paintings, eating the left over bread.

Really old buildings don't have enough bathrooms, which means the staff will be sharing with the guests.

Clean up starts the second the event ends, if not sooner. Unattended glasses will start to disappear first, then table decorations. When the timer ticks over, the lights come back on and exhausted staff strip the tables, pack up dirty glasses and unopened wine bottles and have to Tetris it all into the back of a van. The venue is booked for that day only, so everything has to be gone before anyone can go home. A large event that finishes at midnight might take until 3am to be cleared away.

These are very long and physically demanding nights for anyone working them. The staff all get to know each other, and will absolutely notice someone trying to sneak in wearing a borrowed uniform. They are not being paid enough to care.

thelostcanyon

Storms and heavy surf to the south, Depoe Bay, Lincoln County, Oregon.

wickedsnack-art

Usagi Tsukino in a style inspired by Alphonse Mucha

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🌸 This piece is available as a print here! 🌸

sangpires

commission for Rhyz on vgen!

dreamyeuphory

~ Listening to the stories of the sea...~

princesssarisa

Since I've made so many posts comparing the different costumes and hairstyles of Cinderella in the different adaptations of the tale, I have to make one to showcase the costumes and hairstyles of Erika Dannhoff in the newly-rediscovered 1931 German film Aschenbrödel.

The time period of this version is the late medieval or Renaissance era.

Let's start with Cinderella's dresses before she's reduced to servitude.

Her usual costume in the film's early scenes is a simple, light-colored, innocent-looking dress. But she wears a black mourning dress in the months following her mother's death, and and a more ornate, apparently multicolored dress at her father's wedding.

Now for her rags...

The designers are strictly faithful to the Grimms’ description of their heroine’s clothes as “an old gray smock and wooden shoes.” This is the only screen adaptation I know that has Cinderella's rags be a long robe, much like in Thomas Sully's 1843 painting Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire, and with it she wears heavy wooden clogs.

Now for her ballgowns...

As in the Grimms' tale, there are three balls, and Cinderella wears a different gown to each one, though they're all similar in style. The first one has darker and bolder embroidery, the second has a lighter and softer design, and the third has an interesting netlike overskirt and sleeves studded with pearls.

As for the slipper....

It's neither glass nor pure gold, but a uniquely pretty design with an embroidered pattern.

As for her hair, her knee-length blonde locks are usually worn in long twin braids, but at the three balls, her hair is worn up in an intricate braided style that reaches the nape of her neck, with an elegant circlet.

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sakrogoat

Friedrich Hechelmann - Moonlit Night

deluxeloy

Human: Deal.

Fey: Very well. When you return home tonight, your mother will be in pristine health again. It will be like she never fell ill at all. Even the memory of her suffering will fade…

Human: Thank you so much. She means everything to me.

Fey: I know, I know. Let’s hope the price wasn’t too much for you after all… Only time will tell.

Human: So, when do we start?

Fey: …If I may ask you to elaborate?

Human: You said you wanted my firstborn.

Fey: Yes? And you agreed?

Human: Yeah, so, when do we start?

Fey:

Fey, blushing: Ah.