🐉 < click here to see my icefire pinterest board (it’s a mix of modern fashion, faceclaims, film costumes and general stunning vibes)
I’m just a girl on a neverending quest to illustrate every clothing description in asoiaf (slowly but surely) (costume design is my favourite thing in the world)
Verisimilitude >>> realism anyway
I’m doing it as an exercise in worldbuilding, trying to create a cohesive sense of fashion all over this world.
I’m also growing sick of every fantasy film/tv show dressing their characters in euro « « « medieval » » » inspired clothing (they all end up looking kinda the same to me) (also where are the colours? The silly hats?? The tight trousers and pointy shoes???)
Like it’s fantasy…… and aiming for « realism » (whatever that means in the context of a work full of dragons, prophecies and blood magic) is just a waste imho.
Hence my goal is to diversify the references I use in my art in order to visually signify cultural divides (a core theme of icefire) and the vastness of the world.
Hence hence I will not debate with randos online why my art depicts some characters as non-white…… POCs??? In my fantasy world??? It’s more likely than you think (Westeros is literally 3000km long…. Everyone having the same snow-white skin just doesn’t make sense) (< as I was typing this it got autocorrected to show-white skin….. really makes you think)
watching a show and it references a film so now i watch the film to understand the show and the film references a book so i need to read the book to understand the film and the book references another older book and now i need to understand everything that is unknown to me
asoiaf thing I always come back to is Barristan killing Hizdahr’s goon quickly with a neat blade to the heart…. The goon is fighting with an arrakh in a narrow corridor btw rookie move…
So Barristan kills him efficiently as a knight does but idk it touched me so deeply
not to actually take power scaling discourse seriously, but remember when george said that his chosen champions in a trial by combat from his asoiaf characters would be arthur dayne if he was still alive, jaime with both hands, or brienne, and everyone got mad and said he said that for virtue signaling actually
and what you’re all forgetting is that twow will be about daenerys trying to solve the disappearance of her neighbor’s lizard-lion in the valyrian aelps