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[wondereternity]

🎶✨when you get this you have to put 5 songs you actually listen to, publish, then send this ask/tag 10 of your favourite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool) 🎶✨

not me getting to do this twice 🤡 tysm!

dont forget where you belong - one direction

mine - taylor swift

generation why - conan gray

meltdown - niall horan

tehe - gracie abrams

[bookwyrminspiration]

I wish that part on Neverseen where Fitz had his hair dyed green stayed for longer. I know it was for a prank but I think he would be able to pull it off, plus I would've loved to see everyone's reaction or a Vacker wearing a scandalous hair color

yes! this! Seeing how easily the elves can dye their hair and change its colors and design and all that I'm absolutely furious (/hyp) with how no one takes advantage of it. I'm out here dedicating entire days to the process of bleaching and dying my hair and they can do it with a single elixir? and they just don't?

As someone who had green hair for over a year, I think Fitz should absolutely have green hair and that it should be more than a prank! Green is a actually a really fun color to have! And getting really vibrant colors is so much work in the human world--but seriously he'd look so good with green. I know he's associated with teal/turquoise a lot because of the eyes, but I think it could be a little overwhelming if his hair matched his eyes. However, green is also a cool color and is related to teal, so they could go excellent together.

I wonder what style he'd go for if he was given jurisdiction instead of it being a prank. Would he do a split dye? Would the other half be another color or natural, and if it was a color which one? Or would he do like the front sections of his hair instead (imagining Joel's--smallishbeans--minecraft skin hair rn).

This is slightly off-topic but just vibe with me for a moment: Fitz with slightly longer, curly hair. All the boys have short, straight hair, and I think Fitz should have some loose but defined curls. He'd be so pretty! Imagining his hair falling in his face and how poofy it could get and how fun it would be to mess with. I love him.

but back to your ask! the scandal of a Vacker having colored hair! we know that having colored hair isn't generally accepted, and for a Vacker of all people to break those stereotypes. And not just any Vacker but the golden boy himself. I'd bet that he's the most well known Vacker, so if he went out rocking that green hair the elven world would be absolutely shook to its core.

obviously there would be gossip and rumors, but I think above all people would be uncomfortable and unsettled. It's different. it's new. it's not natural and requires the manipulation of your body (via elixirs) to achieve that result, which is something elves don't really like. But it also illuminates a double standard as no one really comments on it when the results of the elixirs can be passed off as natural. (note: did Dex ever figure out how to make brown eye drops??). When Dex turned his eyes red he said it freaked people out, so maybe green hair would have a similar effect--multiplied by his status. perhaps they'd think of it as representative of corruption spreading in high places and how things are getting out of control. There'd also be the scorn of the Vacker family and trying to further alienate them as if it's possible (given their history, it's practically impossible to get rid of them and shun them from society completely).

this is all to say that I think Fitz should dye his hair. It doesn't have to be a bright green, but I think he should do it! It's so much fun to have colorful hair and stand out in a quiet way. Also convenient in crowds! My sister had a band concert the other week and she found my family in the bleachers because my hair stands out.

Fitz dye your hair again, challenge <33

[rinisbowen]

So in an interview, Sofia said as long as a person lived in Gina's life there eould be unresolved things (or somrthing along those lines).

Could she be hinting towards Ricky leaving Gina's life or could that just be my portwell heart holding onto hope?😂

I mean, it's not completely a stretch, in Finally Free, Ricky is talking about going on the road that takes him anywhere but home. Of course, in that line he's talking about going to camp but could that also maybe hint towards him moving to get a fresh start somewhere else? He's also graduating in like a year, so if he doesn't actually move or has plans to in the following year, he could be when he goes off to college.

hi omg thanks for the ask! i’m trying to clear through my ask box before tonight so- this shall be fun…

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do i think it’s a possibility ricky is actually going to leave gina’s life right now… probably not.

if josh wants to leave, he’s bound by contract until after season 4 is done… his label is definitely not like olivia’s where they’d buy him out so he can focus on his music career. so if he’s going anywhere, it won’t be until the end of season 4… and it’s likely they try to hold onto him (josh) throughout season 4 so like- the VERY end…

i also don’t see any reason for ricky to up and leave- unless they send him to chicago to live with his mom but mike seems very glad to have ricky with him so i doubt they’re going in that direction. if something very drastic happens this season to spur him to go to chicago, maybe, but i don’t think it will. it would have to be like- something BIG in the finale. i really don’t think ricky’s leaving until he graduates and goes to college. (and if we maintain the timing of the seasons, that’s not until the end of season 5, if they get that far).

josh may or may not choose to renew his contract with the show for a fifth season, that’s a distinct possibility, but beyond that, i just don’t see the writers wanting… to ship ricky off anywhere? he’s their main character with nini out. like unless it’s a choice that gets made with josh in mind rather than the plan being what they’ve had in mind for ricky (which yes has likely already… been adjusted for reasons), i just don’t see it.

[rinisbowen]

So i was recently watching this video from the stranger things costume department person (idk what role she had so i'll just say person 😂), and she was saying how most of her outfits for the characters protrayed their mental state, or part of their arc (like max wearing dark clothes when she's depressed).

Do you think the hsmtmts costume department does the same here? Would that somehow explain Nini's questionable outfits? If so, how would you analyze their clothes to fit their arcs?

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this!

hi! thank you so much for the ask- this was a lot of fun. at some point i do still plan on eventually making some posts about character wardrobe, but idk when that'll happen, so this is a cool opportunity to do a little taste of that for y'all!

so... i think costume departments can definitely do different things with wardrobe, whether that's intentional color schemes for different things, matching like- their storyline, showing growth and confidence through more bright colored or bold choices, maintaining a consistent look for the characters (probably one of the most important goals of a costume department), etc.

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while i don't think nini's outfits are necessarily a part of the whole like- mental state thing... (she's actually one of the most consistent characters as far as wardrobe is concerned. her staples are florals (particularly in season 1, but she does a few times in season 2, or at least once lol), tops with collars, hair ribbons, and sweaters, also layering to a certain extent (in 1.01 it's not a skirt with flowers on it- it's a dress under her sweater under her pink jacket with the collar-like design). she's also almost always in more soft / not necessarily muted but sometimes muted colors- the one exception being the outfit with the hot pink sweater in 2.06. i'll say she does wear somewhat more intense colors in season 1, like the red sweater she wears with the while stripe, her other red sweater/crewneck, or maybe even if we're talking her blue sweater with the yellow stripe (but i mean... it's not that bright, it's a deeper blue), but those aren't quite so bold when taken in tangent with the whole... hiding in a sweater thing, and for the red ones- the fact that it's east high colors and she's playing at being mr. popular waterpolo captain ej caswell's girlfriend... yeah. i'd be shocked if they weren't doing it on purpose. fun fact, other than in the finale, nini and ricky seem to be better with one another when she's not in red in season 1 for the most part. (i'm probably forgetting an episode or something, but i remember thinking about this a long while back).

i'll add that in episode 1, for her audition, she wears a little grey east high sweatshirt, her lucky sweatshirt, and the nervous little nini hiding in a sweatshirt compared to the girl in the red dress in the fantasy... yeah that was intentional. she's falling back where ej puts his whole self forward in the troy jersey. another thing- like yes yac is a boarding school so it makes sense they have like- uniform policies (though clearly not an actual uniform per se), look at how DARK nini's clothes are there, yac is repressive, so everything is dark and definitely a bit gloomier than the (admittedly still sorta dark, bc cinematography choices for season 2 were certainly made...) lighting at east and at slices. also though- she still has her little ribbon in her hair. she still has that little detail of something that makes her clearly nini. clearly different from all this. she doesn't fit there.

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now for an example of someone who we definitely absolutely do see their mental state in their wardrobe specifically (at least the once)- ricky "i'm in pajamas at school and my parents are getting a divorce" bowen. i'm blanking on what episode (or episodes) this is- but he shows up to school in his pajamas in season 1. and he's not doing so well at the time. example number 2142 of ricky not being totally well mentally. signs of depression include not "taking care of" your appearance, i know we talk about ricky having anxiety but imo i'd add depression to the list. now we can blame this on mike's mental state as well i suppose- maybe he's not doing laundry because he's not doing well with the divorce. but i mean- ricky's old enough to do his own laundry- he for sure at least knows how.

also when they put him in that slc pride shirt from nini's moms- it's pretty big on him, it makes 6'1 joshua bassett look smaller, more fragile, when ricky, in those scenes, is definitely pretty darn fragile... like yeah- it's not his shirt, but it's a costume choice for his character.

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but yeah- i think wardrobe/costume departments have a lot of things they try to keep in mind when dressing their characters. and putting a character in dark clothes to show they're in a darker state is a choice that can be made fairly often i'd say in tv/film. it's a very helpful visual for viewers, and that's the goal. the goal is to assist the other departments in conveying what they're trying to convey.

a lot of their choices will definitely be meaningful- olivia rose keegan talked about in an interview (in terms of how different it was doing this show vs. working on a soap like days of our lives), how neat it was how much attention to detail their was because of the time that they had to work on things. she recounted sitting there for like three hours on the first day just talking about what they thought would be right for lily's hair- a luxury they never ever had on days. like they spent that long on a recurring character- working out how it would make sense for lily to wear her hair this season.

this is to say- costume, makeup, hair- it all is done with intention. they care about telling a coherent story, and using a visual- like costume for example- is a great way to help tell it. anything that adds to the full picture is a part of telling that story. i'm not saying every single piece means something, but everything a character wears was picked out for a reason, even if that reason is- this feels like something character would definitely wear.

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one thing i find amusing- how much the like- l'amour, love, paris, french words in general, etc. shirts occur on this show. miss jenn even wears a crewneck that says "merci" on it in the season 3 trailer haha, so i was reminded of it in that moment. i feel like maybe that imagery is coming back into style lately but- it feels like it was a thing that was in so long ago at the same time?