Mar 13, 2019
Tweet by @donni, ‘Shoot for the Moon. Stab for the stars. Poison the Sun. It’s time to kill space‘. https://twitter.com/donni/status/1104939183813156864
@robin-redbreast this feels like a very you mood
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Tweet by @donni, ‘Shoot for the Moon. Stab for the stars. Poison the Sun. It’s time to kill space‘. https://twitter.com/donni/status/1104939183813156864
@robin-redbreast this feels like a very you mood
Photos of my character - If Only You Would - from a recent LARP I attended - Regenesis Event 4, held at Smallwood. Photography by @tomgarnett, mask and claw patterns by Wintercroft (have posted the WiPs before!).
Very pleased with how this character came out, and came across in these photos. I won’t go into the details of the character - suffice to say that much terrifying ‘be not afraid’ behaviour, nuclear politics, and dramatic martyrdom went down - but I do have to say a few things about the kit design. IOYW was a very non-binary character who channelled a lot of ethereal/angelic imagery.
I tried to convey that a lot through the kit making choices - the skirt suit is a lovely fitted pattern, but it’s made out of hessian; the ‘buttons’ on the jacket are actually glass teddy bear eyes; the cloak is a long poem by @deathbyvalentine (who is an amazing writer you should check out). Same with makeup - harsh white contouring, with gold leaf ‘lipstick’ and tears. All of it was designed to give the sense of something otherworldly but also somewhat disturbing. Best of all was the mask/claws combo - though they were uncomfortable and difficult to manoeuver/see things out of, they did a fantastic job giving me a ‘halo’ the concealed my face, broke up my silhouette, and basically made it harder to see the wearer as a person (instead making them look like a weird visitation).
Basically, a character design meant to explore and evoke themes of dehumanisation, angels, dissonance/uncanniness, and non-binary identity; I’m not happy with a lot of photos of myself because dysphoria/self image stuff, but really like the way that this character kind of transcended a lot of that, and how the photos follow zir story. IOYW was a really useful exploration of non-binary identity for me, and I am so glad zie had a suitably explosive narrative arc!