#victorian fantasy

[ferns-n-fables]

[teatime-tangents-and-toys]

Hatter Madness 3 is up, featuring Ever After High's Madeline Hatter, hybridized to her best possible doll portrayal. Maddie hearing narrators extended to me, it turns out! Read the review here!

[laskapsy]

[flastar13]

The style of dress of these characters whose story I am rewriting, because the canon is crap.

Part 3: 🐤The canary🐤

Catherine (Child)

Just like what happened with Lynette. Catherine's style of dress, which the manhwa artist chose for her, is quite nice and I liked it. I drew a lot of inspiration from the original source.

Her style is, to put it mildly, "very schoolgirl-like"—after all, she's thirteen. She spends most of her time receiving lessons from her tutors, preparing her for her future as Grand Duchess Ehrenst.

To attend balls, even before her debut, Catherine knows she must take care of her appearance. Her taste in ball gowns is romantic yet sophisticated, much like her mother, Lady Diana.

Catherine (Adult)

Reaching adulthood against all odds, Catherine's style matures considerably, much like its owner. Possessing impeccable taste in fashion, she sets trends in the capital.

Catherine is fond of structured dresses with full skirts, made from the finest fabrics such as velvet, satin, silk, and brocade, and decorated with ribbons, lace, and ruffles. For this reason, she doesn't much care for the mermaid-style dress that her sister Aisel is popularizing among younger noblewomen. Although impulsively, she bought at least two mermaid-style dresses because she thought they were pretty. She quickly regretted it when she realized that by wearing them herself, she was only increasing the popularity of the design.

Extras:

Sportswear

I was going to put this section with the other dresses, but let's be honest, Catherine's wardrobe is enormous.

Unlike Kanna, who was taught from a young age to protect her clothes from dirt and wear aprons, or Lynette and Aisel, who are more sedentary, Catherine is physically active. Given her pampered upbringing, she has special clothes for her hobbies.

Debutante

Upon becoming an adult, Lady Catherine holds her own debutante ball, following the epic failure of the previous one.

I imagine Catherine's debutante dress as a blend of those three designs. Only the best to celebrate being free from the care of selfish adults.

Catherine's color palette consists of shades of purple, pink, yellow, and blue. Her clothing is very colorful, giving the impression of a cheerful lady, a stark contrast to the pale dresses of her sister Aisel.

(Notes: The next one is Aisel)

[jane-d-ankh-veos]

Carnival Row concept art by Sean Andrew Murray

[joys-things-99]

Victorian Fantasies

This was my favorite read so far! First of all, I loved the detective/thriller framing of the story, and getting to see the story (which i only knew in summary before now) was written outside of Dr. Jekyll's perspective allowed you to see many many different themes--and also that Dr. Jekyll is so very desparately trying to absolve himself of any wrongdoing. "It was Hyde and Hyde alone that was guilty." (119) but at the same time fully admits that the essence of Hyde is fully present in both of his forms, only more concentrated in one than the other --- or, as I might argue, more free to enable that evilness that was within him all along.

Which leads to another conversation I find fascinating, as we get to dive into the philosophy of the mind. We can see that Dr. Jekyll, despite claiming that man is "clearly two", is non-dualist, as he considers the soul and body to be of the same substance for each of his two persons.

"For any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity, might by the least scruple of an overdose...blot out that imaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change."

Here we see him refer to the soul as a tabernacle, bringing to mind a biblical idea that is more often attached to the body: Being a temple. He also notes that the body attached to Hyde suits him better, and is also younger/smaller. The Dr. attributes this to his evil being less developed than the good, clearly assuming body must reflect and enmesh with soul.

However, It seems to me that the not-so-good doctor is wrong in his analysis, and that his assumption that the soul and the body are of the same stuff, is in fact contradictory to the author's point, and thus leads him to incorrectly assess his plight. This is of course also exacerbated by the fact that he is doing everything he can to avoid his own guilt.

In spite of seeming to have an "evil" and a "Not-so-evil" side, it is very clear that Hyde is present in both bodies. If this evilness of soul is present in both, and is something Jekyll seemingly enjoys allowing himself to indulge in, then it is in fact the same man, just left unrestrained. "I sat in the sun...the animal within me licking his chops of memory." (131)

The philosophy of this book seems to be, in fact, dualist, showing that the man, his soul, and his desires are the same, even if the body itself changes. And Jekyll fights this realization with everything he has, even going so far as to call Hyde inorganic at the end (138). He will do anything but accept the responsibility for the contents of his own soul.

[crommers]

Environment i've been working on , I still gotta make a cutaway for it

[faeriegirl]

Pink or Black? Which do you like?