It's Always Prettiest After the Fall

Cherri. Queer. She/her. Disorganized, multi-fandom blog. PM me if you need anything tagged.

[twistedeveryway]

So I don't often share my cosplay stuff on tumblr. It just doesn't strike me as the platform for it, not like IG or Tiktok. But I worked so hard on this, and I am so proud of the results, I can't not post my photos everywhere. Plus, most of the phans I know are here on Tumblr.

Nine years ago, I made my first dressing gown. I made it out of cheap rose print costume satin and lace, I had nothing to stand in for the chest plate or bodice, and my wig more closely resembled the bushy 80s and early 90s wigs than the silky, sculpted look of the more recent wigs. I was content enough, but I always wanted to take another stab at it. This year, I finally did it, and I am so pleased with it.

The bulk of the dressing gown is a paisley print silk jacquard, and the ruffles are a floral burnout devore satin. The fabrics are a very close, if not spot-on, match for some of the fabrics that were used in Broadway dressing gowns. The burnout satin was cut into strips, totaling about 18 yards, edged in lace, and then gathered and attached. I knew I wouldn't have time to make a Hannibal bodice, so instead I whipped up a quick chest plate using the cherub brooches once I was FINALLY able to track down the second one. I'd like to swap the cheap craft store gems for some actual crystals at some point, but that, at least, can wait until I make a real Hannibal bodice. The "belt" isn't stage-accurate, because I ran out of time, but that can also be fixed up later. The wig is the only thing I didn't do myself, credit to that goes to Time After Time Designs on Etsy, who is so kind and so wonderful to work with.

And yes, if anyone is wondering, the shoes are Peter Fox ♥

[katakaluptastrophy]

I went—not overseas, but by public transport—to Corpus to hear Tamsyn Muir speak.

The bad news: Alecto is not finished. It will hopefully come out "soon" and will likely be fast tracked with few ARCs when it's finished.

The news you may take differently depending on your preferences: It is not being split.

The good news: It is not all written in Ye Olde Alecto speak (it sounds like Harrow's POV will be fairly major, but there will apparently be several narrators).

A slightly random selection of things I frantically scribbled down:

The protagonists of TLT would make an "absolutely shit" D&D party ("Palamedes and Camilla would be fine")

We could have had horse plinko and begone thot, but for the anti-meme ministrations of her editor. She would love an edition that puts all of the memes back in.

On Catholic imagery and lesbianism: "you ain't seen nothing yet"

"Harrow is now a believer without a church"

She said that while John and Alecto's relationship is not meant to be a 1:1 analogue to Humbert Humbert and Lolita, there is the idea of a man fashioning (something he thinks is) a girl into a perfect partner (the question of whether that is a sexual partner apparently may be relevant to ATN)

She does not have a favourite House and would just be a regular person in the world of TLT (though she would last about 0.5 seconds)

The tension between the Houses' ostensible gender equality and the misogyny that still persists is apparently also relevant to ATN. "John has set out to make a society on values he holds dear and cherishes and in some ways he has done really well... And in some way he has fucked it up beyond comprehension" (Maybe not an exact quote. My auditory processing is questionable.)

The backstory in NTN was planned right from the beginning

Lyctors "are not truly human any more. They've crystallised themselves" and "They have lost themselves and the only thing they've been able to hold on to is what other people make of them". She said she would have liked to make the Lyctors more alien but had to balance that with them being relatable narratively.

She is dying to read TLT fanfiction once she finishes the series.

[importantcatpics]

[loveridden1999]

don't post videos abt how badly your boyfriend treats you if you're going to get mad at people for pointing the same thing out & saying you can do better

[loveridden1999]

literallyyy

[heathercollinsmd]

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

i literally can’t stop laughing at this

[byjove]

comment under the trailer for Jacob Elordi’s new film

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[lookitsstevie]

Are we sure that he's a Total Stranger to the magician or Familiar with Using Firearms 🤔

[roycohn]

this morning i was reading about how much profit taylor swift generates for media outlets who write about her and organizations like the NFL and any awards show who leverage her in their promotional strategy and make enormous amounts of money off her image and presence to that end, and it kinda makes me feel crazy that people are always screaming about how her being a billionaire (and primarily by asset valuation, not even through ownership of a direct profit-generating corporate enterprise) makes her inherently evil. and like part of it is that i do honestly believe that "external valuation of the art that comes from your brain" is the least harmful way to become ultra-wealthy, but even more than that is that most billionaires do not get there by having their own image and likeness and personal life exploited for profit by much larger entities over decades. and i think it kinda speaks volumes about the world we live in and how endemic misogyny is within the system that even one of the most powerful women in the world who has been deemed practically untouchable and too big to fail by the music establishment only got there by being deemed likable and relatable enough to exploit in that way for that much time. like i'm kinda always thinking about the subject/object and agent/patient dynamics in terms of power and gender, and how men can become wildly powerful while being basically unknown from an image perspective, but basically every powerful woman is both an active participant in amassing that power AND a public object in terms of how her power and image are discussed, dissected, and wielded both against other women and against herself. now obviously there are many powerful men who have made themselves both subject and object as public figures - like the two examples that i always think about are trump and andy cohen bc of how involved they both were in creating their own iconography, but elon is also a good example, tom cruise, michael jackson was one, steve jobs, lorne michaels, etc... but by and large, gatekeepers and businessmen do not have to perform a version of themselves in the way that women do. basically what i'm getting at is that taylor swift can do whatever she wants forever as far as i'm concerned bc the money she's made is still dwarfed in comparison to the money others have made off of her. bc out of 2000+ billionaires around the world how many could you teach a graduate-level semiotics course about and still have material left over?

[batsandboba]

when i say “girl” randomly as an interjection i’m speaking to the omnipresent all knowing being of Girl. asking her for mercy. taking girl’s name in vain

[ratgill]

[nasturbate]

“nice blog”

thank you im really good at clicking reblog

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog if you are really good at clicking reblog

[holygraund]

All’s fair in love and poetry...

[cametotheshowinsd]

The Tortured Poets Department | Taylor Swift | Apr. 19, 2024

"I love you, it's ruining my life."

[prokopetz]

I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.

[prokopetz]

(Ideally these stories should be presented in the form of poorly curated anthologies with the most generic titles imaginable, thereby rendering their contents impossible to identify or find later in life and leaving the affected individual wondering whether they dreamed the whole thing.)

[tweedfeather]

Crowley the sad sack. 🍕🥀

[kosmogrl]

[kosmogrl]

and it will be better 🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿