#and lots of jewellery

[strangerhawke]

i think modern arthur should be a goth, actually

[honourablejester]

A lot of the time when I reblog jewellery on here, it’s art nouveau jewellery, because I really like art nouveau. In general, and in jewellery in particular. And most of that is the aesthetic. I like the natural forms, I like the twisty curly bits, I like the use of materials, I like how a lot of art nouveau jewellery is using metals and stones and other materials to create a specific form, an insect or a plant or a goddess or even sometimes nature scenes. I like …

I feel like a lot of the time with jewellery, it feels like ‘I’m going to use this object to show off the size and value of my pretty rock’. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Some of those rocks are indeed gorgeous. But art nouveau feels more ‘I’m going to use these pretty rocks, and several other things, to create the impact of this object’? I just love the use of materials, glass and enamel and colour, as well as precious stones and metals, to create a form or a scene.

Like, you get a diamond ring, it’s a diamond ring. But you get something like a dragonfly brooch (Louis Acoc):

Or a lilypad hair comb (Rene Lalique):

Or a wisteria branch (Georges Fouquet):

And it’s a whole creation. A little wearable piece of art.

And I don’t want to sound too dismissive. I know the craftmanship and skill and artistry that goes into any kind of jewellery making. That diamond ring took skill I will never have. I just.

I like the emphasis on form more than material that you get with art nouveau. Like normally you hear ‘glass jewellery’, ‘enamel jewellery’, and it’s cheap, it’s frowned upon, but in art nouveau it’s what that glass or enamel was used to make that’s the important part:

(Rene Lalique)

(Eugene Feuillatre)

Anyway. In summary, I really, really, really like art nouveau jewellery?

[timethehobo]

The visual of Emmy being absolutely devastated and heartbroken during the period Rook went missing kept coming up. 😔

[kate-bot]

CHAT DO WE FW THE SMILING FRIENDS BRACELET‼️‼️‼️(ignore how shaky my arm is in the gif LOL)

[swordmaid]

brienne but she's wearing 1949 cocteau's beauty and the beast inspired fit!!! this is the inspo pic i used if ur curious.

gonna be posting more of this redesign thing (and also jaime's ver) some time in the future but i just wanted to share this one <3

[mtsodie]

Show me the pathetic wet man (Kallamar), pretty please? 🥺

the slayer

[freakinator]

the unstable boys and the guys they have a totally normal attachment to

[yrsonpurpose]

guildford ± his necklace

[isbergillustration]

I got covid for the first time and I'm being so brave and un-dramatic about it

[abigail]

potential ethel cain show outfits !! <3 (minus jewellery and shoes etc lol)

[sciderman]

Do any of the boys wear jewelry?

Wade seems like the type to have those grandma box full of jewelry but Peter would probably have one pair of earrings for the occasion?? 

they're too broke for any kind of jewellery save for the edible kind

[lulublack90]

Prompt 29 - Sunshine

Wolfstar, January 29, word count 701

Previous part First part

CW- Suicide - not mentioned by implied.

Remus had been hiding for a week now. One very long, boring week. He needed to go home. Lyall was doing his nut in and he wanted his stuff. 

He’d looked through the boxes that Lyall had stored in his room and found all his mum's old things. He plucked up the courage on the third day to ask Lyall why he’d boxed them up. He’d grunted at him something about not wanting to look at them any more. So, like the good son he was, Remus opened up the attic and put them up there out of the way. But not before taking her favourite necklace and her engagement ring. He had no idea why he’d taken them, but he now wore the delicate gold chain with a tiny little gold star and a crescent moon dangling off it. He made sure it was tucked in, so Lyall didn’t see it, but other than that there hadn’t been much going on. 

Remus spent most of his time in bed, venturing downstairs for food when he was hungry. He’d given Lyall the cash he’d had on him to put towards his board. Lyall would be furious if Remus thought he could eat his food for free, prick. 

Sirius had messaged him every hour, on the hour, for the entire week, begging Remus to please answer him. Remus hadn’t. He hadn’t answered for Lily or James either, traitors. 

Remus was just mulling on this when there was a knock at the door. He rolled his eyes when he heard Lyall finally start to move towards the door after at least a minute. He heard his father’s rumbling voice and another lighter one, then the sound of footsteps coming up the stairs. He sat up in his bed. The footfalls were far too quiet to be Lyall’s. His door burst open and Lily strode in, jumped into his bed and punched him in the arm. 

“Dick!” She huffed. “We were so worried about you!” She punched him again. 

“Better?” He asked, trying not to laugh. Her fists were tiny and barely hurt. 

“No!” She stropped and punched him again. “Now I feel better.” She moved onto his lap and wrapped her arms around him, leaning her head against his chest. “I was so scared something had happened, Remus. Sirius said you’d called in sick at work, and you weren’t in your flat. This is literally the only place we didn’t look. Sirius was frantic,” Guilt washed over him. Lily was good at that. But he should have at least sent them a text saying he was alive. He cringed as he thought about how his complete disappearance would have affected Sirius, especially after what happened to his brother.  

“Remus, how long is the flower girl staying?” Lyall shouted up the stairs, pulling Remus from his thoughts. 

“Still a ray of sunshine, I see,” Lily quipped. She puffed up her chest and Remus only just had time to cover his ears as she bellowed back at his father. “As long as I bloody want!” He could hear Lyall muttering to himself downstairs and banging cupboards and doors. They ignored him. 

“I’m sorry Lils,” He said quietly. 

“Good, because I’ve never been so scared in my life,” She shuffled in his lap and looked up at him, her forehead lined with worry. “Remus, Sirius told us what happened,” Remus’s jaw tensed. “And he also told us why he didn’t defend you when his mother got you fired. Remus, I know it doesn’t feel like it, but he had a very good reason why he didn’t. Please, please, please will you talk to him?” Lily begged. Remus had never heard her beg before. He slumped against his pillow and screwed his eyes shut as he debated internally. 

On one hand, Sirius had made him feel like shit, and he’d sworn to never let anyone treat him like that again. But on the other hand, he couldn’t deny that he’d missed him. He’d missed that raven-haired weirdo every second since he’d last seen him. The image of Sirius’s stricken face was imprinted in his mind. He let out a huge, defeated sigh. 

“Fine, Lils, let’s go home.”

Next part

[littlesparklight]

Okay, actually, let me do a quick, basic primer for Mycenaean fashion, if anyone would want to try this aesthetic for their Greek myth art since Mycenaean era Greece (1400-1200 is when the majority of the myths happen, and especially the Trojan war). Not claiming to be an expert at all, here, as I've mostly googled shit and screencapped images to use as ref and then read some articles, but, I figure, it might be somewhere to start!

Here's one of the panels from the Hagia triada sarcophagus, from Crete during Mycenaean control/hegemony of the island. The women are painted white, the men dark; artistic aesthetic you see in other cultures for their visual arts of the time, like Ancient Egypt.

I think the fur(?) skirts might be religious wear, but aside from that, you have one woman and one man (specifically, the lyre player, which is probably indicative of some cultural attitudes; the lyre player in the fresco from Pylos is definitely wearing a fringed skirt of some sort, similar to what women wear) wearing a long robe/tunic, and the women are wearing some short jackets on top of that. The jackets might be Cretan or merely "early" style, because here's a fresco fragment from the Greek mainland where the woman appears to wear something similar:

It's probable (but basically impossible to know) that the thing underneath is a long robe/tunic like the women above are wearing, short or sleeve-less.

Another Mycenaean/mainland Greek fresco. In this one you'd have to decide if the top halves of the women's dress is a short (but not cut-away) jacket, plus wrap-around, tiered/fringed skirt, or a long robe/tunic with really deep neckline and, again, a wrap-around tiered/fringed skirt.

Now, you don't need to make things harder for yourself than you have to! Women can wear a simpler style of dress (like what the man in the first fresco panel is wearing), basically the same as the men's, probably just longer:

It's possible these two women are wearing wrap around skirts below the edge of the chariot, but I doubt it. As you can see, their style of dress is the same as the man's above, with a plain, straight collar.

The various lines you see plunging down the sides of both the longer robes/tunics and the shorter ones are down the sides (under the arms and down) and might also/either be down the front, at least on the long dresses with elaborate bottom rim; the woman in saffron above clearly has a decorated line going down her front.

I'll put the rest of this under the cut!

Some nice art with Mycenaean-era dress and armour for some of our Trojan war characters. (Aeneas and Hektor notably wearing Mycenaean wear even if they probably wouldn't be.)

I like this site http://www.salimbeti.com/micenei/index.htm for both art and a lot of pictures of artifacts when it comes to armour and weapons from the Mycenaean era.

The men don't just wear those tunics, though; you can get some (short) kilts or skirts;

(In my opinion, I'd say it's basically a given the one/two dudes painted in basically black are meant to be from further south compared to the Greek dude here. Probably not sub-Saharan Africa, however. North Africa/Egyptian might be more reasonable, despite the impossibly dark skin.)

Some examples of the clothes recreated!

This article https://www.jstor.org/stable/20627591 talks about a fresco and its possible reconstructions, and, more importantly, includes photos of some women's clothes, especially the fringed/tiered wrap-around skirts recreated, and some drawing diagrams of said skirts that might be helpful!

Hair-wise, the majority of the men have hair anywhere from around the ears down to the shoulders in mainland Greece. (The exception being, again, the Pylian lyre player.) Minoans, even mycenaean-era Minoans, might have longer hair; one of the panels on the Hagia triada fresco has a flute-player with hair down to his waist in braids (or something like that), for example.

All the women, no matter Cretan/Minoan or Mycenaean/Greek have very long hair, gathered in variously more or less elaborate hairstyles; make your best guess from looking at the frescos is my suggestion!

[aardvaark]

the fact that parker uses stolen jewellery for christmas tree ornaments makes me wonder if she does that with some of the other stuff she steals. like imagine hardison comes over to hers and she hands him a bowl for cereal and it's like. 16th century fine china that belonged to king henry VIlI or whatever. and he has to curse the fact that sophie has been teaching him so much about making fakes cause now he is sure that this is genuine antique porcelain and he's using it to eat lucky charms

[swordmaid]

doodled marina bc im still playing around with her design and sobs wished piercings were an option i need my pirate lady wearing a lot of jewellery….!!!!!!!!!

[raven--bones]

realized right at bedtime that i completely forgot incubus nightmare's big ol tail