#dewinter

[brian-in-finance]

“Claire’s from a very specific period in the 1940s, just after World War II, and like so many women of that time, she’s worn trousers, worked in the military, been part of the first generation of women in the workforce, was independent,” Dresbach told VF Hollywood by phone last week. “So how do you maintain that, even the physical movement for her, while [costuming] her in 18th-century Paris, a time with incredibly fussy, beautifully fussy clothes?”

Dresbach’s answer came, ironically, from time-traveling (research-wise) back to the 1940s herself, where she looked for inspiration. It was in this decade that she found her key—French designer Christian Dior—and his link back to 18th-century Paris.

“You can’t go to the 40s, one of the most famous periods in fashion, without looking at Christian Dior’s New Look,” Dresbach said of the visionary’s iconic post-war designs, which helped revive high fashion and revolutionize style with higher hemlines and lower necklines. While researching, Dresbach realized that Dior created his New Look in 1946 and 1947, the exact same time period during which Claire travels in Outlander, an uncanny overlap that Dresbach mined heavily.

“People are seeing [Claire’s second-season costumes] now and kind of going, ‘That doesn’t look period correct.’ Well, it’s not, but it’s not supposed to be. Claire is not an 18th-century woman. She’s a woman of the 40s re-interpreting 18th-century fashion to fit her tastes. And with Dior, when you start looking carefully at what he was doing, you see that he was reaching back in history to the 18th and 19th centuries, taking things like a woman’s riding suit and translating it forward into one of the most famous pieces of clothing in history, the bar suit.”

Vanity Fair 6 April 2016

Season 2 Episode 2 "Not in Scotland Anymore" Caitríona Balfe as Claire in Outlander (2014– )

[cosascrivere]

Sondaggio Time:

Non facciamo il terzino destro perché attualmente ci sono solo Weah e De Sciglio, tra l’altro infortunato.

[ashpkat]

i succumbed to brain rot

[marzipanandminutiae]

femme4femme sapphic gothic romances save me

save me femme4femme sapphic gothic romances

(there are not enough of them and I am Sad)

[citrusscale-remastered]

Do you have any Magisterium headcanons

OH BOY DO I!!

Okay, first of all I believe that Sarah and Alastair would not have lasted had she survived, but the thing keeping them together was that Call was an oops baby in the middle of the war. Also another telling thing was that Alastair wasn’t in the ice cave with them, but you know who was? DECLAN! I bet that Alastair’s internal monologue there was going, welp, there’s no way I’m gonna be a better parent than Sarah and I’m feeling the need to self sacrifice and die in battle so she and her brother can go raise the kid. also, I’m feeling guilty about not preventing Constantine’s descent into madness and murder.

and then they died and Alastair became the kind of parent that lets their kid eat dirt and drive at twelve.

next, CONSTANTINE MADDEN BLEACHES HIS HAIR PLATINUM BLOND. (and Jericho does not. He is very happy with normal brown hair.)

When Sarah got pregnant, her parents were Not pleased so Alastair and Sarah had a super fast civil ceremony at the town hall to appease them. Then Sarah died and her parents got super pissed at Alastair, (and Alastair’s parents are dead) so that’s why Call has no grandparents.

Alastair’s wedding ring was buried with Sarah.

Alastair and Constantine had a very messy friends with benefits relationship (that literally went until Constantine blew up a section of the Magisterium and ran off) where they both had feelings for each other but never said anything.

The Maddens are from Russia. They are also Catholic. Will not elaborate.

Call got babysat by Miranda (that tailor/antique shop lady from TBK) a solid bit when he was super young. Alastair needs his screaming and sobbing time by himself without freaking out his Tiny Baby Three Year Old.

After the Cold Massacre, Alastair almost became a Devoured trying to heal Call with earth magic but pulled himself back cause gotta be a human to raise My Son !!!

Alastair is also in Crippling Medical Debt from Call’s canonical Many Surgeries.

Alastair has no concept of children’s books so Call got read Shakespeare for bedtime stories.

Call is a white chocolate hater.

Constantine had a wolf named Mayhem so when Call brought home a wolf named Havoc Alastair was like, ah, the consequences of my actions have come back to haunt me

Aaron was seriously considering going into the military before he found out that he had magic.

The Rajavis are for real rich famous people outside of the magic world too.

Only child Jasper. Lots of cousins (for his parents to compare him to) though

Bilingual Jasper but Boy is he completely illiterate in Japanese

Ravan was a huge wake up call for mage parents to stop teaching their kids to learn magic through dangerous methods (like the whole eating matches for fire, blood for air kinda stuff in the first book)

One of Gwenda’s parents isn’t a mage and has her enrolled in summer school so that she actually knows like, physics and calculus and shit.

Alex is a strong believer in Sun In. However appalling the result is, Call still finds him cool.

Alex plays piano pretty well for being self taught. (Most of the things he can do is self taught. Don’t think about that too much)

When Aaron was in foster homes, he cut his own hair with kitchen scissors in the bathroom. The first time the Rajavis take him to get his hair cut, he thinks that it looked better when he did it himself.

During TCG, the Rajavis were in the process of adopting Aaron cause it would look super good for the Makar to have such a strong connection to them. (And totally Not to replace Ravan)

Call eats styrofoam

Ravan was Tamara’s favorite sister.

After TCG, Tamara learns how to drive (normally) from Stebbins. When her parents enroll her in formal driving lessons right before TSM, they’re a little surprised at how “naturally” good she is.

Before the Magisterium, Tamara learned flute and violin. Call is completely tone deaf, and Aaron can plunk out some pop song chords on a keyboard.

Every single time they have an oddly specific problem, their “I know a guy” is Aaron.

[onlywhentherain]

Natural Six

The most ambitious thing I've ever painted, I think

[crispy-kitten-princess]

Pierces - Secret

[alohaasaloevera]

The first 2 magisterium books were so banger bro they were so descriptive the characters were amazing the plot? Amazing.

Don’t forget when Call slapped Constantine’s head on a table. that was a banger move, Call.

[secretly-a-catamount]

RIP Sarah Novak, you would’ve loved the Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan.

[constantinemaddentheenemyofdeath]

Copper Gauntlet final update:

OKAY SO A LOT HAS HAPPENED!!

Alastair isn’t actually evil which I’m glad of cuz now he’s back in my top 3 favorite characters. But what I’m not glad of is that there’s a spy in Magisterium. I’m not exactly worried abt the spy but about what the spy wants. They clearly don’t work for Joseph since the wild elemental tried also to kill Call which means that there’s an another evil guy who is probably even stronger than Joseph and is also from Magisterium which means that there will be a betrayal. To be honest i have two suspects and one of them is Celia(NOW HEAR ME OUT!) she knows everything about everyone and just feels a little too innocent and kind just like Drew did and he ended up being Josephine’s son. Also I think Celia doesn’t like makars because of Constantine. She also showed her darker side to Call when she said that she would murder Constantine if she ever met him. But here’s the problem with this solution: Celia doesn’t have an access to the wild elementals nor does she have the power to command them which can explain why the elemental started attacking everyone and not just Aaron(or maybe she’s just evil). Or maybe she tried to kill Call cuz she somehow found out who he is and she hates him. But why did she kiss him then?(it should’ve been Aaron) My other suspect is one of the Masters or even Rufus himself since they have the power to access the elementals. But why would they kill their students? The answer remains to be seen.

But what I actually came here to talk about is Call…where should I even begin?

First of all, the severed head was a slay move(literally)(talking abt Constantine not about Verity)(I really don’t understand how they said that a book with severed teenage girl’s head as a door knocker is for children)

Second, the more important thing, the secret is out. In the whole book it was my favorite moment, especially when all the chaos-ridden people followed all his orders. He also unlocked his chaos magic which means nothing but problems. I’m so happy that Call’s friends were so much more chill abt it than I expected. I kinda want to see Call in his evil era tho…

(Yaaay Jasper is getting his character development!!)

I just remembered that next to Drew’s body there was a picture of him and his dad and someone else but that person was ripped out of the picture. Sus.

I’m so sad they Jericho’s body was destroyed because it was so cute how he has all his important stuff around him😭Constantine really loved his brother🫶🏻🫶🏻

[etchuke]

[ashpkat]

i love pinterest for blessing me with amazing images that i can make into masterpieces

[usernamesarehard1]

I've decided that Call is demiromantic, asexual, gay, and has a complicated gender identity.

I think he's somewhere between being a boy and being a masculine-aligned nonbinary, not quite being either. He's like a boy-aligned nonbinary identity. Maybe his identity is bxy or demiboy or something similar? He's fine with being understood as a boy and uses he/him pronouns, but doesn't fully identify as a boy.

And tbh I really think he is a-spec because he's so confused about attraction in the books and is so weirded out when he realizes that people are actually attracted to each other. But at the same time, I think he still falls in love with Aaron, so I think he's demiromantic and doesn't feel romantic attraction until he forms a close relationship with somebody. So he's aromantic in most situations but experiences tertiary attractions for boys (like aesthetic, sensual, etc) and falls in love with Aaron romantically.

I also think he's ace just because.

I also love the asexual Tamara headcanon, and infact raise you one more: grayromantic Tamara. That's me interpretation of her at least. I think I'm also gonna view her as pan because I can't tell what her sexuality feels like to me (which is part of the reason why I see her an aro-spec) so her being gender-apathetic when it comes to attraction makes sense to me.

Aaron is also gay obviously and might be demisexual

I also think Jasper is bisexual. He just gives me such strong bi vibes. I can't quite explain it.

I tend to understand characters based on what feels right to me emotionally more than anything when i think about them, and this is just how the characters feel to me.

[citrusscale-remastered]

Magisterium Actors AU

[The Bronze Key]

Call: I keep on forgetting that this house isn’t real

Aaron: Did you shit in the fake toilet again?

Call: Again??

Call: No I was trying to turn on the water

~~~~~ Alex, bopping Aaron on the head with the Alkahest: Cain instinct

~~~~~ Call, holding a crystal: Dude guess where I just got this from

Jasper: Wait where

Call, pointing back at the chandelier, missing several crystals: It’s sugar glass and it’s so good

~~~~~ Kimiya: Hey babe, how are we feeling about dying

Jennifer: The contour’s going crazy, I’ll be the deadest corpse in the water

~~~~~

Tamara, sneaking through the cave wall set: *hums mission impossible*

~~~~~ Alex, holding out the Alkahest: Whoosh! Kablam!

Rufus: Cut!

Aaron: Stop making mouth noises! This is the fourth time I’ve had to die!

~~~~~ Tamara, pointing at a fish: Hey Captain Fishface, it’s your twin!

Call: I’m demoting you to petty officer fishface now

~~~~~ Call, gesturing to the truck of animals: Wow!

Call: Look at all these chickens!

~~~~~

Call and Aaron: *eyes closed, intensively focusing*

Alma, whispering: Jen?

Jen:

Call, cracking open an eye: Jen are you fucking asleep?

Jen:

~~~~~

*Alastair napping with Havoc on his lap*

Call: Dads when they didn’t want a dog

~~~~~

Alex: So… I just wiggle my fingers?

Alma: Yes, the CGI’s going to put everything in later

Aaron: You look so stupid doing that

Alex: This is literally why I kill you

~~~~~

Jasper, vlogging: Hey guys, this is the storeroom

Jasper: This green noodle is gonna try and kill Call

Tamara: And this green noodle is my sister!

~~~~~

Call, filming Panopticon scene: Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room, a rubber room, a rubber room with rats and rats make me crazy.

Anastasia: The youth of today

~~~~~

Iron Trio, imitating poster behind them: Hang in there!

~~~~~ Tamara, behind the camera: Me when I pretend to be straight

*phone pans over to Jasper and Celia’s date scene*

Jasper: -so this ferret, yeah?

~~~~~ Part One Part Two