#juliA FOLLOWS ME

[sillysymbol]

(coughs up blood) missing them

[lieutenantpepper]

reblog and put in the tags what beatles song feels most like it's going to rip a hole in your chest and slice up your heart... for me it's tied between she's leaving home and julia

[bodypaintbaby]

she is THE blueprint

[mezzbians]

when the worst two people you know start to like eachother

[theghostparty]

Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour - Redesign - 2024

If you missed part one with Roméo and Juliette, click here. Once again, long design explanation.

When designing Mercutio specifically, I turned very explicitly inwards in my belief that Mercutio is not a Montague and should not be tied to the Montagues solely. Furthermore, Mercutio has FAMILY--he's the Prince's cousin and if we want to get really semantic about it, he also has a brother, Valentine.

All this being said, in designing Mercutio, I needed to tie him to Le Prince (Escalus) and I did that mostly in dictating that these are the characters who are allowed to wear black, mostly black leather. It's a distinction that goes mostly unnoticed until its pointed out, but no other designs incorporate deep black tones. There's also this strong, olive green tone that borrows from the Montague palette and gold hardware that borrows from the Capulet palette. The Prince's family gets to straddle the line between both worlds.

I thought very texturally for the Montagues and Capulets, so in trying to give the Prince's family something distinct, I landed on this brushstroke texture to give all the leather and denim pieces a custom feeling.

In his Les Rois du Monde look (his base look--I imagine this explicitly directorial choice to have him and the Prince enter together at the top of Vérone and have Mercutio break away to join the Montagues), there is hints of this painterly texture in blue as opposed to the gold of the Prince. I wanted to feel like every alignment Mercutio has with the Montague family is an active choice on his part. I imagine him painted those swaths of blue himself. His trousers are a bleached faded, torn denim.

We see the true royal gold in Le Bal, like, I think it's just funny to think Mercutio already owned these trousers and said "Fuck it" and wore them to dress up in. His look is explicitly jester themed. It's a little bit "Earring Magic Ken Doll" coded, which delights me to no end.

This is also a good place to point out how fixated I became on closure methods in garments. In Roméo's initial design, there is a strong focus on zippers, Le Prince's jacket is held together with gold hook and eye tape at all the seams, and with Mercutio it's all about lacing.

Part of this is in reference to the explicitly gendered ideas around corsetry and playing with that in tandem with Mercutio's generally accepted queer readings. It's also an interesting metaphor to think about being bound--by duty, by honour, by friendship, by tradition--something that Mercutio is so explicitly caught in between in the Montague-Capulet feud.

His final look during Le Duel, is a take on a Jean Paul Gautier design, and is the most partisan look for Mercutio. Doffing his jacket exposes this soft satin and coutil corset top in the faintest hint of blue. A soft underbelly of allegiance that would take to stage blood SO well (and would make who ever was dressing and laundering this show absolutely hate me as a designer, but I digress).

I also think it makes him a nice mirror to Tybalt, who's overarching design element is gold chains.

Tybalt's design is wholly referential to Mark Seibert's Tybalt. Is it because I can never get that little gold and red cropped jacket out of my brain? Perhaps. But I also like to think that design for Tybalt acts as a reflection of Mercutio. The inherent softness assigned to the Capulet family's design (silks, velvets, chiffons) plays really nicely with how much machismo is implied in Tybalt's characterization.

During Vérone, we see him in a half doublet, likely of a low-pile velvet, a satin faced silk period shirt open in an absolutely impractical way, and a floral print denim trouser. I also gave him a little cuban-heeled boot. For fashion.

Tybalt is a good place to also point out that weapons are very intentionally placed in and out of scenes. Mercutio always has a dagger. Roméo leaves his behind during Aimer. Benvolio does not carry one. Tybalt has an ornately sheathed sword. There is this undercurrent of violence for these characters that is dressed up and dressed down, but persists.

In Le Bal, I really leant into the idea of chainmail for this character, in keeping with the concept of chivalry and Arthurian influences. There's a little bit of royal purple thrown in there for good measure as well as a jaw-bone mask that, at best, is foreshadowing and, at its shallowest, looks cool as hell.

During Le Duel, I wanted to strip our fighters down to exposed skin. A lot of this is to do with one of my favourite versions of this scene, Zeffirelli's 1968 Romeo and Juliet. What I love about the sequence is how it devolves from nobel duel to outright brawl--from a distance to something very close and personal. It's the type of step by step tension-building that I really enjoy: where there are moments (when they're just shouting words back at forth, when they're drawing their weapons, when Mercutio would doff his jacket, when Tybalt doffs his doublet) when the fight could have de-escalated. When they could have walked away. But of course, it's not the play if they do.

I just imagine seeing Mark Seibert and Bereczki Zoltán fight would be fun, ultimately.

And now onto Benvolio. I fixated on paring down his looks, and quite frankly, if it weren't for how much I enjoy his little twink clubbing outfit, I would have probably only given him one costume. My justification for this is that Benvolio gets to live. Ostensibly, he has a lifetime past this play of changing to do. I feel very strongly about the idea of Benvolio as a narrator, Benvolio as a passive presence that is forced to become active. He's not certain in the same way that Roméo and Mercutio are about love and hate. He literally spends a whole song stagnating and waffling on how the hell he's going to tell his cousin that his wife is dead. He runs around following their impulses, patching over their problems. I have a lot of feelings about Benvolio as a character.

He's really the softest of the Montague characters in textures: his doublet is torn and slashed denim, his shirt is some sort of billowy linen blend. He has a little bit of metal flair in the form of this thigh adornment, but really he's quite simple--and my comparison to Roméo and Mercutio, he's quite warm. That hint of magenta on Roméo is a full on feature on Benvolio.

I accept any and all slander about my choices for his Le bal look, but by god do I think it's silly and it brings me joy. Suit of armour under ripped green denim, a little navy ribbed singlet with a silver chainmail crop top over it? Lensless silver glasses frames? It makes no real sense, but I stand by my "We're sneaking into the Capulet's ball tonight with very short notice, here's what we can cobble together" reasoning.

[conscious-naivete]

still thinking about probably my favorite lines from tell no tales (s1e24)

[cyarskj1899]

[boag]

Paz made a post for Julia Fox’s birthday today. So glad they found each other ❤️ we love to see it

[oldmrfroag]

“So, time for a story?”

“Yes, time for a story.”

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Here is the first piece for what I am deciding to call “Help, I finished the Amelia Project and now it’s all I can think about!” I didn’t know who to draw at first- I tried drawing the Interviewer but he was, well,,,let’s just say relegated to the depths of the procreate trash folder. So I eventually settled on Alvina! I took a bit of creative liberty from the official portrait of her on the wiki, as well as her episode banner for the Forgive Amelia arc; I hope I did the queen justice 😔

[phaedraismyusername]

We're back baby

[angelnumber27]

So many of my flop posts on here are (imo) better than the ones that ended up blowing up. Like nope. that one should have gotten 20k notes not 3 and the one with 20k should have gotten 3

[fideidefenswhore]

His motto, in French, said it all. Playfully both explicit and deniable, it read, 'Declare je n'ose' meaning 'Declare I dare not'. In the evening, he held a banquet, ostensibly for Katherine, at which he insisted on serving his wife and, more to the point, the women around her--who included Anne--with their food and drink.

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and The Marriage That Shook Europe, John Guy & Julia Fox

[juniperhillpatient]

I love MY special side characters but some side characters who get hype confuse me not even gonna lie like sometimes the whole point of a character is that they fulfill a certain limited role & it’s literally fine lol

[madebysimblr]

End of Act III

Raina: [quietly] Oh thank god.

Cordy: I love you too. I never got to say it.

Raina: [inhales] You do?

Cordy: I do. You’re here to stay?

Raina: If that’s ok.

Cordy: More than ok.

Cordy: My dad will be back in a minute… I’d really like for you to meet him.

Raina: That sounds great.

Cordy: Good.

Cordy: And I live above the store. We can catch up.

Raina: Perfect.

[redjayson]

just broke 5k on this svsss fic let's goooo (it's looking like it's going to be around 10k but we'll see! it's trying to grow a plot)

[sevencoloredstar]

and also 6, 10, 11 and 17 for stray kids if I’m not too much 🫣😂🫶

Juliaaa, thank you so much for the asks. It's never too much! You're so sweet always 🥺🥺🥺🥺🫶🫶🫶

6. Your favorite song and why? side effects: so powerful, perfect and beautiful voice work everyone does here, love the lyrics and the music equally. thunderous: the energy it holds can make me feel so much, the meaning behind it and the attitude they take performing it! The instruments used and the orchestration is a stunning! a masterpiece <3 charmer: it sounds so mysterious, and the rhythm and flow of their voices in it it’s just perfect, my favorite verses and adlibs are in it miroh: it feels like I’ve known this song from a past life, it really takes me to a very special and unknown place

10. Favorite music video? Side effects (performance video): it is so perfect!! The shots and the editing really frame and define both the music and the choreography. Every image dance along with them and it’s perfect! The visual effects they use to emphasize the ones they do with their voices are awesome, the colors are gorgeous. It really shows the love and care in the making process of that video Venom: love the concept for everyone! and the ideas of "danger" they used!

11. What do you love about this group? Best boys, loveliest boys, most talented!!! I fell in love with them immediately. I love their attitude when performing, their energy, i love their choreographies, I’m no expert and can’t analyze deeply but they have a special style, I love how they feel things and how they express it 😊 of course they convey so many emotions in their songs, and i love their vision on life. This sounds pretty generic, but I guess it's because they make me feel like this that i started listening to them. I guess is how I feel about all my ult groups <3 17. Favorite look from your bias? some of my favorites 🤗