#just sum light for da girlies

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Needy Choso w a mommi kink ❦

A/n: HOLUP CUZ LET ME COOK 🗣‼️

❦ Idc Choso has a mommy kink, I said what I said. Me & Gege literally discussed this the other day at a cat cafe in Shibuya. (the cats were cutee)

❦ Anyways he’s a needy boy 😩 so he’s gonna be staying close to his mommi any chance he get. Like, if you’re sitting on the couch watching tv he will go lay on your lap and look at you, expecting you to play in his hair or if you don’t get the hint then he’s gonna put your hand on top of his head and wait. (HE’S TOO PRECIOUS FOR THIS WORLD OMG)

❦ When y’all two sleeping together he always cuddle you very tightly. He ain’t letting ya go at awlllll.

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Comparing Elisabeth's costumes in the Vienna productions of Elisabeth das musical (Act 1)

And I'm back once again to perhaps prove a point, but mainly to pour out some of the frustration. In this post, I'll be comparing the costumes chronologically worn by Elisabeth in the Vienna productions of Elisabeth: the original/1st revival (designed by Reinhard Heinrich; lower refered to as the Heinrich version) and the 2nd revival/Schönbrunn concert (designed by Yan Tax; lower refered to as the Tax version). The Yan Tax design was first used in the 2001 Essen production, but was later carried over into the 2nd revival Vienna production in 2012 and VBW kept on using it since.

I tried to mainly find higher quality photos of all these costumes, but sometimes, I had no luck in doing that. So, at times, I will use a screenshot because nothing else was available. I mainly tried to look for pictures of the 1st revival (circa 2003-2005) and 2nd revival (circa 2012 - 2013), but I will sometimes use pictures from the original production (1992-1996).

Disclaimer: the contents below are my subjective opinion as a student of set and costume design and I will be mainly looking at what the costume tells me within the context and the construction. If you prefer costumes I don't, your opinion is totaly valid and you're welcome to discuss why you think otherwise in reblogs and comments below. :) After each section, I'll try to sum up which of the costumes I liked better and why.

Little Sisi:

Heinrich version: light blue and white trachten/dirndl with a lace apron, hair bow and ribbon choker. Not only fitting her origin as a Bavarian princess, but also sweet with the pastel colors and the accordingly fluffy, but light construction. The costume is girly, but not hindering when is comes to Sisi climbing trees and other physical activities she mentions she likes.

Tax version: short green/brown/orange plaid print dress. Now, this is a historically plausible costume, but do I like it? Absolutely not. The colors and print are ugly and don't fit Sisi's character in the slightest. And with the way the costume has multiple ruffles and pleats, it just makes it too busy to look at. And the skirt is too fluffy for this point in the show. (And they did Abla absolutely dirty with the wig they gave her in 2022 Schönbrunn)

Which is better? Heinrich version all the way. It's sweet and girly, but not too much and I love that it's a trachten/dirndl. The Tax version is just too busy with the plaid and I don't like the colors.

Bad Ischl:

Heinrich version: Dark blue short-sleeved bodice and skirt, matching hair bow and velvet ribbon long choker and bracelets. This costume is directly inspired by what Elisabeth could have worn during this first meeting in Ischl (when she met Franz, she and all her family were in dark mourning dresses, since they didn't have time to change and unlike Helene, who looked washed out in her dark dress, the dark dress really suited Elisabeth). Another little interesting historical detail I noticed here is the choker, which looks like a ribbon choker Elisabeth was mostly depicted wearing during her engagement to Franz. So, awesome that they kept in these little historical details.

Tax version: Long-sleeved bodice and skirt. Now, I've seen this dress in a ton of different fabrics (white with a broad floral trim on the skirt, blue plaid) but I think the most common variant of this costume is this beige one with the orange-red and green pattern. Now, once again, this is a historically more plausible costume, since the meeting took place during the day and so it would be proper for Elisabeth to be covered up, but it doesn't take into account any of the historical happenings. Which just seems to me like the designer didn't do any background research into Elisabeth specifically. And if we're going on pure aesthetic level alone, this dress is so plain and boring.

Which is better? Once again, Heinrich won this. No question needed. And while we're at it, the colorplay the dark dress on Elisabeth offers in Nichts ist schwer is much better that the light dress (We're about to get into lighting here, because that is also important to consider). With the reddish and blue lights for this scene, the dark dress stands out against that very red Habsburg eagle, but the light dress gets a red/pink wash from the lights, which makes Elisabeth almost visually disappear in that scene (see image below). The entire colorplay in the Tax version is simply off for this scene (because the thing that most stands out to me isn't Elisabeth, it's Franz's VERY green knitted socks).

Wedding dress:

Heinrich version: white satin bodice and skirt with silvery translucent overlay, ruffled bertha collar with beaded fringe and puffed translucent sleeves. The amount of soft texture this dress has under the stage lights is so amazing and I really like the choice of sleeve here, since it does remind me of the puffed sleeves she had on her trachten, but this is like a more grown up version. And since the sleeves are translucent and long, it gives Elisabeth the appearance of not fitting in with the court ladies, who all have short sleeves in opaque fabrics . The silvery contrasts look great and the way that white fringe looks like the fringe on Tod's jacket from the Prolog (thus connecting them visually) is *chef's kiss*.

Tax version: white satin button-up bodice with pagoda sleeves and skirt with striped accents. This dress is giving me a whole lot of nothing. Like, there isn't anything eyecatching here. And it makes Elisabeth look kinda dowdy with how covered up she is. And, if they were going for more "historical accuracy", why then put her in a dress that could be classified as daywear (with the long sleeves and the very prominent buttons in the front) if all of the wedding should be taking place in the evening?

Which is better? Heinrich version. The Tax version is too flat and plain for me. If the Heinrich design is proving anything so far, it's that historical accuracy can easily be beaten out with good and purposeful artistic design.

Nightgown:

Heinrich version: structured white nightgown with a slightly raised waistline, broad lace straps and lace trim. Once again, I love the structure the fabric has, it looks soft and romantic under the stage lights. The straps are so characteristic and they make her arms completely bare, thus making her appear vulnerable when facing Sophie and the ladies in waiting.

Tax version: white satin empire waist nightgown with short puffed sleeves. They literally couldn't have picked a thinner and cheaper looking satin for this costume? It literally looks so flimsy, especially since this costume has no texture and no decoration going on. I think the very high empire waistline is also a rather off choice, since it would be very out of fashion during the 1850s and it is a waist placement that often looks awkward on a lot of people. And there are the sleeves. They are very awkwardly short. Especially on the concert costumes, the sleeves literally look like they have 2 cm of an inseam at best.

Which is better? I think this is no surprise, but Heinrich once again gets it.

Stationen eine Ehe:

Heinrich version: White robe with ruffled lace trimmings, long bell-shaped sleeves and a broad light blue sash at the waist. I always love when I see a good nightrobe on stage and this is no exception. The material is delicate and translucent enough to keep Elisabeth looking very vulnerable in this scene, even though she's covered up. And the amount and placement of ruffling is just right. What I also find very interesting is that sash, because that color is so eyecatching (reminds me of a robin's egg) and it really gives the robe a distinct look.

Tax version: Reddish-pink duochrome satin bodice with fake buttons and pagoda sleeves w/ white puffed undersleeves and a matching skirt worn over a circular hoopskirt. Once again, more historically plausable, but it doesn't offer me anything as a costume. By making Elisabeth's silhouette here the same as Sophie and the ladies in waiting and by not giving the fabric any sort of softening embellishments, it removes this vulnerability she should have here. And I don't get why they went for this weird pink shade, because it makes no storytelling sense. And while we're at it, why did they choose to put her in this braided wig here? In real life portraiture, we don't get Elisabeth depicted with her hair in these braided updos up until the mid 1860s. The Heinrich version cleverly went around this by keeping Elisabeth with long loose curls through Act 1 to emphasize her girlishness and naivity, so when we see her with her hair braided up in the portrait reveal, it's this clear visual breaking point for her, showing us how she matured. But in the Tax version, it's a mess when it comes to wigs.

Which is better? Once again, Heinrich takes the cake. I feel like I might be biased, but I just can't find any rhyme and reason in the Tax costumes so far.

Schatten Hungarian dress:

Heinrich version: black and dark blue striped satin bodice with a fake stomacher and puffed sleeves and skirt with a black lace apron. For how little time this costume gets on stage, it is so crucial in this design, since it is both a visual paralel with Elisabeth's Hungarian coronation gown (but here, the silhouette is less mature and it's like a dark version of that dress), but also, this dress is paralelled again in the Mayerling dresses, since Shatten in Act 1 and Mayerling are paralel scenes, where Death takes away one of Elisabeth's children because of her unadvised decisions.

Tax version: same dress as in Stationen eine Ehe, but over it is worn a red velvet atilla with gold cording and brown fur trim and a matching red velvet hat. The atilla looks decently made and the cording does seem ok. This is a much technically easier way how to do this quick costume change, but it's ok. What I don't like here is the hat. It simply looks awkward witch the placement of where it's sitting and that cord in the front doesn't make it better. And once again, I am missing the paralels!

Which is better? I will probably sound like I'm repeating myself, but Heinrich version wins again. You can never beat good paralels and visual connections in costume design.

Elisabeth, mach auf mein Engel:

Heinrich version: Same robe as during Stationen eine Ehe (but this time with a better picture). Still love it here, because this is still supposed to be a vulnerable moment (especially when Death comes in at the end). So by keeping her in this nightgown, which she previously wore at a vulnerable moment, we have an immediate connection of how she feels.

Tax version: White chiffon robe with elbow length sleeves w/ lace engageants and with a train trimmed with lace ruffles, worn over a long pale pink/peach/orange?? satin slip. And we have a dreaded return of that flimsy satin! The nightgown for the most part looks ok, but another of this production's big issues comes in here and that is a gaping issue on front closing overcostumes. (If you read my 2022 Schönbrunn roast, you might remember how I complained about the massive amount of gaping in the front Der Tod's doctor disguise had). Here, the gaping could have easily been fixed with an added ruffle along the seam.

Which is better? Heinrich once again.

Star dress:

Heinrich version: Cream bodice with gathered tulle overlay, bertha collar trimmed with pearls and 3 tiered tulle ruffle sleeves, matching skirt with draped tulle overlay, tulle sash and pearl necklace. I love how this dress isn't an outright copy of the Winterhalter portrait, but keeps the soft, etherial and dreamy vibe the dress has. This dress looks light as a feather and even if it doesn't outright have stars, it has a light shimmer in the tulle.

Tax version: Cream bodice decorated with tulle overlay w/ gold embroidered stars, with pleated bertha collar, single tier tulle ruffle sleeves, matching skirt, matching star embroidered shawl, white satin gloves and star necklace. I love how this costume looks exactly like the portrait! The design is great, but sometimes, there have been some hiccups with the execution, specifically with balancing the volume of the sleeve in relation to the skirt. The costume below is one of the better ones, but often, the sleeves end up being too big and the skirt too narrow, throwing the proportion off. And sometimes, the costume can end up looking too stiff.

Which is better? Depending on the version. For me, this will be a tie. The better versions of the Tax design are equally as good as the Heinrich versions. However, if I were to take into account some of the stiffer versions of the Tax design, Heinrich would take the win again.

[thefamilythatneverages]

The Simpsons Epsiodes that I would rewatch over and over (the list will keep growing after the start of the 30th season …. plus the order will change due to this fact).

.............

Bart the General

The Crepes of Warth

Left Behind

Bart the Genius

Cape Feare

Flandder's Ladder

Hormer vs. The Eighteenth Amendent

Looking For Mr. Goodbart

Marge vs. the Montrail

The Devil Wears Nada

Jazzy and the Pussy Cats

Hormer's Phobia

I Won't Be Home For Christmas

Special Edna

Lemon of Troy

The City of New York vs. Hormer Simpson

MoneyBart

Itchy & Scartchy Land

The Food Wife

Dogtown

Behind the Laughter

Bart vs. Australia

I, (Annoyed Grunt) – Bot

The D'oh-ical Network

22 for 30

Super Franchise Me

The Great Phatsby Parts 1 & 2

Smmer of 4ft. 2

The Wreck of an Relationship

Ned 'n Edna's Bend

Holidays of Future Past

Mr. Lisa Opus

Hormer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words

Mommy Beerest

The Kids Are All Fight

Them, Roborts

Moho House

Barthood

You Only Move Twice

Frink Gets Testy

The Kids Are All Right

A Father's Watch

Flaming Moe

Reality Bites

Haw-Haw Land

Caper Chase

In The Name Of The Grandfather

Helter Shelter

A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Would Never Do Again

Please Hormer Don't Hammer 'Em

The Days of Furture Furture

The Man In The Blue Flannel Pants

Bart vs. Lisa vs. The Third Grade

Two Bad Neighbores

The Book Job

Singin' in the  Lane

Hardly Kirk-ing

The Cad and the Hat

I'm Spelling As Fast As I Can

Treehouse of Horror XX

Replaceable You

Gone Boy

Bart Gets An F

The Boy Who Knew Too Much

Treehouse of Horror V

Fears of a Clown

Chief of Hearts

Home Away From Hormer

Homr

The Wife Aquatic

Dark Knight Court

3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage

The Winter of His Content

Funeral for a Fiend

King Leer

Burns Cage

The War of Art

Fatzcarraldo

Mathele's Feat

Friends and Family

Hormer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass

The Bart of War

Tree House of Horror

Bart's Dog gets an F

Moe'N'a'Lisa

The Ned-Liest Catch

White Christmas Blues

American History X-cellent

Treehouse of Horror XXVIII

Fraudcast News

Springfield Splendor

Bart Stops To Smell the Roosevelts

Treehouse of Horror VII

The Last of the Red Hat Mama's

The Falcon and the D'ohman

The President Wore Pearls

Bart the Murderer

The Italian Bob

Wavery Hills 9-0-2-1 D'Oh

Midnight RX

Throw Grampa from the Dane

Hormer Is Where the Art Isn't

Treehouse of Horror VI

This Little Wiggy

Treehouse of Horror XXII

The Great Simpisna

Four Regrettings and a Funeral

Judge Me Tender

Lisa Gets the Blues

Bart Gets Famous

Treehouse of Horror XXIII

Hormer's Enemy

Treehouse of Horror XVIII

He Loves to Fly and  He D'oh's

Future-Drama

Bart Has Two Mommies

Hormer Goes To Prep School

Treehouse of Horrow XIX

Coming To Homerica

The Town

Whistler's Father

Treehouse of Horror XXVI

Dangers on a Train

Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-NE-HE-CH4

Waiting For Duffman

Three Gay's In A Condo

Wedding For Disaster

The Real Housewives of Fat Tony

Homerland

KampKurstier

Lisa with an 'S'

Monty Burns 'Fleeing Circus

Grampy Can You Hear Me

Treehouse of Horror XXV

The PTA Disbands

Dad Behavior

G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)

There Will Be Buds

Children of a Lesser Clod

Nightmare After Krustmas

Moms I'd Like To Forget

Treehouse of Horror XXIV

Much Apu About Something

Lost Verizon

The Serferns

E Pluribus Wiggum

The Simpsons Roasting Over A Fire

The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used To Be

Bart-Mangled Banner

Springfield Up

Treehouse of Horror XXI

Hormer Scissorhands

All About Lisa

Halloween of Horror

Covercraft

The Bob Next Door

Havana Wild Weekend

Treehouse of Horror IV

You Kent Always Say What You Want

Today I Am A Clown

Thursdays with Abie

Treehouse of Horrow XI

The Saga of Carl

Brick Like Me

Alone Again, Natura-Diddily

Simprovised

Regarding Margie

Treehouse of Horror XIII

Yellow Subterfuge

Forgive and Forget

The Last Traction Hero

Treehouse of Horror XXVII

Kill Gil Volumes I & II

Bart the Fink

Hormer's Paternity Coot

Marge's Son Posioning

The Mook, The Chef, and the Wife Her Hormer

Don't Fear the Roofer

Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)

A Tale of Two Springfield

The Spy Whom Learned Me

Treehouse of Horror XV

The Secret War of Lisa Simpson

The Yellow Badge of Cowardge

Treehouse of Horror XVII

To Couirer With Love

Pranksta Rap

Treehouse of Horror II

Pulpit Fiction

Specs and the City

Hormer's Night Out

Trust and Clarity

That 90's Show

Treehouse of Horror IV

Life on the Fast Lane

Mr. Spritz Goes To Washington

Treehouse of Horror XVI

Angry Dad, The Movie

The Bart Wants What It Wants

Krusty Gets Busted

To Cur With Love

The Father, The Son, and the Holy Guest Star

Treehouse of Horror III

Pranks and Greens

Adventures In Baby Getting

The Color Yellow

The Mansion Family

Brother From Another Series

There's No Disgrace Like Home

The Computer Wore Menace Shoes

Midnight Towboys

What Animated Women Want

Co-Depenedent's Day

Gal of Constant Sorrow

Penny Wiseguys

My Fair Laddie

Dial 'N' For Nerder

Girly Edition

Orange is the New Yellow

Lisa the Veterinarian

Treehouse of Horror VIII

Father Knows Worst

Friend With Benefit

Homer's Odyessey

The Daughter Also Rises

Stealing First Base

Thank God It's Doomsday

Opposite A-Frack

Diatribe of a Mad Housewife

All Fair In Oven War

Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life

Stop! Or My Dog Will Shoot

Das Bus

Fland Canyon

Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapers

YOLO

The Ha-Hawed Couple

Mobile Hormer

Scuse Me While I Miss The Sky

Lisa on Ice

There's Something About Marrying

The Ziff Whom Came To Dinner

Little Girl In The Big Ten

One Hurndred and One Greyhounds

Smoke On The Daughter

On A Clear Day I Can See My Sister

The Curse of the Flying Hellfish

Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples, and Teens and Gays

The Man Whom Came To Be Dinner

Hurricane Neddy

Weekend ot Burnsie's

Girl's Just Want To Have Sums

Brake My Wife, Please

Sky Police

How Much Is That Birdie In The Window?

Politcally Inept, with Hormer Simpson

Call of the Simpsons

Bart's Comet

Simpsons Tide

The Marge-ian Chronicles

Hormer Simpson, This Is Your Wife

Faith Off

Grade School Confidental

Lisa's Wedding

Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(ANNOYED GRUNT)cious

Bart After Dark

Little Big Girl

Dead Putting Society

How The Test Was Won

Skinner's Sense of Snow

How Lisa Got Her Marge Back

Elemetary School Musical

Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Lost our Lisa

Girl Code

Who Shot Mr Burns (½)

The Musk Whom Feel From The Sky

To Surviel with Love

Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Three Times

Every Man's Dream

Tell Tale Head

Moaning Lisa

Half Decent Proposal

Hormer the Moe

Trash of Titans

The Great Wife Hope

The Man Who Grew To Much

24 Minutes

Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield

You Don't Have To Live Like A Refree

Boy Meets Curl

The Fight Before Christmas

Team Hormer

The Great Money Caper

Margical Histroy Tour

Some Enchanted Evening

Treehoue of Horror XII

Peeping Mom

Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder

Moe From Rags to Riches

Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles

Puffless

Hormer Badman

At Long Last Leave

Treehouse of Horror X

Cue Detective

Simpsorama

Worst Episode Ever

Treehouse of Horror IX