#reinactment

Fighting against the bad case of "art block", but I drew this! A fabulous icon cosplaying as another fabulous icon! 💎✨🐷💐🧡

Vintage B&W Version 🖤🤍 ⏬👇

“I woke up and the apparition was reaching for me like this”

My eye were wobbly and strained the rest of the morning at least. I didn't mean to procrastinate. My to-do list is a sort of escalator full of jostling, shifty people who don't want to reach the top. Once at the top, they are promptly devoured in a severe manner. The way my ADHD and Bipolar have chosen to work together is both chaotic-looking and madly efficient.

It uses fairly rustic materials, like copper for the brooches, and wood, blown glass, freshwater pearls, and hand forged metals for beads. I collected these things over a couple months or so. It wouldn't win a contest on perfect historical accuracy but it's actually awfully close. They may not have made some of those things personally, but the Norse/"Vikings" traded ridiculously far, with artifacts from the middle east having been found. Glass beads would be highly unusual, so my Festoon is pretty showy and high class.

The key is a handmade bronze/brass replica off Etsy by LegendsGardarike. Norse women had full rights as owners of the house with their husband, so for me this represents the home I help keep. (Polyamorous aside: technically I need to get a second key...)

The linen dress and apron themselves are pretty and fit great, made by Armstreet on Etsy, but the trims, some colors, and bits of the patterns are not perfectly historical. But this is still the nicest complete garb outfit I've ever had so it's a win.

I always forget to get photos of me standing. But here, from the Armstreet website, is kinda what the back design is like.

Armour Thursday!

This is a throwback to late one night before the expo. I had to test a backup plan -- should my breastplate not work for the 4 hour marathon that I faced. I have to admit -- my old chainshirt (which I made myself -- even the links), form-fits me best. But getting my arms on is a nightmare.