Insp By Photographer Jihoon Yang, 2020 Also On Twt

queers ! I was looking at the tags on the original post of this and it got me curious to see actual numbers

idgaf if y'all "reblog for a bigger sample size" but if you're curious like me, it'd definitely help lol

I haven’t posted in three years so here are a bunch of warm ups (I actually finished two huge drawing projects over summer I’ll post them at some point I guess)

I’ve been sketching some overwatch in the last two days

This is my fucking sister y’all. Our dad’s suck and if I or she ever get famous I will do my goddam best so he can’t speak anywhere. Like he’s obsessed by us being his legacy and I swear to god I will erase his name from goddam history if I can

got called trashy by my dad earlier lads

okay, so my dad - who I have no semblance of a relationship with, jsyk - just called me out of the blue to let me know that: 1. he didn’t like my ‘new look’ (which i haven’t changed, but never mind),

2. my makeup wasn’t ‘appropriate’ for a phd student + university teacher, 

3. if i wanted to use that kind of makeup, i should get a classier wardrobe,

4. my thesis supervisor would probably feel uncomfortable working with me because she doesn’t wear makeup (she does, but never mind #2),

(and my absolute favourite:) 

5. THAT MAKEUP IS A ‘SENSITIVE ISSUE’ IN FEMALE SPACES/COMMUNITIES (!!) AND THAT WEARING SOME MIGHT END UP PITTING US AGAINST ONE ANOTHER???!!!?!

i’m fucking floored, y’all. like, woah - i’m actually speechless rn. 

(this from the man who admitted to my face that he hadn’t been around for my sibling and me between ages 3-18 because we weren’t ‘interesting enough’, mind you.)

The Least Intimidating bakery in the village has closed for good so now I’ve got to go to the Intimidating Bakery, it’s awful. If you don’t have a PhD in being French I don’t recommend going to that bakery, here’s the humiliating account of the 3 times I’ve visited it so far:

the first time I went in there I pointed at one of those extra-skinny baguettes and said “a flute, please” feeling pretty sure of myself, and the baker said “… that’s a ficelle” (you idiot) (was implied) “a flute is twice as large as a baguette.”

That’s insane, first of all, a flute is a skinny instrument. Call your fat baguette a bassoon, lady—I made some timid remark about how it would make more sense for a flute to be a skinny bread and the baker said, “In Paris it is. I thought you were from the South?”

oh, that hurt

I guess I’m from the part of the South that’s so close to Italy the bread’s waist size matters less than whether it’s got olives in it, but I left the bakery having an existential crisis over whether living in Paris had made me forget my roots

the Least Intimidating Bakery just had normal baguettes vs. seedy baguettes vs. horny baguettes (easy mode, some have seeds, some have horns), while the new bakery has breads that are only different on a molecular level—there’s a good old loaf and then another, identical loaf called a bastard? google told me a bastard is “halfway between a baguette and a bread” but denouncing them like “those are not regulation-sized bastards” would get me banned from the bakery for life

on my 2nd visit (while I stood in line discreetly googling baguette terminology) there was an English tourist who asked for a baguette while pointing at what was either a rustique or a sesame and I felt a bit worried for them, but the baker just clarified “this one?” to waive any responsibility if they found out later it wasn’t a classic baguette, then handed them the bread without educating them in a judgmental tone and I felt envious

I know it’s because she thinks the English are beyond saving but still it made me want to come back with a fake moustache and an English accent so I wouldn’t be expected to play bakery on expert mode just because I’m French. I asked for a pastry this time and the baker asked “no bread with that?” which felt cruel, like she wanted me to sprinkle myself with ashes and admit out loud that my level of bread proficiency isn’t as advanced as I once believed it was

The third time I went, I had lost all self-confidence and I hesitantly pointed at a bread and said “I’d like this, uh—what is it called?” and the baker looked at me in disbelief and said “That’s a baguette.”

God.

for the record, if that stupid bread had been flanked by a skinny bread (ficelle) and a fat one (flute) then yeah of course I would have known to call it a baguette, but in the absence of reference points I now felt lost and scared of being called a Parisian again

it’s hard to express the depth of my suffering so I’ll just let the facts speak for themselves: this morning a French person (me) stood in a French bakery in France surrounded by French people and pointed at a baguette and said “what is this called”

  Marquis de Lafayette Act 1 (Hamilton Minimalist series 7/20)

Oh boy for once I did some reasearch

I’m keepin this in read more because it’s going to be a lot of text but hello, the cape design, the pause and much of the patterns are not mine. I also want to disclaim that I’m not a fashion historian, so I might get a lot wrong, don’t hesitate to tell me and to point me to more source. I like fashion, but I felt very very unprepared to know what a Russian woman would wear in 1910, and I wasn’t vibing with the concept art that much so I did some research. I selected this garment :

It was made by the Mbryor house in France in 1925. I’m putting a link here there more pictures on the met museum’s webpage : https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/158225?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&when=A.D.+1900-present&ft=L%c3%a9on+Bakst&offset=0&rpp=80&pos=61

Even though the house was French, it was actually a collaboration between multiple designers, and I’m not too sure who exactly worked on this cape but I based myself on who worked at the couture house : “ Leon Bakst, Natalia Goncharova, a Russian Futurist artist, and Sarah Lipska, of Polish origins, were among the house's coterie of artists. “ Leon Baskt designed a lot of costumes, and I actually wanted to base the design on one of his pieces at first. The two women mentioned worked in embroidery, and have designed the pattern that is seen on the coat, which has a lot of cubist influence (which, yeah it makes sense, but I still think it’s really neat in 1925 to see cubist motifs on garments). I reworked the pattern to fit the colors style I wanted the designs to have and added some simple steppe alphabet letters, which can be seen on the edge of the pattern. Nina is supposed to have died probably close to 1905 - 1910 I believe her wearing this is anachronistic. From what I’ve seen while doing my research elite at that time seemed to be influenced by european designers, and generally had a cosmopolitan style (which is why having the cape being made in France by people of different designers), but much of the fashion was closely fitted with corsetier, which wasn’t the vibe I was going with Nina. (I should also mention a lot of costume design at the time were “”exotic””,which I definitely don’t feel comfortable to tackle, but should still be mentioned, as europe wasn’t at all the sole influence..)  Also most of the references I could find had hair tied up in updos, generally with a headbands or pearls keeping it up, so that made its way in the original design. I thought going for something futuristic would fit Nina, since, you know, we have a character who can predict the future.

Also, a lot of patterns during the 1920s had more of this loose style, with an emphasis on embroidery, which I thought was closer to her general art style. It was also somewhat important for me to have something that was designed by women, given the game interesting choice of having a town seemingly ruled first and foremost by women. (In general, during the 1920s, a lot of attention was put on what people were to wear, with restrictions on textile. But I also want to point out that there also seemed to be a certain concern with ‘liberating’ women’s bodies and fashion standards. There’s different influences and trends in that period, and also a gap between what was pushed by the government and what was done in practice, so don’t take my word for it)

I’m adding this https://www.rbth.com/arts/2017/05/10/fashion-and-the-russian-revolution-how-sackcloth-replaced-lace_760091 which I did read and goes more in depth in the evolution of clothing in between 1900 and 1920s

gone girl (2014) be like

happy belated birthday @ladynoblesong