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eloquent-apollo · 4 years

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don't get me started on kevin day, my wips, and/oror edwardian dress silhouettes :)

Kai really out here peaking all my interests huh

Kevin Day

LISTEN OKAY HE ISNT A SPINELESS COWARD HE IS SUCH A BRAVE PERSON AND IF YOU JUST LOOK A LITTLE PAST ALL OF IT YOU CAN SEE HOW BRAVE HE IS? Fuck you im PULLING OUT THE RECEIPTS MOTHER FUCKERS

This moment here? Yeah he talked the fuck BACK TO HIS ABUSER HELLO? THE MAN WHO KILLED ONE OF HIS TEAMMATES BC SOMEONE ELSE HAD A BIG MOUTH? I bet he told him to go die alone in a hole bc nobody loves him or whatever? Well probably not but he probably said something incredibly vulgar and to match Neil’s roast (and probably in like a small sentence my boy had a match to play he had priorities he probably said “I’ll show you that you marked me wrong from day one, that you should have feared me when we got on the court together”)

ALSO SPEAKING OF NUMBERS

Homie really said “you know what im sixk and tired of being a fucking number fuck my bitch ass abuser im my own person” WHEN BEFORE HE WAS SO SCARED OF HOW RIKO WOULD REACT TO NEIL AND THE BURNS MY MAN REALLY SAID YOU KNOW WHAT IM DONE WITH BEING AFRAID OF THAT BITCH! Also this is getting too long BUT KEVIN DAY IS A FASHION HISTORIAN AND HE OWNS AT LEAST ONE (1) CORSET

Moving on: My WIPS

I dont have that many WIPs and I already ranted a lot about the ask I am currently working on so I’ll tell u about uuuuh *opens my wips real quick* Oh i’ll tell u about uuuh love letters from Paris! Listen I occasionally get really obsessed with random pieces of historical knowledge and this time it was the daguerreotype, which is some old ass clunky ass camera and you know what! This concept was still R E A L L Y G O O D!!!! It was about Jeremy who was a daguerreotypist who lived in America and Jean, a book binder in France. They met and they fell in love and the whole fic is just them sending each other love letters and its really cute and I hope to revive it one of these days so I cant say too much about it but here is a snippet of the letter that I still really love its from Jean to Jeremy

Mon canard,

While I write this letter it has been a mere 2 hours since your departure, but it feels like you have been gone days already. Your absence in the house is dully noted, perhaps most by Venus. She still curls up on the chair where you sat daily, smoking your pipe while we talked. My bed will no doubt feel colder tonight, for you will not be by my side to hold me. I miss your hands in my hair, your laugh, the way the early morning lights caress your face. I may only be a book binder, but I believe the ghosts of poets have possesed me when I speak of you, for everything about you is a work of art.

Mon Beau, do you remember our trip to the meadows? We were lucky to be alone, out there in the open. Your warmth and joy helped to ease my worries, for I feared to be seen by others. I watched over my shoulders too much, which I regret, for I didn’t get to enjoy your presence. You are my sunshine, Jeremy. I do not wish to miss out on it, but now that you have moved behind the clouds I realise how much you brightened up my life.

Hystorians say they’re totally besties, but idk sounds kinda gay to me!

Edwardian dress silhouette

Listen,,,,,, listen

Look at this picture? Does this not bring you immense joy? Is this not absolutely gorgeous???

Look me in the eye and tell me you wouldnt wear this! You are lying to yourself its so pretty wtf? Also Idk what it is specifically about this silhoutte in comparison to say the 1880’s, it’s just something about it that’s so good? The S-shape the corset (I actually think it’s called a Stays but im not very faniliar with the proper terminology so I will be referring to them as both stays/corsets from now on) was meant to create is just idk iconic™️

I mean look at this? There is just something about it thats different and looks so pretty? The silhouette was accomplished through the use of padding on the hips and the use of the corset/stays

This isnt a really good picture but Marry Poppins was set circa the Edwardian era (1910-ish) and although the outfits arent 100% accurate it still shows the silhoutte quite well. Its iconic, its gorgeous, you’re lying if you say you wouldn’t want to wear that

Also look at these corsets/stays (I am hoping the second is edwardian as I, once again, am by no means an expert. While the year does seem to be edwardian [1908] I am just going to have to take the websites word for it. The shape does seem to be S-shaped, which is classic edwardian, so yeah) they are really pretty wouldn’t you want to wear these?

Also want to quickly add that the corsets/stays are made to create the illusion of a more narrow waist and thats why it looks like this woman barely has one. (As one of my favourite youtubers, Bernadette Banner puts it “Humans, the edwardians includes, are masters of disguise”) The use of padding on the hips and around the bust create an iconic sillhoute of a narrow waste and the S-shape. Anyway I am in no way an expert on Historic fashion and it is also 1 AM for me so if u want to know more about it uuuh I highly suggest looking at this video maybe?

Bernadette Banner has amazing videos on a lot of iconic historic silhouettes and while I love talking about it myself too I am no expert and I know I didnt get everything 100% right.

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Anyway I am going to leave you with these funny, 1840’s swear words: Church-bell, bubbly-jock, snaggletooth, cumberworld

#kai tag #I spend an hour on this reply bdjdjsjs #yes I can tell u what the swears mean if u want me to

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kennedy-writes · 5 years

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Some More Info About Aidan :)

So @decantae tagged me in the Character Creation Tag (thank you!), which is perfect because I’m posting lots about my OCs this week. I made a post about Aidan here, and now here is some more info:

1) What was the first element of your OC that you remember considering (name, appearance, backstory, etc.?)

In the earliest stages of my WIP, back in summer of 2017, maybe earlier, Aidan was named Elaine. The story was suuuuper different it’s crazy. But the concept of her role in the story was the same, and I believe this was the first thing I considered for her. She would be the first to break away from the cruel programming/conditioning imposed on her generation and successfully escape to discover an alternate way of living and feeling. She also always had a close ally in a man whose name has been Thor, Jagger, Aryeh, Lev, and now Sammie. Jagger is a different character now.

2) Did you design them with any other characters/OCs from their universe in mind?

Elaine (proto-Aidan?) was the first character I really designed, but I designed her knowing that she’d have a close platonic relationship with someone like Thor. Elaine was re-designed into Aidan, and it’s the same thing: I designed her knowing she’d have a close relationship with two other people: Stella, a girl from the city, and Aryeh, now Sammie, the librarian. I’m thinking now that Stella might actually be unnecessary to the novel so I may have to cut her out though :( but we’ll see

3) How did you choose their name?

I love names for girls that are traditionally masculine, and I wanted something that meant sunny or fire or something of that sort. This was because I was toying with the idea of having her with a fiery name and then Thor with the thunder-god name. But it also fits her personality so I didn’t change it after Thor left the picture.

4) In developing their backstory, what elements of the world they live in played the most influential parts?

I don’t have all of Aidan’s backstory perfectly figured out yet (I’m doing this as I go whoops). But the city is a proclaimed techno-utopia run by rich inventors, scientists, and engineers acting on their wildest fantasies and discarding all ethics, a utopia that serves only their society (governors, celebrities, the wealthy and their favored individuals), at the expense of a class of laborers and staff who were literally made to do certain types of work and nothing else. SO Aidan was one of these people but she was a bit different because she was designed to play in the orchestra. The environment of the city - very sterile, imposing, restrictive - is probably the most influential part in her development once she runs away.

5) Is there any significance behind their hair colour?

Sort of, not really. I think black hair is cool. I dyed mine black a bit ago and felt good about it. I wanted Aidan to evoke that vibe.

6) Is there any significance behind their eye colour?

No.

7) Is there any significance behind their height?

No. She is shorter than most other characters though.

8) What (if anything) do you relate to within their character/story?

Her whole arc is partly a metaphor for coming into your emotions after having them suppressed for so long, and navigating what that feels like. So that’s a thing I can relate to.

9) Are they based off of you, in some way?

Yeah, somewhat. She’s the only one who is, though. The others may have bits of me in them, but not Based On Me.

10) Did you know what the OC’s sexuality would be at the time of their creation?

Yeah! I mean I thought bisexual at first but I changed it to pansexual because it seemed to fit her better.

11) What have you found to be most difficult about creating art for your OC (any form of art: Writing, drawing, edits, etc.)?

I don’t do art (yet. I try, sometimes) but I have made a mood board for her. So no difficulty to report yet. Here is the moodboard btw:

12) How far past the canon events that take place in their world have you extended their story, if at all?

This is a hard one to answer because I don’t know when the canon events end. There might be more than one book? I don’t really think too far in the future for her, as I don’t imagine she does much either, because the desert is a very in-the-moment kind of space. Aidan hardly knows what she’s going to do tomorrow, and neither do I.

13) If you had to narrow it down to 2 things that you MUST keep in mind while working with your OC, what would those things be?

1. The trauma from having to suppress her emotions and being forced to play music for the rich for so long absolutely informs the way she goes about her new life. She is angry. She tries to just forget about everything about the first 20 years of her life, and truly believes it doesn’t affect her anymore, but it totally does in ways she doesn’t realize. She’s also a little jealous of people who’ve lived in the desert all their lives.

2. This anger often mixes in with the overwhelming love she feels towards all the new things - the friends, the landscape, the freedom and agency she has now, etc. At her core she’s very much in love with the world and wants to help others. The desire to help feels like an immense pressure, and she often overdoes it on her training with Vala. She’s just a very intense but compassionate bean.

14) What is something about your OC that can make you laugh?

When she gets to the desert, she might as well have been born yesterday, everything’s new to her. Her enthusiastic reactions to ordinary things that everyone takes for granted are funny in my head. (Haven’ t written this yet!)

15) What is something about your OC can make you cry?

Aidan wants to be close to people, wants to let them in. But she’s afraid that there’s nothing insider her, because she’s from the city and was “made” rather than raised in a human household. She’s scared that she will bring people close only for them to find out she is empty with nothing to give. She covers this up with a loud and energetic demeanor. She’s also very emotionally open and candid despite this fear, which is proof that her fear is unfounded, but she still freaks out when people get too close. The emotional turmoil that comes with that is super heartbreaking to me. Also how attached she gets to Sammie - this will Hurt later.

16) Is there some element you regret adding to your OC or their story?

Not necessarily a regret (I’m not so far in that I can’t change something), but I’m like…. How am I going to come up with a plausible way for her background in the city to deprive her of a sense of humanity - sci fi isn’t my forte, but then again, fiction isn’t either. I’m a poet, mostly. I’m just figuring stuff out as I go.

17) What is the most recent thing you’ve discovered about your OC?

That she isn’t in love with the librarian. It’s very specific, but Aidan wants platonic intimacy more than anything. She does experiment with sex but her relationship with the librarian must be platonic. Aryeh became Sammie, an eccentric gay man in his late 30s. (That they don’t fall in love allowed me to widen the age gap; I felt that Sammie had to be a bit older.) He has a huge collection of curiosities and books and artefacts, and Aidan’s drive to learn as much as she can about the world that’s been hidden from her brings her close to him.

18) What is your favourite fact about your OC?

She has a segment on Laurie’s radio show called The Finest Hour, in which she talks about music and plays her favorite records she finds in Sammie’s archives. I really really could not resist giving her my music tastes. also she loves climbing rocks.

So that’s Aidan! Next up is Sammie!! I was going to do Vala next but I’m really excited about Sammie because he’s basically the newest character and I love him a lot. After him is Ryan - I did merge and adapt that one flash fiction piece with my bigger WIP and I have no regrets. and then Vala, then Marian, then maybe Laurie then Jagger, then anyone else I didn’t do. Cool? Cool.

I’ll also take this time to apologize for all the WIPs I sort of started or teased a bit ago, I saw a post yesterday that made me really self conscious about that lol. I don’t mean to do it. but also those WIPs came from a different me and I’m not that me anymore, if that makes sense. If I do pick them back up, and I do intend to for some of them, they’ll be a little different. But my main focus right now is Where Stars Go To Die. Thanks for understanding!

#aidan #my ocs #where stars go to die #my characters #tag game #long post #kit writes #writing fiction

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