niceprophecies
I was not prepared for this series. T_T
shiftythrifting
Huge metal dragon! That’s a twin sized mattress behind it for scale
chubbycattumbling
petermorwood
ffritts
Nudibranchs (sea slugs)
Each and all of these little critters could go on a 1970s SF cover by Peter A. Jones and fit right in, shape, colour palette and all.
See for yourselves:
kissthegirl-getthekey
notjustaclone
amusedmuralist
this is a call-out post
BEL :D
no, see, this outfit though. Even those few brief lines demonstrate how perfect a choice it was. First of all, it’s a unisex outfit (Sealer Greenlaw is wearing a similar one), so it bypasses even unconscious gender assumptions and allows the other guests to perceive Bel with the fewest possible preconceptions related to gender presentation. Second, it’s an outfit common among both quaddies and legged people, marking Bel – in this politically charged gathering – as being well integrated into life on Graf Station. Third, it’s high fashion, so doublets and slashed trousers apparently have more formal associations in Quaddiespace than elsewhere. Certainly fit for a night on the town, especially attending an institution celebrating quaddie culture.
But that’s not all that makes it perfect.
Iirc, this is the only non-sleepwear civilian outfit we’ve ever seen Bel wear. Dendarii greys in the fleet, a plain powder-blue jumpsuit as an Assistant Portmaster, nothing else meriting a remark in the books. Bel has always favored function over form… in professional life. Personal life, though? That’s the Bel whose cabin used to be cluttered with keepsakes, the Bel who relishes silks and lace, the Bel who goes to pet shows and laughs at mayhem, the Bel who loves music and culture and comforts and awful puns and new experiences and is far more at ease with self and others than the sharp lieutenant all those years ago who carefully kept the Dendarii tunic zipped up all the way. Stars and spangles, a well-turned calf, a flashing partnership of vividly complementary hues – the look demands acknowledgment while remaining apolitical and impeccable by Quaddie standards, a piece of private humor Bel would thoroughly enjoy. It’s a window into a part of Bel too often set aside in the workplace (and the books), and I love it so, so much.~
#needstosortoutpriorities you always have the best additions to posts #that is a tag that i have used before and that was recommended for this one #i fully anticipate using it again #on the topic of stuff bel has that i think further demonstrates TERRIBLE taste - it has a lampshade made of a destroyed helmet #from a time it nearly died #also while i stand by my criticisms of this outfit on aesthetic grounds #i do appreciate that bel is very very much not trying to blend into the background #and i wonder how much of that is because of quaddies’ attitudes being a lot more accepting #like
i’m not saying it tries to blend in per se earlier on but definitely
the most outlandish thing it ever wears is perfume that one time #and
given that it’s established in canon that a lot of the dendarii even
after miles takes over think being a merc is a man’s job #and
that definitely /before/ miles takes over bel has a bit of trouble
getting its superior officers to treat it with anything like respect #(and
also that there is still homophobic and transphobic violence in the
future cf. ethan of athos and miles worrying in labyrinth) #(and
that when bel does draw attention to itself - usually by trying to
fight someone lmao - it gets v gendered & sexual responses) #so
given the prevalence throughout the vorkosigan saga of the theme of
people not feeling they’re able to access/express femininity #(cf. drou and taura who also have the theme of the ~secret frilly nightie~) #i do wonder a lot how much that v clear delineation between personal/professional is bc bel will /not/ get any respect otherwise #(i’m thinking especially of how elli talks about the way she has to present and behave to have her orders obeyed) #and in light of that i think it’s quite interesting that iirc bel only blurs that line at all around miles #(who doesn’t always get gender stuff right but he tries) #and
that miles comments in labyrinth on it dropping ‘male’ behaviours when
it gets distracted and then consciously putting them back on #(this is in the context of it hitting on nicol but i think it applies more broadly) #i
am super offtopic now but in short - yes! it is a V Good Thing that bel
can look and act however it wants by diplomatic immunity #even if however it wants is terrible and kitschy and covered in glitter #(which…
i know i’m being rude about it but i have gleefully posted photos of
items of my own clothing which are objectively worse) #anyway
i love that bel is secretly (and depending on circumstances sometimes
not-so-secretly) a chaotic sparkly awful-decision-making dork #bel thorne is one of the best characters ever created and i love it very much
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miharu87
Just imagine.
I dare say this is the best one of these yet.
I’m putting this in my “how to rewrite Civil war so everyone loves it” folder 😂
fuckyeahgoodomens
If angels and demons walk among us, as they do in Good Omens, how are we to tell them apart from us mere mortals? The longer they live on Earth, the more human they can appear, which is usually a good giveaway. The thing is, “more human,” doesn’t necessarily mean “more fashionable,” as the Amazon series’ costume designer explains.
Aziraphale doesn’t care quite as much about fashion as his archangel boss, Gabriel. In the original script, author Neil Gaiman noted that Aziraphale is a “kind-looking gentleman whose sartorial style runs to bow-ties. He thinks a little tartan is nifty, and would use the word ‘nifty’ with pride.”
With that being her primary direction, costume designer Claire Anderson tells SYFY WIRE that she decided Aziraphale would have a more traditional look and would wear clothes that look like he’s worn them for hundreds of years. She decided on Victorian-era clothing, and added gold threads to his bow-tie — a look that actor Michael Sheen approves of.
“I wanted him to look like a comfortable sofa,” Sheen says. “He likes quality and craftsmanship, so he’s elegant, but he’s also a bit threadbare.”
Gabriel, however, would never tolerate looking a bit rundown. As played by Jon Hamm, the archangel wears bespoke suits and coats when he pops down to Earth (thanks to a Zegna tailor on Bond Street), and cashmere is his primary fabric, even for his running clothes. “Cashmere just floats around you,” Anderson says. “It sits where it touches. It’s delicious to wear. It feels sensational. And it just drips off of him.”
“The celestial heavenly creatures were festooned with the best of everything,” Hamm explains, “but they don’t get any joy out of it.”
“Gabriel thinks of his luxury clothes as more disposable, and would just wear it for a season and be done with it,” Anderson noted. “That’s not very angelic, is it?”
Gabriel’s clothes have a lilac color scheme – silvery pearl-gray and blue-gray – to give him a bit of iridescence and match his otherworldly eyes. “To make Jon Hamm the most beautiful man in the world, what more can they do?” Anderson says. “He’s already tall and handsome and he looks great in everything. So it’s tiny, but we gave him Elizabeth Taylor eyes.”
Not Elizabeth Taylor-like eyes, but her actual eyes. “Gabriel went and stole Liz Taylor’s eyes and put them in his head,” Hamm says. “He thought, 'Those are beautiful and unique and perfect, so I’ll take those.’”
The effect is done, of course, with colored contacts, as are the various reptilian eyes of our respective demons. Hastur and Ligur, who don’t come to Earth as often, aren’t as skilled at hiding their true selves, and don’t seem to realize what they look like they’ve just emerged up through the ground.
“I love the demons,” Anderson says. “When I did my first drawings of them, I thought about the fires of Hell, and thought they should have burned feet and shoes that could be boiled and greased and given scorch marks. The bottoms of their coats are scorched. Their clothing is blackened and shredded at the hems. Everything is muddy and broken down and distressed.”
Hastur, Ligur, and other Dukes of Hell wear what they died in, but Crowley (played by David Tennant) has been on Earth the longest and has had 6,000 years to acquire a good wardrobe. Like Gabriel, Crowley also appreciates human style, but only so it can make him look like the coolest guy in the room.
“He’s sort of like Christian Bale in American Psycho,” Tennant says. “He’s kind of what yuppies were 30 years ago, so whatever version of that exists now. What currency does that give you? Crowley thinks he’s really cool, and he wants to adapt his coolness to the time period, and so he’s very profligate with his looks, his version of what’s on trend.”
Unlike Gabriel, Crowley is not too tailored — his clothes have an undone quality about them, although with sharp lines, to feel more modern. He’s rather like a snake who sheds his skin, constantly updating his wardrobe (even if he remains a bit behind), wearing a few things that are a bit too tight so they’re wrapped around him, and shirts that tumble open. And most of his look — from the serpentine eyes well-hidden by sunglasses, the serpent tattoo sideburn, a belt with a snakehead with gleaming eyes to the snakeskin shoes with red soles — harkens back to his origins as a snake with a red underbelly.
“He has slicks of red around his collars, and red embroidery in his fabrics,” Anderson says.
Most of Crowley’s clothing was made for the production, but there is at least one designer piece — a cropped Balenciaga jacket worn in an Episode 1 flashback ‚ that adds to his rock-star swagger. “Aziraphale looks at Crowley and thinks, 'I could never get away with that,’” Sheen says. “He would never dare.”
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Fireworks
read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2I9nKir
by Lyowyn
It turns out that, despite six thousand years of unresolved sexual tension, Aziraphale and Crowley aren’t actually any good at having sex.
Words: 3227, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
- Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
- Rating: Mature
- Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
- Categories: M/M
- Characters: Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens), Madame Tracy (Good Omens), Sergeant Shadwell (Good Omens)
- Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
- Additional Tags: Humor, sexual euphemisms, a lot of sexual euphemisms, like holy hell, Canon Typical Everything
read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2I9nKir
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