I’d been eyeing this stunning design by @aleksibriclot for years, and a little while ago (after two years of working on it) I finally finished it! It has all the dark norse fantasy vibes that I wanted Ragnarok to be, and I figured hey, I can make it myself!
I had to up a lot of my leatherworking skills for this one, and I dove into a lot of new skills as well to try to make all the pieces a cohesive whole. It uses lambskin leather, suede cowhide, and veg tan, as well as an entire sheepskin for the cape!
This whole costume has truly been a labour of Loki love and I’m so glad I was able to share all the madness (process) and the finished look!
Nero Wolfe to a banker in Over My Dead Body by Rex Stout (p 138):
You're suffering from an occupational disease. When an international financier is confronted by a holdup man with a gun, he automatically hands over not only his money and jewelry but also his shirt and pants, because it doesn't occur to him that a robber might draw the line somewhere.
I love the little detail in Creeping Shadow that she starts to bake? This is so cute because it's been pointed out before that a lot of traumatized agents don't really know what to *do* with themselves when they're not working. They don't really have any hobbies or do anything outside of work because their personalities were so warped by The Problem that they see their work as agents as the only thing worth doing. At the start only George (the most well adjusted kid with the most normal family upbringing) has any hobbies. He cooks (and it's implied that it's a hobby he shares with his mother). Lucy starts drawing at Lockwood and Co. and later tries to cook for everyone as well, Holly starts baking and Christmas story confirms Kipps bakes too. Food is an important element in the books. It brings kids comfort and relieves the paranormal malaise. The fact that Holly starts baking shows that she's slowly recovering from her damage and trauma and learning to do things for her own enjoyment and for people she cares about, just like everyone else at the agency.
i have so many feelings about holly munro and only like three people here would want to hear it
literally so embarrassing to have someone go "i don't go here" or "what's this from?" on my art and it's a rarepair/crackship that is in no way representative of the source material... and i have to be like. well you see, the rest of the restaurant's menu is not like this. i'm doing my own thing eating black olives right out of the can in the back-of-house. whether or not you want me to throw you a can, you have to understand that's not what they serve out front