Chess Game with Death by “Master B.R. with the Anchor”, German, ca. 1480-1490

Fooduary Day 23: Lollipop

Sugar on a stick is an unsurprisingly old idea, according to my sources they started to resemble lollipops in Europe in the Middle Ages. I had no idea how I was going to incorporate a lollipop stick into a medieval fashion and THEN I remembered the hennin (the very extra conical headdress). The design came together rather quickly after that.

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You can tell this is her business-casual attire rather than her full Sithy Uniform because her veil is only semi-opaque, and you can see her whole face and even parts of her neck! Scandalous.

I went to the Met Museum and saw some of my favorite lewks

I’ve found the stuff you’ve talked about as regards fashion in Thedas super interesting! On that note, if there any thoughts you have about things characters would wear or you think would be interesting for them to wear whether of your ocs or of canon characters, I’d be very interested.

put those frenchwomen in hennins (the funky headdresses) right now. i also think they should dress more like this in general tbh like stop doing whatever you’re doing and put a burgundian dress on

I went through my old files yesterday & found these dao redesigns from like? 2017 I think? I don't think I like some of these anymore so instead of remaking the whole thing I quickly sketched a new gown for Anora :) I think she'd look good in a houppelande

Hats! Let's give the Discworld ladies some wildly anachronistic hats!

(Oh Susan, I barely know ye! Mostly because I've only read half of Soul Music.)

Granny has a hat, and an important one at that, but I swapped it out for a beer scumble helmet (due to Ogg shenanigans) to reward myself for following through with my daily sketch goals!

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For additional context, this type of conical hat is called a hennin, and was commonly worn by noblewomen in the 15th century. Shoutout to @maeowl for posing for reference pictures for this!

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"Bisexuals: The neglected stepchild of the LGBTQ rights movement?"

Cliff Arneson, Lani Ka'ahumanu, ABilly S Jones-Hennin, Fiona Dawson, & I are among those interviewed.

And there's a lovely photo of Cliff and ABilly that was taken on my living room sofa.

There’s a big camping event coming up in two weeks and we were talking about it on the discord and now I’m having to forcefully tell myself not to start packing

Judith with the head of Holofernes, from the Nuremberg Chronicle, German, 1493

I did a fun modern myrah style post, and now I kind of what to do one for og fcc myrah. I feel like she’d have a unique style in both universes. A super fun mix of what is popular in King’s Landing, back home in the Vale, as well as Dorne/Summer isles (places outside of the vale shes most connected to)

Just wanted to say i loved your little blurb about the cone hat in ishgard lol. Made me curious to what the hat type is actually called so i looked it up, and apparently it's called a hennin. Poor Quinn 🤣

Thank you so much! And thank you for the fun fact as well!

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the approximate time period of eve2 is ???? <-old timey but all over the place but i am also just putting this woman in full 1400s wear (except with little charm beads and friendship bracelets). anyway does anyone have any name ideas or ideas for birds she could be based

In Defense of the Pointy Wizard Hat

I've been reading some Discworld and there's one thing I really love about it: pointy fucking hats.

Witches wear tall pointy hats, wizards wear tall pointy hats, everyone who does magic wear pointy hats. And that's because, in the Discworld, showing off one's magic is more important than making magic itself. You need to look the part of a witch or a wizard if you want to be taken seriously as one; that way, a witch can get away with not even making magic at all, just relying on good ol' psychology (or "headology" as one of the characters put it). Even in the Tiffany Aching series, where witches are being persecuted, Tiffany wears an imaginary pointy hat, and one of the witches has a normal hat that pointifies on command.

This, however, goes beyond "the magic-user has a compelling presence", it actually goes into territory of self-image, because no witch or wizard can take themselves seriously if they're not properly dressed for the part. Being a witch, after all, isn't just about doing magic; any chump can learn a thing or two about doing magic in most settings. But wearing black on black, pointy hat, and broom? Not only does that commands respect, it also convinces the wizard themselves that they're a magic-user. It comes with great responsibility y'know, it's kinda the Sword of Damocles of the wizard: you need to honor the hat. If you don't honor the hat, then what are you even doing? And that's why Tiffany getting an "imaginary hat" is such a powerful moment. It's not just that the hat makes the witch, it's also that having a pointy hat is as much as an internal mark of worth as it is external.

Pointy hats are how I measure when a setting is taking their mages way too seriously or not. Not every mage NEEDS to wear the pointy hat, but just the existence of someone with a mighty pointy hat is enough for me to know that the setting doesn't think of their mages as all hoity toity.

Take Lord of the Rings, for example. Gandalf appears with a hat. He does lose the hat in the middle of things (according to the movies, my headcanon is that Gandalf came back with a white pointy hat), but that's permissible because he doesn't need to prove his hat to anyone.

Now take Harry Potter, the later parts. As soon as Harry Potter starts taking itself way too seriously for its own good, the hats disappear; even McGonagall stops wearing them every once in a while. And it gets lamer because of it.

That is to say: pointy hats are a symbol of power. Having a mage without a pointy hat is like having a knight without a sword / horse. It makes the whole thing lamer because it subtly tells the audience that this work is simply "too good" for pointy hats.

I think that settings where there isn't really a full-on society or institution of witches, like idk, The Craft or The Witcher, and they may be persecuted, it's alright for them to not wear pointy hats, as long as the series doesn't get all smug about it. I'm reading Witch Hat Atelier rn and every witch has a pointy hat, I love it.

anyway i don't really have that many logical reasons for this. Pointy hats are cool. They can be a bit corny, but if you're ashamed of being a bit corny in a story involving magic, then it's a surefire indicator that your magic probably involves nondescript blasts of energy instead of creative applications of the thing, and I don't like that, personally.

tl;dr: witches and wizards wear pointy hats god DAMMIT. I won't take your book any more serious for not having them, I'll just assume you're a killjoy who hates fun and whimsy.