Oldie but a Newbie

[raesoflight]

Yet another migrant here from Tumblr-- I had many an LJ years ago because I was an active RPer but jumped ship during Strikethrough. 

One of the reasons I shifted here was actually because I miss RPing, Tumblr was never meant for it, though I tried it there, it'll never beat good old forum-style RPing. 

My deets:

Name: Rae
Age: Old Enough

Fan fic author, cosplayer/seamstress/costumer, really heavy into meta analysis and discourse (as much as I loathe to call it that), I have a passionate love for a lot of dead or near dead fandoms, because, to quote Lemony Snicket: The World Is Quiet Here. I'm not here for fandom dramatics, it was never my scene to begin with. I don't really ship anything outside of my weird AUs, so shipping as a whole doesn't come up much, 

AO3: Raeseddon

Fandoms currently writing in:

Ronin Warriors/ Yoroiden Samurai Troopers
Dungeons and Dragons (80's cartoon) 

As for fandoms I will blog about or am interested in talking to people about:

Anime:

Ronin Warriors/Yoroiden Samurai Troopers
Tiger and Bunny
Death Note
Ouran High School Host Club
Pokemon (not 100% caught up on Sun/Moon)
Slayers (caught up to Revolution/ Evolution-R)
The Irresponsible Captain Tylor
Pretear
Digimon (up to Frontier/Tri)
Ghost Hunt (Anime, manga and novels)
Full Metal Panic (not caught up on the new season, getting there, but also pretty spoiled for the Sigma manga)
Leiji Mastumoto verse: Harlock, Emeraldas, Gun Frontier, sooooome Galaxy Express 999
Vampire Hunter D (Both OVAs and novels up to Pale Fallen Angel Parts 3&4) [I fell so in love with The Baron and then THAT ENDING]
Loveless (Anime, manga I'm pretty sure I'm caught up because the author just freakin. stopped. after a point. If it has continued LET ME KNOW)

Live Action Movies/TV

Pacific Rim
Back to the Future I-III
Big Hero 6
Disney (I love me some meta/analysis of the Renaissance Era movies, because who doesn't)
Studio Ghibli
LotR (more the books than the movies, because hilariously in depth book analysis gives me LIFE)
Zombie/Survival movies as a genre
Doctor Who (mainly classic but I'll talk New!Who now and again)
Blake's 7
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Daredevil
Star Trek (TOS to Voyager)
Star Wars (OG Triolgy and Rogue One)

Games:

Detroit Become Human 
Final Fantasy Tactics/Advanced
Pokemon
Professor Layton
1931: Scheherazade and the Library of Pergamum (Visual Novel)
Ace Attourney
Back to the Future (Telltale Games)
Valiant Hearts

Comics:
Monsteress
Runaways (original run, and not the Hulu series)
Batman/DC, but mainly Batman, Streets of Gotham, Lil Gotham, basically any of the Dick and Damian era stuff, (god I miss that angry little twerp)
Matt Fraction's Hawkeye run
IDW Ghostbusters
IDW Back to the Future

Comments

[scripsi]

Great!

He looked at me and dead-panned "I'm not wearing knickers" and pointed to the Civil War pattern.

LOL!

I usually make my own patterns, but I've been looking at Folkwear Patterns for years. They are so pretty! I've mostly made 18th century, but I'm branching out and did a Pre-raphaleite inspired wardrobe for a Victorian weekend this summer.

[raesoflight]

I would love to learn how to make my own patterns, do you have any resources/advice? That wardrobe sounds lovely, are there pictures? I take WIP pictures of all my work, because I like to look back and see how far I've come. Folkwear patterns are great, I only have a few-- the Big Sky Riding Skirt, Tea Dress and tabi socks. I want to get all of their Japanese patterns because I love the care and artistry of kimono and yukata. So much of their beauty is in how functional it is.

[scripsi]

I'm afraid I don't have any online sources. I had a term of pattern drafting when I was 21, and I still use the books I got back then. :) I have several pattern books with extant clothes; Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion-series for example, and use them as a template.

Yes I do, you can see some pictures in this post: https://scripsi.dreamwidth.org/335331.html

I've only heard good things about Folkwear Patterns. :)