People make money doing that?

[janestarz]

You know, one of these days I assume someone is going to find the Dolle Griet website and say "people actually make money making larp clothing? What is this world coming to?!". But then again, the weirdest website I ever found was the homepage of a balloon fetishist.
This all ofcourse in proper context with PvP Online's recent comic storyline about Live Roleplay, and it being displayed as a freakshow, sort of.

Meanwhile, I did finish my blouse for Sasara, it's Grandma-to-the-top. I still need to see how I'm going to play her. I mean, a forgetful mage is fun, but I think I might have my periods of sternness.
The costume is now finished, next up is the staff. The booklets are done too, for as far as I'm concerned, I'll write my spellbook IC, with ink and quill. Gives me something to do after I'm done drinking tea with Kremeche.

Going back to the customing business, there's people out there, mostly artists, who think that clothing is like paint and can just be glued onto the body. Look at a roleplay book and try to imagine how that cloak would be choking you 90% of the time (the remaining 10% of the time you'd be frothing at the mouth, rolling in panic on the floor screaming "Gettitorfme! Gettitorfme!!!"). I say, artists...sheesj. Anyways, sometimes it's hard to make people see that if you have three triangles, a diamond and some leather laces you can not make a costume out if it that would remain fixed on those terribly sensitive places like labia and nipples, when you're bushwhacking around on a larp. Honestly! You're running around flaying your mace and spanking the monkey or whatever, and something that skimpy doesn't even stay put in the bedroom, let alone a larp...

Comments

[manesni.livejournal.com]

it doesn't? awww what a disapointment...

oh well... guess I'll just go and uh... I dunno... bash shades or something :-P

Manesni

[elektron.livejournal.com]

... I'm not exactly sure how three triangles and a diamond are supposed to go together <.

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

Bikini-style! You have an extra triangle, I suppose (should've typed two there).

[elektron.livejournal.com]

... Now I'm not sure where the diamond goes <.

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

You tie that with laces as a sort of "thong". You see, if you larp you have to be the bedroom playgirl every testosteron-crazed person (and I don't mean every man, just those who have a terminal testosterone level) wants you to be.
Oh the sarcasm...

[elektron.livejournal.com]

I'm still not sure why it has to be diamond shaped though...

We don't get pictures of you wearing two triangles and a diamond, do we?

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

Nope.
Sorry.

[twilightbanana.livejournal.com]

Many artists seem to be especially clueless about stuff like pauldrons. They seem to think that it will stay up with nothing more than a strap around the arm, or at most one across the chest. I'd love to see someone trying to use that in a larp, though. I'd just have to wait until the pauldron sagged, pinning his arm down, and then kill him off in a leisurely manner.

[coen.livejournal.com]

"people actually make money making larp clothing? What is this world coming to?!"

Mugles and LARPing...

Fabio was playing outside in his new knight's costume and one of my swords. One of our neighbours complimented him with the costume. And then she complimented me: "Did you really make this yourself? And the sword, did you make that too?"
I told her I didn't make the sword, I bought it.
She said: "It has you name written on it, not Fabio's name. Did you play with it when you were a kid?"
I replied: "No, I didn't play with it when I was a kid, I only bought it when I was an adult. And I played with it as an adult."
She looked at me real puzzled. People in my block know that I am a bit weird, I paint, I make toys and costumes for Fabio. People respect that, they especially like my my paintings, but they do think it is a bit weird too.
But now that I play with a sword as a grown up, she looked at me as if I was far worse than just a little weird. So I tried to explain, but the more I explained, the more she looked at me as if I was a very unpleasant unearthly sppace creature. So I just gave up on explaining.

Wonder what she thinks of me now.