Tag: hrera

I once read that Dame Judi Dench embroiders cushions with curse words and ‘fuck offs’ and the such on set. I mention this for this reason: I know that in the Halls ever Dwarf is back to their prime, and I know Hrera would never, actually, embroider curse words. But in my mind, Judi Dench is Hrera mostly because of that. Picture Dame Judi Dench dressed as she was in Pride and Prejudice dutifully embroidering cushions with ‘FUCK OFF YOU PEASANT’ or something of the sort. Hrera.

omg

Honestly, I can see Hrera embroidering something perfectly genteel and appropriate… on the outside. Nobody would see anything else, really. 

(however, if anyone ever went to the effort of unpicking all of those neat, tight stitches, in exactly the right order, the words ‘GO SIT ON A PICKAXE YOU LITTLE TURD’ might somehow emerge from the patterns and colours…)

stabbing a cushion several hundred-thousand times sounds like a good way to burn off your initial aggro :)))

itscooltobefanficy:

“They’re what we call the silver years…”
“No, and yet I would see it happen.”
Two paraphrased quotes from Sansukh that go someway to explaining why I’ve drawn Hrera, Queen of Erebor, not in the prime of her years but with silver in her beard and wrinkles round her eyes: because so few of the dwarrows had a chance to grow old. So yeah here is everyone’s favourite prim and proper grandma wearing her mithril and diamonds (and smiling at some mischief her grandsons have got into).

*SCREAMING*

OH MY GOD I LOVE

I LOVE

I LOVE

she’s so. perfectly. Hrera – and her eyeeees, and her gorgeous, wonderful wrinkles, and GOALS I MEAN HONESTLY – that BEARD, her smile! I AM ENVY OVER HER HAIR, it’s my beautiful bossy granny, I am so so so in love!! YOU ARE AMAZING! THANK YOU SO MUCH! I am utterly staggered by your skill and generosity!

determamfidd:

Hrera, on her way!

I totally stole @houkakyou‘s trick, and put vinyl inside the belt, heh. I screwed up a whole bunch of very nice trim by dyeing it just a bit too long. Buggering fuck. Anyway, thank heavens for an old brown Venice Lace skirt I bought on a whim at an Op Shop, bc it is now doing stellar duty. 

Now to decorate that skirt. Oh god. Two circle skirts, what possessed me, I do not bloody know. 

(THE BROWN ONE HAS A CIRCUMFERENCE OF 6.6 METRES – adding that silk border nearly broke me, I stg)

Pictures in daylight! A bit better than last night.

(Reminder to self: get a better camera, your phone camera SUCKS)

Hrera, on her way!

I totally stole @houkakyou‘s trick, and put vinyl inside the belt, heh. I screwed up a whole bunch of very nice trim by dyeing it just a bit too long. Buggering fuck. Anyway, thank heavens for an old brown Venice Lace skirt I bought on a whim at an Op Shop, bc it is now doing stellar duty. 

Now to decorate that skirt. Oh god. Two circle skirts, what possessed me, I do not bloody know. 

(THE BROWN ONE HAS A CIRCUMFERENCE OF 6.6 METRES – adding that silk border nearly broke me, I stg)

so hey @houkakyou, @aviva0017, @the-dragongirl and all you wonderful Sansukh cosplay people… 

I have joined you in the fun/crazy land of ‘ohshit i spent all that money and also I can’t feel my thumb from all the pins I’ve accidentally stuck into it’.

Hrera’s basic undecorated dress is done, whoohoo 🙂 

I can’t hem this puppy until I have received the petticoat in the mail. It’s gonna be a very high hem – probably under the calf for the brown under-skirt, and a couple of inches under the knee for the blue. Those circle skirts are cotton drill and very full and heavy, so they’re a bit wilty and floppy rn. Gotta get my petti and see the silhouette before I can make any choices about it. Between the petti and the two high (and therefore lighter) layers, it should poof out quite a lot.

I haven’t begun the sleeves yet, so they are just sad tubes at the moment. Gonna go the cheap and cheerful lazy route and use sleeve armbands in gold. They should be strong enough to support some oversized faux fur cuffs (I hope). 

There’s also going to be a LOT of decoration. I have batik silk to add to it, and lots of trims, and a brown woven leather belt. 

Probably going to edge the blue overgown in brown/grey faux fur trim, because I am an idiot who hates having money or something *whimpers*

bonus: helpful cat

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“Oh, were you cutting a circle skirt? Too bad.”

And here’s what the corset USED to look like a week ago, vs yesterday morning (shiny shiny late 90′s purple satin lmao)

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this is not going to be a dress to wear in an Australian summer, I can tell you!

since everyone’s sharing their faves – Hrera. i have the feeling she couldve solved the whole Ring debacle in ten minutes under the right circumstances. Laerophen’s a close second for me, though

hey yeah, Laerophen!! Thanks, friend – I am glad you like him! 

(Hrera isn’t quite that badass – her brand of scolding bossiness/worry wouldn’t have worked on a Nazgul, for instance – but my word, she would have sorted Denethor out quick-smart.)