Costumy Thread Returns! Loafers Toga Party.
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yes, i'm just looking for any kind of woven wool at the moment - my choices are so limited.
I've been invited to a fancy dress party at new years, and i did think to go as a peacock (something like a cute blue cocktail dress, with a painted feather tail and a little hat or clip of some description making a plume in my hair) but, expensive!
so thought i'd start on the Hera costume very early, and do it for this new years, that way I have chance to refine it, and give you lot pointers on what works and what doesn't.
Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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That is a fantabulous idea. I wish I was going to a fancy dress party for New Years!
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Quote:Gwah-huh?
Originally posted by seryn:
puck with bat wings and a shell on his head.
yup, thats right, bat wings and a hat made out of a mollusc.
the victorians were wierd, but the greeks and romans were wierder.
Not that Robin Goodfellow would shy away from . . . daring fashion, but Puck wasn't Greco-Roman, he was Celtic (originally, though Shakespeare co-opted him, so anything up to the 15th century would be fair game). You sure you had the right deity?
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I thought pan was the celtic version - puck was the little goat legged kid (satyr?) used to loiter in archadian forests and what not.
but then, in my history classes, we di, the first world war, followed by the second world war, followed by the second world war, and then, oh, look, what a change! the second world war.
you'd swear the world didn't exist before 1910.
This was a room full of marble statues - mostly victorian copies of roman copies of greek originals, in no partucular order - its like they just mounted them where they unpacked them, theres also several later pieces and a lot of victorian 'interpretations' Theres not an awful lot of signage - just origin and artist name if its available, so.... your guess is as good as mine.
Actually better 'cause you're a big history geek and i'm just mentally retarded.
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Quote:Actually it was the other way around: Pan was. . . Well, he's in the Greco-Roman pantheon, but he was around long before then as a pagan European god. He's related to the Green Man (who is so ancient a figure that he literally has no "real" name). Puck is a northern cousin, from Germany/Scandinavia/Britain (no idea where he actually originated, but he was known in those lands).
Originally posted by seryn:
I thought pan was the celtic version - puck was the little goat legged kid (satyr?) used to loiter in archadian forests and what not.
All three of these fairest of Fair Folk were associated with the Devil when Christianity took over, so that's where they start overlapping.
http://www.boldoutlaw.com/puckrobin/puckages.html
Looks like the Puck-as-Satyr thing was post-Renaissance, by which point Greco-Romanism had influenced everything.
Puck's main claim to fame was in A Midsummer Night's Dream, where he became the only member of Oberon's court that Shakey treated well (professional courtesy, methinks. Storytellers tend to have a fondness for Tricksters
).Quote:Heh. Add in a mean-spirited psychotic b*tch of a teacher and you'd have my high school history class.
but then, in my history classes, we di, the first world war, followed by the second world war, followed by the second world war, and then, oh, look, what a change! the second world war.
you'd swear the world didn't exist before 1910.
Plus, being a Catholic School, mythology and folklore wasn't really on the curriculum. Best we had was "World Religions," which only served as an introduction to present-day politico-religious groups.
Everything I know about history is either self-taught or comes from college-level Art History.
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yeah - tried to do Art history - two semesters of looking at slides of sharks in tanks and wobbly cube women (teacher refused to believe there was art before picasso) I gave up.
Subsequent (scant) knowledge comes from the discovery channel and national geographic, books i was able to browse in stores, my mothers endles rantings and some contxt and costume history classes in uni. (so everything is couched in 'what does it look like?')
plus - theres a lot there that i can't remember when i need to - the gift of dyslexia - OH! oh oh oh! I know this one! i do i know it - what is it! Aaaaaaaaaarrrggghhhh!
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Originally posted by Jadehand:
Ok, so the Ambrosia... it's a food and a drink. Typically a fruit cocktail as a food, but I could conjur a drink form also. Typically Sweet Honey flavoured and colored. I can go for the color, not sure how to get that flavour with the liqours on hand, I'll have more research. I might just go for a really fruity flavoured mix. Various Parrot Bay rums, etc.
And I made a mistake, or not. It seems the river Styx isn't the one that makes you forget, That would be Lethe. But it also seems that all the rivers are tributaries of Styx. So it may be Lethe water when I'm finished. Also, not sure why I envisioned it as red. But that's what Styx brought to mind, Lethe may change the red part, but I still like the idea of it being murky, Tattoo will be base.
Two things:
1.) I might try fermenting a mead-like beverage with the various fruit flavors, if anyone is interested. I will have to start it soon, so it is ready in time.
2.) My friend has a bong named Lethe, and it was very appropriately named. It was actually a blue-green color, and I think that might look good. I can also see Styx being red, it just makes sense.
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'cause the Roman Gods up to that point were crap. Jeff, the god of biscuits, and Simon, the god of hair-dos.
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he named his bong?
Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Every single piece I have ever smoked out of has had a name. It's just something you do.
I had a piece that looked like a mushroom that was called Trippy Blue Phoenix, but it was also know to some as The Over-the-Shoulder Bud Bazooka.
We had a plastic hooka named Ishmael the Tree Frog.
My brother has a black acrylic bong named The Black Mamba.
My other brother has a contraption named The Bionic Shotgun.
Those are probably the most interesting/clever ones, as well as Lethe.
~jimi
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'cause the Roman Gods up to that point were crap. Jeff, the god of biscuits, and Simon, the god of hair-dos.
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well i guess i did ask.
I'd wonder if girls named their belongings, but i have a sewing machine called Betty (the practical purpose of the name being that it makes you sound less crazy when you are screaming obcenities at 'betty' instead of at 'you' or 'thing' or 'machine')
Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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