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The Feast of Epiphany on January 6th marks the day the wise men showed up to bask in the glory that was Mary's twelve-day-old baby, Jesus Christ. It also traditionally marks the very end of the Christmas season (yesterday was the twelfth day of Christmas), and is the very last day you can give a Christmas preset without it being technically late. (In fact among some Catholic families today, it's a tradition to wait for Epiphany for Christmas presents, adding almost two weeks of sales to the shopping season, on the grounds of "Baby Jesus had to wait for his presents; so do you.")

And I wouldn't really know about any of that if Disney hadn't written a damn song about the holiday-- in Medieval France, this would've been the Feast of Fools. This was a real thing. ... Probably without the pole dancing.

So, here are my not-quite-late presents to you guys.

1. The Front-Laced Lady (83 simple kirtles for assorted body shapes based on Sherahbim's Lady gown)
2. Du Lac Revisited (Du Lac tunics for CM, and cotehardies for Maxis CF Aquilegia's Androgyny AF, AM, TF, and TM)
3. Bundles of Joy (my first offering of non-default infant clothes) PLEASE NOTE: Sexyfeet smocks and diapers seem to have fallen prey to Mediafire's nonsense. I have submitted a ticket but their 24-hour turnaround time is not so very fast at all. Please be patient, I'm trying to fix it (as even when I re-upload with different file names, they get taken back down)
4. Cross-Pollination (Cocomama and Kittylynn's Plantsim content smushed together like chocolate and peanut butter)
5. Baby Steps (82 toddler kirtles with Aligeth textures, plus bonuses)
6. Home is his Castle (48 mostly-Maxis recolors of Buggybooz's Nooks and Niches)
7. Scraps Post (the bits and bobs that didn't really fit into larger posts. No in-game pics.)

Only seven posts, but there's a LOT of content in them.

Please let me know if I screwed up any links anywhere-- I've been through everything repeatedly, but fresh eyes are always good.

Disney nerd time!

Date: 2013-01-07 02:12 am (UTC)
heget: custom sigil in blue and gold (luthien sigil)
From: [personal profile] heget


Disney Post!

I lived right outside Annapolis, Maryland for four years- and as said actually visited Williamsburg and the Jamestown reconstruction (It was about a mile or so from the real site because on-going archealogical dig). So while I will say Appaliachian Mountians are dramatic and gorgeous- especially the Cumberland Gap- Jamestown was founded on the bit of swampland Pohatawan's empire (and those English settlers had the misfortune of picking the one area on the Eastern Seaboard where the Native population has recovered -remember the exposure to European diseases had just swept through North America and there are estimates that put the population extinction in the 90%- and was carving out a strong nation of conquest through the area. Bravo, Virginia Co.) In a word- geography = flat. (And the folkloric reason Pocahontas was such a figure in American mythos was her conversion to Christianity...)

On the true to location-ness: that's one of the best things about Lilo and Stitch. And the making-of background info in Lion King and Mulan where they point out parts of the film that came from the location scouting (That song Rafiki sings? Silly song sung by their guides and the children when in Kenya. Flags along the Great Wall and fluttering before the stampede scene? Yep. And the hair styles of the other girls in the matchmatching scene actually came from period architectural details...)

Emperor's New Groove was once a very different film. And Eartha Kitt is a boss.

My sis and I had summer-long quips about 'Odin's School of Parenting', with appearances by John Winchester and others. (I love Thor. Even if I have to adopt the headcanon that this pair of Thor and Loki are actually named for 'older dead red-head brother Thor' and 'we don't really talk about him uncle Loki'. Which would totally fit the 'have no plan on how to divulge family history' parenting style of movie!Frigg and Odin)

Oh boy- biting and sarcastic senses of humor that turn like wolves after a lame pack memeber and other internal issues of living with a dysfunctional family... I know. I'll spare any details- but the only point my holidays felt like the holiday season was when I was sobbing upstairs because of fallout from the first of not-the-last family fight I sat through. And I tend to graviate to characters in those dysfunction-junctions just as much as I love stable family supportive love stories.
Brave, for an example of an excellent parent-child relationship film. All my sympathies were with the mom, even when I could see Merida's frustrations.

Rapunzel's bio-parents? Okay, feeling flat here, give me more. Because, yeah, the political reprocussions are the most interesting part. And Eugene was raised by his momma Chel and two daddies Tulio and Miguel. I think it was Max the doghorse that broke me.

Now I do want to start gushing about the finer points of Princess and Frog....
Edited Date: 2013-01-07 02:13 am (UTC)

Re: Disney nerd time!

Date: 2013-01-07 05:45 am (UTC)
heget: custom sigil in blue and gold (18th cen)
From: [personal profile] heget
I studied American colonial history (see, clothing dump-18th century-example of), so yeah.... Attitudes...


See- that's what feared about Brave from the descriptions -ugh, rebellious tomboy princess- and the movie gives her the point about arranged marriages right this sec for her not good, but at least for me the movie comes firmly down on the side of the mom teaching how to lead a country and history and- trying not to spoil, but watch it for Elinor, not Merida.

I have so many Disney fan art where they attempt to give a more definate time period... Fun.

Nah- Tulio and Miguel and Chel adopt him out of the orphanage. Then he leaves them to go do his own thing, spread his wings for a bit. They get the royal invitation in the mail a few monthes/years later. "What has he been up to?"

Re: Disney nerd time!

Date: 2013-01-07 06:50 am (UTC)
heget: custom sigil in blue and gold (Default)
From: [personal profile] heget
Exactly. To all things.
(And seriously, watch Brave. Because, actually, that is sort of what her speech rejecting the suitors is. Except it isn't something 'just rejecting the suitors speech'.)

And yes- that is one of the series I have saved in a folder that is half tolkien art and half disney princesses or sailor moon in period clothing (w/ a tiny bit of Austen). I call it my "inspiration reference folder" aka pretty art, let's be honest.

FitzHerbert, so we have a good clue how Eugene ends up in a orphanage. But as I said- this is honestly the most thought I've put into Tangled. The movie really did as much for me as Emperor's New GrooveGroove.

Hey- I loved Princess Elionwy- and the book series more, for all that in the movie you don't hear about her kingdom you don't get the sense that she was running away or rebelling against anything internally. Talk about obscure.


Oh, I love to make happier AU explanations for stories. The problem with doomed couples only reunited in the afterlife being one of my story-telling hooks -as I was chatting about at the forum- and the dearest one to my heart is one of those doomed before it had a chance to begin and doesn't even have the 'reunited in the afterlife possiblity'... When you have those, almost as a coping mechanism, you learn to make "that happier world where things worked out a little better".
Like our family joke of, "No, no. Palpatine was eaten by the Zillo Beast. Anakin quits the order, never such a thing as Vader. Happy endings la-la-la-covering-my-ears; you still get the awkward family dinner where Leia brings new boyfriend Han and Dad is all "Where is your brother? He's late" aka Cloud City....


It's that classic trope problem of the princess never upgrading to Queen.

Kida? Is she the only one I can think of?


And I keep forgetting to type out half the points I want to make each time and sending off on tangents.

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