Beauty and the Beard

[smokingboot]

When I feel no magic of my own, someone else's brilliance lights up my eyes.

With special thanks to illuminating_dragon, who finds/creates beauty with such ease and generosity, and has sparked me up with many gorgeous manuscripts and illustrations; The dullness cannot sustain itself. I am lifted out of my mode a la crud.

The one below I record here for a number of reasons; first, so that I always remember that there is nothing new under the sun; second because the ladies' waists are so fine, and third, look at that beautiful swaying motion of the pink-garbed damsel, his/her hips slightly tilted forward; that stance is so popular in medieval work, and I wonder if it was down to some kind of underkirtle or corsetry; I have heard that the thrust forward belly was a sign of fertility, but that seems to be reaching. Either way, it is delightful and cheers me on a grey morning.





NB: To all chums If you have tried to contact me via lj and haven't heard back, it's not that I don't care; Lj is still being extraordinarily rubbish.

Comments

[bytepilot.livejournal.com]

I see a drunken bloke chatting up a pair of drag queens as they step away from the patch of grass that's being used as a stage.

The fellow at the back saying something like "ah, Dave ? gerroutofit Dave. Don't mind 'im luv 'es pissed..."

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

*falls apart laughing*

Oh my god, it's true! But what about those huge cornetos right and left front of stage?

[bytepilot.livejournal.com]

Don't fall apart too much dear Boot, some parts of you are so flighty that we may never gather all the pieces together again.

Cornetos, possibly stored there untul the interval and the inevitable approach of a buxom wench with a tray hung around her neck.

Medievil equivilent of jumpers for goalposts ?

Badly painted stage scenery covered in glitter and rotated slowly by a concealed dwarf as the two wierd sisters sing "I will survive" ?

Stage one of the detachable skirts ?