Old

An old soul and young eyes.

What more could one ask for?

World peace, clean sheets, something to eat.

Clean water.

Someone to tell you, and you, 'I love you.'

To look in the mirror and empathize with what you see

and not hate it. Just accept it.

I want you to want something.

I don't care what you believe, for God's or anyone else's sake,

just believe it. Just believe it.

I want you to be angry. I want you to be opressed.

I will opress you if I have to, just to make you feel.

Just to make you think.

You're not thinking.

Pieces

Mara Jade is coming along slowly but surely. I've made the white hood, bought a black tank top with brass chain and zipper, Dom is working on goggles, I am in the process of painting my laser gun, and have a decent idea of how to make the lightsaber backpack. I even found at the incredible Starvation Army an effing amazing dark brown leather trenchcoat complete with genuine distress. It's awesome, I must say. Now for riding pants, boots, shin/kneeguards, a thigh holster, gauntlets and the lightsaber itself.

Below is my Photoshop-colored version of the costume, which gives a better sense of the thing as a whole. Enjoy!

PDA

I must say how incredibly happy it makes me to see lovely young couples in the throws of passion. But seriously, if you are in a social situation in which you would normally be talkative, energetic and entertaining/enjoyable company, you should NOT - repeat NOT - be sitting on a couch for hours with your mate trying to subtly touch and kiss one another. This is SO boring for the rest of the company and is annoying to those who are single and those not with their significant other. So please be courteous. If you must be passionate, it is encouraged in short bursts. Instead of concentrating on the soft curve of her thigh/buttocks try to make conversation, crack a joke or in general be part of the group.

Steampunk Mara Jade

Yeah, went on a bit of an insanity trip today. Sitting at my computer an hour before my Victorian Characters class, thinking, "Should I read the book that I'm really far behind in? Or should I start sketching this costume?" I, with shagrin, must confess that I chose the latter... and then took the sketch to class and kept drawing. Yeah yeah yeah... I didn't pay a lot of attention, but in my defense I had nothing to say as I hadn't read the material for the day... admittedly because I sketched instead of reading. An infinite cycle.

ANYWAY I'll stop rambling and get back to the point. The lovely, time-consuming, distracting sketch that I sketched was my inspired idea of a steampunk Mara Jade costume.

I had been thinking of making a Mara Jade costume to wear to Celebration V, and to enter the 501st Legion, but had never put the plan in motion. But in my imaginings of the costume, I collected a lot of image research that I pulled from for this design.

Well, long and short, here's the design and a few bits and bobs that will appear somewhere in it.