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Mood Board Thing #1: Black, Black, and More Black

Sailor Chibi Moon Illustration by babsdraw.tumblr.com
Lionello Balestrieri, Woman on a Paris Street at Night 1924

All right, first mood board/inspiration/idea clusterfuck thing! As is apparent by my blog theme, the zine I posted, and my about me, I am obsessed with the image of the witch and I always been. Only recently am I trying to incorporate it into my everyday look. Some days it's long and flowy like Stevie Nicks (and I do blame AHS: Coven for this. I'm a white girl and I never listened to Fleetwood Mac until now? Sacrilege) and other days it's angry teen meets Death from Neil Gaiman's Sandman (which is my all time favorite comic so go check it out). I keep obsessing over the image of the girls with the pumpkins at their feet and it's really making want a pair of black thigh highs. And I want black claw nails so I can scratch off the faces of all my enemies, it would be glorious. The ideal form for people to cower in my presence.
You'll notice that Chibi Moon is the only part of this mood board thing that is not wearing black. That's actually bit surprising for me! I love wearing all black. It's my power color and it's my armor and I like to think that people will be scared of me. I used to be afraid of wearing all black because I thought people would think I'm super goth, but let's be real I've been living in goth denial since I was 12. I've only recently embraced this facet of myself. Black is timeless and frightening and darkness and everything and nothing at the same time. Black is the basically the best. Pretty much my entire wardrobe is black, with some burgundy and dark green mixed in. I totally know what variety is.

Out of all of this, I am in desperate need of more long, flowy, black things and black thigh highs and to finally get around to making my vest (which I keep putting off because because effort). With all these things inspiring me recently, I'm getting one step closer to my ultimate aesthetic: witch meets Halloweentown meet Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud meets regulation Ravenclaw hottie meets Death from Sandman.

Long time no see! One of my goals for 2014 is to finally start posting on this blog and stick to a posting schedule. In my first post, and well my only one besides this one, I mentioned how I wanted to explore aesthetics and I made a zine for one of my favorite ones!

Besides witchy things being an aesthetic, the trope, character, and representation of witches over the course of history is something very important to me. Witches have also been a source of self-reflection and discovery for myself ever since I was little.

The zine is 22 pages long and is available to view at this link on google drive. From there you can print yourself out a copy if you'd like and you can share it easily with your friends if you wish from there! This thing is kind of like my baby and I'm very proud of it.