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.

Illustration from The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

Sketchbook pages from Cabinet of Curiosities by Guillermo Del Toro

Guillermo Del Toro's Bleak House

Jethro Tull's Songs From The Wood

Halloweentown set from The Nightmare Before Christmas

This are not fashion inspirations so to speak, but rather life inspirations I guess? Anyway, I recently reread The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury and I forgot how formative that book was to my entire existence. Combined with the atmosphere of Halloweentown in The Nightmare Before Christmas, all I want to do is live in the world of Halloween forever and always. Halloween is super underrated in comparison to Christmas. We deck the halls with boughs of holly, but we can't deck the halls with clusters of skulls during Halloween? I'm not down with that. Along with all things Halloween (what is wrong with me it was just Christmas and all I can ever think about is Halloween), I've been flipping through the new book on Guillermo Del Toro constantly ever since I bought it two months ago. Seeing his sketchbook pages made me miss drawing and creating and has given a new resurgence of motivation to start keeping a sketchbook again. In the book, there are also a ton of photos of Del Toro's home in L.A called Bleak House and now all I want in life is a house like that. I want art covering every inch of my walls and rooms dedicated to different kinds of books and aesthetics and cool memorabilia everywhere. That's the ultimate dream. Even though Halloween and creepy things have been on my mind, I can't wait until the polar vortex is done reigning its wrath on the northeast coast so it can warm up a little bit and I totally blame it on listening to Songs From The Wood on repeat for the past week. It's my favorite album of all time and it's absolutely brilliant and it makes you want to dance around a bonfire and lay down in the grass forever.