Happy Hogmanay!

Happy New Year's Eve!

Little Women

Inevitable dressy swoon

(Not that I didn't get that with the previous TV version too... among others...)

Reflecting on the year

I haven't spent nearly enough time in skirts.

It's the weekend between Christmas and New Year's when nothing much happens! Yay!

Passing swoon

The Limehouse Golem gave me such costume envy. Not helped by Douglas Hodge (jokily) crossdressing in it. So unfair.

Happy Boxing Day

Leftovers! Actually slightly better TV in the evening!

Merry Christmas

Well, not all of my wishes came true. Oh well. ;)

Or that would be me on the right.

He's Our Heroine Christmas Special

Andy wasn't a big fan of Christmas by default. Sure, he liked the presents and the food and the lazing around for a couple weeks during the winter, but this year he couldn't really go home as his parents might notice he now looked like a girl. Attempts to hide that with a glamour hadn't quite worked. So it was going to be a Friendsmas.

And he had more questions about the religious stuff since meeting an actual goddess and taking a day trip to Hell.

And what was he supposed to get for, among others, an immortal witch who claimed to predate Christmas starting?

Happy Holidays!

May your wishes come true!

I don't normally go for Santa costume kinks but

Santa's coming

Fill my stockings!

Everything is ready. (Except some food.)

Midwinter

From here, that's how the light gets in.

Again, a great "yeah, no" fan reaction.

Ugh, J.K. Rowling.

Not-so-big news

Star Wars has...

He's Our Heroine is two today!

And there's a lot of behavior-modifying bad magic and manticores to fight.

A week to Christmas... time to wear red, surely?

Hallmark blinked first, which is nice.

Love is love

Hallmark getting mocked for chickening out against "One Million Moms" and pulling a commercial with a lesbian couple has led to, among other things, the possibility of a lesbian Christmas romcom suggestion from Wynonna Earp writer Emily Andras actually being written.

Well, at least I have my Christmas shopping done.

Days like this I'd like to go somewhere else, be someone else.

Life goes on, with some more marches and protests no doubt.

The results are... not what I wanted down south.

For all the good it'll do.

Tomorrow is the election. I'll be voting...

Oh, the weather outside is frightful.

That's all.

Bye for now, Big Bird.

Nothing fun bought but

At least I've got most of my Christmas shopping done.

Of course it will have a dance.

Coming soon...

The He's Our Heroine Christmas special.

... well, maybe.

Ana De Armas

Ana De Armas. Particularly in No Time To Die.

I searched for Little Black Dress...

... and it so often brings up nice new images.

The Princess And The Pauper: The Princess

Oh, she looks so bored, poor thing.

I was about to share the exact one!!
WB

(Lorena Rae)

I have not yet been Whammed. But I do not expect to make it through the week.

Christmas TG fantasy openers

Covers here

The Princess And The Pauper

The heiress to the throne of a small European country wishes to escape another crushingly dull winter of balls, courting and attempts at matchmaking. When she meets a distant cousin she realizes that this might be the perfect substitute... apart from one little detail...


A Damsel In This Dress

A visitor to a long ruined castle tries the wishing well for a chance at true, but you should always be careful what you wish for... this wish will go further than he ever expected, bringing him back to the castle's glory days... and not as who he expected to be!

World AIDS Day

Until there's a cure.

December

Stockings joke. ;)

Black and lacy

Just saw the Black Friday storefront for Victoria's Secret... so much coming off!

Take care out there on Black Friday!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Have a good one, US friends.

What, like it's hard?

How did Once Upon A Time In Hollywood's costumes capture 1969? I believe it was through... research.

Anne With An E

I never heard about Anne With An E until it was cancelled. :/

Christmas TG fantasies

The Princess And The Pauper

A Damsel In This Dress

What I want in my stocking

Just about time for Christmas RP threads!

The Doctor is in (soon)

Happy Doctor Who day!

And a new trailer, with Jodie Whittaker in formal wear!

(A tuxedo, not a dress.)

An early influence

... on my love of cute little cartoony animals in clothes. I've had this box in my room for more than thirty years...

Country Cousins Decorated Stationery. I can't find anything about this online. Is there more?

Okay, four more days and then I GUESS you can have Christmas music.

Transgender Day Of Remembrance

November 20th has come again, and we have more to remember.

He's Our Heroine 2.02 title card

It's nearly 2020

I keep hoping X-Change will happen. Or at least Surrogates.

I mean, this is the month Blade Runner happens. Where are my off-world colonies?

Another Sherri Hill prom dress model

... will we ever learn her name?

Edit May 7th: yes we will! Gracie Ryen Lancaster.

A surprising offer

Just got a first-time message with an offer for an RP where I get turned into a woman in Victorian times. I think that way is a first for me!

Obviously I don't want to jinx it...

The GI Collection

Article on Forbes about a trans-specific lingerie brand meant for comfort.
Thanks to HairyHeretic on El for the link!

Get your Louise Brooks bob ready...

We're six weeks away from the Twenties.

LBDs and sequins and velvet, oh my!

Party season is approaching, and with one little pink pill and the right dress I could be the perfect plus one.

Disney+

Sure, I'd like to watch The Mandalorian. And also the Christmas fantasy comedy with Anna Kendrick as Santa's daughter. And Cinderella.

Are You Am I title card

AKA Identity Theft, new title chosen by WB (after a dress brand!) and logo by me.

The Knight Before Christmas

Yes, Netflix went there.

Vanessa Hudgens and Josh Whitehouse star in a Christmas romcom that looks like a knockoff of Kate And Leopold and I am here for that.

Sooooo cooooold.

Can we bring back the tradition of storing up on food and staying in from Halloween till about the start of March?

Sesame Street

Sesame Street has been teaching about kindness, diversity, art, and the alphabet for fifty years.

The Ultimate Identity Theft

Provisional title of a new RP for WB (hi WB!) as a girl siphon's off a guy's masculinity...

Heroes

Tonight thirty years ago, the Berlin Wall came down.

Julia Brown

... as Lois Bennett in World On Fire.

Heroine "To Be Continued" card

Because sometimes this happens.

Weird perfume advertisements...

Zoe Kravitz is queen of the fashion vampires!

The runup to Christmas is truly on...

... time for weird perfume advertisements!

And then it's setting things on fire day!

The Monday After Halloween

Time to finish the leftover candy, I suppose...

Merry... November!

And we have Christmas adverts, going in heavy. A frozen food place must have spent a lot to get the Frozen 2 tie-in.

Mouse gown

A share from WB (hi WB!) A field mouse goes couture with a dandelion. Awwww!

We had trick or treaters!

We had some trick or treaters! And now we have some leftover candy. Best keep for the weekend. Hard as that might be...

WB
Didn't dress up, Bea? Pity.
Me
Sadly my traditional costume is "cold weather gear."

Happy Halloween!

And sometimes I need to save pictures of men too...

... for RP swooning purposes.

Steven R. McQueen in a tux.

Water ski witches

From 1954

Neat sweet petite

The new Addams Family film has at least led to some cosplay. Though it was theme song provider Christina Aguilera that Morticia-ed for the premiere.

Hailee Steinfeld as Emily Dickinson

Dickinson, from Apple TV, with historical looks but modern talk.

And THAT BALLGOWN. (Big pic)

Heroine Halloween addendum addendum

Cookies takes her family to a mouse Halloween party and Hero bobs for apples.

Heroine Halloween addendum

Akiva naturally disdains Halloween parties. Olivia forgot it was on.

Heroine Halloween

"What was Andy's outfit?" you may ask. (And WB did!)

The hilariously goofy bee outfit from The Secret Circle Halloween episode?

The "I'm not wearing those" and cut to she is wearing the cowgirl boots, dress, denim and soon oversized hat combo from The Longest Ride?

Or, y'know, something not from an actual photo of Britt Robertson? So many more awful and/or adorable possibilities.

He's Our Heroine Halloween Special

Though there might be a Halloween episode in season two which makes this non-canon. ;)

(Fun fact: the first Buffy novel after an adaptation of the pilot was about Halloween (and was later contradicted by the show's first Halloween episode) as was the second issue of the comic (which came out in time for Halloween a year after that episode, and that run has its own timeline issues but never mind).)

...

He's Our Heroine Halloween Special: Come As You Aren't

Halloween at Crestwood University, and despite Andy's attempts to claim he has too many assignments Lisa and Joe are taking him to a party at Donovan House.

"And since you haven't decided on a costume I've done that for you too." Lisa smiled playfully.
"... Of course you have..." Andy sighed deeply. "How trashy is it?"
"Oh, way less trashy than mine." Lisa grinned.
"That isn't very reassuring."

But the trashiness of his costume isn't Andy's only problem tonight! An unwelcome guest at the party means that old Halloween superstitions are coming true. Can Andy, Lisa and Joe save everybody in the house before the clock strikes midnight?

Cloak And Dagger

Aw, Cloak And Dagger is ending after two seasons (and presumably their forthcoming Runaways crossover).

Awful "sexy" Halloween costumes 2019

io9 picks the worst Halloween knockoff costumes of the year, inevitably featuring that "Nicest Neighbor" as well as other fetish-y takes on kids' properties.

Sure, I'd wear half of them if I could.

But don't scroll past the Harmonia section to the end. Argh.

It's a recurring motif. Let's say that.

I'll try to post a Halloween story that isn't just "guy goes into old house, tries on old dress, becomes lady in history" later. ;)

The Waiting House, 5

Makeup, perfume, hair styling... I was every inch a 1950s housewife, dressed up for a night out with my husband.

I admired myself in my full-length dressing mirror, delighted to see that I was beautiful.

I could hear him downstairs, waiting for me. I stepped to the stairs and began to descend, sure that he would like what he saw!

The house had been waiting for me, and I for the opportunity it offered me. It was restored to its former glory, now with a resident who could truly appreciate it. Outside it was 1952, my husband and I had just moved in after his promotion at work, ready to make a life for ourselves here. The house had a room waiting to be a nursery for our children, in time. But for now it was just the two of us, ready to make our house a home.

The Waiting House, 4

I fastened myself into rustling petticoats, and held the gown up to myself in the mirror. Smiling back at me was the woman I was always meant to be. I knew that dressing this way would be the beginning of a life in skirts and dresses, the life I had always wanted.

I took great care pulling the lovely navy silk over my reshaped body, feeling it settle as if it were made for me... or me for it.

I would never have to pretend to be masculine again. I felt my skirt swish and billow as I twirled.

There was still more to do, to complete my outfit. I stepped into dainty high heels, fastened pearls around my neck and slipped the matching earrings into my now apparently pierced lobes. And the ring on my finger...

As I put on the ring, I knew that the house had turned me into its perfect owner. It was a dream come true!

I was a 1950s housewife!

The Waiting House, 3

Carefully rolling and pulling the seamed stocking past my freshly painted toenails, up my legs, feeling them become smooth and shapely as I fastened the hose to the garters, I paused to admire myself. The effect had made me beautiful...

I could stop now, put on my male clothes and step out of the house, beginning a life as my female self in the present.

Or I could dress fully in the clothing that awaited me, dress for the 1950s from head to toe.

I quickly selected an evening dress...

The Waiting House, 2

It had been so long since I had properly dressed, I knew I couldn't resist. I stripped off my male clothes, discarding them without a second thought, even as I was sure none of these beautiful things would fit... I wanted them all to...

And it seemed that I had everything I would need, if anything did fit. Everything from girdles to hose, petticoats to dresses, shoes, even makeup and perfume.

I found a seemingly never-worn underwear set... and was surprised when it fit.

Or, no... it was changing me to fit it!

I thrilled at the sensation, and quickly fastened myself into it all. The girdle gave me the hourglass figure I had always dreamed of. The bullet bra pushed up my bosom. The knickers filled out my derriere. I was becoming a woman!

The Waiting House: a fantasy

I had never owned my own home before. But here I was, key in hand. I knew it wasn't ideal, out at the edge of the suburbs, built for one of those baby boom families in the early 1950s and seemingly never a real home to anyone. But now it would be mine...

The decor was retro and seemingly untouched, just faded and dusty here and there. I had planned to modernize, but now seeing it I had a sudden temptation to restore it to its former glory.

And there was more furniture than I had been expecting. Up in the master bedroom, a double bed, and a wardrobe...

And in the wardrobe, clothes...

Women's clothes...

Penny Dreadful

Where's that new series of Penny Dreadful already?

Enchanting

The best witchy fashions from film and TV

See if you can guess who wins.

Octobering

Quiet weekend ahead. Then big weekend. Then big midweek. Then possibly biggish weekend... then Christmas.

Chilling

Kim Petras, Icy

MUST NOT buy a Morticia wig

More Grease

HBO Max are making a Grease spinoff series set in Rydell High in the 50s, a musical with a mix of original songs and classics. No word yet if Grease 2 will be considered canon. ;)

Janet Montgomery

Of course if I could borrow Janet Montgomery's look from one show, it would be Salem.

13 is 31 backwards

It's the 13th. Do you feel lucky?

New Amsterdam is a fun little not-quite-ER, but mostly I envy Janet Montgomery's cheekbones.

Must not buy a Morticia wig...

Samara Weaving

Some bold accessories in Ready Or Not.

Holliday Grainger

Now that The Capture has finished...

Batwoman

Ruby Rose kicking guys in the face. I'm for it.

Victoria Justice at the Venice carnival

I'm not that jealous. Nope.

With Madison Reed

Thanks to WB for the link!

It's been a week.

And off we go marching again. In our tens of thousands, in the rain.

The Addams Family

The new Addams Family CG toon looks... not great. Bringing the original Charles Addams designs to animation is a good call, but the animation style doesn't seem to be doing it any favours. And the voice cast with Charlize Theron as Morticia, Oscar Isaac as Gomez and Chloe Grace Moretz as Wednesday makes me wish they'd gone for live-action.

Of course October also means rain.

October

And you know what that means...

Post 2019!

It's 2019!

We're six weeks away from Blade Runner.

The War Of The Worlds

A period adaptation of The War Of The Worlds, coming soon from the BBC, starring Rafe Spall, Robert Carlyle, and Eleanor Tomlinson.

Not the most practical outfit for running from Martian war machines in...

Nice weather for going around museums and galleries.

The mysterious retro 50s model

Who is possibly also the Maggie Tang model...

Discord is down. :(

Amok, amok, amok!

What if there was... more Hocus Pocus?

A Very New Outlook Cover

You wake up one morning to find yourself living a different life. A new face, a new form...

Yesterday you were Joe Nobody... now you're a society girl!

How did it happen? Is this a blessing or a curse? Can you get back? Do you want to?

A Halloween trick, or maybe a treat, by WB and Beatrice Black

A job I've always wanted...

Ah, my favorite thing about historical documentaries about palaces, pointless reenactment bits with ladies in big dresses walking around gardens.

2010

Attempt no landings here!

Happy Autumn!

(Or Spring in the southern hemisphere!)

A Bold And Sassy Heart

A TG caption story series from Miss Simone.

24,000 posts on Elliquiy

That's quite a lot.

Plan for RP still being negotiated...

Maddie Teeuws

Maddie Teeuws, star of WB's next RP.

Pan Am

Mad Men didn't result in many copycat shows, being a slow-burn character study that reveled in the awfulness of the era it was set in, but the "fancy 50s and 60s outfits" element did result in a few series, notably the soapy-as-anything Pan Am, starring Christina Ricci and a not-famous-yet Margot Robbie and David Harbour. The opening two-parter included the heroic Pan Am crew helping an evacuation, one of the stewardesses becoming a spy...

Thanks to WB for the reminder!

MI55 end title card

Stewardess... in... SPAAAAACE

See also The Fifth Element.

2001: A Blog Odyssey

Stewardesses... In... SPAAAACE!

For Pan-Am, of course...

2000 posts!

Backdating so I have something every day will do that, I guess!

Shall we play a game...?

Looks like my offer to do an actual group system RP on Elliquiy has paused due to the initial requester taking time off. Dunno if it was going to work anyway.

And no, it wasn't going to be about gender TF.

Well, maybe one episode.

Friday The 13th

On a full moon, no less.

And apparently the 50th anniversary of Scooby-Doo!

Hard to believe it's been eighteen years.

.

Flouncy...

Watching a series on royal palaces, envying the pointless reenactment extras' costumes.

Where did all this weather come from?

Star Trek

It's Star Trek Day, the 53rd anniversary of the US premiere.

And yes, I bring up Turnabout Intruder a lot. But to be different...

The diverse, inclusive future is one I love. A chance to be better.

The Deep Space Nine anniversary documentary What We Left Behind notes some of diversity representation it did well, and showrunner Ira Steven Behr admits that queer representation wasn't really one.

Risa was less overtly queer-friendly than it might have been, as this article notes.

And then there was, as Pride.com puts it, an accidental transgender episode.

Having a nice weekend!

Olivia Holt

For A Marriage Of Inconvenience again.

Though she may end up in this, this time...

Alicia Vikander

Tulip Fever and The Man From UNCLE have my favorite Alicia Vikander looks, though...

And photoshoots, obviously.