Shakoriel

i'm a foppish little dilettante! i like to study poncy things, draw & paint pretty things in frock coats and lace and heels and makeup, and write about the aforesaid things. i love dandyism, fashion & costuming, gothic beauty, ancient & medieval history, sci-fi & fantasy anything, baseball, Latin, westerns, archery, yaoi, cats, red hair, black eyeliner, macs, dressing like an insane asylum escapee, sleep, and eggs florentine!

my art (fantasy, costume, historical, gothic, and nearly always genderbending) is at my site secreta. i'm also on deviantART. more stuff is on my sketchblog.

if you like my art you can buy prints & such from me: my dA store or my secreta shop. or you could commission me.

favourite artists: JW Waterhouse, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Alphonse Mucha, Victoria Frances, Hans Holbein, Aubrey Beardsley, Thomas Canty, Ayami Kojima, Edward Gorey, Amy Brown, Kat Von D.

favourite authors: Storm Constantine, Guy Gavriel Kay, PG Wodehouse, Ellen Kushner, Neil Gaiman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

favourite movies: Serenity, Stage Beauty, Breakfast on Pluto, The Magnificent Seven, Wilde, V for Vendetta, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Moulin Rouge, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pan's Labyrinth, Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow, Interview with the Vampire, Sunshine, The Prestige.

favourite tv: FIREFLY! also Doctor Who, Torchwood, Star Trek, HBO's Rome, M*A*S*H, I Dream of Jeannie, Monty Python, Project Runway.

favourite music: Mew, Placebo, HIM, VNV Nation, Blackmore's Night, Negative, Blutengel, Emilie Autumn, Assemblage 23, Enigma, Loreena McKennitt.

xoxoxo