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[skygiants]

It's the first night of Hanukkah, also Christmas Eve! Normally at this time I would be prepping to go to New York for the traditional Chinese food and a movie, but I have had too much travel this year and yet more coming up, so instead I am home on my couch with Chinese food, and that is also pretty OK.

Meanwhile, as we wait for the Yuletide archive to open, seems like it's a good time for another costume poll!

Last time, we actually ended up with a neck and neck tie between the two wardrobe extremes of Jeremy, a complicated man who contains multitudes:





The people love Prince Jeremy! The people also love weird yellow plaid-skirted hobo Jeremy.

But will the people also love ...



1. ...weird bowl-cut Jeremy? ?? ???



I don't even care about the rest of this outfit. Yes, there's some kind of one-sleeved stripy nonsense, and it's weird, but WHAT IS HAPPENING ON TOP OF THIS POOR CHILD'S HEAD.



Jeremy, who did this to you. Who hid a hideous bowl cut under your normal, already moderately terrible hair like the world's worst transformer. How can we help you.

2. Speaking of people who need help, it's a little distressing to me that poor Mi Nam appears to be trapped inside a fur straightjacket? How can she eat this delicious food or drink this delicious beer when she can't move her arms??



Actually, it doesn't actually look terrible when it's up around her shoulders --



But then the back is just -- is it just a piece of elastic? I DON'T UNDERSTAND.



THIS IS THE WORST PARTY EVER.



3. You know who can work a giant pile of fur and make it look like an actual, intentional choice on her part? HE YI.



This is definitely the same shiny gold dress underneath, so I guess when it's time to party she replaces it with a....nother different fur? Maybe it's one fur that can actually be ANY fur?



Or -- are those straps actually on both sides of her arms? Is it a TINY FUR BACKPACK?



4. OK, back with Jeremy. (Do those words fill you with fear yet?) No, actually, this is relatively fine!



He's ... going for some kind of space prince look here, I guess? A Jetsons kind of thing? Anyway, don't ask me what's going on with his waistband, don't ask me what's going on with his shoulderpads, the lurking beast of a bowl cut is hidden and that's all that really matters to me.



5. Let's finish up with Stylist Wang, who's also making an entry in the fur sweepstakes.



Maybe it's my weakness for cloche hats, but this is ... actually really cute? The pigtails are adorable, the fur vest is ... well, relatively tasteful by comparison ...



The plaid dress actually matches the hat? It looks like an ensemble? Way to go, Stylist Wang!

(You may be wondering what's going on in the rest of this picture and why it is not being entered into the costume polls. The answer is that it is a bona fide A.N.Jell PHOTOSHOOT and it seemed unfair to consider any of these costumes individually when they were designed to be appreciated as an ENSEMBLE, but, for your viewing pleasure:







YOU'RE WELCOME.)

Poll #17813

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 33

View Respondents

And the ultimate most fabulous costume of episode 9 is...

View Answers

Jeremy and his bowl cut
4 (12.1%)

Mi Nam and her fur straightjacket
6 (18.2%)

He Yi and as many furs as she damn well wants
7 (21.2%)

Jeremy, space prince
11 (33.3%)

Stylist Wang and her cloche
5 (15.2%)

-- and while I was doing this, Yuletide came out! HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE.

Comments

[marginaliana]

I mean, I think the one with the almost-invisible dog is my favorite picture (a matching dog: the perfect accessory to any outfit, really)? But I vote space prince.

[skygiants]

Tiny Dog Shin Woo: a supervillain just waiting for his James Bond film.

[thewickedlady]

Where is Jeremy's necklaces of cowl necklines for that one time he didn't have on something with a cowl neck?? HE TOTALLY DID THAT, I REMEMBER.

[skygiants]

I would like to point out that space prince outfit comes with its own detachable cowlneck! NO OUTFIT COMPLETE WITHOUT IT.

[hokuton_punch]

I'll be honest, I unironically enjoy the space prince look. It is My Jam.

[skygiants]

I wouldn't wear it, but I think he's kind of working it! Though I wish it wasn't so beige.

[thistleingrey]

The fur straitjacket is just a too-big cowl, I guess? A scowl. (Cowl in the contemporary knitting sense.)

[skygiants]

Did someone just push it down around her arms and then leave her there, unable to escape??

(....given that this is the same character who was trapped by a bidet this actually seems super plausible.)

[thistleingrey]

Right? Though since the show meditates pretty thoroughly upon Go Mi Nam's passiveness, I guess there is no way out but through.

[elsane]

It is really cruel of you to show me Jeremy's yellow bedazzled outfit, complete with detail shot so I can appreciate his orange peanut-bear earring, and then deny me the opportunity to vote for it.

[genarti]

I was thinking the same thing, but of Shin Woo's random accessory dachshund.

[skygiants]

This dachshund has accepted its fate, much like all the rest of us who are watching this show.

[skygiants]

Oh, is that what the earring is? I thought it was tiny orange crabs! OR TINY ORANGE SKULLS.

Anyway, my point is: yes, yes I know.

[elsane]

Oh, you are right, it is a pair of tiny orange skulls! That is. That is certainly a thing.

[sovay]

so instead I am home on my couch with Chinese food, and that is also pretty OK.

Happy couch-holiday with Chinese food!

Space prince all the way.

[skygiants]

Thank you!

(BUT WHY IS IT SO BEIGE)

[rushthatspeaks]

I can't take my eyes off that bowl-cut.

If I do it might attack.

[skygiants]

"I might lift up my hair and discover A HORRIFYING BOWL CUT underneath" was not, previously, a fear that I had.

[elsane]

I read this and couldn't stop laughing.

[lacewood]

.... How does Jeremy even have enough hair for BOTH the bowl cut AND the bun on his head? IS THAT A WIG???

[skygiants]

I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW. SCIENCE CAN'T EXPLAIN IT.

[ranalore]

I too must protest my inability to vote for Shin Woo's stealth!daschund, which I feel raises the stakes in the animal-themed accessories hunger games. That said, while I find Jeremy's attack!bowl cut utterly terrifying and Stylist Wang's outfit legitimately totes adorbs, I feel Jeremy's commitment to demonstrating his royal versatility is a motif worthy of attention and...uh...celebration? Let's go with celebration.

[skygiants]

I'm willing to go with celebration as long as positive reinforcement results in Jeremy keeping the bowl cut under its protective coloring, WHERE IT BELONGS!

[ranalore]

I'd say where it belongs is six feet under with a stake through its heart, buried inside a magickal circle of containment. That or cremated and shot into the sun.