Video 5 - Sewing Shop

[roseofthetyrells]

[the video opens on the Sewing Shop, Margaery sitting in front of the camera with her legs crossed neatly at the knee and wearing this. there are three finished items on dress forms in the background and a small stack of bolts of fabric]

Hello, everyone! I wanted to let you know that the Sewing Shop is open for business. Please stop by if you need your garments mended or if you need something new that you can't find in the shops. I know how hard it is to find things that fit properly there.

I'm also available to give sewing lessons should you wish to learn! It's a very useful skill to have, especially here where anything can happen.

[Private to Abigail, Daenerys, and Maglor]

I have something ready for you. Feel free to stop in anytime to pick it up!

Comments

[roseofthetyrells]

One would certainly hope so. Though, I'm told that his world doesn't have kings or queens. Instead, the people choose their rulers. That sounds risky to me.

[bythewaves]

Risky in some ways, but useful in others. It would, theoretically, motivate folk who wish to rule to do well, lest someone else be chosen!

[roseofthetyrells]

Or it could lead to someone like Cersei putting on an act, fooling everyone, then seizing power. And then what could be done to be rid of them?

[bythewaves]

And that's the risk. [ he smiles wryly ]

Although I would guess that there are measures in place for that eventuality.

[roseofthetyrells]

I wonder what kinds of measures? Killing the offender would settle the matter for good, but what if their followers rose up and revolted?

[bythewaves]

I suppose without knowing Matt's world it is hard to judge. Perhaps there are failsafes in place if they seek to hold power for an extended term?

[roseofthetyrells]

There would have to be, if humans on Earth are anything like humans in Westeros. So many Westerosi hunger for power and those that have it will do anything to keep it.

[bythewaves]

Mm, that's true everywhere, I think. It's only a matter of how many folk think that way, and what they're prepared to do for it. Also, what the society around them will allow them to get away with. I don't know - Matt's world is too unfamiliar to me to guess. Did he speak to you of those sorts of things?

[roseofthetyrells]

We spoke of the fact that there are no ruling kings or queens in his world and that leaders are generally chosen by election. I'd hope that people are . . . better in his world, although I know that there still are criminals who have to be stopped.

[bythewaves]

People will be people. [ Maglor agrees ] But societal norms also play a part in such things - if people expect to be removed if they do not perform, one would hope that it would make them create an effort to do well.

[roseofthetyrells]

One would most certainly hope so! Grandmother would probably be very cross with me for not pursuing the world of public service when I go to Matt's world. I think I'd like to continue making clothes. I have ideas for dresses that aren't based off of clothing from home and I think I'd like to try making them.

[bythewaves]

No reason why you couldn't make clothes as a sideline, I suppose - although it might make things a little difficult. But tis good to have a steady source of income, I think.

[roseofthetyrells]

Yes, I'm told that there is no shortage of women looking for fancy dresses in Matt's world. Something about movie stars, whatever those are?

[bythewaves]

I think that is true on every world! But tge phrase makes no sense to men I'm afraid...Possibly if we knew what a movie is and why stars are related to it.

[roseofthetyrells]

Movies are apparently plays which are recorded on one device and played on another. I'd assume that a movie star is someone who acts in the plays?

[bythewaves]

Ah... yes, I suppose that would make sense. [ He says consideringly ] In which case, it would make sense - for plays one needs many costumes, after all.

[roseofthetyrells]

Yes, and each one has to be more impressive than the last one. The only problem I can see is that apparently many theatre people have big egos.

[bythewaves]

[ Maglor laughs ] I think that is true for everyone in such businesses!

[roseofthetyrells]

I would imagine so! When I was a little girl and the pressures of my lessons got to be too much for me, sometimes I'd fantasize about running away with a troupe of actors.

[bythewaves]

[ He grins ]

Take it from someone who did that for a year - although mind, I did not actually run away as such! - it really isn't anywhere near as fun as it sounds. One starts to miss a soft bed and warm baths rather swiftly!

[roseofthetyrells]

[she laughs]

Is that so? Then, I suppose I'll have to content myself with years of featherbeds and rosewater-scented baths.

[bythewaves]

I was a very spoilt prince at the time. [ maglor shrugs wryly ]

To suddenly have to sleep under the stars with naught for your bed but a cloak and to eat only what you can carry or catch was something of a surprise! Probably why my parents encouraged it, in honesty. And to be fair, by the end of the year, I was much more accustomed to it, and could even say honestly that I enjoyed it.

[roseofthetyrells]

And I was a very spoiled and pampered young noblewoman.

Did I hear you correctly? Your parents encouraged you to go? I can't imagine my parents encouraging me in such an endeavor. They didn't even like it when I went horseback riding alone on Tyrell lands.

[bythewaves]

They did - father and mother were both very independent young things. They first met, in fact, on the open road, when he was her father's apprentice. And they loved to ramble, even after.

[roseofthetyrells]

[she sighs]

That sounds so romantic. Meeting on the road instead of on one's wedding day, travelling and seeing the world, not being expected to spend one's life staring at the same place and the same people.