>This one has a strong "household expedition to the New Avalon Opera"
>vibe to it. They must have been going to Tannhäuser, it's
>Remilia's favorite opera (even though she generally prefers Händel as
>a composer over Wagner).
>

I hadn't even considered opera, though I suppose in hindsight I should have (not sure Meiling would be a huge fan, but she's generally agreeable enough and if it makes Sakuya smile she's likely to be all for it.) Also little world building tidbits like this are always nice to see.

>I like these a lot, especially Remi's. I feel like she might adopt
>that as a battle uniform if and when she formally joins the war
>effort. The skirt's quite short by her usual standards, but when in
>Rome...
>

Heh, i hadn't thought of that as an excuse for the usual Danbooru habit of 'even our clean stuff is slightly risque'. Though I suppose also a shorter skirt (possibly with some leggings/tights) would be better for battle than something fancy and flowing.

>(And Flan is scandalizing the witches with her blatant wearing of
>shorts, proving that they could too if they wanted to. :)
>

I could swear I've seen one or two Strike Witches characters in what look like bike shorts (that might be another rabbit hole I fall down now.) At this point they might well be chalking it up to tradition though, "the first witches in the war just had to jump right into their strikers, no time to find or make shorts, and we honor them by continuing to fly dressed as they were."

>(The little details like the bat badge several of them are wearing,
>Flan's Lævatein brooch, Remi's boots, and, uh, everything about
>Koakuma are very nice touches, too.)
>

All the details in that piece were too good to sit on, plus for the most part the energy in the poses and expressions struck me as excellent, particularly Remilia and Meiling (who looks like she's just about to get into a fight and thinking "buddy, you're about to experience what I do best, hope you've got good healthcare.")

>Pretty. I like it when artists depict Flandre as a snappy dresser, as
>opposed to the usual "she's insane and lives in a basement, how does
>she even manage to dress herself as well as she's dressed in the
>official art anyway?" approach.
>

This is actually the pic that started me fully down into the pit. Saw it and that outfit as a Youtube thumbnail, cursed that they didn't link the image in the description, and went hunting. Found the others along the way, and once I finally tracked this one down, well, we ended up here.

>That particular artist seems to be using the alternate "ROYGCBV"
>rainbow order one sees in some more recent textbooks (which omits
>indigo and inserts cyan between blue and violet so there can still be
>seven colors). I'm on the fence about that particular pedagogical
>innovation. On the one hand, it does make more sense as a description
>of the reality (since "indigo" is a nonsense color and the "seven
>colors" of a rainbow are arbitrary distinctions anyway, supposedly
>chosen by Newton because, being as much medieval alchemist as modern
>physicist, he believed seven was part of the Divine Plan); on the
>other, it's New-Fangled Revisionism and it screws up the acronym. :)
>

Hmm, might be monitor calibration, I can see how the one crystal visible next to the green on the right side could be cyan rather than blue, but the next one in line on that side looks like it has too much red to be the blue in the alternative color scheme. Might be they sort of split the difference and went ROYGCIV.

>weirdly, in elementary school ca. 1980 I was taught it
>the other way around, starting at violet, even though VIBGYOR makes no
>sense as an acronym for anything.

Seems somehow Russian, like some sort of shadow agency. "Contact VIBGYOR HQ and tell them the ball has been deflated," or some such.

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