#Centre Point

[soundsofdublin]

Halloweekend in Dublin

With Halloween fast approaching, there’s no shortage of events being held in Dublin this week. Whether you’re looking for a high energy night to celebrate with friends or a place for pints and live music, there’s something for everybody. Here’s our guide to some of the best Dublin venue events this week!

This Halloween Thursday, Centre Point brings you ‘The Midnight Disco’, celebrating the holiday with a night of house and techno tunes with 6 top DJ’s including EMA, Sahanna, Dainel Roddy and more, you’re guaranteed an energetic night to remember.

Located  in the heart of Dublin on Temple Lane Street, Centre Point is creating a name for itself in the techno scene offering a space everyone to enjoy music together. Tickets start at €5 on a first come first serve basis and are on sale now.

https://ra.co/events/2008495

One of Dublin’s largest nightclubs Copper Face Jacks brings you their annual Halloweekend event this Friday, encouraging all to dress up for a night of tricks, treats, and dancing with prizes for best dressed. With Coppers being transformed into a haunted wonderland for the weekend, this event is bound to keep the Halloween spirit going. With a mix of club classics and Halloween hits, the resident DJ’s have something for everybody to enjoy.

Located at 29 Harcourt Street, this event is free entry before 10:30pm with tickets available at the door, as well as being strictly 21s. The venue holds 2 dance floors, 4 bars and a smoking area making it one of Dublin’s largest clubs. Don’t miss out on one of Dublin’s largest student Halloween events full of festive fun and music!

This Wednesday, Lost Lane brings you ‘All Hallows Eve’ as part of their weekly ‘Skint Wendesdays’, with promotions for €2.50 vodkas all night long! Go into Halloween in full festive spirit with this pre-party located just off Grafton Street. The resident DJ’s have a stacked mix of music fit for the night with encouragement on showing off your costumes. The event is strictly 18s and is the perfect Halloween event for college students. Tickets start at €10 with sales ending soon so get your tickets while you can!

[highsummonermercar]

Central London in the 2000/10s

I'm looking for pictures from the 2000/10s for an article on third spaces. Places such as Trocadero, Chinatown Market, the Korean restaurants on the old Centre Point/Tottenham Court Road, Artbox, JSA Restaurant in Soho and Red Devil Korea Bar and Diner Restaurant in Oxford Circus would be great.

DM me if you have any, looking to pitch this before 2025.

[lestcat-de-lioncourt]

Save Lestat, mid eternal life crisis moment clutching his driftwood body pillow

[alexsmithson]

London’s Architectural Aesthetic!

The best thing about London is its architectural aesthetic: the endless beauty of the various buildings, each with exquisite architectural appeal! #shotoniphone #photography #london #architecture #aesthetic

[thefollyflaneuse]

Spike Milligan: 'Follies of the Wise'

As the festive season approached in 1970, families would have pored over the special edition of the Radio Times to see what treats the three television channels could offer. If on New Year’s Eve had they walked across the room to warm up the set, and twiddled the knob to find BBC One, they would have seen a programme called Follies of the Wise presented by Spike Milligan. The writer, actor and…

[tuyetnhivincity]

CẬP NHẬT TIẾN ĐỘ XÂY DỰNG MASTERI CENTRE POINT MỚI NHẤT

[incinerated-vestiges]

average british activities (techno is mildly terrified)

@hennagrace

[sophsun1]

#oh how the power dynamic has changed

[stephaniebrownthespoiler]

Reading Red Robin is like-

fandom really played like a long game of telephone with this run because almost every popular trope that fanon likes to explore is like taken out of context from red robin

for example, back when i read fanon i would eat up the "Damian cut Tim's line" fics where it's like sad boy Tim and mean Damian and Dick finding out is always such an important plot line in these

but then in the actual book:

Damian cutting his line is a minor moment and immediately followed by them fighting physically with Tim winning

And the only reason Damian even did that is that Tim was still mistrusting him

and Dick knows about the whole thing-he helped solve the problem

there is also the fanon storyline of like Tim feeling super betrayed because no one believed him until they actually got Bruce back.

which is just. not what happened. at all?

Dick is always willing to believe him

and when Tim actually explains himself Dick listens and trusts him

Then Tim's characterization in fanon is also just like flanderised version of rr!Tim

Fanon is basically someone seeing a vaguely worded list of plot points in red robin and then making shit up from there and it so funny to me

[stubz]

Storyteller

"Hello Max, I'm here to surprise Pollix with a early pick up."

"Oh how nice, although I don't know if he'll want to go right now."

"Why not? Is he in the middle of a game?"

"No, its story time."

The tighalax smirks. "You really think he won't want to come because of 'story time'?" he laughs.

"Just look and see." the human smiles.

The teacher leads the giant feline being through the child centre to a corner where a colorful and beautiful plush carpet lays on the floor. Not that you could see it as it was covered by sitting younglings. All entranced by the human standing before them telling them a story rather animatedly and loudly.

"Pollix, lets go." calls Dux, looking at his cub.

Not even a glance.

"Pollix."

An ear twitch but still no look.

"...Pollix!"

The whole class looks including Kim.

"Oh, Pollix, your dad is here."

"Papa, not yet! The story isn't done." whines the cub.

"...you want to finish the story?"

"Pollix wants to finish the story! Jax and Morgana are fighting the monster now!" cries Nova.

"...is it almost over?"

"Oh, um, almost but, Pollix I can tell you the rest tomorrow-"

"My Papa says its okay!" Pollix cries interrupting Kim

"...is it okay if I...?" trails a very embarrassed Kim.

The tighalax nods and actually goes to sit next his cub. The sight making Max snort as the 8 foot tall feline like being towers over the younglings. After he settles in and Pollix snuggles in on his Papa's lap he gives Kim the okay to continue.

"...story teacher!" whines the children, their teacher taking too long for their liking to continue the story.

"Oh...right...okay then." she mutters, face red from nerves and embarrassment. This was the first time a parent saw her tell a story.

"...the monster roared at our heroes, swinging his mighty axe down at them. Flung into the air our hero, Jax, is grabbed by the giant's fist and thrown into the monster's mouth." The cubs gasp as the human acts out the catching their hero. Her voice slowly getting louder again.

"NO!"

"What does Morgana do?!"

"Is he dead?!"

"Morgana, seeing that the villain ate her friend charges at him as soon as she lands. Her sword drawn and ready, her face angry, eyes full of tears, and with a mighty cry leaps at the giant." She begins to act out the story, going back to her story telling enthusiasm.

"The monster in turn swings his axe at her, with her in the air it will definitely hit her. The axe hits Morgana and she falls to the ground badly hurt...but not without killing the beast. At the last moment she gathers all her magic into her sword and throws it at the giant monster, piercing his evil heart!" cries Kim, thrusting her hand out as if she had just thrown the very sword.

"...and then..." whispers Nova.

"The monster fades away, revealing a hurt but alive Jax. Seeing Morgana he drags himself to her and they hug, happy to see each other again. Even if they're both not in one piece. The healers arrive and the two head home where they continue the rest of their adventure together, as they were always meant to be. The end."

The cubs cheer with most asking for another story.

"No, no more stories for today. Let's give Kim a break, okay, she's already told you 4 stories." Max ushers the kids towards the toys.

"That was a very good tale teacher Kim, I never knew Earth had such interesting history."

"Hmm? Oh that wasn't our history."

"A legend or folktale then?"

"No, just a made up story."

"Ah, could you tell me the name of it? I would like to read it to Pollix at home, it sounded very interesting."

"Oh uh, I actually just made it up." the human smiles.

"You made it up!? How long ago? Must have taken you ages." Praised Dux, tail flicking in excitement.

"Actually I just made it up now, I make the story up as I go."

"...you make it up as you go...y'know that offer to quit your job and join my pack still stands right? Our planet and culture greatly value Storytellers such as yourselves, you could even make a great living if you worked for me."

"Thanks but I don't think I could ever do that, I hate public speaking!" grins the human.

"...but you just-"

"Children are the exception."

[auspicioustidings]

It's good for the soul when you make Gaz an evil little shit sometimes. Like don't get me wrong, he is my sunshine boy, but also I let him abduct and dollify pretty office workers sometimes as a little treat y'know?

[surreal-duck]

june brides in may

[karlachismylife]

My sister sent me a news article about orca whales starting to wear dead fish on their heads, scientists assume that's their new fashion trend.

Wearing death on display is ocean's design. Congregated thousands of little deaths press together to form a chalk shield for one life. Death wears life too, predators with teeth rotting from the food debris stuck between them carry around little remora passengers.

Anemone life sits on a shell death covering a crab life. There's death devoured inside of that crab. It's life getting devoured inside of someone else.

Ghost spends time cleaning and boiling his little death until it's pristine white and suitable for wearing. Every little piece of life stuck to it, scraps of meat and stains of outer layer yellowed by years of functioning, is polished off. Rookies shine their boots, Ghost sits hunched over a front half of a skull and meticulously goes over it with a cloth and some varnish. Little pores this bones used to breathe through get clogged by a fake immortality.

Fashion dies. Dead fish rots and falls off the head of a chirping orca with a smile reeking of death.

Ghost's wearable death goes out of fashion with a slide of warm hands, bunching up the bally and moving the skull out of the way. Greased up pores of his skin take a breath. Same warm hands come up to wash the black and and the red away. Wipe the stains off his face, trace his features. Trace the still living, blood-rushed meat that by miracle still covers his own skull. His Sergeants' wearable life attaches to him by hands of the greatest evolutionary designer. Two capable remoras stuck in their place painlessly and tightly, flexible yet unmovable. Determined to keep their place and Simon protected.

Dead fish fashion fades. Living fish style is eternal.

Kyle and Johnny will make sure Simon stays dressed in style.

[alexsmithson]

London’s Centre Point Stands Tall!

The Centre Point 34-storey tower block in Central London stands tall with a 9-storey block to the East comprising of offices, retail units, maisonettes and shops, with a linking block between the two at first-floor level! #shotoniphone

[iridescentmirrorsgenshin]

no thoughts just comparing the deliberate parallels between the concerned comments layla, faruzan and paimon make to kaveh which are used to contextualise alhaitham’s comments to kaveh during a parade of providence

In the desert, layla who previously had issues with dealing with anxieties, received dubious advice from kaveh about equating worries to that of a sickness for that which is no cure, therefore you have to let its run its course

Layla reveals that this advice isn’t suitable for her, since the cause for her anxiety was solely because she didn’t have a clear goal for herself. She states that therefore, if this advice is something kaveh adheres to, then this is ultimately worse for him, as kaveh claims to have a set goal - as in, he wants to win the interdarshan chanpionship.

She notes that kaveh seems conflicted, and that this could stem from some inner sadness which he suppresses with a façade of happiness.

This points to kaveh’s internal conflict being between that of his guilt complex brought about by his perceived involvement in his father’s passing, and his genuine desire to help others at the cost of himself. Kaveh cannot balance the two in ways that will allow him to prioritise his own needs and desires

Kaveh’s internal conflict is pointed out later on in the same quest by Faruzan, who highlights kaveh’s title as a genius being incongruous with his problem solving abilities after kaveh passes out in the desert due to giving his food and water to the disturbed foxes and going out of his way to lead them to safety, putting himself at risk and jeopardising his place in the competition

However, Kaveh states that his title of a genius has nothing to do with this situation, and although he admits it wasn’t the most practical solution, it was dually his conscience that ultimately caused him to act and perceivably the guilt that would come from not attempting to help

After the second round comes to a close and faruzan inadvertently informs alhaitham of kaveh’s “tribulations”, the player gets to hear alhaitham’s reactions to kaveh’s decision through kaveh, as kaveh and alhaitham have discussed the events in the desert offscreen

Paimon points out that this is definitely ‘something’ alhaitham would say due to the blunt manner of speaking and the dryness of his words - this contextualises how kaveh receives them, as personal goading

When looking past this and focussing on alhaitham’s actual words, the real meaning can be found, and it is even a point in this scene that paimon offers the exact same comments, drawing direct parallels between her and alhaitham’s words, and therefore establishing the same concerns

Alhaitham points out kaveh’s unreliable problem solving abilities being incongruous with his title as a senior - directly paralleling faruzan’s comments in which she highlighted how kaveh’s decision making abilities were at odds with his title as a genius

As well as this, alhaitham alludes to kaveh’s guilt complex being the reason why he exerts himself for others at his own expense - which is a point that the traveller and paimon directly follow up on

Kaveh responds to their questioning amicably despite the sensitive nature of the conversation, just as he did when faruzan pointed out kaveh’s problematical decision making, and this is because of their apparent concern rather than actively seeking offence, with paimon protesting when kaveh asks: “don’t tell me you think i have serious personality flaws, too?” With the ‘too’ clearly referencing alhaitham and the conversation the two had prior to the traveller and paimon turning up

Kaveh can understand the concern in others’ words when they question his problem solving skills and the sense of his inner conflict stemming from guilt, however, when alhaitham makes the same comments, kaveh sees this as a form on animosity and personal critique

Because of alhaitham’s manner of communication and kaveh’s apparent distrust of alhaitham, the two cannot reach a mutual understanding - despite alhaitham expressing the same concerns as three separate characters within this quest

It is telling then that when kaveh gleans an otherwise unseen meaning in alhaitham’s words is when alhaitham changes his method of communication and directly, and intimately, addresses kaveh by using a script that only the two are privy to

Kaveh still doesn’t wholly understand alhaitham’s meaning, but the switch up in communication method is enough for kaveh to question alhaitham’s sincerity and not attribute it to alhaitham mocking him

Kaveh continues questioning the cause for this throughout the remainder of the event, being seen to question why alhaitham left the notes for him and whether if it was a coincidence or not. He concludes that it wasn’t a coincidence and then states “then…”, inferably questioning why alhaitham left the notes for him and what the meaning of his words were, in a script only kaveh would understand. Additionally, kaveh mentions wanting to ask alhaitham what the meaning of his notes were when at dinner after the closing of the interdarshan championship, as the uncertain meaning of his words has seemingly left a profound effect on him

Alhaitham changing his manner of communication, which kaveh usually perceives as negative, causes kaveh to question alhaitham’s sincerity, and therefore causes doubt in whether alhaitham is patronising him or not. This in turn can cast obscurity over kaveh’s assertion that alhaitham holds “disdain” for him due to Alhaitham’s expression of concern which kaveh cannot perceive due to the abrasiveness of his words. Alhaitham conveying his concern in a roundabout way only allows for kaveh to misinterpret him, which kaveh perceives as “disdain”.

A parade of providence establishes the cause for the rift in alhaitham and kaveh’s relationship mainly to be perpetual misunderstanding in communication, and sets out to propose a solution being that a change of communication.

By using a language that only the two of them know shows that for kaveh to fully understand his meaning, alhaitham must meet kaveh on his own terms when it comes to communication - the two must be on equal and frank level. this could allow a potential rebuilding of intimacy the two once shared when initially learning the language, and thus overcome the idea of “mutual disdain” which kaveh asserts due to his fundamental misunderstanding of alhaitham which alhaitham seems to reinforce with his typical language

(Update: For more analyses like this, the essay this is taken from is now uploaded! It can be accessed here and here as as a pdf <3)

[mythologyofthepoetandthemuse]

A walk in the historical centre of Athens

Photos by Vera Bousiou