#East of Eli

[agatharioscoven]

Well, that whole thing is just rude.

The email telling me to finish Warrior Nun, while listening to a song called Farewell.

[eopederson]

Ore car and caboose, Nevada Northern Railroad, East Ely, 2020.

[mia-seth-adventures]

Homeground Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire, England

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Dawn behind Ely Cathedral in East Anglia, England, UK.

The Times

[iinryer]

i know tommy is a tertiary character or whatever but after rewatching all the begins i desperately want to hear him talk more about that time at the 118 from his perspective. i want to know if he was afraid! i want to know if he wasn’t! how much did he know about himself by then, an inkling? nothing at all? all of it?? i want to know about his guilt and bridging the gap to friendship and if having made amends back then feels any different now that he isn’t hiding anymore…

[philicheesecake]

I have completed a character reference now WITH pronouns! I’ve noticed many readers have been mistaking my characters genders (especially Kaia) so hopefully this will fix that!

[quasieli]

To the person who saved my disabled ass from heat stroke today at St Cloud pride with electrolytes and gum; thank you, I love you, happy pride ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[erastourfashion]

THE ERAS TOUR: EAST RUTHERFORD, Night 3

Taylor Swift for The Eras Tour - East Rutherford Night 3 (May 28, 2023) Surprise Songs: Welcome To New York & Clean

1. Versace, 2. Versace, 3. Roberto Cavalli, 4. Etro, 5. Roberto Cavalli, 6. Elie Saab, 7. Ashish, 8. Ashish, 9. Alberta Ferretti, 10. Roberto Cavalli, 11. Jessica Jones, 12. Oscar de la Renta, 13. Oscar de la Renta, 14. Oscar de la Renta

[heatherincambs]

Back on tumblr like its 2008

Some things have happened in my life:

I've moved back to Cambridgeshire

The drama of the horrors of my doctoral thesis being unembargo'd got resolved, so I can write about it on the internet

It's four years since my doxx-aversary (the day I got doxxed by a bunch of mean Oxford grad students when I was just living my life climbing glacier in Iceland, which led to me fearing for my life because my doctoral thesis became publicly available, and it was on human rights law, so was embargo'd for good reasons -- oy, it is a long story. In fact it is a novel, about the evil of academics and haunted libraries and interrogations in embassies)

I'm reading some Philip Pullman

I'm planning to open a patisserie in 2024

It's 20 years since I left Cambridgeshire in the first place, as a little 18 year old proto-person, off to the evil other place that hurt me, and then everywhere else, and now I'm back

So. I thought this might be a good moment to make a place to write about the things going on in my life.

I do other things elsewhere, such as: lecture on law, write papers on space law, write fiction under a pseudonym, learn languages, try to be a good person etc etc. But this blog/ website is specifically for my time in Cambridgeshire, and my exploration of returning home.

My dear lovely friend from my sixth form years has been persuaded to make a podcast with me about all things Fenland and East Anglian. so if that actually materialises, I will post that here as well.

The most pressing question I have in my life at the moment is: what name should I give my patisserie? Two candidates are:

*Dottirons (a portmanteau of part of my surname and the word 'macarons')

*Pistachio Kisses

*Allansdottir's (naming a cafe after oneself feels mega pretentious, but my surname actually names me after my father so it is actually in his honour)

Cambridge I love you, it's good to be back

[pixlime]

I have two Minecraft friends now!!!

It’s really interesting to play with other people and learn what a big baby I am while playing

One of them taught me to take beds and make little bases down in mines and the other taught me how to fight endermen

I’m having a great time

[gayelishane]

NO you're fucking with me. they REDUBBED the og lines in the series???

you CANNOT show me an og scene and redub it this is horrible

[vox-anglosphere]

For its day, Ely Cathedral was a staggering architectural achievement.

Catedral de Ely U.K.

[who-needs-words]

Not to rag on East coasters but. ‘Oh no the sky is orange’ ‘oh no I have to learn about the air quality index’ Like. YEAH HELLO WELCOME TO MY LIFE EVERY SUMMER? Like. Why are all the headlines taking about it when it’s the east coast dealing with smoke but the Pacific Northwest has been on fire every summer for like eight years and no one seems to give a shit. THIS ISNT NEW GUYS??!

Listen. I know what it’s like to be worried about the air you’re breathing. I know what it’s like to have your sky turn weird colors. I know what it’s like to not go outside because the air it dangerous.

BUT THATS THE POINT. why do folks care more when it’s the East coast than the west???

[thorsenmark]

Utah Travel by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at a roadside pullout along the Ely Highway (Utah State Route 21) with a view looking to the northwest and down a long stretch of highway leading up to Wah Wah Mountains. I've come across a few images over the past several years of with ideas similar to this one with a long stretch of highway, captured somewhere in the American West. I've have been similar settings in Utah heading down south to Moab or east of Death Valley National Park. All beautiful! Here I was heading out west to great basin national Park. I definitely had to stop to capture one here. My thoughts on composing this image was to get down low, using the LCD screen with LiveView on my Nikon D850 SLR camera. That would allow me to get closer to the road and use the LCD screen to line up and compose the image. I could capture a look across and down the highway and raise the horizon slightly higher into the image. I think that would bring out more of a sense of grandeur with those mountains off in the distance. The blue skies and clouds would be that color contrast to complement the earth-tones in the lower portion of the image. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation in DxO PhotoLab 5. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 5 where I added a Polarization and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured. One image I have saved that gave me the idea for this image was here (500px.com/photo/5654475/Vintage-Travel-by-David-Bouchat/).

[darlingillustrations]

PRIDE is timeless

sources for photographs:

Bluebirds - Kitty Ely class of 1887 (left) and Helen Emory class of 1889, Mount Holyoke students, via vintagephoto.livejournal.com. Source for image.

Cats - Nusch Éluard and Sonia Mossé. Paris. 1935 Photographer: Man Ray. Source for image.

Chipmunks - Source for image.

Deer - Source for image.

Dogs - Source for image.

Foxes, dancing - Photograph by Thurston Hopkins, Tango in the East End, London, 1954. Source for image.

Foxes, dapper - Source for image.

Frogs - Photograph from a collection called “Hidden in the Open,” curated by Trent Kelley. Source for image.

Giraffes - “Tough Threads.” Ken Russell photographed Teddy Girls in London -1950s. Source for image.

Hedgehogs - Chuck Rowland & Harry Hay (Apr. 7, 1912 – Oct. 24, 2002), 1983. © Stephen Stewart, via @onearchives. Harry Hay was the visionary behind the queer liberation movement in the U.S. With his background in leftist politics, Hay merged the revolutionary idea of homosexuals as an “oppressed cultural minority” with the fundamentals of organizing. (verbiage by lgbt_history… read more here).

Lions - I found this image on the internet in 2017 and have not been able to relocate it since.

Octopus - Circa 1970 by Donna Gottschalk. Source for image.

Otters - Source for image.

Polar Bears - Source for image.

Rabbits, mm - Source for image.

Rabbits, ww - Source for image.

Raccoons - Photographed by Kay Tobin, circa 1977. Source for image.

Red Pandas - Mariana Romo Carmona and June Chan (b. June 6, 1956), New York City, 1988. Photo © Robert Giard Foundation. (read more about these activists here)

Seagulls - Source for image.

Skunks - Photograph from the etsy shop The Vintage Image Boutique.

Sloths - Castro Street Fair, San Francisco, California, August 17, 1980. Photo © Paul Fusco. (read more about this street fair here)

Snow Leopards - Gay Pride Day, NYC 1980 / © Stanley Stellar.

The Affectionate Animal series is a project I have worked on for years, illustrating vintage photographs of queer couples. All paintings are by me, Erin Darling. Here is a link to the series on my site.

[vox-anglosphere]

The mediaeval ceiling has been restored in The Lantern of the Fens

Ely Cathedral by leevistal.