#London Day 2

[msue0027]

lost in a tardis

[lori-ulisses]

patterns 11/06/2024

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Wardrobe // Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) // Doctor Who Seasons 1-2 & 4 (2005-2006, 2008) + specials

[paintedcrows-caws]

Front row seat to Alex Hirsch's InMotion London Talk!! Aaaa!! (The high quality close up photos were taken by the wonderful @stupidlittlespirit! Who was sitting with me and had a far better camera, haha)

You can watch the full thing here, recorded by the brilliant Topaz Animation!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn_O7CMM67A&t=137s

[reunitedinterlude]

phil's younow - july 21, 2012 (x)

manchester -> london

[lazylittledragon]

first makeup test for orin!! don't look at the wig i couldn't be bothered to glue it down

[moonsnqil]

part 2 of art i did for the aftg big bang

based on @valnillablonde 's tma au fic!

[chalamet-chalamet]

Lovely photos from the Dune: Part 2 London photocall

Twitter credit to Musetta_May

[fyeaheddiemunson]

[the-ashenstreaked-doctor]

A trio of hunting terriers from the Mac Cionaith family. Photo taken sometime around 1895.

[dearaustinbutler]

Austin Butler at the ‘Dune: Part Two’ London photocall on February 14, 2024. 💫

[shiscarvalho]

Delicious 😮‍💨

[casadefreewill]

I don’t know why it just hit me, maybe because I was thinking about Chat Blanc earlier today, but the same Gabriel who was all

(And ALSO WTF DO YOU MEAN “ThiS is wHen he BecAmE a GoOd FatHer” Marinette what? There’s no WAY you actually believe that giRL WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOU-)

Anyway back on topic

Is THIS

SAME

MOTHER

FUCKER

There was no positive morality change, no ‘I could actually never hurt my son’, between these two points. In fact he probably got WORSE! This man DOES NOT care about the emotional well being of his son in fact I’m almost positive at this point that his request is solely so he can still have emotional power over his son even after he dies (oh my GOD I hate him I hatehimIhatehimIhatehim)

Anyways Marinette insisting to Nathalie that Gabriel killing himself to be with his wife ’s “noble sacrifice” actually turns him into a good father to Adrien makes me want to break things, Bye

[tea-tuesday]

london stationery haul for my stationery freaks !!! i went a little crazy with stationery on this trip but to my defense, it was all funded by my state tax return hehe... these are the various things i got, which i linked:

yellow hard shell charger case from London Graphic Centre

special edition totebag from London Review of Books

gallimard journal from Choosing Keeping

brass hand clip from Choosing Keeping (honestly my fave purchase on this trip !!)

vintage bus blind journal from Choosing Keeping

kaweco perkeo fountain pen and inks from Present & Correct

grid flatlay book from Present & Correct

the epicurean notebook from Magma London

i also visited Smythson of Bond Street and Mount Street Printers but they were out of my budget. beautiful places to get luxury stationery goods!

[ingravinoveritas]

Sharing some more thoughts and memories from my trip to London last month. One of my favorite experiences was having Afternoon Tea at the Ritz, which turned out to be within walking distance of my hotel.

Because it was my first time to the UK, I knew I wanted to have Afternoon Tea at some point, and after watching Good Omens, there seemed to be no better (or more apropos) destination than the Ritz. I somehow managed to secure a reservation at the last minute and soon found myself sitting at a delightfully appointed table for one, watching and immersed in the atmosphere of the Palm Court.

All I could think of is how it is truly the perfect place to be in love, or to fall in love. The sumptuous food, the way the tables are set so that two people dining together are so cozily sitting next to each other, the piano music wafting through the air...all so charming, so affecting. It's as if the space envelops you entirely, and everything and everyone outside fades away, even just briefly.

It seems only too fitting for one particular angel and one particular demon, and in that moment, I felt as though I suddenly understood why Aziraphale enjoys it so much, and why Crowley enjoys watching Aziraphale enjoy it. The mood soon shifted from sweet to surreal when "House of the Rising Sun" started playing on the piano and I imagined the Husbands clinking glasses to the soulful strains of a song about a brothel. (Where is Mrs. Sandwich when you need her...)

The thing that I think meant the most to me is what I alluded to in a previous post, which is that even driving past the Ritz on my way in from Heathrow, I felt unexpectedly emotional. It was the idea of a place being special even though I'd never been there before, because it is special to these two characters who have meant so much to me over the last five years. And as I sat there sipping a glass of Champagne, I could feel them there with me--Aziraphale's animated indulgence, Crowley's affectionate smirk--and see them amongst the other couples having a romantic, resplendent, magical evening.

I couldn't help but smile as the music changed to "Part Of Your World" from The Little Mermaid, and how, for a brief moment at the Ritz, I was a part of Aziraphale and Crowley's world. To our world... (Pictures taken on 10/10/2024.)

[theworldatwar]

During the day children help to put up bunting and flags for the VE Day celebrations. Photo by Picture Post/Hulton Archive. In the evening St Paul’s Cathedral is illuminated on the night of VE Day, London, 8 May 1945. Photo: Daily Herald Archive.