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Christine Dwyer Hickey || Our London Lives
Our London Lives is one of those novels that keep cropping up, receiving good reviews all over. It was clear I was destined to read it. Fortunately I agreed with the good reviews and hardly stopped reading. The Christmas period turned out to be absolutely right for a love story about thwarted lovers. In Our London Lives Milly and Pip meet in 1979 in an old-fashioned neighborhood pub. Though…
#reading is fun#addiction#alcoholism#British literature#British writer#Christine Dwyer Hickey#Great Novel#Great reading#literature#London#London pubs#Our London Lives.#pub
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whenever sfth promote their tickets on their story or post about it or whatever I’m always like YES WHOOO AWESOME but i CANT
I WANT tickets that’s not the ISSUE there’s an OCEAN in the way >:(((
#I love them#ONE DAY I WILL GO TO LONDON AND SEE THEM LIVE I CANT DIE WITHOUT SEEING THEM LIVE LIKE???? YEAH IM JUST GONNA HAVE TO#But anyway#It’s just funny when they’re like “come to our show!!! :)” and I’m like you have no idea how badly I wish I could lol#shoot from the hip#Re: their insta story promo
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I think part of the reason horror is so important, especially in dark times, is that it deals with the question: When you can't stop what's coming for you, what do you do instead?
When the horror is cosmic, when the dread is too big to be changed, the things that the characters in a well-written horror do still matter, even if it doesn't change the resolution. We feel in an instinctive narrative way that they matter. Small ways of fighting back, forming relationships in the midst of it all, a character picking a tiny goal like keeping one person safe for as long as they can and throwing their life at it again and again, another finding beauty and pointing it out between one calamity and the next... It matters to them, and it matters to the other characters. The middle part matters, even if it doesn't change the ending.
It's not about hope. You don't have to have hope - you can feel in your bones that everything's fucked, and it can be 100% true, but the middle part still matters. I think, in times when it's hard to reach a bar as high as hope, that's what makes horror more accessible. Sometimes you need hope, but sometimes you just need to know that the middle part matters.
#fallen london#not flondon exclusive but related enough#horror#<- for filtering I guess#I think a lot about the sixth city and the various destinies for this#A good amount of our characters are walking around with a messy or abrupt end hanging over their heads at every step#failbetter never lets us forget that the entire city is eventually and unstoppably doomed#something something ''a reckoning cannot be postponed forever'' and all#but there are still so many stories to be had#the majority of them not having any bearing on the fate of the setting at all#there's still so much detail and love put into painting the lives of these characters#even the npcs who DO die badly#I think about the actions for flavour that don't affect the plot but still let your character be a person#especially in events like the starved war#I think they're telling us that it all matters#same with magnus archives and really any other media where the horror is cosmic but the people are the focus
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Carlos Sainz | F1 London Live in 2017 | x x x x x
#carlos sainz#autumn posts#explored this event last eve and omg so many wonderful moments!!!!#oh to be able to time travel 🚀 surfing the web will have to do!!#also I'll still reblog and post RBR of old and Max related content in 2025 but#wow they have made some immensely frustrating decisions as a company#I do sure despise their upper management!#also tbh I am glad newbies get chances but it seems like 2025 is going to be maybe too many rookies maybe o.o idk I just got here#and I know F1 teams are probably trying some succession planning and lots of new brands hopping on seem geared to younger fans#and I love Gabi and Jack and I'm sure Ollie and Kimi are great! idk them as well yet! and I miss Franco :(((#but idk I'm already missing the older drivers we lost like what do you mean Carlos is fourth oldest he's my age 🥲#idk I like grizzled old men!!!! and drivers who are still in their prime!! 30s isnt old!!! (I know it is in the world of f1 but...)#idk I know big F1 is trying to plant seeds but they're pulling up perfectly gorgeous trees to do so....I just got here too!!!!!!#hmmmm rambling balogna from a new fan#also I dont like watching cars crash so really really hoping the races next year with all these green drivers aren't too bad 🫣#idk I get worried!! and all the engineers and bts folks have to deal with wrecks so#mannifesting safe drives and good starts 🙏✨#and rbr and vcarb are on my shit list for now but the Max blogging will not cease#he and I will both be in our sixties and I'll be here salivating hehe 😵💫✨#gosh dad bod Max 😵💫❤️✨ heaven help me the thirst blogging will be off the charts here#okay enough yapping!!!#wishing everyone a v excellent Friday!! ☀️☁️🌙✨#brb soon to spam F1 Live in London content bc oh gosh what a rich well#also I won't spam too much hehe I'll space it out#also the Little Mix girlies (gn) were OUT at this event so that was fun!!#an insta feed of F1 drivers and a ton of Little Mix bloggers since they performed there! and I like Jade!! I gotta check when her albums out#okay autumn out!!! 🫡❤️✨ bye for now!
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Here he is!
The one
The only
Husband and Romance Partner to Cody Walsh himself
LOOSE BARON!!!
he's not exactly how I planned but I'm not going back to change it now lol
made sure to add the oogie boogie tattoo that made Cody fall inlove with him too lmao
#is this cursed? definitely!#but ngl so was the chaos of the 2nd London live show! i can't believe i actually saw it!!! (IT WAS SO GOOD!!!)#my friend who is completely new to d20 but came with me as my emotional support tall guy also thought it was awesome!!!#(tho he had absolutely zero clue to what was happening besides kinda knowing the fh characters)#but anyways i just had to draw our dear loose baron bc holy shit i love him guys#he is so weird and pathetic#so perfect for Cody#the battle to save Calorum from slowly turning into Pinocchio via punching the nightmare king to let Cody have Loose Barons hand in marriag#was honestly quite thrilling#loose baron#time quangle#time quangle live#time quangle spoilers#loose duke#baron from the baronies#dimension 20#d20#same emotional support tall guy will be so disappointed if he finds out forgot to make dinner bc I was drawing this and it's now nearly 6am#so now i shall make dinner - so if you've read the tags this far thankyou and good night :D
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"Do you ever think about what animal Pan will settle as?" "If you could choose an animal that represents your soul in reality, what animal would you choose and why?"
#hdm#ruth wilson#james mcavoy#lyra belacqua#just thought this was cute#id probably want a fox as a daemon too#they have the best personalities#his dark materials#hdm interview#hdm s1#daemons#When i was in london this summer there was a fox living in our backyard and I've literally never seen a fox in my life#maybe its an english thing#mine
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With the release of From The Rehearsal Room - Tokyo to Ramin's youtube I finally, finally, continue and finish this side project I'm doing.
Initially, I used AI to mastered it because the first version I got from bilibili were not in good quality but I wasn't satisfied and I found the much better quality. But with Ramin uploaded it to youtube, I re did all the mastering just with audacity for both Part 1 and Part 2. The Part 2 is still from the better version I found from bilibili, by the way.
What you need to do is just download the file and put it on your music player. The metadata is all completed as if it's whole legit album. Enjoy, guys!!
And I'm being weird so all the lyrics that are put there are from my listening although I still use what I found online but I still listened and compared. They made few ad-libs and changes and I notice because for the songs that I wasn't familiar, the lyric that I found online and what they sang was slightly different. Perhaps they sing the newer version of the lyrics or mistakes? Even each Sheytoons songs they sing one in both parts differ from the ones I found online.
Another sample from my favorite:
Source and Credits Part 1 | Part 2 (Ramin's upload) Album cover Photos
Vocal & Guitar: Ramin Karimloo, Hadley Fraser Piano: Ryohei Mori
#from the rehearsal room#ramin karimloo#hadley fraser#more to come probably idk we'll see#i should've also continue that eight letters project *sigh#sheytoons#edit: the lyrics hehe#add: tbh after i read steal our moments lyric so many times i even transcripted this mostly myself#bcs this is the only one among all the songs in this session that doesn't have the lyric online because they sang this so rare like soo rar#why am i starting to feel this song is about sierra lol sorry but my inner shipping heart can't resist#i even consult chatgpt (i know why idk but just asking really)#aren't all sheytoons songs written when ramin was in LND? written exactly in his dressing room in adelphi theatre???#and tbh most of sheytoons song are mostly about observing women but who idk it could be different#one of them could be about mandy and the other could be about rosalie because i know at that time she and hadley were dating already right?#or it could be some random lady#steal our moments: perhaps it's about a fleeting or secret relationship#the first verse is that the girl is full of life (house full could mean fulfilling life) but she is lonely and sierra lived alone in london#the singer and her share dreams and memories and then she plays her game of make believe could indicate that both of them are actors#every night and every day this is what we do: that's their work. they're on stage together every day every night. and ofc spending time tgt#and then the reff is about the singer doesn't want keep living like this bcs it makes him guilty maybe? he's tearing his soul apart#the singer can't stop thinking about her so he prays that things work on in the correct way even though they can't do anything about it now#so yea :D#fish noodle couple
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new funniest possible outcome just dropped
#our lips to two workaholic-americans-living-in-london’s ears#the discourse would be horrendous i need it#look…he has a type….(beautiful men and women who are taller than him)#and she has a type (toms in london)#the only problem is that he’s in a throuple currently and he doesn’t need her the way joe needed her
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everytime i get the train home i think 'this is the most beautiful place in the world' and then i remember that I GET TO LIVE HERE
#i see friends from school a lot who have moved to london and they ask me how i can possibly still be living in our home village#maybe because i've travelled all around the uk and to almost every continent and i'm yet to find somewhere i find more beautiful#Spotify
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Time to Read
#reading is fun#Ali Smith#Christine Dwyer Hickey#Christmas#Gliff#Great Novel#Great reading#Inspector Gamache#literature#Louise Penny#Our London Lives.#The Grey Wolf#The Women Behind the Door#There Are Rivers in the Sky#Time to Read
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You are literally the best person I know, and I appreciate our friendship more than anything. I love the trip we just took and we got to experience Disney and the Eras Tour together 🩷 fuck the haters (and lmk if I need to fight anyone) 🩷
I HAD THE TIME OF MY LIFE FIGHTING DRAGONS WATCHING THEM PROJECT STAR WARS ONTO THE DISNEY CASTLE WITH YOUUUUUUUU ♥️
#@ anyone reading this: I need you to manifest hard that charley and i get long live on our london eras show#!!!!!!!#answered#thatsapodium
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Forever in our hearts!!
We still love you Freddie ❤
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Today, on May 30th, 1991 - Queen Story!
Limehouse Studios, London, UK - Queen film final video "These are The Days Of Our Lives"; director The Torpedo Twins (Do.Ro.)
Brian May not present as in USA, he was added to the video separately a few days later.
In this video Freddie's last words to fans:
"I still love you ..."
#these are the days of our lives#1991#innuendo album#innuendo#uk#legend#queen#brian may#john deacon#freddiebulsara#zanzibar#london#queen band#freddie mercury#roger taylor#Spotify
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I have to change flatmates again but this time in a very urgent stressful kind of situation and both of them are leaving, meaning I'll be alone with two strangers from now on that is if we can find them on time I'm so stressed out
#housing in london is my biggest nightmare istg pls let's all pray I don't end up on the street in 15 days#i was really okay with my current flatmates like no we're not friends but we all minded our own business#and i could have a quiet time after work and do my stuff in the morning#what if the new people are not good to live with what if they hog the one bathroom we have in the morning pls#i hate this living with strangers thing i wish i was rich so i could afford a one-bedroom studio for myself :))#the way that this is impossible in this city I'll never know peace
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very funny to me that even is very Not immortal. at best, their current age is fucky-wucky because getting stuck in a dimensional bubble and then unstuck via Shenanigans will do that to you. they don’t know how old they are but it’s probably older than they look, but they do know they aren’t going to live as long as either time lord in their life. and what im saying is that if there are Century Long Plots happening, even has to be dropped off at the end to wait like someone stuck at the bus stop to the apocalypse.
#sorry. thinking about them and missy again.#crucially i think even doesn’t really. want to be with her. but also doesn’t actually have anywhere else to go or want to go live anywhere#that is not a tardis.#installing clara parallels.exe but they’ve come pre-detached from their mundane life. less ‘this is what i’m owed’ and more ‘this is.#literally just my life. and has been for a long time now. im not leaving.’#i dont actually know if missy has a tardis in canon yet but. for even’s sake. she does.#missy: my tardis >:) || even: *our* tardis :/ || tardis: (vaguely stressed whooshing noises)#anyway. missy working on their centuries of cyberman plans and also making her home base in the middle of london so that she can make even#go pick things up for her and have dinner like they’re friends and not. worse.#alskfjgkksks pretend 3w has a fake help desk at the front to hide the uh. Spooky Shit inside and the cyberman-ing.#this is worse than the time war actually. even has to do customer service. and turn people away who are trying to get in.#sorry just spitballing slightly funnier and less traumatic shenanigans for them to be in.#dw oc
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why does writing doctor who fanfic always ends me up googling british railways
#always is an exaggeration#but it's weird that it happened twice#and like i have to get so indepth every time why#i mean i dont Need to#but it feels important#me 14 in one hand yaz in the other in...........wait where is the support group#i kinda assumed london since most companions seem to live around there but that kinda sucks for our sheffield-liverpool team doesnt it fhkg#this is the reason yaz gives for never coming#not even unreasonable#maybe they move around#they probably move around#also everyone: we can just use facetime! yaz: i cant read suddenly i dont know#anyway me with 14 in one hand yaz in another sneaking out of support group like how do i get these two to the doctors house now#okay they GOT here. and im assuming yaz doesnt have a car but does the doctor#probably right?#yaz watching 14 drive: this is just wrong. who are you. alien impostor. i dont know you#14: i can drive! ive had cars!#yaz: dont believe it. never told me#shes so mad its really fun to write#as gracious as she is when she wants to be. when she DOESNT want to be. she uses all those same things she was gracious about earlier#and shes like AMMUNITION#i love her
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what do i have to do to make the brits shut up about irish names forever. @ god please tell me what i have to do and I’ll do it
#my friend who lives in london is listening to the people behind her having a good chuckle about our beautiful names with nary a care for#who might be able to hear them#she is a better woman than me bc i would be biting people#and that is why i can never live in england
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