#cool staircase

[chaoticdesertdweller]

Trippy

[arc-hus]

Highgate House, London - Carmody Groarke

[fullscoreshenanigans]

The Promised Neverland 8th Anniversary Art by Posuka Demizu [Complementary piece]

[boxofsox]

[milkboxgalore]

Lighthouse in Lewes, DE

Cape Henlopen State Park

2023

[vintage-tigre]

The Loretto Chapel "Miraculous Stair" in New Mexico. It was mysteriously built in the 1850s without the use of nails or glue and lacks a central pole or external supports. It remains a marvel to woodworkers and carpenters for seemingly defying physics, while today certainly replicateable, it stands a monolith of cutting edge design considering its time period.

[blue-boxes-magic-and-tea]

today we start reading part two of lockwood and co’s the screaming staircase!!!

to celebrate here are some noteworthy moments from part one! [beware of spoilers!!]

there is a lot of incredible world building in this first part, but one of the bits i keep thinking of is how much these kids not only think about death, but are quite literally surrounded by it. they are constantly being informed by death around them. this is heavy emotionally intense labor that we’re expecting out of these kids

lockwood is a Silly, and he loves teasing lucy this is incredibly important information to me thank you for sharing this jonathan stroud

again with the world building, kind of crazy how pervasive the problem is that you see preventative measures in everything. we had a fun discussion about this in the discord too

okay lucy tell me how you really feel - but also the way his warmth for her is described (even when she is incredibly clueless) is so sweet to see. like talk about a crazy quote

this is an incredible closing scene like HELLOOOOO??? i’m obsessed with the dramatics like this would’ve had me HOOKED as a kid!!

these are just some of the moments that really stood out to me while reading (i had several more too but just to not make this post a million years long ya know) - i’d love to hear other ppls top moments from part one. but also YAY PART TWO HERE WE COMEEEE!!

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i’m reading Lockwood and Co as part of a book club. this week we read part two of The Screaming Staircase! you can join the discord here, or post on tumblr w/ the hashtag lockwood library to join in!

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[dolokhoded]

my one season 4 complaint is Where The Fuck Was Aneesa

[steakout-05]

i've been thinking of making a playlist dedicated to Data Soong, here're some songs i have on the list right now :D

Spiral Staircase - Patricia Taxxon

Systemic Lover - De Staat

Yours Truly, 2095 - Electric Light Orchestra

If I Were Human - BNNY RBBT

Like Humans Do - David Byrne

Are 'Friends' Electric? - Gary Numan

Geocities - Lemon Demon

Within - Daft Punk

Hello World - Louie Zong

Human After All - Daft Punk

Kokoro - Toraboruta

One More Robot / Sympathy 3000-21 - The Flaming Lips

Remember - Air

Touch - Daft Punk

[beatle-07]

Extremely cool to see how the stairs works between levels

[arc-hus]

Shed 2.0, Surat, India - Studio ii

[cctinsleybaxter]

Have successfully molded my Facebook algorithm into only recommending me 1 page

[make-a-snowglobe-of-this]

[peterlorrefanpage]

Peter Lorre & Stairs

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940):

Mr. District Attorney (1941):

All Through the Night (1942):

(Dying on steps like a crumpled cat still counts.)

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944):

Black Angel (1946):

Obliquely, I suddenly recalled a line from The Bishop's Mantle (by Agnes Sligh Turnbull, 1947 - read it here) where Lexa, the young bishop's firecracker of a wife, refers to one of the parishioners as being in a very fast crowd - "it really steps!"

So now I'm conflating Peter Lorre on stairsteps as symptomatic of him really steppin'.

We'll close with just one more (because I Arsenic and Old Laced myself out of space) -

Columbia photoshoot (1935):

[kyuhu]

Anyway did I already scream on here about finally finding an affordable flat? Because I did and that's very cool!