#edinburgh city centre

[scotianostra]

A wee Castle pic for a change 😉

[davidwilliammusic]

"Strange Comfort" from the 2019 album 'End Of The Strangers'. Available for purchase on Bandcamp and my website.

[virtualscotland]

A Sunday morning walk around the little Moray town of Keith in the north east if Scotland. Not an obvious tourist destination but I love exploring places like this. 😍

@scotland-forever @scotianostra @scotlandscalling @doricloon

[gaytobymeres]

Edinburgh Castle and the Ross Fountain, February 2024

[aefensteorrra]

Idk how upset I can realistically be about how people behave in this town when it’s so deprived in so many ways and we have so many shared experiences etc but it’s also so hard to come back to somewhere like this when you’ve experienced another life

[embraphotos]

City Art Centre, EH1

[theteaisaddictive]

love and light to all who participate in succession sunday/monday. i don’t watch the show but i will never be over the fact that they had one episode where they went to fucking dundee, and then exclusively filmed around the recently-gentrified waterfront and used fife as a stand-in.

[weescottishtours]

Edinburgh City Centre Half Day Guided Driving Tour

Discover the Edinburgh Ultimate Tour - an opulent private excursion around Edinburgh with Wee Scottish Tours. Accompanied by fully licensed and insured guides.

[wednesdayshadow]

Countdown to September trip!!!!

[thedreadvampy]

ppl pulling the 'just let people enjoy Wizard Game' are often met with 'JKR funds anti-trans groups!' and that's. entirely true. but doesn't actually go far enough.

like if you're on team Let People Enjoy Wizard Game hey. did you know. that in my city RIGHT NOW JKR is sole funder and key board member of an unregulated private agab-policed rape crisis shelter set up specifically to Own The Transes

and which now sits on several gendered violence prevention boards alongside representatives from the (publicly funded and accountable) existing Rape Crisis Centre, against the staff of which her friends and followers have been involved in a years-long harassment campaign purely and explicitly because they run trans-inclusive support services and bc their CEO is a trans woman of colour.

(my friend works there and the pure volume of transphobic harassment has caused several long standing members of staff to quit. which I'm really fucking angry about bc I would not be here today if the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre hadn't been there to help me)

and that on those boards they're known for supporting increased police harassment and approaches that disproportionately criminalise trans people, unhoused people and sex workers and provably don't positively impact the issue of gendered violence.

what I'm saying is that yes JKR funds anti-trans groups but she is also pretty directly involved in materials worsening conditions for vulnerable people at a local and personal level too!!!! she's running an unregulated crisis shelter out of spite and using that to legitimise her political lobbying!!!!!! fuck you!

[scotianostra]

A very still canal giving great reflections at Edinburgh Quay/ Lochrin Basin at dusk last night.

[mortalityplays]

One Last Gift...

Before we close out the year, I want to leave you with one more small thing. This is a short story I wrote for a national competition last year, which sadly was not shortlisted - but which I still consider one of my best to date. You may or may not know that I grew up in Edinburgh, which is known among other things for its strange and expansive 'underground' city. Medieval streets that were walled up long ago for reasons ranging from plague to fire to flooding still exist under the modern centre, and can be visited on local ghost tours. Whole houses, abandoned shops and streets are just slumbering down there, and every few years a new piece of construction work will unearth more. You may or may not also know that I specialised in modern ghost folklore at university. I spent a lot of time with those tour companies, walking those subterranean streets and watching tourists metabolise the real and imagined stories of people who once lived pretty much like them. It's traditional in the UK to tell ghost stories in the winter months, particularly on Christmas and New Year's Eve. These are transitional nights when the veil is thin, and it's the right kind of time to reflect on people absent. This is a story about ghosts, communities, covid-19, ancient history, and living memory. I hope you like it.

Six Feet Parted by R/L Monroe (PDF)

[virtualscotland]

A quick look around Camera Obscura in Edinburgh, which is worth visiting just for the views over Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle and the Royal Mile 😍

[thunderstruck9]

John Lavery (Irish, 1856-1941), View of Edinburgh from the Castle. Oil on canvas, 63.5 x 75.5 cm. City Art Centre, Edinburgh

[famousinuniverse]

West End, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom: The West End is an affluent district of Edinburgh, Scotland, which along with the rest of the New Town and Old Town forms central Edinburgh, and Edinburgh's UNESCO World Heritage Site. The area boasts several of the city's hotels, restaurants, independent shops, offices and arts venues, including the Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh International Conference Centre and the Caledonian Hotel. The area also hosts art festivals and crafts fairs. Wikipedia