#me? rightmove

[sealochs]

um, i bought a flat today ?????????

[the-tenth-arcanum]

why am I already stressing about the time I'll have to move out. girl you only just bought a wardrobe. chill

[singmysoultosleep]

such a sad gap in the oasis market with how little images we have of the interior of supernova heights tbh. not to sound crazy or anything like yeah it was his house and shit. (and half of london’s, by the sound of it.) but noel really goes on about how it was some abhorrent palace of rock’n’roll debauchery, cocaine embedded on every surface, etc. i just need some pictures you know?? show me the hideous drug induced design choices neow!! i need them!

[glitterslag]

I thought my turmoil was over but now it looks like finding a flat is gonna be just as hard as finding a job😭😭

[steelycunt]

is this the most insane ive ever been while writing something. well maybe

[scp-69]

what the hell is a property ladder. i more than likely wont ever be able to afford One Property. ur telling me theres rungs on this thing??????

[dustyspines]

I have reacquainted myself with the wonders of pinterest boards my tiktok screen time has plummeted because I’ve been pinning shit for HOURS.

[enpassants]

anyone make characters in the real world and then go on real estate website and browse imagining which house they would live in

[upgradebitch]

rant

[penny-anna]

Unfortunately this is another retirement property (I say unfortunately like anyone following me is looking to buy a flat in Edinburgh lmao) but check this shit out:

Church for sale!!

As you'd expect highly Shaped

Decor is pretty neutral but check out those windows!! Hot damn

& it is even on Portobello High Street. What a lovely flat to retire in.

[leiflitter]

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Hello from Blighty thoughts about Saltburn

As a continuation from my reply to @armands-eyefuckery because BRAIN

Aight gang let's have a lil sit down because there is a big ol angle to the film that I think is getting missed by a lot of folks who aren't from the UK because it's a very uh...

British Thing.

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT OLIVER IS FROM THE NORTH.

Cut because Length.

Now look. I am not going to go into Thatcher and Her Crimes, but it's worth a google. I do bring it up in You're Almost Home because...

Lots of people are saying Oliver is upper middle class, and honestly? That doesn't track for me. At all. Yes, his parents have a detached house in a nice suburb and they went on holidays, but there's a lot of Very British Context to them that I really want to point out. Also remember, it's 2006/2007. That is also important.

First of all- Oliver's parents probably never went to University.

Really listen to them. How gullible they are- they believe that Oliver can study at Oxford, and be on the rowing team, and be in plays, and be top scholar. He's always been so clever. If Oliver was anything near upper middle class, his parents would be educated professionals. Oliver probably has dockworkers not even three generations back- his dad has management vibes, but he probably worked his way up in the 70s when all you needed was a good attitude and not to be an obvious murderer.

Secondly- let's talk about the house.

As someone from Down South who has also lived Up North, Oliver's Parent's house would not have been as expensive as people think. Let's assume they bought it in the 1980s- we ALL know that house prices are through the roof NOW, but even today there is a huge gap between house prices in the south and the north. 200k down South might get you a one bedroom flat, if you're lucky. 200k in Prescot can get you a 4-bed, semi-detached HOUSE. Check rightmove.

It is also important that the house is relatively new-looking, because over here Upper Middle Class people aren't really into new build houses- if Oliver was upper middle class, he'd be living in something Victorian or Edwardian. Probably somewhere with a good link to London, especially in 2007. It also means that Oliver's parents may not have even bought it outright- my parents got on the housing ladder via a shared ownership scheme. Oliver's parents aren't rich.

Now, the holidays. Mykonos. Another fun Brit thing is the package holiday. Here's a pretty interesting article about them;

Two adults and three kids could absolutely have gone to Mykonos every year in the late 80s/90s for far less than you'd expect, especially if they paid in installments each month.

I also mentioned about Ollie being from Merseyside specifically, but again. CONTEXT. Although Oliver isn't Liverpudlian (it's important, he's from NEAR Liverpool but not Liverpool itself) the North of England as a whole has routinely been fucked over by those in power. The government AND the royals and the very wealthy. It's still ongoing today- again, another fun source.

Remember when Mr Eats-Crunchies-Sideways called him a Bootlicker? That's fucking IMPORTANT. To many folks he IS a bootlicker. He is highly unlikely to have been raised to grovel at the feet of those with hereditary titles and wealth, and honestly he doesn't. I've written before about how Oliver Denies Felix Things and how that dynamic is important. Oliver likely hasn't been raised with any real deference to The Rich (except Princess Diana).

It also effects Oliver's response to Felix, because goddamn it THATCHER again- it is HIGHLY likely that Oliver has lived through a lot of homophobia. Internalised a lot of it. Felix's parents do not give a shit, but that was not the norm. Again, tried to hit on it in YAH, because times have changed since the 90s/2000s and people change with them, but no fuckin wonder Oliver never responded to Felix chirpsing him like a maniac. He's fucking REPRESSED when he's in Oxford, pals. It also makes sense with that weird Tumblr Dom shit he pulls; he's still fuckin weird about it, he's just being In Charge so he doesn't need to be vulnerable in any way. He is only vulnerable for Felix, and even then he can't SHOW felix that, that would be gay.

Leiflitter over'n'out

[too-many-rooks]

Me: I like the Alex rider show just a normal amount

Also me: take rigorous screenshots of all angles of the rider house and research floorplans of the neighbouring irl houses on Rightmove to make detailed notes in order to recreate the house perfectly in the sims

(/I will crack the mysteries of the second floor layout of the rider home. We only see Alex’s room, the view from his door, and the inside of Ian’s office which has two doors, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how they all fit together)

[glorious-blackout]

ten people i'd like to get to know better

I was tagged by @daddy-long-legssss and @yellowloid, thank you! 🥰💖

last song: Billie Eilish - Blue

favourite colour: Can never decide between red, blue or purple. Though certain musicians over the past couple of years have instilled a fondness for green in me 😅💚

last book: Have had a bit of a reading slump lately but I re-read 'Song of Achilles' by Madelline Miller and devoured it in a day. I'm currently on annual leave so I'm hopeful that I'll be able to dig into some books on my to-read list, and I've promised myself that I'll start the Lord of the Rings series before the end of the year... In terms of reading fic, I recently read and adored 'Four Walls' by the lovely @uhbasicallyjustmilex 💖

last movie: Saw both The Wild Robot and The Substance at the cinema this week, which were very different movies but I highly loved them both. I suspect I'll be thinking about the latter for a long time.

last TV show: I've been rewatching episodes of Taskmaster in between working on my fic, specifically series 12 as I have a massive crush on Victoria Coren-Mitchell 😅

sweet/spicy/savoury: Spicy, very closely followed by sweet.

relationship status: Happily single, though my best friend did declare us 'platonic soulmates' the other day and proposed buying a house together in Edinburgh 😂 Alas, having looked through Rightmove, we've agreed that moving to Edinburgh is in neither of our financial interests...

last thing I googled: Noyant-la-Gravoyère, for fic-related reasons.

current obsessions: Feel like I've ended up with a ton of mini-obsessions this year as opposed to one major one, but Fontaines D.C. and The Last Dinner Party are fairly high up that list as they've released my favourite albums of the year 💚 I've had a lot of fun digging into the works of Gojira, Kendrick Lamar and Leonard Cohen lately, and Billie Eilish's latest album remains on constant rotation. I've also had a reawakening of my love for David Gilmour, Käärijä and TLSP due to a combination of two amazing gigs and the process of writing my fic.

looking forward to: I have a few gigs coming up which I'm really excited for, including Bob Vylan next week, Kneecap next month and Fontaines D.C. in December 💚 I'm also excited to make more progress on editing my fic and finally unleashing it into the world, even though it's only in that pesky early draft stage for the moment 😅

tagging: @rock-n-roll-fantasy, @aeolianblues, @see-sawed, @thespiritofvexation, @king-of-kaoss, @burn-on-the-flame and @chrysochromulina 💖

[macguffinandco]

Frightmove!

We had such a blast playing our newest game, Frightmove*, on stream with our special guest, Helen!

Frightmove is a fun, quick social game about trying to buy/sell/devalue a haunted manor house. One player is the Househunter - they frame the scenes by describing a different room of the house each round - while the other players take the role of the Estate Agent - trying to sell the house - and the Haunting - trying to scare the Househunter away. There's a lot of back-and-forth silliness and (if you use the random tables to generate room features) the house gets worse the more you explore it.

Frightmove is up on our Patreon (along with loads of other great games/stuff), but you can also get the basics from our playthrough.

*For our international friends, Rightmove is a popular property website like Zoopla or Zillow in the UK. It's important to me that you understand that Frightmove is a really good name for this game - S.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This is a Victorian chapel in Walton On The Naze, Great Britain, and it's so cute and so cozy, I've never seen anything like it. It has 4bd 1ba & is listed for £390,000 / $495,532.

I think that the current owner's furnishings really make it look great, but it's still a beautifully done conversion.

There certainly is lots of shelving.

There's a very large kitchen and the cabinetry with black counters reminds me of science classrooms.

The living room is large, but oh-so-cozy.

Here in the central hall are stairs with a lovely railing and beams.

This bedroom is spacious and has some beautifully shaped church windows.

Here's a cozy bedroom.

This bedroom has the mezzanine above. I have to mention that magnificent replica of what I think is the Queen Elizabeth.

The 4th bd is also cozy. There isn't one bd that's not inviting.

There's only 1 bath for 4 bds but it's so cute.

At least the toilet is separate.

I have to say that the mannequin in the mezzanine is a little creepy, otherwise it's nice up here. I wonder what made them use stick-on flooring, since it doesn't wear well.

Here's a little private area. That's a skull on the shelf in the back. I wonder if it conveys.

This is the only outdoor space they show, but even though it's small, it's nice. I can't tell if there's a yard back there.

[beaft]

i would love for an architect or interior designer to explain to me why certain houses just Feel Bad. i was browsing homes on rightmove (sometimes it's fun to pretend you might be able to afford a home one day!) and i came across this one house that made me feel what i can only describe as instinctive dread. like it was a perfectly nice house, good lighting, big rooms, well-kept, but something about it just instilled me with this sense of "nope, no, absolutely fucking not" and i cannot for the life of me put my finger on it.