#pizza tower freak circus

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[margorin]

Not all my ideas at four o'clock in the morning are good, but, nevertheless.. Meet this AU invented by me for Pizza Tower - Freak Circus. Let's start with why such a concept came to my sick head at all. In other words: the history of this AU.

Of course, after the destruction of the Pizza Tower, all the characters who lived in it, but to be more precise, mostly bosses and secondary characters, remained in Peppino pizzeria. And most likely, at least somehow helped him with his pizzeria. But after some time of such a life, Peppino himself realized that his not very pleasant inhabitants of the pizzeria, who acted as service personnel for him, were not, let's say, adequately perceived by visitors.Just look at their appearance! Is an adequate person, if he sees this in real life, he will actually have an adequate reaction.? Most likely not. Well, our dear Italian realized that his affairs were clearly not going uphill, and he needed to change something. One not so beautiful rainy day, while he was walking, away from his pizzeria, he saw a typical ad for a traveling circus. He stopped in front of him and looked at him for a long time.. It was that day that a great idea was born. Since its attendants scare visitors, why not do it under the guise of entertainment? And with a similar thought, he went back to the pizzeria and, of course, told everyone about it. Of course, no one liked this plan in principle, and no one wanted to make themselves look like a laughing stock. But, however, they had no choice. Either they acted according to the plan that Peppino came up with, or they simply had to leave. And since there is no Pizza Tower, they basically have nowhere to go (most of them). And so Peppino's freak circus appeared, in which obviously not everyone was happy.

And I will tell you a little, perhaps, about the role, in principle, of the main actors.

Peppino himself, of course, is the owner of the circus and is mainly responsible for the performances. Who should come out with what number, announcement of numbers, performs himself together with Fake Peppino, in general, is responsible for the organization. His character, to put it mildly, has changed for the worse. At some point, he can even be considered a little crazy, but, however, in public he behaves benevolently, flatteringly and quite adequately.

Gustavo, as before, remained his faithful friend and assistant, but he is already more responsible for the budget and profits of the circus. Sells tickets, buys the necessary materials. He's not too good, like most, about this idea, but as long as everyone is alive and well, and his friend is not completely insane, he does not consider it necessary to change anything. Yes, working with finances turned out to be much more difficult and painstaking than he thought, and because of this he gets very tired, but at least now he sees a really joyful smile on his friend's face.

The Brick itself is one of the animals. Which is not surprising, because even though he is a rather smart rat, Peppino did not think so and decided that Mr. Stick would perform with him. And Brick must perform various tricks to entertain the viewer. On the other hand, he obviously does not like it, and he has already tried to escape several times, but judging by his appearance, these attempts were unsuccessful for him.

Noise and his wife on the Noisett they mostly perform together and perform various acrobatic or dangerous acts, where Noise of course uses his favorite bombs. Oddly enough, Noise was the only one who wasn't too opposed to the whole idea. After all, he is popular, the public admires him and he can do what he wants. However, the question arises: Why is Noisett still here? After all, she is just the person where she has to go, and she can take her husband. But seeing that his tricks do not bring much harm to anyone yet, and he is happy, she can be said to voluntarily stay here. Although they both do not understand that it is unlikely that Peppino will give anyone a chance to leave his circus.

Pizzahead even though (I think) he is quite powerful, he acts as a magician. His appearance, in principle, is unusual, in fact, a man with a pizza head. But doing various not-so-remarkable stunts, occasionally failing at it, he looks just ridiculous and people love it! Plus, due to the fact that the circus is quite stuffy due to the large crowds of people, cheese constantly flows from it at all its performances. For people, this is only confirmation of his certain ugliness. For Pizzahead himself, this is only confirmation that without his tower he is a complete zero.

Pepperman, as he wanted, remained an artist, however, too much time is not given for his performance, so he is forced to do everything quickly and sloppy. His paintings do not turn out so good, rather ridiculous. Since he is an unusual-looking person, he also draws, but draws, according to the audience, clearly having no talent, it makes them laugh. At several of his performances, his talent was even ridiculed aloud. Because of what, specifically, his self-esteem has dropped so much, and now he does not consider himself so beautiful..

The Vigilante had the same little problem as Pizzahead. It constantly spreads due to too high a temperature. But in his performances, he shows his skills in handling firearms. But because of the high temperature, it all turns out to be crumpled, sloppy, and the reaction of the audience, I think, is already clear to you. Of course, Vigilante himself is insanely annoyed and his dignity is greatly omitted because of this. But because of the sometimes too strong weakness and overwork, he does not even have the thought of somehow struggling with this.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, Fake Peppino ended up in the animal section. So he also performs with Peppino himself, performing tricks that are not particularly pleasant for him. This happens due to the fact that Peppino himself believes that he is not smart enough to be an artist and does not know how to control himself enough, so Fake Peppino cannot perform alone. Fake Peppino tried to fight such a dictatorship, but in fact, like Brick, he did not succeed very well. So he remains in the role of an obedient little animal.

Mr. Stick, who, in fact, was supposed to deal with just the same money business, but however, he is one of the trainers, and, as mentioned earlier, performs with Brick. Why isn't he in charge of the circus' finances? And the thing is that Peppino harbored long-standing grievances against him and simply does not trust him in this regard. So also in order to humiliate him to some extent, Mr. Stick is dressed and as much as possible those clothes that clearly show his skinny body structure. Mr. Stick himself, in principle, is glad that he was not recorded in the section of animals and does not treat him too disrespectfully. As long as he does what he is told, he can feel safe, at least in some way.

Well, if you read all this, then.. Thank you for spending your time on this at all and good luck!

[pizza-games-and-more]

Pizza Tower headcanons: Fear

Lets see what the main cast of Pizza Tower is afraid of, hehehe...

Peppino - What's Peppino afraid of? What ISN'T Peppino afraid of?! There's your shorter answer! This grown ass man gets scared away from sleeping from an owl sitting by the window at night. This man developed delusions of fake war PTSD because he accidentally watched a violent war film as a kid one time. He has many, many fears and they all get ridiculous to the point nobody knows whether it's funny or disturbing.

Gustavo - Despite growing up in the forest, Gustavo is afraid of creepy crawlies. Especially caterpillars. He'd never admit this, but he developed that specific fear after he accidentally baked a caterpillar into a pizza and only discovered it after he took a bite out of it.

Mr. Stick - Ever since an embarrassing incident in school, Mr. Stick has had this odd paranoia about being naked in public. To help with this, he specifically wears clothes that leave no risk of accidental slippage or exposure.

Pepperman - Pepperman does NOT like birds. And he doesn't know if the feeling is mutual or if they REALLY like him, as he seems to keep finding himself being chased by them. So really, it's no wonder he hates birds so much.

The Vigilante - He has probably the most understandable fear if you know why: Water. Too much water is not good for Cheeseslimes. Staying in the rain too long will make him melt. Going into a pool would kill him unless he gets fished out quickly. Interestingly, he's notably more freaked out than even other Cheeseslimes, though.

The Noise - This guy refuses to go to any horror movie night or campfire storytelling because of his biggest fear: Ghosts. It all began when he got his first camera and caught a glimpse of a mysterious shadow on film. The Vigilante (who knows ghosts aren't all that bad) has been trying to bring him to the New Western District to help him conquer his fear, but he adamantly refuses to go.

Noisette - She's always hated going to circuses, though not because of the clowns. Because since this is an exaggerated cartooonish world where ethics don't really matter, circus animals are still widely accepted and she's terrified of large animals. And no, she won't tell us why. We're not even sure if she knows why herself.

Fake Peppino - Poor Fake Peppino hasn't had good experience with cats. They're more afraid of him than he is of them, but unfortunately they respond to their fear by attacking the poor confused Peppino clone, making him afraid of them in turn.

Brick and Pizzahead both fear nothing. In Brick's case, he's too stupid to tell if something's supposed to be scary, and in Pizzahead's case, he's incapable of taking anything seriously.

[chorusfm]

Riot Fest 2024 Announced

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HWJWJJS THANKS FOR TAGGING ME!!

Favorite color: black, red, pink, back then my fav color was green but since I had so much red and black to my blog and characters I just started getting really into these colors and for pink idk why I love it so much but I do I sometimes use it with my characters

Last song listened to: I was listening to a lot of old songs because they are absolutely amazing, I'm guessing something from the Beatles, kiss, queens, ac/dc, bon jovi, Nirvana, etc

Currently reading: 🙁I only read one book this whole summer lmao (haven't picked a book up since unless it's a sketchbook lmao)

Currently watching: SAIKI K, AND MOB PSYCHO 100 AAAA I FREAKING LOVE THESE ANIMES SJSJSJJS

Want to watch: ALL THE DEADPOOL MOVIES, ALL THE SCREAM MOVIES, FRIDAY THE 13TH, ALL THE MICHAEL MYERS MOVIES/HALLOWEEN, THE EXORCIST, THE SHINING, GRAVITY FALLS, THE FAIRLY ODD PARENTS REBOOT, UHH YES THAT'S ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT RNN

Currently craving: burritos. Always. burritos are my fav food especially if it's from that one small restaurant I went to in Ecuador HELL YEA sooo good aaa😍

Coffee or tea: COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE (I might die early bc of my love for coffee tho I barely drink it)

Hobbies in mind: hmm well right now drawing digitally and in my notebook, playing video games with my brother, playing PC games especially like gmod right now, hanging out with my sister and then with my brother, yapping to my cat ginger

Current aus:

Smg8 crew: this au is still in development but I've already made a lot of story for the main character smg8, I just need to make the rest of the smg8 crew and then we will be all good >:3

Betrayed: holy shit where do I start, this story is an intense one that I love so much, it's a comic collab with @luigigirl12 and we've been working on it for a while. I am still working on it now having at least 45+ panels done for this comic!

Mr!UnderfellAU: this au has some deep lore it's been a while since I've posted about it but my whole account is literally based off of this au but mostly the sans in this au, this au has so much lore done all I need is to make some character designs and yea! But other then that this au can get pretty dark once you learn more about it!

It's all your fault ⎎⍀⟟⌇☍ ☌⍀⏃⋏⎅⌿⏃

Smg4: ✩Death wish au✩: is an au I am not even close to finishing and have never really mentioned but it's an au about a evil god that has been sealed in a box for over millions and millions of years, his name is Gumi and I know it's a silly name and all but he is horrible, he has one eye and I haven't really been able to come up with many design ideas yet other then like a weird deformed looking thing with one eye, this au is also pretty depressing for Mario because he's been given a curse that it's like everybody has a certain time above there head and if the timer ends above there head Mario has to kill them even if he doesn't want to gumis spirit makes him do it anyway, why? Because he feels like it. Worse of all the people with the least time are closest to Mario(smg4, luigi, meggy)

Tableware highrise: an old classic that's been hanging on my account for a while now, in this pizza tower au it's focused on Tableware and stuff, peppino owns a tableware store when suddenly a nasty germ highrise comes by to try and defeat peppinos business by spreading dirt and germs onto plates and etc, peppino doesn't let this slide and uses his water pump as a weapon to clean off enemies and make them nice again. I've finished all the designs for bosses in this au but didn't make the stages or floors. Fun fact peppinos pump is literally based off of super Mario Sunshine Mario's pump

The✩CircusCasino✩: an au where peppino or in other words CC runs a huge circus and casino all at once and is constantly almost being assasinated or people trying to defame him, this didn't bother him until one day coinhead came by and made a huge casino, circus, plus waterpark and now peppino needs to find a way to not lose all his money (I haven't came up with designs for here at all sadly but I do have CC peppinos design done)

Punk✩Burger au: this au is actually pretty simple, it's about a dude named PB Pino that works at a joint called the PunkBurger, here all the bosses are friends and all work together as employees to run this joint it's pretty chill and nothing really happens but if the employees aren't there for the day burgerhead and coffeeface bring random people from random universes to work there, this au is like those random pit stops you would see while traveling to different universes lol

Here's an example lol

YUPII YUPII THAT'S ALL

@yago-undertale @little--critter @cutechan555 @izzy-the-chaotic-gremlin @pizzatowet13 (anyone else that is booties with me or wants to join you can >:3 I'm so tired I can't even think of many ppls rn lmao)

I was tagged by the wonderful @jqmon ! Thank youuuu and here I go;

Favorite color: Purple, navy blue, and neons in general! They're pretty nice and can stand against a black background.

Last song i listened to: I have just had a random playlist on right now actually, but I think its called A Mask of my Own Face by Lemon Demon!

Currently Reading: "Camouflage of Great Reknown" by RatCandy! Again AUGH i love this fic Zote is me and i am Zote. Anyways, I would go on a tangent about that but this shouldn't drone on longer than my usual ramblings wahahazzzzz Also, "To Kill a Mocking Bird" By Harper Lee.

Currently watching/rewatching: "Yokai Watch!" and "Brave the Animated Series!" I've watched the latter almost 17 times in counting now aodjoeod, it's one of my faves that rivals Yokai Watch (which is pretty impressive if you know me!)

Want to watch/rewatch: "Yo-kai Watch" (OG), "Good Omens", "The Good Place", the new TMNT show and "ROTTMNT"! Quite the list but y'know =u=.

Currently craving: What I would do for some tiramisu right now...

Coffee or Tea: Same as prev, I like em both! I do like them like my chocolate though; a little more on the bitter side!

Hobbies in Mind: Drawing (digital and traditional), singing, playing videos games, and general crafts. I'd try to make anything once ○°w°○ wwwww.

Current AU: I have an unnamed Yokai Watch AU featuring my sona/character Caspian! I like making random stuff for it but I don't have a post or anything on it yet tho aifkoeod. Not to say I haven't fleshed some of it out or come up with a plot+official refs rho! (Fun fact if you've seen some of my posts; the yokai redesigns I showed yall a while ago were mostly just an excuse to show you the AU versions wwwww^) That, and a little personal world thing with two irls that I love <33 (COUGH. @samiisams and @sketchdeath22 ..... they have amazing stuff go look ooooo......)

People who I wanna get to know better: Hope y'all don't mind the tagggggggg!

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Love y'all!/p (hope I didn't accidently tag anyone whose already participated auiemdhjcr...)

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FNAF, Renegade AU - Mechanics voulenteerie stick around

https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/FNAF-Mechanics-voulenteerie-stick-around-863941650

Published: Dec 13, 2020

Renegade File Server Location: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23843413

voulenteerie is a pun on voulentary and eerie. Its been ages since I've drawn my main FNAF OC, PT, and it's about time I drew her again. Deciding on a background for the drawing took forever, but it turned out really well aside from the part where my grey colouring pencil decided that it hated me and went and made the background rather scratchy in some places. Other than that, it turned out ok. Also, as I wanted to make the background more detailed, I decided that I would add some 'childrens drawings' similar to what you'd see in the games. One of these is a reference to another drawing of mine that I posted a while back. Whilst I did start this drawing in late August, I actually finished it mid September. The thing that has been taking so long has been writing a story to go with it. It took a while to figure out a fitting storyline and write something, not to mention that I'm pretty busy these days, so having the time to work on the story has been pretty rare. Given that PT designated herself as the team bodyguard, I decided to have the story lean into that. °*•:•*•.•*•:•*°*•:•*•.•*•:•*°*•:•*•.•*•:•*° °•.🌹 Story 🌹.•°

=°•.🌹.•°= 'With the amount of times a kid had seen backstage, or wandered off into the office, I'm surprised they aren't freaked out by the animatronics. Well, a lot of them seem to know they're animatronics, but what part of a the big strong lady singlehandedly lifting an animatronic that was currently being controlled by a ghost - in the middle of the day - isn't scary?' "The part where they think it's part of the show?" PT shot up and stared at the tiny ginger engineer who had spoken to her. "What?" Fritz said in response to his colleague and friend's stare, "were ya just thinking out loud?" "I was thinkin in my 'ead. Can you read my mind?" "Nope. Pretty sure ya were speaking out loud," Fritz packed his tools up as he spoke, "so, where's Krass? He was supposed to meet us." "Getting nagged by Gerald, probably," PT huffed, looking at the drawings on the walls of the corridors, several of them depicting disturbing incidents. Incidents, that in a just world, wouldn't exist, let alone exist so frequently that children get to see them at a restaurant of all things. Upon seeing a drawing of a yellow bear shaped blob towering over a red splotch, her grip tightened on her axe, "being able to suplex circus baby means shit all against something that doesn't even always have a physical form." She looked back over at Fritz, whose orange jacket was stained black and brown with motor oil: their casual clothes a stark reminder that they were here off their own backs tonight for reasons other than honest work. "So," she begun to walk towards their next point of interest: pirates cove, "are we going to say or do anything about the door still?" "Nah. Freddy did it some time after you left for the night the other day." "That's your story?" "And it's true. I'm stickin' to it." "I know, I'm just messing with you." The cove was as grim as ever. The curtains stained with a grotesque mix of pizza, motor oil, vomit, and blood. The part that touched the ground was the worst affected, so with a pair of scissors, PT sliced the manky part of the curtain off before placing it in a carrier bag. "If the janitors were actually paid to clean this damn thing, it wouldn't fall to me to do this. Hopefully this place will shut before the curtains have to be replaced. And just for that, this scrap is going to the cops instead of the incinerator." "Obvious much, but what'd they want with a scrap of mouldy fabric?" Fritz asked, trying not to puke. "See who the blood belongs to." PT replied, looking a bit green in the face herself as she tossed the bag onto a nearby table before climbing up onto the stage. Even though it was the middle of the night and the animatronics were active, Foxy slinked to the back of the cove. PT had won several fights against the animatronics before, and would not hesitate to throw hands again, and as a result, the animatronics respected her out of fear. The only animatronic who didn't have this fear instilled in them was the one who was the root of all her recent problems: Golden Freddy. "One word to your brother and I'll tear your ears off." PT growled as she begun to lift a hatch up that was in the stage. Inside the hatch was an old dusty control room: a relic of the days where the animatronics legs served little to no function and all their actions were governed by a person. This location had those rooms built, but by the time the place had opened under its original name back in the 80's, the rooms were already obsolete, and by the time the 90's rolled around and the location was rebranded to the most recent smaller scale Freddy's restaurant type, these rooms were more secret than the rooms that were actually supposed to be a secret. Upon picking up some rather dusty papers and tools, she clambered out the control room and got to work on the stages actual control panel - the one above ground at the back of the stage. Sparks flew through Foxy as she messed about with the box, fixing wires and resetting dials. PT's rubber soles shoes prevented her from getting electrocuted, but the robotic fox didn't have that luxury. Once she was done, she reset the clock on the panel to the correct time before closing and locking the panel's casing. "So, that's the control panel in the cove fixed. This one shouldn't activate during that day any time soon. What else was sus," she said as she batted the dust off herself and pocketed the items she had taken out of the control room. "Recover kitchen footage." Fritz said, reading off a list he had stored in his pocket. "Right," PT said as she picked up the bag containing the gross fabric. "Let's take the long way through the office. If that kid's picking on Krasnyy again I'll give him something to cry about." The two then walked down the corridor and came to the office, where they found Krasnyy in his security guard uniform looking rather exhausted. "You ok?" PT asked, to which Krasnyy replied with a nod and a weak thumbs up. "Is that a yes? You seem knackered." Krasnyy replied with an awkward silence before pointing at the tablet - probably the most advanced bit of tech in the building and it was crudely wired up to a plethora of cameras that were aincient in comparison - and taking a deep breath. "Show up on cameras. Drain energy. Speaking hurts." Krasnyy sometimes knew how to get a point across in the fewest words possible and today was one of those days, so both PT and Fritz knew that Gerald (Golden Freddy according to himself and the other animatronics) had been showing up in the cameras, and tormenting Krasnyy by somehow draining his energy. A pang of rage coursed through PT's mind; she wasn't sure if it was Blake's thoughts or her own, but she loathed Golden Freddy. It's mere existence with mostly taking a non-physical form was counterplay to what made her a good defender to her friends, and the fact that there was little she could do about the brat was truly enraging. It may have been a child, but that monster wasn't a child anymore, and hadn't been for years. "If he shows up again, shriek, and I'll come running and see what I can do," she said, wanting to stay calm. With the current people in the building being herself, Krasnyy, and Fritz, she was the most level headed one of the trio, so if she wasn't calm, there would be no-one left to be calm, "we're just going to the kitchen. We're going to see what we can recover from the camera. We'll be back soon." Krasnyy nodded, and PT nodded back before leaving the office through the east doorway and heading up to the kitchen. The two of them stayed quiet, listening out for any animatronics, or any signs of activity from Golden Freddy. Making it to the kitchen without incident, they located the camera. "Shattered," PT huffed, looking at the camera whose peices were strewn across the floor, "Looks like I'll be fitting a replacement. Wonder why the bastards hate this camera so much." Upon examining the remains of the camera for himself, Fritz grabbed a handfull of things that looked like solid state devices and circuit boards and shoved them into his bag. "I'll recover the footage when I get 'ome. No point in tryin'a do this in near zero light while being stalked by robots. That's just askin' for bad news." "Talking about news, I want to see if Krasnyy's ok before we set off. The camera was the last thing on the list, and it's nearing six anyway." As the two of them went to leave the kitchen, they found that the door had locked somehow, dispite the door not having a lock. "How? Like, seriously? What is this?" PT said as she repeatedly tried to barge the door open. Fritz, on the other hand, was getting flashbacks to watching Freddy tear the parts and services door off its hinges. Behind them, a child's laugh rang through the kitchen. Both of them ignored it and kept looking at the door. The laugh rang out again, louder, and somehow sounding more exasperated than a laugh should be able to sound. Again, they ignored it, and soon after the second laugh ended, the door gave way. Back on track to the office, PT remarked, "I was just copying you there - ignoring it. I would have propper thrown hands if I was on my own, but I guess you know how to deal with that thing better than I do." "Having to learn fast does have its perks," Fritz replied as they stepped back into the office, and Krasnyy looked awfully glad to see them. "So, did he silence you again?" PT asked, feeling like she kind of knew what was up. "Yep. Knew you were here." Krasnyy seemed almost disappointed in himself, dispite there being no damage and nothing he could have done. With a reassuring smile, PT responded "Well that really sucks. At least we've got what we've came for. The boss never shows up until half past, so we'll stay with you until six. The buildings power puts a dampener on that kid, so whilst you already know he's going to stalk the shit out of you, he can't hurt you outside of night shift hours." "Surprised you remembered," Krasnyy smiled back. And in what felt like a fast few minutes, the night was over. Day staff rolled in, and PT and Fritz left the building in plain sight, going completely unquestioned by their colleagues. Upon handing the relics from the old control room and the bag of gross fabric over to Mike, they finally breathed a sigh of relief. =°•.🌹.•°= °*•:•*•.•*•:•*°*•:•*•.•*•:•*°*•:•*•.•*•:•*°

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UK TRIP

Day 1 // 18th July 2019

- Landed at London Gatwick —> Switched two trains to get to Waterloo —> Walked down Webber Street to figure out exactly where it is - 130, Webber Street: My home for the next two weeks! - Went to the supermarket, got basic supplies, beers & a local SIM - Walk around Union Street, found a chill park - Chose to have dinner at Bala Baya, instead of Gordon Ramsay’s Union Street, because I don’t do mainstream stuff. LOL, kidding. I found Bala Baya’s menu & aesthetic more attractive. - Shopped for more supplies from TESCO at Southwark - Walked back home - Didn’t do much, just trying to get a hang of the city & people

Day 2 // 19th July 2019

- Train from Waterloo —> John Wood's - Starts raining as I walk towards the coveted Lord’s Cricket Ground - Met Dudeja outside Lord’s & started our Lord’s tour - Went to the great hall, merchandise store, the dressing rooms - the place where Ganguly took off & flung his jersey during the Natwest 2002 finals - Bus from Lord’s —> Oxford Circus - Walked around Oxford Street, its a shopping freak show. Since I’m averse to shopping, I didn’t like this street, but the kind of consumerism that exists in London is intense - Went for lunch to The Chipping Forecast: Fish & Chips, Avocado salad & Guinness stout was consumed - Followed by desert at Chin Chin - Met Deep in the evening & we went to Soho Theatre to watch comedy show, which I didn’t know would go on to inspire me to such an extent: DEMI LARDNER - Walked around Piccadilly Circle, China Town, Leicester Square, the popular places of London. Too much fan-fare around these places, very commercial, whereas I prefer the quiet, quaint lanes. Anyway, I couldn’t go to London for the first time & not visit these places, they’re too  iconic too skip! - Walked around the Soho again, had a very good beer while walking - Dinner at Japes Pizzeria with Simon, Dudeja & Deep. Their pizzas were amazing! - Train from Oxford Circus —> Waterloo —> Walked home

Day 3 // 20th July 2019

- Walk from home —> BFI IMAX Waterloo —> Walk down to Tate Modern - MIND EXPLODE at Tate Modern, must’ve spent 5 hours easily, just absorbing - Bus to Nando’s —> Walk to BFI IMAX Waterloo - Watched Lion King at BFI (UK’s largest IMAX screen) - Tried a Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream for the first time. It was nice, normal - Walk back home from BFI - Reached home, then stepped out again - Spotted Andrew Scott outside the Old Vic Theatre! O.M.G. YES - Met Sumit, Sam & Dudeja & The London Eye around midnight, their keys fell into a gutter outside the London Eye & we struggled to get it, Sam & Sumit wrote a note on paper which had their name and contact number & put it through the grill - We went to a supermarket to get magnets since we thought we'll use that to pull out the keys from the gutter, but the shop-owner(from the subcontinent) warned us not to do such stuff, since it would come across as extremely suspicious. - Walked with Dudeja around Union Street - We saw hordes of people line up outside a train bridge, figured there was some underground boxing match happening there. - Walk back home.

Day 4 // 21st July 2019

- Took a train to North Greenwhich, was sent back to Canary Wharf, cozy the observatory is closer from there - SRK’s 'Challa' was shot at Canary Wharf - Heron Qauy-DLR Walk - Got off at Cutty Stark - Walk in Greenwich was amazing, it's a beautiful area - Walked to the observatory, crossing Cafe Rouge, Greenwich theatre & the huge park - Touched and stood on the prime meridian line(EXACT vertical centre of the Earth) & walked around the observatory - Walked down to the National Maritime Museum and saw some cool naval stuff (I didn't know that museums would fascinate me so much!) - Walk through Cutty Stark, bought a couple of vinyl LPs for myself although I don't have a player -_- It's a long term plan, sometimes you get accessories for something that you don't have & that motivates you to get the actual product, right? *I hope it's not just me* - Walked the Thames underground tunnel, it was quite cold down there - Walked across multiple parks to reach Isle of Dogs, (the name of this area inspired Wes Anderson to create a fictional film) which was quite disappointing, since I was expecting some film references, alas, One shouldn't expect too much. I didn't even find a direction symbol or a milestone that read 'Isle of Dogs' - Train back to Canary Wharf --> Switch at Green Park --> Piccadilly Line --> Hyde Park Corner - Met Dudeja, Deep & Simon at Hyde Park - We had a couple of beers, spoke, played catch & frisbee'd - Took a bus to Original Lahore, we were joined by Upmanyu there for dinner - Mediocre food at Original Lahore - Upmanyu walked us around the area, it was the same area where he stayed during his previous visit - Walked to Baker Street & saw Sherlock Holmes house. 221B - Took the bus home.

Day 5 // 22nd July 2019

- Started the day late. Did laundry, dishes, following up with clients regarding work back in Bombay. I was glad I didn’t carry my laptop along!  - Walk to Southwark - Train to Victoria Station - Oxford Tube bus from Victoria Coach - Chill bus ride, reached the majestic city of Oxford - Walked around Oxford University, Christ Church College, by the river that flows through the city - I think I ate the best burger that I've ever eaten at Oxford. It was a smoked beef burger at this restaurant 'Head to the River' - The bartender mocked me coz I said 'I want beer beer'. These two guys made a quick gag, and went on to ask me if I wanted any 'Food Food' 'Water Water' & later apologised for their behaviour by saying they're 'Sorry Sorry' and 'Immature Immature'. I liked the dry humor, that’s my thing too. - Long walk by the river - Slept under a tree at the park, saw ducks, kayaks - Walked around the city for about 2-3 hours - Gelato Ice cream at George & Co - Saw a man in a hat & suit entertaining a group of kids - The architecture here was different from London. - Went to Sainsbury, found lactose free milk - Caught the bus back home --> Oxford Tube --> Victoria Coach London --> Bus no #211 from Victoria to Waterloo - Walk home - Made a cheese sandwich & drank that lactose free milk - Spoke to Varun for long & slept.

Day 6 // 23rd July 2019

- Walk to Southwark --> Train to King's Cross --> Walk across the street to St. Pancras - Train to Brighton with Dudeja - Walk to Brighton Beach through the lanes of the city - Chill at the Brighton Pier - Ate fish & Chips + Calamari on the pier. - Walk down the pebble beach - We’d planned for this, so I was carrying a sheet, we spread it and soaked in the sun for a couple of hours - Took a couple of dips in the water(English Channel) - Beer + Truffle Chips at the beach - Sid played an FKJ playlist & we slept on the beach - Walked ahead to the Naturist Beach Park, saw a beautiful lady there! - Shot 'Otherside' pilot with Dudeja - Started walking to get water & stumbled upon a bunch of boys playing cricket; they were from Afghanistan. We were elated and ended up playing cricket with them for over an hour, made friends with them. One of those boys aped Bumrah’s action to the T, he was a fan! - Walked back on the Brighton promenade, saw the axe throwing booth - Back at Brighton station, we took the train to London - Got off at Southwark & walked home

Day 7 // 24th July 2019

- Walk to Borough Market - Ate pork wrap from Hobbs & gobbled an entire box of strawberries - Walk to London Bridge, walked the tower bridge - Bus to Potter Fields garden/park - Walk at Hay's Galleria (I think the architechture of Hiranandani in Powai is heavily inspired by this place) - London Bridge Underground station --> Train to Camden - Walked around the entirety of Camden - Found 'The World's End' pub and had their house beer 'The World's End Ale', one word: OUTSTANDING! The bartender & I spoke about Edgar Wright and his amazing films! - Bus to Shoreditch - Walked across the Grafiiti streets and reached a fine dine Burmese restaurant: Lahpet (with Dudeja - his reccomendation!) - Pork gravy + Rice with Prawn dim sums on the side - Walking beer from Shoreditch, walked around Shoreditch while sipping on the beer - Went to another restaurant 'Bird' and got Fried chicken parcelled - Bus to Tower Bridge - Walked tower bridge at night - Sat by the Thames and finished that fried chicken with blue cheese sauce! Blue Cheese FTW! - Walked back home through Borough Market.

Day 8 // 25th July 2019

-  Saw a priesthood ceremony in a church - Walked to the Imperial War Museum, intensely intrigued by the history behind World War II & The Holocaust. What a museum, must visit! - Walk back home - Lunch at Borough Market (Pork Hot Dog) + Gelato (Pistachio) - Train to West Hampstead - Met Sumit Anand, Sam & Dudeja, we booked our tickets to Cardiff (Wales). I also booked my tickets to Edinburgh (Scotland) - Train back home - Chilled on the terrace, had a couple of drinks - Walked to Tower Bridge & by the Thames with Maitry - Chilling again on the terrace, even Dudeja joined, spoke about Indian politics, because... how could we not!

Day 9 // 26th July 2019

- Leave for London Victoria with Dudeja in the morning - Missed the bus by 2 minutes, had to book the next bus which was after an hour :( - Walked to Victoria Street for breakfast - Beautiful breakfast at Granger & Co. Oh my god, the scrambled egg there is heavenly - Got on to our bus, headed to Cardiff - Checked in to our hostel the Riverside, one of the better ones, recommend it! - We headed out, but the city seemed a bit slow that day - Pizza & Beer at The Gatekeeper - Walked around the city, deserted, empty vibe, we thought we chose wrongly - Went to the Roald Dahl park - Took a bus back to the hotel, played mini pool in the courtyard & then slept like logs

Day 10 // 27th July 2019 - Breakfast at the hostel, our locker with passports got locked, so we had to break the lock to get our stuff out! With the hostel’s permission of course, they only got us a bolt cutter - Checkout & walk to Bute Park - Experienced one of the fun-nest event ever, that too randomly, we stumbled upon it! The Homeless Football World Cup & loved the vibe of it! Saw the opening ceremony + 1st match Denmark beat Wales (Penalty Tie Breaker) The Homeless World Cup is a sporting event organised by Homeless World Cup Foundation, a social organization which advocates the end of homelessness through the sport of association football - Walk out to the castle short walk, went to Joke store, comic store, etc. - Walk through various arcades - Loved walking in the arcades - Cardiff Market - Local market walk. Had Cannabis lollipop, slightly buzzed - Walk in arcades, quick lunch at Gregs. - Very cool stores, vintage video game parlor, skateboarding shops, fun toy shops, our perception of Cardiff as compared to the previous day had completely changed, it was such a fun place! - Dinner��+ Red Beer at Corner House - Walk to Sophia Garden, board the bus to London Victoria

Day 11 // 28th July 2019 - Reached home late at night, ate basic stuff - Morning, wasn't feeling too well (bunch of things mentally + homesick). - Chilled at home, cleaned everything, kitchen, laundry, etc. - Went to the park near Webber St. for a walk - Ate a fruit, video called Akshita, she looked cute, was watching Kapoor & Sons - I went back home, packed my stuff for Scotland, spoke to Akshita again, we had an emotional moment. - I took the bus to Victoria & left for Edinburgh, that was a tough ride, I was very uncomfortable through the journey, won't forget that night for sometime man! Phewww!

Day 12 // 29th July 2019

- Reached Edinburgh early in the morning. Walked down to the hostel. - Crashed in the hostel's (Baxter's Hostel) cafeteria since my check-in was 6 hours later. The people running that place were v sweet! 10/10 would recommend. - Got to my bed at 2 PM. Slept immediately. - Woke up at 5 PM, met Nimesh (Indian connect ftw, he was from Canada), he was gracious enough to lend me his hop on/hop off bus ticket, that was valid for the next day as well - Walked around Waverley Mall, ate a quick Chinese meal. Booked my ghost tour for 9 PM the same night, but reached the incorrect meeting point - Walked around the city & went back to the hostel by 10:30 PM, not a lonely walk, since the fringe setup/arrangements were on, Edinburgh was buzzing!

Day 13 // 30th July 2019 - Woke up late, fresh finally! Quick shower & out.  - Bright sunny day (Thank god for that!). - Grabbed a subway & took the hop on - hop off bus - Reached the entry point to Arthur's seat. Trekked Arthur's seat. Beautiful. Spent an hour there, ate fruits while I chilled with myself. - Went to the Scottish Parliament - Took rounds of the city on the bus, got to know about the significance of Edinburgh in J.K.Rowling's life & the world of Harry freaking Potter. (Trivia: Rowling incepted Harry Potter in Edinburgh. She wrote The Sorcerer's Stone at a cafe 'The Elephant House' & the Deathly Hallows in suite 501 @ The Balmoral (Bang opposite Baxter Hostel)) - Walked the lovely Victoria Street, ate a heavy meal @ Nando's - Finally went for my Murder & Mystery walk at Victoria Street, too much fun! - Walk to the hostel, slept.

Day 14 // 31st July 2019 - Woke up late, breakfast @ McDonald's - Bus to Glasgow [ Wanted to visit another part of Scotland, since I hadn’t pre-booked my Highland’s tour :( ] - Wrote a couple of Thumb-stopper scripts on the way, kept me engaged & distracted - Reached Glasgow, walked around - Went to a Gurudwara, needed to visit an Indian place of worship, felt extreme comfort - Visited the Botanic Garden - Walked across the city, found the film+book+music store - Went to the riverside : Clyde River - Continued walking around the riverside, long walk, its a lonely city, it started drizzling, no one around - Didn't find anything interesting in Glasgow, quite low. Maybe I didn't go there on a good day, went back to Bus Station, phone got spoilt in the rain. Got a bus back to Edinburgh & bunked at the hostel

Day 15 // 1st August 2019 - Woke up early, had to meet Aditi & film The Otherside episode with her! There was a kick in my walk finally, after the last couple of days of gloom and Aditi's energy was so positive & happy, it just pulled me out of where my mind was looming.  - Met & shot the episode with her at Assembly @ George Square, we ate some lovely crepes later. - Walked around Edinburgh, visited The Scottish Art Gallery, saw my favorite painter: Rembrandt’s original, authentic work!!! Saw his mentor Pieter Lastman’s work as well. Oh man! (I know I left Edinburgh the same day when the Fringe was beginning, it was mistimed... my trip there, didn’t plan it that way, so please don’t remind me that :( & anyway I had fun there) - Bus to airport ---> Flight to London Stansted ---> Train to Tottenham ---> Underground switch  - Reached Southwark, picked up basic groceries from the supermarket - Home: Started packing, cleaning up, laundry stuff

Day 16 // 2nd August 2019

- It was a sunny day, had to do final packing, shopping & visit the places that were on the check list, all in the limited number of hours & considering that I wake up late, anyway, I think I managed to do a great job!  - Kept all my bags ready & headed out after cooking myself a quick meal at home - Went straight up to Green Park, chilled for a while - Walked around Buckingham Palace - Went to Harrod’s, that’s a mind-boggling shopping space. Crazy! - Had to visit the iconic Abbey Road and click a picture of that street. There’s too much artistic history in London! What to do. - And I cannot thank Kunal Rao enough for recommending Hampstead Heath, it is the BEST park ever. What diverse experience. Yoga, silent open air disco, writers sitting in isolation & writing, young couples chilling, boys playing football, people having wine, some men fishing, while some swam, it was all happening there. Perfect example of Mutual Co-existence. Spent a couple of hours there, ate fruit, absorbed the air, my trip was coming to an end, what a bummer :( - Ran to Oxford Street, had to do all the shopping, then & there. - I shopped from LUSH, Sports Direct, Primark, Adidas, Marks & Spencer. You’d want to spend all your money on that street, it’s peak capitalism, but too attractive to not spend. Such dilemma for an existential person yaar. (Notice the change in me from day 2 to day 16?) - Reached home late in the night, bid adieu to this beautiful house in the heart of London, very grateful! - Picked luggage & left for Harsha Di’s place, saw a film shoot happening on the street when I left, now the person I am, I found that symbolic like: chalo beta it’s time to go back to films (Bombay), haha! - Got on a train to Wembley, met Harsha Di & jiju, went to their place, she’d made fresh indian food! Tasted a roti after 17 days, oh man, that is unmatchable, the hype is true! - Chilled with the two of them & crashed, had an early morning flight.

Day 17 // 3rd August 2019

- Woke up early, Harsha di & Alok jiju drove me to the Heathrow & the trip came to an end! What an experience man. Wow! I was amazed.

SPECIAL THANKS TO HRISHIT, SIDDHARTH & HARSHITA DI FOR THE MAKING SURE I HAD THE BEST TIME! AND TO KUNAL, ASHISH, VASANI & AKHIL FOR THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND AS ALWAYS, MOM (FOR EVERYTHING)

I also realised that I quite enjoy my own company & thoughts, so was able to spend almost 20 days by myself, of course I met friends, comics & stuff, but for the most time, I was alone & I think I did well. Took care of everything, from food, travel, laundry, mopping, grocery shopping, managing expenses while on a budget trip along with having an absolutely kickass time and enormous learnings.

Special Mention & MUST HAVE: ‘Citymapper’ App (It sorted my life from day 1. No other App is required if you have this App)

OVERALL TRIP AFTERTHOUGHT:  I absolutely loved my time in U.K. It’s the culture, the architecture, the people who make the place, all of which were very good & the best part is that they have preserved and maintained their history, they hold it so dearly (even though most of the wealth is a result of imperialism & looted from other nations, they have cultivated a culture & market out of it) and that’s something that I think we lack as a nation. I recently read an article that said RK Studios in Chembur has been demolished since they were running losses and the land has been sold to a big real estate company for apartments to be made. All the memorabilia, the emotions, the films which were shot in that iconic studio gone! All at once. Somehow I feel, that in another country perhaps, it would have been valued more, art would be given much more respect.