#tourist type

[deadmotelsusa]

After being sold out for over a year, 5 discounted copies of Tourist Type: Dead Motels have been added to the shop. Please note: these are SCRATCH & DENT copies. In most cases, expect small blemishes or bends on the cover. Otherwise the internal content is exactly the same as a "good" copy from the original runs. Here’s the link if you’re interested! https://vahalla-studios.myshopify.com/collections/all-products-custom/products/tourist-type-volume-1-first-edition

So excited to announce the release of Tourist Type: Dead Motels! 

I teamed up with visual artist & designer Dustin Williams to create this unique compendium, which offers a look at pure typographic Americana through the lens of over a hundred logos and images from dead and defunct motels around the United States. This book is a love letter to the mom and pop motels of road trips past, an era of design that continues to inspire even as the physical locations themselves are razed year after year. Many of the beloved motels that you have seen featured on this blog have been included!

This edition is 48 pages, annotated, screen printed and bound in a perfect travel size. It is printed by Vahalla Studios and is available now by clicking here or visiting: https://vahalla-studios.myshopify.com/products/tourist-type-dead-motels

[intjsimp]

It’s finally beach weather in Fl!!

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

Gojo as a merman. He's of the deep-sea kind: pale and light colored, with pale blue eyes sensitive to bright daylight. Because of this, he only surfaces at nighttime-- that is, until Y/N gets him a pair of sunglasses.

ANONNNNNN YOU’RE A FUCKING GENIUS i’ve been brainstorming ideas for mer!gojo but here we have it….. that’s him…….. i can see him wearing sunglasses SO clearly 😭😭 i feel like he’s super fond of humans (unlike sugu)… probably pretends to be a normal guy and shows his upper body while tourists are taking a dip in the ocean…. flirts with men and women swimming by……… reveals his tail to crying children super sneakily so that they’ll stop crying and cheer up…. parents laugh when their children point to him and call him “mister mermaid” meanwhile he just grins and puts a finger to his lip teasingly <33 it’s their little secret!!!

no but he would actually be soooo cute and charming….. he wants to be human so bad he wants to explore!!! LOVES being a merman but like…. he wants to go on land and eat all the sweets he sees everyone munch on….. :((( mer!gojo is the most susceptible to a little mermaid-esque plot where he turns into seafoam at the end LMAO thankfully he has suguru and shoko to keep him in check!! doesn’t stop him from interacting with humans though…… he just wants to have fun <3

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

ford: i kind of don’t mind anymore. living in gravity falls is nice in that way. no one’s arguing that i look like a girl, they just go ‘oh, that’s stanford, he’s a scientist. it’s been very interesting having him here, he likes to tell people all sorts of obscure fun facts’

stan: yeah, i get what you’re saying with that. i’d still like to chop the chickens, though, y’know what i mean?

interjecting tourist of harassment: aw, but why would you want to get rid of such beautiful gifts? ;]

stan: if you can cut them off me, i’ll let you keep them

tourist: …(speedwalks in the opposite direction)

[kaurwreck]

Have you ever thought of reading orv? It seems to be something right up your alley

I've heard of it, but I haven't considered reading it; my tastes in contemporary fiction are inane but immutably monopolized by a narrow selection of historical fantasy subgenres + self-published gothic romance novels/novellas that offend my sensibilities and outright violate my boundaries.

[ur-ghostgirl]

if it wasn't for all the rude tourists i think i could be happy living here

[cleocatrablossy]

[lemonbeemon]

Forgot that the Hornsent has a vaguely Scots-Irish (?) accent and now I'm laughing my ass off at the idea of this guy absolutely losing his shit in the local pub 2 pints in

[fitzrove]

[shaking and biting] but what does it MEAN. what does it SAY what is the THEME

[ohbuggy]

Former Unova champion turn Alolan alcoholic

[theanoninyourinbox]

Koroit opal, possibly? Broad-shoulders and potentially a little chubby, idk, lol? :3 I don't know much about SU but this seems fun and I like how that opal looks :3

granny's going to the beach and her theme song is weird al's tacky

[curi0uscreature]

* Thanking the Miraheze once again because I now found out there were originally tourists. I get why they cut it but also have they considered I’m a raging bisexual

[sohannabarberaesque]

Imagine this sort of warning sign in Jellystone Park, warning visitors against a certain Yogi Bear and his fondness for the old "tourist-type goodies" of the highest order, even with all manner of protection now required against bears seeking out human-type food.

[citrus-sours]

I know I just said I need to finish shit but also. I should add to the Pony and Juzo goes to America post. The urge to send their asses to the Dr. Pepper museum is killing me

[russell-crowe]

i used to really love the uk. for a while, i traveled there frequently for concerts and other events because it was so easy and affordable—only about 20 quid to get there from amsterdam. (cheaper if you were willing to suffer on a flixbus) at first, it was exciting, but over time the novelty wore off. i found myself going to london once every 1–2 months, navigating without google maps because i already knew the way to all my favorite venues and hotspots. i’d spend a lot of time just hanging out with friends in their local bars and stage dooring and wandering around st james park because i love the little squirrelly buggers there

then there was the time i went to manchester and saw someone steal a scooter in the middle of the street while everyone acted like it was nothing. or those endless trips from southend to amsterdam that familiarized me with the concept of "easyjet tourism" and the increased awareness of miserable british people using amsterdam as an escape from their shit. my fondness for the uk started to fade. when covid happened, my cultural interests shifted even more toward scandinavia and thus my travel budget also went more to that.

but now, i’m looking back at my trips to the uk with a sense of nostalgia i guess. it’s like dipping into a warm pool and pretending it’s heated by something pleasant instead of… well, piss. surprisingly, i’m really excited to visit again. i’m going on a trip in february that feels like a throwback to pre-covid times: meeting a friend, seeing a favorite performer (rhod), buying way too many dvds, and taking photos of those gloriously miserable beige buildings.

the country is objectively a bit of a mess (understatement), but there’s a strange charm to it that i can’t quite shake. i think back to how i went to a bilingual high school where we spent six years immersed in a quasi-posh british education within an ordinary dutch public school setting. and part of me is annoyed that i am doing the country equivalent of getting back with my ex, but also... sigh. i am excited. :)

[maulfucker]

[guy who is always complaining about drawing backgrounds] well what if I