#london tag

[rainofthetwilight]

so me and @londonnuzi were talking and Something Happened

message under cut lmao

[harrietvane]

Feeling stressed / take a rest

(Grafitti in Hoxton, London, March 2023)

[krowfaced]

╢Personal work and characters╟

Soon a decade old illustration I'm still very happy about despite its flaws. Crazy to think about! Maybe I'll make a redraw of it when the anniversary hits

[sparkles-and-trash]

So very very excited for London!!

[ednyfedfychan]

“According to unverified Milanese costings, the total expenditure ran to 300,000 gold ducats (£65,000, or over £65 million in modern values) of which the Londoners had to fund two-thirds. Just two payments made ‘for stuff’ delivered to the Great Wardrobe included £203 for silk and £1,131 (worth over £1.2 million today) to John Malt, another of Henry’s tailors, who was put to work making Anne’s robes.”

— John Guy & Julia Fox, Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

[bizarrebazaar13]

does anyone know where I can find good reference images of victorian-era wheelchairs? I want to draw the jovial contrarian but all the wheelchair art refs/tutorials I can find are for modern wheelchairs

[magpie-trinkets]

continuing that "maya tries to contact claire" post, i present you the post-Spirit of Justice follow-up

[themoon-andtosaturn]

london n2

[doodle-with-alizard]

Dead man just wants some toast :(

I love this scene so much oml

[thegreatyin]

fallen london is really fun to imagine crossovers for because regardless of anything else you know for a fact those cave-dwelling victorians are being abnormal about the sun

[harrietvane]

Sometimes I get emotional about this leather glove from the 1400s they found in the Thames. Museum of London collection, probably currently in storage as they move from Barbican to Smithfield.

[MoL display commentary: “Leather glove, 1400s - this well-worn glove, with a tear that had been repaired, probably belonged to a labourer working on a site near the river. Bankside, Southwark”]

[artsnchaos]

KOLOMANIA.

[sparkles-and-trash]

London day 1, parks, pretty buldings, me being basic, and a new friend in the park!♥️

[crazykuri]

gave me everything 🥹

[the-magpie-archives]

Tips for writing London as a setting if you've never been there

London's a popular place to set a story! It's often imagined as sexy, cool, and suave. Whilst this is sometimes true, the thing that it predominantly is, is absolutely and entirely chaotic! So here are some aspects that you may not know about:

-Public transport is absolutely crucial to the infrastructure! Few people drive in London because of how well connected it is, and bus stops and train stations are often used as meeting points or details in directions.

-There's a LOT of crime, like, a lot. All cities have it, but London has a lot of variety. Stabbings are incredibly common (to the extent where it becomes a bit of a joke), almost everyone has a story where they've found or seen a dead body, and there are many money laundering/drug den fronts under the guise of highstreet shops (they're not well hidden).

-Despite it's chaos there's a strong code of etiquette most people hold themselves too. Some are actual rules (stand on the right side of escalators, don't queue jump) but some are simply social expectations (don't stop in the middle of the pavement, keep your bags close to your body, don't take up multiple seats.)

-A lot of tourists to the city are COMPLETELY FERAL and widely hated. They'll stand in the middle of the road, block up bridges, swing around cameras and selfie sticks in busy places, and completely ignore the social standards of polite society. People Do Not Like This. (also American tourists have a tendancy to just randomly start conversation with people? It's a bit weird and generally not done but it's not strictly a bad thing.)

-Rush hour is INSANE. We're talking almost static traffic, trains so packed that you're pressed into people on every side, buses that are so full they can't stop to let more people on. Some days it's better some days it's worse, but if you can avoid travelling at those times YOU DO.

-There are a lot of scam artists on the streets. Most major cities have these, they suck, they're aggressive, and they'll take your money! Some give you flowers and then force you to pay, some take photos of you and boost up the price to get them, there's always new ones, they're relentless, and you've gotta tell them to fuck off.

-Black cabs are not at all popular for normal people! They cater to tourists, rich people, and old people. They're great, the cab drivers are hard working and very knowledgeable, but they're also very expensive. Awful as it is, uber's cheaper if you're desperate, but buses go everywhere so it's just not really worth it.

[stubbornessissues]

I might just be making my Nibbly cosplay my entire personality at this point.

Anyway I got my friends to cosplay the rest of the Lords in Black and we did The Summoning ✌

Pokey: @raftersomefood

The rest are on instagram. Wiggly Blinky Tinky