#london view

[modmamono]

"Despite Madrid Drive [From Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass/Tour] being another city track from Europe, is incredibly varied."

This is out of context from someone I don't wanna name. And it's partially more about track layout. But if *that's* your complaint I think you're reaching for something to complain about to sound smart. Or missing the forest for the trees.

The capitals of several European countries don't look similar to each other because they really don't.

Maybe in the sense that they can look rural and have houses in them.

But plop me (a European) in one of those cities and I immediately know where I am, maybe it'll take me a little longer if the local monuments aren't in sight, but I'll know soon enough by looks.

This isn't about me defending the tracks, I don't really care about that. It's more about the association game.

Tour City Tracks -> Are similar -> Most are European -> Therefore most European Cities are the same.

And I know this is not everybody. But I have seen some people treat Europe in this game as if they are the Koopalings and therefore lazy. (I don't think the Koopalings are lazy either. They all got different body types and personalities.)

Maybe I'm lucky because I am from one of these countries?

But even I know tracks like Sidney, Bangkok, Vancouver, etc. are as varied too. It's just they're all cut from the same cloth in terms of track design. THAT IS ALL.

[bucpapa]

[mm974]

24/05/23

Today's been a productive day. After a week of struggling to study and procrastinating as much as possible, today I made quite a bit of progress. Final exam is in 8 days. I received my statistics results yesterday and got a First! I think that really helped me get out of the slump. Hopefully I'll continue to work these days and enjoy a relaxing summer. Anxiously awaiting the results for my other classes

[legitedigiulia]

LONDON SEAGULLS, SHELL WE FLY?

Southbank, Waterloo Beach Viewpoint

nov 2022

[khruschevshoe]

You know, it's rather interesting to me that Taylor Swift's parasocial relationship with her fans is honestly more akin to a YouTuber than a writer's. When I scroll through her tag on tumblr/Twitter, it's far more regarding the connection to her personal life/relationship developments than the actual metaphors/fictional story she might be telling. Everything comes back to how her songs reflect back on her relationships with Joe/Matty/Travis/Jake/insert ex-boyfriend here. And what fascinates me about it is that even though she complains about it, she leans into that very perception because it strengthens the parasocial bond.

The marketing for TTPD so clearly being about Joe Alwyn and the songs to Matty Healy. The marketing/video for Red TV so CLEARLY being about Jake Gyllenhaal, with so many of the new lines in All Too Well specifically being digs at him (I'll get older but your lovers stay my age, casting an actor that looks like him for the video, specific lines in I Bet You Think About Me). The fact that songs like Getaway Car and Bejeweled and Gorgeous and London Boy and Lavender Haze being picked apart at time of release and long after for signs of relationships crumbling. The way she uses surprise songs in relation to her relationship development with Joe/Matty/Travis. The damn TTPD "stages of grief" playlists where she deliberately undid/changed the meanings of old songs just to keep her audience speculating on her love life.

It's not sexist to point out that her wielding her love life is a marketing tool and that the strongest connection to her audience isn't the strength of her writing/the composition of her music- it's her deliberate crafting of a connection between her music and her personal life, leaving the audience invested in her music as an extension of Taylor the Person/Girlfriend rather than Taylor the Artist.

[anviblog]

[huariqueje]

London  - Niklas Delin , 2023.

Swedish , b. 1989 -

Oil and acrylic on MDF. 186 x 125 cm.

[breathtakingdestinations]

London - England (by . Ray in Manila)

[karottenleben]

Picture: Z1213

Place: London, England

Date: July 2022

[filmap]

All of Us Strangers Andrew Haigh. 2023

Building Victory Plaza, East Village, London E15 2ER, UK See in map

See in imdb

[shambholic]

[mm974]

Studying with a view

[legitedigiulia]

“you have died. Welcome to the after life”

Railing in front of the Tate Modern, London

nov 2022 Despite the meaning, how clever to leave a message on a spot where probably every turist (and local) going to the Tate Modern museum would take a picture of the beautiful open view with Saint Paul’s Cathedral exactly in the middle ^___^

[dumblr]

London, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[thefrsers]

Caitriona Balfe during the JW Anderson fashion show(9.16.23)

[brian-in-finance]

Remember when Caitríona attended the Private View before the first UK exhibition dedicated to the work of French couturière, Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel, charting the establishment of the House of CHANEL and the evolution of her iconic design style which continues to influence the way women dress today?

Exhibition website