#abbey architecture

[fuckitandmovetobritain]

Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK

[fuckitandmovetobritain]

Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Cotswolds, England, UK

[iamthecomet]

i've been thinking about it since you brought up the domestic ghoul thoughts, but when I'm reading fic, and the ghoul quarters are mentioned, I always picture them the exact same way?

like, the bedrooms are always the same layout as my childhood bedroom? like, the decor's different, but the bed is against the wall in the same spot, the door's in the same spot (the windows are more like one of my college dorms but i digress), the closet and the dresser are in the same spots

the kitchen is somewhere between my great grandmother's kitchen and the kitchenette in the apartment style dorm I lived in for a year

and the common room is always the finished part of my parents' basement, so even if the fic says "so and so came into the common room" I always imagine them coming down stairs

(now that i write it out, all of that doesn't convey what i think those spaces look like but i can't get pictures of half of those spaces because they're gone/renovated/i can't get into those dorms anymore lmao)

This is so interesting though! I tend to picture all the ghouls rooms as having the same layout too--but with very different decor/styles. The common room/kitchen tend to morph depending on how I'm talking about them (which is really frustrating). I love that you have such specific imagery for all of this. I'm sure so many of us do, but it doesn't always translate into fic (or we just don't talk about it).

I'm so tempted to open up the Sims 4 again and build/decorate the ghoul wing to match what I envision, I just know if I do I will get one room done and then give up. It just sounds like so much work.

I would LOVE to talk more about ghoul wing/room layouts though. I'm a big ol' nerd so this kind of stuff makes my brain super happy.