#location reference

[redsixwing]

I just saw your "location reference" tag and oh my god your blog is a treasure chest of amazing destinations and culture. Thank you for collecting these 🙏 Do you happen to have any similar tags? And I know it's a bit of work but have you considered listing them in your pin? It's honestly a goldmine in here 🤩

Yay! Im glad you're having a good time.

You might also enjoy the "scene reference" and "artifacts" tags! :3

I'll add them to my pin in a bit.

[myngxy-sue]

Just thinking about some oddly specific lore for my main SDJ AU.

I am thinking about living spaces now and how much they reflect the person or people living in it.

And I think about how Sanne and Joseph's respective apartments looked before they finally settled down together.

Sanne, being a woman from an affluent family who believed in traditional values, lived in a well maintained maximalist apartment. It was an oddly elegant space filled with things she desired to have as a teenage girl but couldn't. Despite her seeming unfeeling and apathetic about life, her space is vibrant and inviting. Ironically, she rarely had guests over at all. That apartment was for her and her alone. And much like her life as a career focused woman, she wasn't going to give it up for someone not worthwhile.

Joseph had multiple apartments throughout his life. Before, he couldn't afford more than the bare necessities, often to his apartment having nothing more than a single couch, TV, fridge and bed. At first, it was liberating. After all, he was free from a home where he felt that he never belonged. But the feeling was always fleeting because it was only a matter of time until he could no longer afford it and faced eviction. Eventually, even that didn't feel like home. When he finally did have a steady income, he brought an apartment already furnished for him.

Then they married each other and, since they desired to start a family of their own, bought a house together.

Sanne, knowing a thing or two about decorating, had ideas about how she wanted to do things. Joseph wanted to leave everything to her at first because of that. But Sanne encourages him to have input, showing examples of decors to help him figure out what style resonated with him. After all, it was their home.

They end up with a maximalist rustic home that they vowed to keep meticulously maintained. The only rooms that stood out were Sanne's sewing room, Joseph's gym and the room they prepared for their future child.

But even before the baby arrived, they slowly but surely broke the vowed.

After all, both had demanding jobs. And even with the two of them working together, they struggled to keep everything in order. There were even days when they didn't even both at all.

It wasn't the kind of house you'd see in a catalog anymore. Things began to show signs of being used and things were placed where they didn't belong simply because there was enough space for it.

Speaking of work, they always got free merchandise from their jobs. Du Desiree giving Sanne things that were simplistic yet practical and elegant while LambsWork Productions dumped a wide range of stuff onto Joseph, merch clearly intended for children, but were too useful to pass up on. Either that or it was so weird that they'd keep it as a "conversational piece".

Then Laurie was born.

Now, in addition to the home undeniably being lived in, there were undeniable signs of a child being there.

The home never got too messy, but it also wasn't hard to find some kind of toy just lying around somewhere. In almost every room, there was a randomly placed musical toy. Most of his drawings ended up on the fridge, but it wasn't strange to find others in the sewing room, the gym, his own room and his parents' bedroom.

And just like that, it was a family home. It wasn't perfect, but they loved it. And it would bring them comfort for years to come as the family slowly grew.

[writegeist-muse]

The Sims 4 - House Build - Underwater House

[lalaleliana-blog]

hey i never posted this but this is a rough inspiration i think for the apartment where enjolras and combeferre live? maybe.

[lalaleliana-blog]

ive just been like dropping the small streetview man on various small streets in the vicinity of les halles to try and find a suitable location for feuilly's shop and flat and

i guess it's here

[lalaleliana-blog]

here's what the location of corinth looks like now! i have marked it up some in photoshop

highlighted is the area outlined as the pertinent location:

...the labyrinthine web of these four streets, in the space of four hundred yards, between the markets and the Rue Saint-Denis, in one direction, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue des Precheurs in the other direction, made seven little islands of houses...

it's possible that the markets referenced ended further south but the explanation given indicates that they follow the same outline of the sandy colored buildings in the lower left. 

i can't quite get my head around what the historical streets would have looked like so i can't actually mark where corinth would be? it makes reference to the rue de petit truanderie, which is now the name of the little diagonal jag just west/left of the highlighted area but i suspect historically it was elsewhere. 

anyways have fun

[kriscrash]

Location reference, because while I don't normally post photography, this regular elfwood where we shot our mockumentary yesterday was too good to pass up. So lovely, and Hald Ege is less than 10 km from our school.

[lalaleliana-blog]

mostly what i remember is that all the buildings are REALLY TALL and there are PEOPLE EVERYWHERE - like, in a smaller city u have more empty streets and smaller buildings that are a bit further apart? so even though its bigger its also like… denser? and there arent any houses either, at least not where i was. i felt super tiny because i’m used to neighborhoods where a three story appartment building is the tallest residential building - hardly anything i saw was that short.  and the subway entrances and stuff - some of them were obviously very old; others had entrances in buildings and the stations/platforms themselves had multiple ones on opposite sides of a block - that part was interesting. and there are mulitple levels and tunnels underneath tunnels and stuff. also when ppl had dogs that i saw, they were super tiny dogs. which i guess makes sense because there isnt a lot of space to have a backyard for a large dog to run around in. i think nyc is basically the archetypical, generic “big city” tbh. tall buildings, lots of people, construction and scaffolding everywhere, garbage bags lined up on the street, tons of people on the sidewalk, and not that many plants except in parks from what i could see.