The first chapter of my new fic is up: London Speed, a Johnlock AU inspired by the 1994 action movie. Thanks to @discordantwords and everybody else who persuaded me to try my hand at this.
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Gao Hang (Chinese, 1991) - A Painting of the Stereotype of London (2021)
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@re-dracula how dare you conjure up such vivid imagery that I sat on a London bus visibly cringing at Mrs Westenra's dying noises while the lady next to me inched away nervously
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Speed, coloured linocut on paper by Claude Flight, c1922.
V&A Museum.
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Day 1678, 26 January 2023
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Another River Thames scene
This time the London Eye, Waterloo Bridge and the Palace of Westminster
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October is a month when Blossomforth goes to look at ghost signs!
Ghost signs (or ghost adverts) are old signs, often hand painted, on buildings. The products they are advertising often don’t exist any more.
This cigarette advert is on Brixton Road, in London, England.
(It’s very faded, but the top part states : For your throat’s sake - smoke. Back when smoking was considered a healthy activity!)
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Illustration for chapter 4 of my Johnlock Speed AU London Speed. The new chapter is up now on AO3.
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Looking back now, it almost seems as though everything happened at once. In a decade dominated by youth, London had burst into bloom. It was swinging, and it was the scene. The Union Jack suddenly became as ubiquitous as the black cab or the red Routemaster bus, and all became icons of the city...Quite simply, London was where it was at. Fuelled by growing prosperity, social mobility, post-war optimism and wave after wave of youthful enterprise, the city captured the imagination of the world’s media. Here was the centre of the sexual revolution – the pill had been introduced in 1961 – the musical revolution, the sartorial revolution. London was a veritable cauldron of benign revolt.
- Dylan Jones
Photo: Faye Dunaway photographed by Jean-Pierre Biot in London, 1967.
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London, UK (by Shashank Sahay)
See more of London | United Kingdom.
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Haymarket, London, 1964. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
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