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queer-book-character-tournament · 2 months

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Character, book, and author names under the cut

Carmilla Karnstein- Carmilla by J Sheridan le Fanu

Islington- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Priya- The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

Wylan van Eck- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

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more-relics · 1 year

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David Gilmour - Britannia Row Studios, Islington London, United Kingdom, 1978. Photo by Watal Asanuma

#david gilmour #pink floyd #britannia row studios #islington #london #uk #1978 #watal asanuma #my edit

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princesscatherineblog · 5 months

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The Duchess of Cambridge making tweed look cool in a Durbarry Bracken jacket paired with skinny jeans and combat boots for a visit to Islington Community Garden on January 15, 2019 in London.

#kate middleton #duchess of cambridge #tweed jacket #durbarry bracken #skinny jeans #combat boots #royal style #royal fashion #british royal family #royal family #british royal fandom #princess kate #islington #london #january 2019 #royal visit

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dewitty1 · 1 year

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You can buy Sirius Black’s Islington home now

Number 12, Grimmauld Place, ancestral home of Sirius Black, is up for sale. Okay, it’s a well-presented grade II-listed Georgian flat in Claremont Square, Pentonville, N1.

The iconic address, HQ of the main resistance to the dark forces of Voldemort, was a filming location featuring in ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’, starring Daniel Radcliffe as Harry of course, and Gary Oldman as homeowner Sirius, and is available for £385,000. The light and airy leasehold first-floor period property boasts access to a rear garden, with studio, separate kitchen and bathroom, and is mid-terrace. Plus, if entry to Hogwarts is not available to you, then the Gower School and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School are virtually on your doorstep.

The wizardly pied-à-terre is also conveniently close to King’s Cross St Pancras station for when you need to catch the train from platform 9¾ (or hop on a Eurostar to Paris). It’s pretty minute, though, so probably not suitable for large pets or house elves.

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Edit-it was sold the minute it went on the market, that's how good the price is...

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gravalicious · 8 months

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Tamara (Photographer: Colin Jones)

Source: Peter Gillman - On the Edge of the Ghetto (1973) [The Sunday Times Magazine]

#black britain #harambee #islington #london

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aneverydaything · 8 months

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Day 1896, 1 September 2023

#London #Islington #Angel #street art #ds art #stencil #pickering street #N1 #urban #England #UK

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persistentrain · 4 months

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#London #Southgate Road #N1 #Islington #De Beauvoir #5 February 2010 #photography #original photography #original photograph

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bandsonfilm · 5 months

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Wych Elm // The Grace // 17.11.2023

#bands on film #35mm #analogue #film photography #music photography #london #uk #Islington #Wych elm

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lydiablackblade · 5 months

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Just imagine a fight between Aziraphale and Islington. One wants to invade Heaven and one wants to protect it. At this point I'm not sure which is one or the other.

#good omens #neverwhere #aziraphale #islington #angels #heaven

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frenchcurious · 1 year

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Westgate Ramber-Hillman situé dans le quartier Toronto, CN, Islington. - source The Old Motor.

#rambler #hillman #volkswagen #islington #toronto #canada

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thinkanamelater · 1 year

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All your faith, all your rage All your pain, it ain't over now It's the cruel beast that you feed It's your burning yearning need to bleed

You can use Ghost's lyrics for anything I swear (Spillways in this case, give it a listen it's an amazing song)

Anyway, have some Neverwhere fanart!

#richard mayhew #mr croup #mr vandemar #islington #hunter #the marquis de carabas #door #the great beast of london #neverwhere #drawing

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jotun-philosopher · 5 months

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What might evil!Aziraphale be like?

My first meta! Woo! Mostly just trying to articulate some of my brain's particularly weird recent wiggles, but still!

So I was re-reading Neverwhere recently, and something about the way the Angel Islington is portrayed reminded me of That Smile In The Credits and got me wondering... What might Aziraphale be like if he turned evil? (I do mean legitimately *evil* -- Falling in the GO verse has nothing to do with the subject's morality)

I know, Crowley, it's a scary and depressing thought! It's also never going to happen -- I feel quite confident about that -- but exploring counterfactual scenarios can help get a different perspective on things, maybe even illuminate what's likely to happen in the future! (as well as being dang interesting in their own right)

So, then, on with the motley! (caution: big ol' spoilers for both Neverwhere and Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell below the cut)

Now, it's always possible to turn 'good' characters 'evil' by having them act out a set of generically 'evil' traits, but that'd be boring and liable to be out of character. A more interesting route would be to simply turn up the dial(s) on one or more of a character's traits (especially their flaws) and see what happens!

Even the most die-hard Aziraphale fan has got to admit that our favourite fluffy bookseller has a bit of a problem with self-righteousness, so that seems like a good place to start. Notch the dial up to max, and what do we get?

Very likely, something similar to this:

(Peter Capaldi as the Angel Islington, Neverwhere, 1996)

The Angel Islington! Unshakably self-righteous to the point of insanity? Oh yes -- to the point of justifying committing genocide by screaming that "THEY DESERVED IT!!!" for not providing the proper worship, and generally so being utterly convinced of its own rightness that traditional morality is discarded as irrelevant (quoth Mr Croup, "He's travelled so far beyond right and wrong he couldn't see them with a telescope on a nice clear night.").

There're other parallels between Islington and Aziraphale, too -- primarily the proliferation of light/pale colours in their costuming and having a mild, kindly, soft-spoken manner (genuine with Aziraphale, a mere veneer with Islington) but also their (planning to) return to Heaven. In Islington's case, it was cast out as punishment for annihilating Atlantis and seeks to return and enact a hostile takeover and become a new God; in Azzy's case, of course, he was railroaded into returning against his will (and may or may not be plotting Undercover Shenanigans to Save The World, but that's a bit beyond the scope of this meta). Nevertheless, the parallels are there, noticeable enough to make me think that Islington represents what Aziraphale might become in the worst of all possible worst-case scenarios (especially where his religious trauma and Heaven's fanaticism and propaganda are concerned).

(As a side note, this whole idea of (self-)righteousness leading to great evil is also reminiscent of why Gandalf flatly refused to take custody of the One Ring -- fear of doing great evil while attempting to enact great good.)

So that's the self-righteousness angle, but maybe there're other angles -- perhaps we could leave the SR dial alone and instead see what happens if we dial Azzy's hedonistic tendencies and one or two others up to eleven!

I hear pipes and drums and dancing, endless faerie balls within the brugh...

(Marc Warren as The Gentleman With Thistledown Hair, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, 2015 (BBC adaptation))

Behold, the ruler of Lost-hope, this faerie gentleman with hair the colour of thistle-down! He's the most significant antagonistic force in Susanna Clarke's 2005 novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and has a few interesting parallels with Aziraphale.

First and most obviously, there's the hair colour! Secondly, we have the fact that they're incalculably old immortal beings with considerable magical/mystical power, as well as notions of morality, ethics etc that are to some degree orthogonal to human understanding of such matters. There's also the hedonistic tendencies -- Aziraphale's are comparatively subtle, mainly revolving around appreciating Earthly pleasures like food, drink and music, but if exaggerated could easily end up like the Gentleman's tendency to focus on his own fun/amusement, regardless of the cost to others.

Which ties in to one of the most noticeable parallels, something that you might have worked out already if you've come this far and/or are already familiar with JS&MN -- the Gentleman spends a good amount of time abducting or planning to abduct beautiful humans to be enchanted to dance forever in endless balls within his kingdom of Lost-hope. Doesn't that sound uncomfortably similar to the Shopkeepers' Association Ball in S2E5? The parallel certainly gave me a moment of the shivering heebie-jeebies when I spotted it -- regardless of Aziraphale's motivation there, he absolutely comes off almost like one of the Fair Folk (likely even in-universe!); it's very easy to imagine that he could get like the Gentleman if he 'takes the brakes off', so to speak.

So there we have it -- an evil!Aziraphale would likely be similar to the Angel Islington, the Gentleman With Thistledown Hair or possibly some terrifying and unholy hybrid of the two.

Or something else entirely that I can't find adequate words for!

Now, I must emphasise that just because I've put a good deal of thought into exploring the 'evil!Aziraphale' idea, it doesn't mean I think it'll happen; on the contrary, I'm convinced that it never will. For one thing, regardless of the parallels noted above, Aziraphale is far more fundamentally benevolent than either Islington or the Gentleman. Despite his flaws, he is at heart a genuinely good, kind, decent, compassionate person. Some folks, the Metatron among them, are going to interpret this as weakness or stupidity, which is wholly incorrect -- Azzy is very intelligent (while also being a bit of a dumbass, granted -- the two are not mutually exclusive) and has a steel core of courage, protectiveness and badassery (comparisons to Magrat Garlick would be entirely valid here). He understands the concept of 'guardian angel' better, I'd wager, than the whole of the rest of the Heavenly Host (or at least the leadership thereof). And in underestimating him, railroading him back to Heaven and trying to force him to actively plan the destruction of everything he holds dear (sheer sadism probably being at least part of the MT's motivation there), the Metatron has (on a silver platter) handed our adorable fluffy little tartan murder hornet the means, motive and opportunity to Seriously Fuck Shit Up for Heaven >:D

Plus, Neil Gaiman loves and respects Aziraphale as much as we do, and is WAY too good a writer and storyteller to randomly gratuitously derail such an interestingly complex character's development arc! Besides, we were promised a South Downs cottage. SOUTH DOWNS COTTAGE!!! THE SETS ARE STILL STANDING IN BATHGATE!!!!!

*ahem*

As a palate cleanser, a bit of food for thought: given that demons tend to have animal motifs, in the unlikely event of Azzy capital-F Falling, would he be an angora rabbit or a big fluffy cat?

#good omens #good omens meta #aziraphale #neverwhere #islington #angel islington #jonathan strange and mr norrell #gentleman with thistledown hair #counterfactual #analysis #character analysis

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 10 months

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"...SO IT WAS A TIME OF MASSIVE CHANGE, NOT JUST FOR MUSIC, BUT FOR CREATIVITY OF ANY KIND..."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on first wave UK punk band THE DAMNED opening the year 1977 (January 2nd) at the Hope & Anchor, a pub in Islington with a history of live bands. "Comfortably holding about 100 people, there were double that number crammed in. Sweat was running down the walls." 📸: John Ingham.

BIJU BELINKY: "...and '70s punk" seems to have become a buzzword associated with a vague way of dressing now."

DAVE VANIAN: "See – it never was that. It started from people realising that if you had enough passion and commitment, you could try your hand at almost anything. As a young person, the doors weren't barred to you like they were in [previous decades]. Before, Britain was still pretty much in a post-war mindset. It was still a very grey place, set in an old-fashioned imperial kind of system that didn't have much to say to young people who didn't want to follow the system. So it was a time of massive change, not just for music, but for creativity of any kind: writing, journalism, art… It was fun."

-- VICE/NOISEY, "Never Mind the Sex Pistols... It Was The Damned Who Pioneered UK Punk," c. November 1976

Source: www.vice.com/en/article/8gxkz3.