#magical edinburgh

[peacefulandcozy]

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#edinburgh #scotland #stockbridge #uk #united kingdom #nature aesthetic #nature vibes #nature #beautiful places #beautiful architecture #travelblr #villagelife #villages #magical places

[fluffygif]

Beautiful Edinburgh 🤍

#winter #snow #nature #landscape #magic #atmosphere #awesome #edinburgh #cityscape

[tea-and-antlers]

I made some friends in the botanical gardens

#witchblr #witch #witchcraft #kitchen witch #magic #pagan #fuck terfs #lgbt witch #edinburgh #queer witch #witches of tumblr #witchery #witchy #green witch #witches of the world #witchy vibes #witchcore #witches #tea witches #fairy aesthetic #fairy tail #fairycore #fairies #fairy art #faerie #fairy tales #cottagecore #cottage garden #cottage witch #cottage aesthetic

[platosshadowpuppet]

The land remembers

in 19th century Edinburgh Nor Loch was drained, forming what is now Prince's Street Gardens. But the land remembers.

On a dreich day, take a smooth river stone and stand on one of the paths at the top of the park. Rub the stone between your fingers and take deep breaths, focusing on the cool, fresh smells of the rain. As the petrichor fills your nostrils, imagine your toes sinking into silky smooth loch mud.

On the right day, at the right time, the loch will reply. Slowly, the traffic noise will fade away, to be replaced by the crystalline chiming of rain on still water and the high forlorn cries of oyster catchers.

If you're brave, walk deeper into the park, feeling the slow powerful pull of the dark cold waters around your legs. Be careful to keep yourself anchored, or you may find yourself compelled to go deeper, and be carried willingly eastward towards the sea.

#fantasy #low fantasy #magical realism #fiction #micro fiction #writing #edinburgh #uk

[cutthemullet]

Coffin dolls found at Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh, 1836.

17 coffins were found, but unfortunately only eight survive today due to damage or simply being lost. According to the National Museum of Scotland, “The tiny coffins were arranged under slates in three tiers: two tiers of eight and one solitary coffin on the top. Each coffin, only 95mm in length, contained a little wooden figure, carved and dressed in custom-made clothes that had been stitched and glued around them.”

There are a few theories for what the dolls represent, some at the time believed they were a curse, meant to literally entomb enemies, whereas many other theories involve a more positive version of this, believing the coffins were meant to put distant deceased friends to rest, or giving those lost at sea a Christian burial. A popular theory is that the coffins represent the victims of Burke and Hare, infamous murderers who sold the bodies of their victims to science, profiting from the lack of legal bodies supplied to doctors. The pair killed at least 16 people, their victims were always vulnerable, as they targeted the elderly, immigrants, and disabled people. The number of victims lines up with the original number of coffins enough for many people to support this theory.

For more information, check the NMS website- I can’t post links but the article is called ‘The mystery of the miniature coffins’!

#folk art #Edinburgh #Scotland #Scottish history #burke and hare #magick #magic #witchcraft #dolls #spooky #history #interesting #mystery #1800s #Scottish art #burial #theory

[downfalldestiny]

Edinburgh, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 !.

#Edinburgh #Scotland #life #Magic #beautiful destinations #magic destinations #downfalldestiny #downfall #beautiful places

[littlemuoi]

#brf #royal anecdote #THE MAGICAL BISECTOR #MUAHAHAHAHAHA #THIS IS NUTS #ed #peter phillips #chuck #prince edward #duke of edinburgh

[desdasiwrites]

– T.L. Huchu, The Library of the Dead

#book quote of the day #T.L Huchu #the library of the dead #Zimbabwean author #fantasy #mystery fiction #paranormal #ya #magic #Edinburgh #Scotland #book quotes #booklr

[mid20sskaboarder]

help I am definitely not really starting to like a resigned magic dragon

#oh no #not again #hate it when that happens :D #piff the magic dragon #mr piffles #it was the video where he dealt with a heckler that really sold him to me #it's always the deadpan people that speak to me #*and absurd #bonus alex horne and the horne section in the background of the second pic #really can't wait for edinburgh

[scotianostra]

It’s almost Festival time! 

#Edinburgh #Scotland #scottish #Edinburgh Festival #edinburgh festival fringe #comedy #theatre #music #magic #dance #circus #lots more

[magician-edinburgh]

Magicians in Edinburgh

I'm a magician who is based in Edinburgh and it's such a great place to do my thing. Scotland has such a rich history and culture when it comes to magic.

There are many magic societies, magic shows happening all over the place and so many fun and strange stories.

There are many events where the magicians perform such as parties, corporate events and weddings. It's popular because the magic acts as a great ice breaker, entertainment and a great way to keep the energy of the event going.

If you need a magician Edinburgh, Glasgow or Scotland, then get in touch.

#edinburgh #magic #magic show #magician #scotland

[unexfunstuff]

#witchcraft #folk magic #folkways #culture #arthur's seat #edinburgh #dolls #anthropology #dan harms #mysteries #1836 #scotland #scottish

[kazz-brekker]

unfortunately i have come to the conclusion that while revising my book i am going to have to definitively answer the question "does this take place in a fantasy version of america or a fantasy version of england?" rather than just going "yes"

#their college application process works like america #but i believe i've established they have a parliament and prime minister rather than a president #and also i picture the city it takes place in looking somewhat like edinburgh #so…probably fantasy version of england #at some point i will have to make definitive stand on this while adding to the world-building… #pie says stuff #my writing #magical university students

[platosshadowpuppet]

Where the Wild Hunt has mustered, the wilderness lingers. All the signs suggest they were in Newington last night. Residents have reported waking to parked cars carpeted in moss and ferns, wood anemones, cuckoo flowers and primroses have broken through the road, and Bernard Terrace is currently blocked by a full grown oak.

Anyone susceptible to compulsions should avoid Newington for the time being. Residents should be alert for any new paths that might appear and anyone hearing a hunting horn should vacate the area immediately.

#fantasy #low fantasy #magical realism #fiction #fae #micro fiction #writing #microfiction #edinburgh #UK #faerie

[fellthemarvelous]

I get that the bookshop fire was traumatic for Crowley because he thought he lost Aziraphale.

I keep seeing people say they want Aziraphale to know what it would feel like to lose Crowley, but I'm pretty sure my eyes weren't the only ones open when this happened...

Right?

"And that was the last I was to see of Crowley for some time."

Aziraphale has lost Crowley. To Hell.

He could do nothing to stop what happened in Edinburgh, and I can't imagine that he didn't fear he'd lost Crowley for good here.

Aziraphale has experienced more heartbreak than some fans care to even acknowledge. He exists in constant fear of losing Crowley to Hell again. AGAIN.

We saw Aziraphale save Crowley from Hell in 1941 with the human magic trick he used on Furfur.

Aziraphale was the one sitting in the bathtub of holy water after the Notpocalypse, knowing this was the reason he'd been so scared to hand Crowley his own thermos of holy water in the first place.

He's lost Crowley to Hell before and he will do anything to prevent it from happening again.

That's the impact Edinburgh had on Aziraphale. This is the impact that losing Crowley had on Aziraphale.

#good omens #good omens meta #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable spouses #aziraphale defense squad #stop underestimating this badass angel #he's going to make the metatron regret the day he separated aziraphale from crowley

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

SFX Magazine Issue 372 - Designing Good Omens ❤ 😊

PRODUCTION DESIGNER MICHAEL RALPH REVEALS HOW THE SHOW’S CENTREPIECE SET, WHICKBER STREET, WAS GIVEN A DEVILISHLY CLEVER UPGRADE FOR THE SECOND SEASON

WORDS: DAVE GOLDER

Invisible Columns And Thin Walls “The new studio is Pyramid Studios in Bathgate – it used to be a furniture warehouse. And unfortunately – or fortunately, because I accept these things as not challenges but gifts – right down the middle of that studio are a series of upright columns. But you’ll never spot them on screen. I had to build them in and integrate them into the walls and still get the streets between them. And it worked.

“There’s all sorts of cheeky design values to those sets. Normally a set like this is double-skin. In other words, you do an interior wall and an exterior wall, with an airspace in between. But really, the only time a viewer notices that there’s that width is at the doors and the windows. So I cheated all that. I ended up with single walls everywhere. So the exterior wall is the interior wall, just painted. All I did was make the sash windows and entrances wider to give it some depth as you walked in.”

GOOD OMENS HAD A CHANGE of location for its second season, but hopefully you didn’t notice. Because Whickber Street in Soho upped sticks from an airfield in Hertfordshire to a furniture warehouse in Bathgate, Edinburgh. It’s the kind of nonsensical geographical shenanigans that could only make sense in the crazy world of film and TV, and production designer Michael Ralph was the man in charge of rebuilding and expanding the show’s vast central set. “I wish we could have built more in season one than we did,” says Ralph, whose previous work has included Primeval and Dickensian. “We built the ground floor of everything and the facades of all the shops. But we didn’t build anything higher than that, because we were out on an airfield in a very, very difficult terrain and weather conditions, so we really couldn’t go much higher. Visual effects created the upper levels.”

But with season two the set has gone to a whole other level… literally. “What happened was that the rest of the street became integrated into the series’s storyline,” explains Ralph. “So we needed a record shop, we needed a coffee shop that actually had an inside, we needed a magic shop, we needed the pub. To introduce those meant we had to change the street with a layout that works from a storylines point of view. In other words, things like someone standing at the counter in the record shop had to be able to eyeball somebody standing at the counter in the coffee shop. They had to be able to eyeball Aziraphale sitting in his office in the window of the bookshop. But the rest of it was a pleasure to do inside, because we could expand it and I could go up two storeys.”

For most of the set, which is around 80 metres long and 60 metres wide, the two storeys only applied to the shop frontages, but in the case of Aziraphale’s bookshop, it allowed Ralph to build the mezzanine level for real this time. According to Ralph it became one of the cast and crews’ favourite places to hang out during down time.

But while AZ Fell & Co has grown in height, it actually has a slightly smaller footprint because of the logistics of adapting it to the new studio.

“Everybody swore to me that no one would notice,” says Ralph wryly. “I walked onto it and instinctively knew there was a difference immediately, and they hated me for that. I have this innate sense about spatial awareness and an eye like a spirit level.

“It’s not a lot, though – I think we’ve lost maybe two and a half feet on the front wall internally. I think that there’s a couple of other smaller areas, but only I’d notice. So I can be really annoying to my guys, but only on those levels. Not on any other. They actually quite like me…”

Populating The Bookshop “The props in the new bookshop set were a flawless reproduction from the set decorator Bronwyn Franklin [who is also Ralph’s wife]. It was really the worst-case scenario after season one. She works off the concept art that I produce, but what she does is she adds so much more to the character of the set. She doesn’t buy anything she doesn’t love, or doesn’t fit the character.

“But the things she put a lot of work into finding for season one, they were pretty much one-offs. When we burnt the set down in the sixth episode, we lost a lot of props, many of which had been spotted and appreciated by the fans. So Bronwyn had to discover a new set decorating technique: forensic buying.

“She found it all – duplicates and replicas. It took ages. In that respect, the Covid delay was very helpful for Bron. There’s 7,000 books in there and there’s not one fake book. That’s mainly because… it’s a weird thing to say, but we wanted it to smell and feel like a bookshop to everybody that was in it, all the time.

“It affects everybody subliminally; it affects everybody’s performance – actors and crew – it raises the bar 15 to 20%. And the detail, you know… We love a lot of detail.”

(look at the description under this, they called him 'Azi' hehehehe :D <3)

Aziraphale’s Inspirational Correspondence “There’s not one single scrap of paper on Aziraphale’s desk that isn’t written specifically for Aziraphale. Every single piece is not just fodder that’s been shoved there, it has a purpose; it’s a letter of thanks, or an enquiry about a book or something.

“Michael Sheen is so submerged in his character he would get lost sitting at his own desk, reading his own correspondence between takes. I believe wholeheartedly that if you put that much care into every single piece of detail, on that desk and in that room, that everybody feels it, including the crew, and then they give that set the same respect it deserves.

“They also lift their game because they believe that they’re doing something of so much care and value. Really, it’s a domino effect of passion and care for what you’re producing.”

Alternative Music “My daughter Mickey is lead graphic designer [two of Ralph’s sons worked on the series too, one as a concept artist, the other in props]. They’re the ones that produced all of that handwritten work on the desk. She’s the one that took on the record shop and made up 80 band names so that we didn’t have to get copyright clearance from real bands. Then she produced records and sleeves that spanned 50, 60 years of their recordings, and all of the graphics on the walls.

“I remember Michael and Neil [Gaiman] getting lost following one band’s history on the wall, looking at their posters and albums desperately trying to find out whether they survived that emo period.”

It’s A Kind Of Magic One of the new shops in Whickber Street for season two was Will Goldstone’s Magic Shop, which is full of as many Easter eggs as off-the-shelf conjuring tricks, including a Matt Smith Doctor Who-style fez and a toy orang-utan that’s a nod to Discworld’s The Librarian. Ralph says that while the series is full of references to Gaiman, Pratchett and Doctor Who, Michael Sheen never complained about a lack of Masters Of Sex in-jokes. “He’d be the last person to make that sort of comment!”

Ralph also reveals that the magic shop counter was another one of his wife’s purchases, bought at a Glasgow reclamation yard.

The Anansi Boys Connection Ralph reveals that Good Omens season two used the state-of-the-art special effects tech Volume (famous for its use in The Mandalorian to create virtual backdrops) for just one sequence, but he will be using it extensively elsewhere on another Gaiman TV series being made for Prime Video.

“We used Volume on the opening sequence to create the creation of the universe. I was designing Anansi Boys in duality with this project, which seems an outrageously suicidal thing to do. But it was fantastic and Anansi Boys was all on Volume. So I designed for Volume on one show and not Volume on the other. The complexities and the psychology of both is different.”

#good omens #gos2 #season 2 #photos #bts #bts photos #interview #sfx magazine #magazines #hq photos #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #michael sheen #david tennant #michael ralph #mickey ralph #bronwyn franklin #anansi boys #the small back room #maggie's record shop #soho #aziraphale's bookshop #dirty donkey #magic shop #aziraphale's correspondence #give me coffee or give me death #fun fact #michael ralph interview #sfx 372 magazine #s2 interview