#tourist for a day

[twistedmae]

Model friends.

Al Rafisah Dam

Khorfakkan, Sharjah, UAE

#photography #attempt at photography #waterbody #dam #al rafisah dam #tourist for a day #iphone photography

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: slasher

#i picked my favorites from the genre #horror #horror movies #slasher #halloween #a nightmare on elm street #friday the 13th #black christmas #the texas chainsaw massacre #happy death day #the funhouse #child's play #silent night deadly night #i know what you did last summer #intruder #prom night #terror train #psycho #the prowler #scream #the house on sorority row #slumber party massacre #stage fright #the burning #happy birthday to me #valentine #motel hell #tourist trap #my bloody valentine #sleepaway camp

[martitheevans]

Shows from the 60s/70s will always consist of the main characters going through the most insane, life-changing, traumatising experience and then having a shot of them all laughing together at the end and proceeding to never speak of it ever again

#the yapper yaps #'hey jeff remember that time these guys tried to kill you and you spent a whole night in a cold wet well until some tourists found you?' #no i don't shut up remember when you literally died #randall and hopkirk deceased #star trek #the time tunnel #six million dollar man #actually fucking hate six million dollar man but dammit if it doesn't count #m*a*s*h #mash #“hey hutch remember when those guys drugged you with heroin and you got addicted then spent days high and confused and short tempered?” #Starsky do you remember when you got injected with something to kill you in twenty four hours and you just survived with an hour remaining? #starsky and hutch #posts that went crazy viral lowkey

[sealsdaily]

Today's Seal Is: British Showpiece

#I'm in the UK for a few days sniles #This is from the london tower the illustration being from when it was a zoo for a few hundred years (???) #seals #pinniped #daily #mod ribbon #harbor seal #probably #phocidae #Not the MOST fun tourist trap if youre not super into the monarchy but its pretty interesting. they had a shitty little kinect game in the #room next to this seal it was so weird to see in 2024 LOL

[leroibobo]

the depopulation of the palestinian village of kawkab al-hawa is far from the only case in which a palestinian village was violently, entirely depopulated during the 1948 nakba. it's also not the only case in which neighboring kibbutz residents advocated for and even themselves participated in the destruction of houses, nor is it the only case in which elements of the village were only kept so they could serve a neighboring tourist attraction. however, it is a conspicuous case of all of the above, combined.

kawkab al-hawa happens to sit by belvoir castle, one of the best-preserved crusader castles in palestine. the village itself had been testified to in some shape or form from antiquity - the crusaders had referred to the village with the frankish name "belvoir", hence the name of the castle. after saladin retook it, the village as we know it today expanded into and around the castle's confines. by 1945, the castle had been in ruins for centuries, while the rural village housed 300, mostly farmers.

in the words of meron benvenisti: "In the Israeli context, it is preferable to immortalize those who exterminated the Jewish communities of Europe (in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries) and murdered the Jews of Jerusalem in 1099 than to preserve relics of the local Arab civilization with which today's Israelis coexist...Arab buildings spoil the myth of an occupied land under foreign rule, awaiting liberation at the hands of the Jews returning to their homeland."

#palestine #info #nakba #my posts #i went to a protest on land day where one of the speakers said that settler societies care most abt making money #(they were also guatemalan so for them it was a very Literal Thing) #and it reminded me of this. so i made a post abt it #the line i cut out was ''crusader castles lend a european romantic character to the landscape'' bc making tourist attractions out of #''discovered sites'' is a thing w/ all settler colonialism ''european character'' or no

[massachusetts-official]

Gotta say, I’ve been a lot of places, and Cape Cod certainly. Exists.

That is a factual statement.

And for any potential tourists reading this, I would like to be unequivocally clear that Cape Cod is not in fact a single town. It is a whole peninsula with many towns on it.

#massachusetts #ask #cape cod #i worked giving out info to tourists for a while #it happened more than once that people believed Cape Cod was a singular location they could visit in a day

[folkbreeze]

5th day of Summer

#it was “tourist” day #*globetrotter simself #ts4 screenies #sims 4 #ts4 #ts4 gameplay #the sims 4

[mur-art]

POV: You take your roommate, who doesn't even know what a mountain is, on a hike in the mountains.

It goes about as well as expected.

Expression details and reference used under the cut:

Reference:

@misterinkwell

#omg they were *roommates* #wttt #welcome to the table #florida man in socal #ben brainard #wttt florida #wttt california #this literally took me all day and tumblr made it blurry #a tragedy #florida is every dumb tourist at yosemite tbh #he probably tried to swim on top of the waterfalls #and pet the bears #mur art

[leafofkudzu]

Hello and happy endless January! Despite how long this month may have seemed, it is almost over - and that means it's soon time for another art party hosted by my guild, Verdant Shield [VS]! We're taking a little tour of the cozy size of the jungle this time, over at Mabon Market in Caledon!

For those who aren’t familiar with art parties, they’re a concept carried over from Final Fantasy XIV - in-game get-togethers for artists/writers/creatives of all types to hang out, chat, and create together! Get your favorite character/look together, head to the location, find someone that catches your eye, and create! Afterwards, everyone posts their creations in a shared tag (ours is #VSArtParty) so others can see, interact, and share! Tl;dr: the ‘goal’ of an art party isn’t to be drawn, but to draw others, and share with the community!

Time and /squadjoin information is under the cut, but will also be posted again via reblogs as the squads go up on the day of the party!

Location Information:

Caledon Forest is a nice easily-accessible map for everyone, and Mabon Market even has its own dedicated waypoint (that is, Mabon Waypoint)! I imagine we'll kind of scatter out across the market and beach, so don't take my exact location in this screenshot too seriously!

Time & Squad Details:

As we always do, we'll be having two parties - one on EU servers and one on NA ones - with an hour break in between. People tend to arrive early and/or jump between accounts as soon as the break comes up, so don't be surprised to see tags and announcements going up ahead of schedule!

The first party will be on EU servers and begin at 9pm Central European Time (aka 3pm Eastern Standard Time or 4 hours before in-game reset). I’ll be hosting on my EU alt account, so to join either /squadjoin or whisper Aemryn of Dusk for an invite.

The second party will be on NA servers and begin at 7pm Eastern Standard Time (aka 1am Central European Time or at in-game reset). I’ll be hosting this one on my main account, so to join either /squadjoin or whisper Kirslyn for an invite.

Closing Words:

A few days ago some nasty info came to the surface about various GW2 sources being scraped for AI purposes, with tumblr tags specifically being mentioned. Though I certainly wouldn't blame anyone for being discouraged and not wanting to draw at all (even this post was delayed because of it), I think at the end of the day, even if you don't post anything publicly, you still shouldn't deny yourself the company and community of your fellow creatives! If you'd like to make this art party have more of a focus on screenshots, or even just hang out and not draw at all, please feel free - your presence is what makes these parties...well, parties, after all!

If you are still interested in posting your artwork though, please check out Glaze and Nightshade as potential ways to protect yourself (and hurt AI datasets) if you haven't already! And even if you don't do that, make sure to slap signatures/watermarks/etc wherever you can. This may be a disheartening time for us, but it doesn't mean we have to stop doing what we love.

So, whether you're coming to create or just to hang out, I look forward to seeing you all this Saturday. Take care, stay safe, and see you soon! ♥

#please check the closing words this time too btw #i don't usually draw attention to them but it's about all the ai bullshittery that came up a few days ago #gw2 #guild wars 2 #vsartparty #obnoxious tourist simulator #📢🎨

[phantom-of-the-memes]

Some reminders for St. Patrick’s day (especially if you are travelling to Ireland for the event)

This is a minor annoyance, but over here we say Paddy’s day not Patty’s day. So don’t correct Irish people and insist it’s Patty’s.

Kilts are not Irish. Dublin is flooded rn with Americans wearing kilts. Kilts are Scottish, we don’t wear them in Ireland.

Don’t go round telling everyone you’re Irish when you’re American, it’s really annoying and we will make fun of you.

The whole pinching people for not wearing green is an American invention, don’t do it in Ireland. Pinching a stranger is the quickest way to get slapped.

Also, don’t order an “Irish car bomb” or a “black and tans” in a bar. Those are extremely offensive and tone deaf. Both of those terms are linked to the death of thousands of people. If you do this you might get served a “9/11” in retaliation, or at least get your drinks spat in.

And on that, it’s important to remember that this is just a regular day for most people in cities. We still have to work and go about our business. It’s such a crazy busy day, so please don’t make it harder. Treat workers with respect.

Treat the city with respect too! This weekend the place is packed with (mainly) American tourists who treat Ireland like their own personal playground during St. Patrick’s day. Don’t behave in a way you wouldn’t in your own city (I.e. vandalise, be a drunk public nuisance).

#a lot of my friends are working tomorrow so praying for them 😭 #luckily I get to stay home and avoid going outside #dublins parade really is just catered towards tourists #ireland #irish #Dublin #st patricks day #happy st patricks day #paddys day #st paddys day #st pattys day

[goryhorroor]

day 20 of horror: masks of slasher

#horror #horror movies #deep red #halloween #the texas chainsaw massacre #friday the 13th #stage fright #the prowler #terror train #prom night #happy death day #scream #curtains #house on sorority row #behind the mask: the rise of leslie vernon #my bloody valentine #alice sweet alice #tourist trap #hotel hell #the town that dreaded sundown #valentine #fear street 1994 #the strangers: prey at night #first movie isn't a slasher but the 2nd 100% is #new years evil #slaughter high #blood and black lace #horroredit #filmedit #moviesedit

[letswonderspirit]

Doodles

#my art #rattle #billy #doodles #ocs #I’ve been doing a lot of background gesture studies from tourist guide walking videos #like videos of people just walking around town #so many places have nice walkable streets oh my god #very different from what I’m used to #my favorite places to draw are sea ports and dense cities on a rainy day #idk if I’m learning a lot from drawing these but it’s been fun

[popping-your-culture]

Angel, goddess, and always dearly missed: Tanya Roberts, pictured here in the cult horror classic, Tourist Trap (1979).

#tanya roberts #goddess #cleavage for days #cleavalicous #tourist trap #smoke show #angel #charlie’s angels #legs and heels #legs for miles #legs for days #movies #daisy duke shorts #short shorts #horror #horror movies #1979 #70s horror #70s movies

[collarful-clover]

Me watching Watcher become the rich Shane would want us to steal from

#I've been so genuinely heartbroken all day from this news #there's no amount of tourist trapped or too many spirits or dish granted that would make me feel better #as someone put it: we would support shane and ryan until the wheels fell off but no one expected them to shove us out of the car #these guys brought me light in my darkest times #and now they've stopped paying the light bill and forced me to do it instead #at full speed #tagged post #intrusive thought station #watcher #watcher entertainment

[useless-catalanfacts]

Btw if you come on holidays and stay at an AirBnb instead of an actual registered hotel I hate you personally. Not "I hate the gentrification and touristic massification and the way we can't live in our homes and are forced to move away because of tourism" in an abstract way- No, not just that. I hate you.

#I'm from a seaside town that has become popular with tourists who come for the beach and the mediterranean climate #and the typical whitewashed walls of mediterranean coastal towns #in just a few years the average rent has gone up so much that now the average rent id #*is over 1000€ per month #one thousand! #that's a whole salary! #in the past 2 years they've been building a new neighbourhood. they've destroyed the vinyeards to make a new neighbourhood that will make #the town 1/3 bigger than it is. that's a lot. but all those houses are luxury houses with private swimming pools for rich foreigners (we #already have 2 private British schools high schools and college(in the british sense)/baccalaureate where their kids go and never have to #interact with locals. I teach some of those kids and they're very prejudiced against locals and very bigoted against the catalan language #(which ofc they never bother to learn) #there's a law in catalonia that says that for every certain amount of houses you build you are obligated to build a certain percentage of #affordable housing. so in this new neighborhood they built the bare minumum affordable housing which is still too expensive for us #and since there's so few of them everyone is competing to get them. the city hall and the bank have had to make an official competition for #them but you only classify if the renr would not be more than 1/3rd of your salary which is impossible. my cousins who are in their mid 30s #and have been working a good qualified job for 15 years (and their partners too) are considered too poor to be considered for the #affordable housing #everyone is having to move out to other cities away from their friends and family and current jobs. the only jobs left here soon will be #mostly directed at tourists #and the only way to continue living here if you're a normal person and not rich is if you're an only child who one day might inherit the #parents' house #but we look around at what's happening in nearby cities and we see the next step which will be airbnb taking the houses that are left #in many places (I've posted about thia before) there aren't any flats for rent or sell anymore that isn't an airbnb #I'm still lucky in my town when compared to other places like Barcelona which are already full of the airbnb plague #actualitat #airbnb #tourism #touristic massification #gentrification

[my-darling-boy]

Have you had any ✨Ghost Experiences✨ in Scotland yet? Meet any new ghosts???

Ohhhh plenty, but far too many to list without going off on a ramble haha

We’ve done many overnights in castles and old buildings up and down the UK with a team of investigators which has led to really neat experiences, some of them absolutely poignant. I think my favourite interaction has been with a sweetheart of a young seaman called William aboard the RRS Discovery docked in Dundee, also the best K2 session I’ve ever had was there. But yeah, various castles, historic buildings, manors, prisons, etc with some really fascinating results.

I do like how it’s also putting the mediumship to the test which is something I still don’t really like bringing up in general to people but I have apparently shocked investigators/employees at these places with describing events, people, and other things with detail that is not even public or only known privately by people who frequent that location. Nearly all locations I’ve never been to and make a point not to read up on them before I go, which makes these instances more compelling? I often don’t even know the significance of what I’m (sheepishly) describing only to be told I just described a specific thing that happened in a room when there’s no way I could know about said thing. One of the best instances of this was on the RRS Discovery when trailing behind the group in the lower decks, I stopped suddenly. It felt as though something SMACKED very hard and very sudden right where I was standing, someone had lost their life in this very spot. I thought with the boilers around perhaps someone had been hit somehow and died or maybe fallen from the above platform and hit their head on the metal below but was told there were no known records of someone dying in that room and that the platforms didn’t exist at the time. I was perplexed by this as I was 100% sure something had happened there but I just ignored it, maybe I was wrong. We get up to the top deck finally and are told about a boy who, in 1901, tragically fell from the crows nest and died. The investigator and I suddenly realised I had been standing directly below the spot he would have hit on the upper deck when he fell. Another would be a nice young man I’d encountered at a private castle who seemed to be wearing some sort of chainmail and white tunic, followed me around for most of the night, and at one point I picked up on a story about a strange looking gold disc with all these markings on it on the alter in the chapel which he immediately told me not to ask about and refused to elaborate more, I had no idea why he was so adamant about this. I later learned after enquiry the castle historians have documented the place being used by the Templars and it’s a private fact at this location that the Templars have buried artefacts beneath the castle they are working to recover… most notably, beneath the chapel. I’d be talking for ages if I described the other occurrences, but that’s one I’ll always remember!

All and all, I do actually recommend doing it, even if you don’t believe in the stuff, because you get entire historic locations basically all to yourself, at night, which is cooler. I once sat for nearly an hour in a 200 year old jail on the floor, in the dark, at 2 AM, just chilling. On free roam while everyone is usually at base, I’ve been able to explore places by myself, in the dark, opening doors to rooms not even shown to us, panning my torch to old paintings and artefacts in basements to attics and bedrooms and so much more. I’ve sat alone in century old ships and played sea shanties which echoed hauntingly down the passageways. Sprawled out in the pews of medieval chapels in the pitch dark, wandered dark castle corridors alone, sometimes I’ll sing out old songs and just listen to it drift out through the halls and rooms. You feel like some character in a novel, it’s quite a liminal space! Like all these places where so many other people came before you, where people lived and died, sometimes even right where you’re sitting, and you’re able to lay out on the stones in the dark with it all and just feel connected to it yk?

Anyway that still ended up being a ramble HAHA so yeah! I recommend it for both believers and those less inclined because at the end of the day, you’ve basically got several hours of private access to historical locations, at night, no tourists, and sometimes to places the public isn’t allowed at all, and hey maybe something Strange will happen while you’re alone in the darkness.

#can I just say too there is something so hauntingly beautiful about the alone time on my free roams #like usually these places get locked up at night or you’re limited by opening hours and tight your schedules and roped off areas #but when I’m alone on these things you get near unrestricted access in some of these places #and you’re just alone in the quiet where some people used to laugh or lost their lives #like I cannot explain how—even in a non paranormal way—you feel a new connection to the past #without the distractions of the day and ropes and time and tourists and noise #it’s just you and everything that has come before you #and you’re like wow we are all humans in this together huh #asks #paranormal #long post