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dybdahltravels2022 · 2 years

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London

October 6, 2022

How and why we waited until we were 70 years old to visit London is a huge question for me. BUT we are finally here and no surprise - WE LOVE IT!

We arrived from Dublin on September 30 and opted for an iconic black cab from the airport.

It was pricey but we enjoyed talking to the driver who explained that the cabbies own their own vehicle but must attend lengthy classes and pass a comprehensive test before being licensed to be a cabbie in London. That test includes being given several pairs of addresses and having to map out the best route on the spot - no GPS. He impressed us by telling us that there was a really great bakery just a block of so away from our flat - long before we got there.

Oh - then our flat... I knew the location was by a bus stop and a tube station. I knew it was an efficiency with the couch, table and bed in one room. I knew the kitchen contained a full size stove and a washer - a real bonus. I knew the price was more than reasonable. too - so I went with it. What I didn't know is that the location was in a sketchy neighborhood, that the place would be dirty and that it was the least well appointed place we have ever rented. There was one glass - one freaking glass. There were ONLY two crappy towels and not even a hand towel. What we discovered was that the water pressure was also an issue and once the hot water tank was emptied the water just cut out. The high temp on the tank - BTW - was warm.

But despite this - we moved ahead to explore. We found a great Mexican restaurant a couple blocks away, the Tube and Bus stations were nearby as were a couple of nice grocery stores. Although our flat was in a sketchy "hood" just a few blocks away were universities and we realized we had landed in the student ghetto - with a crappy host. Oh well.

Transportation ANYWHERE is a piece of cake. We continue to travel all over London with any combo of Tube Train and double decker busses - another icon of London. If you miss a bus, sit tight as there will be another one arriving within 2 or 3 minutes. They are clean inside and out and either hybrid or electric.

The tube stations are amazing - but most certainly are NOT handicapped assessable - many having no lift or even escalators. London is redoing its Tube Stations one at the time but the renovated stations are fabulous. The Tube Stations are deep and if they connect they are even deeper. Remember these stations served as bomb shelters during WWII. Since I still cannot read - Mark is completely in charge of getting us from point A to point B and I will say he has done a great job.

We have been doing all the touristy stuff - at least superficially. We saw the tower of London but felt no compulsion to go in it.

We saw Westminster and Big Ben and Buckingham Palace - which surprised me.

I thought it was a lot bigger but later I Googled an aerial photo and turns out it IS a lot bigger.

Buckingham Palace sits on a huge plot of land much of which is a park open to the public. The fences and gates are opulent and the side walks are ringed with small black metal posts all marked with this:

Just one of the MANY things that will have to be changed from that to this:

Not to mention ALL the money of the UK and ALL the British commonwealths - like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica to mention only a few.. There is a bit of a controversy here about the cost of Queen Elizabeth's funeral - but I'm guessing that will pale with the cost of everything that has to been changed. I think an apostrophe mark and the word "son" would do just fine. King Charles III is not exactly a spring chicken so a LOT OF WORK for a short time is my guess. But this is NOT my decision - thankfully.

We had done a little museum hopping as well. We started in the Museum of London, because we were exploring and saw it. It was truly enjoyable and presented a look at London from ice age times to present. I knew the Romans were here but I thought the entire Roman component was very well done including windows that overlooked the 2000 year old city walls- nice touch.

The most impressive museum we visited was The British Museum the repository of all the ancient artifacts of the world. NOW - I will say that I had a little chip on my shoulder about this museum since when you go to visit the actual sites you will often see a sign indicating that most of the historic artifacts of this area can be seen in London - but I'm feeling better now that I have actually been there.

Apparently in the 1820s when archaeologist were working hard to save things for posterity, many governments could care less. And that was exactly what was happening with areas like Athens - home of the Parthenon - which was ruled by the Ottoman Empire. So certain archeologist sponsored by the British Museum made a deal to haul away these artifacts that people were dragging away to use in their home building. And they have been safe since that time. Slowly items are being returned once the country has demonstrated the ability to protect this artifacts - hence we were able to see in the Parthenon Museum the actual Carotids that lived in the British Museum for almost 200 years. But is still felt wrong to enter this gallery:

This is the actual frieze that surrounded the outside of the Parthenon.

And below is the east pediment:

It did make happy to read on more than one occasion - the head - or arm - or leg - is currently on display at the Acropolis Museum in Athens. (As it should be - I think!)

The Egyptian section is equally magnificent.

This isn't half of what we have done - but I'm going to post as we head out to the theater - again. More on our adventures soon.

Stay tuned

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residentevilforeverr · 4 years

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Uhm... Hey!

I'm totally new to this thing so... I'm sorry of anything is wrong or something.

So this short story is about y/n being streamer and youtuber, who happened to be being abused by her father. There is Jacksepticeye and Markiplier in it...so.

Something about 1200 words.

Take care!

I opened my twitch account, called t/a/n same as my YouTube channel. Quickly looking if someone was online or something but getting kinda sad when no-one did so.

Putting on the timer and starting stream, while adding some music for the ones that would wait, mostly some soundtracks from the games I did lots of lets plays on, like Resident Evil, Last of us, The Evil Within or just something normal like Fortnite/Pubg, but mostly because of f/g (favourite game) people know me because of that one mostly. I had merch of it too..

After some time setting it all and letting some of the fanart be on the screen, a lot of people started to come around, right now there were almost 89. It was a lot for me, of course, but my channel has 137 and we are really getting close to 138, which is great and made me the 'queen of the Youtube'. I just thought about my community for a second, remembering all of those kids that go and take photos with me when I just leave my /house/apartment/flat/other/ for buying ice-cream or something.

Moving my microphone a bit I sat timer on, 10 minutes would do. It started to count down and I slowly nod my head, satisfied. Chat was already blowing up, about things what will we play and so. I went to my kitchen and grabbed my /drink/ from the Starbucks and some leftover /food/ warming it up the microwave. Then I went with it to my room, glancing at the time. 6:34. I went to the bathroom and did my business, going back and just checking everything, turning off my notification on the computer and clapping my hands to synchronise the sounds. 3:09. I turned on my colourful lights, looking at my background.

Od all looked good so I just checked chat and saw them counting from 15 down. Glancing at the timer I saw that it was only 11 seconds. I checked the camera again, saw it recording so I got ready and when it came to zero I started the stream.

Looking at things, seeing the camera working I sipped from my /drink/ looking at the keyboard and then looking up at the camera, waving.

"Hey, guys!"

The whole chat started to send their hi's and I smiled at them doing so.

"So. I am really glad that there is quite a lot of you here, more like really lot of you! That's really great! Anyways, I hoped that someone would have an idea what to play or something, I didn't really though. Only thing I am not having actually have mood for is Minecraft and Reddit."

I watched chat again, a lot of them said Evil Within or Outlast. I smiled. "Alright so Let's play outlast," I said as I put on my headphones.

"Hey it's Jack I'm gonna go for a minute, will be right back. Sorry." I said as I exited the studio and picked it up right away.

"Hello?"

As Outlast strated to load, my phone started to play /f/song/ I quickly take look to see one of my best friends Jack or Sean, or for others mostly known as JackSepticEye. I blinked and picked the phone up, standing.

"Hey, y/n!"

"Hey, Sean!"

"Yeah, I was just thinking if you wouldn't want to play with me and Mark, something like for the stream!"

"Yeah, I was starting one."

"Great, so wanna?"

"Sure, why not. I will just add you to Discord or something."

"Great see 'a there!"

"Yeah."

I said as I hung up, going back into the studio, seeing the game loaded already. I switched to my discord but ended the screen sharing so they could only see my web camera and nobody would try to spam me or heck me or shit. I found Jack and started to call him, be picked up immediately and I decided that it would be good if I would use his camera too, so I add it to the stream, putting on the sharing when I jumped back into Outlast.

"Hey, lass!"

"Hey, Jack. What do you wanna play, I was about to go for Outlast but oh well... Just not Minecraft."

"Awww why not."

"I don't know, just don't wanna go and mine all day. Even Pew did a song on that..."

I heard him laugh his goofy laugh and I smiled with a sigh.

"Yeah, that's kinda having its point. How bout Overcooked?"

"Yeah, that's great! Can you add Mark please?"

"Sure thing lass!"

After like minute or so while I ended the Outlast and started Overcooked while thanking donations, I heard ding as Mark was added to the call.

"Hey, Mark!"

"Hey, guys!"

"Hi, we are playing Overcooked, you coming?"

".... Yeah, sounds good!"

As we started to play, having fun, right as we ended another level my phone started to ring, again. I peeked at the screen quickly, seeing the name I feared the most.

'Dad'

So I added him to the stream, all of our heads on the left side, with our names and Twitch, Instagram and Twitter account.

Ring...

"Hey lass don' you wanna pick it up?"

"Yeah, we will just wait for you."

"....yeah."

I whispered and stopped my microphone on the stream but let it be in the call, putting my headphones down I stayed in the chair, not caring.

"Hello?"

"Dad I'm at my /house/apartment/flat/other/ at /country/. I am home."

"Where the fuck do you think you are?!"

"No, dad-"

Before I could say more the call ended and tears rushed to my eyes. I started to sob harder, not realizing I turned around in the chair and setting the phone down. I pulled my knees to my chest and covered them into my oversized hoodie. I tried to wipe the tears away but they just came back again, even more of them.

"And what do you think you are to just run off like this?!! Don't make me go there, you useless bitch!"

I slowly with shaky hands looked up at the camera as my chin shook, and tried to wipe my tears away again. Hesitantly I put the headphones back on my head.

"Y/n?"

"Y/n is everything alright?"

I just shook my head and started crying again.

"Hey, hey, hey calm down there, ok? Just take deep breaths."

I did as Mark said and slowly calmed down a bit, my crying turned into soft, hitched breathing, my eyes were puffy and red, same as my nose. Looking at the discord call I saw their worried and concerned looks.

"Lass?"

"Y-Yeah?"

"What happen'?"

"I-I... My d..dad is coming to my place and-d h-h-he will..."

"Hey calm down. Where does he live?"

"Fin-land, Jÿvaskÿla."

"Alright, alright... Maybe you can go and stay at mine or Jack's house until it will be fine..?"

"I don't know Mark... I just started to renovate my whole place and payed rant and-d I don't know if I have money to buy ticket, hotel, food, and-d-d"

"Hey it's fine lass I can buy it for ya, and I'm definitely fine with you staying at mine house! You don't need to think 'bout money it's fine!"

"Sean I don-t want to be-e bother-"

"Hey don't ever say that!"

"Yeah, it's not true, ya never can bother me! I will buy it all for ya, don't worry! And I don't take no as an answer!"

"I- thank you so much J-Jack I-I... Than-k you Mark I- I don't have word-s.."

"Hey it's fine, 'k? Don't worry we got you."

"Do you wanna finish the stream?"

"I don't really. Maybe later?"

"Yeah, same here lass."

"You and your timing..."

We all laughed at it and then I ended the stream quickly saying I need to go that it's fine and they don't need to worry.

"Fine I will tell them. How bout 3 hours? About... 1. am? There doesn't need to be that much guys..."

#markiplier x reader #markiplier #jacksepticeye #jacksepticeye x reader #reader #reader insert #youtuber #gamernerd

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victorluvsalice · 6 years

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It is Day Five of our McFly Mega Update in Newcrest Adventures, and -- well, as you can see, the main thing I did was do a pretty massive house remodel. With a new baby on the premises, I figured the McFlys needed a bit more room, and since there was no chance of going OUT any further (without getting rid of the pool, anyway, and that was not an option), the only way to go was up! Congrats, Marty and Jennifer -- you are my first family to live on two levels! Let me take you through the new layout:

-->I expanded the front porch and put the card table on THAT so it wasn’t just lying randomly in the yard -- been wanting to do that for a bit.

-->The first floor now opens up onto a somewhat swankier combined kitchen/dining/living space. I took the opportunity to upgrade some of the appliances and get a new, bigger dining table fit for a new, bigger family. I actually rather like how the kitchen came out -- that backsplash looks pretty cool.

-->We now have a very plain bathroom on the first floor, inspired by me putting said plain bathroom on the second floor and then realizing, “Hey, wait a minute -- why am I making everyone go downstairs to shower? The GUESTS shouldn’t be getting the swanky bathroom!”

-->Douglas’s room is now just a playroom, and Marty and Jennifer’s bedroom is now Marty’s study and music room. (Jennifer doesn’t need a study since her easel is outside.)

-->I have the Laundry Day Stuff pack now, so I went ahead and threw in a little laundry nook on the other side of the stairs! Had to do something with the space.

-->Upstairs we have a hallway, where Marty’s mug greets visitors (note to self: frame that picture when you come back to the McFlys), and bedrooms! Douglas has a toddler room with his bookshelf and some toys; the McFlys have a very sparse master bedroom (although with a new, better bed).

-->And the swanky bathroom is upstairs now, made swankier with some new counters and mirrors and stuff.

You may notice that one obvious room is missing -- a nursery. Well, here’s the thing -- the McFlys are far from my richest Sims, and I wanted to keep enough money in the bank so they could pay their bills after all this. (Especially since I got a little out-of-hand jazzing up the bathroom and kitchen before realizing, oh, right, they’re on a budget). Keeping Marlene in their bedroom works for now, and when she ages up on my next visit to them, she can bunk in the toddler room until they earn a little more money and can make a room for her. That’s also why a lot of these rooms are a bit sparse -- I didn’t want to go over the top buying stuff until I can be sure they can afford the stuff they’ve GOT. But I think it turned out pretty well despite all that!

Okay, so, that’s the house sorted -- anything interesting happen to the SIMS?

#newcrest adventures #sims 4 #marty mcfly #jennifer parker #douglas mcfly #marlene mcfly #I ALMOST abandoned the whole two-story idea because of the diminishing funds actually #but I had to move the front room out a bit to make sure there was enough room for the stairs #and Marty couldn't get into the double bed in his and Jennifer's new smaller bedroom #so I found a way to make it work #I'll probably make that roofed bit on the first story into a rooftop patio eventually #for now it has to look weird #I am proud of that kitchen though #taking cues from The Sim Supply and Deligracy and doing backsplashes #(aka different wallpapers)#though it took me FOREVER to find something that matched the wainscotting!#yeesh #but it looks nice #and that gap 'under' the stairs was perfect for the laundry nook #worked out great in the end #queued

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