• in dingy restaurants with the ambiance of a prison but food like mom makes, late at night after finals with friends on The Ave
  • Underground illegal activities and gangs.
  • well you can't stay underground for too long because asbestos but i mean............
  • Including movie theater dance club with couscous
  • Diner and omniscient owner who is warm
  • Smoky jazz bar
  • Murky night apartments shrouded in mystery and colorful life stories in each densely packed block
  • Alleyway gang happenings
  • Enigmatic twinkle color shine--on point color coordination
  • friends sitting on the curb smoking cigs, crowded around the sidewalk sharing tiny expensive pastries
  • the city is divided into different segments based on colors: pastels, bold and vivid, monochromatic, shiny, dull.
  • the old women are spies that speak with flowers and save the city
  • young girl sits at the ocean next to the city, watching the reflections tell the city's stories.
  • street magic, ft. the trickster who turns the meth addict's store into hard crystal candies (and is somehow still alive).
  • who tf is putting these creepy minifigurines everywhere
  • greenhouse skyscrapers, with different biomes on each level. Toasty and warm, a shelter to all.
  • time warp zone food courts where you spend more time than you anticipated, more money than u expected, and the food tastes much worse after leaving the area than it did there.
  • okay the mall just has to be called Crossroads, it is just too good a name.
  • once you enter the city, you are adopted. it is your home, and you are its child.
  • "maids" that come into the house and clean up clutter when you're not there...seem evil...not as evil as the shadow people
  • stairs. dangerous stairs, could probably kill someone, but everyone's too lazy to take the ramp anyways.
  • dinner with strangers, spontaneous and unexpected
  • car races
  • loud singing muse man
  • young friends having strange adventures in a mysterious city
  • food with close friends, food with random acquaintances, the one linchpin
  • two expert thieves. the most mysterious characters to come to the city, an elaborate heist was planned. The big bank in the downtown corridor. in and out... but then....... the thieves? 8 and 10 year old sisters. maybe not the best thieves in town, but whenever they try and steal stuff from the shops, the shopkeepers always pinch their cheeks and give them hard candies.
  • there's a vortex, but too much red tape
  • why do we even bother going to the library to study if all we do is wipe the dust off old books with a hopeful look in our eyes.
  • Bus to nowhere but it's everything
  • Slice of nature in the city...a park with old swings
  • House on a hill. someone lives there but who knows. everyone has their coming-of-age story climax here.
  • More public transport
  • Adventurous school children, who forget to do their homework so often that now the bus system has tray tables and pillows available on the bus.
  • Fairy woods on outskirts. Is that a fairy circle or did someone bury a dead body under there.
  • Harbor happenings. One of the dock workers has one of those eyes that seem to have a million stories, and the fire just hasn't gone out yet...or maybe it's his heterochromia...
  • infamous ghost stories
  • street corners with the lampposts
  • roundabouts
  • Every crevice and corner
  • Art and talent-- graffiti soo prominent, there are art gangs that have rap and dance battles and graffiti over each other
  • County fair, with rides whirling you at an impossible
  • Beer halls, but whenever the elementary school kids visit the bartender always has plenty of chocolate milk.
  • Rusty museums with new and old blood
  • Beaches, but more of the isolated kind where you pull a mini Thoreau
  • Spontaneous fruit orchards. are these even approved by the fda???
  • Farmer's markets, with an antiques and magic stall.
  • travelling circus comes to town!!! jumping into mirrors
  • Corporate skyscrapers--what even happens in the bottom floors???? is that a tunnel system i see???
  • Mountain paths. forgive me, i've been gone for 6 months and forgot to come back.
  • Random scientist experiments. the good kind. mostly. driving her van throughout the city to get what she needs.
  • Day and night
  • Private investigator becomes city's key keeper
  • What is a key to the city
  • Key to CATACOMBS more like
  • Shopping mall. the food is overpriced and kinda sucks, and what's worse--no one takes american express!!
  • Shadow police. literally shadows. or what?
  • Pictures. polaroids. newspaper clippings.
  • Sketchy cinemas, and plays that are just a bit /too/ realistic.
  • All kinds of food. Very not melting pot. scientist probably makes a bunch of weird shit.
  • CafĂ©, always out of coffee, but makes the good stuff anyways
  • cults. probably.
  • Cool hip place where teens can hang!
  • Crowded buses and late for the bus. everyone sleeping on everyone else.
  • Emergency stairwells with the aesthetic.
  • Exploring hotel and corporate offices
  • Extraa postponed construction sites
  • Astronomer charting the stars, accidentally find the maps to something else....
  • Photobooths and vending machines
  • Booths at diners, and spontaneous ones on the street.
  • Lemonade stands and sitting on porches in houses on the edge
  • Cool hip swanky nightclubs
  • Hippies/homeless/activists
  • Large billboards
  • Sitting on the roof
  • Xtra hot architecture
  • Old vs new
  • Taxis
  • The power of an enduring spirit
  • Road trip minivan rural happenings break adventure
  • Gatsby house
  • trees that can grow in random alleys, gates in random alleys, tiny raves in alleys
  • HONY style shiz
  • driving fast and thinking about how all the places you want to go and how there is so much to do
  • cool winds
nov 19 2014 ∞
apr 11 2016 +