The London location of the GQ Germany photo session with Eddie Redmayne seems apropos of the subject and his interests in art and literary works.
It’s known as the Roger Fry House, located in Fitzrovia near Regent Park, the British Museum, and north of the West End theatre district.
Fry (1866-1934) was a member of the intellectual Bloomsbury Group of authors and artists, with deep roots at Cambridge University (Eddie’s alma mater), and he conducted pioneering sessions at the house, known as the Omega Workshops, to assist artists, writers and designers to publish and display their works independently. Fry was also the first to bring awareness of modern art to Britain.
The building has been honored with one of the English Heritage Blue Plaques that note modest but historic locations in London, and now as the site of an international photo session that showcases its charm — and a great actor, intellectual, and art aficionado.
they get fogged up when we drink hot beverages.
they get smudged for no reason.
we will push them up using anything in our area (i.e shoulder, whatever is in my hand, scrunching my nose up so they get pushed up, etc.).
they get knocked off our faces all. the. fucking. time.
when we change clothes we either take them off or they fall off when we pull our shirts off.
we have to clean them after being in the rain.
we own multiple pairs of them, not just one lone pair for our whole lives.
most people don’t wear them in the pool, but some have extra old pairs for the pool (like me).
some people take them off during sex, that’s fine! but some people keep them on.
they don’t get squished into your face when you kiss (most of the time. at least from what i’ve experienced and i’ve got some mf big glasses).
if we look down and look back up while you talk/to peek up at something, we will just peek blindly over the top of them.
we clean them on whatever item of clothing is closest.
some of us have prescription sunglasses and some of us wear contacts when we need to wear sunglasses.
please keep some of these in mind when you write characters with glasses cause y’all who have 20/20 vision keep telling me all characters sleep in their glasses and own the same singular pair from age 6-25 and they never clean them.
( there’s this but you missed a few iconic glasses traits – “where’d I put my glasses” (is wearing them) – new glasses getting scratched on basically nothing. where’d the nick come from? we just don’t know. – forgetting you’re wearing synthetic material and just smudge the junk on your glasses around – after doing so, proceeding to hunt down any friend who is wearing a more cottony material – getting eyelashes on your glasses – stabbing yourself in the face with the arm of your glasses – “woah are you blind?” – “how many fingers am I holding up??” – walking into a warm room from the cold and suddenly being unable to see because your glasses fogged up – going outside and everything is Super Crisp 1080p – having three pairs of glasses and putting all of them at once – “aw dude you have transition lenses? lucky.” – the non-glasses scrutinising squint – taking off your glasses and suddenly you’re a different entity entirely – if you’re too good for taking off your glasses when dressing/undressing, realising you didn’t pull the collar of a shirt out enough and subjecting to your fate )
-For female characters wearing eye makeup is pretty much useless
– the reason why is because no matter what we do, the mascara will smear on our glasses
– thinking “Oh, there’s a little smudge. I’ll just clean it quickly”, then taking the glasses off and wondering how the hell you could see with what looks like three layers of dirt on them
– giving your loved one a little kiss but in the wrong angle so their nose touches your glasses
– the look™ when you’re in your bed lying on the side with your glasses on (aka the glasses are skewed)
-sleeping in glasses fucking hurts… well, not anymore, but it used too
-if you have long eyelashes, having to push your glasses down your nose so they dont constantly rub each other, then having to push them up cuz you cant see
-WHY WONT YOU STAY ON MY FACE?!?!?!
-*they tilt crooked slightly* oh wow, And… now Im falling over
-having transitions and right after walking into a building you can’t see because they’re still dark
-forgetting where you put them then having to either ask for help or judge your entire surroundings
-dont like contacts? like cosplaying? guess what! you’re blind now!
-trading glasses with other glasses wearers to see how blind your friends are
-when there’s a smudge that just. Won’t. Go. Away.
-“hey do you have lens cleaner?”
-your old glasses become your back up pair in case your current ones break
-metal and plastic frames are very different and most people have a preference
All of this omg
Oh also I forgot to mention the nOSE PAD THINGIES
I HATE THOSE WITH A BURNING PASSION
OH MY GOD SAME, I HAD A PAIR OF METAL FRAMES AND THE NOSE PAD THINGIES THAT CUSHIONED THE ACTUAL THINGS FELL OFF
THAT AMIGOS IS WHY I WEAR PLASTIC FRAMES
The death sound when you put your glasses on your bed for like 2 seconds, then you forgot about and you sit on it.
-feeling several cm taller after getting my first or secon pair of glasses just because of depth perception
– losing/breaking all my prescription sunglasses
-losing my current pair of glasses so having to go back to an old pair that’s not only fugly but the prescription isn’t the same anymore
-changing prescription! in general
-not being able to see the TV well without my glasses but seeing my phone just fine in bed when they’re off
– when the branches of your glasses are detachable and one of them comes off and you think you’ve broken it
– because the part of the frame which allows you to clip and unclip the branches has already broken once, leaving you with glasses with a single branch
– tucking your glasses by the branch in the little net of the seat in front of you in the plane/train so that you can get them easily
– ASIAN NOSE WITH WESTERN GLASSES ASIAN NOSE WITH WESTERN GLASSES THOSE FUCKING GLASSES ARE CONSTANTLY SLIPPING DOWN AND JUST WON’T BE WHERE THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE (no but seriously, it’s always been a problem for me and my mom)
– accidentally putting the pad of your finger on the lens and “NOOOOO”
– cringing when you give your glasses to someone AND THEY PUT THEIR FINGERS ON THE LENS
– describing your sight as “in 144px”
– when your sight lowers as you grow up and you just need to wait for the end of puberty to be sure you won’t have to change your prescription AGAIN
– the struggle of wearing contact lents for the first time and having to train to put them on
– fearing to one day forget your glasses somewhere because you’re wearing contact lents
– losing one of your lents and blessing your past self for having taken your glasses with you
– reading with your nose in your book because you’re looking OVER your glasses
– having not ONE sight problem but TWO and risking a THIRD one when you’re old
– stepping into the shower with your glasses on but only realizing it when you pour water on your glasses
– putting your glasses on when you have your contact lents on
– you change glasses but they’re so heavy and the prescription is too strong for you, so you need to put them down every now else your ears hurt and you’re tired
– finding THAT one pair that you don’t wanna have to change
This is all true but y’all are cowards I wear my sunglasses over my prescription glasses like I do with those 3D glasses in movie theaters
so as this post says, if you’r finding your blog is all jumbled, old posts popping up to the front, new posts not showing up at all, etc it is because of those posts being flagged and then unflagged. all you have to do is open them to edit and save them again and they’ll go back.
i just wanted to make this separate post to add that once you do that all your new posts will go back to being visible at the top of your blog as they should be i just did it and now everything’s fine on my blog.
just to be clear, I’m staying here as long as this site functions. I have 0 intentions of deleting this blog, I will go down with this ship if only to see exactly how bad it gets
Fae Bae 