Ever get in a mood where you just listen to a song on repeat? That was me on my drive to work this morning and it carried over into my work playlist. A few characters come to mind when I listen to this song, but I kept coming back to an angsty, self-loathing Dieter 🥺
I apologize if someone else has already sent this in or if you thought of it too, lol.. But I just now remembered to do it, lol.. 😆🤦♀️
As you probably have seen Mr handsome Pedro Pascal is at the festival in Italy.
I instantly thought of your Dieter! 💞🤗 He has the crazy ish hair and everything! 😍
Can totally see him wearing that at a premier for the movie they filmed there. 😍💞
Idk, I just wanted to come pop in and tell ya that I thought of you and Dieter when I noticed it was the festival in Italy. 💗🤗
Hope your day is going amazingg!! 💞
OMG I HAVE NOW!!! The hair, the tux, the whiskers, the glasses 😭😭😭 DIETER VIBES. thanks for sending me this Lotus, I hadn’t seen the photos yet and now I’m going crazy lol.
Rules: Open Pinterest, make a moodboard out of the first nine pictures that show up, and tag your mutuals!
These are always my favourite tag games! Thankyou @sheepdogchick3! 🙌
Guess Pinterest has figured out I've been re-visiting Dieter x Bryony, as this is just them all over lol.
NPT's for the following, sorry if you've been tagged more than once! @wildemaven, @gnpwdrnwhiskey, @rhoorl,@magpiepills,@prolix-yuy, @maggiemayhemnj, @frenchiereading, @thelightsandtheroses & @bitchwitch1981 💕
If you want to play along, consider this me tagging you in and I'm always willing to play along again if you want to tag me - as this is the shit I live for and it scratches the creative itch when I don't have the mental capacity to write 🥰
Photos and some background for places mentioned in chapter three for anyone who may be curious. And some random trivia that didn't make it in there. 😊
Peaches Corner
Ava might be a big fan of their hot dogs, but full disclosure, I've never actually eaten here. But they've been there since 1937 so they must be doing something right, lol!
The Bowery
Not actually mentioned in the story but since we're in the neighborhood and it is kinda a landmark, right around the corner from Peaches is The Bowery. For any old school country music fans, Alabama got their start here playing as the house band for most of the 1970s. This is not the kind of bar Ava and Dieter would ever frequent and that's probably enough said about that.
Gay Dolphin
Ava's favorite place!! And one of mine too, lol! I've never seen any other place like it and I've been fascinated for as long as I can remember. There's a fountain at the bottom of the tower you can see from the streetside entrance and the spiral staircase in the tower leads up to an observation deck that has been closed as long as I can remember as well, lol.
Besides Dieter's shark tooth necklace, other treasures they left the store with include a couple puka shell necklaces for Ava (she insists they'll be back in style any day now, Dieter doesn't care about style he just likes the way they look sitting in the hollow of her throat but that's a different story lol), tie-dyed tees and koozies with the store's logo, and two hermit crabs Ava named Elwood & Harvey who hang out in their tank on the reservation desk and help welcome guests to the motel.
The Pavilion
Depending on how you got there, the amusement park was the first sight that greeted you as you came into town. The building across the street had beach and street entrances and housed an arcade downstairs and a teen night club called The Magic Attic upstairs. (Ava's parents never let her and Drew go, but I feel like Dieter was probably a regular- trying out his moves on unsuspecting tourists 😆) They were demolished in 2007. Last time I was there, both locations were very sad vacant lots.
The carousel and the organ Dieter mentions were both moved to nearby Broadway at the Beach. But it's not the same, it'll never be the same.